Joseph Mundy

Timeline

1. 1963–1969

   Engineering degrees at Rensselaer

   He earns a B.E.E. in 1963, an M.Eng. in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1969 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

2. 1970s–2002

   A GE computer-vision group

   In the early 1970s, he leads a GE group in image understanding and computer vision; the group develops an early computer-vision system for industrial inspection.

3. 1988

   A Coolidge Fellowship at Oxford

   In 1988, he receives GE’s Coolidge Fellowship and uses it for an Oxford sabbatical, where he studies invariant theory for computer vision with Michael Brady and Andrew Zisserman.

4. 1993

   A Marr Prize for projective structure

   In 1993, his paper with Charles Rothwell, David Forsyth and Andrew Zisserman, *Extracting Projective Structure from Single Perspective Views of 3D Point Sets*, wins the Marr Prize. It derives projective invariants for structured 3D point sets used in object recognition.

5. 2002

   Professor at Brown

   In 2002, he joins Brown’s School of Engineering as a research professor, where he works on video and image analysis, change detection and 3D volumetric modeling.

6. 2011

   Co-founding Vision Systems

   In 2011, he co-founds Vision Systems Inc. and serves as its president and CEO. He manages the DARPA Tailwind and Visual Media Reasoning projects for aerial-video processing and scene analysis.

7. 2017–2025

   Aerial and satellite vision systems

   In 2017, he coauthors the GLAM feature-based visual SLAM system for near-real-time aerial mapping, plus a face-recognition study that augments deep-neural-network training with synthetic pose and lighting examples. In April 2025, he coauthors a physics-driven image simulator that creates realistic scenes from commercial satellite imagery.

8. As of October 2026

   President of Vision Systems

   As of October 2026, he is president of Vision Systems Inc. The company offers computer-vision solutions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.