Wesley Snyder Wesley Snyder Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011 I. B. BRIEF RESUME - Page Limit: 2 (see example) THIS FORMAT FOLLOWS NC STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 1. Education background: N.C. State University 1968 B.S. in Electrical Engineering (high honors) University of Illinois 1971 M.S. in Electrical Engineering University of Illinois 1975 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering 2. Professional experience: Program Manager, Systems and Control Program, Army Research Office April 1, 2008- Nov, 2008 and November, 2010 - September 2011 Gledden Fellow, University of Western Australia, July 1-Dec 31, 2007 Program Consultant, U.S. Army Research Office, 2004-2007 Program manager, U.S. Army Research Office Systems and Control Program, 2003. Program manager, U.S. Army Research Office Information Assurance Program, 2000- 2002 Executive Director, Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, NCSU and Duke University 1996-May, 2000: North Carolina State University - Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Assistant, Associate, and full Professor 1975 University of Illinois - Visiting Assistant Professor 1968-1969 US Peace Corps, Malawi 1967-1968 IBM/Raleigh - Diagnostic Engineer SUMMER/SABBATICAL/LEAVES OF ABSENCE FROM NCSU July-December 2007, Gledden Fellow, University of Western Australia Fall semester-2000: 40%, 30% teaching, 30% leave without pay Spring semester, 2001: 25% Army Research Office, 75% scholarly leave 1995-1996(40% Academic Year, full time summer) Army Research Office (Clearance level: secret) Summer, 1994, 95 Army Research Office 1990-1993 Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Professor of Radiology 1987 fall semester DFVLR (West German Aeronautics and Space Agency), visiting scientist, Munich. 1983, 84 & 85 (summers) GE Corporate Research Labs; Schenectady, NY 1980 spring semester DFVLR (West German Aeronautics and Space Agency), visiting scientist, Munich 1977 & 1979 (summers) Advisor to United Nations International Development Organization on Robotics; Warsaw 1976 (summer) NASA Langley Research Center, visiting scientist 1
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Wesley Snyder
Wesley SnyderProfessor
Electrical and Computer EngineeringJuly 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011
I. B. BRIEF RESUME - Page Limit: 2 (see example)THIS FORMAT FOLLOWS NC STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
1. Education background: N.C. State University 1968 B.S. in Electrical Engineering (high honors)University of Illinois 1971 M.S. in Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois 1975 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
2. Professional experience: Program Manager, Systems and Control Program, Army Research Office April 1, 2008-Nov, 2008 andNovember, 2010 - September 2011Gledden Fellow, University of Western Australia, July 1-Dec 31, 2007Program Consultant, U.S. Army Research Office, 2004-2007Program manager, U.S. Army Research Office Systems and Control Program, 2003.Program manager, U.S. Army Research Office Information Assurance Program, 2000-2002Executive Director, Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, NCSU and Duke University 1996-May, 2000: North Carolina State University - Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Assistant, Associate, and full Professor1975 University of Illinois - Visiting Assistant Professor1968-1969 US Peace Corps, Malawi 1967-1968 IBM/Raleigh - Diagnostic EngineerSUMMER/SABBATICAL/LEAVES OF ABSENCE FROM NCSUJuly-December 2007, Gledden Fellow, University of Western AustraliaFall semester-2000: 40%, 30% teaching, 30% leave without paySpring semester, 2001: 25% Army Research Office, 75% scholarly leave1995-1996(40% Academic Year, full time summer) Army Research Office (Clearance level: secret)Summer, 1994, 95 Army Research Office1990-1993 Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Professor of Radiology1987 fall semester DFVLR (West German Aeronautics and Space Agency), visiting scientist, Munich.1983, 84 & 85 (summers) GE Corporate Research Labs; Schenectady, NY 1980 spring semester DFVLR (West German Aeronautics and Space Agency), visiting scientist, Munich1977 & 1979 (summers) Advisor to United Nations International Development Organization on Robotics; Warsaw 1976 (summer) NASA Langley Research Center, visiting scientist
3. Scholarly and creative activities: (INSTRUCTION : ADD/DELETE ACTIVITY TYPES TO THE LIST BELOW AS APPLICABLE; USE THE TAB KEY TO ADD ADDITIONAL ROWS; ACTIVITY TYPE EXAMPLES )
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Edited Book 2Book Chapter 9Refereed Journal Article 53Other Journal ArticleJuried Performance/ShowNon-Juried Performance/ShowReviewed Conference paper 72Unreviewed Conference paper 52
4. Membership in professional organizations: American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering - Fellow, 2004 -IEEE - Senior Member 1966-2008, Fellow 2008-Sigma XiAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). Robotics Institute of America (Founder member).
5. Scholarly and professional honors: (INSTRUCTION : LIST ONE HONOR PER LINE, INCLUDE DATE HONOR AWARDED)Fellow of the IEEE, 2008Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2004IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator for the state of NC, 1993. Presented by the NC Council of IEEE Sections.
6. Professional service on campus: (INSTRUCTION : LIST ONE ON-CAMPUS SERVICE PER LINE, INCLUDE SERVICE DATES; NOTE LEADERSHIP ROLE IF HELD, E.G., CHAIR, CO-CHAIR, ETC.)ASSOCIATE HEAD, DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING APRIL 2005-MARCH 2007DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE ADMISSIONS, ECE DEPARTMENT, NCSU, SPRING 2002.DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION, FALL 96- MAY 2000Faculty senate, 1995-97, 2011-2012Faculty Senate budget committee, 1995-97University Research Committee, 1995-1999, Chair, 1997-1998
7. Professional service off campus: (INSTRUCTION : LIST ONE OFF-CAMPUS SERVICE PER LINE INCLUDING CONSULTING ACTIVITIES, IF APPLICABLE; INCLUDE SERVICE DATES; NOTE LEADERSHIP ROLE IF HELD, E.G., CHAIR, CO-CHAIR, ETC.)
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Robotics and Automation Society Liason to IEEE Communications committee, 2008-2010Co- chair, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, 2008 (WACV-08)Co-Chair Robotics and Automation Society Ethics Technical Committee 2006-2007Member, Robotics and Automation Society Conference Board 2006-2011 Trip to conference board meeting in San Francisco, September, 2011.General Chair, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, 2010Session Chair, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, 2007Special sessions chair, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006Conference Chair: Automatic Target Recognizer Working Group conference June, 2003Session Chair: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Switzerland, Oct. 2002.Technical Committee Chair: Automatic Target Recognizer Working Group, 2001-currentMember of program committee: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001.Vice-president, IEEE Neural Networks Council, 1997-98Member, Academic Council of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, 1994, 1995Editorial Board Member, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 1994Secretary, IEEE Neural Networks Council, 1993-1994Reviewer for NSF and ARO (many proposals); Computer Vision, Graphics and Image ProcessingReviewer for various IEEE Transactions (PAMI, SMC, TNN, and others)Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural NetworksGeneral Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, Winston-Salem, NC, June, 1994.Program Committee, Second Carolina Conference in Biomedical Engineering, Chapel Hill, Feb. 1994.Program Chair, IEEE Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputing, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Oct, 1992Program Committee: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Brighton, UK, Sept. 1992.Program Committee: IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, Durham, NC, June, 1992.Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Singapore, Nov. 1991.Program Committee, SPIE Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Machine Vision and Robotics, Orlando, April, 1992.International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Computer Vision, Singapore, September, 1992.Newsletter Editor, IEEE Neural Networks Council, 1991-Track chair, Computer-based Medical Systems 1990; Optimization and Neural Networks, NIPS workshop, 1989 Session chair, IEEE TENCON, Bombay, November, 1989 Member, ADCOM of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1988-1991Editorial Board, Journal of Neural Network ComputingFounding Member, IEEE Neural Networks CouncilFounding Member, IEEE Robotics Council, 1983-88 (Prior to the formation of the Robotics and Automation Society, the Robotics Council coordinated all activities within the IEEE in this area.)Newsletter Editor, IEEE Robotics Council (Society), 1985-1989Organizing Chair, International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN), June, 1989 (Over 2000 attendees. This is the premier conference in neural networks, worldwide.)
I created and ran a small business (Communication Unlimited) which employed up to 22 people and did contract software development for clients with image processing applications. Business ran from 1986 - 1993, and closed while still showing a profit.
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II. TEACHING AND MENTORING OF UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS
A. Teaching Effectiveness.
1. Courses taught and evaluation of teaching effectiveness.Some courses offered over video net to multiple campuses (BGSM, WFU, WSSU, UNC, NCA&T, NCSU) are indicated with a second course number after a slash.
2009 Spring ECE 591 8 Students (special topics) N/A 3.3 4.1
2009 Spring ECE 212 110 Wesley E. Snyder 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.0
2009 Spring ECE 292 2 Wesley E. Snyder Not Available (2 students)
2009 Spring BME 495 7 Wesley E. Snyder 4.5 3.85 4.5 3.58
2008 Fall ECE 212 61 Wesley E. Snyder 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0
2008 Fall ECE 763 17 Wesley E. Snyder 4.8 4.0 4.8 4.0
2008 Spring ECE 212 Wesley E. Snyder 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0
2008 Spring BME 495 See note below 4.0 3.85 4.33 3.582007 Spring BME 495 See note below 3.94 4.25 4.67 4.13
2007 Spring ECE 833 Wesley E Snyder Evaluations notavailable
2006 Fall ECE 763 Wesley E Snyder 4.7 4.2 4.2 4.0
2006 Spring BME 495 Wesley E Snyder Evaluations notavailable
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Year Semester Course-Section
2005 Spring 301 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.1 4.1 4.2 42004 Spring 301 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.5 4.1 4.1 3.9
2004 Spring 301 - 201 Wesley E SnyderHatice O Ozturk 4.3 4.1 4 3.9
2004 Spring 301 - 202 Wesley E SnyderHatice O Ozturk 3.9 4.1 3.5 3.9
2004 Spring 301 - 203 Wesley E SnyderHatice O Ozturk 3.6 4.1 3.9 3.9
2004 Spring 301 - 204 Wesley E SnyderHatice O Ozturk 3.7 4.1 3.9 3.9
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2004 Spring 301 - 207 Wesley E SnyderHatice O Ozturk 4.4 4.1 4.3 3.9
2004 Spring 301 - 208 Wesley E SnyderHatice O Ozturk 4.2 4.1 4 3.9
2004 Spring 759 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 3.9 4.1 4 3.9
2004 Fall 301 - 002 Wesley E Snyder 4.1 4.1 4 42004 Fall 763 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.8 4.1 4.7 42003 Fall 301 - 002 Wesley E Snyder 4.2 4 4.1 3.92003 Fall 301 - 201 Wesley E Snyder 3.6 4 4.2 3.92003 Fall 763 - 002 Wesley E Snyder 4.2 4 4.3 3.92002 Spring 759 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 5 4.1 5 3.92002 Fall 763 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.6 4.1 4.5 3.92000 Spring 759 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4 4.1 4 3.91999 Fall 763 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 3.1 4.1 2.7 3.91999 Spring 759 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.4 4.2 4.4 41998 Fall 763 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.8 4.1 4.8 3.91998 Spring 212 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 4.2 4.1 4 3.91998 Spring 559 - 001 Wesley E Snyder 3.8 4.1 3.6 3.91997 Spring 212 - 002 Wesley E Snyder 4.2 4.1 4.3 3.91997 Spring 212 - 017 Wesley E Snyder 3.5 4.1 3.8 3.9
Note: BME 495 is a course which combines clinical emergency medicine with instrument design. Many (most) of the lectures are on clinical medicine and are taught by either me or a variety of visiting (state certified) instructors. Therefore, student responses to questions about the instructor may not be appropriate.
2. Peer Review of Teaching Summary
N/A
B. Instructional Development - List innovations in courses, curricula, and programs.
Courses developed:
(experiment offered Sping 2009) ECE 591, Mathematics of Computer Vision. This course will become a prerequiste for the 700-level computer vision course. It will include relevant mathematical concepts to prepare the student for work in the general area of Computer Vision. Because of student demand, the course was offered as a guided seminar in spring 2009, rather than a regular course.
Spring 2006, 2007, 2008 NCSU BME 495E. Instrument Design in the Clinical Environment. A course for future biomedical engineers in which the students are trained in emergency medicine and receive certification as EMT-Basics. In the process they identify the need for a new instrument and design that instrument.
Fall, 2000, NCSU ECE 763 Machine Vision offered over the internet using the Web Lecture System. Offering was joint with National Technological University.NCSU ECE 559 Statistical Pattern Recognition offered over the internet using the Web Lecture System. This may be the first time a course with heavy mathematical and technical content has been
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offered using this medium.WFU CSC 361 CPU designNCSU ECE 446 VLSI Design
NCSU ECE 559 Statistical Pattern Recognition (A new version of this course is being offered over the MCNC video network. It is offered simultaneously at BGSM, WFU, NCSU, and UNC-C and UNC-CH.)
NCSU ECE 443 Digital Design Projects (in the form used from 1977-1983)
NCSU ECE 444 RoboticsNCSU ECE 659 Computer Vision (Offered via video at NCSU, UNC-CH, and WFU)NCSU ECE 642 Neural Networks
OTHER COURSES TAUGHTNCSU ECE 314 ElectronicsNCSU ECE 342 (also WFU CSC 361) Digital SystemsWFU CSC 271 Assembly Language ProgrammingNCSU ECE 533 Digital Electronics
C. Mentoring Activities - Include undergraduate academic advising and assessments thereof, if applicable, graduate committees, postdoctoral advising, advising student organizations, special projects with students, and Department of Public Instruction assessments of supervising student teaching.
ECE Senior Design: One group in 2008-2009, three groups in 2009-2010, assisted with Dr. Trussell in 2011.Advisor, NCSU Emergency Medical Services ClubIn 1977, I served as advisor to Eta Kappa Nu.
D. Master's and doctoral theses directed and being directed; show numbers and dates in each category. (Employment after graduation listed in parentheses)
MS Students1. Bo Liu, MS expected Winter 2011.2. Ben Riggan MS received Fall 2011.3. Sanketh Shetty, MS August 2006, Shape Recognition. U Ill. Ph.D. Program4. Geoff Chang, MS, nonthesis, completed 2003. Advised on project. NCSU Ph.D. Program.5. Karthik Krish, MS 2005, Interactive software tools for image analysis.6. Amrutha Prasad, MS May, 2005, “Reconstruction of Lambertian Surfaces from Photometric
Stereo” (UNC)7. Vaibhav Srivastava, MS August, 2005, “Performance of Microcalcification Detection
Algorithms.”8. Rajeev Ramanath, MS completed Summer 2000 “A New algorithm for improving quality of
digital still camera images” (NCSU Ph.D. Program)9. Asif Hussain, M.S. 1998, “Estimating the point-spread function of a film scanner”10. Gabriella Beck, MS October 93, Simulated Data Phantoms for development of testing of MR
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reconstruction algorithms (U Aachen)11. John Campbell, MS Sept 93 Analysis of Respiratory Artifacts in MRI, (Star Technologies)12. Ambalavanar Logenthiran, “Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images using Mean Field
Annealing”, M.S., November, 1990 (AT&T Bell Laboratories).13. Steve Garnier MS 89 Model based recognition of 3-D surfaces using curvature
parameterization (NCSU Ph.D. program)14. Amir Pirzadeh MS 89 A Unified Solution to Coverage and Search in Explored and Unexplored
Terrains using Indirect Control15. Margie Groves MS 83 Displacement field calculation by the motion detection transform with
applications in FLIR imagery16. Bennett Groshong MS 86 Segmentation of Range Images Containing Curved Surfaces17. Brenda Snyder MS 84 3-dimensional analysis for range images of polyhedra (IBM)18. James Hagar MS 84 Analysis of a Charge Transfer Device Pattern Classifier19. William Barkley MS 78 Matrix Multiplication using Charge Transfer Devices20. Charles Price MS 81 A model of human visual perception as a motion detector (with Sarah
Rajala), MS 198121. Luis Monar MS 82 An interactive system for motion description based on parameterized region
growing extraction (AT&T Bell Laboratories)22. Peter Evans MS 79 A microprocessor based distributed processing system23. Maroof Mian MS 78 Trajectory control of a robot joint with a microprocessor24. John Reece MS 78 Charge Transfer Device Evaluation Techniques for Matrix Multiplication25. I.S. Tang MS 78 A programmable transversal filter using bucket brigade device
PhD Students1. Theju Jacob, PhD, started summer 20112. Ben Riggan, PhD. Started August, 20113. Asif Hussain, Ph.D., transferred to Computer Science4. Rachana Gupta, Ph.D. Co-advisor, PhD received fall 2010, Autonomous driving using
computer vision.5. Amit Bhatia, Ph.D. (CSC) received fall 2010, 3D shape recognition6. Stuart Heinrich, Ph.D. (CSC) Received spring 2011, Shape Recognition7. Karthik Krish, Ph.D. Spring 2009, Shape Recognition8. Geoff Chang, Ph.D. Jan. 2008, Sensor Networks9. Pedro Lee, Ph.D. May, 2005, “Robust Image Segmentation Using Active Contours, Level Set
Approaches,” (Intel, Santa Clara)10. Bilge Karacali, Ph.D., “Shape from Shading”, summer 2002, Dept. of Radiology, University of
Pennsylvania.11. Rajeev Ramanath, Ph.D. 2003 Texas Instruments National Research Center.12. J.P. Thrower, Ph.D. (joint with Mechanical Engineering) An Inexpensive MRI scanner,
completed Nov., 2002.13. Hairong Qi, Ph. D. completed spring 99, “A new X-ray detection sensor and system”
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(University of Tenn.)14. Cliff Wang, Ph. D. 96, “Optimal Interpolation using MAP Methods” (IBM).15. Mark van Horn, Ph.D. 95, Detecting Boundaries in Intracoronary Ultrasound (IBM)16. Steve Garnier, Ph.D. spring 94, “Magnetic Resonance Image Restoration: Recovering
Resolution and Reducing Noise in Basis Images via Optimization Methods using Physical Models”, (Naval Surface Weapons Center)
17. Y. S. Han Ph.D. May 1993 Annealing Methods in Iterative Image Processing with Medical Applications (Bowman Gray School of Medicine)
18. John Reece Ph.D. 92 Multiple Path Labeling in Image Analysis (Harris Corp.)19. Bennett Groshong Ph.D. 91 Restoration of Eddy Current Images (Sandia Labs)20. Mark Guckin, “Curvature from Least-Squares Fits”, Ph.D., May, 1990. (Gerber Scientific)21. Harish Hiriyannaiah, “Signal Reconstruction using Mean Field Annealing”, Ph.D., July, 1990
(Indian Institute of Science).22. Paul Hemler Ph.D. 88 A Procedural Approach to View Independent Three Dimensional Object
Recognition and Pose Determination (Stanford Medical School)23. Alan Cowart Ph.D. 86 The Detection of Unresolved Targets in Sequential imagery using the
Hough Transform (Dynetics, Huntsville)24. I.S. Tang Ph.D. 83 Computer Analysis of Motion in Time-varying Imagery containing Multiple
Rigid Objects (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Recent Student Committees on which I served but was not chair Jason Tong, PhD, 2011Brandon Frederick, 2011Jihwan Kim PhD (M. Escuti, advisor) 2010-2011Brian Gonzalez, Ph.D. Under Lalush, [email protected] Williams - PhD Spring 2008Matt Craver, Fall 2008Jason Leyba, MS Spring 2007 Puxong Dong - PhD Spring 2006.Libai DaiRachana Gupta - PhD Spring 2006Taiho Kang - PhD Spring 2006
I do not have records prior to 2005, but I am on roughly 5 every year.
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III. SCHOLARSHIP IN THE REALMS OF FACULTY RESPONSIBILITY
A. PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS, AND ED. BOARD/PROGRAM COMMITTEE List items as applicable, e.g., original research articles and research review articles in peer-reviewed journals, refereed articles that are pedagogy or extension-related, research abstracts, books; interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary works; invited and contributed research presentations; appointments or election to study sections and editorial boards; creative or professional works; exhibitions; juried shows, honors; awards, fellowships, prizes, competitions, and other pertinent evidence.
JOURNALS1. Karthik Krish, Stuart Heinrich, Wesley E. Snyder, Halil Cakir, Siamak Khorram, “Global Registration of Overlapping
Images Using Accumulative Image Features” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 31, No. 2, Jan. 15, 2010.2. C. G. Chang, W. E. Snyder, C. Wang, "Secure target localization in sensor networks using relaxation labeling",
International Journal of Sensor Networks, Vol 4, no 3, 20083. L. Miao, H. Qi, R. Ramanath, W.Snyder, “Binary tree-based generic demosaicking algorithm for
multispectral filter arrays," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, October, 2006.4. H. Qi, P. T. Kuruganti, W. E. Snyder, "Detecting breast cancer from thermal infrared images by asymmetry analysis,"
Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 3rd Ed. Infrared Imaging Section. Editor: Nicholas A. Diakides. CRC Press, 2006.5. R. Ramanath, W. Snyder, M. Drew, Y. Yoo, “Color Image Processing Pipeline in Digital Color
Cameras,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, special issue on Digital Color Imaging; Oct. 2004.6. B. Karacali, W. Snyder, “Noise Reduction in Surface Reconstruction from a Given Gradient Field,” International
Journal of Computer Vision, 60(1) October, 2004.7. B. Karacali, R. Ramanath, W. Snyder, “A Comparative Analysis of Structural Risk Minimization
by Support Vector Machines and Nearest Neighbor Rule,”” Pattern Recognition Letters, vol 25, no 1, pp 63-71, 2004.
8. R. Ramanath, R. Kuehni, W. Snyder, and D. Hinks, “Spectral Spaces and Color Spaces,” Color Research and Applications, Vol 29, no1, January, 2004.
9. R. Ramanath and W. E. Snyder, “Color Artifact Reduction in Digital Still Color Cameras,” invited paper, IS&T Reporter, Jan. 2004.
10. R. Ramanath, W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, “Demosaicking Methods for Bayer Color Arrays,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, 11(3) July, 2002.
11. R. Ramanath, W. Snyder, “Adaptive Demosaicking” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol 12, no 4, pp 633-642, 2003.12. H. Yuan, S. Khorram, X. Dai, and W. Snyder, “Development and Evaluation of Land- use/Land-cover Classification
Systems Using Simulated Annealing”, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing.13. O. Boric-Lubecke, Y. Nikawa, W. Snyder, J. Lin, K. Mizuno, “Novel Microwave and Millimeter-
wave Biomedical Applications,” Electronics (Republic of Srpska, Bosnia, and Herzegovina), vol. 3, no 2, Dec. 1999.
14. H. Qi, W. E. Snyder, D. Marchette, “An efficient approach to segment man-made targets from unmanned aerial vehicle imagery”, Optical Engineering, May, 2000.
15. W. Snyder, H. Qi, R. Elliot, J. Head, C. Wang, “Increasing the Effective Resolution of Thermal Infrared Images”, IEEE EMBS Magazine. June, 2000.
16. Qi, H., Snyder WE, “Content-based image retrieval in picture archiving and communications systems”. Journal of Digital Imaging, 12(2): 81-83, Suppl 1, May 1999.
17. Xialong Dai, W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, R. Williams, and R. Cowan, “Left-Ventricle Boundary Detection from Nuclear Medicine Images” Journal of Digital Imaging, Feb, 1998.
18. C. Wang, W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, “Performance Evaluation of Filtered Backprojection Reconstruction and Iterative Reconstruction methods for PET Images”, Computers in Medicine and Biology, 9(3) Nov, 1998.
19. Y. Han, G. Bilbro, W. Snyder, “Edge-preserving Smoothing Using Adaptive Mean Field Annealing”, Computers in Medicine and Biology.
20. Y. Han, W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, “Discontinuity-Preserving Vector Smoothing of Multivariate MR Images using Vector Mean Field Annealing”, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 9:3, 1998
21. W. Snyder, Y. Han, G. Bilbro, R. Whitaker, S. Pizer, “Image Relaxation: Restoration and Feature Extraction”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence -- June, 1995.
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22. S. J. Garnier, G. L. Bilbro, J. W. Gault, W. E. Snyder, “The Effects of Various Basis Image Priors on MR Image MAP Restorations”, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol 5, 1995
23. Garnier, Bilbro, Gault, Snyder, “Magnetic Resonance Image Restoration”, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol 5, 1995.
24. D. Herrington, M. Van Horn, Y. Zhu, T. Young, W. Snyder, and G. Braden, “Automated catheter motion compensation improves 2-D intracoronary ultrasound imaging”, Circulation 1994.
25. S. Garnier, G. Bilbro, W. Snyder, and J. Gault, Noise Removal from Multiple MRI Images, Journal of Digital Imaging, December, 1994
26. Sohn, Kwanghoon, Alexander, Winser, Kim, J., and Snyder, Wesley, “A Constrained Regularization Approach to Robust Corner Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol 24, No 5, May, 1994.
27. Snyder, Hsiao, Boone, Hudacko, and Groshong, “Closing Gaps in Edges and Surfaces”, Image and Vision Computing. Oct, 1992.
28. B. Groshong, G. Bilbro, and W. Snyder, Eddy Current Image Restoration by Constrained Gradient Descent”, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1992.
29. I. Abdelqader, S. Rajala, W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, “Energy Minimization Approach to Motion Estimation using Mean Field Annealing”, Signal Processing, 28(3), Sept. 1992.
30. Snyder, W., Hsiao, ML, “Restoration of Ultrasonic NDE Images”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 40(3), April 1993.
31. W. Snyder, A. Logenthiran, P. Santago, K. Link, G. Bilbro, and S. Rajala, “Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images using Mean Field Annealing”, Image and Vision Computing, 10(6) July/August, 1992.
32. G. Bilbro, W. Snyder, S. Garnier, and J. Gault, “Mean Field Annealing, a formalism for Constructing GNC-like algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 3(1), Jan., 1992.
33. B. Groshong, G. Bilbro, W. Snyder, “An Eddy Current Transducer Model for Image Restoration,” Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 10(2), Dec. 1991.
34. G. Bilbro and W. Snyder, “Optimization of Functions with Many Minima”, IEEE Transactions on SMC, 21(4), July/August, 1991.
35. Snyder, Hsiao, Overton, and Boone, “Circuit Board Inspection Using a Range Camera”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 38(2). pp. 142-149, April 1991,
36. G. Bilbro, W. Snyder, and R. Mann, “Mean Field Approximation Minimizes Relative Entropy”, in Journal of the Optical Society of America A., 8(2), Feb. 1991.
37. W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, A. Logenthiran, and S. Rajala, “Optimal Thresholding, A New Approach”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 11(11) November 1990.
38. G. Bilbro and W. Snyder, “Mean Field Annealing, an Application to Image Noise Removal”, in Journal of Neural Network Computing, Fall, 1990
39. K. Arbter, W. Snyder, H. Burkhardt, and G. Hirzinger, “Application of Affine-invariant Fourier Descriptors to Recognition of 3-D Objects”, IEEE Trans PAMI 12(7) July 1990.
40. Van den Bout, Franzon, Paulos, Miller, Snyder, Nagle, and Liu, “Scalable VLSI Implementations for Feed-Forward and Recurrent Neural Networks”, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, December, 1989.
41. Hiriyannaiah, Bilbro, and Snyder, “Restoration of Locally Homogeneous Images using Mean Field Annealing”, Journal of the Optical Society of America-A. 6(12), December, 1989.
42. Yang, Snyder, and Bilbro, “Matching Oversegmented 3-D Images to Models using Association Graphs”, The International Journal of Image and Vision Computing, May, 1989.
43. Snyder and Cowart, “An Iterative Approach to Region Growing Using Associative Memories”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, May, 1983
44. Cowart, Snyder, and Ruedger, “The Detection of Unresolved Targets Using the Hough Transform”, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, December, 1982.
45. Rajala, Riddle, and Snyder, “Application of the One-dimensional Fourier Transform for Tracking Moving Objects in Noisy Environments”, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, December, 1982.
46. Snyder and Savage, “Content-Addressable Read-Write Memories for Image Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, October, 1982.
47. Snyder and Schott, “Using Optical Shaft Encoders”, Robotics Age, 1980.48. Snyder and Tang, “Finding the Extrema of a Region”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, 1980. 49. Gruver, Hedges, and Snyder, “Decentralized Minimum Energy Control and Coordination of Large Scale Linear
Systems”, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Vol. 1, 1980.50. Snyder, “Microprocessor-based Path Control”, Robotics Age, 1980.
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51. Snyder and St. Clair, “Use of Conductive Elastomers for Computer Sensing of Touch”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, March, 1978.
52. Chien and Snyder, “Hardware for Visual Image Processing”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems CAS-22, No. 6, June, 1975.
53. Gault and Snyder, “A Microprocessor-based Control Experiment”, IEEE Transactions on Education, E-21, No. 4, 1978
AWARDS
Outstanding course evaluations, fall 2010, spring 2011
Fellow of the IEEE, 2008
Gledden Fellow, University of Western Australia, 2007
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2004IEEE Outstanding Engineering Educator for the state of North Carolina, 1993. Presented by the North Carolina Council of IEEE Sections.
BOOKSW. Snyder and H. Qi, Machine Vision, Cambridge University Press, 2004. W. Snyder, Industrial Robots, Computer Interfacing and Control, Prentice-Hall, 1985.
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REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
1. Rachana Gupta, Wesley Snyder, “Detection of Multiple Preceeding Cars in Busy Traffic using Taillights”, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June, 2011.
2. Amit Bhatia and Wesley Snyder, “Pattern Recognition by Cluster Accumuation,” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2010), June 2010, San Diego, CA.
3. Amit Bhatia and Wesley Snyder, “Stacked Integral Image,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, May, 2010.
4. Rachana Gupta, Wesley Snyder, and Shepherd Pitts, “Concurrent Visual Multiple Lane Detetion for Autonomous Vehicles,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, May, 2010.
5. Karthik Krish and Wesley Snyder , “A New Accumulator-based Approach to Shape Recognition”, International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, December, 2008.
6. Chih-Chieh Geoff Chang, Wesley E. Snyder and Cliff Wang, "A New Relaxation Labeling Architecture for Secure Localization in Sensor Networks", in proceedings International Communication Conference, Glasgow, June 2007.
7. Chih-Chieh Geoff Chang, Wesley E. Snyder and Cliff Wang, "Secure Tracking in Sensor Networks", in proceedings International Communication Conference, Glasgow, June 2007.
8. Chih-Chieh Geoff Chang, Wesley E. Snyder and Cliff Wang, "Robust localization of multiple events in sensor networks", in proceedings IEEE International Conference on Sensor networks, Ubiquitous and Trust-worthy Computing, Taiwan, June 2006.
9. Chih-Chieh Geoff Chang, Wesley E. Snyder and Cliff Wang, "Robust localization of multiple events in sensor networks", in proceedings IEEE International Conference on Sensor networks, Ubiquitous and Trust-worthy Computing, Taiwan, June 2006.
10. Chih-Chieh Geoff Chang, Wesley E. Snyder and Cliff Wang, "A new relaxation labeling architecture for secure location estimation in sensor networks", Submitted to: proceedings IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, October, 2006
11. C. Lee, W. Snyder, and C. Wang, “Design and Simulation of a Smart Sensor Network” MILCOM, Atlantic City, October, 2005.
12. C. Lee, W. Snyder, and C. Wang, “Supervised Multispectral Image Segmentation Using Active Contours,” International Conference on Automation and Robotics, Barcelona, April, 2005.
13. Lidan Miao, Hairong Qi, Wesley E. Snyder, “A Generic Method for Generating Multi-spectral Filter Arrays,” International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, October, 2004.
14. R. Ramanath and W. E. Snyder, “Noise Equivalent Dimensions in Eigenspaces, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2004.
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15. R. Ramanath, W. E. Snyder and H. Qi, “Mosaic multispectral focal plane array cameras,” SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2004.
16. C. Lee, W. Snyder, "Hyper Spectral Image Segmentation using Active Contours," SPIE Defense and Security Symposium 2004, April 12-16, Orlando, Florida.
17. R. Ramanath, W. E. Snyder, and H. Qi, “Eigenviews for Object Recognition in Multispectral Imaging Systems,” Proceedings AIPR workshop, pp. 33-38, 2003.
18. H. Du, H. Qi, X. Wang, R. Ramanath and W.E. Snyder, “Band Selection using Independent Component Analysis for Hyperspectral Image Processing,” Proceedings AIPR workshop, pp. 93-98, 2003.
19. R. Ramanath and W. Snyder, “Demosaicking as a Bilateral Filtering Process” SPIE Vol 4667, Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, Jan., 2002.
20. R. Ramanath and W. Snyder, D. Hinks, “Image Comparison Measure for Digital Still Color Cameras,” IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, Sept, 2002.
21. D. Honea and W. Snyder, “Active Contours Using Potential Fields” International Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Quebec, August, 2002.
22. B. Karacali and W. Snyder, “Partial Integrability in Surface Reconstruction from a Given Gradient Field,” IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, Sept, 2002
23. W. Snyder and B. Karacali, “On-the-fly Multispectral Automatic Target Detection,” Combat Identification Systems Conference, Colorado Springs, June 2002.
24. H. Qi, W. E. Snyder, “Conditioning analysis of missing data estimation for large sensor arrays”, CVPR 2000, Hilton Head, SC, June, 2000.
25. H. Qi, W. E. Snyder, “Image correction and fusion for large-area CCD sensor arrays”, Accepted for ICPR 2000, Barcelona (withdrawn for lack of travel funds).
26. H. Qi, W. E. Snyder, J. F. Head, R. L. Elliott, “Detecting Breast Cancer from Infrared Images by Asymmetry Analysis”, EMBS 2000.
27. M. Dagtekin, W. E. Snyder, High-speed video processing and display system, SPIE Medical Imaging, February, 2000.
28. Honea, D., Snyder, W. “Three-dimensional active surface approach to lymph node segmentation”, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, February, 1999. San Diego, February, 1999.
29. Boric-Lubecke, O., Nikawa, Y., Snyder, W., and Mizuno, K., “Skin Properties at Millimeter Waves”, 1998 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Yokohama, Japan, December, 1998
30. Hairong Qi, Wesley Snyder, Griff Bilbro, “Missing data estimation by separable deblurring”, Proceedings for the IEEE Symposia on Intelligence and Systems, May, 1998.
31. Hairong Qi, Wesley Snyder, Griff Bilbro, “Using mean field annealing to solve anisotropic diffusion problems”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, v3, 1997, p 352-355.
32. Hairong Qi, Griff L. Bilbro, Wesley E. Snyder, “Comparison of Mean Field Annealing and Multiresolution Analysis in Missing Data Estimation”, to appear in The Third Asia Conference on Computer Vision, January, 1998 (this paper was accepted, but withdrawn, since neither author could travel to present the paper).
33. D.M. Honea, Y. Ge, W.E. Snyder, P.F. Hemler, D.J.Vining, “Lymph Node Segmentation Using Active Contours,”, SPIE 3034: Medical Imaging 1997 - Image Segmentation, Newport Beach, CA, 1997.
34. J. A. Janet, S. M. Scoggins, S. M. Schultz, W. E. Snyder, M. W. White and J. C. Sutton, III, ``Shocking: An Approach to Stabilize Backprop Training with Greedy Adaptive Learning Rates,” in Proceedings of 1998 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Anchorage, Alaska, May, 1998.
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35. Janet, Scoggins, White, Sutton, Grant, and Snyder, “Using a Hyper-Ellipsoid Clustering Kohonen for Autonomous Mobile Robot Map Building, Place Recognition, and Motion Planning”, Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf on Neural Networks, Houston, June, 1997
36. J. Janet, M. White, J. Sutton, W. Snyder, “Self-organizing Geometric Certainty Maps: A Compact and Multfunctional Approach to Map Building, Place Recognition, and Motion Planning” International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 97.
37. J. Janet, S. Schudel, M. White, A. England, J. Sutton, and W. Snyder, “Two Mobile Robots Sharing Topographical Knowledge Generated by the Region-Feature Neural Network.” International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 97.
38. J.A. Janet, D.S. Schudel, M.W. White, A.G. England and W.E. Snyder, “Global Self- Localization for Actual Mobile Robots: Generating and Sharing Topographical Knowledge Using the Region-Feature Neural Network”, Proc. 1996 IEEE/SICE/RSJ Int’l Conf. on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Washington, DC. Dec 8-11, 1996. pp. 619-626.
39. W. Snyder, C. Wang, F. Wang, R. Elliot, J. Head, “Improving the Resolution of Infrared Images of the Breast”, 18th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Amsterdam, Nov. 1996.
40. C. Wang and W. Snyder, “MAP Transmission Image Reconstruction via Mean Field Annealing for Segmented Attenuation Correction of PET Imaging” 17th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Sept. 1995.
41. C. Wang and W. Snyder, “Frequency Characteristic Study Of Filtered-Backprojection Reconstruction And Maximum Reconstruction For Pet Images”, 17th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Sept. 1995
42. C. Wang, P. Chen, W. Snyder, “Left Ventricle Quantification in Gated Cardiac Images using Bayesian Classification”, 16th annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Baltimore, Nov. 1994.
43. D. Herrington, M. Van Horn, Y. Zhu, T. Young, W. Snyder, and G. Braden, “Automated Catheter Motion Compensation Improves 2D Intracoronary Ultrasound Imaging”, American Heart Association 67th Scientific Session, Nov 94
44. B. Sayyarrodsari, A. Homaifar, and W. Snyder, “A Theoretical Justification for Nonlinear Control Property of a Class of Fuzzy Logic Controllers,” World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Orlando, June, 1994.
45. Abdelqader, I., Rajala, S., and Snyder, W., “Motion Estimation From Noisy image Data,” International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, Minneapolis, MN, April, 1993.
46. Snyder, “A Unified Theory of Edge-preserving Smoothing”, International Conference on Neural Networks, Brighton, UK, September, 1992.
47. K. Sohn, W. Alexander, J. Kim, Y. Kim, W. Snyder “Curvature Estimation and Unique Corner Point Detection for Boundary Representation”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May, 1992.
48. Rajala, S., Abdelqader, I., Bilbro, G., and Snyder, W., “Motion Estimation Optimization,” International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, San Francisco, CA, March, 1992.
49. W. Snyder, P. Santago, A. Logenthiran, K. Link, G. Bilbro, S. Rajala: “Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images using Mean Field Annealing,” XII International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Kent, England, July 7-11, 1991.
50. Mann, Jones, Beckerman, Glover, Farkas, Bilbro, and Snyder, “Multi-Sensor Integration for Autonomous Robots in Nuclear Power Plants” Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Scottsdale, Arizona, May, 1989.
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51. Bilbro and Snyder, “Fusion of Range and Luminance Data” IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Control, Arlington, August, 1988.
52. Snyder, Overton, and Hemler, “Industrial Application of 3-D Vision,” Invited Paper, Fifth International Conference and Exposition on Electronic Imaging, 1988.
53. Bilbro and Snyder, “A System to Recognize Objects in 3-D Images,” Applications of Artificial Intelligence III, Orlando, Florida, March, 1986.
54. Bilbro, Snyder, and Hemler, “Recognition of Objects in Range Images,” World Conference on Robotics Research, Scottsdale, Arizona, August, 1986.
55. Snyder and Bilbro, “Segmentation of Range Images,” Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, March, 1985.
56. J. Franke and W. Snyder, “Determination of Part Pose with Unconstrained Moving Lighting,” International Conference on Robotics, Atlanta, March, 1984.
57. Groves, Rajala, and Snyder, “Calculation of Displacement Fields by Means of the Motion Detection Transform,” ICASSP, 1984.
58. Snyder, “3-D Image Segmentation,” Joint US/Sweden Workshop on Robot Vision, Stockholm, May, 1984.
59. N. Page, W. Snyder, and S. Rajala, “Turbine Blade Image Processing System,” International Meeting on Advanced Software for Robotics, Liege, Belgium, May 1983.
60. Russel, Rajala, and Snyder, “Design of a High Speed Trig Function Chip”, 1982 IEEE ISCAS, Rome, May 1982.
61. Snyder and Hirzinger, “Using Parallel Computational Structures for Motion Detection and Attention Directing: Some Initial Experiments”, Workshop on Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis and Image Data Base Management, Hot Springs, Virginia, 1982.
62. Croughwell, Snyder, and Rajala, “Using Image Motion to Refine Stereopsis”, ICPR, Munich, October, 1982.
63. Tang, Snyder, and Rajala, “Extraction of Moving Objects in Structured Dynamic Scenes”, ICPR, Munich, October, 1982 (also in PRIP, Las Vegas, June, 1982).
64. Gruver, Snyder, and Hedges, “Hierarchical Control of Large Scale Linear Systems with Application to Robotics”, IFAC Workshop on Control Application of Non-linear Programming, June, 1979; Pergammon Press, 1980.
65. Snyder and Hirzinger, “Techniques for Processing Time-varying Images”, International Computer Technology Conference, San Francisco, August, 1980.
66. Rajala and Snyder, “Image Modeling, the Continuity Assumption and Tracking” International Pattern Recognition Conference, Miami, December, 1980.
67. Snyder and Cowart, “A Non-recursive Approach to Region Growing”, ICPR, Miami, 1980.68. Snyder and Tang, “Optimal Computation of Image Gradients Using Eigenvector Methods on
3x3 Neighborhoods”, ICPR, Miami, 1980. 69. Hirzinger, Landzettle, and Snyder, “The DFVLR TV-tracker”, ICPR, Miami, 1980.70. Snyder, Reece, and Benz, “Multispectral Classification Using Charge Transfer Devices”,
AIAA Smart Sensors Conference, Langley Research Center, 1978.71. Snyder, Husson, and Benz, “Satellite Pattern Classification using Charge Transfer Devices”,
IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Chicago, 1979.72. Chien and Snyder, “Visual Understanding of Hybrid Circuits via Procedural Models”, Fourth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September, 1975.
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UNREFEREED CONFERENCE and other PRESENTATIONS
1 Karthik Krish, Stuart Heinrich, Wesley Snyder, Halil Cakir, Siamak Khorram, "A new feature based image registration algorithm" , ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 2008
2 Stuart Heinrich, Karthik Krish, Wesley Snyder, Siamak Khorram, Halil Cakir , "Matching Mobile Targets in Uncalibrated Aerial Images", ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 2008
3 W. Snyder, “A Strategy for Shape Recognition”, Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Image Understanding, Anuj Srivastava, ed., College Park, MD, January, 2007.
4 W. E. Snyder, and R. Ramanath, “Spatiospectral Shape Recognition,” presented in the ATRWG workshop, Jun. 2003
5 W. Snyder, “Clinical Applicability of Thermal Imaging” invited presentation to the U.S. Army Burn Center, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, March, 1998.
6 Qi, H. and Snyder, W., “Lesion detection and characterization in Digital mammography by Bezier histograms”, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, February, 1999.
7 Snyder WE, Qi H, Sander W, “A Hexagonal coordinate system”. SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, February, 1999.
8 W. Snyder, E. Schwartz, G. Snyder, “Thermal Imaging in Trauma”, Advanced technology for Combat Casualty Care, Sponsored by U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft. Walton Beach, FL, 19-22 May, 1997.
9 Van Horn, Snyder, and Herrington. “Automated Catheter Motion Correction in 3-D Intracoronary Ultrasound Image Sequences.” June 24, 1996 International Symposium on Cardiovascular Imaging’ in the Netherlands.
10 Van Horn, Snyder, and Herrington. “3-D Intracoronary Ultrasound Surface Detection Using the “Thin-Plate” Model.” Computers in Cardiology 1996.
11 C. Wang, W. Snyder, G. Bilbro, P. Santago, “A Performance Evaluation of FBP and ML Algorithms for PET Imaging”, SPIE Medical Imaging, 1996.
12 Thrower, Bilbro, and Snyder, “Optimal Image Segmentation”, Machines that Learn, Snowbird, Utah, April, 1996.
13 C. X. Wang, W.E. Snyder, G. L. Bilbro. Optimal Interpolation of Images, Neural Networks for Computing Conference, Snowbird Utah, April, 1995
14 G. Bilbro, W. Snyder, S. Garnier, “Image Optimization with a Locally Connected Analog Neural Network” Neural Networks for Computing Conference, Snowbird Utah, April 5-8 1994
15 C. Wang, L. Small, W. Snyder, and R. Williams, “Edge Detection in Gated Cardiac Nuclear Medicine Images”, Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Winston-Salem, NC June 1994.
16 Mark Van Horn, W. Snyder, G. Braden, and D. Herrington, “Intracoronary Ultrasound Catheter Motion Compensation using the Generalized Hough Transform”, Computers in Cardiology, Sept. 94
17 Garnier, Bilbro, Snyder, “Recovering Resolution and Reducing Noise in Basis Images via Optimization Methods using Physical Models. SPIE, San Diego, July 1994.,
18 Snyder, Garnier, Bilbro, “Removal of Noise from MRI Images”, SMRI, Dallas, March, 1994.19 Symonds, M. and Snyder, W. “Reconstruction of Positron Emission Tomography using
Maximum a-Posteriori methods and Mean Field Annealing Techniques” SPIE conference on Physics of Medical Imaging, Newport Beach February, 1994.
20 Campbell, J. Snyder, W., Santago, P. Rajala, S. Hamilton, C. “Reducing Respirator Artifacts in 16
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Chest MR Images through Hybrid Space Motion Tracking and Post Processing”, SPIE Medical Imaging 94, Newport Beach, CA February, 1994.
21 Mark Van Horn, Wesley E. Snyder, and David M. Herrington, “A Radial filtering scheme applied to intracoronary ultrasound images”, Computers in Cardiology, Sept 93.
22 Y. Han, W. Snyder, D. Herrington, “Quantitative Angiography: densitometry guided edge detection using mean field annealing”, Computers in Cardiology, 1993.
23 T. Johnson, W. Snyder, D. Herrington, “Compensated Simulated Annealing vs. Dynamic Programming used for Boundary Detection in Intracoronary Ultrasound” Computers in Cardiology, 1993.
24 S. J. Garnier, G. L. Bilbro, J. W. Gault, W. E. Snyder, Y. S. Han, “Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis”, SPIE conference on Image Modeling, San Jose, Feb. 1993.
25 Snyder, W. Mean Field Annealing Diffuses Images over Scale Space, Second International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology, Oct. 1993.
26 I. Abdelqader, S. Rajala, G. Bilbro, and W. Snyder, “Optimum Displacement Estimates using Mean Field Annealing, SPIE, San Jose, February, 1993.
27 Y.-S. Han and W. Snyder, “Discontinuity-preserving Vector Smoothing on Multivariate MR Images Using Vector Mean Field Annealing” Proceedings of SPIE 1992 at San Diego Conference on Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging, 1992.
28 Y.-S. Han and W. E. Snyder, “Adaptive Edge-Preserving Smoothing via Adaptive Mean Field Annealing,” Proceedings of SPIE’92 at San Diego Conference on Neural and Stochastic Neural Methods in Image and Signal Processing, 1992.
29 Snyder, W., Johnson, T., Herrington, D. and Bilbro, G. “Solution of the Recirculant Multilayer Graph Problem using Compensated Simulated Annealing”, SPIE, San Diego, June, 1992.
30 Symonds, M., Snyder, W. and Santago, P. “Segmentation of Phase-coded Magnetic Resonance Images using Mean Field Annealing”, Society for Computer-aided Radiology (SCAR) annual conference, 1992.
31 H. Gage, P. Santago, W. Snyder “Quantification of Brain Tissue Through Incorporation of Partial Volume Effects” SPIE Medical Imaging VI, Newport Beach, CA, Feb, 1992.
32 Herrington, D., Johnson, T. Santago, P. Snyder, W., “Semi-automated Boundary Detection for Intravascular Ultrasound”, Computers in Cardiology 1992, Durham, NC Oct 11-14, 1992.
33 Y.-S. Han, D.M. Herrington, and W.E. Snyder, “Quantitative angiography using Mean Field Annealing,”, Computers in Cardiology 1992, Durham, Oct. 11-14, 1992.
34 Logenthiran, Snyder, and Santago, “MAP Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images using Mean Field Annealing”, SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Science and Technology, February, 1991.
35 Herrington, Santago, Johnson, Downes, Braden, Snyder “Image Processing and Display of 3-D intra-coronary Ultrasound Image Data” in Computers in Cardiology, 1991.
36 Y. Han, W. Snyder, “New Applications of Mean Field Annealing to the Restoration of Medical Images”, 13 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Orlando, Oct. 31- Nov 3, 1991.
37 Hiriyannaiah, Snyder, and Bilbro, “Noise in Reconstructed Images in Tomography: Parallel, Fan, and Cone Beam Projections.” Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, Chapel Hill, NC June 3-6, 1990
38 P. Santago, K.M. Link, W. E. Snyder, J.S. Worley, S. A. Rajala, Y.S. Han: “Restoration of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images,” Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, Chapel Hill, NC June 3-6, 1990
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39 Bilbro and Snyder, “Correction of Distortions in Optical Coordinate Measuring Machines”, 15th Conference on Production Research and Technology, Berkeley, CA, January, 1989.
40 Hemler and Snyder, “Procedural 3-D Object Recognition”, SPIE Symposium on Intelligent Control of Robot Systems, Cambridge, MA, fall, 1988.
41 Aanstoos, Ruedger, Snyder, and Beatty, “Application of VHSIC Standard Chip Set to the Design of the NEEDS - Information Adaptive System”, GOMAC, 1982.
42 Snyder and Rajala, “Acquisition of Tracks of Sub-pixel Targets in Infrared Satellite Imagery”, DARPA Infrared Sensor Signal Processing Workshop, Naval Research Labs, Washington, D.C., October, 1982.
43 Gruver, Snyder, and Hedges, “A Computational Algorithm for Decentralized Minimum Energy Control of Large Scale Systems”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, December, 1979.
44 Snyder and Gruver, “Microprocessor Implementation of Optimal Control for a Robotic Manipulator”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, December, 1979.
45 Snyder and Mian, “Microcomputer Control of Manipulators” 9th International Symposium on Industrial Robots, Washington, 1978.
46 Snyder and Gruver, “Distributed Microcomputer Control of a Robotic Manipulator”, First International Conference on Mini-and Microcomputers in Control, San Diego, 1978.
47 Snyder, Reece, and Benz, “Multispectral Classification Using CTD’s”, Government Microcircuits Applications Conference, Monterey, 1978.
48 Snyder and Tang, “Finding the Extrema of a Region”, Princeton Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 1978.
49 Snyder, “Computer Control of Robots, A Servo Survey”, First North American Symposium on Industrial Robots, Chicago, 1976.
50 Snyder “Automatic Visual Inspection” National Computer Conference, May, 1975.51 Snyder “Automatic Visual Inspection of Hybrid Circuits” Allerton Conference on Circuits and
Systems, Urbana, IL, 1974.52 Chien, Snyder, and Jones “Robots and Incremental Control” Second Symposium on
Incremental Motion Control Systems and Devices, Urbana, IL, 1973.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1 Han and Snyder, “Adaptive edge-preserving smoothing via adaptive-mean-field annealing” in Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Vol 8, ed. by Gerhard Ritter. SPIE Press, December, 1999. 2 W. Snyder, D. Nissman, D. Van den Bout, and G. Bilbro, “Kohonen Networks and Clustering: Comparative Performance in Color Clustering”, Advances in Neural Network Information Processing Systems, Morgan-Kaufmann, San Mateo, 1990.3 Bilbro, Mann, Miller, Snyder, Van den Bout, and White, “Optimization by Mean Field Annealing”, in Advances in Neural Network Information Processing Systems, Morgan- Kaufmann, San Mateo, 1989.4 Bilbro and Snyder, “Range Image Restoration using Mean Field Annealing”, in Advances in Neural Network Information Processing Systems, Morgan-Kaufmann, San Mateo, 1989.5 Bilbro, White, and Snyder, “Image Segmentation with Neurocomputers”, in Neural Computers Springer-Verlag, NY, 1988.6 Snyder, “Introduction”, in Automation and Robotics in the Textile and Apparel Industry, G. Berkstresser, editor, Noyes, NJ, 1985.
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7 N. Page, W. Snyder, and S. Rajala, “Turbine Blade Image Processing/Robot Vision System”, in Advanced Software in Robotics, A. Danthine, Ed., North Holland Press, 1984.8 Snyder and Rajala, “Track Acquisition of Sub-pixel Targets”, Image Sequence Processing, Springer-Verlag, 1982.9 Snyder, Benz, and Reece, “Charge Coupled Pattern Classification”, Advances in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol 67, 1979.
Invited Papers and Presentations
1. Invited participant, Augmenting Accuracy, Speed, Efficiency of Human Choice”, workshop in Chicago, September, 2011. Experts in the field to discuss modeling of human brain function.
2. Invited participant, “Frontiers in Computer Vision”, MIT, August, 2011. Sponsored by NSF and ARO, this collected the top people in the field.
4. Invited Participant, Army Neural Net Technology Opportunities Workshop, Chapel Hill, October, 1988
5. Plenary Panelist at IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Control, Arlington, VA, August, 1988
6. Invited Participant, NATO Workshop on Neural Computers, Duesseldorf, 1987
7. Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Multisensor Integration, Utah, 1987
8. Invited Participant, Joint US/Sweden Workshop on Robot Vision (NSF) Sweden, May, 1984
9. Invited Participant, NATO Workshop on Image Motion Analysis, Germany, 1981
B. Externally and internally sponsored grants and contracts as well as non-sponsored and independent programs that have supported your scholarship; indicate funding levels and duration. (summary back to 1976, amounts not corrected for inflation) - Projects funded while CACC director (1996-2000) are not included.
• A Biologically-plausible Architecture for Shape Recognition, Army Research Office, $30,000, 1 Sept, 2005-15 May 2006.
• SIRG: Terahertz Sources and Detectors via Gallium Nitride Technology for Non Destructive Biological and Materials Analysis, with Kim, Ki Wook, Barlage, Douglas, Cuomo, Jerome, Snyder, Wesley, Johnson, Mark, NSF, $2,500,000, 2005, declined.
• Active Contours for Multispectral Images with Non-homogeneous Regions, Army Research Office, $50,000 1 January 2005- 30 Sept 2005
• Positioning and Reliable Data Transmission of Sensor Networks, Army Research Office (with Peng Ning, CSC), $199,833, 1 August 2004-31July 2007.
• Multispectral Infrared Cameras, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, $198,000, April 15, 2003-April 15, 2004.
• Smart Automated Target Recognition using Weighted Spectral Measurements, U of Tenn. Subcontract to U.S. Army $95,000. May 2002-May 2003.
• Hyperspectral volume-based Shape Recognition, U.S. Army Research Office, $30,000. Jan. 1, 2003 - July 1, 2003.
• Missing Data Estimation: Implementation Issues, ARO, $101,688 (completed April 2002)• Shape from Scanning Electron Microscope Images, unrestricted gift from KLA-Tencor, fall, 2001,
$25,000.• Positron Emission Tomography, unrestricted gift from PEM Technologies, Inc. January, 2002,
$5000.
C. ORGANIZATION PARTICIPATIONParticipation in centers, consortia, institutes, interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary activities and other organized scholarly efforts between departments within and across colleges or institutions.
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I spent four years as executive director of the Center for Advanced Computing and Communication. Under my leadership, the center grew to 12 members. This will make the Center have a larger membership than ever before. I have made so many trips in reference to this activity that they are not listed in this PA2 form.
I was one of the founders of the Center for Communications and Signal Processing at NCSU, and have participated in it actively since its foundation.
I worked on the organization of the Piedmont Triad Research Institute, a program in which faculty from NCSU were proposed to reside in Winston-Salem and do research at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine while participating in teaching and advising of NCSU students.
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IV. EXTENSION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH CONSTITUENCIES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY
A. ACCOMPLISHMENTSList accomplishments as applicable, e.g., bulletins, brochures, reports, pamphlets, non-refereed publications, computer software, educational videotapes, slide sets, popular press articles, and other pertinent evidence.
· Program Consultant, U.S. Army Research Office, 2004-2008· Program manager, U.S. Army Research Office Systems and Control Program, 2003.· Program manager, U.S. Army Research Office Information Assurance Program , 2000- 2002· 1975 University of Illinois - Visiting Assistant Professor· 1968-1969 US Peace Corps, Malawi · 1967-1968 IBM/Raleigh - Diagnostic Engineer
SUMMER/SABBATICAL/LEAVES OF ABSENCE FROM NCSUSpring Semester, 2008-: 25% reduction in salary Jan-March to serve as program manager for Army Research Office.Fall semester-2007: 100% leave with pay to work with the University of Western Australia.Fall semester-2000: 40% , 30% teaching, 30% leave without pay to write a bookSpring semester, 2001: 25% Army Research Office, 75% scholarly leave1995-1996(40% Academic Year, full time summer) Army Research Office (Clearance level: secret)Summer, 1994, 95 Army Research Office1990-1993 Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Professor of Radiology1987 fall semester DFVLR (West German Aeronautics and Space Agency), visiting scientist, Munich.1983, 84 & 85 (summers) GE Corporate Research Labs; Schenectady, NY 1980 spring semester DFVLR (West German Aeronautics and Space Agency), visiting scientist, Munich1977 & 1979 (summers) Advisor to United Nations International Development Organization on Robotics; Warsaw 1976 (summer) NASA Langley Research Center, visiting scientist
CONSULTING
I have served as a consultant to Westinghouse Turbine Components Division, to General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, and many small companies.
SHORT COURSES
From 1976 through 1986 I was involved in teaching one or two short courses per year through the Division of Continuing Education. These courses included “Principles of Microcomputers,” “Digital Electronics” and “Computer Image Analysis.” I have also offered these in-plant at Dupont, GE, Westinghouse, ITT, and IBM. I have offered the courses “Industrial Robots”, “Image Processing and Analysis”, and “Computer Vision” for the short course company, ICS.
Stockholm Jan. 1981 Munich May 1981 Washington, DC June 1986
San Diego Oct. 1981 Washington, DC Jan. 1983 JPL Aug. 1986
San Francisco Dec. 1981 London Feb. 1983 Los Angeles March 1986
London April 1982 Raleigh (IBM) Aug. 1983 Burlington, VT Aug. 1985
London Oct. 1982 San Diego Apr. 1984 Einhoven Sept 1986
Tel Aviv Jan. 1985 JPL June 1987
· External Advisory Board, Sandia National Labs, 2003-2004.· Chair: NSF Workshop on Industry/University Cooperation in Machine Vision. Raleigh, NC
March 16, 2000. Sponsored by NSF, the Kenan Institute, the Automated Imaging Association and CACC, this workshop attracted guests from all over the USA.
· Workshop on “The tether-free world and wireless internetworking” February, 2000. This workshop was hosted by the NSF and included representatives at very high levels from most government agencies involved in networking, including the DoD. I was moderator of the round-table discussions, in which research funding priorities were debated.
· NSF proposal review panel, 1998· US Army Research Office, IPA, 60% time during academic year, full-time in summer, 1995-
1997.· Program evaluator-Electrical Engineering Dept., U of Memphis, Spring 1995.· Army Breast Cancer Program proposal study section, Feb. 1994.· NSF Proposal review panel, October 1992· Program reviewer, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, 1990, 1992, 1993
· University of Kentucky Center for Robotics Review Panel 1991
· NSF Presidential Young Investigator Review Panel 1990
· Program review panel, NASA Langley Research Center 1989
· SBIR review panel, NSF, 1988
· Member, NASA Advisory Council Committee on Guidance, Control and Information Systems, 1984
· Advisor to United Nations on Automation in Poland, 1977 and 1979
B. PROGRAM IMPACTN/A
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V. TECHNOLOGICAL AND MANAGERIAL INNOVATION
A. Knowledge and technology transfer accomplishments, e.g., copyrights awarded, invention disclosures, patents filed, patents awarded, new cultivars developed and released, major software packages, design patents, system designs, organizational processes developed, technologies commercialized, etc.
ENTREPRENEURAL ACTIVITIESI created and ran a small business (Communication Unlimited) which employed up to 22 people and did contract software development for clients with image processing applications. Business ran from 1986 - 1993, and closed while still showing a profit.
PATENTS
A method for extracting surface topology and surface type. (Disclosure Submitted Fall, 2001) -- NCSU chose to not pursue this patent.A technology for acquiring multispectral images data using a monolithic sensor (Disclosure submitted, Jan. 2001) -- NCSU chose not to apply for a patent. Topic is now a product of a high-tech companyA method for acquiring hexagonally-sampled image data using a conventional Television camera and monitor (Disclosure submitted Jan. 2001) NCSU chose not to apply for a patent--.Compound Image Sensor Array having Staggered Array of Tapered Optical Fiber Bundles (NCSU FILE 97-65 and 97-66) AWARDED
Systems and Methods for Using Diffraction Patterns to Determine Radiation Intensity Values for Areas Between and Along Adjacent Sensors of Compound Sensor Arrays (NCSU FILE # 97-67 AWARDEDOther Technology Transfer ActivitiesDeveloped a general-purpose image analysis system (ifs), made it into a cross-platform system (release 6, June 2004)
The Corporate Research and Development Center of General Electric spent over five million dollars and two years of effort taking the concept of range image analysis (which I developed for them) from a paper concept to the construction of what is still the most precise and sophisticated range image scanner in the world. All of the image analysis routines which were implemented in that system came as a direct result of my work.
Developed a software package (Interopt) for general optimization.
B. PROGRAM IMPACTSN/A
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VI. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
University service (department, college, and university committees and governance organizations); state, regional, national and international professional activities and committee work, including professional associations.
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
· Associate Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, April 2005 - March 2007 · Responsible for assigning 120 Teaching Assistants per year to roughly 600 classes, labs, and
problem periods. · Responsible, with guidance from the area committees, for making approximately 130 faculty
assignments.· Develop exam schedules which do not have conflicts. · Chair two committees: course and curriculum, awards · Contact for any student with complaint about anything in the undergraduate curriculum. · Manage two graduation ceremonies per year.· Responsible for class evaluations and feedback to faculty.· Serve as primary contact for the distance education program. · Work with the undergraduate student organizations, attending many of their meetings and
representing the department at official activities such as senior awards, HKN induction.· Supervisor of the department engineering technician and mechanic.· Act for the department head when he is not available.
Associate member BME faculty, Computer Science faculty, Natural Resources faculty
Director of Graduate Admissions, ECE Department, NCSU, spring 2002.Executive Director, Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, NCSU and Duke University 1996-May, 2000:
Chair, NCSU graduate school program on Biomedical Engineering, 1996
Organizing faculty member-Center for Communications and Signal Processing
Curriculum in Medical Information Systems.
The committee which led to the founding of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute.
Collaborated with CSC faculty on the Artificial Intelligence Curriculum.
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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
Member, Robotics and Automation Society Conference Board
Co-Chair, Robotics and Automation Society Ethics Committee
General Chair, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, 2010Special sessions chair, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006Conference Chair: Automatic Target Recognizer Working Group conference, June, 2003Session Chair: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Switzerland,
Oct. 2002.Technical Committee Chair: Automatic Target Recognizer Working Group, 2001-currentMember of program committee: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001.Vice-president, IEEE Neural Networks Council, 1997-98Member, Academic Council of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers,
1994, 1995Editorial Board Member, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 1994Secretary, IEEE Neural Networks Council, 1993-1994Reviewer for NSF and ARO, many proposalsReviewer for Computer Vision, Graphics and Image ProcessingReviewer for various IEEE Transactions (PAMI, SMC, TNN, and others)Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural NetworksGeneral Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, Winston-Salem, NC,
June, 1994.Program Committee, Second Carolina Conference in Biomedical Engineering, Chapel Hill, Feb. 1994.Program Chair, IEEE Symposium on Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputing, Rostov-on-
Don, Russia, Oct, 1992Program Committee: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Brighton, UK,
Sept. 1992.Program Committee: IEEE Symposium on Computer-based Medical Systems, Durham, NC,
June, 1992.Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Singapore, Nov.1991.Program Committee, SPIE Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence: Machine
Vision and Robotics, Orlando, April, 1992.International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Computer Vision, Singapore, September, 1992.Newsletter Editor, IEEE Neural Networks Council, 1991-Track chair, Computer-based Medical Systems 1990Session chair, IEEE TENCON, Bombay, November, 1989 Track chair, Optimization and Neural Networks, NIPS workshop, Denver, November, 1989Member, ADCOM of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1988-1991Editorial Board, Journal of Neural Network ComputingFounding Member, IEEE Neural Networks CouncilFounding Member, IEEE Robotics Council, 1983-88 (Prior to formation of Robotics and Automation Society, the Robotics Council coordinated all activities within the IEEE in this area.)Newsletter Editor, IEEE Robotics Council (Society), 1985-1989Organizing Chair, International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN), June, 1989 (Over
2000 attendees. This is the premier conference in neural networks, worldwide.)Organizer of invited session on Neural Networks in Robotics at International Conference of
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Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 14-19, 1989Program committee, Applications of Artificial Intelligence VII, Orlando, 27-31 March, 1989Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Robotics Technical Committee, 1985-86Newsletter Editor, IEEE Robotics Technical Committee, 1983-1984
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Volunteer Paramedic Garner EMS 1996-2005
Medical supervisor for church youth work trip, June, 2004.
Volunteer Paramedic Dare County EMS, Fall 2000-spring 2001
One year of course work in Clinical Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 1993- 1994Course work in Emergency Medical Science (Paramedic level), Wake Technical Community College.Certifications: EMT-Paramedic, Neonatal resuscitation, Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS-Advanced), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
Various church activities, including working at the ARK shelter for the homeless.
