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The BSU Signals Laboratory has produced the publications listed below. A full list of publications by the directors of this lab that includes publications not directly associated with this laboratory is available on their individual webpages.

An asterics (*) indicates the author was a BSU undergraduate student and (**) a BSU masters student.

2008

D. K. Reed* and E. H. Barney Smith, "Correlating degradation models and image quality metrics," Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Document Recognition and Retrieval XV, San Jose, CA, January 2008, to appear.

2007

C. Hale** and E. H. Barney Smith, "Human Image Preference and Document Degradation Models," International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2007, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007.

2006

C. Scott* and E. H. Barney Smith, "An Unsupervised Fluoroscopic Analysis of Knee Joint Kinematics" Proc. 19th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Imaging, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2006. (pdf)

E. H. Barney Smith, "PSF estimation by gradient descent fit to the ESF," Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Image Quality and System Performance III, Vol. 6059, San Jose, CA, January 2006, paper #605914. (pdf)

E. H. Barney Smith and T. Andersen, "Partitioning of the degradation space for OCR training," Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIII, Vol. 6067, San Jose, CA, January 2006, paper #606705. (pdf)

2005

E. H. Barney Smith and T. Andersen, "Text Degradations and OCR Training," International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2005, Seoul, Korea, August 2005. (pdf)

P. Garrison*, D. Davis*, T. Andersen, E. H. Barney Smith, "Study of style effects on OCR errors in the MEDLINE database," Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Document Recognition and Retrieval XII, Vol. 5676, San Jose, CA, January 2005. (pdf)

J. Hopkins**, T. Andersen, "A Fourier descriptor based character recognition engine implemented under the gamera open-source document processing framework," Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Document Recognition and Retrieval XII, Vol. 5676, San Jose, CA, January 2005, pp. 111-118.

2004

E. H. Barney Smith, and X. Qiu, "Statistical image differences, degradation features and character distance metrics," International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol.6, No. 3, 2004, pp. 146-153. (pdf)
The original publication is available at springerlink.com. The copyright is owned by Springer Verlag.

M. Norris** and E. H. Barney Smith, "Printer Modeling for Document Imaging," Proc. of the International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology: CISST'04, Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, 2004, pp. 14-20. (pdf)

2003

H. S. Yam** and E. H. Barney Smith, "Estimating Degradation Model Parameters from Character Images," Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3-6 August 2003, pp. 710-714. (pdf), (ps)

T. Andersen and W. Zhang**, "Features for neural net based region identification of newspaper documents," Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2003, Edinburgh, Scotland, 3-6 August 2003, pp. 403-407.

W. Zhang** and T. Andersen, "Using artificial neural networks to identify headings in newspaper documents," Proc. 2003 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Portland, OR, 20-24 July 2003, pp. 2283-2287.

R. Clements** and E. H. Barney Smith, "Speedup of Optical Scanner Characterization Subsystem," Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging, Document Recognition and Retrieval X, Vol 5010, Santa Clara, CA, January 2003, pp. 94-102. (pdf), (ps)

2002

E. H. Barney Smith and X. Qiu, "Relating statistical image differences and degradation features,” Document Analysis Symposium, Princeton, NJ, 19-21 August 2002, pp. 1-12. (pdf), (ps)

T. Andersen, "Removing decision surface skew using complementary inputs," Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. IJCNN'02, Honolulu, HI, USA, 12-17 May 2002, pp. 263-267.

E. H. Barney Smith, "Uniqueness of Bilevel Image Degradations," Proc. SPIE Document Recognition and Retrieval IX, Vol. 4670, San Jose, CA, January 2002, pp. 174-180. (pdf)

2001

E. H. Barney Smith, "Scanner Parameter Estimation Using Bilevel Scans of Star Charts," Proc. International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2001, Seattle, WA, 10-13 September 2001, pp. 1164-1168. (pdf)

E. H. Barney Smith, "Bilevel Image Degradations: Effects and Estimation," Proc. 2001 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, Columbia, MD, 23-25 April 2001, pp. 49-55. (pdf)

E. H. Barney Smith, "Estimating Scanning Characteristics from Corners in Bilevel Images," Proc. SPIE Document Recognition and Retrieval VIII, Vol. 4307, San Jose, CA, 21-26 January 2001, pp.176-183. (pdf)