About meEdit

30+ years of image analysis experience. I have a Masters and a Ph.D. in optics from the top school in the field. My doctorate is in medical image processing. I have 10 years of academic experience in image analysis, 2 years of military imaging experience, followed by 22 years of industrial imaging experience. I currently work in the imaging division of one of the world's largest global corporations.

I have worked on literally hundreds upon hundreds, if not thousands, of image analysis projects. At any given time I am working on 15-20 image analysis projects. I design optics, imaging rigs, algorithms, and design and write end-user software run by hundreds of users. We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on systems I design for internal use. I deploy applications to numerous research centers on 4 continents for use by fellow scientists in my company. I travel the world to teach, install imaging systems, and train users how to use them. I plan monthly imaging seminars and two to three larger symposia per year. I'm in charge of an imaging web site serving 700 scientists in our company who use imaging.

I work on an incredibly vast variety of projects - it's not like all I do is one thing such as astronomy, semiconductor inspection, medical imaging, or microscopy. I work with dozens of different imaging modalities (in spectral ranges from x-ray to thermal IR) in collaboration with experts in those areas. My current list of projects includes images captured by MRI, CT, a microscope, a line scan camera, a profilometer, a monochrome video camera, X-ray diffraction instrumentation, 2D digital X ray transmission images, an ultraviolet camera, and color video cameras. And those are just my ACTIVE projects this month. I'm responsible for the imaging-based performance testing of several products which each earn us billions of dollars per year.

My favorite pagesEdit

• MATLAB wiki http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ
• Make Blog http://blog.makezine.com/
• Lifehacker http://www.lifehacker.com/
• Hackedgadgets http://hackedgadgets.com/
• Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
• Computer Vision Bibliography http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contents.html
• Akiyoshi's illusion pages http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
• Advanced Imaging Magazine http://www.advancedimagingpro.com/
• Vision Systems Design Magazine http://www.optoiq.com/index/machine-vision-imaging-processing.html