Damian Lyons

Damian M. Lyons is a Professor of Computer Science at Fordham University. He has degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from Trinity College, University of Dublin in Ireland, and he earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst for research on formal models of computation for sensory-based robotics.

He worked for many years as a researcher in the US branch of the corporate research laboratories of Philips Electronics, the European Semiconductor and Consumer Electronics giant. His work there included research in representing and analyzing robot action plans, integrating reactive/behavior-based & deliberative approaches to action planning, multimodal user interfaces, and automated video surveillance. Dr. Lyons served as project leader for Philips' research activities in Automated Video Surveillance, and later as Department head for the Video and Display Processing research department, responsible for technical leadership and funding for this diverse group. Dr. Lyons is currently the Director of Fordham’s Computer Vision and Robotics Lab and Director of the MSCS graduate program.

Dr. Lyons has served on numerous conference program committees, has published over 100 technical papers in conferences, journals and books, and has authored 18 patents. Dr. Lyons is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

Damian Lyons,Mohamed Rahouti, "An Approach to Cooperative, Wide Area Visual Navigation by Leveraging Blockchain Consensus", IEEE Robotic Computing, Laguna Hills CA, Dec. 2023.

Damian Lyons,Mohamed Rahouti, "WAVN: Wide Area Visual Navigation for Large-scale, GPS-denied Environments",  IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation, London UK, May 2023.

D. Lyons, N. Petzinger "Visual Homing for Coordinated Robot Teams Missions", Unmanned Systems Technology XXV SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Orland April 2023.

D. Lyons, J. Finocchiaro, M. Novitzky, C. Korpela, A Monte Carlo Approach for Incremental Improvement of Simulation Fidelity. 17th int. Conf on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Zagreb Croatia June 2022.

D. Lyons, N. Petzinger "Visual Homing for Robot Teams: Do you see what I see" Unmanned Systems Technology XXIV SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Orland April 2022.

D. Lyons, D. Becaj, "A Meta-Level Approach for Multilingual Taint Analysis" 16th Int. Conf. on Software Technologies (ICSoft), July 2021.

J. Hughes, D. Lyons, “Wall Detection Via IMU Data Classification In Autonomous Quadcopters" ICCAR 2021- International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, Apr. 2021.eval

Damian Lyons, Ben Barriage and Luca Del Signore “The Effect of Horizontal Field of View on Stereovision-based Visual Homing” Robotica 2019. (Online First 3rd July 2019 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574719001061).

Matt McNeill, Damian Lyons, “A Comparison of textual bandit Approaches to human-in-the-loop robot task completion with infrequent feedback.” To appear: 31st Int. Conf. on Tools with AI (ICTAI 2019), Nov 4-6 Portland Oregon.

T-H Nguyen, K. Grispino and D. Lyons “Assistant Drone Swarms in Public Spaces” 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018) Barcelona, Spain Sept. 2018.

Buteau, T., Lyons, D., “Constructionist Steps Towards an Autonomously Empathetic System” 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018). Bolder CO Oct. 2018 (AR 18.8%).

Damian Lyons, Anne-Marie Bogar, David Baird “Lightweight Call-Graph Construction for Multilingual Software Analysis” 13th Int. Conf. on Software Technologies (ICSoft) Porto Portugal, July 2018. (22% AR)

Damian Lyons, Ron Arkin, Shu Jiang, Matthew O'Brien, Feng Tang and Peng Tang, “Performance Verification for Robot Missions in Uncertain Environments” Robotics & Autonomous Systems 98 (2017) pp89-104.

Damian Lyons, Ron Arkin, Shu Jiang, Matthew O'Brien, Feng Tang and Peng Tang, "Establishing A-Priori Performance Guarantees for Robot Missions that include Localization Software" International Journal of Monitoring and Surveillance Technologies Research (IJMSTR) Volume 5, Issue 1 2017.

Damian M. Lyons, James S. MacDonall and Kelly M. Cunningham, “A Kinect-based system for automatic recording of some pigeon behaviors” Behavior Research Methods V47 N4 2016(Springer Journal, IF 2.458

Lyons, D., Arkin R., Jiang, S., Harrington, D., Tang, F., and Tang, P., “Probabilistic Verification of Multi-Robot Missions in Uncertain Environments” IEEE Int. Conference on Tools with AI, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, November 2015. PDF

T.M. Liu, D.M. Lyons, “Leveraging Area Bounds Information for Autonomous Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration” Robotics and Autonomous Systems Volume 74, Part A, December 2015, Pages 66–78 July 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2015.07.002). (Elsevier Journal, Impact Factor 1.462) PDF

D.M. Lyons, R.C. Arkin, P. Nirmal, S. Jiang, T-M Liu, “Performance Verification for Behavior-based Robot Missions” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2015.2418592, V31 N3 2015. (Journal of the IEEE Robotics Society, Impact Factor 2.649). PDF

P. Nirmal, D. Lyons, “Homing With Stereovision”, Robotica, May 2015. (Cambridge Univ. Press Journal, Official journal of the Int. Federation of Robotics, Impact Factor 0.894) PDF

Damian M. Lyons, James S. MacDonall and Kelly M. Cunningham , “A Kinect-based system for automatic recording of some pigeon behaviors” Behavior Research Methods V47 No4 2015 DOI:10.3758/s13428-014-0531-6. (Springer Journal, Impact factor 2.458) PDF

Lyons, D.M., Cluster Computing for Robotics and Computer Vision. World Scientific Singapore, 2011 (ISBN-13: 978-9812836359). Republished, Beijing Institute of Technology Press, Beijing China, Oct. 2014. PDF

D.M. Lyons, R.C. Arkin, S. Jiang, D. Harrington and T.M. Liu, “Verifying and Validating Multirobot Missions” IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2014, Chicago IL, September 2014. PDF

D.M. Lyons, K. Shresta, “Eliminating Mutual Views in Fusion of Ranging and RGB-D Data From Robot Teams Operating in Confined Areas,” Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, SPIE Defense Security and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore MD, April 2014. PDF

D.M. Lyons, T-L. Liu, K. Shresta, “Fusion of Ranging Data From Robot Teams Operating in Confined Areas,” Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, SPIE Defense Security and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore MD, April 2013. PDF

D.M. Lyons, P. Nirmal, “Navigation of uncertain terrain by fusion of information from real and synthetic imagery.” Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, SPIE Defense Security and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore MD, April 2012. PDF

D.M. Lyons, R.C. Arkin, S. D. Fox, P. Nirmal, J. Shu, “Designing Autonomous Robot Missions with Performance Guarantees,” IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012, Vila Moura, Algarve Portugal, Oct. 7-12th 2012. PDF

Stephen D. Fox, Damian M. Lyons, “An approach to stereo-point cloud registration using image homographies.” SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVIII: Algorithms and Techniques, San Francisco, CA, January 2012. PDF

Lyons, D., “Selection and Recognition of Landmarks Using Terrain Spatiograms,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010. PDF

Lyons, D., “Detection and Filtering of Landmark Occlusions using Terrain Spatiograms.” IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010. PDF