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Dr. Joseph C. Dagher
Post Doctoral Fellow
School of Medicine,
University of Colorado
Email: joseph dot dagher at cudenver dot edu
Website: http://joseph.dagherbros.com/
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PROFESSIONAL
INTERESTS
- Signal/Image
processing, estimation, restoration and data compression,
- Optical systems
design,
- Optical information
processing,
- Task-specific image
acquisition,
- Collaborative
imaging and processing,
- Joint optimization
of image acquisition and post-processing systems.
EDUCATION
- PhD
in Optics, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
- Minor:
Electrical Engineering
- GPA: 3.92.
- MS
in Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona,
May 2002
-
Minor: Optical Sciences
- GPA: 3.9
- BS
in Computer Engineering, University of Balamand,
Lebanon, February 1999
- Major Average:
85.95/100
- Dean’s Honor
List (Fall 1995, Spring 1997, Fall 1997 and Spring 1998)
- High
School Diploma, Elementary Mathematics Program, Colleges
Des Frères, Lebanon, June 1995
EMPLOYMENT
- September
2006 – present
CDM Optics, Boulder, CO
- August
2001 – August 2006
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Graduate Research Associate at the Signal Processing
and Coding Laboratory (SPACL) and the Optical Computing and Processing
Laboratory (OCPL)
- Employer: Dr. M. W. Marcellin and Dr. M. A. Neifeld
- January 2006 – May
2006
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Graduate Teaching Associate for OPTI 512L – Fourier
Optics Lab
- Employer: Dr. M. Kupinski
- August 2005 –
December 2005
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Graduate
Teaching Associate for OPTI 501 – Electromagnetic waves
- Employer: Dr. M. Mansuripur
- June
2002 – August 2002
Siemens Corp.
- Technical Consultant, 3D compression of medical imagery
- January 2001 –
August 2001
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Graduate
Research Assistant at the Signal Processing and Coding Laboratory
(SPACL)
- Employer: Dr. M. W. Marcellin
- August 1999 –
December 2000
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
- Graduate Teaching Assistant for ECE 301- Electronics
Lab
- Employer: Dept. of Electrical & Computer
Engineering
- October 1998 –
June 1999
- University of Balamand, Lebanon
- Research Assistant, video streaming for distance
learning
- Employer: Dr. R. Saba
- October 1997 –
June 1997
University of Balamand, Lebanon
- Assistant Network Manager
- Employer: Dr. W. Karam
PUBLICATIONS
Conference
Papers
-
J.C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, and M. W. Marcellin, "Efficient rate
control for video streaming," in Applications of Digital
Image Processing XXIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4472, pp. 258-66, July 2001.
- J.C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, and M. W. Marcellin, "Rate
Control for Multisequence Video Streaming," in Applications
of Digital Image Processing XXIII, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 4671, pp.
209-20, January 2002.
- H. Wang, J.C. Dagher, A. Tabesh, M.W. Marcellin, and M.A.
Neifeld, "Volumetric compression/restoration for LADAR
imagery," Proceedings of Optical Society of America, Annual
Meeting, Orlando, Florida, October 2002.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "Compression
of LADAR imagery," in Proceedings of SPIE, Visual
Communications and Image Processing, Vol. 5150, pp.1193-1203, June 2003.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "Compression
for transmission and storage of Laser Radar
measurements," Proceedings of the International Telemetery
Conference, IFT, October 2003.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Power-constrained
distributed transmission of sensor-network measurements,”
Optical Society of America, 87th Annual Meeting, Tucson, October 2003.
- K. M. Siddiqui, E. L. Siegel, B. I. Reiner, O. Crave, J. P.
Johnson, Z. Wu, J. C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, M. Nadar," Improved
Compressibility of Multi-Slice CT Datasets using 3D JPEG2000 Compression,"
in 2004 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, June 2004, Chicago, IL.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Collaborative
multihop transmission of sensor- network imagery,”
Proceedings of Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester,
October 2004.
- P. Kulkarni, A. Bilgin, M.W. Marcellin, J.C. Dagher, T.
Flohr and J. Rountree, “Reduced memory multi-layer
multi-component rate allocation for JPEG2000,” Proceedings
of SPIE, Image & Video Communications and Processing (IVCP'05),
Vol. 5685, pp.139-150, 2005.
- K. M. Siddiqui, E. L. Siegel, B. I. Reiner, O. Crave, J. P.
Johnson, Z. Wu, J. C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, M. Nadar, "Compression
of multislice CT: 2D vs. 3D JPEG2000 and effects of slice thickness,"
Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging 2005, Vol. 5748, pp. 162-170, 2005.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, "An
iterative algorithm for optimizing the conditional lifetimes of
distributed sensors," to appear at the IEEE Information
Theory and Applications Workshop, January 2007.
Journal Papers
-
J. C. Dagher, A. Bilgin, M. W. Marcellin, “Resource-Constrained
Rate Control for Motion JPEG2000,” IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 12, No. 12, pp. 1522-29,
December 2003.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Efficient
Storage/Transmission of LADAR Imagery,” Applied Optics:
Information Processing, Vol. 42, No. 35, pp.
7023-35, December 2003.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “A
Method for Coordinating the Distributed Transmission of Imagery,”
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 1705-17,
2006.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “A
theory for maximizing the lifetime of sensor networks,” IEEE
Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, pp. 323-332, 2007.
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Collaborative
transmission of distributed sensor imagery,” Applied Optics,
OSA, Vol. 45, Issue 28, pp. 7353-7364 (October 2006).
Monographs/book
chapters
- J. C. Dagher, M. W. Marcellin, and M.A. Neifeld, “Power-constrained
distributed transmission of sensor-network measurement,” in
SPIE Optics in Information Systems, special issue on Computational
Imaging, Proceedingsof SPIE, Vol. 14, No. 2, August 2003.
- P. Kulkarni, A. Bilgin, M.W. Marcellin, J.C. Dagher, J.H.
Kasner, T.J. Flohr, and J.C. Rountree, "Compression of earth
science data with JPEG2000 in Hyperspectral Image Compression,"
G. Motta and J. Storer, Springer Inc., 2006.
AWARDS
- Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at SPIE's
Visual Communication and Image Processing conference,
VCIP2003, Lugano, Switzerland, July 2003.
- Recipient of the Imaging Fellowship Award at The
University of Arizona, August 2003 – May 2004.
- Recipient of the Best Student Paper, second place award, at
IFT's International Telemetry Conference, ITC
2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003.
- Recipient of the Rolyn Optics Outstanding Teaching
Assistant Award at the College of Optical Sciences,
University of Arizona, Fall 2005.
COMPUTER
SKILLS
Software:
C/++, Matlab, LaTex, GNU, HTML, Fortran, Pspice, ZeMax
Operating
systems: Linux, UNIX, Dos, Windows
9x/2000/NT/XP
HOBBIES
Football (a.k.a.
soccer), member of Denver FC,
Salsa, member of Ritmos Latinos Boulder,
Astronomy, Movies, Politics
LANGUAGE
PROFICIENCY
Fluency in
English, French, and Arabic; Portuguese in progress.
REFERENCES
Available
upon request.