Jeffrey Uhlmann

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Uhlmann

Jeffrey K. Uhlmann is an American research scientist who is probably best known for his mathematical generalizations of the Kalman filter.[1] Most of his publications and patents have been in the field of data fusion. He is also known for being a cult filmmaker and former recording artist.

Dr. Uhlmann is ranked in the top 2% among scientists worldwide in the Stanford University listing of most-cited researchers.[2]

Biography

Uhlmann has degrees in philosophy, computer science, and a doctorate in robotics from the University of Oxford.[3][4] He began work in 1987 at NRL's Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics in Washington, DC, and remained at NRL until 2000. Since 2000 he has been a professor of computer science at the University of Missouri.[5]

He served for ten years as a co-founding member of the editorial board of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (1995–2006) before becoming co-editor of the Synthesis Lectures on Quantum Computing series for Morgan & Claypool.[6]

Theoretical Research

Uhlmann published seminal papers on volumetric, spatial, and metric tree data structures and their applications for computer graphics, virtual reality, and multiple-target tracking.[7][8][9] He originated the unscented transform (and its use in the unscented Kalman filter) and the data fusion techniques of covariance intersection and covariance union.[1][3]

His work in artificial intelligence has recently focused on tensor-completion methods for recommender system applications.[10]

Applied Results

Uhlmann's results are widely-applied in tracking, navigation, and control systems, including for the NASA Mars rover program.[11][12] His results relating to the constrained shortest path problem and simultaneous localization and mapping are also used in rover and autonomous vehicle applications.[13][14]

Films

Uhlmann has written, directed, produced, and/or acted in several prominent short and feature-length films. Notable examples include the animated short film Susan's Big Day[15] and the feature films Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy, Academy of Doom, and Aztec Revenge. In recent years he has been a popular invited guest at international genre film festivals.[16]

Music

Uhlmann recorded and released a series of albums in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of his early experimental electronic albums have been reissued in their entirety on CD[17] or digital download[18] while his arguably better-known songs are only available on CD compilations.[19]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Liggins, Martin; Hall, David; Llinas, James, eds (2008). "Chapters 14 and 15". Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion (2 ed.). CRC Press. 
  2. ↑ Ioannidis, John P. A.; Boyack, Kevin W.; Baas, Jeroen; Klavans, Richard (2023). "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". PLOS Biology 21 (10). doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002369. PMID 37956172. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Archived copy". http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~uhlmannj/Dissertation-pref.pdf. 
  4. ↑ "Uhlmann, Jeffrey | Engineering | University of Missouri | Mizzou Engineering". http://engineering.missouri.edu/person/uhlmannj/. 
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". http://people.cs.missouri.edu/~uhlmannj/. 
  6. ↑ "Synthesis Lectures on Quantum Computing". http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/qmc/1/1. 
  7. ↑ Hanan Samet (2006). Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures. Morgan Kaufmann. 
  8. ↑ Jeffrey Uhlmann (1991). "Satisfying General Proximity/Similarity Queries with Metric Trees". Information Processing Letters 40 (4): 175–179. doi:10.1016/0020-0190(91)90074-r. 
  9. ↑ Jeffrey Uhlmann (1992). "Algorithms for Multiple-Target Tracking". American Scientist 80 (2): 128. Bibcode: 1992AmSci..80..128U. 
  10. ↑ Nguyen, Tung; Uhlmann, Jeffrey (2023). "Tensor Completion with Provable Consistency and Fairness Guarantees for Recommender Systems". ACM Trans. Recomm. Syst. 1 (3): 1–26. doi:10.1145/3604649. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3604649. 
  11. ↑ E.T. Baumgartner (2000). State Estimation and Vehicle Localization for the FIDO Rover (Report). NASA-JPL. http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/15997/1/00-1838.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-18. 
  12. ↑ Jeffrey Uhlmann (1999). "NASA Mars Rover: A Testbed for Evaluating Applications of Covariance Intersection". 3693. 
  13. ↑ Ali Boroujerdi; Jeffrey Uhlmann (1998). "An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Least Cost Paths with Turn Constraints". Information Processing Letters 67 (6): 317–321. doi:10.1016/s0020-0190(98)00134-3. 
  14. ↑ S. J. Julier; J. K. Uhlmann (2007). "Using Covariance Intersection for SLAM". Robotics and Autonomous Systems 55 (1): 3–20. doi:10.1016/j.robot.2006.06.011. 
  15. ↑ "Susan's Big Day". 8 September 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ6BhYHVVEg. 
  16. ↑ "Fantasia International Film Festival". http://www.mmvsam.com/fantasia.htm. 
  17. ↑ "Impulse (CD)". Tower Records. http://www.tower.com/wapi/116928985. 
  18. ↑ "Circuit Theory". Vicmod Records. http://www.vicmod.net/music/circuit theory/circuit theory.html. 
  19. ↑ "Performer (CD)". Tower Records. http://www.tower.com/wapi/116823025. 



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