Brown University computer vision students assist police department

Professor Michael J. Black and his students in a graduate computer vision class at Brown University assisted a police department in asking for leads in a homicide case. Harry T. Phillips Jr., 39, was killed in 2005 in a convenience store in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. The students sharpened surveillance camera images, which were released to the public by the Police Department in the hope of getting new information about the crime. More information, including the sharpened image, is available in a news story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Investigator A.J. Stromberg at (804) 501-5000 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.