Kenneth E. Barner

Kenneth E. Barner received the B.S.E.E. degree (magna cum laude) from Lehigh University, USA, in 1987. He received the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delaware, USA, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. For his dissertation, Dr. Barner received the Allan P. Colburn Prize in Mathematical Sciences and Engineering for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in the engineering and mathematical disciplines. He was the duPont Teaching Fellow and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Delaware in 1991 and 1992, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware and a Research Engineer at the duPont Hospital for Children. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware. Dr. Barner is the recipient of a 1999 NSF Career Award. He was the Cochair of the 2001 IEEE EURASIP Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Workshop and a Guest Editor for a special issue of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing. Dr. Barner is a Member of the Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Board and is Coeditor of the book Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing: Theory, Methods, and Applications, CRC Press, 2004. Dr. Barner was the Technical Program Cochair for ICASSP 2005 and is currently serving on the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods and IEEE BioImaging and Signal Processing technical committees as well as the IEEE Delaware Bay Section Executive Committee. Dr. Barner has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transaction on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Dr. Barner is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, a Member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, and is serving as a Guest Editor for that journal on an upcoming special issue on superresolution enhancement of digital video. His research interests include signal and image processing, robust signal processing, nonlinear systems, communications, human-computer interaction, haptic and tactile methods, and universal access. Dr. Barner is a Member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Sigma Kappa.

Biography Updated on 11 February 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.ee.udel.edu/~barner/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. ECG signal denoising and baseline wander correction based on the empirical mode decomposition
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2008
  2. Embedded filter bank-based algorithm for ECG compression
    Signal Processing, 2007
  3. Wavelet Packets Feasibility Study for the Design of an ECG Compressor
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 766–769, 2007
  4. A Computationally Efficient Super-Resolution Algorithm for Video Processing Using Partition Filters
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 621–634, 2007
  5. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1764–1770, 2007
  6. Rayleigh-Maximum-Likelihood Filtering for Speckle Reduction of Ultrasound Images
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 712–727, 2007
  7. Myriad-Type Polynomial Filtering
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 747–753, 2007
  8. Generalized Mean-Median Filtering for Robust Frequency-Selective Applications
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 937–948, 2007
  9. Meridian Filtering for Robust Signal Processing
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 3949–3962, 2007
  10. Visual to Tactile Conversion of Vector Graphics
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 310–321, 2007
  11. Super-Resolution Enhancement of Digital Video
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 20984, 3 pages, 2007
  12. Improved optimization of soft-partition-weighted-sum filters and their application to image restoration
    Applied Optics, vol. 45, no. 12, p. 2697, 2006
  13. Statistical Analysis of TCP's Retransmission Timeout Algorithm
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 383–396, 2006
  14. Polynomial Weighted Median Filtering
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 636–650, 2006
  15. Fast Adaptive Optimization of Weighted Vector Median Filters
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 2497–2510, 2006
  16. Second-Order Heavy–Tailed Distributions and Tail Analysis
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 2827–2832, 2006
  17. Hybrid Polynomial Filters for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Noise Environments
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 12, pp. 4644–4661, 2006
  18. The fuzzy transformation and its applications in image processing
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 910–927, 2006
  19. Optimization of Partition-Based Weighted Sum Filters and Their Application to Image Denoising
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1900–1915, 2006
  20. Quadratic Weighted Median Filters for Edge Enhancement of Noisy Images
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 3294–3310, 2006
  21. Fuzzy Rank LUM Filters
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 3636–3654, 2006
  22. TR-MUSIC—A robust frequency estimation method in impulsive noise
    Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 7, pp. 1477–1487, 2006
  23. A user study on tactile graphic generation methods
    Behaviour & Information Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 297–311, 2006
  24. A multistep algorithm for noninvasive fetal electrocardiographic extraction
    Journal of Electrocardiology, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 38–38, 2005
  25. Subspace Partition Weighted Sum Filters for Image Restoration
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 613–616, 2005
  26. Region merging using homogeneity and edge integrity for watershed-based image segmentation
    Optical Engineering, vol. 44, no. 1, p. 017004, 2005
  27. Region of interest identification in collimated x-ray images utilizing nonlinear preprocessing and the Radon transform
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 033011, 2005
  28. Partition-based interpolation for color filter array demosaicking and super-resolution reconstruction
    Optical Engineering, vol. 44, no. 10, p. 107003, 2005
  29. Nonlinear System Identification in Impulsive Environments
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 2588–2594, 2005
  30. Fuzzy vector median-based surface smoothing
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 252–265, 2004
  31. Optimal Halftoning for Tactile Imaging
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 216–227, 2004
  32. An Interference Cancellation Algorithm for Noninvasive Extraction of Transabdominal Fetal Electroencephalogram (TaFEEG)
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 471–483, 2004
  33. TCP Retransmission Timeout Algorithm Using Weighted Medians
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 569–572, 2004
  34. ECG compression with retrieved quality guaranteed
    Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 23, p. 1466, 2004
  35. Multiresolution permutation filter implementations based on acyclic connected graphs
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 140–152, 2003
  36. RED gateway congestion control using median queue size estimates
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 2149–2164, 2003
  37. Nonlinear image decomposition for multiresolution edge detection using gray-level edge maps
    Optical Engineering, vol. 41, no. 11, p. 2749, 2002
  38. Editorial
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2002, no. 1, pp. 1–3, 2002
  39. Nonlinear multiresolution techniques with applications to scientific visualization in a haptic environment
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 76–93, 2001
  40. Hybrid Order Statistic Filter and its Application to Image Restoration
    Applied Optics, vol. 40, no. 5, p. 656, 2001
  41. Fuzzy Ordering Theory and Its Use in Filter Generalization
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2001, no. 4, pp. 206–218, 2001
  42. Editorial
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2001, no. 4, pp. 189–191, 2001
  43. Optimal digital filtering for tremor suppression
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 664–673, 2000
  44. Colored L-l filters and their application in speech pitch detection
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 2601–2606, 2000
  45. Fuzzy ranking: theory and applications
    Signal Processing, vol. 80, no. 6, pp. 1017–1036, 2000
  46. Tremor suppression through impedance control
    IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 53–59, 2000
  47. Partition-based weighted sum filters for image restoration
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 740–745, 1999
  48. An audio- and speech-based interface for computer-controlled scientific instruments
    IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 245–253, 1999
  49. Design of a haptic data visualization system for people with visual impairments
    IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 372–384, 1999
  50. Fuzzy time-rank relations and order statistics
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 5, no. 10, pp. 252–255, 1998
  51. Affine order-statistic filters: "medianization" of linear FIR filters
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 2101–2112, 1998
  52. Design of permutation order statistic filters through group colorings
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 531–548, 1997
  53. Automatic visual to tactile translation. I. Human factors, access methods and image manipulation
    IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 81–94, 1997
  54. Automatic visual to tactile translation. II. Evaluation of the TACTile image creation system
    IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 95–105, 1997
  55. Extended permutation filters and their application to edge enhancement
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 855–867, 1996
  56. Permutation weighted order statistic filter lattices
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1070–1083, 1995
  57. Rank conditioned rank selection filters for signal restoration
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 192–206, 1994
  58. Permutation filters: a class of nonlinear filters based on set permutations
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 782–798, 1994
  59. On the performance of stack filters and vector detection in image restoration
    Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 153–169, 1992