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Image Processing

Faculty

• Thomas S. Denney, Jr. - Professor (Johns Hopkins Univ. - '94). Magnetic resonance imaging, cardiovascular imaging, medical imaging, image processing, computer vision, image reconstruction
• Gopikrishna Deshpande - Assistant Professor (Georgia Inst. of Tech. - 2007). Signal and image processing, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), network modeling of brain function, real-time brain state classification using machine learning, neurosciences & neuoengineering.
• Soo-Young Lee - Professor (Univ. of Texas at Austin - '87). Parallel image processing, proximity effect correction in electron-beam lithography, application of signal processing to nanofabrication, parallel computing
• Stanley J. Reeves - Professor (Georgia Inst. of Tech. - '90). Signal processing, medical imaging, image and signal restoration and reconstruction, magnetic resonance imaging
• Thaddeus A. Roppel - Associate Professor (Michigan State Univ. - '86). Image processing for vision-based robot navigation
• Jitendra K. Tugnait - Professor (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - '78). Modeling, parameter estimation and identification of scalar and vector random fields with applications to image texture modeling, analysis and synthesis
• Chwan-Hwa (John) Wu - Professor (Polytechnic University - '87). image recognition and video compression

Completed and Current Projects

• Parallel image reconstruction for 3-D computerized tomography
• Fast backprojection schemes for computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction
• Proximity effect correction in E-beam lithography
• Blur identification and regularization parameter estimation in image restoration
• Optimal stopping rules in iterative image restoration
• Superresolution of passive millimeter-wave images
• Edge-based coding of single-frame and multiband images
• Target identification in synthetic aperture sonar images using fractal
• dimension features
• Optimal sampling strategies in magnetic resonance (MR) and MR
• spectroscopic imaging
• Reconstruction and modeling of magnetic resonance (MR) images
• Brightness pattern optimization for optical flow estimation of motion
• Deformable motion estimation from magnetic resonance (MR) image sequences
• Feature extraction from magnetic resonance (MR) images
• Higher order statistical signal and image processing and analysis
• Pixel-level fusion of infrared and millimeter-wave radar for target
• identification
• Sensor fusion for target detection and identification
• face recognition
• recognition of cursive continuous handwritten characters
• Chinese character recognition
• content-based video compression

Facilities in EE and Around Campus

• Telecom/ETV services for image and video acquisition,
• Graphics, printing, and publication
• Laser scanning confocal microscope
• Magnetic resonance imaging scanner -- Veterinary Medicine
• Computed tomography imager -- Veterinary Medicine
• Doppler capable ultrasound imager -- Veterinary Medicine

Faculty in Other Departments Doing Imaging/Image Processing

• Charles E. Branch (Veterinary Medicine) -- development of Cardiovascular Lab Videodisc program
• Yasser A. Gowayed (Polymer and Fiber Engineering) -- application of image analysis to textile composites
• Roy Hartsfield (Aerospace Engineering) -- measurement of primary flow parameters by imaging laser-induced flourescence in wind tunnels
• John Hathcock (Veterinary Medicine) -- radiology of animal patients using MRI and CT
• Judith A. Hudson (Veterinary Medicine) -- development of computer-assisted lessons in ultrasound, radiology, MRI, and CT
• Stephen C. Kempf (Zoology) -- imaging techniques as they can be applied to answering specific questions concerned with the structural, functional and chemical aspects of cells and their interactions with other cells
• Larry J. Kutz (Agricultural Engineering) -- vision-based measurement of morphological properties of pine seedlings for quality control
• Nels Madsen (Mechanical Engineering) -- video hardware development and processing for human motion analysis and synthesis.
• Anthony G. Moss (Zoology) -- imaging to study ciliary and flagellar beating in a variety of organisms
• Hardin Rahe (Animal & Dairy Sciences) -- biological imaging for localization of hormones/intracellular messages in gonadotrophs of cattle
• Greg L. Somers (Forestry) -- vision-based measurement of various tree parameters
• Jeff Suhling (Mechanical Engineering) -- precision measurement for material failure modeling using optical/infrared images of interference patterns
• Hareesh Tippur (Mechanical Engineering) -- precision measurement for material failure modeling using optical/infrared images of interference patterns
• Richard A. Zalik (Mathematics) -- 3-D image reconstructions using wavelet transforms