Academic Service (Professional Committees)

• Chair, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee on Image Understanding (TC4), 2002-2004.
• Member, IEEE Computer Society PAMI-TC conference steering committee, 2000-2002

Academic Service (Conferences)

• Program Committee Co-chair, International Conference on Vision Systems, New York, N.Y., Jan 5-7,2006.
• General Co-chair, 3rd International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Sept. 22-24, 2004.
• Program Committee Co-chair, IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Madison, WI, June 22, 2003 (in conjunction with CVPR 2003).
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Vision Systems, Graz, Austria, April 1-3, 2003.
• Member, Program Committee, XI International Conference on Computing, Mexico City, Nov. 25-29, 2002.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, Erlangen, Germany, Nov. 20-22, 2002.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec City, Aug. 11-15, 2002.
• Area Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, July 8-12, 2002.
• Member, Program Committee, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Yucatan, April 22-26, 2002.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization, Stuttgart, Nov. 2001.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Vision Systems, Vancouver, July 7-8, 2001.
• Area Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning, Williamstown, MA, June 28-July 1, 2001.
• Area Chair, International Conference on Machine Learning, Stanford, CA, June 29-July 2, 2000.
• Member, organizing committee, ICML-2000 Workshop on Machine Learning of Spatial Knowledge, Stanford, CA, July 2, 2000.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Sept. 3-8, 2000.
• General Co-chair, IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Fort Collins, CO, June 23-25, 1999.
• Member, program committee, ICML-1999 Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Vision Workshop, Bled, Slovenia, June 30, 1999.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Vision Systems, to be held Jan 13-15, 1999 in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Vienna, August 25-30, 1996.
• Member, Organizing Committee, Workshop on Machine Learning and Computer Vision, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 1993.
• Reviews for IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, CGVIP: Image Understanding, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research , Machine Vision and Applications, Vision and Image Computing, and Videre.

• Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (electroninc edition) 1999-2000.

Member, Faculty Council Strategic Planning and Budget Committee, 2003-2006.
Member, Information Science and Technology (ISTeC) Research Committee, 2004-2005.
Member, College of Natural Sciences Discovery Task Force, 2005.
Member, Program Review Committee: Finance Department & Computer Information Systems Department, 2003.

Department Service

• Member, Executive Committee, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.
• Member, Facilities Committee, 2004-2005, 2002-2003, 1997-1998.
• Member, Undergraduate Committee, 2001-2002, 1999-2000
• Member, Graduate Committee, 2003-2004, 2000-2001, 1998-1999.
• Member, Research Committee, 1999-2000.

Community Service

• Advisor for Lesher Junior High School Project by Daniel Hand, Fall 2001.
• Advisor for Poudre High School capstone project of Corey Fucetola and Jake Joyce, Spring 1999.