1. Signal Processing Emphasis Group Robert Moorhead Roger King Joe Picone Nick Younan Jim Fowler Lori Bruce Jenny Du

2. 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

3. Courses Related to SP Research Areas –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 –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

4. 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

5. Dr. Robert Moorhead rjm@erc.msstate.edu Research Areas “enabling technologies” distributed, parallel, and remote visualization virtual environments multiresolution analysis feature extraction 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

6. Dr. Roger L. King rking@ece.msstate.edu Area of interest – Earth Remote Sensing Geospatial data management Intelligent systems for signal processing Sensors and platforms 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

7. Dr. Joseph Picone picone@cavs.msstate.edu Area of interest Human and Systems Engineering 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

8. Dr. Nicolas H. Younan Professor and Graduate Program Director younan@ece.msstate.edu Courses: Digital Spectral Analysis Adaptive Signal Processing Statistical Signal Processing Research Areas: Signal/Image Analysis Feature Extraction/Target Detection Pattern Recognition Research Funding: NASA – Remote Sensing Applications Graduate Students: Current – 4 Ph.Ds New GRAs – pending on funding

9. Dr. James E. Fowler fowler@ece.msstate.edu on 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: ECE8453—Introduction to Wavelets ECE8990—Information Theory ECE8483—Image & Video Coding

10. Dr. Lori Mann Bruce bruce@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

11. Jenny Du du@ece.msstate.edu Research Areas Hyperspectral and Multispectral Remote Sensing Image Analysis Pattern Recognition Data Compression Neural Networks Superresolution

12. 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