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Reg Willson
Senior Member of Technical Staff
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Biography (more>>)

Dr. Reg Willson graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1983 with a BASc in Electrical Engineering and received his MSEE and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Following seven years with 3M Corporation he came to work at JPL, where he has been employed since 2001. Dr. Willson is currently the Instrument Engineer for the Mastcam, MAHLI and MARDI science cameras and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on the 2011 Mars Science Laboratory mission.

Education (more>>)

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (1994)

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (1988)

B.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering option), University of Waterloo (1983)

Research Interests (more>>)

Camera modeling and calibration, computer vision and electronic imaging.

Selected Publications (more>>)

A. Johnson, R. Willson, Y. Cheng, J. Goguen, C. Leger, M. San Martin and L. Matthies, "Design Through Operation of an Image-Based Velocity Estimation System for Mars Landing," International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 74, Number 3, September 2007, 319-341.

R. Willson, M. Maimone, A. Johnson and L. Scherr, "An Optical Model for Image Artifacts Produced by Dust Particles on Lenses," 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), September 2005.

R. Willson, A. Johnson and J. Goguen, "MOC2DIMES: A Camera Simulator for the Mars Exploration Rover Descent Image Motion Estimation System," 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), September 2005.

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