Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering

Assoc. Prof. Randy Broussard

Associate Professor
Office: Hopper Hall 257
Email: broussar@usna.edu

Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Associate Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, United States Naval Academy, 2000 - Present
CadX Incorporated, 2000 - 2003
Qualia Computing Incorporated, 1997 - 2000
Space Launch, GPS program office, Air Force Research Laboratory
US Air Force Officer, 1986 - 2006
US Navy Enlisted, 1981 - 2983

USNA Apgar Award for Excellence in Teaching, WRC Nominee, 2010
Best Paper award at the 2008 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2009
Best Paper award at 2008 IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, 2008
Research and Development of the Year award for the Air Force, 200
Scientific/Technical Individual Achievement of the Year award for the Air Force Research Laboratory, 2000

US Patent Number 6,650,766, Method for combining automated detections from medical images with observed detections of a human interpreter (Additional patent issued November 18, 2003)
US Patent Number 6,556,699, Method for combining automated detections from medical images with observed detections of a human interpreter (Issued April 29, 2003)
US Patent Number 6,389,157, Joint optimization of parameters for the detection of clustered microcalcifications in digital mammograms (Issued May 14, 2002)
US Patent Number 6,205,236, Method and system for automated detection of clustered microcalcifications from digital mammograms (Issued March 20, 2001)
US Patent Number 6,167,146, Method and system for segmentation and detection of microcalcifications from digital mammograms (Issued December 26, 2000)
US Patent Number 6,137,898, Gabor filtering for improved microcalcification detection in digital mammograms (Issued October 24, 2000)
US Patent Number 6,115,488, Method and system for combining automated detections from digital mammograms with observed detections of a human interpreter (Issued September 5, 2000)
US Patent Number 6,091,841, Method and system for segmenting desired regions in digital mammograms (Issued July 18, 2000)
US Patent Number 5,999,639, Method and system for automated detection of clustered microcalcifications from digital mammograms (Issued December 7, 1999)
Numerous foreign patents in Digital Breast Cancer Detection

R.P. Broussard, and R.W. Ives, "Improving Identification Accuracy on Low Resolution and Poor Quality Iris Images using an Artificial Neural Network Based Matching Metric", Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2011.
R.P. Broussard, and R.W. Ives, "Accelerating Image Based Scientific Applications using Commodity Video Graphics Adapters ", Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol 7, Number 3, 2010.
J.R. Matey, R.P. Broussard, and L.R. Kennell, “Iris Image Segmentation and Sub-Optimal Images”, Image and Vision Computing Journal: Special issue on Segmentation of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-The- Move and At-A-Distance, Vol. 28, pp 215-222, 2010.
R.P. Broussard, R.N. Rakvic, and R.W. Ives, “Accelerating Iris Template Matching using Commodity Video Graphics Adapters,” The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Crystal City, VA, Sep. 2008.
R.W. Ives, R.P. Broussard, L.R. Kennell and D.L. Soldan, “Effects of Image Compression on Iris Recognition System Performance,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 17, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2008.
B.M. Huther, S.C. Gustafson and R.P. Broussard, “Wavelet Preprocessing for High Range Resolution Radar Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, October 2001, volume 37 number 4, Pg 1321-1332 .