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

  1. 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

  1. H. Godrich, A.M Haimovich, and R.S. Blum, ''Concepts And Applications of MIMO Radar System With Widely Separated Antenna'' in the book MIMO Radar Signal Processing edited by J. Li.
  2. R. S. Blum, Zhiyun Xue, and Zhong Zhang, ''An Overview of Image Fusion'', for the book '' Multi-Sensor Image Fusion and Its Applications'', CRC Press, 2006, Editor: R. Blum.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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

  1. D. Safi, S. N. Pakzad, and R. S. Blum, ``Application of Parametric Bootstrap Technique for Damage Detection of a Scaled Reinforced Concrete Bridge'', submitted for journal prublication
  2. X. Chen, S. N. Pakzad, and R. S. Blum, ``Statistical comparison of modal parameter identification algorithms using experimental data from Golden Gate Bridge'', to be submitted to Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking.
  3. Y. Yang, R. S. Blum and B. M. Sadler, ``A Distributed and Energy-Efficient Cross-Layer Framework for Neyman-Pearson Detection of Fluctuating Signals in Large-Scale Sensor Networks,'' submitted to special issue on sensor networks of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication.
  4. Rick S. Blum, "Limiting Case of a Lack of Rich Scattering Environment for MIMO Radar Diversity'', to appear in IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  5. Qian He, Rick S. Blum, and Alexander M. Haimovich, "Non-coherent MIMO Radar for location and velocity estimation: More antennas means better performance'', in review for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
  6. Qian He, Rick S. Blum, and Alexander M. Haimovich, "Target Velocity Estimation and Antenna Placement for MIMO Radar with Widely Separated Antennas'', in review for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on MIMO Radar.
  7. Hana Godrich, Alexander M. Haimovich, and Rick S. Blum, ``Target Localization Accuracy Gain in MIMO Radar Based Systems,'' submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory.
  8. Chuanming Wei and Rick S. Blum, ``Theoretical analysis of correlation-based quality measures for weighted averaging image fusion,'' to appear in Information Fusion.
  9. Lance M. Kaplan, Stephen D. Burks, Rick S. Blum, Richard K. Moore, and Quang Nguyen, ``Analysis of Image Quality for Image Fusion via Monotonic Correlation,'' IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on: Visual Media Quality Assessment, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 222-235, April 2009.
  10. Y. Yang, R. S. Blum, and B. M. Sadler, ''Energy-efficient routing for signal detection in wireless sensor networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 2050-2063, June 2009.
  11. Y. Yang, R. S. Blum and S. Sfar, "Antenna selection for MIMO systems with closely spaced antennas," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009.
  12. Qian He, N. H. Lehmann, R. S. Blum, and A. M. Haimovich, "MIMO Radar Moving Target Detection in Homogeneous Clutter", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2010.
  13. Zhemin Xu, Sana Sfar, R. S. Blum, ''Analysis of MIMO Systems with Receive Antenna Selection in Spatially Correlated Rayleigh Fading Channels,'' IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Volume 58, Issue 1, Jan. 2009, pp. 251-262, Jan. 2009.
  14. Zhenyu Tu and Rick S. Blum, On the Limitations of Random Sensor Placement for Dis- tributed Signal Detection, accepted, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
  15. R. S. Blum and B. M. Sadler, ``Energy Efficient Signal Detection in Sensor Networks using Ordered Transmissions,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Volume 56, Issue 7, Part 2, pp. 3229-3235, July 2008.
  16. Y. Chen, and R. S. Blum, ''A New Automated Quality Assessment Algorithm for Image Fusion,'' accepted in Image and Vision Computing.
  17. Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Sensor placements in Gaussian random field via discrete simulation optimization," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 729-732, 2008.
  18. Eugene Perevalov, Danny Safi, Rick S. Blum and Lang Lin, ''Spatial Multiplexing Gains for Realistic Sized Ad Hoc Networks with Directional Antenna Arrays,'' EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 98490, 12 pages, 2007.
  19. Eugene Perevalov, Danny Safi, and Rick S. Blum, "On the throughput capacity of large wireless ad hoc networks confined to a region", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Article ID 83487, 11 pages
  20. Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick S. Blum, ''On Scalar Quantizer Design with Decoder Side Information'', submitted to IEEE Transaction on Information Theory.
  21. J. Yang, J. P. Williams, Y. Sun, R. S. Blum, and C. Xu, ''A Robust Hybrid Method for Non-rigid Image Registration,'' Submitted to IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).
  22. Rick. S. Blum, Leonard J. Cimini, Alexander M. Haimovich, ''MIMO Radar: Part I - Widely Separated Antennas'', IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 116-129, 2008.
  23. Zhenyu Zhu, Hamid R. Sadjadpour, Rick S. Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, Tiffany Jing Li, ``Jones Precoder for Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation,'' Optics Communications, Volume 281, Issue 8, 15 April 2008, Pages 1958-1967.
  24. Y. Chen, Z. Xue and R. S. Blum, ``Theoretical Analysis of an Information-Based Quality Measure for Image Fusion'', Information Fusion, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pp. 161-175, April 2008.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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..
  37. R. S. Blum, "On multisensor image fusion performance limits from an estimation theory perspective'', Information Fusion, vol. 7, pp. 250-263, 2006.
  38. R. S. Blum, "Robust Image Fusion using a Statistical Signal Processing Approach'', Information Fusion, vol. 6, pp. 119-128, June 2005.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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.
  47. 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
  48. J. Hu and R. S. Blum, ''Distributed signal detection for multiuser communication systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Aeospace and Electronic Systems, Oct. 2002.
  49. R. S. Blum and J. H. Winters, ''On optimum MIMO with antenna selection,'' IEEE Communications Letters, pp. 322-324, Aug. 2002.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. R. S. Blum, '' Analytical tools for the design of space-time convolutional codes,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, pp. 1593-1599, Oct. 2002.
  53. 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.
  54. 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
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. Q. Yan and R. S. Blum, '' Distributed signal detection under the Neyman-Pearson criterion,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 1368-1377, May 2001
  58. 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.
  59. 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.
  60. J. Hu and R. S. Blum, "A gradient guided search algorithm for multiuser detection," IEEE Communications Letters, pp. 340-342, Nov. 2000.
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. X. Lin and R. S. Blum, ''Improved space-time codes using serial concatenation,'' IEEE Communication Letters, pp. 221-223, July 2000.
  64. 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.
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. 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.
  81. 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.
  82. R. S. Blum, ''Distributed detection of narrowband signals,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 519-522, IT-40, March 1995.
  83. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. R. S. Blum, ''Quantization in multisensor random signal detection,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-41, pp. 204-215, Jan. 1995.
  86. 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.
  87. R. S. Blum, ''Asymptotically robust detection for known signals in contaminated multiplicative noise,'' Signal Processing, Vol. 38, Issue 3, pp. 197-210, 1994.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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

  1. Qian He and R. S. Blum. "Smart grid monitoring for intrusion and fault detection with new locally optimum testing procedures," accepted, the 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Pragure, Czech, May 2011.
  2. Qian He and R. S. Blum. "MIMO radar diversity with Neyman-Pearson signal detection in non-Gaussian circumstance with non-orthogonal waveforms," accepted, the 36th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Pragure, Czech, May 2011.
  3. Qian He and R. S. Blum. "New hypothesis testing-based methods for fault detection for smart grid systems," in Proceedings of the 45th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar 2011.
  4. Ziad Rawas, Qian He, and R. S. Blum. "Ordered noncoherent signal detection for networked sensors," in Proceedings of the 45th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar 2011.
  5. Chuanming Wei, Lance M. Kaplan, Stephen D. Burks and Rick S. Blum, Diffuse Prior Monotonic Likelihood Ratio Test for Evaluation of Fused Image Quality Metrics, in proceeding of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, Seattle, WA, Jul. 6-9, 2009, pp. 1076-1083.
  6. X. Chen, S. N. Pakzad, and R. S. Blum, ``Statistical comparison of modal parameter identification algorithms using experimental data from Golden Gate Bridge'', submitted to STRUCTURES CONGRESS, 2010.
  7. D. Safi, S. N. Pakzad, and R. S. Blum, ``Application of Parametric Bootstrap Technique for Damage Detection of a Scaled Reinforced Concrete Bridge'', to appear in the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, 2009, Stanford University, CA.
  8. Alexander M. Haimovich and Rick S. Blum, ''Spatial Coherence of Targets in MIMO Radar Applications'', Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2009.
  9. Hana Godrich , Alexander M. Haimovich and Rick S. Blum, ''A MIMO Radar System Approach to Target Tracking'', 2009 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
  10. Mohammed Haleem, Alexander Haimovich, and Rick S. Blum, ``Sidelobe Mitigation in MIMO Radar with Multiple Subcarriers'', Invited paper at the 2009 Radar Conference.
  11. X. Chen, R. S. Blum, and B. Sadler, ''A New Scheme for Energy-efficient Estimation in a Sensor Network,'' in proceeding of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2009.
  12. Qian He, R. S. Blum, and A. M. Haimovich, "Non-coherent MIMO radar for target estimation: More antennas means better performance", in proceeding of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2009.
  13. Chuanming Wei and Rick S. Blum, Theoretical analysis of correlation-based quality measures for weighted averaging image fusion, in proceeding of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2009.
  14. Zhemin Xu and Rick S. Blum, ''An Extension to Energy Efficient Signal Detection in Sensor Networks using Ordered Transmissions'', in proceeding of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2009.
  15. Hana Godrich, Alexander Haimovich, Rick S. Blum, ``A comparative study of target localization in MIMO radar systems,'' 2009 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, Feb. 8-13, 2009, pp. 124-128.
  16. Lance M. Kaplan and Rick S. Blum, Evaluation of Image Quality Features via Monotonic Analysis, 26th Army Science Conference, Dec. 1-4, 2008.
  17. Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, ''A distributed framework for signal detection in wireless sensor networks,'' in Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 873 - 877, October 2008.
  18. Rick S. Blum, ''New Results on Sensor Selection Based on Observed Data for Signal Detection’, submitted to 2008 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
  19. Qian He, Rick S. Blum, Alexander M. Haimovich, Zishu He, ''Antenna Placement for Velocity Estimation using MIMO Radar'', Invited paper for 2008 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
  20. Sana Sfar, Jerry Foschini, Reinaldo Valenzuela, Laurence Mailaender, Dimitri Chizikh, Kemal Karakayali, Rick Blum, Is Relayed collaborative Communication Worth it?, Invited paper at 2008 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
  21. Hana Godrich, Alexander M. Haimovich and Rick S. Blum, ''Target Localization Accuracy and Multiple Target Localization: Trade off in MIMO Radars'', Invited paper for 2008 Asilo- mar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.
  22. Rick Blum, Yusuf Artan, and Brian Sadler, ''A New Approach to Energy Efficient Classi- fication with Multiple Sensors based on Ordered Transmissions'' in proceedings of ICASSP 2008.
  23. Qian He, Rick S. Blum, Hana Godrich, and Alexander M. Haimovich, ''Cramer-Rao Bound for Target Velocity Estimation in MIMO Radar with Widely Separated Antennas,'' CISS 2008.
  24. Yang Yang and Rick Blum, ''A Simulation Study of Antenna Selection for Sensor placement in Gaussian,'' CISS 2008.
  25. Hana Godrich, Alexander Haimovich, Rick Blum, ''Cramer Rao Bound on Target Localization Estimation in MIMO Radar Systems,'' CISS 2008.
  26. Yin Chen, Genshe Chen, Rick S. Blum, Erik Blasch, R. S. Lynch, Image Quality Measures for Predicting Automatic Target Recognition Performance, 2008 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-8 March 2008, pp. 1-9.
  27. Zhemin Xu, Sana Sfar, Rick S. Blum, ''Outage probability of MIMO systems with receive an- tenna selection in spatially correlated rayleigh fading channels,'' in Proc. IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTCF’07), Baltimore, MD, USA, Oct. 2007, pp. 467 - 471.
  28. Hana Godrich, Alexander Haimovich, Rick Blum, ''Target Localization Techniques and Tools for MIMO radar,'' 2008 IEEE Radar Conference.
  29. Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "MIMO radar waveform design,'' in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), pp. 468-472, Madison, WI, August 2007.
  30. Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Routing for emitter/reflector signal detection in wireless sensor network systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 4919-4924,Glasgow, UK, June 2007.
  31. 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.
  32. Y. Yang and R. S. Blum, "Energy-efficient routing for signal detection under the Neyman-Pearson criterion in wireless sensor networks," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, pp. 303-312, Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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..
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. Eugene Perevalov, R. S. Blum, and Danny Safi, "On the Throughput/Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks with Clustering'', WCNC 2005.
  57. Sigen Ye and R. S. Blum, "Some Properties of the Capacity of MIMO Systems with Co-Channel Interference", to appear at ICASSP 2005.
  58. Bin Liu, Biao Chen, and R. S. Blum, "Exploiting the Finite-Alphabet Property for Cooperative Relays", to appear at ICASSP 2005.
  59. 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.
  60. 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.
  61. Zhenyu Zhu, Hamid Sajapour, Rick Blum, Peter A. Andrekson, "Signal processing on PMD SIMO channels'', Optical Fiber Communications Conference 2004 (OFC04).
  62. Zhenyu Tu, Tiffany Jing Li and Rick Blum, "Compression of a Binary Source with Side Information Using Concatenated Convolutional Codes", IEEE Globecom Conference 2004.
  63. Lang Lin and Rick S. Blum, "Potential of Ad Hoc Network with Directional Antenna", CISS, Princeton NJ, 2004.
  64. 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.
  65. Tiffany Jing Li, Zhenyu Tu and Rick Blum, "Slepian-Wolf Coding for Nonuniform Sources Using Turbo Codes", Data Compression Conference 2004.
  66. 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.
  67. Eran Fishler, Alex Haimovich, Rick Blum, Dmitry Chizhik, Len Cimini,Reinaldo Valenzuela, "Statistical MIMO Radar", 2004 Adaptive Signal and Array Processing Workshop.
  68. R. S. Blum,"MIMO capacity with antenna selection and interference", Presented at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and Signal Processing, Montreal CA, 2004.
  69. 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.
  70. Sigen Ye and R. S. Blum, "On Rate Regions for Wireless MIMO Ad Hoc Networks'', Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) fall 2004.
  71. Jinzhong Yang and R. S. Blum, "Image Fusion Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and the Hidden Markov Models'', Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) fall 2004.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. R. S. Blum, ''MIMO with limited feedback of channel state information", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, 2003.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. R. S. Blum, ''MIMO Capacity with Antenna Selection and Interference,'' invited paper at IEEE International Conference on Acoustics and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, 2003.
  79. Mu Qin and R. S. Blum, ''Optimum space-time codes for frequency selective channels,'' to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications, Alaska, 2003.
  80. R. S. Blum, ''Analysis of MIMO Capacity with Interference,'' to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications, Alaska, 2003.
  81. Eugene Perevalov and R. S. Blum, ''Delay Limited Capacity of Ad hoc Networks: Asymptotically Optimal Transmission and Relaying Strategy,'' accepted by Infocom 2003.
  82. Eugene Perevalov and R. S. Blum, ''On the delay limited capacity of ad hoc networks,'' IEEE Global Communications Conference, Taiwan, Nov. 2002.
  83. S. Ye and R. S. Blum, ''Optimum signaling of MIMO-OFDM systems with interference,'' European Signal Processing Conference, Toulouse, France, Sept. 2002.
  84. 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.
  85. 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.
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. R. S. Blum, "On Optimum MIMO with Antenna Selection," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, NY, pp. 386-390, May 2002.
  89. 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.
  90. R. S. Blum, "MIMO capacity with interference," Conference on Information Science and Systems, Mar. 2002.
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. 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.
  95. 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.
  96. 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.
  97. 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.
  98. Qing Yan and R. S. Blum, "Optimum Space-Time Convolutional Codes," WCNC 2000.
  99. 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.)
  100. 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.
  101. 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.
  102. 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.
  103. 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.
  104. R. S. Blum and J. Hu, ''Distributed Multiuser Detection,'' Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, 1999.
  105. 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.
  106. 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.
  107. 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.
  108. 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.
  109. 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.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. 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.
  113. 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.
  114. 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.
  115. R. S. Blum, ''Distributed detection of random signals for dependent observation cases,'' Fusion'98, pp. 906-913, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 1998.
  116. 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.
  117. 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.
  118. 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.
  119. 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.
  120. 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.
  121. 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.
  122. 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.
  123. 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.
  124. 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.
  125. 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.
  126. 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.
  127. 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.
  128. 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.
  129. 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.
  130. 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.
  131. 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.
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. 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.
  135. 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.
  136. 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.
  137. 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.
  138. 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.
  139. 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.
  140. 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.
  141. 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.
  142. 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.
  143. 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.
  144. 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.
  145. 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.
  146. 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.
  147. 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.
  148. 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.
  149. 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).
  150. 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.
  151. 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.
  152. 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.
  153. 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.
  154. 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.
  155. 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.
  156. 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.
  157. 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.
  158. 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.
  159. 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.
  160. 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.
  161. R. S. Blum, ''Robust distributed data fusion,'' Invited Presentation at the Joint Conference on Information Sciences, Pinehurst, NC, Nov. 1994.
  162. 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.
  163. 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.
  164. 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.
  165. 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

  1. "Image Fusion Using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm and the Hidden Markov Models", R. S. Blum and Jinzhong Yang, Patent Application (via Lehigh).
  2. "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

  1. Jinfen Qiao, ''Distributed order-statistic CFAR detection of dependent signal returns'', May 1994.
  2. Hussein Mecklai, ''Interference cancellation in a multiuser, spaced transmit antenna diversity system'', May 1995.
  3. Nirmala Muthuswamy, ''Detection of random signals with neural networks'', May 1995.
  4. Matthew Deans, ''An adaptive algorithm for distributed signal detection system design'', May 1996.
  5. Zhongxiu Gu, ''Analysis of the ADPCA space-time processing algorithm'', Jan. 1997.
  6. Ying Shen, ''A study of optimum distributed signal detection in dependent noise'', May 1997.
  7. Haris Vikalo, ''Design algorithms for distributed signal detection with dependent observations'' May 1997.
  8. Yue Chen, ''Efficient Algorithms for Sequence Detection in Non-Gaussian Noise with Intersymbol Interference,'' Dec 1999.
  9. Fatma Golbasi, ''Detection performance of partially adaptive STAP algorithms for airborne radar using MCARM data,'' Dec. 1999.
  10. Ethan Biery, ''Omnicamera Image Fusion,'' May 2000.
  11. Narun Sooppipatt, no thesis, May 2000.
  12. Alexander Praveen, no thesis, May 2000.
  13. Pradeep Arkachar, no theisi, May 2002.
  14. Matt Puzio, ''Turbo Coding for PMD'', May 2003.
  15. Albert Davis, ''Space-time Code Test Bed'', May 2004.
  16. Geetali Bhatia, ''Simulation of Algebraic STC'', May 2004.
  17. Anthony Nigara, ''Transmission Blocking Probability in Ad Hoc Networks using Cooperative Diversity'', Dec 2004.
  18. Andrew Petersohn, no thesis, 02-06.
  19. Dan Vander Valk, no thesis, 04-05.

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Ph. D. Dissertations

  1. Zhang Zhong, ''Investigations on Image Fusion,'' May 1999.
  2. Keith McDonald, ''Models and Analysis of Antenna Array Signal Processing Systems,'' Oct. 1999. Signal processing and sensor researcher at Mitre Corp, MA.
  3. Yumin Zhang, ''Iterative and Adaptive Receivers for Wireless Communication and Radar Systems,'' 7/97-6/00, May 2000. Researcher at Lucent Technologies, NJ.
  4. Xiaotong Lin, ''Antenna Array Processing for Wireless communications,'' 7/97-6/00, May 2000. Researcher at Agere, PA.
  5. Jun Hu, ''Multiuser and Distributed Detection,'' 8/98-6/01, May 2001. Researcher at Sarnoff Corp, NJ.
  6. Qing Yan, ''Space-time Codes and Distributed Detection,'' 8/98-6/01, May 2001. Researcher at Agere, PA.
  7. Hussein Mecklai, ''Distributed detection for communications,'' (part-time from Agere), 6/95 - current.
  8. Viswathan Annampedu, ''Transmit Diversity,'' (part-time from Agere), passed qualifier, 1/95 - current.
  9. Mu Qin, ''Space-Time-Frequency Diversity for Wireless Communication'', Dec. 04.
  10. Sigen Ye, ''Advanced Techniques for MIMO and OFDM Systems'', Jan. 05, Researcher at Lucent Technologies, NJ..
  11. Jinzhong Yang, Image Fusion, Aug. 06, Researcher at Univ. of PA.
  12. Zhiyun Xue, Image Fusion, May 06, Researcher at NIH.
  13. Zhenyu Tu, MIMO and dirty paper, Sept. 06, Researcher at start-up.
  14. Zhenyu Zhu, Coding for Optics, passed general exam, 8/02-current.
  15. Yin Chen, Image Fusion, 8/03-may 07 researcher at SBIR house.

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