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Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering

Assoc. Prof. Randy Broussard

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

 

 

Research Interests


Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Education & Training


  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, 1997
  • M.S., Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, 1994
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, 1986

Professional Experience


  • 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

Honors and Awards


  • 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

Patents


  • 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

Significant Publications


  • 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 . 
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