Dennis Dunn

Dennis Dunn received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering science and computer science from Penn State in 1981 and 1992, respectively. He started at Penn State in 1983 as a research engineer with the Department of Biomechanics and the Center for Locomotion Studies. In 1989 he became a research assistant for The Applied Research Laboratory. In 1992 he served as an assistant professor for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. From 1997-1999, he was an assistant professor for the University of Wyoming. Dr. Dunn is currently the director of academic affairs and an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department.

Dr. Dunn has served as chair on the Undergraduate Curriculum and ABET Committees. He is also a Co-op advisor.

Dr. Dunn's main areas of research are in computer vision, to include texture segmentation, interpretation of handwritten documents, human-vision modeling and medical imaging.

Research Interests:

Medical Imaging, Image Processing, Texture Analysis, Document Image Analysis, Human-Vision Modeling, Robotics

Selected Publications:

1. Dunn, D. F., N. E. Matthews. March 2000. Extracting Color Halftones from Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis. Pattern Recognition 33(3):445-464.
   
2. Dunn, D. F., T. P. Weldon, W.E. Higgins. April 1997. Extracting Halftones from Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis. Optical Engineering 36(4):1044-1052.
   
3. Weldon, T. P., W. E. Higgins, D. F. Dunn. December 1996. Efficient Gabor Filter Design for Texture Segmentation. Pattern Recognition 29(12):2005-2015.
   
4. Weldon, T. P., W. E. Higgins, D. F. Dunn. October 1996. Gabor Filter Design for Multiple Texture Segmentation. Optical Engineering 35(10):2852-2863.
   
5. Dunn, D. F., W. Higgins. July 1995. Optimal Gabor Filters for Texture Segmentation. IEEE Transactions Image Processing 4(7):947-964.