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Robert Bolles

1974 HERTZ FELLOW

MAKING HISTORY

Robert Bolles is Program director at SRI International, where he has contributed to computer vision and robotics research for more than four decades. Bolles earned his undergraduate degree before completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, where his fellowship began in 1974. At SRI, he has made foundational contributions to computer vision, including the development of the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm—co-invented with Martin Fischler—which became one of the most widely cited algorithms in the field, used for robust parameter estimation in the presence of outliers. RANSAC is a standard tool in structure-from-motion, camera calibration, and 3D reconstruction.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Stanford University
Computer Science

Graduate Thesis
Verification Vision Within A Programmable Assembly System

 

IMPACT STORY

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