Signal Processing Emphasis Group

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Signal Processing Emphasis Group

• Robert Moorhead
• Roger King
• Joe Picone
• Nick Younan
• Jim Fowler
• Lori Bruce
• Jenny Du

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So you want funding (or just to be advised by one
of us)?

• First hurtle you got admitted
• So what else do you have to do?
• Hygiene, Neatness, and Organizational Skills
• Communication Skills
• Personality
• Work Ethic
• Grades

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Courses Related to SP Research Areas

• Intelligent Systems
• Communications Theory
• Linear Algebra
• Complex Variables
• Modern Higher Algebra
• Operational Mathematics
• Functional Analysis
• Complex Analysis
• Multivariate Statistical Methods
• Multivariate Analysis
• Applied Probability
• Stochastic Processes
• Numerical Analysis

• Digital Signal Processing
• Digital Image Processing
• Adaptive Signal Processing
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Image and Video Coding
• Wavelet Transforms
• Pattern Recognition
• Digital Spectral Analysis
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Remote Sensing
• Speech Recognition
• Scientific Visualization
• Information Theory

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What major if I want to do SP?

• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Picone and Fowler graduated the last 4 CPE PhD
  students
• Computational Engineering
• Moorhead graduated 2 SP-oriented ones last year
• King has at least one PhD student almost finished
  with his course work

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• Dr. Robert Moorhead
• rjm_at_erc.msstate.edu

• Courses
• Introduction to Scientific Vis
• Realtime Rendering
• Virtual Environments
• Projects
• DoD High Performance Computing
• Datamining
• Vis Cluster
• Sonification
• NASA Visualization Extraction
• NSF ET 4 Computational Sciences

• Research Areas
• enabling technologies
• distributed, parallel, and remote visualization
• virtual environments
• multiresolution analysis
• feature extraction

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Dr. Roger L. Kingrking_at_ece.msstate.edu

• Courses
• Introduction to Remote Sensing
• Computational Intelligence
• Projects
• NASA Earth Applications
• United States Department of Transportation
• Homeland Security
• Policy to add GRAs as present ones graduate
• No GRAs given until student proven in classroom

• Area of interest Earth Remote Sensing
• Geospatial data management
• Intelligent systems for signal processing
• Sensors and platforms

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Dr. Joseph Piconepicone_at_cavs.msstate.edu

• Intelligent Transportation Systems Infrastructure
• Computer Networking
• Intelligent Systems
• Integrative Activities
• Dialog Systems Applications in Automotive
• In-vehicle dialog systems
• Advanced user interfaces
• Recognition performance in noise
• Advanced statistical models and machine learning
  technology

• Area of interest
• Human and Systems Engineering

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Dr. Nicolas H. YounanProfessor and Graduate
Program Directoryounan_at_ece.msstate.edu
Courses Digital Spectral Analysis Adaptive
Signal Processing Statistical Signal Processing
Research Areas Signal/Image Analysis Feature
Extraction/Target Detection Pattern Recognition
Graduate Students Current 4 Ph.Ds New GRAs
pending on funding
Research Funding NASA Remote Sensing
Applications
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Dr. James E. Fowlerfowler_at_ece.msstate.eduon
sabbatical through December 2004

• Research Areas
• Communication and processing of images, video,
  and geoscience data
• Image, video, geoscience-data coding coding
• Wavelets
• Image/video watermarking information security
• Teaching
• ECE8453Introduction to Wavelets
• ECE8990Information Theory
• ECE8483Image Video Coding

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Dr. Lori Mann Brucebruce_at_ece.msstate.edu

• Research Areas
• Digital Signal/Image Processing
• Automated Target Recognition
• Feature Extraction
• Classification
• Wavelet Transforms
• Hyperspectral Imaging
• Remote Sensing
• Digital Mammography

• Current Student Advising
• 3 Ph.D. Students
• 5 Master Students (Thesis)
• 3 Master Students (Non-Thesis)
• Current Needs - None

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Jenny Dudu_at_ece.msstate.edu

• Research Areas
• Hyperspectral and Multispectral Remote Sensing
  Image Analysis
• Pattern Recognition
• Data Compression
• Neural Networks
• Superresolution

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Summary

• Signal Processing is a great area in which to
  focus
• Have many funded research projects and getting
  more
• Excellent Teachers
• Excellent Researchers
• Excellent Service
• Past 2 Southeastcon Hardware Team Advisors
  Fowler and Bruce
• Graduate Program Director Younan