pattern recognition

Lester A Gerhardt

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — gerhal

Name:	Lester A Gerhardt
Department	Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
School	Engineering

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After 10 years with Bell Aerospace Corporation where he was Director of Avionics Research, Dr. Gerhardt joined Rensselaer in 1970. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1974, and was selected as Chairman of the newly merged Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department in 1975, a position he held through 1986. The ECSE Department growth and development during these years was nationally recognized in a National Academy of Science report receiving the top rating in the most improved program category, as well as being rated in the top 10 percent in other categories. In 1986, he was appointed Director of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, which subsequently won the worldwide SME/CASA LEAD Award for Excellence in CIM.

Since the early 90s, he has been Associate Dean of Engineering, responsible for research and graduate programs in the School of Engineering, now at a reported annual expenditure level above $35 million. He also served as Founding Director of the Center for Manufacturing Productivity. Dr. Gerhardt's areas of interest include pattern recognition and adaptive systems, digital signal processing, computer integrated manufacturing, and communications.

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Education Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo Electrical Engineering

Qiang Ji

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — jiq

Name:	Qiang Ji
Department	Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
School	Engineering
Website:	http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji

Bio

Qiang Ji joined the ECSE faculty in the spring, 2001 after serving as an assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at University of Nevada at Reno since Aug. 1998. Dr. Ji received his Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington under the supervision of Prof. Robert M. Haralick . He also held research positions at Western Research Company, Tucson, Arizona and with the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. In summer, 2003, Dr. Ji was a visiting faculty fellow at the Information directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, conducting research on decision-making under uncertainty. Dr. Ji currently serves as the director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL).

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Education Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Washington)

Scholarly Works:

A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling and Real-Time Monitoring Human Fatigue
A Factorization Approach To Evaluating Simultaneous Influence Diagrams
Information Extraction from Image Sequences of Real-world Facial Expressions
Robust Real-time Eye Detection and Tracking Under Variable Lighitng Conditions and Various Face Orientations, in the special issue on eye detection and tracking (2005)
Facial Expression Recognition with Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Active Affective State Detection and User Assistance with Dynamic Bayesian Networks (2005)
Eye and Gaze Tracking for Interactive Graphic Display (2004)
Real Time Non-intrusive Monitoring and Prediction of Driver Fatigue (2004)
Self-calibration of a Rotating Camera with Transnational Offset (2004)
Randomized Hough Transform with Error Propagation for Line and Circle Detection (2003)
A Dempster-Shafer Approach for Recognizing Machine Features from CAD Models (2003)
Real-time eye, gaze, and face pose tracking for monitoring driver vigilance (2002)
3D Fac

Birsen Yazici

Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — yazicb

Name:	Birsen Yazici
Title:	Professor
Department	Biomedical Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (CEES)
Website:	http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~yazici/

Bio After completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, Dr. Yazici was employed as a senior research scientist at the General Electric Company Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY. During her tenure in industry, she worked on radar, transportation, industrial and medical imaging systems. Her work on industrial systems received best paper award in 1997 given by IEEE Transactions in Industrial Application. She was an Assistant Professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA before joining Rensselaer in 2003. She currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and SIAM Journal of Imaging Science. Prof. Yazıcı is the recipient of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2007 School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. She holds 11 US patents.

Prof. Yazıcı’s research interests span the areas of statistical signal processing, inverse problems in imaging, applied mathematics, remote sensing, biomedical optics, and radar. Specifically, her current projects involve synthetic aperture imaging, passive imaging, imaging in multi-pathing and dynamically changing environments, waveform design, interferometric and polarimetric techniques for remote sensing applications, image formation for X-ray Computed Tomography, diffuse optical image reconstruction, fluorescence diffuse optical tomography, adaptive meshing algorithms for PDE-based inverse coefficient problems, pharmacokinetic-rate imaging, and breast cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Yazici's research interests are statistical signal and image processing, pattern recognition, noncommutative harmonic analysis, inverse problems in radar and medical imaging, in particular optical and X-ray imaging and breast cancer. She holds 11 US patents.

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Education Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN, 1994), M.S. Mathematics (Purdue University, W. Layfayette, IN, 1990), B.S. Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1988)