Edward Riseman received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Clarkson College in 1964 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1966 and 1969, respectively. Prof. Riseman joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts as Assistant Professor in 1969, has been a full professor since 1978, and served as Chairman of the department from 1981-1985.
His research reflects a broad interest in computer vision and artificial intelligence, including knowledge-based image understanding, stereo and motion analysis, autonomous vehicle navigation, learning, three-dimensional reconstruction, image databases, content-based image retrieval and parallel processing and architectures for computer vision. Emphasis on practical systems is supported by applications of photo-interpretation of aerial images including 3D building and terrain reconstruction, biomedical image analysis, automated robotic manufacturing and assembly, real-time control of intelligent vehicles, terrain classification and fly-through visualization and development environments for vision research. He is the author of more than 150 publications in these areas. With Prof. Allen Hanson, he is Co-Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory and a founder of Amerinex Artificial Intelligence Corporation and Dataviews Corporation (formerly VI Corporation), both of which are visual technology oriented companies located in the Amherst, Massachusetts area. Professor Riseman served on the Editorial Board of Computer Vision and Image Understanding from 1989-1995, and currently serves on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Computer Vision. Prof. Riseman has served on numerous program committees of national and international conferences, most recent including 1998 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 1997 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1997 Workshop for Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps (Bonn, Germany), and the 1996 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (Tokyo, Japan). He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of ACM, AAAI, and the Pattern Recognition Society.