VIJAYAKUMAR
BHAGAVATULA
(B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar)
Professor, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
(412) 268-3026
(Voice), (412) 268-2860 (FAX)
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~kumar/
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Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from
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M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of
Technology,
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B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of
Technology,
EMPLOYMENT
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), CMU since
September 1991.
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Associate Department Head of ECE, CMU from July 1994 to June 1996.
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Associate Professor of ECE, CMU from September 1987 to August 1991.
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Assistant Professor of ECE, CMU from September 1982 to August 1987.
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Research Associate in ECE, CMU from March 1980 to August 1982.
TECHNICAL CONSULTING
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Lockheed Missiles and Space Company,
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General Dynamics,
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Unicorn Systems Inc.,
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Westinghouse Electric Corp.,
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Two-Six Inc.,
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Carnegie Mellon Research Institute,
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Teledyne Brown Engineering,
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Dynetics Inc.,
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Rosemount Analytical, Inc.,
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Martin Marietta Company,
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Hughes Missile Systems Company,
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Southwest Intelligent Systems Inc.,
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Hughes Research Laboratories,
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Mytec Technologies Inc.,
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Raytheon Systems Company,
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ADC Communications, Pittsburgh,
PA.
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Litton TASC Institute, VA.
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Maxoptix Corp.,
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Northrop Grumman,
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Lockheed Martin,
LEGAL
CONSULTING
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Morgan, Lewis and
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Baker and McKenzie,
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Finnegan,
TEACHING
CMU Courses
Short Courses
SELECTED INVITED
TALKS
1. "Performance of
synthetic discriminant functions for distortion-invariant pattern
recognition," Jet Propulsion
Laboratories,
2. "Optimal detection of
digital information on particulate magnetic recording media," Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
3. "Detection of digital
signals on particulate media in non-stationary noise," Control Data,
4. "Optical correlators
for pattern recognition,” IEEE ASSP
Society and IEEE Controls Society Chapter meeting,
5. "Associative Memory
from Neural Networks," Joint Seminar, Department
of Electrical Engineering and Division of Imaging Science, Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut, November 1987.
6. "Input-output
characterization of laterally inhibited networks," Electrical and Computer Engineering,
7. "Optical Pattern
Recognition," Defense Research and
Development Laboratories,
8. "Image Reconstruction
from Partial Fourier Information," Center
for Fluorescence Research,
9. "Noise Modeling in
Magnetic Recording,"
10. "Input-Output
characteristics of a class of Laterally Inhibited Neural Networks,” Jet Propulsion Laboratories,
11. "Input-output
characterization of a class of laterally inhibited neural networks," US West Advanced Technologies,
12. "Phase-only and binary
phase-only filters for optical pattern recognition," NSF Center for Opto-Electric Computing
Systems,
13. "Optical Data
Processing Research at CMU," ECE
Graduate Seminar,
14. "Partial-Information
Correlator Systems," Litton Data
Systems,
15. "Design of phase-only
and binary phase-only correlation filters," Rockwell International Sciences Center,
16. "Binary phase-only
filter design," Litton Data Systems,
17. "Partial-information
correlation filter design," Sandia National
Laboratories,
18. "Three-level composite
filters for optical pattern recognition," Litton Data Systems,
19. "Advances in
correlation filter design," U.S.
Army Night Vision Laboratories, April 1991.
20. "Trade-off in the
design of correlation filters," SPIE
Critical Reviews,
21. “Filter design for optical
correlators," Martin-Marietta
Company,
22. "Design of Filters for
Optical Correlators," Sandia National
Laboratories,
23. "Application of
Differential Learning to Pattern Recognition," Indian Institute of Technology,
24. "Efficient statistical
pattern recognition through differential learning," Indian Statistical Institute,
25. "Applications of Signal
Processing in Data Storage Systems," KODAK,
26. "Differential learning
approaches," Hughes Missile Systems
Company,
27. "Neural networks for
Pattern Recognition," NASA Johnson
Space Center,
28. “Correlation filters for
Automatic Target Recognition,” Westinghouse
Science & Technology Center,
29. “Correlation Filters for
Pattern Recognition,” Hughes Research
Labs,
30. “Equalization for
Holographic Data Storage,”
31. “Correlation Filters for
Automatic Target Recognition,” Northrop
Grumman Norden Systems,
32. “Coding for Data Storage,” Storage Technologies Inc.,
33. “Coding for High-density
Data Storage,” Computational
34. "Advanced correlation
filters for pattern recognition," Indian
Statistical Institute,
35. "Run-length limited
Codes for high-density data storage," Hughes
Missile Systems Company,
36. "Partial response
methods for high density data storage," Raytheon Missile Systems Company,
37. “Equalization methods for
optical data storage,” Calimetrics Inc.,
38. “Equalization methods for
optical data storage,” Quantum
Electronics,
39. “Advanced optical
correlation methods,” Raytheon Missile
Systems Company,
40. “Coding and Signal
processing for high-density data storage systems,” Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
41. “Equalization for
holographic data storage,” International
Workshop for Holographic Data Storage,
42. "Clutter rejection
methods for automatic target recognition," Northrop Grumman Science and Technology Center,
43. "Optical data storage
research at DSSC,"
44. "Signal Processing for
Optical Data Storage," NSIC Optical
45. "Timing recovery for
data storage," Seagate,
46. "Turbo codes for data
storage," IEEE Magnetics Society
Seminar,
47. "Characterization and
equalization of tape dropouts," Imation,
48. "Turbo coding for
optical data storage," Infineon Technologies,
49. "Turbo codes for data
storage," Quantum Inc.,
50. "Eigen and non-linear
for improved clutter rejection in correlation-based automatic target
recognition," Northrop Grumman
Science and Technology Center,
51. "Coding and Signal
Processing for Data Storage," Lucent
Technologies,
52. "Correlation Filters:
State of the Art," Raytheon Systems
Company,
53. "Low Density Parity
Check (LDPC) Codes for Data Storage," Samsung
Information Systems of
54. "Advanced correlation
filters for Automatic Target Recognition," Lockheed Martin,
55. "Coding and Signal
Processing for Optical Data Storage," Philips
Laboratories,
56. "Role of Coding and
Signal Processing for Digital Data Preservation," NIST,
57. “Biometric verification
algorithms,” Lockheed Martin,
58. “Coding and Signal
Processing Research at
59. “Advanced timing recovery
methods for low-SNR data storage channels,” Coding and Signal Processing Group,
Data Storage Institute,
60. “Correlation filter methods
for face verification,” ECE Dept., Natl.
61. “Biometric verification
using correlation filters,” Computer Science Department, IIT/Madras,
Post-Docs
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Dr. Hyungshin Kim, Ph.D. from KAIST,
Industry
Visitors
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Toshihiro Horigome,
Ph.D.
Students
1.
Christopher Carroll, "Application of Optical Signal Processing to
Adaptive Phased Array Radar," May 1987.
2.
Bruce Montgomery, "On decoding algorithms for linear binary block
codes," July 1987.
3.
Zouhir Bahri, "Phase-only and binary phase-only
filters in optical correlators," September 1989.
4.
Michael Lemmon, "Parameter Estimation using competitively
inhibited neural networks," April 1990.
5.
Laurence Hassebrook, "Linear phase filters and filter banks for
distortion-invariant optical pattern recognition," July 1990.
6.
James Connelly, "Two-dimensional correlation using one-dimensional
acousto-optic devices," October 1990.
7.
Ashraf Ali Kassim, "A neural network architecture for
generating potential fields," March 1993.
8.
Charles Hendrix, "Two-level and three-level filter design for
distortion-invariant pattern recognition," August 1993.
9.
John Hampshire, "A differential theory of learning for efficient
statistical pattern recognition," September 1993.
10. Inci Ozgunes, "Modeling
Magneto-Optic Read Channels," December 1995.
11. Khaled Al-Ghoneim, "Learning
ranks for pattern recognition," April 1996.
12. Srinivasan Gopalaswamy,
"Multi-channel signal processing for high track density optical recording
systems," May 1996.
13. Daniel Carlson, “Optimal
tradeoff composite filters,” August 1996.
14. Greg Silvus, "Detection
of ultra-high-density magnetic tape signals in the presence of
nonlinearities," September 1996.
15. Usha Pillai, “Readback signal
simulation and development of data detection techniques for a scanner-based
multi-channel optical tape system,” January 1999.
16. Venkatesh Vadde, “2-Dimensional
equalization, detection and coding for volume holographic data storage,” August
1999.
17. Mohamed Alkanhal, “Eigen and
nonlinear correlation filters for automatic target recognition,” September
2000.
18. Yifei Yuan, “Timing recovery for
data storage,” December 2000.
19. Mehmet Keskinoz,
"Two-dimensional equalization and detection for quadratic storage
channels," July 2001.
20. Fatih Sarigoz, “Characterization
and mitigation of dropouts in magnetic tape recording: A read channel
perspective,” September 2001. (co-advisor: Dr. James Bain)
21. Hongwei Song, “Iterative
soft detection/decoding for data storage channels,” December 2002.
22. Jingfeng Liu, "Timing
recovery for low-SNR data storage channels," April 2003.
23. Xiaoming Liu,
"Registration and expression tolerant face recognition," expected to
complete by summer 2004 (co-advisor: Prof. Tsuhan Chen).
24. Marios Savvides, “Face
verification using correlation filters,” expected to complete by summer 2004 (co-
advisor: Prof. Pradeep Khosla).
25. Chunyan Xie, “Automatic Target
Recognition of 3-D images,” expected to complete by summer 2005.
26. Jin Xie,
started in September 2002.
27. Krithika Venkataramani,
started in January 2003.
28. Lingyan Sun,
started in January 2003.
29. Ryan Kerekes, started in
September 2003.
30. Sundaram Vanka,
to start in January 2004.
Master's
Students
1. Christopher
Carroll, October 1983.
2. Craig
Rahenkamp, July 1985.
3. Keith
DeVos, October 1985.
4. Zouhir Bahri, October 1986.
5. Venugopal Veeravalli, October 1986.
6. Michael
Lemmon, December 1987.
7. James
Connelly, February 1988.
8. Dean
Hering, December 1989 (joint advisor: Prof. P. Khosla)
9. Phillip
Wong, May 1990.
10. Wei Shi,
August 1990.
11. Charles Hendrix, December 1990.
12. Greg Silvus, November 1991.
13. Daniel Carlson,
May 1992.
14. Chu-Lung
Chen, August 1993.
15. Hooman Yaghoobi,
May 1994.
16. Aida Ibrahim, September 1995.
17. Fatih Sarigoz, May 1996.
18.
19. Glen Clark,
May 1997.
20.
Mehmet Keskinoz, December 1997.
21.
Reese Bovard, December 1999.
22.
Siriluck Tipmongkonsilp, May 2000.
23.
Rajan Singh, May 2002.
24.
Krithika Venkataramani, December 2002.
25.
Shilpi Sahu, December 2002.
26.
Jason Thornton, expected to complete by
December 2003.
27.
Mike Beattie, started in September 2003.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1.
"Optical linear algebra processors,” Chapter 6.1, Optical Signal Processing (edited by
J.L. Horner), Academic Press, 389-407, 1987 (Casasent and Kumar).
2.
"Competitively Inhibited Neural Networks: Analysis and
Applications,” Chapter 3 in Neural
Networks: Concepts, Applications and Implementations, Vol. III, 48-83, Prentice-Hall,
1991 (Lemmon and Kumar).
3.
"Optical Associative Memories,” Chapter in Artificial Neural Networks and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Old and
New Connections, 219-241, North-Holland, 1991 (Kumar and Wong).
4.
"Optical Pattern Recognition," Chapter in Optical Signal Processing, 39-88,
Academic Press, 1994 (Kumar).
5.
"Artificial potential fields and neural networks," Chapter in
The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural
Networks, edited by Michael Arbib, 749-753,
Bradford Books, 1995 (Kassim and Kumar).
6.
"Biometric EncryptionTM," Chapter 22 in ICSA Guide to Cryptography, edited by Randall K. Nicholls, 649-675,
1999 (Soutar, Roberge, Stoianov, Gilroy and Kumar)
7.
“Equalization
for volume holographic data storage systems,” chapter in Holographic Data Storage (editors: H. Coufal, D. Psaltis and G. T. Sincerbox),
309-317, Springer-Verlag,
8.
“Modulation and Coding,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Optical
Engineering (eds. R.B. Johnson and E. Lichtenstein), to appear in the
online supplement, Marcel Dekker,
PUBLICATIONS
IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1.
"A coherent optical signal processor for passive ambiguity
function generation,” Proc. of 8th IOCC,
IEEE Computer Society Press, 96-100, 1979 (Casasent, Kumar, and Tullia).
2.
"Optical passive ambiguity surface computation for sonar signal
processing,” Proc. of EASCON 79,
IEEE Press, 595-601, 1979 (Casasent and Kumar).
3.
"Optical processors for adaptive phased array radars,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 209,
47-52, 1979 (Casasent, Psaltis, Kumar and Carlotto).
4.
"Processing flexibility by hybrid optical/digital techniques,” Proc. of the Workshop on Future Directions
of Optical Data Processing, Texas Tech. University, Lubbock, 17-25, 1980
(Casasent and Kumar).
5.
"Image quality effects in optical correlators,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 310,
183-92, 1981 (Casasent, Eiva and Kumar).
6.
"A correlator for optimum 2-class discrimination,” Proc. of EOSD Conference,
7.
"Synthetic discriminant functions for 3-D object recognition,”
Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 360, 136-42, 1982 (Casasent, Kumar and
Sharma).
8.
"Pattern Recognition using Wigner distribution function,” Proc. of 10th IOCC, IEEE Computer
Society Press, 130-36, 1983 (Kumar and Carroll).
9.
"Optimality considerations in modified matched spatial filters,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 519,
85-93, 1984 (Kumar, Pochapsky and Casasent).
10. "Role of Wigner
distribution function in pattern recognition,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 521, 44-52, 1984 (Kumar).
11. "An optical/digital
hybrid system for calculating geometric moments,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 579, 215-224, 1985 (Kumar and
Rahenkamp).
12. "Optimality of
projection synthetic discriminant functions,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 579, 86-95, 1985 (Kumar).
13. "Performance of a
hybrid processor to compute geometric moments,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 638, 32-40, 1986 (Kumar and
Rahenkamp).
14. "Geometric moments from
Hartley transform intensities,” Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 639, 253-59, 1986 (Kumar).
15. "Nearest neighbor
non-iterative error-correcting optical associative processor,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 638,
83-90, 1986 (Montgomery and Kumar).
16. "Subpixel delay
estimation using group delay functions,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 697, 187-196, Aug. 1986 (Kumar and Rajan).
17. "A general minimum
distance decoding procedure for binary linear block codes,” Digest of Abstracts, International Symposium on Information
Theory,
18. "On the average
codeword length of optimal binary codes for extended sources,” Digest of Abstracts, International Symposium on Information
Theory,
19. "Computational
considerations in the determination of synthetic discriminant functions,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 726,
46-55, 1986 (Bahri and Kumar).
20. "Subpixel target
detection and tracking,” Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 726, 206-220, 1986 (Casasent, Kumar and Lin).
21. "Variable accuracy
optical matrix/vector processors - Speed/Accuracy tradeoffs,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 752,
179-186, 1987 (Kumar and Carroll).
22. "Optimal synthetic
discriminant functions based on
intensity constraints,” Technical
Digest of OSA Topical Meeting on Machine
Vision, Vol. 12, 54-57, 1987 (Kumar, Bahri and Mahalanobis).
23. "Representing
lattice-ordered associative memories with artificial neural networks,” Proc.
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 362-365, 1987
(Lemmon and Kumar).
24. "Neural Networks as
Associative Mappings,” Proc. of IEEE
First Annual International Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. II,
213-222, June1987 (Lemmon and Kumar).
25. "Linear system
description using Wigner Distribution functions,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 826, 115-124, 1987 (Kumar and
DeVos).
26. "Iterative Fourier
transform phased array Radar pattern synthesis,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 827, 73-84, 1987 (Carroll and
Kumar).
27. "Frequency domain
characterization of synthetic discriminant functions,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 848, 56-62, 1987 (Kumar and
Bahri).
28. "Optimality of
phase-only filters,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
884,146-152, January 1988 (Kumar and Bahri).
29. "Adaptive phased-array
radar processing on a multi-channel, acousto-optic linear algebra system: experimental results,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 886, 203-212, January 1988
(Carroll and Kumar).
30. "Application of optical
processing to adaptive phased array radar,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 936, 142-151, April 1988 (Carroll
and Kumar).
31. "Correlation filters
for orientation estimation,” Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 938,
190-197, April 1988 (Kumar, Lee and Connelly).
32. "Hybrid methods to
compute image moments,” Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 939,121-126, April 1988 (Kumar).
33. "Wigner distribution
function/ambiguity function processor,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 936, 260-269, April 1988 (Rakes, Hester, Inguva
and Kumar).
34. "Review of Synthetic
Discriminant Function algorithms,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 960, 18-28, June 1988 (Kumar, Bahri and
Hassebrook).
35. "Performance of optimal
phase-only filters,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
1005, 58-63, November 1988 (Bahri and Kumar).
36. "Linear Phase
Coefficient Composite Filters for Optical Pattern Recognition,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1053,
218-226, January 1989 (Hassebrook, Kumar and Hostetler).
37. "Selection of optimum
pass band for binary phase-only filters,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 1053, 227-232, January 1989 (Kumar and
Bahri).
38. "Competitively
Inhibited Optical Neural Networks using Two Step Holographic Materials,” OSA Technical Digest on Optical Computing, 36-39, 1989 (Lemmon
and Kumar).
39. "A Model for
Self-organization in WTA Networks and its application to MAP Prediction
Problems,” Proc. of IJCNN, Vol.
II, 509-516, June 1989 (Lemmon and Kumar).
40. "Effects of Quantizing
the Phase in Correlation Filters,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 1151, 166-173, August 1989 (Kumar and
Connelly).
41. "Efficient algorithm
for predicting the response of a laterally inhibited neural network,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1154,
63-70, August 1989 (Kumar and Lemmon).
42. "Algorithms for
Designing Phase-only Synthetic Discriminant Functions,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1151, 138-147, August 1989 (Bahri
and Kumar).
43. "Design of Partial
Information Filters for Optical Correlators,” Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sys. Man and Cybernetics, 421-426,
November 1989 (Bahri and Kumar).
44. "The use of Modular
Neural Networks in Tactile Sensing,” Proc.
of IJCNN, Vol. II, 355-358, January 1990 (Hering, Khosla and
Kumar).
45. "Trade-offs in
nonlinearly recorded matched filters,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 1296, 54-60, April 1990 (Kumar and
Hassebrook).
46. "An algorithm for
designing phase-only filters with maximally sharp correlation peaks,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1296,
132-139, April 1990 (Kumar, Hendrix and Shi).
47. "Binary Phase-Only
Synthetic Discriminant Function (BPOSDF) designed using the Successive Forcing
Algorithm,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
1297, 188-193, April 1990 (Bahri and Kumar).
48. "Competitive Learning's
Global Search Property,” Proc. of IJCNN,
Vol. III, 837-842, June 1990 (Lemmon and Kumar).
49. "Learning in
Competitively Inhibited Neural Nets,” Proc.
of IJCNN, Vol. III, 477-482, June 1990 (Lemmon and Kumar).
50. "Binarization effects
in acousto-optic correlators,” Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 1347, 112-122, July 1990 (Kumar and
Connelly).
51. "Maximization of SNR of
filters for optical pattern recognition under the condition of input and
detector noise," Proc. of IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2637-2640, 1991 (Kumar,
Juday and Rajan).
52. "Optimal phase-only
correlation filters in colored scene noise," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1555, 138-145, July 1991 (Kumar,
Liang and Juday).
53. "Optimal correlation
filters for implementation on deformable mirror devices," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1558,
476-486, July 1991 (Kumar and Carlson).
54. "Design and testing of
3-level optimal correlation filters," Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 1564, 2-13, July 1991 (Hendrix, Kumar, Stalker,
Kast and Shori).
55. "Design and
experimental testing of minimum average correlation energy filters on acousto-optic
2-D correlators," Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 1564, 572-592, July 1991 (Connelly, Kumar, Molley, Stalker
and Kast).
56. "Tradeoff in the design
of correlation filters," Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. CR-40, 191-215, November 1991 (Kumar, Hendrix and Carlson).
57. "Phase-only and binary
phase-only filters that best approximate the classical matched filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1701,
112-120, April 1992 (Kumar and Hendrix).
58. "Bias in correlation
peak location," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
1701, 149-158, April 1992 (Kumar, Juday and Carlson).
59. "Synthetic discriminant
function (SDF) filter performance evaluations," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1701, 169-177, April 1992 (Sims,
Epperson, Kumar and Mahalanobis).
60. "Hybrid composite
filter banks for optical pattern recognition," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1701, 217-228, April 1992
(Hassebrook, Rahmati and Kumar).
61. "Shooting craps in
search of an optimal strategy for training connectionist pattern
classifiers," Advances in Neural
Information Processing Systems, Vol. 4, 1125-1132, Morgan
Kaufman, 1992 (Hampshire and Kumar).
62. "Why error measures are
sub-optimal for training neural network pattern classifiers," Proc. of IJCNN, Vol. IV,
220-227, June 1992 (Hampshire and Kumar).
63. "A neural network
architecture for path planning," Proc.
of IJCNN, Vol. II, 787-792, June 1992 (Kassim and Kumar).
64. "Neural network
architecture for generating potential fields for motion planning," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1766,
94-105, July 1992 (Kassim and Kumar).
65. "Optimal synthetic
discriminant functions for implementation on arbitrarily constrained
devices," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
1772, 10-20, July 1992 (Carlson and Kumar).
66. "Iterative algorithm
for designing binary phase-only composite filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1772, 184-191, July 1992 (Hendrix
and Kumar).
67. "Improved
distortion-invariant pattern recognition through synthesizing similar training
images into a composite image," Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 1812, 219-226, 1992 (Chen and Kumar).
68. "Correlation filters
assessed in terms of probability of detection and probability of false
alarm," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
1959, 12-22, 1993 (Brasher, Kinser, Kumar and Chen).
69. "Role of the constraint
values in synthetic discriminant function (SDF) filter design," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1959,
23-31, 1993 (Kumar, Brasher, Hester, Srinivasan and Bollapragada).
70. "Automatic target
recognition with intensity and distortion-invariant hybrid composite
filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
1959, 133-145, 1993 (Rahmati, Hassebrook and Kumar).
71. "Synthetic discriminant
function using relaxed constraints," Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 1959, 146-157, 1993 (Sims, Epperson, Kumar and
Mahalanobis).
72. "Choice of threshold
line angle for binary phase-only filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1959, 170-177, 1993 (Kumar and
Hendrix).
73. "Differential theory of
learning for efficient neural network pattern recognition," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 1966,
76-95, April 1993 (Hampshire and Kumar).
74. "Differential learning
leads to efficient neural network classifiers," Proc. of ICASSP, Vol. I, 613-616, 1993 (Hampshire and
Kumar).
75. "Differentially
generated neural network classifiers are efficient," Neural Networks for Signal Processing III: Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE
Workshop, 151-160, 1993 (Hampshire and Kumar).
76. “Nonlinear decision
boundaries using complex constraints in synthetic discriminant function
filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
2026, 88-99, 1993 (Kumar, Brasher and Hester).
77. “Distance classifier
correlation filters for distortion tolerance, discrimination, and clutter
rejection,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
2026, 325-335, 1993 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and Sims).
78. "Pruning of the
training sets used for synthetic discriminant function filter design," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2237,
14-18, 1994 (Kumar and Bollapragada).
79. "Comparative evaluation
of binary phase-only synthetic discriminant function filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2237,
102-113, 1994 (Hendrix and Kumar).
80. "Correlation peak
shifts between phase-matched and maximum-intensity correlation," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2237,
114-123, 1994 (Juday, Monroe and Kumar).
81. "Distance classifier
correlation filters," Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 2238, 2-13, 1994 (Mahalanobis, Carlson, Kumar and
Sims).
82. "Efficient autonomous
learning for statistical pattern recognition," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2243, 90-110, 1994 (Hampshire and
Kumar).
83. "Application of the
wave expansion neural network (WENN) to path planning problems," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2243,
406-419, 1994 (Kassim and Kumar).
84. "Two or three
levels? A comparison of the two level
and three level filters for optical pattern recognition," Proc. of Euro-American Optical Pattern
Recognition Workshop, June 1994 (Kumar and Hendrix).
85. "Signal-to-noise ratio
performance of Magneto-Optic read channels in the presence of bloom," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2338,
319-327, 1994 (Ozgunes and Kumar).
86. "Channel model for an
optical tape system," Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 2338, 222-229, 1994 (Gopalaswamy and Kumar).
87. “Multi-channel Readback
Model for an Optical Tape System,” Proc.
of Globecom ‘94, 1472-1476, 1994 (Gopalaswamy and Kumar).
88. “Recent advances in
distortion-invariant correlation filter design,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2490, 2-13, 1995 (Kumar and
Mahalanobis).
89. “Design and testing of
correlation filters for cross-coupled devices,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2490, 194-205, 1995 (Kumar,
Carlson, Friday,
90. “Learning ranks with neural
networks,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
2492, 446-464, 1995 (Al-Ghoneim and Kumar).
91. “Evaluation of generalized
distance classifier filters for multi-class automatic target recognition,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2485,
238-248, 1995 (Sims, Mahalanobis and Kumar).
92. “Distance classifier
correlation filters using multiple eigenvectors for enhanced class separation,”
Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2565,
50-61, 1995 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and Sims),
93. “Efficient computation of
optimum gain and angle in the design of filters for cross-coupled devices,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2565,
166-174, 1995 (Kumar, Carlson and Mahalanobis).
94. “Balancing among filtering
objectives in coupled SDFS,” Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 2565, 175-178, 1995 (Juday and Kumar).
95. “A simple two-dimensional run-length-limited
code for ultra-high-density magnetic tape recording,” Proc. of ICC, 633-637, 1995 (Silvus and Kumar).
96. "A non-linear signal
model for magnetic-tape recording channels utilizing magneto-resistive
heads," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
2604, 192-199, 1995 (Silvus and Kumar).
97. "Convergence times of
timing-recovery schemes for magneto-resistive magnetic-recording
channels," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
2604, 246-255, 1995 (Silvus and Kumar).
98. "Equalization of
magnetic recording signals using Artificial Neural Networks," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2605,
58-64, 1995 (Ibrahim, Sarigoz and Kumar).
99. "Decision feedback
equalization with multi-channel readback in high density optical
recording," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
2605, 65-76, 1995 (Gopalaswamy and Kumar).
100. "Adaptive partial response (PR) signaling
for magneto-optic read channels in the presence of transition noise," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2605,
77-83, 1995 (Ozgunes and Kumar).
101. "MEDOF 3.0: Optimizing composite filters
in the presence of device constraints and systems noise" to appear in Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2752,
31-38, 1996 (Carlson, Kumar, Juday and Mahalanobis).
102. "MACE-type correlation filter with
controlled in-plane rotation response," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2752, 57-68, 1996 (Ng and Kumar).
103. "Prediction and comparison of performance
of correlation filters," Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 2754, 136-141, 1996 (Mahalanobis and Kumar).
104. "Composite correlation filters for SAR
image recognition," Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 2757, 338-349, 1996 (Carlson, Kumar, Mitchell and
Hoffelder).
105. "Combining neural networks using the
ranking figure of merit," Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 2760, 2-13, 1996 (Al-Ghoneim and Kumar).
106. “Combining multiple correlators using neural
networks,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
3073, 398-403, 1997 (Alkanhal, Kumar and Mahalanobis).
107. “Optimal trade-off distance classifier
correlation filters (OTDCCFs) for SAR ATR,” Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3070, 110-120, 1997 (Carlson,
Kumar, Mitchell and Hoffelder).
108. “Polynomial filters for higher-order
correlation and multi-input information fusion’” Proc. of Euro-American Optoelectronic Information Processing workshop, 221-231, 1997 (Mahalanobis and Kumar)
109. “Channel Estimation and
Intra-page Equalization for Digital Volume Holographic Data Storage,” Proc. SPIE, Optical Data Storage’97, Vol.
3109, 250-255, 1997 (Vadde and Kumar)
110. "Synchronization Timing Recovery For Magneto-resistive-head Magnetic-recording
Channels," Digest of INTERMAG '97,
1997, BS-16 -BS-16 (Silvus and Kumar).
111. "Multi channel Equalization For MO PWM Channels," Digest of INTERMAG '97, 1997, FQ-13 -FQ-13 (Gopalaswamy and Kumar).
112. "Biometric encryption using image
processing," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
3314, 178-188, 1998 (Soutar, Roberge, Stoianov,
113. "Evaluation of MACH and DCCF correlation
filters for SAR ATR using the MSTAR public database," Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 3370, 460-468, 1998 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and
Carlson)
114. "Combining focused MACE filters for
target detection," Proc. of SPIE,
Vol. 3371, 242-252, 1998 (Al-Ghoneim and Kumar))
115. "Optimal trade-off correlation filter with
controlled in-plane rotation response for target recognition," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3371,
253-262, 1998 (Kumar, Mahalanobis and Takessian)
116. "Important differences between distance
classifier correlation filters (DCCFs) and Fisher linear discriminant functions
(LDFs)," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
3371, 263-274, 1998 (Mahalanobis and Kumar)
117. "Biometric encryption - Enrollment and
Verification Procedures," Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 3386, 24-35, April 1998 (Soutar, Roberge,
Stoianov,
118. "Optimal correlation filter for
fingerprint identification," Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 3386, 123-133, 1998 (Roberge, Soutar and Kumar)
119. "Combining focused MACE filters for pose
estimation," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
3386, 260-271, April 1998 (Al-Ghoneim and Kumar)
120. "A figure of merit for the optical
aperture used in digital volume holographic data storage," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3401,
194-200, 1998 (Vadde, Kumar, Burr, Coufal, Hoffnagle and Jefferson)
121. "Tilt analysis of
readback signals from DVD-ROM media,” Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 3401, 232-241, 1998 (Sarigoz, Kumar, and Kowarz)
122. "A simple nonlinear
channel model for phase change optical recording media," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3401,
187-193, 1998 (Yuan and Kumar)
123. "Channel simulation and
development of signal processing techniques for a scanner based optical storage
system," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
3401, 170-176, 1998 (Pillai and Kumar)
124. "Recurrent neural
network equalization (RNNE) for partial response (PR) shaping of
Magneto-Optical (MO) readback signals," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3401, 159-167, 1998 (Ozgunes,
Hacioglu and Kumar)
125. “Digital equalization for optical distortions
in volume holographic data storage systems,” Technical Digest of Optics
in Computing, 84-88, April 1999, Optical Society of America (Vadde and
Kumar)
126. “Analysis of signal-to-noise ratio at the
output of polynomial correlation filters,” Proc.
Of SPIE, Vol. 3715, 407-413, 1999 (Al-Mashouq,
Alkanhal and Kumar)
127. “Improving the false alarm capabilities of
composite correlation filters,” Proc. Of
SPIE, Vol. 3718, 358-367, 1999 (Alkanhal, Kumar and
Mahalanobis)
128. “Effect of constraint phases on the clutter
rejection performance of SDF filters,” Proc.
Of SPIE, Vol. 3718, 368-375, 1999 (Kumar, Alkanhal and
Mahalanobis)
129. “Performance of the MACH/DCCF algorithms on
the 10-class public release MSTAR data set,” Proc. Of SPIE, Vol. 3721, 285-291, 1999 (Mahalanobis,
Ortiz and Kumar)
130. “Linear minimum mean squared error (LMMSE)
equalization for holographic data storage,” Proc. Of ICC’99, 1957-1961, 1999 (Keskinoz and Kumar)
131. “Partial response equalization for grayscale
volume holographic data storage,” Technical
Digest, Joint ISOM/ODS’99,
Koloa, Hawaii, 97-99, July 1999 (Vadde and Kumar)
132. “A comparison of timing recovery schemes for
optical storage systems,” Technical
Digest, Joint ISOM/ODS’99,
133. "2D equalization for page-oriented data
storage systems," Proc. of the
thirty seventh annual Allerton conference on
communication, control and computing, pp. 1294-1303, September 1999 (Kumar,
Vadde and Keskinoz)
134. "Equivalence of two approaches for the
design of optically realizable correlation filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4043, 158-165, April 2000
(Tipmongkonsilp, Kumar and Kokaj)
135. "Improved clutter rejection in synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) imagery using the extended maximum average correlation
height (EMACH) filter," Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 4053, 332-339, 2000 (Alkanhal, Kumar, and
Mahalanobis)
136. "ATR performance using Xpatch (synthetic) training data," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4053,
340-343, 2000 (Mahalanobis, Ortiz, Kumar, and Ezekiel)
137. "Analysis of dropout peak shift in
magnetic tape recording," Digest of
InterMag 2000, 39, 2000 (Sarigoz,
Li, Kumar, Bain and Zhu)
138. "Effect of timing recovery methods on
turbo coded and turbo equalized magnetic recording channels," Digest of InterMag 2000, p. 524, 2000 (Yuan, Kurtas and Kumar)
139. "Performance comparison of equalization
and low-pass coding for holographic storage," Optical Data Storage, 2000 Conference Digest, 2000 113 –115, 2000
(Vadde and Kumar)
140. "To 100 Gb/in2 and beyond in
magneto-optic recording," Optical
Data Storage, 2000 Conference Digest, 176 –178, 2000 (Karns,
Zhai, Song, Gamble, Stancil, Kumar and Schlesinger)
141. "Efficient modeling of volume holographic
storage channels (VHSC)," Optical
Data Storage, 2000 Conference Digest, 116 –118, 2000 (Keskinoz and Kumar)
142. "Effect of transition noise on turbo
decoding for optical data storage," Optical
Data Storage, 2000. Conference Digest, 188 –190, 2000 (Song, Kumar and
Kurtas)
143. "Effect of transition noise on Turbo
coding in optical data storage" Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 4090, 283-288, October 2000 (Song, Kumar and
Kurtas)
144. "Efficient modeling of volume holographic
storage channel (VHSC)" Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 4090, 205-210, October 2000 (Keskinoz and Kumar)
145. "Performance comparison of equalization
and low-pass coding for holographic data storage'" Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4090, 197-204, October 2000
(Vadde and Kumar)
146. "To 100 Gb/in2
and beyond in magneto-optical recording" Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4090, 238-245, October 2000 (Karns, Zhai, Song, Gamble,
Stancil, Kumar and Schlesinger)
147. "Fixed-delay tree
search based detection for volume holographic data storage " Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4090,
216-224, October 2000 (Vadde and Kumar)
148. "Channel modeling for
hybrid magneto-optical recording," Proc.
of SPIE, Vol. 4090, 292-299, October 2000 (Liu, Song, Kumar and Shieh)
149. "Characterization and equalization of
dropouts in the magnetic tape recording channel," Proc. ICASSP 2000, 3554-3557,
150. "Use of adaptive filter for timing
recovery for data storage channels," Proc.
ICC 2000, 94-98, 2000 (Yuan and
Kumar)
151. "Turbo decoding for optical data
storage," Proc. ICC 2000, 104-108, 2000 (Song, Kumar,
Kurtas and Yuan)
152. "Separable correlation filters," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4113,
153. "Mitigating the effects of dropouts in
magnetic tape recording: A read channel perspective," Digest of TMRC'2000,
154. "Performance of partial response
iterative decoded channels for optical data storage," Digest of TMRC'2000,
155. "Advanced timing recovery for data
storage systems," Digest of
TMRC'2000,
156. "Fly Height Margin of
157. "Effects of
nonlinearities on partial response equalized hybrid MO recording channel,"
Technical Digest of ISOM,
164-165, 2000 (Song, Liu, Kumar, and Shieh).
158. "Application of Soft Output Viterbi
Algorithm (SOVA) in Timing Recovery for Iterative Soft Decoded Magnetic
Recording Channels," Digest of InterMag 2001,
159. "Effect of a differentiator in partial
response maximum likelihood (PRML) detection schemes for optical
recording," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4342, 409-417,
2001 (Liu, Song and Kumar)
160. "Method for amplitude response estimation
in quadratic channels," Proc. of
SPIE, Vol. 4342, 574-579, 2001 (Keskinoz and Kumar)
161. "High-density substrate incident
magneto-optic recording using a solid immersion lens," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4342, 213-219,
2001 (Karns, Stancil, Kumar and Schlesinger).
162. "Eigen-extended maximum average
correlation height (EEMACH) correlation filters for automatic target
recognition," Proc. of SPIE, Vol.
4379, April 2001 (Kumar and Alkanhal).
163. “Three-dimensional
correlation filters for orientation-invariant recognition,” Proc. Of SPIE,
Vol. 4379, 51-58, April 2001 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and Van Nevel)
164. "Efficient modeling and iterative
magnitude-squared decision feedback equalization (DFE) for volume holographic
storage channels," Proc. of
ICC'2001, Vol. 9, 2696-2700, 2001 (Keskinoz and Kumar).
165. "Low density parity check (LDPC) codes
for partial response equalized CAD-MO recording," Technical Digest of
ISOM'01, 14-15, 2001 (Song, Liu, Kumar, Inaba,
Shimazaki and Ota).
166. "Fast timing acquisition for high density
optical recording," Technical Digest of ISOM'01, 150-151,
2001 (Liu, Song and Kumar).
167. "Thermal aging of very small domains in TbFeCo," Technical Digest of ISOM'01,
166-167, 2001 (Karns, Stancil, Kumar and
Schlesinger).
168. “Volume correlations for recognizing patterns
in 3D data,” Proc. Of SPIE, Vol. 4471, 51-58, July 2001
(Mahalanobis, Kumar, and Van Nevel).
169. "Face verification using correlation filters," Proc.
Of the Third IEEE Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, 56-61,
170. “Efficient methods for correlation-based
automatic target recognition,” Proc. Of SPIE, Vol. 4726,
No. 26, April 2002 (Kumar, Venkataramani and Savvides).
171. “Performance of the extended maximum average
correlation height (EMACH) filter and the polynomial distance classifier
correlation filter (PDCCF) for multiclass SAR detection and classification,” Proc.
Of SPIE, Vol. 4727, No. 23, April 2002 (Singh and Kumar).
172. “On modeling variations for face
authentication,” Proc. of Intl.
Conf. on Face and Gesture Recognition,
173. “Low density parity check codes for optical
data storage,” ISOM/ODS joint meeting Technical Digest, 371-373,
Waikoloa, Hawaii, July 2002 (Kumar, Song and Liu).
174. “LDPC codes with run length
constraints,” ISOM/ODS joint meeting Technical Digest, 377-379,
Waikoloa, Hawaii, July 2002 (Song, Liu and Kumar).
175. “Timing recovery for
MAMMOS,” ISOM/ODS joint meeting Technical Digest, 347-349, Waikoloa,
Hawaii, July 2002 (Liu, Song and Kumar).
176. “Spatial frequency domain
image processing for biometric recognition,” Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Image
Processing (ICIP), Vol. I, 53-56, 2002 (Kumar, Savvides, Venkataramani and
Xie).
177. “Low complexity LDPC codes
for partial response channels,” Proc. of
Globecom’2002,
178. “Symbol timing recovery for
low-SNR partial response channels,” Proc.
of Globecom’2002,
179. “Convergence analysis of
iterative soft decoded magnetic recording,” InterMag Technical Digest, 2003 (Song, Liu and
Kumar)
180. “Timing acquisition for low-SNR data storage
channels,” InterMag Technical
Digest, 2003 (Liu, Song and Kumar)
181. “Performance of low density
parity check (LDPC) codes on high-density magnetic tape recording signals,” InterMag
Technical Digest, 2003 (Sahu, Song
and Kumar)
182. “Concatenated low density parity check (LDPC)
codes for magnetic recording channels,” InterMag Technical Digest, 2003 (Song, Liu and Kumar)
183. “Using composite correlation filters for
biometric verification,” Proc. Of SPIE, Vol. 5106, 2003 (Kumar,
Savvides, Xie, Venkataramani and
184. “Optimal tradeoff circular
harmonic function filters for 3-D target recognition,” Proc. Of SPIE, Vol.
5094, 2003 (Kumar, Xie and Mahalanobis)
185. “Quadratic correlation filters for optical
correlators,” Proc. Of SPIE, Vol. 5106, 2003 (Mahalanobis,
Muise and Kumar)
186. “Parity-check error event post-processor for
optical data storage,” Optical Data Storage (ODS), Technical Digest, 99-101, May 2003
(Liu, Song and Kumar)
187. “High-speed simulation of partial response
channels employing low density parity check (LDPC) codes,” Optical Data
Storage (ODS) Conference, post-deadline papers, 34-36, May 2003
(Horigome, Song, Sun and Kumar)
188. “Iris verification using correlation filters,”
Proc. of 4th Intl. Conf. on
Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), pp.
697-705, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003 (Kumar, Xie and Thornton).
189. “Quad-phase minimum average correlation energy
filters for reduced-memory illumination-tolerant face authentication,” Proc. of 4th Intl. Conf. on
Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA), pp.
19-26, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003 (Savvides and Kumar).
190. “Fingerprint verification using correlation
filters,” Proc. of 4th Intl.
Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA),
pp. 886-894, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003 (Venkataramani and Kumar).
191. “Illumination normalization using logarithm
transforms for face authentication,” Proc.
of 4th Intl. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person
Authentication (AVBPA), pp. 549-556, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Heidelberg, 2003 (Savvides and Kumar).
192. “Efficient Design of Advanced Correlation Filters
for Robust Distortion-Tolerant Face Identification”, Proc. of IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS),
July 2003 (Savvides and Kumar).
193. “Incremental updating of advanced correlation
filters for biometric authentication systems,” Proc. of International Conference on MultiMedia (ICME), Baltimore, July 2003
(Savvides, Venkataramani and Kumar).
194. “Dual-segmented Kalman filters based symbol timing recovery for low-SNR
partial response data storage channels,” Proc.
of Globecom2003,
195. “Large-girth cycle codes for
partial response channels,” InterMag2004,
Technical Digest,
196. “Software simulations of
very low bit error rates in partial response channels employing low density
parity check (LDPC) codes,” InterMag2004,
Technical Digest,
197. “A high-throughput
field-programmable gate array implementation of soft output Viterbi algorithm
for magnetic recording,” InterMag2004,
Technical Digest,
198. “High-speed simulation of
partial response channels employing low density parity check (LDPC) codes,” to
appear, Proc. of SPIE, Vol.,
November 2003 (Horigome, Song, Sun and Kumar).
199. “Rotation-tolerant watermark
detection using circular harmonic function correlation filters,” Proc. of International Watermark Detection
Workshop (IWDW),
200. “Towards still to video
based face recognition,” submitted to Multi-Modal
User Authentication (MMUA) workshop,
201. “Distortion-tolerant iris
recognition using advanced correlation filters,” submitted to Multi-Modal User Authentication (MMUA)
workshop,
PUBLICATIONS
IN JOURNALS
1.
"Power spectrum estimation using maximum entropy methods,” JIETE, Vol. 25, 181-94, 1979 (Kumar and
Mullick).
2.
"Optical image plane correlator for ambiguity surface
computation,” Applied Optics, Vol.
18, 1673-78, 1979 (Casasent and Kumar).
3.
"Space blur bandwidth product in correlator performance
evaluation,” JOSA, Vol. 70,
103-10, 1980 (Kumar and Casasent); Reprinted
in SPIE Milestone Series, Vol. MS76, "Selected Papers on Optical
Correlators," 1993.
4.
"Non-linear t-E curve effects in an optical correlator,” Optics Communications, Vol. 34,
4-6, 1980 (Kumar and Casasent).
5.
"Acousto-optic spectral estimation: a statistical analysis,” Applied Optics, Vol. 20,
601-05, 1981 (Psaltis and Kumar).
6.
"Binarization effects in a correlator with noisy input data,” Applied Optics, Vol. 20,
1433-37, 1981 (Kumar and Casasent).
7.
“Eigenvector determination by iterative optical methods,” Applied Optics, Vol. 20,
3707-10, 1981 (Kumar and Casasent).
8.
"A modified hyperplane method for null synthesis in an array
pattern,” IEEE Trans. Ante. Propa., Vol.
30, 512-16, 1982 (Kumar).
9.
"Principal component imagery for statistical pattern recognition
correlators,” Optical Engineering, Vol.
21,” 43-47, 1982 (Casasent, Kumar and Murakami).
10. "Efficient calculation
of primary images from a set of images,” IEEE
Trans. Patt. Ana. Mach. Intell., Vol. 4, 511-15, 1982
(Murakami and Kumar).
11. "Acousto-optic matched
filter correlator,” Applied Optics, Vol.
21, 2356-64, 1982 (Casasent, Silbershatz and Kumar).
12. "Fine delay estimation
in time integrating correlators,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 21, 3855-63, 1982 (Kumar, Casasent and
Goutzoulis).
13. "Correlation of
binarized images,” IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electr.
Sys., Vol.
19, 322-28, 1983 (Murakami and Kumar).
14. "Errors in optical
computation of correlation coefficients,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 22, 209-11, 1983 (Kumar).
15. "Singular value
estimation using iterative optical processors,” Applied Optics, Vol. 22, 962-63, 1983 (Kumar).
16. "Efficient approach for
designing linear combination filters,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 22, 1445-48, 1983 (Kumar).
17. "Optimum time
integrating acousto-optic correlator for binary codes,” Optics Communications, Vol. 48, 393-97, 1984 (Goutzoulis
and Kumar).
18. "Squared signal
correlation and its acousto-optic implementation,” Applied Optics, Vol. 23, 798-802, 1984 (Goutzoulis
and Kumar).
19. "Loss of optimality in
cross-correlators,” JOSA-A, Vol.
1, 392-97,1984 (Kumar and Carroll).
20. "Lower bound for the
suboptimality of cross-correlators,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 23, 2048-49, 1984 (Kumar).
21. "Time integrating
acousto-optic correlator error source modeling,” Applied Optics, Vol. 23, 3130-37, 1984 (Casasent,
Goutzoulis and Kumar).
22. "Performance of Wigner
distribution function based detection methods,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 23, 732-37, 1984 (Kumar and
Carroll).
23. "Effects of sampling on
signal detection using the cross Wigner distribution function,” Applied Optics, Vol. 23,
4090-94, 1984 (Kumar and Carroll).
24. "Acousto-optic
processor for adaptive radar noise environment characterization,” Applied Optics, Vol. 23,
4303-08, 1984 (Goutzoulis, Casasent and Kumar).
25. "Effect of signal
bandwidth on the accuracy of signal reconstruction from its phase,” IEEE Trans. ASSP, Vol. 32,
1238-39, 1984 (Kumar).
26. "Detector effects on
time integrating correlators,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 24, 1224-33, 1985 (Goutzoulis, Casasent and
Kumar).
27. "Detector size effects
on peak-to-sidelobe ratio in bulk Acousto-Optic spectrum analyzer,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 24,
908-12, 1985 (Goutzoulis
and Kumar).
28. "Digital signal
processing of geo-technical data,” Journal
of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 112,
70-83, 1986 (Chakrabarti, Shaw, Stephenson and Kumar).
29. "Calculation of
geometric moments using Fourier plane intensities,” Applied Optics, Vol. 25, 997-1007, 1986 (Kumar and
Rahenkamp).
30. "Signal-to-Noise Ratio
considerations in modified matched spatial filters,” JOSA-A, Vol. 3, 777-786, 1986 (Kumar and
Pochapsky).
31. "Alternate
interpretation for minimum variance synthetic discriminant functions,” Applied Optics, Vol. 25,
2484-85, 1986 (Kumar and Mahalanobis).
32. "Discrete Wigner
synthesis,” Signal Processing, Vol.
11, 277-304, 1986 (Kumar, Neuman and DeVos).
33. "Minimum variance
synthetic discriminant functions,” JOSA-A,
Vol. 3, 1579-84, 1986 (Kumar); Reprinted in the SPIE Milestone Series, "Selected Papers on
Optical Pattern Recognition,” 1999.
34. "Evaluation of the use
of the Hopfield neural net model as a nearest-neighbor algorithm,” Applied Optics, Vol. 25,
3759-66, 1986 (Montgomery and Kumar); Reprinted
in the SPIE Milestone Series, "Selected Papers on Neural Networks,” 1994.
35. "Modifications to the
McClellan, Parks and Rabiner computer program for designing higher order
differentiating FIR filters,” IEEE
Trans. on ASSP, Vol. 34, 1671-74, 1986 (Rahenkamp and Kumar).
36. "Spatial-temporal
correlation filter for in-plane distortion invariance,” Applied Optics, Vol. 25,
4466-72, 1986 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and Casasent).
37. "Geometric moments
computed from the Hartley transform,” Optical
Engineering, Vol. 25, 1327-32, 1986 (Kumar).
38. "On the average
codeword length of optimal binary codes for extended sources,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Vol.
IT-33, 293-296, 1987 (Montgomery, Kumar).
39. "Time-domain model for
noise from particulate recording media,” Journal
of Applied Physics, Vol. 61, 4034-36, 1987 (Veeravalli,
Katti, Kumar and Kryder).
40. "Geometric moments from
optical cosinusoidal transform,” Optics
Communications, Vol. 62, 237-242, 1987 (Kumar and Zinnikas).
41. "Minimum average
correlation energy filters,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 26, 3633-3640, 1987 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and
Casasent); Reprinted in SPIE Milestone
Series, "Selected Papers on Optical Pattern Recognition," 1999.
42. "Approximate lower
bound for the SNR of matched filters,” Journal
of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 324, 139-147, 1987 (Kumar and
Veeravalli).
43. "On decoding rules to
minimize the probability of information bit errors,” IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. IT-34,
880-881, 1988 (Montgomery and Kumar).
44. "Constraint phase
optimization in minimum variance synthetic discriminant functions,” Applied Optics, Vol. 27,
409-413, 1988 (Kumar, Bahri and Mahalanobis).
45. "Generalized synthetic
discriminant functions,” JOSA-A, Vol.
5, 562-571, 1988 (Bahri and Kumar).
46. "Performance of an
algorithm that computes geometric moments from optical Hartley transform
intensities,” Optical Engineering, Vol.
27, 280-288, 1988 (Kumar and Fitzpatrick).
47. "Model for Demagnetization-induced
noise in thin film magnetic recording media,” IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol. 24, 2150-2158, 1988
(Katti, Veeravalli, Kryder and Kumar).
48. "Phase-only filters
with improved signal-to-noise ratio,” Applied
Optics, Vol. 28, 250-257, 1989 (Kumar and Bahri).
49. "Emulating the dynamics
for a class of laterally inhibited neural networks,” Neural Networks, Vol. 2, 193-214, 1989 (Lemmon and
Kumar).
50. "Efficient algorithm
for designing a ternary-valued filter yielding maximum Signal-to-noise Ratio,” Applied Optics, Vol. 28,
1919-1925, 1989 (Kumar and Bahri); Reprinted
in the SPIE Milestone Series, "Fourier Optics," 1994.
51. "Estimating object
rotation and scale using correlation filters,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 28, 474-481, 1989 (Kumar,
Lee and Connelly).
52. "Correlation filters
for target detection in a Markov model background clutter,” Applied Optics, Vol. 28,
3112-3119, 1989 (Kumar, Casasent and Mahalanobis).
53. "Pattern synthesis
using Fourier Transforms,” Optical
Engineering, Vol. 28, 1203-1210, 1989 (Carroll and Kumar).
54. "Correlation Filters
for Optical Pattern Recognition,” JIETE,
Vol. 35, 105-113, 1989 (Kumar, Bahri and Hassebrook).
55. "Signal-to-Noise Ratio
(SNR) Loss in Correlators Using Real Filters,” Applied Optics, Vol. 28, 3287-88, 1989 (Kumar).
56. "Bit probabilities of
optimal binary source codes,” IEEE
Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. 36, 1446-1450, 1990 (
57. "Systematic random
error correcting and all unidirectional error detecting codes,” IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol. 39,
836-840, 1990 (Montgomery and Kumar).
58. "Complex Ternary
Matched Filters yielding high Signal-to-Noise Ratios,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 29, 994-1001, 1990 (Dickey,
Kumar, Romero and Connelly).
59. "Fast Algorithms for
the design of optimal phase-only filters (POFs) and binary phase-only filters
(BPOFs),” Applied Optics, Vol.
29, 2992-2996, 1990 (Bahri and Kumar).
60. "Performance Measures
for Correlation Filters,” Applied Optics,
Vol. 29, 2997-3006,
61. "Linear Phase
Coefficient Composite Filter Banks for Distortion-Invariant Optical Pattern
Recognition,” Optical Engineering, Vol.
29, 1033-1043, 1990 (Hassebrook, Kumar and Hostetler).
62. "Phase-only filters
with maximally sharp correlation peaks,” Optics
Letters, Vol. 15, 807-809, 1990 (Kumar, Shi and
Hendrix).
63. "Partial-Information
Filters Yielding Maximally
64. "Optimal Real
Correlation Filters,” Applied Optics,
Vol. 30, 520-522, 1991 (Juday, Kumar and Rajan).
65. "Design of phase-only,
binary phase-only and complex ternary matched filters with increased
signal-to-noise ratios for colored noise,” Optics
Letters, Vol. 16, 1025-1027, 1991 (Kumar and Juday); Reprinted in the SPIE Milestone Series,
"Selected Papers on Optical Pattern Recognition", 1999.
66. "Competitive Learning
with Generalized Winner Take All Activation,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Vol. 3, 167-175, 1992
(Lemmon and Kumar).
67. "Saturated
filters," JOSA-A, Vol. 9,
405-412, 1992 (Kumar, Juday and Rajan), errata in JOSA-A, Vol. 10, 191, 1993.
68. "Correlation filters
minimizing peak location errors," JOSA-A,
Vol. 9, 678-682, 1992 (Kumar, Dickey and DeLaurentis).
69. "Minimum squared error
synthetic discriminant functions," Optical
Engineering, Vol. 31, 915-922, 1992 (Kumar, Mahalanobis,
Song, Sims and Epperson).
70. "Hybrid composite filter
banks for distortion-invariant optical pattern recognition," Optical Engineering, Vol. 31,
922-933, 1992 (Hassebrook, Rahmati and Kumar).
71. "Tutorial survey of
composite filter designs for optical correlators,” Applied Optics, Vol. 31, 4773-4801, 1992 (Kumar); Reprinted in the SPIE Milestone Series,
"Fourier Optics," 1994.
72. "Multi-criteria optimal
binary amplitude phase-only filters," JOSA-A,
Vol. 9, 2118-2125, 1992 (Refregier, Kumar and Hendrix).
73. "Relationship between
maximizing signal-to-noise ratio and minimizing classification error
probability for correlation filters," Optics
Letters, Vol. 17, 940-942, 1992 (Kumar and Brasher).
74. "A tutorial review of
partial-information filter designs for optical correlators," Asia-Pacific Engineering Journal, (Part
A), Vol. 2, 203-215, 1992 (Kumar).
75. "Introduction of
detector noise and optimal filters," JOSA-A,
Vol. 9, 2089-90, 1992 (Refregier and Kumar).
76. "Neural Networks and
the Potential Field Approach to Path Planning,"
77. "Synthetic discriminant
functions for recognition of images on the boundary of the convex hull of the
training set," Pattern Recognition,
Vol. 27, 543-548, 1994 (Kumar, Brasher, Hester, Srinivasan and
Bollapragada).
78. "Unconstrained
correlation filters," Applied
Optics, Vol. 33, 3751-3759, 1994 (Mahalanobis, Kumar, Song,
Sims and Epperson).
79. "Design and evaluation
of three level composite filters obtained by optimizing an average compromise
performance measure," Optical
Engineering, Vol. 33, 1767-1773, 1994 (Hendrix and Kumar).
80. "Partial information
filters," Digital Signal Processing,
Vol. 4, 147-153, 1994 (Kumar).
81. "Optimal tradeoff
synthetic discriminant function (OTSDF) filters for arbitrary devices," Optics Letters, Vol. 19,
1556-1558, 1994 (Kumar, Carlson and Mahalanobis).
82. "Magneto-optic read
channel modeling in the presence of bloom," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 30, 4410-4412,
1994 (Ozgunes and Kumar).
83. “Effect of transition noise
on the signal-to-noise ratio of magneto-optic read channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol.
32, 3291-3304, 1996 (Ozgunes, Kumar and Kryder).
84. "Multiple circular
harmonic function correlation filter providing specified response to in-plane
rotation," Applied Optics, Vol.
35, 1871-1878, 1996 (Kumar and Teck Khim Ng).
85. “Distance classifier
correlation filters for multi-class target recognition,” Applied Optics, Vol. 35, 3127-3133, 1996
(Mahalanobis, Kumar and Sims).
86. "Multi-channel decision
feedback equalizer for high track density in optical recording," Optical Engineering, Vol. 35,
2386-2395, 1996 (Gopalaswamy and Kumar).
87. "Path planning for
autonomous robots using neural networks," Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 7, 33-55, 1997
(Kassim and Kumar).
88. "The wave expansion
neural network," Neuro Computing,
Vol. 16, 237-258, 1997 (Kassim and Kumar).
89. “Multi-channel equalization
for PWM channels in magneto-optical recording,” IEEE Trans. Magnetics, Vol. 33, 3265-67, 1997
(Gopalaswamy, Kumar).
90. “Optimality of the MACH
filters,” Optical Engineering, Vol.
36, 2642-2648, 1997 (Mahalanobis and Kumar).
91. “Efficient determination of
the optimum gain and angle in the design of optical correlation filters,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 37,
132-137, 1998 (Kumar, Carlson and Mahalanobis).
92. "A comparison of
detection methods in the presence of nonlinearities," IEEE Trans. Magnetics, Vol. 34, 98-103, 1998 (Silvus
and Kumar).
93. "Unified decision
combination framework," Pattern
Recognition, Vol. 31, 2077-2086, 1998 (Al-Ghoneim and Kumar).
94. “Optimal trade-off filter
for the correlation of fingerprints," Optical
Engineering, Vol. 38, 108-113, 1999 (Soutar, Roberge,
Stoianov,
95. "Path planners based on
the wave expansion neural network," Robotics
and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 26, 1-22, 1999 (Kassim and Kumar).
96. “Parity coding for page-oriented optical
memories with intra-page intensity variations,” Optics Letters, Vol. 24, 546-548, 1999 (Vadde and
Kumar).
97. “Application of linear minimum mean
squared error equalization for volume holographic data storage,” Applied Optics, Vol. 38,
4387-4393, 1999 (Keskinoz and Kumar).
98. “Channel modeling and estimation for
intrapage equalization in pixel-matched volume holographic data storage,” Applied Optics, Vol. 38,
4374-4386, 1999 (Vadde and Kumar).
99. “Recent advances in composite correlation
filter design,” Asian Journal of Physics,
Vol. 8, No. 4, 407-420, October-December 1999 (Kumar and Mahalanobis).
100. “Optimal tradeoff circular harmonic
function (OTCHF) correlation filter methods providing controlled in-plane
rotation response," IEEE Trans.
Image Processing, Vol. 9, 1025-1034, 2000 (Kumar, Mahalanobis
and Takessian).
101. "Improving the false alarm capabilities
of the maximum average correlation height (MACH) correlation filter,"
Optical Engineering, Vol. 39,
1133-1141, May 2000 (Alkanhal, Kumar and Mahalanobis).
102. "Optimization of Intra-class and Between
class registration for correlation filter synthesis," Applied Optics, Vol. 39,
2918-2924, June 2000 (Mahalanobis, Kumar and Frankot)
103. “Performance of timing recovery methods
in Turbo coded magnetic recording channels,” IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol.
36, 2187-2189, 2000 (Yuan, Kurtas and Kumar).
104. "Performance of dropout correction on
real magnetic waveforms with dropouts," IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol. 37, 639-645, March
2001 (Sarigoz, Kumar and Bain)
105. "Iterative soft-decoded partial response
channels for hybrid magneto-optical recording," IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, Vol. 37, 676-681, March
2001 (Song, Liu, Kumar and Kurtas)
106. "Dropout tolerant read channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of
Communications, Vol. 19, 744-755, April 2001 (Sarigoz, Song,
Kumar and Bain)
107. “Iterative decoding for partial response
(PR), equalized, magneto-optical data storage channels,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Vol. 19,
774-782, April 2001 (Song, Kumar, Kurtas, Yuan, McPheters
and McLaughlin)
108. "Editorial: Signal Processing for High
Density Storage Channels," IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, Vol. 19,
577-581, April 2001 (Moon, Thapar, Kumar, and Immink)
109. "Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Code
Concatenated with Generalized Partial Response (GPR) Target for High-Capacity
Magneto-Optic (MO) Recording Channels," Japanese Journal of Applied
Physics, Vol. 41, 1749-1752, March 2002 (Song, Liu, Kumar, Inaba, Shimazaki and Ota).
110. "Fast timing acquisition for low-SNR,
high-density optical recording," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics,
Vol. 41, 1772-1776, March 2002 (Liu, Song and Kumar).
111. “Two-class minimax
distance transform correlation filter,” Applied Optics, Vol. 41,
6829-6840, November 2002 (Savvides, Kumar and Khosla).
112. “Bound for loss of lock rate in partial
response channels,” Electronics Letters, Vol. 38, 928-930,
2002 (Liu, Song and Kumar).
113. "Face authentication of multiple subjects
using eigenflow," Pattern Recognition, Vol.
36, 313-328, February 2003 (Liu, Chen and Kumar).
114. “Polynomial distance classifier correlation
filter for pattern recognition,” Applied Optics, Vol. 42, 4688-4708,
August 2003 (Alkanhal, Kumar).
115. “Timing acquisition for low-SNR data
storage channels,” IEEE Trans. Magnetics,
Vol. 39, September 2003 (Liu, Song and Kumar).
116. “Convergence analysis of iterative soft
decoding in partial response channels,” IEEE
Trans. Magnetics, Vol. 39, September 2003 (Song, Liu and
Kumar).
117. “Biometric verification using advanced
correlation filters,” accepted, Applied Optics, September 2003 (Kumar,
Savvides, Venkataramani, Xie, Thornton and Mahalanobis).
118. “Discrete magnitude-square channel
modeling, equalization and detection for volume holographic storage channel,”
submitted, Applied Optics, September
2003 (Keskinoz and Kumar).
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
1.
Review of the book, "Principles of Communication Systems" by
H. Taub and D. Schilling (McGraw-Hill, 1986), IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol.
25, No. 10, pp. 63, 77, October 1987; Also reprinted in Proc. of IEEE, Vol. 77,
No. 4, pp. 625-626, April 1989 (Kumar).
2.
Foreword to the book, Competitively
Inhibited Nerual Networks for Adaptive Parameter
Estimation by M. Lemmon, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 1991.
3.
Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Carnegie Mellon - a New Curriculum, contributor, Dept. of ECE,
4.
"Signal Processing,” part of the book Our Vision: Frontiers in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
edited by Robert M. White, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon university, Pittsburgh, 1997 (Casasent, Kumar, Moura and Stern.
5.
"Channels and ECC", Section 7 of the Executive Report of the NSIC International Workshop on Holographic
Data Storage, Nice,
6.
"Coding and Signal Processing for Optical Storage Systems,"
section in NSIC Optical Storage Road Map,
January 2000 (Kumar)
7.
"Recording Channel Electronics Technology," section in NSIC Tape Road Map, 2002 (Barndt, Kumar, Jacquette, Koren, Molstadt and Roesler)
8.
“Coding and signal processing for optical storage,” section in INSIC
optical storage road map, February 2003 (member of the team)
PATENTS
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"Method for secure key management using a biometric," US
patent # 6219794, (Soutar, Roberge, Stoianov,
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"Polynomial filters for higher order correlation and multi-input
information fusion," US patent # 6295373 (Mahalanobis and Kumar)
HONORS AND
AWARDS
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Recipient, Government of
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Fellow, Optical Society of
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Fellow, SPIE, The International Society of
Optical Engineering (1991).
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Senior Member, IEEE (1990).
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Listed in Who's Who Among Asian
Americans.
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Optical Sciences and Engineering.
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Listed in American Men and Women
of Science.
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Sciences and Engineering.
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Education.
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in
the East.
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in
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Listed in Marquis Who's Who in
the World.
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Recipient of Carnegie Institute of Technology’s Philip Dowd Fellowship
(2003)
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Recipient of Eta Kappa Nu award for Outstanding Faculty in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at CMU, May 2003.
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
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Member, Sigma Xi
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Senior Member, IEEE
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Fellow, Optical Society of
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Fellow, Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
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President,
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Chairman, 1988 Max Born award committee for OSA
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Vice President,
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Vice Chair, IEEE Signal Processing for Storage Technical Committee,
IEEE Communications Society (1998-2000)
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Chair, IEEE Signal Processing for Storage Technical Committee, IEEE Communications
Society (2000-2002)
PROFESSIONAL
CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
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Session chairman, EOSD conference (1980, 1981)
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Session chairman, SPIE Conferences (1985 - )
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Presider, Pattern Recognition Session, OSA Annual Meeting,
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Member, Technical Program Committees for the SPIE Conference on Optical
Information Processing,
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Member, Technical Program Committee for the 1990 IEEE International
Conference on Systems Engineering,
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Member, Technical Program Committee for the 1991 SPIE Conference on
Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies in
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Poster Chairman for The Magnetic Recording
Conference (TMRC), Hidden Valley,
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Member, Program Committees for the SPIE Conference on Optical Pattern
Recognition in
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Member, Technical Program Committee,
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Session Chairman for the Coding and Recording session, INTERMAG’97, New
Orleans, LA, April 1997.
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International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on
Neural Networks (NN'2000),
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Session Chair, Optical Data Storage'2000, Whistler, BC,
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Co-organizer (with Dr. Mike Melas of
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Session Chair, The Magnetic Recording
Conference (TMRC),
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Member of the Technical Program Committee, Optical Data Storage 2001,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2001.
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Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on
Optical memories (ISOM), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2001.
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Member of the Technical Program Committee, Joint ISOM/ODS conference,
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Co-chair, Technical Program Committee, Optical Data Storage (ODS)
conference,
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Session chair, ICME Conference,
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Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2004,
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General co-chair, Optical Data storage (ODS) conference,
PROFESSIONAL
JOURNAL ACTIVITIES
·
Reviewer for many journals (including Applied Optics, Optics
Letters, Optical Engineering, Optics Communications, JOSA-A, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis, Machine Intelligence)
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Member, NSF Review Panel for SBIR/STTR Proposals (2001-)
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Topical Editor for Pattern
Recognition, Applied Optics
(1990-1996)
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Member, Editorial panel of Asia-Pacific
Engineering Journal (1991-93)
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Guest Editor, September 1990 Special Issue of Optical Engineering on Optical Pattern Recognition
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Co-editor, April 2001 special issue of the IEEE Journal of Special Areas of Communications (JSAC) on Signal Processing for High-Density Storage
Channels.
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Editorial board member, IEEE Surveys and Tutorials in communications
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Co-guest editor, IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine special issue on soft algorithms for communications, January 2004.
OTHER COMMITTEE
ACTIVITIES
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Member, Tri-Service Automatic Target Recognition Technology Assessment
Plan (ATRTAP) for Conventional Weapon Committee (1995)
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Member, Enrollment Process Reengineering Committee, CMU (1995)
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Member, Continuing Education Committee, Carnegie Institute of
Technology, CMU (1994-95).
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Faculty Senate,
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Chairman, Graduate Studies Committee, ECE Dept., CMU (2003-)
VOLUNTEER
ACTIVITIES
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Member of the Executive
Committee,
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President, Executive Committee,
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Member of the Board of
Directors,
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Secretary, Board of Directors,