Helen Chan Wolf
{{Short description|Artificial intelligence pioneer}}
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Panoramic Research
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Helen Chan Wolf is an artificial intelligence pioneer who worked on facial recognition technology and Shakey the robot, the world's first autonomous robot, at SRI International.
Career
In the early 1960s, Wolf worked with Charles Bisson and Woody Bledsoe at Panoramic Research to train computers in recognising human faces (so-called automated facial recognition).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nUJdAAAAQBAJ&q=helen+chan+wolf+artificial+intelligence&pg=PT141|title=The Quest for Artificial Intelligence|last=Nilsson|first=Nils J.|date=2009-10-30|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-64282-8|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://aidant.ai/the-future-of-facial-recognition-and-ai-in-2019-and-beyond/|title=The Future of Facial Recognition and AI in 2019 and Beyond|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230154154/https://aidant.ai/the-future-of-facial-recognition-and-ai-in-2019-and-beyond/ |archive-date=2019-12-30 |url-status=dead}} Early computer programs used humans to coordinate a set of features from images of faces and then a computer for the recognition.{{Cite web|url=http://bigbangdata.somersethouse.org.uk/the-evolution-of-data/|title=The Evolution of Data {{!}} Big Bang Data|last=House|first=Somerset|website=bigbangdata.somersethouse.org.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-12-30}} These features included things such as the positions the inside and outside corners of eyes and mouth. Operators such as these could process around forty pictures an hour.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
Wolf joined the Artificial Intelligence group at SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute) in 1966.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ai.sri.com/people/wolf/|title=AI Center:: Helen Chan Wolf|website=www.ai.sri.com|access-date=2019-12-30}} At the SRI Chan was part of the Application of Intelligent Automata to Reconnaissance project.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ai.sri.com/project/shakey|title=AI Center :: Projects|website=www.ai.sri.com|access-date=2019-12-30}} Here she worked on Shakey the robot, the world's first mobile autonomous robot, which was honoured by an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Milestone in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://robohub.org/25-women-in-robotics-you-need-to-know-about-2017/|title=25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017 {{!}} Robohub|access-date=2019-12-30}}{{Citation|title=Shakey the Robot: The First Robot to Embody Artificial Intelligence|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bsEN8mwUB8|language=en|access-date=2019-12-30}} Shakey used artificial intelligence, making its own plans, navigating between places and improving through learning. Wolf developed the algorithms that extracted coordinates from images. Before Shakey, there were no efforts to integrate artificial intelligence and robotics into a single moving vehicle.{{Cite web|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/artificial-intelligence-robotics/13/289|title=Shakey - CHM Revolution|website=www.computerhistory.org|access-date=2019-12-30}}
= Selected publications =
Her publications include:
- {{Cite conference |last=Wolf|first=Helen C.|date=1977|title=Experiments in Map-Guided Photo Interpretation|url=https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/77-2/Papers/029.pdf|book-title=Proceedings of the Fifth IJCAI|location=Cambridge, Mass|pages=696}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Wolf|first=Helen C.|date=1977|title=Parametric Correspondence and Chamfer Matching: Two New Techniques for Image Matching|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA458355|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230154152/https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA458355|url-status=live|archive-date=December 30, 2019|journal=Technical Note|volume=|pages=|via=}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Wolf|first=Helen C.|date=Feb 1994|title=Locating perceptually salient points on planar curves|url=|journal=IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|volume=16|issue=2|pages=113–129|doi=10.1109/34.273737}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Wolf|first=Helen C.|date=1987|title=Linear Delineation|url=|journal=Readings in Computer Vision|volume=|pages=204–209|doi=10.1016/B978-0-08-051581-6.50025-8|isbn=9780080515816}}
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