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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 image and signal analysis projects, including medical imaging, vehicle detection and recognition, acoustic signature analysis, 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 actively researched and developed algorithms for land mine 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. Past and present landmine detection projects involve algorithm development for data generated from hand-held, ground vehicle-based, and airborne sensors, including ground penetrating radar, acoustic/seismic, IR (emissive and reflective bands), long-wave, short-wave, near IR, and visible hyperspectral imagery, and wide-band electro-magnetic sensors. He has investigated a wide variety of algorithmic approaches in the context of solving real-world problems. Dr. Gader is a senior member of the IEEE and has over 220 technical publications in the areas of image and signal processing, applied mathematics, and pattern recognition, including over 66 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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| Spring 2009 | CAP 6610 | Machine Learning |
| Fall 2008 | CIS 6930 | Hidden Markov Models |
| Spring 2008 | CAP 6615 | Neural Networks |
| Fall 2007 | CAP 6615 | Neural Networks |
| Spring 2007 | CIS 6930 | Fuzzy Logic |
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
- H. Frigui and P. D. Gader, “Detection and discrimination of land mines in ground-penetrating radar based on edge histogram descriptors and a Possibilistic K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier”, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems (accepted for publication).
- 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. Zare and P. D. Gader, “Hyperspectral Band Selection and Endmember Detection Using Sparsity Promoting Priors”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters,Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2008, pp. 256-261.
- H. Frigui, K.C. Ho and P. D. Gader , "Real-time Land Mine Detection with Ground Penetrating Radar using Discriminative and Adaptive Hidden Markov Models" EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2005, No. 12, pp. 1867-1885, July 2005.
- 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.