Butch of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Mr. Shadwell was the principal investigator and manager of a large applied research project in
machine vision, conducted at Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute. The challenge
was to be able to automatically recognize any one of over 7 million rail cars on sight. These
cars might be in various states of detrioration, different times of day, and at speeds varying
from a few miles an hour, up to 50 mph. This presentation includes a very interesting
review of the machine vision problem domain and the solutions employed. There is a 10
minute video that shows some of the field experiments.

Biography:

Mr. Butch Shadwell has 9 patents, has published approximately 5 peer-reviewed papers, and has authored over 100 technical articles in IEEE journals and newsletters.

He was the chair of the 2013 Southeastcon technical conference, which hosted 770 attendees from around the world and featured 135 peer-reviewed papers. Mr. Butch continues to review papers for other conferences.

In 2009, he was elected the international chair of the IEEE Humanitarian Technology Challenge-Reliable Energy Committee at the National Academy of Sciences. In that capacity, he completed multiple projects in Nicaragua and Kenya.

Mr. Shadwell is a past president of the Jacksonville Chapter of Mensa.

He has also completed humanitarian projects in Canada and Puerto Rico with grants from PES and MOVE. Additionally, he was one of the original designers of the MOVE truck project and among its first drivers.

Email:

Address:3308 Queen Palm Drive, , Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32250-2328