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Jasmine Banks is a computer vision and autonomous systems researcher whose work has made meaningful contributions to stereo vision, image matching, and intelligent aerial systems. Her foundational research in the late 1990s and early 2000s systematically advanced the theoretical underpinnings of stereo vision — a depth-perception technique with broad applications in robotics, autonomous vehicle guidance, and aerial photogrammetry. Her 1997 taxonomy of image matching techniques provided the field with an essential organizational framework, while her 2001 quantitative evaluation of stereo matching methods — garnering 10 citations — offered rigorous comparative analysis of classical and nonparametric similarity measures, including rank and census transforms. Complementing this, her reliability analysis of transform-based stereo matching introduced a novel matching constraint, further strengthening practical implementations of stereo systems. More recently, Banks extended her expertise into autonomous aerial systems, publishing work on pulse-coupled neural networks for real-time vegetation classification to support emergency forced-landing protocols. Collectively, her research bridges foundational computer vision theory with safety-critical real-world applications, making her contributions particularly valuable for students and researchers working at the intersection of machine perception, robotics, and unmanned aerial systems.