Signal/Data Processing & Analysis

The problems of signal and image processing are ubiquitous in the engineering, science, and healthcare fields.  This is a genre of problem at the core of Barron Associates’ capabilities since its founding in 1984.  As a pioneer in neural networks and, in particular, neural network-based adaptive control, Barron Associates has a vast library of tools and decades of experience in the challenging problems of signal and image processing.

Figure 1: Surface Feature Extracted from Noisy Measurement Data

Figure 1: Surface Feature Extracted from Noisy Measurement Data

Barron Associates’ core competencies are reflected in its GNOSIS  and APIMS software tools; however, Barron Associates has many more in-house software libraries for application to challenging customer problems.  A partial list of Barron Associates competencies and techniques includes:

  • Physics-based dynamic system model development
  • Neural Networks for estimation and classification
  • Stochastic modeling and uncertainty quantification/representation
  • Unscented Kalman filters and particle filters
  • Maximum likelihood estimation
  • Nonlinear system identification

Typical applications include:

  • Pattern recognition and classification
  • Automatic target identification and tracking
  • Statistical change detection
  • Data mining
  • Fault diagnosis and condition based maintenance
  • Data smoothing and reconstruction

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A Tool to Predict Hot Corrosion of Nickel-based Turbine Disks

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Resources

  • M. DeVore and A. Bateman, “Polynomial chaos theory for performance evaluation of ATR systems,” Automatic Target Recognition XX, Proc. of SPIE, vol. 7696, (Orlando, FL), May 2010.
  • X. Zhou and M. D. DeVore, “Data and model accuracy requirements analysis for target recognition from ladar data,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 44, pp. 1416-1432, 2008.
  • M.D. DeVore, “Estimates of Error Probability for Complex Gaussian Channels with Generalized Likelihood Ratio Detection,” IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, pp. 1580–1591, Oct. 2005.
  • M.D. DeVore and J.A. O’Sullivan, “Quantitative Statistical Assessment of Conditional Models for Synthetic Aperture Radar,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 13, pp. 113–125, Feb. 2004.