i am a professor in the school of engineering.
in the electrical and computer engineering program.
i hold a secondary appointment in the
computer science. all my degrees
are in electrical engineering.
i teach, essentially, signal processing type courses. we apply wavelets to many things such as multiscale modeling, biomedical signal analysis, spectral estimation and removing signal from noise. i am also interested in global state estimation using local particle filtering.
some applied (funded) problems we are currently working on:
(i) tracking algorithms to operate on 2D video
sequences; specifcally for counting pedestrians,
bicyclists and cars at intersections.
(ii) feature detection, classification and localization using
stereo vision, for autonomous Rover robot navigation and exploration.
we are also interested in exploiting
(i) compressed sensing for robustness to occlusion
(ii) agent networks for distributed particle filtering.
the hardware part is done in the dsp labs where we implement signal processing and control algorithms on 320C6x dsps.