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Faculty Information
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University of Florida Computer and Information Science and Engineering Paul D. Gader, Ph.D.
Professor |
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| Office Location: | E356 CSE |
| Office Phone: | (352) 392-1526 |
| Mobile Phone: | (352) 262-4267 |
| Departmental FAX: | (352) 392-1220 |
| Email: | pgader@cise.ufl.edu |
| Website: | http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~pgader |
Interests
Paul Gader received his Ph.D. in Mathematics for parallel image processing and applied mathematics research in 1986 from the University of Florida. He has worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Honeywell’s Systems and Research Center, as a Research Engineer and Manager at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), and as a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, and the University of Missouri - Columbia. He joined the faculty of the University of Florida in August 2001. He performed his first research in image processing in 1984 when he worked on algorithms for detection of bridges in Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) imagery. At ERIM and later at the University of Missouri, he led teams involved in the research and development of real-time, handwritten address recognition systems for the U.S. Postal Service. He developed, implemented, and tested image processing, neural network, and fuzzy set based algorithms for handwritten digit recognition and segmentation, numeric field recognition, word recognition and segmentation, and line segmentation. He has also worked on a number of other imaging projects, including medical imaging, vehicle detection and recognition, and bio-medical pattern recognition as well as performing fundamental research in image algebra, fuzzy set theory, and and Choquet integral based mathematical morphology. He has been active in land mine detection algorithm research since 1996. He has led teams that devised and field tested several real-time algorithms for mine detection. He served as Technical Director of the University of Missouri MURI on Humanitarian Demining for two years. He is currently involved in several landmine detection projects, including hand-held and ground-based mine detection systems, acoustic mine detection, detection of trip-wires, and is a member of a new MURI team investigating the science of land target spectral signatures. Dr. Gader is a senior member of the IEEE and has over 150 technical publications in the areas of image and signal processing, applied mathematics, and pattern recognition, including over 50 refereed journal articles.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Florida, 1986
- M.S., University of Florida, 1983
- B.S., University of Central Florida 1981
Current and Recent Courses
| Semester | Number | Title |
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| Fall 01 | COT 3100 | Discrete Structures |
| Spring 02 | CIS 6930 | Fuzzy Sets and Logic |
| Fall 02 | CAP 4621 | Artificial Intelligence |
It is possible that changes in listings are pending. Contact the (CISE Student Services Center) at 352-392-1090 for the most up-to-date information.
Additional course information is available at:
- CISE Undergraduate Courses
- CISE Graduate Courses
- UF Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog Course Descriptions
Selected Publications
- R. J. Stanley, P. D. Gader, D. Ho, “Feature and decision level sensor fusion of electromagnetic induction and ground penetrating radar sensors for landmine detection with hand-held units”, Information Fusion 3(3):215-223, September 2002.
- K. C. Ho and P. D. Gader, “A Linear Prediction Land Mine Detection Algorithm for Hand Held Ground Penetrating Radar”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1374-1385, June, 2002.
- A. K. Hocaoglu, P. D. Gader, J. M. Keller, and B. N. Nelson, “Anti-Personnel Land Mine Detection and Discrimination using Acoustic Data”, Journal of Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 75-93, April, 2002.
- P. D. Gader, M. Mystkowski, Y. Zhao “Landmine Detection with Ground Penetrating Radar using Hidden Markov Models,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1231-1244, June 2001.
- P. D. Gader, B. Nelson, H. Frigui, G. Vaillette, J. Keller, “Fuzzy Logic Detection of Landmines with Ground Penetrating Radar,” Signal Processing, Special Issue on Fuzzy Logic in Signal Processing (Invited Paper), Vol. 80, No. 6, pp. 1069-1084, June 2000.
- P. D. Gader, M. Khabou, and A. Koldobsky, “Morphological Regularization Neural Networks,” Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Mathematical Morphology and Its Application, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 935-945, June 2000.
- N. Theera-Umpon and P. D. Gader, “Counting White Blood Cells Using Morphological Granulometries, Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 170-177, April 2000.
- M. Khabou, P. D. Gader, H. Shi, “Entropy Optimized Morphological Shared-Weight Neural Networks,” Optical Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 263-273, Feb. 1999.
- W. Chen, P. D. Gader, H. Shi, “Lexicon Driven Handwritten Word Recognition Using Optimal Linear Combinations of Order Statistics,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp.77-83, Jan. 1999.
- P. D. Gader, J. M. Keller, R. Krishnapuram, J.H. Chiang, and M. Mohamed, “Neural and Fuzzy Methods in Handwriting Recognition,”IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 79-86, Feb. 1997.