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Faculty + Staff

Eric
Martinson
Chair for the Math and Computer Science Department

Dr Martinson received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. Awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship, he spent two years working, researching and mentoring students in Kharkiv, Ukraine after graduation. Since then, he has worked for a number of industries including autonomous cars (Toyota ITC), the defense department, as both a postdoctoral fellow (Naval Research Laboratory) and a DoD contractor (Soar Technology), and for home robotics (Toyota and iRobot).

Broadly defined, Dr Martinson’s research interests can be classified as computational perception and machine learning, particularly as applied to robotic sensing. Within this umbrella, he has been funded to investigate and publish on a range of topics, including:

  • Object detection and mapping with semi-supervised learning (Soar Technology, iRobot)
  • Human Interfaces for Level 2-3 Autonomous Cars (Soar Technology)
  • Distributed sensor networks (Soar Technology)
  • Future state prediction (Soar Technology, Toyota ITC)
  • Learning and motion planning for mobile manipulators (Toyota, HRL – General Motors)
  • Multi-modal person recognition (US Naval Research Laboratory)
  • Mobile robotic mapping (Georgia Tech, Kharkov National University of Radio-Electronics)

Over the course of his career, Dr Martinson has generated 13 patents (plus one pending) and 46 peer reviewed publications. He has also helped to secure $5.7M in awarded contracts in machine learning and robotics as the lead author / investigator. And most recently, while at iRobot, Dr Martinson was team leader responsible for upgrading the object detection system currently used by more than a million robots around the world.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.