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John Ball
Research Interests
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Scene Understanding Sensor Processing (Radar, LiDAR, Camera, Hyperspectral, Thermal) Machine Learning Digital Image and Signal Processing
Current Research Projects
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Industrial Company - Tractor Collision Avoidance Prototype and Loader-Aircraft Marry Brassboard
Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Physics Material Response in Geo-environments Engineer Research Design Center (ERDC)
University of Mississippi, NASA/Robotic Mining Competition
AOVET - Pullout strength of monocortical and bicortical screws in metaphyseal & diaphyseal regions of the canine humerus
Multi-Sensor Processing and Analysis Working Group
Legerity - Voice over IP (VoIP) card
Most Current Publications:
Journal [J1] A. Harsh, J.E. Ball, "Automatic K-Expectation Maximization (A K-EM) algorithm for data mining applications," Journal of Computations & Modelling, vol.6, no.3, 2016, pp. 43-85. [J2] D. P. Vaughn, Jr., J. A. Syrcle, J. E. Ball, S. H. Elder, J. M. Gambino, R. L. Griffin, R. M. McLaughlin, "Pullout Strength of Monocortical and Bicortical Screws in Metaphyseal and Diaphyseal Regions of the Canine Humerus", Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.3415/VCOT-15-11-0192, [Accepted] [J3] C. Archibald, J. E. Ball and L. Schwalm, "A Survey of Security in Robotic Systems: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Solutions," International Journal of Robotics and Automation, ACTA Press, 2017 [Accepted 2016]. [J4] A. Harsh, J. E. Ball, P. Wei, "Onion-Peeling Outlier Detection in 2-D Data Sets," International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 139, No. 3, 2016, pp. 26-31. [J5] M. A. Lee, J. E. Ball, "Performance Measure-Based Band Group Selection for Agricultural Multispectral Sensor Design", Journal of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing, 2015. [J6] J. E. Ball, L. M. Bruce, and N. H. Younan, "Hyperspectral pixel unmixing via spectral band selection and DC insensitive singular value decomposition," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 382 - 386, Jul. 2007. [J7] J. E. Ball and L. M. Bruce, "Level set hyperspectral image classification using best band analysis," IEEE Trans. On Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, issue 10, pp. 3022 - 3027, Oct. 2007. Conference [C1] R. Smith, D. T. Anderson, J. E. Ball, A. Zare, B. Alvey, "Genetic Programming Based Choquet Integral for Multi-Source Fusion," FUZZ IEEE [Submitted]. [C2] B. Murray, D.T. Anderson, R. H. Luke, K. Williams, J. E. Ball, "Multispectral Signal Processing of Synthetic Aperture Acoustics for Side Attack Explosive Ballistic Detection," SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2016 [Accepted]. [C3] C. Davenport, Y. Liu, H. Pan, J. Gafford, S. Abdelwahed, M. Mazzola, J. E. Ball, R. Burch, "Development of a Dynamic Modeling Framework to Predict Instantaneous Status of Cargo Tractor-Dolly Systems for Collision Avoidance Control," SAE World Congress 2017 [Accepted]. [C4] J. A. Batte, Z. H. Collins, J. N. Bateman, J. Atkins, M. Davis, D. Salley, Y. Liu, C. L. Bethel, J. E. Ball, C. Archibald, "Mechanical Design, Prototyping, and Validation of a Martian Robot Mining System," SAE World Congress 2017 [Accepted]. [C5] J. M. Gambino, J. R. James, J. P. Buchweitz, J. E. Ball, M. E. Milewski, A.M. Plumley, "Conspicuity Of Gadodiamide Enhanced MRI and Intracranial Deposition of Gadolinium Following Single In Vivo Intravenous Exposure of Various Low Doses In 8 Normal Dogs At 3 Tesla," American College of Veterinary Radiology Scientific Conference, 19-22 Oct., 2016. [C6] J. Mohammadi-Aragh, J. E. Ball, D. Jaison, "Using Wavelets to Categorize Student Attention," Frontiers In Education, 12-15 Oct 2016. [C7] M. Islam, D. T. Anderson, J. E. Ball, N. H. Younan, "Fusion Of Diverse Features And Kernels Using Lp-Norm Based Multiple Kernel Learning In Hyperspectral Image Processing," Whispers 2016, 21-24 Aug. 2016. [C8] M. Islam, D. T. Anderson, J. E. Ball, N. H. Younan, "CLODD Based Band Group Selection," IEEE Intl. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Jan. 2016. [C9] J. L. White, D. T. Anderson, J. E. Ball, "Curvelet filter based prescreener for explosive hazard detection in hand-held ground penetrating radar," SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2016. [C10] M. A. Lee, D. T. Anderson, J. E. Ball, J. White, "Background Adaptive Division Filtering for Hand-Held Ground Penetrating Radar," SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2016. [C11] J. Dowdy, D. T. Anderson, R. Luke, J. E. Ball, T. Havens, and J. M. Keller, "Comparison of Spatial Frequency Domain Features for the Detection of Side Attack Explosive Ballistics in Synthetic Aperture Acoustics," SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2016. [C12] P. Wei, J. E. Ball, D. T. Anderson, A. Harsh, C. Archibald, "Measuring Conflict in a Multi-Source Environment as a Normal Measure", IEEE CAMSAP 2015, Cancun, Mexico. [C13] L. Dabbiru, A. Harsh, J. White, J. E. Ball, J. Aanstoos, P. Donohoe, J. Doyle, S. Jackson, and J. Newman, "Runway Assessment via Remote Sensing," 2015 IEEE Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop (AIPR), 13-15 Oct 2015, DOI: 10.1109/AIPR.2015.7444545. [C14] M.A. Lee, D.T. Anderson, J. E. Ball, "Multispectral Sensor Design using Performance Measure-Based Hyperspectral Band Grouping", IEEE IGARSS, 2015. [C15] J. E. Ball, D. Anderson, "Hyperspectral band selection using multiple proximity measures and its aggregation for automated target detection", SPIE Defense + Security, 5 - 9 May 2014. [C16] J. E. Ball, "Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Radar Target Detection using Linear Support Vector Machines (L-SVM)," IEEE RadarCon, 2014. |