E-mail: chuck+@cs.cmu.edu
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Qualifications

Education	Ph.D. - Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, granted May 2004. M.S. - Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, granted September 1990. B.S. - Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, granted September 1990. B.S. - Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, granted June 1989.
Skills	Application and algorithm development using C, embedded system and real time system development.
Languages	C, Perl, HTML, Lisp, Assembly (68K, 6811, PIC, 6502), Postscript, PCL.
Algorithms	Machine learning, computer vision, data compression, image compression, image processing.
Operating Systems	Linux, Windows.
SW Tools	GCC, Microsoft C, Schematic capture, PCB layout.
Hardware	Embedded microprocessor system design, analog interface design, motor control interface design, system debugging, PC board layout.
Citizenship	Born in U.S.
Professional Organizations	Member IEEE and AAAI.

Employment History

Takasic, San Mateo, CA, December 2002 - January 2003

Consultant

• JBIG related technical document preparation.

KeyCorp, Cleveland, OH, August 1998 - October 1998

Consultant

• Developed neural network models for bank fraud detection.

Peerless Systems Corporation, El Segundo, CA, November 1996 - September 1998

Consultant

• Development of color imaging and printing algorithms.

IS Robotics, Inc. (now iRobot), Somerville, MA, August 1996 - August 1997

Consultant

• Supported continued operations and efforts of software staff, in a consulting role.
• Contract development of OS and control code.

IS Robotics, Inc. (now iRobot), Somerville, MA, April 1993 - July 1996

Director of Software Technology

• Supported and managed day to day software operations and efforts of software staff. Wrote high level AI based control code, low level OS, and device driver code in C, Assembly, and Lisp for autonomous mobile robot systems. Developed a dynamically linkable "C" environment to utilize GCC binaries. Wrote the dynamic linker, memory manager, I/O packages. Orchestrated company-wide move to integrated C and Lisp based development system.
• Implemented high level control systems, including: navigation algorithms and user interface code for reconnaissance robot, grasping algorithms for snake robot, simulated personality control system for interactive animatronic prototype, and software to control pipe climbing/inspection robots.
• Implemented device drivers for various subsystems, including: GPS, generic PID motor servo code, and software for a time-sliced communications system for multi-robot cooperative tasking.
• Designed various robot hardware systems, including: main electronics and hardware drivers for the R3 and Pebbles III wheeled research robot platforms and a small general purpose networked stackable microcontroller system with device interface electronics to serve as a rapid prototyping building block.

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, January 1994

Consultant

• Developed technical materials for course on halftoning algorithms. Participated in course design and generation of course materials and technical examples.

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, September 1990 - September 1993

Member of Technical Staff

• Developed compression and image processing algorithms using C under Unix.
• Participated in JPEG and JBIG standards committees.
• Developed fast algorithms for the lossless compression of halftoned image data, one of which was utilized in the LaserJet 4.
• Worked on analysis and generation of new halftoning algorithms. Worked on simulation of printed halftone patterns and metrics for predicting subjective evaluation data.
• Worked on algorithms for enhancing data scanned on low resolution input devices, including fax.
• Organized company-wide internal symposia on halftoning and fax imaging technology. Had frequent contact with counterparts in product divisions, including travel to the major HP sites in the U.S. and Europe.
• Published papers on work, attended conferences and applied for three patents, all of which have been granted.
• Acted as grant liaison between HP and the MIT Media Laboratory.

MIT AI Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, February 1990 - September 1990

Research Assistant

• Worked in the Mobile Robotics Lab with Professor Rodney Brooks.
• Designed and implemented frame buffer, microcontroller, and analog signal conditioner boards for the Attila legged mobile robot.

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, June 1989 - January 1990

Intern

• Developed a fast decoding lossy image compression algorithm for Master's thesis and bitmap font compression algorithms for printer use, both of which have been patented.

DOK, Hewlett, NY, March 1985 - September 1996

Entrepreneur

• Designed EDD Plus hardware card.
• Started and ran business to produce and sell EDD Plus hardware card.
• Sold over 4500 units.

Patents / Products

• U.S. Patent #5450562, Cache-Based Data Compression / Decompression, issued September 1995.
  
• U.S. Patent #5245679, Data Field Image Compression, issued September 1993.
  
• U.S. Patent #5020121, Neighborhood Block Prediction with Compression, issued May 1991.
  
• Co-developer of the CMUcam and CMUcam2 embedded color vision systems, 2001, 2003.
• Designed the EDD Plus hardware card for the Apple 2 computer, 1985.

Publications

• Anthony Rowe, Charles Rosenberg, Illah Nourbakhsh, "A Second Generation Low Cost Embedded Color Vision System," Embedded Computer Vision Workshop, CVPR 2005.
• Charles Rosenberg, Martial Hebert, Henry Schneiderman, "Semi-Supervised Self-Training of Object Detection Models", oral presentation, WACV 2005.
• Charles Rosenberg, "Semi-Supervised Training of Models for Appearance-Based Statistical Object Detection Methods", Ph.D. Thesis, May 2004, CMU TR# CMU-CS-04-150.
• Charles Rosenberg, Thomas Minka, Alok Ladsariya, "Bayesian Color Constancy with Non-Gaussian Models", poster appeared at NIPS 2003.
• Charles Rosenberg, Martial Hebert, "Training Object Detection Models with Weakly Labeled Data", poster appeared at BMVC 2002.
• Anthony Rowe, Charles Rosenberg, Illah Nourbakhsh, "A Low Cost Embedded Color Vision System," IROS 2002.
• Charles Rosenberg, Martial Hebert, Sebastian Thrun, "Image Color Constancy Using KL-Divergence", poster appeared at ICCV 2001.
• Anthony Rowe, Charles Rosenberg, Illah Nourbakhsh, "A Simple Low Cost Color Vision System," tech sketch presented at CVPR 2001.
• Charles Rosenberg, "Image Color Constancy Using EM and Cached Statistics", ICML-2000, pp. 799-806, July 2000.
• Jamieson Schulte, Charles Rosenberg, Sebastian Thrun, "Spontaneous, Short-term Interaction with Mobile Robots", ICRA '99.
• Rodney A. Brooks and Charles Rosenberg, "L - A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems", Lisp Users and Vendors Conference, sec. 2.4a, August 1995.
• Rajiv Desai, Charles Rosenberg and Joseph Jones, "Kaa: An Autonomous Serpentine Robot Utilizes Behavior Control", IROS '95, vol. 3, pp. 250-255, August 1995.
• Charles Rosenberg, invited paper, "Measurement-Based Evaluation of a Printer Dot Model for Halftone Algorithm Tone Correction", Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 205-212, July 1993. (Also appears in Selected Papers on Digital Halftoning. Edited by Jan P. Allebach. SPIE Milestone Series, volume MS 154, 1999.)
• Charles Rosenberg, "Measurement Based Verification of an Electrophotographic Printer Dot Model for Halftone Algorithm Tone Correction", IS&T Eighth International Congress on Advances in Non-Impact Printing Technologies, pp. 286-289, October 1992.
• Charles Rosenberg, "A Low Complexity Method for Compressing Kanji Font Bitmaps", Raster Imaging and Digital Typography II, pp. 137-146, October 1991.
• Joyce Farrell, Helena Trontelj, Charles Rosenberg, and Jeanne Wiseman, "Perceptual Metrics for Monochrome Image Compression", SID International Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, vol. 22, pp. 631-634, May 1991.
• Walter Bender and Charles Rosenberg, "Image Enhancement Using Non-Uniform Sampling", SPIE Image Handling and Reproduction Systems Integration, vol. 1460, pp. 59-70, February 1991.
• Charles Rosenberg, "A Lossy Compression Algorithm Based on Nonuniform Sampling and Interpolation of the Image Intensity Surface", SID International Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, vol. 21, pp. 388-391, September 1990.

Conference Positions

• Member of the program committee, Conference on Innovative Applications in AI, 1996-2001.
• Co-organizer of the workshop on "The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining", ICML 2003.

Other

• Awarded Kodak Graduate Student Fellowship for two academic years, 2002-3 and 2003-4.
• Awarded Sun Microsystems Graduate Student Fellowship for two academic years, 1998-9 and 1999-2000.
• Primary co-organizer of the weekly Machine Learning seminar at CMU, 1999-2003.
• Eta Kappa Nu honor society.
• Chaired and co-founded student based MIT VI-A internship guide.
• Traveled in Europe, Israel, Japan.
• Interest in photography, windsurfing, sailing.

E-mail: chuck+@cs.cmu.edu -- First Edition: 8/27/97 -- Last modified: Tue Dec 6 20:43:35 EST 2005