Imaging Science Faculty


Jan van Aardt 		  Remote sensing of natural resources:
  • Application of imaging spectroscopy and light detection and ranging (lidar) for spectral-structural characterization of natural systems
    • Forestry inventory and assessment
    • Species diversity
    • Foliar biochemstry
  • Integrated modeling approaches (leaf-airborne-spaceborne)
  • Scaling of natural resources remote sensing solutions through sensor inter-operability (in-situ to remote sensors)

Peter Anderson 		 
  • Neural networks
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Pattern recognition
  • Image processing
  • Digital half-toning

Jon Arney 		 
  • Image microstructure
  • Halftone modeling
  • Interaction of light with printing substrates

David Axon 		 
  • Astronomy

Peter Bajorski 		 
  • Target detection and unmixing in hyperspectral images
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Regression Analysis

Stefi Alison Baum 		  Astronomical Imaging Systems and Algorithms

Extragalactic Astrophysics
  • Active galaxies
  • Galaxy clusters
  • Galaxy Evolution

Roy Berns 		 
  • Spectral imaging, digital archiving, and reproduction,
  • Art Conservation Science,
  • Spectral-based Color Reproduction, and
  • Multi-ink Printing.

Sohail Dianat 		 
  • Digital signal and image processing
  • Digital communication

Roger Dube 		 
  • Space Weather
  • Computer Security
  • Cosmology
  • Holographic Data Storage
  • Quantum Cryptography

Roger Easton 		 
  • Digital and optical signal processing
  • Computer-generated holography
  • Astronomical imaging

Marcos Esterman 		 
  • Product Development
  • Design Robustness

Mark Fairchild 		  Color Perception & Imaging:
  • Color Appearance Modeling
  • Image Appearance
  • Image Preference
  • Image Perception
  • Color Measurement
  • Image Quality Measurement
  • High-Dynamic-Range Imaging
  • Image and Video Rendering
  • Science Literacy through Color

James Ferwerda 		 
  • High dynamic range imaging
  • Perceptually-based rendering
  • Material appearance
  • Display systems
  • Low vision and assistive technologies

Don Figer 		 
  • Imaging detectors
  • Astronomical imaging

Franziska S. Frey 		 
  • Digitization of Cultural Heritage Materials
  • Digital Fine Art Printing
  • Digital Asset Management

Roger Gaborski 		 
  • Visual and acoustic scene understanding
  • Computer vision
  • Video processing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Blind source separation
  • Machine learning

Alfred Garrett 		 
  • Remote Sensing
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Meteorology

Ian Gatley 		  Astronomical imaging

Richard Hailstone 		 
  • Nano-imaging
  • Hyperspectral imaging
  • Silver halide

Maria Helguera 		 
  • Medical imaging system characterization
  • Ultrasound tissue characterization
  • Digital image processing
  • Non-destructive evaluation techniques

Joseph Hornak 		 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (NMR and ESR)
  • Imaging science
  • Physical chemistry
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Scientific publishing

Seth Hubbard 		 
  • Next Generation Photovoltaics Devices
  • Nanomaterials
  • Epitaxial Crystal Growth
  • Quantum confinement Effects
  • Novel and Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
  • Carbon Nanotubes, Gas Sensors
  • Semiconducting Polymers and Devices
  • High Power Electronic Devices

Emmett Ientilucci 		 
  • Remote Sensing
  • Hyperspectral Image Processing
  • Multivariate Statistics
  • Target Detection
  • Radiometry

Garrett Johnson 		 
  • High Dynamic Range Imaging
  • Color Appearance Modeling
  • Image Appearance Modeling

Joel Kastner 		 
  • Star and planet formation
  • Late stages of stellar evolution
  • X-ray, optical/IR, and radio spectroscopy
  • Image processing algorithms and systems

John Kerekes 		 
  • Remote sensing
  • system modeling and analysis
  • pattern recognition
  • medical imaging
  • image processing

Michael Kotlarchyk 		 
  • Radiation scattering techniques
  • Laser light scattering
  • Small-angle neutron and x-ray scattering
  • Photon correlation spectroscopy
  • Structure and interactions in complex fluids
  • Optics and photonics

Robert MacIntyre 		 

David Messinger 		 
  • Remote Sensing image exploitation
  • Advanced mathematical approaches for spectral image processing
  • Target detection in hyperspectral imagery

Zoran Ninkov 		 
  • Novel 2-D CMOS detector arrays
  • Fundamental limitations of visible and IR arrays
  • Miniaturized multi-spectral systems

Jake Noel-Storr 		 
  • Supermassive Black Holes
  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Science Education and Learning
  • Outreach

Noboru Ohta 		  Color Systems

Jeff Pelz 		 
  • Eye tracking
  • Visual perception

Navalgund Rao 		 
  • Image and signal processing
  • Medical imaging

Raghuveer Rao 		 
  • Digital Signal and Image Processing
  • Digital Communication

Harvey Rhody 		 
  • Imaging systems
  • Remote sensing
  • Imaging algorithms
  • Image processing

Mitchell Rosen 		 
  • Color management
  • Spectral reproduction
  • Visual perception
  • Digital cinema

Eli Saber 		 
  • Image Segmentation
  • Object Tracking
  • Text Quality
  • Defect Classification
  • Scene Reconstruction

Carl Salvaggio 		 
  • Remote sensing
  • thermal infrared phenomenology
  • visible through longwave infrared optical properties measurements
  • scene modeling
  • small target restoration
  • bidirectional and polarized reflectance measurement and modeling
  • digital image processing
  • image compression

Andreas Savakis 		 
  • Computer vision
  • Digital image processing
  • Multimedia

John Schott 		 
  • Electro-optical systems
  • Environmental systems and terrain classification
  • Energy Systems

Bruce Smith 		 
  • Immersion Lithography
  • High NA and Polarization
  • Aberration Metrology
  • UV/VUV Thin Films
  • High Index Fluids
  • Optical Extension & Imaging Theory

Thomas Smith 		 
  • Organic chemistry
  • Polymer chemistry

Grover Swartzlander 		 
  • Optical vortices: basic and applied optics
  • Optical coronagraphs and high contrast imaging
  • Pattern formation in linear and nonlinear optics
  • Optical tweezers
  • Optical coherence

Anthony Vodacek 		 
  • Remote Sensing
  • Integrating remote sensing and environmental models
  • Data assimilation
  • Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS)
  • Persistent Simulation
  • Imaging spectroscopy
  • Passive and active remote sensing of water quality
  • Remote detection of wildland fire
  • Feature extraction from hyperspectral data
  • Fourier analysis of landscape metrics

Richard Zanibbi 		 
  • theory and tools used to construct pattern recognition systems
  • document applications such as optical character recognition (OCR)
  • page layout analysis
  • parsing symbols in diagrammatic notations (e.g. music, math)
  • image-based document retrieval

    The problems that I work on are closely tied to research in computer vision, machine learning, and computational learning theory.

Last Modified: 11:05am 23 Oct 09