Below are publications by researchers from the Signal Processing & Communications Research
Lab at Lehigh University.
You can download underlined articles (in PS or PDF file) by clicking on
the corresponding link. For further information email Prof. Rick
S. Blum at rblum@eecs.lehigh.edu.
Books
Book Chapters
Journal Papers
Conference Papers
Patents
Master's Theses
Ph. D. Dissertations
Books
- R. S. Blum and Zheng Liu, ''Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications'', CRC Press in the special series on Signal Processing and Communications, September 2005.
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Book Chapters
- R. S. Blum, Zhiyun Xue, and Zhong Zhang, "An Overview of Image Fusion'', for the book "Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications", Marcel Dekker/CRC, Editor: R. Blum.
- Jinzhong Yang and R. S. Blum, "A Statistical Signal Processing Approach to Image Fusion using Hidden Markov Models'', for the book "Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications", Marcel Dekker/CRC, Editor: R. Blum.
- R. S. Blum and Keith McDonald, "Robust Techniques in Space-Time Adaptive Processing'', for the book "The Applications of Space-Time Adaptive Processing'', IEE Publishers, 2004, Editor: R. Klemm.
- R. S. Blum and Jinzhong Yang, ''Image Fusion using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and a Gaussian Mixture Model'' for the book ''Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems'', Kluwer, 2003. Editors: G.L.Foresti, C.S.Regazzoni and P.Varnshey.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Optimum distributed detection of weak signals in dependent sensors,'' Selected to appear in ''SPIE's Milestone Series of Selected Reprints on the subject Sensor and Data Fusion'', 1996.
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Journal
Papers
- E. Perevalov and R. S. Blum, "On the influence of signal attenuation factors on packet dissemination in ad hoc wireless networks," to be submitted to Research Letters in Communications.
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Minimax robust MIMO radar waveform design," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on: Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication, vol. 1, pp. 147-155, June 2007.
- N. Lehmann, E. Fishler, A. Haimovich, R. S. Blum, D. Chizhik, L. J. Cimini, and R. Valenzuela, "Evaluation of transmit diversity in MIMO-radar direction finding," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, pp. 2215-2225, May 2007.
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "MIMO radar waveform design based on mutual information and minimum mean-square error estimation," IEEE Transactions on Aeospace and Electronic
System, vol. 43, pp. 330-343, January 2007.
- J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, "Decode-and-forward cooperative diversity with power allocation in wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, pp. 793-799, March 2007.
- E. Perevalov, R. S. Blum, X. Chen, and A. Nigara, "Throughput capacity of ad hoc networks with route discovery,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 48973, 14 pages, 2007.
- B. Liu, B. Chen, and R. S. Blum, "Minimum error probability cooperative relay design," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, pp. 656-664, Feburary 2007.
- S. Ye, R. S. Blum, and L. J. Cimini, "Adaptive OFDM systems with imperfect channel state information," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 3255-3265, November 2006.
- A. R. Nigara, Q. Mu, and R. S. Blum, "On the performance of wireless ad hoc networks using amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 3204-3214, November 2006.
- H. R. Sadjadpour, K. Kim, H. Wang, R. S. Blum, and Y. H. Lee, "Application of randomization techniques to space-time convolutional dodes," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, pp. 4484 - 4489, November 2006.
- E. Perevalov, R. S. Blum, and D. Safi, "Capacity of clustered ad hoc networks: How large is "large"?", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 54, pp. 1672-1681, September 2006.
- E. Fishler, A. Haimovich, R. S. Blum, D. Chizhik, L. J. Cimini, R. A. Valenzuela, " Spatial Diversity in Radars - Models and Detection Performance", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, pp. 823-838, March 2006..
- R. S. Blum, "On multisensor image fusion performance limits from an estimation theory perspective'', Information Fusion, vol. 7, pp. 250-263, 2006.
- R. S. Blum, "Robust Image Fusion using a Statistical Signal Processing Approach'', Information Fusion, vol. 6, pp.
119-128, June 2005.
- J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, L. Greenstein, and A. Haimovich, "Power allocation in a transmit diversity system with mean channel gain information," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9 , Issue 7, pp. 616-618, July 2005.
- Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick Blum, "An Efficient Turbo-binning approach for the Slepian-Wolf Source Coding Problem", Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, pp. 961-971, May 2005.
- E. Perevalov and R. S. Blum, "Delay Limited Capacity of Ad hoc Networks: Asymptotically Optimal Transmission and Relaying Strategy'', IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, pp. 1957–1968, Nov 2004.
- Matthew Puzio, Zhenyu Zhu, Rick Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, Tiffany Jing Li, and Hamid Sadjadpour, ``Channel Coding for Polarization-Mode Dispersion Limited Optical Fiber Transmission'', Optics Express, vol. 12, pp. 4333 - 4338, September 06, 2004.
- R. S. Blum, ''MIMO Capacity with Antenna Selection and Interference,'' Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing, special issue on MIMO Communications and Signal Processing, pp. 676-684, May 2004.
- Mu Qin and R. S. Blum, ''Properties of space-time codes for frequency selective channels and trellis code designs,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, special issue on MIMO,
vol. 52 , pp. 694 - 702, March 2004
- Sigen Ye and R. S. Blum, ''Optimized signaling for MIMO interference systems with feedback,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, special issue on MIMO, vo. 51, pp. 2839 - 2848, Nov 2003
- Zhenyu Tu and R. S. Blum, ''Multiuser diversity for a dirty paper approach,''
IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 370-372, Aug. 2003.
- R. S. Blum, ''MIMO
Capacity with Interference,'' IEEE
Journal on Selected Area in Communications, Special issue on
MIMO, vol. 21, pp. 793 - 801,
June 2003
- J. Hu and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed
signal detection for multiuser communication systems,''
IEEE Transactions on Aeospace and Electronic
Systems, Oct. 2002.
- R. S. Blum and J. H. Winters, ''On optimum MIMO with antenna
selection,''
IEEE Communications Letters, pp. 322-324, Aug. 2002.
- R. S. Blum, J. H. Winters, and N. R. Sollenberger, ''On the capacity
of cellular systems with MIMO,''
IEEE Communications Letters, pp. 242-244, June 2002.
- Q. Yan and R. S. Blum, ''Improved space-time convolutional
codes for quasistatic slow fading channels,''
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,
pp. 563-571, Oct. 2002.
- R. S. Blum, ''
Analytical tools for the design of space-time
convolutional codes,'' IEEE Transactions on
Communications, pp. 1593-1599, Oct. 2002.
- X. Lin and R. S. Blum, ''Systematic
design of space-time codes employing multiple trellis
coded modulation,'' IEEE Transactions on
Communications, pp. 608-615, Apr. 2002.
- R. S. Blum, Y. (Geoffery) Li, J. H.Winters, and Q. Yan, ''Improved
Space-time coding for MIMO-OFDM Wireless Communications,''
IEEE Transactions on
Communications, pp. 1873-1878, Nov. 2001
- J. Hu and R. S. Blum, ''On the
optimality of finite level quantizations for distributed
signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory, pp. 1665-1671, May 2001.
- Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''
A Hybrid Image Registration Technique for a Digital Camera
Image Fusion Application,''
Information Fusion, pp. 135-149, June 2001.
- Q. Yan and R. S. Blum, ''
Distributed signal detection
under the Neyman-Pearson criterion,'' IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 1368-1377, May 2001
- P. Willett, P. F. Swaszek and R. S. Blum, ''The good,
bad, and ugly: distributed detection of a known signal in
dependent Gaussian noise,'' IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, pp. 3266-3279, Dec 2000.
- Q. Yan and R. S. Blum, "
On some unresolved issues in
finding optimum distributed detection schemes,"
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
pp. 3280-3288, Dec. 2000.
- J. Hu and R. S. Blum, "A
gradient guided search algorithm for multiuser detection,"
IEEE Communications Letters, pp. 340-342, Nov. 2000.
- K. F. McDonald and R. S. Blum, "Exact performance of
STAP algorithms with mismatched steering and clutter
statistics" (Figures
for this paper), IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, pp. 2750-2763, Oct. 2000.
- Y. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''Iterative
multiuser detection for turbo coded synchronous CDMA in
Gaussian and non-Gaussian impulsive noise,'' IEEE
Transactions on Communications, pp. 397-400, March 2001.
- X. Lin and R. S. Blum, ''Improved
space-time codes using serial concatenation,''
IEEE Communication Letters,
pp. 221-223, July 2000.
- K. F. McDonald and R. Blum, ''A statistical and physical
mechanisms-based interference and noise model for array
observations'' (Figures for
this paper.), IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, Vol. 48, No. 7, pp. 2044-2056, July 2000.
- Y. Chen and R. S. Blum, ''Efficient
algorithms for Sequence Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise
with Intersymbol Interference ,''
IEEE Transactions on Communications,
pp. 1249 -1252, August 2000.
- Y. Zhang and R. S. Blum, "An adaptive receiver with an
antenna array for channels with correlated non-Gaussian
interference and noise using the SAGE algorithm,'' IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 2172-2175,
vol. 48, No. 7, July 2000.
- X. Lin and R. S. Blum, ''Robust
STAP algorithms using prior knowledge for airborne radar
applications,'' (Tables
and Figures of this
paper.) Signal processing, Vol. 79, pp. 273-287,
1999.
- R. S. Blum and K. F. McDonald, ''Analysis of STAP algorithms
for cases with mismatched steering and clutter statistics,''
(Figures of this
paper) IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
pp. 301-310, Feb. 2000.
- Y. Zhu, R. S. Blum, Z-Q. Luo, and K. M. Wong, ''Unexpected Properties and optimum
distributed sensor detectors for dependent observation
cases,'' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
pp. 62-72, Jan. 2000.
- Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, "A
Categorization and Study of Multiscale-decomposition-based
Image Fusion Schemes," Proceedings of the
IEEE, pp. 1315-1328, Aug. 1999.
- R. S. Blum, R. J. Kozick, and B. M. Sadler, ''An adaptive spatial diversity
receiver for non-Gaussian interference and noise,'' IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 2100-2112, Aug.
1999.
- R. S. Blum and Y. Zhang, ''Analysis
of the adaptive matched filter algorithm for cases with
mismatched clutter statistics,'' (Figures for this paper.)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 1715-1721,
June 1999.
- H. Vikalo and R. S. Blum, "Distributed Detection in
Dependent Gaussian Mixture Noise," to appear in Signal
Processing in a special issue on defense signal
processing.
- R. S. Blum, ''Distributed
detection for diversity reception of fading signals in
noise,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
IT-48, pp. 158-164, Jan. 1999.
- M. C. Deans and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed random signal
detection with multiple bit sensor decisions,'' IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 516-524,
March 1998.
- R. S. Blum and M. C. Jeruchim, ''A note on windowing in
the simulation of continuous-time communication
systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications. pp.
889-892, Aug. 1997.
- R. S. Blum, S. A. Kassam, and H. V. Poor, ''Distributed detection with multiple
sensors: part II - advanced topics,'' Proceedings
of the IEEE, pp. 64-79, Jan. 1997.
- R. S. Blum, ''Locally optimum distributed detection of
correlated random signals based on ranks,'' IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, IT-42, pp. 931-942,
May 1996.
- R. S. Blum, ''Necessary conditions for optimum
distributed sensor detectors under the Neyman-Pearson
criterion,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
IT-42, pp. 990-994, May 1996.
- R. S. Blum and J. Qiao, ''Threshold optimization for
distributed order-statistic CFAR signal detection,'' IEEE
Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, pp.
568-577, Jan. 1996.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Optimum distributed CFAR
detection of weak signals,'' Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, Vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 221-229, July
1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''Distributed detection of narrowband
signals,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
pp. 519-522, IT-40, March 1995.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Distributed cell-averaging
CFAR detection in dependent sensors,'' IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, IT-40, pp. 513-518,
March 1995.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''On the asymptotic relative
efficiency of distributed detection schemes,'' IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, IT-40, pp. 523-527,
March 1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''Quantization in multisensor random signal
detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
IT-41, pp. 204-215, Jan. 1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''Asymptotically robust detection for known
signals in non-additive noise,'' IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory, IT-40, pp. 1612-1619, Sept. 1994.
- R. S. Blum, ''Asymptotically robust detection for known
signals in contaminated multiplicative noise,'' Signal
Processing, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 197-210, 1994.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Optimum distributed
detection of weak signals in dependent sensors,'' IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, IT-38, pp. 1066-1079,
May 1992.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Asymptotically optimum
quantization with time invariant breakpoints for signal
detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
IT-37, pp. 402-407, March 1991.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Approximate analysis of
the convergence of relative efficiency to ARE for known
signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory, IT-37, pp. 199-206, Jan. 1991.
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Conference Papers
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Routing for emitter/reflector signal detection in wireless sensor network systems," to appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, June 2007.
- Z. Tu and R. S. Blum, "On the limitations of random sensor placement for distributed signal detection," to appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, June 2007.
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Energy-efficient routing for signal detection under the Neyman-Pearson criterion in wireless sensor networks," to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
- R. S. Blum and B. M. Sadler, "A new approach to energy efficient signal detection," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2007.
- Y. Chen and R. S. Blum, "A new automated quality assessment algorithm for night vision image fusion," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2007.
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Minimax robust waveform design for MIMO radar in the presence of PSD uncertainties," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2007.
- K. Kim, H. R. Sadjadpour, R. S. Blum, Y. Lee, "Scalable design of space-time trellis code with low decoding complexity," in Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, CA, November 2006.
- N. Lehmann, A. Haimovich, R. S. Blum, D. Chizhik, L. Cimini, and R. Valenzuela, "High resolution MIMO-radar," in Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2006..
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Radar waveform design using minimum mean-square error and mutual information," in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-channel Processing (SAM), pp. 234-238, Boston, MA, July 2006.
- K. Kim, H.R. Sadjadpour, R. S. Blum, Y. Lee, "Low complexity design of space-time convolutional codes with high spectral efficiencies,'' in Proceeding of the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), pp. 9-14, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.
- N. Lehmann, A. Haimovich, R. S. Blum, D. Chizhik, L. J. Cimini, and R. Valenzuela, "MIMO-Radar application to moving target detection in homogenous clutter'' in Proceedings of Adaptive Sensor Array Processing Workshop, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 6-7 June 2006.
- J. Yang, J. P. Williams, Y. Sun, R. S. Blum, and C. Xu, "Non-rigid Image Registration Using Geometric Features and Local Salient Region Features," to appear iin the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, 2006.
- E. Perevalov, R. S. Blum, X. Chen, and A. Nigara, "On route discovery success in ad hoc networks," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
- Z. Tu, T. J. Li and R. S. Blum, "On scalar quantizer design with decoder side information," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
- Z. Xu and S. Sfar, and R. S. Blum, "On the importance of modeling the mutual coupling for antenna selection for closely-spaced arrays," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
- J. Yang and R. S. Blum, "A Region-Based Image Fusion Method Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
- Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Waveform design for MIMO radar based on mutual information and minimum mean-square error estimation," in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
- Eugene Perevalov,
Rick S. Blum, and Danny Safi, "Threshold effect in the throughput of large clustered ad hoc networks," in Proceeding of GLOBECOM, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005.
- Eugene Perevalov, Rick S. Blum, Anthony Nigara, and Xun Chen, "Route discovery and capacity of ad hoc networks," in Proceeding of GLOBECOM, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005.
- Jianghong Luo, Rick S. Blum, Len Cimini, Larry Greenstein, and Alexander Haimovich, "Decode-and-Forward cooperative diversity with power allocation in wireless networks," in Proceeding of GLOBECOM, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005.
- Stephan Bohacek, Rick S. Blum, Len Cimini, Larry Greenstein, and Alex Haimovich, "The impact of the timeliness of information on the performance multihop best-select," in Proceedings of MILCOM, Atlantic City, NJ, 2005.
- R. S. Blum, "Minimax robust image fusion using an estimation theory approach," in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005.
- R. S. Blum, "The Cramer-Rao bound applied to image fusion," in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005.
- Yin Chen and R. S. Blum, "Experimental tests of image fusion for night vision," in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005.
- Jinzhong Yang and R. S. Blum, "Multiframe image fusion using the expectation-maximization algorithm," in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, PA, July 2005.
- H. R. Sadjadpour, K. Kim, H. Wang, R. S. Blum, and Y. H. Lee, "Application of randomization techniques to space-time convolutional dodes," in Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing, pp. 13-16, June 2005.
- Eugene Perevalov, R. S. Blum, and Danny Safi, "On the Throughput/Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks with Clustering'', to appear at WCNC 2005.
- Sigen Ye and R. S. Blum, "Some Properties of the Capacity of MIMO Systems with Co-Channel Interference", to appear at ICASSP 2005.
- Bin Liu, Biao Chen, and R. S. Blum, "Exploiting the Finite-Alphabet Property for Cooperative Relays", to appear at ICASSP 2005.
- J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, Jr., L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, "Link-Failure Probabilites for Practical Cooperative Relay Networks", Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) spring 2005.
- Zhenyu Zhu, Hamid Sajapour, Rick Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, "A SIMO DFE-based Equalization Technique for PMD Compensation'', International Conference on Communications 2004 (ICC04), vol.4, pp. 2367–2371.
- Zhenyu Zhu, Hamid Sajapour, Rick Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, "Signal processing on PMD SIMO channels'', Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2004 (OFC04).
- Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick Blum, "Compression of a Binary Source with Side Information Using Concatenated Convolutional Codes", IEEE Globecom Conference 2004.
- Lang Lin and Rick S. Blum, "Potential of Ad Hoc Network with Directional Antenna", CISS, Princeton NJ, 2004.
- Tiffany Jing Li, Zhenyu Tu and Rick Blum, "How Optimal is Algebraic Binning Approach: A Case Study of the Turbo-Binning Scheme With Uniform and Nonuniform Sources", CISS, Princeton NJ, 2004.
- Tiffany Jing Li, Zhenyu Tu and Rick Blum, "Slepian-Wolf Coding for Nonuniform Sources Using Turbo Codes", Data Compression Conference 2004.
- Eran Fishler, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini, Reinaldo Valenzuela, "MIMO radar: an idea whose time has come", 2004 IEEE International Radar Conference, 2004.
- Eran Fishler, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini,Reinaldo Valenzuela, "Statistical MIMO Radar", 2004 Adaptive Signal and Array Processing Workshop.
- R. S. Blum,"MIMO capacity with antenna selection and interference", Presented at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and Signal Processing, Montreal CA, 2004.
- J. Luo, R. S. Blum, L. J. Cimini, Jr., L. J. Greenstein, and A. M. Haimovich, "New Approaches for CooperativeUse of Multiple Antennas in Ad hoc Wireless Networks", Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) fall 2004.
- Sigen Ye and R. S. Blum, "On Rate Regions for Wireless MIMO Ad Hoc Networks'', Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) fall 2004.
- Jinzhong Yang and R. S. Blum, "Image Fusion Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and the Hidden Markov Models'', Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) fall 2004.
- Rick Blum, Zhiyun Xue, Zheng Liu, and David S. Forsyth, "Multisensor Concealed Weapon Detection by Using A Multiresoltuion Mosaic Approach", Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), fall 2004.
- Eran Fishler, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini,Reinaldo Valenzuela, "Performance of MIMO Radar Systems: Advantages of Angular Diversity Statistical MIMO Radar", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers 2004.
- Zhenyu Zhu, Matt Puzio, Rick Blum, Tiffany Li, Hamid Sajapour, Peter A. Andrekson, "Channel Coding for Polarization-Mode Dispersion Limited Optical Fiber Transmission", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers 2004.
- R. S. Blum, ''MIMO with limited feedback of channel state
information", IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, 2003.
- Z. Xue and R. S. Blum, ''Concealed Weapon Detection Using Color Image Fusion,'' the 6th International Conference on Image Fusion, Queensland, Australi, July 8-11, 2003.
- K. F. McDonald, Dr. Gaffney and R. S. Blum, ''Performance
Characterization of Space-Time Adaptive Processing Algorithms for
Distributed Target Detection in Realistic Non-Ideal
Environments,'' IEEE International Radar
Conference, 2003.
- R. S. Blum, ''MIMO Capacity with Antenna Selection and Interference,''
invited paper at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and
Signal Processing, Hong Kong, 2003.
- Mu Qin and R. S. Blum, ''Optimum space-time codes for
frequency selective channels,'' to appear in IEEE International
Conference
on Communications, Alaska, 2003.
- R. S. Blum, ''Analysis of MIMO Capacity with Interference,''
to appear in IEEE International Conference on
Communications, Alaska, 2003.
- Eugene Perevalov and R. S. Blum, ''Delay Limited Capacity of
Ad hoc Networks: Asymptotically Optimal Transmission and Relaying
Strategy,'' accepted by Infocom 2003.
- Eugene Perevalov and R. S. Blum, ''On the delay limited
capacity of ad hoc networks,'' IEEE Global Communications
Conference, Taiwan, Nov. 2002.
- S. Ye and R. S. Blum, ''Optimum signaling of
MIMO-OFDM
systems with interference,'' European Signal Processing
Conference, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2002.
- J. Yang and R. S. Blum,
"A statistical signal processing approach to image fusion for
concealed weapon detection," invited paper at
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,
Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002.
- Z. Xue, R. S. Blum and Y. Li,
"Fusion of visual and IR images for concealed weapon
detection," invited paper at International Conference on
Information Fusion, Annapolis, Maryland, July 2002.
- S. Ye, R. S. Blum, and L. J. Cimini,
"Adaptive modulation
for variable-rate OFDM systems with imperfect channel
information," in Proceedings of the Spring
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Brimingham, AL,
pp. 767-771, May
2002.
- Q. Su, L. J. Cimini, and R. S. Blum,
"On the problem of channel mismatch in adaptive modulation for
OFDM," in Proceedings of the Spring
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Brimingham, AL, pp. 585-589, May
2002.
- R. S. Blum,
"On Optimum MIMO with Antenna Selection," in
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Communications, NY, pp. 386-390, May 2002.
- K. F. McDonald and R. S. Blum,
"Performance Characterization
of Space-Time Adaptive Processing Algorithms for Distributed
Target Dectection in Non-Ideal Environments," in
Proceedings of the IEEE 2002 Radar Conference,
Long Beach, CA, pp. 298-303, April 22-25, 2002.
- R. S. Blum,
"MIMO capacity with
interference,"
Conference on Information Science and Systems, Mar. 2002.
- X. Lin and R. S. Blum, "Guidelines for serially concatenated
space-time code design in flat Rayleigh fading channels,"
Wireless Communications, 2001 IEEE Third Workshop on
Signal Processing Advances in (SPAWC '01),
pp. 247-250.
- Q. Yan and R. S. Blum, ''Robust space-time block coding for
rapid fading channels'', Proceedings of GLOBECOM 2001,
San Antonio, Tx, pp. 460-464, Nov. 2001.
- R. S. Blum, J. H. Winters and N. R. Sollenberger, ''On the
capacity of cellular systems with MIMO'', Fall IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference, Atlantic City, NJ,
pp. 1220-1224, Oct. 2001.
- R. S. Blum, Y. (Geoffrey) Li, J. H. Winters, and Q. Yan,
''Improved techniques for 4 transmit and 4 receive antenna
MIMO-OFDM'', Spring IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference,
Rhodes, Greece, pp. 1298-1302, May 2001.
- J. Hu and R. S. Blum, ''Multiuser detection in Rayleigh fading
channel using approximate MMSE algorithm,'' 2001 IEEE
International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Salt Lake City,
Utah, May 2001.
- Qing Yan and R. S. Blum, "Rate adaptive space-time
modulation techniques for combating cochannel
interference," 2001 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Salt Lake City,
Utah, May 2001.
- Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''Image registration for Multi-focus
image fusion'', SPIE AeroSense, Conference on Battlefield
Digitization and Network Centric Warfare (4396-39),
Orlando, FL, April 2001.
- Qing Yan and R. S. Blum, "Optimum Space-Time
Convolutional Codes," WCNC 2000.
- R. S. Blum, ''New
analytical tools for designing space-time convolutional
codes,'' Invited paper at Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, March 2000. (Note: Journal
version for download.)
- J. Hu and R. S. Blum, ''A New
Algorithm for Multiuser Detection Based on a Gradient
Guided Search,'' Conference on Information
Sciences and Systems, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ, March 2000.
- X. Lin and R. S. Blum, "
On the Design of Space-time codes Employing Multiple
Trellis Coded Modulation,"
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 2000.
- Y. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''Iterative multiuser
detection for turbo coded synchronous CDMA in Gaussian
and non-Gaussian impulsive noise,'' Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, March 2000.
- Y. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''Multistage
multiuser detection for CDMA with space-time coding,''
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array
Processing (SSAP2000), Poconos, PA, Aug. 2000.
- R. S. Blum and J. Hu, ''Distributed
Multiuser Detection,'' Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, 1999.
- Z. Zhong and R. S. Blum, ''Extraction of 3-D coordinates
from fusion of omnicamera images,'' Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,
Monterey, CA, 1999.
- Y. Chen and R. S. Blum, ''Efficient
Algorithms for Sequence Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise
with Intersymbol Interference,'' Signal Processing
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances of Wireless
Communications, Annapolis, MD, April 1999.
- J. Hu and R. S. Blum, '' On the
Maximum Number of Sensor Decision Bits Needed for Optimum
Distributed Signal Detection,'' Fusion'99, pp.
174-181, San Jose, CA, July 1999.
- Q. Yan and R. S. Blum, ''
Clarifying the Conditions for
Neyman-Pearson Optimum Distributed Signal Detection,''
Fusion'99,pp. 157-164, San Jose, CA, July 1999.
- Y. Zhang and R. S. Blum, "Analysis of the adaptive
matched filter algorithm for cases with mismatched
clutter statistics," 1999 IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,
Phoenix, Az.
- K. F. McDonald and R. Blum ''Analytical
Analysis of STAP Algorithms for Cases with Mismatched Steering and Clutter Statistics,''
National Radar Conference, pp. 267-272, Boston,
MA, March 1999.
- R. S. Blum, Y. Zhang, B. Sadler and R. Kozick, ''On the approximation of
correlated non-Gaussian noise pdfs using Gaussian mixture
models,'' Conference on the Applications of Heavy
Tailed Distributions in Economics, Engineering and
Statistics, June, 1999, American University,
Washington DC.
- Y. Zhang and R. S. Blum, "An
adaptive spatial diversity receiver for correlated non-Gaussian
interference and noise'' Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1428-1432,
Monterey, CA, 1998.
- Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, "Image Fusion for a Digital
Camera Application" Invited paper at Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp.
603-607, Monterey, CA, 1998.
- X. Lin and R. S. Blum, "Numerical solutions for
optimum distributed detection of known signals in
dependent t distributed noise-the two sensor problem",
Invited paper at Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems, and Computers, pp. 613-617, Monterey, CA,
1998.
- R. S. Blum, ''Distributed detection of random signals for
dependent observation cases,'' Fusion'98, pp. 906-913,
Las Vegas, Nevada, July 1998.
- R. J. Kozick, B. M. Sadler, and R. S. Blum, ''Array
processing in non-Gaussian noise with the EM algorithm,''
1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1997-2001, Seattle,
WA, May 1998.
- Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''On Estimating the Quality of
Noisy Images,'' 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 2897-2901,
Seattle, WA, May 1998.
- R. J. Kozick, B. M. Sadler, and R. S. Blum, ''Array
processing in impulsive noise: performance of a nonlinear
beamformer based on the EM algorithm,'' Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, March 1998.
- H. Mecklai and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed Detection for
BFSK Frequency Hopped Systems with Fading and Additive
Gaussian Noise,'' Invited paper at the Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, March 1998.
- Z. Zhang and R. S. Blum, " Multisensor Image Fusion
using a Region-Based Wavelet Transform Approach" (Figure 4), Proc.
of the DARPA IUW, pp. 1447-1451, 1997.
- K. F. McDonald and R. Blum ''A Physically-Based Impulsive
Noise Model for Array Observations,'' Proceedings of
the 31st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and
Computers, pp. 448-452, Nov. 2-5, 1997.
- R. J. Kozick, R. S. Blum, and B. M. Sadler, ''Signal
Processing in non-Gaussian noise using mixture
distributions and the EM algorithm,'' Proceedings of
the 31st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and
Computers, pp. 438-442, Nov. 2-5, 1997.
- H. Vikalo and R. S. Blum ''Distributed detection in
dependent nonGaussian noise,'' 1997 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, p. 530, Ulm,
Germany, June, 1997.
- H. Vikalo and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed Detection of
Known Signals in Gaussian Mixture Noise which is
Dependent from Sensor to Sensor'', Invited paper at
International Conference on Telecommunications, pp. 599-604,
Melbourne, Australia, April 1997.
- R. S. Blum, R. J. Kozick, and B. M. Sadler, ''An adaptive
spatial diversity receiver for non-Gaussian interference
and noise,'' IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP On Signal
Processing Advances in Wireless Communication, pp.
385-388, Paris, France, April 1997.
- Z. Gu, R. S. Blum, W. L. Melvin, and M. C. Wicks,
''Performance comparison of STAP algorithms for airborne
radar,'' 1997 IEEE National Radar Conference, pp.
60-65, Syracuse, NY, May 1997.
- R. S. Blum, P. Willett, and P. F. Swaszek, ''Some
examples of distributed detection of known signals in
nonGaussian noise which is Dependent from Sensor to
Sensor,'' 30th Annual Conference on Information
Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, pp.
825-830, Baltimore, MD, March 1997.
- Z. Zhong and R. S. Blum, ''A region-based image fusion
scheme for concealed weapon detection,'' (Figure 6, Figure 7,
8) 30th Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns
Hopkins University, pp. 168-173, Baltimore, MD, March
1997.
- R. S. Blum, R. J. Kozick, and B. M. Sadler, ''EM-based
approaches to adaptive signal detection on fading
channels with impulsive noise,'' 30th Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns
Hopkins University, pp. 112-117, Baltimore, MD, March
1997.
- R. S. Blum, ''Optimum multiple antenna quantization for
reception of fading signals in noise,'' 8th IEEE
Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and
Array Processing, pp. 509-512. Corfu, Greece, July
1996.
- R. S. Blum, W. L. Melvin, and M. C. Wicks, ''An analysis
of the adaptive displaced phase centered antenna space-time
processing algorithm,'' 1996 IEEE National Radar
Conference, pp. 303-308, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May
1996.
- R. S. Blum, ''Quantization for distributed reception of
fading signals in noise,'' 29th Annual Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 361-365,
Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., March 1996.
- M. C. Deans and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed signal
detection system design using adaptive signal processing
techniques,'' 29th Annual Conference on Information
Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, pp. 1065-1070,
Princeton, N.J., March 1996.
- P. F. Swaszek, P. Willett, and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed
detection of dependent data -- the two sensor problem,'' 29th
Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems,
Princeton University, pp. 1077-1082, Princeton, N.J.,
March 1996.
- R. S. Blum, ''Distributed reception of fading signals in
noise,'' Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, p. 214, Whistler,
Canada, Sept. 1995.
- H. K. Mecklai and R. S. Blum, ''Transmit antenna
diversity for wireless communications,'' Proceedings
of the 1995 International Communications Conference,
Seattle, WA, pp. 1500-1504, June 18-22, 1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''Fusing quantized observations in
multisensor random signal detection,'' Invited paper,
Proceedings of the American Control Conference,
Seattle, WA, pp. 1703-1707, June 21-23, 1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''Distributed reception of fading signals in
noise,'' Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, pp. 490-495, MD, March 1995.
- N. M. Muthuswamy and R. S. Blum, ''Detection of random
signals with neural networks,'' Proceedings of the 28th
Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, pp. 330-335,
March 1995.
- N. M. Muthuswamy and R. S. Blum, ''Neural detectors for
medical signal processing,'' Proceedings of the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference,
New Delhi, India, pp. 4.31-4.32, Feb. 1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''A simple model for fractional non-Gaussian
processes,'' Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE-SP
International Symposium on Time-frequency and Time-scale
Analysis, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 444-447, Oct. 1994.
- R. S. Blum, ''Necessary conditions for optimum
distributed sensor detectors under the Neyman-Pearson
criterion,'' Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 254,
June 1994.
- R. S. Blum, ''Locally optimum distributed detection of
dependent random signals based on ranks,'' Proceedings
of the 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory, p. 253, June 1994.
- R. S. Blum, J. A. Adkins, and M. C. Jeruchim, ''Improved
methods for using FIR filters in simulating communication
links,'' Proceedings of the fifth IEEE International
Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design
of Communication Links and Networks, Princeton, New
Jersey, Session 3, paper 3, April 1994.
- X. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed quantization for
signal detection in dependent sensors,'' Proceedings
of the 27th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and
Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 726-731,
March 1994.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Distributed detection of
dependent sensor returns~:~a narrowband random signal
example'' Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 720-725, March 1994.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''On the asymptotic relative
efficiency of distributed detection schemes,'' Proceedings
of the 27th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and
Computers, pp. 223-227, Nov. 1-3, 1993.
- R. S. Blum, ''Distributed detection of weak dependent
narrowband signals,'' Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing, Minneapolis, MN, vol. IV, pp. 77-80,
April 1993.
- J. Qiao and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed OS-CFAR detection
of dependent returns,'' Proceedings of the 26th Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, pp. 296-301, March
1993. (Also chairman of a different session).
- X. Zhang and R. S. Blum, ''On the relationship between
two design criteria for distributed quantization schemes
for signal detection,'' Proceedings of the 26th Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, p. 688, March 1993.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Distributed cell-averaging
CFAR detection of dependent signal returns,'' Proceedings
of 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory, San Antonio, TX, p. 12, Jan. 1993.
- R. S. Blum, ''Optimum quantization in single and
multisensor random signal detection,'' Proceedings of
the 13th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication,
Control and Computing, University of Illinois,
Allerton Conference Center, IL, pp. 289-298, Oct. 1992.
- R. S. Blum, ''Asymptotically robust detection for known
signals in contaminated non-additive noise,'' Proceedings
of the 25th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and
Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, pp. 972-977,
March 1992.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''Optimum distributed
detection of weak signal in dependent sensors,'' Proceedings
of Twenty-Fourth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems, and Computers, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1990.
- R. S. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''A general result for
locally optimum quantization with time invariant
breakpoints,'' Proceedings of the 24th Annual
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 1990.
- R. Blum and S. A. Kassam, ''The use of the ARE in finite
sample size detector performance prediction,'' Proceedings
of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,
San Diego, CA, pp. 134, Jan. 1990.
- R. Blum and M. C. Jeruchim, ''Modeling nonlinear
amplifiers for communication simulation,'' Proceedings
of IEEE International Conference on Communications,
Boston, MA, pp. 1468-1472, June 11-14, 1989.
- R. Blum and T. Klandrud, ''A communication system
simulation language translator,'' Proceedings of 1987
Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Montreal,
Canada, pp. 308-313, July 27-30, 1987.
- R. S. Blum, ''Decision and Data Fusion Research at Lehigh
University,'' An invited presentation at the National
Symposium on Data Fusion (sponsored by AFOSR) and held at
Georgia Tech. Atlanta, Georgia, March 1998.
- H. Vikalo and R. S. Blum, `Distributed Detection in
Dependent Gaussian Mixture Noise'' Invited paper at US-Australia
workshop on selected areas in defense signal processing (sponsored
by AFOSR), Victor Harbor, South Australia, June 1997.
- R. S. Blum, ''Robust distributed data fusion,'' Invited
Presentation at the Joint Conference on Information
Sciences, Pinehurst, NC, Nov. 1994.
- M. C. Deans and R. S. Blum, ''An Adaptive algorithm for
distributed signal detection system design,'' Proceedings
of the Sensor Fusion and Networked Robotics VII
Conference, SPIE Photonics East Symposium, Phila., pp.
172-181, PA. Oct. 1995.
- R. S. Blum, ''Data fusion for manufacturing,'' Proceedings
of the Information Resources in Manufacturing, 9th
Conference with Industry, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, May 23-24, 1995.
- H. K. Mecklai and R. S. Blum, ''Diversity techniques for
wireless communications on the shop floor,'' Proceedings
of the Information Resources in Manufacturing, 9th
Conference with Industry, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, May 23-24, 1995.
- R. Theodore, D. Hoeschele, R. Blum, E. Faller, C.
Bianchi, and C. Hayes, ''Reconfigurable 1.25 micron CMOS
signal processor for spacecraft applications,'' Proceedings
of Computers in Aerospace V Conference, Long Beach,
CA, Oct. 21-23, 1985.
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Patents
- "Image Fusion Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and the Hidden Markov Models",
R. S. Blum and Jinzhong Yang, Patent Application (via Lehigh).
- "Feature Extraction Processor', U. S. Patent No. 4,972,495,
Nov. 20, 1990, R. Blum with J. J. Blike, M. S. Horwedel,
and J. L. Rimlinger.
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Master's Theses
- Jinfen Qiao, ''Distributed order-statistic CFAR detection
of dependent signal returns'', May 1994.
- Hussein Mecklai, ''Interference cancellation in a
multiuser, spaced transmit antenna diversity system'',
May 1995.
- Nirmala Muthuswamy, ''Detection of random signals with
neural networks'', May 1995.
- Matthew Deans, ''An adaptive algorithm for distributed
signal detection system design'', May 1996.
- Zhongxiu Gu, ''Analysis of the ADPCA space-time
processing algorithm'', Jan. 1997.
- Ying Shen, ''A study of optimum distributed signal
detection in dependent noise'', May 1997.
- Haris Vikalo, ''Design algorithms for distributed signal
detection with dependent observations'' May 1997.
- Yue Chen, ''Efficient Algorithms for Sequence Detection
in Non-Gaussian Noise with Intersymbol Interference,''
Dec 1999.
- Fatma Golbasi, ''Detection performance of partially adaptive
STAP algorithms for airborne radar using MCARM data,''
Dec. 1999.
- Ethan Biery, ''Omnicamera Image Fusion,'' May 2000.
- Narun Sooppipatt, no thesis, May 2000.
- Alexander Praveen, no thesis, May 2000.
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Ph. D. Dissertations
- Zhang Zhong, ''Investigations on Image Fusion,'' May 1999.
- Keith McDonald, ''Models and Analysis of Antenna Array Signal
Processing Systems,'' Oct. 1999. Signal
processing and sensor researcher at Mitre Corp, MA.
- Yumin Zhang, ''Iterative and
Adaptive Receivers for
Wireless Communication and Radar Systems,'' 7/97-6/00,
May 2000. Researcher at Lucent Technologies, NJ.
- Xiaotong Lin, ''Antenna Array Processing for Wireless communications,''
7/97-6/00, May 2000. Researcher at Agere, PA.
- Jun Hu, ''Multiuser and Distributed Detection,'' 8/98-6/01,
May 2001. Researcher at Sarnoff Corp, NJ.
- Qing Yan, ''Space-time Codes and
Distributed Detection,''
8/98-6/01, May 2001. Researcher at Agere, PA.
- Hussein Mecklai, ''Distributed detection for communications,''
(part-time from Agere), 6/95 - current.
- Viswathan Annampedu, ''Transmit Diversity,'' (part-time
from Agere), passed qualifier, 1/95 - current.
- Sigen Ye, Communications, 8/99 - 12/04.
- Mu Qin, Communications, 8/99 - 12/04.
- Zhiyun Xue, Image Fusion, 8/01-03/06.
- Jinzhong Yang, Image Fusion, 8/01-10/06.
- Zhenyu Tu, Communications, 8/01-10/06.
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