RICARDO GUTIERREZ-OSUNAAssociate Professor
Email: rgutier@cse.tamu.edu
Ph.D. Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, June 1998 RESEARCH INTERESTSIntelligent sensors, speech processing, face recognition, machine olfaction, neuromorphic computation, mobile robotics, pattern recognition, machine learning SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORTPrincipal Investigator with co-PI M. Carreira-Perpinan (UC Merced). "RI: Collaborative Research: Foreign accent conversion through articulatory inversion of the vocal-tract frontal cavity," National Science Foundation, September 2008-August 2011. "Hypothesis Generation for Chemical Threats Through Active Perception with Microsensor Arrays," Department of Defense, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, September 2006-August 2008 "TAMU-Conacyt: Facial Caricaturing as a Training Tool for Security," 09/2005-08/2006 "TAMU-Conacyt: Design of an Electronic Nose for Hydrogen Measurement in Liquid Aluminum Alloys for the Casting Industry," 09/2004-08/2005 "NSF/CAREER: Computational Models for Sensor-based Machine Olfaction," National Science Foundation, 7/2000-6/2004 "NSF/CISE: Speech Driven Facial Animation", National Science Foundation, PI: O. N. Garcia, 9/1999-8/2002 "OBR: Generalized Metrics for Image Assessment and Synthesis," Ohio Board of Regents, 9/2000-8/2002 AWARDS
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSD. Felps, H. Bortfeld and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, Foreign-Accent Conversion in Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training," Speech Communication (in press). F. Nogueira, D, Felps and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Development of an Infrared Absorption Spectroscope Based on Linear Variable Filters," IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(8), 1183-1190, 2007. B. Raman, T. Kotseroglou, L. Clark, M. Lebl and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Neuromorphic Processing for Optical Microbead Arrays: Dimensionality Reduction and Contrast Enhancement," IEEE Sensors Journal, 7(4), 506-514, 2007. B. Raman, T. Yamanaka and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Contrast Enhancement of Gas Sensor Array patterns with a Neurodynamics Model of the Olfactory Bulb," Sensors and Actuators B, 119(2), pp. 547-555, 2006. B. Raman, P. Sun, A. Gutierrez-Galvez and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "Processing of Chemical Sensor Arrays with a Biologically-Inspired Model of Olfactory Coding," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 17(4), pp. 1015-1024, 2006. P. Kakumanu, A. Esposito, O. N. Garcia and R. Gutierrez-Osuna, "A Comparison of Acoustic Coding Models for Speech-Driven Facial Animation," Speech Communication, 48(6), pp. 598-615, 2006. |
