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James L. Crowley holds the post of Professor at the Grenoble Institut Polytechnique (Grenoble INP), where he teaches courses in Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence at l'ENSIMAG (Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliquées). He directs the PRIMA Research Project group of the LIG laboratory at the INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes research center in Montbonnot, France. From 2003 through 2006, Professor Crowley has served as director for the UMR GRAVIR laboratory (UMR 5527 CNRS, INPG, UJF, INRIA). He has also served as vide-president of the administrative council of ENSIMAG, assistant administrative secretary of GRILOG, and president of the habilitation committee of ENSIMAG. He is a senior member of the l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), and has been named Chevalier de l'Ordre National de Mérite.

Professor Crowley has edited two books, five special issues of journals, and authored over 300 articles on computer vision and mobile robotics. His papers have over 10,000 Citations (Google Scholar May 2014) and an h-index of 48).

In the last 25 years, professeur Crowley has made fundamental contributions to computer vision and mobile robtics. These include early innovations in multi-resolution and multi-scale computer vision, position estimation, perception and navigation for mobile robots, architecture for autonomous systems, multi-sensor fusion, robust tracking for observing human activity, appearance-based techniques for object recognition and navigation, and observation and modeling of human activity for context aware environments and ambient informatics.

Current research activities combines 4 themes:
 * 1)  Invariant, Robust visual perception based on appearance,
 * 2) Robust, Component-based architectures for  perception based on autonomic programming techniques,
 * 3) Observation and modeling of human acitvities based on situation modeling,
 * 4) New forms of multi-modal man-machine interaction based on machine perception and situation modeling.

Recreational activities include aviation (FAA CPL-IR, JAA PPL, Mountain Qual, 1300 hdv), Skiing (downhill and wilderness), Cycling (road and mountain).

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