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Papers and Patents

IEEE SoutheastCon 2008 Paper PDF preprint

P. Shoghi, C.J. Barnwell, T. P. Weldon, ``Experimental Results for an Inductively Matched Microwave Amplifier in a Standard 0.5 Micron CMOS Process Using Four Identical Spiral Inductors,'' IEEE SoutheastCon 2008 Proceedings , Huntsville, AL, April 2008.

IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, ``Removal of Image Segmentation Boundary Errors Using an N-ary Morphological Operator,'' IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Proceedings , pp. 509-513, Richmond, VA, March 2007.

IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Paper PDF preprint

D. T. Lieu and T. P. Weldon, ``Reduced Current Class AB Radio Receiver Stage Using Novel Superlinear Transistors with Parallel NMOS and PMOS Transistors at One GHz,'' IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Proceedings , pp.49-53, Richmond, VA, March 2007.

IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Paper PDF abstract preprint

C. Mack, V. Mogallapu, A. Willis, and T. Weldon, ``Exploiting Typical Clinical Imaging Constraints for 3D Outer Bone Surface Segmentation,'' IEEE SoutheastCon 2007 Proceedings , pp. 519-523, Richmond, VA, March 2007.

IEEE ICASSP 2006 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, ``Improved Image Segmentation with a Modified Bayesian Classifier,'' 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006) , pp. II-697-700, Toulouse, FR, May 2006.

D. Binkley, R. Makki, T. Weldon, A. Chehab, US patent 7,148,717,

``Methods and apparatus for testing electronic circuits,''
Dec. 12, 2006, US 7,148,717 patent cover sheet.

T. P. Weldon , US patent 6,943,628,

`` Methods and apparatus for substantially reducing nonlinear distortion,''
Sept. 13, 2005, US 6,943,628 patent cover sheet .

T. P. Weldon , US patent 6,906,585,

``Method and Apparatus for for cancellation of third order intermodulation distortion and other nonlinearities,''
June 14, 2005, US 6,906,585 patent cover sheet .

T. P. Weldon , US patent 6,853,247,

``Methods and apparatus for using Taylor series expansion concepts to substantially reduce nonlinear distortion,''
Feb. 8, 2005, US 6,853,247 patent cover sheet .

T. P. Weldon , US patent 6,853,248,

``Methods and apparatus for substantially reducing nonlinear distortion using multiple nonlinear devices,''
Feb. 8, 2005, US 6,853,248 patent cover sheet.

IEEE RFIC 2005 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, D. T. Lieu, and M. J. Davis, ``Experimental Results at One GHz on Linearizing an NMOS Transistor with a Parallel PMOS Transistor,'' 2005 IEEE Radio Frequency IC Symposium (RFIC 2005) , Long Beach, CA, June 2005.

T. P. Weldon , US patent 6,794,938,

``Method and Apparatus for for cancellation of third order intermodulation distortion and other nonlinearities,''
Sept. 21, 2004, US 6,794,938 patent cover sheet.

D. Binkley, R. Makki, T. Weldon, A. Chehab, US patent 6,833,724,

``Methods and apparatus for testing electronic circuits,''
Dec. 21, 2004, US 6,833,724 patent cover sheet.

IEEE IMS 2003 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon and K. Miehle, ``Using Amplifiers with Poor Linearity to Linearize Amplifiers with Good Linearity,'' 2003 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2003) , Philadelphia, PA, vol.3, pp.1741-44, June 2003.

A detailed Gabor filter paper

T. P. Weldon, July, 2002, unpublished paper on the simultaneous design of a classifier and Gabor filter-bank for texture segmentation.

IEEE ICASSP 2001 Paper. PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, Yuriy A. Gryazin, and Michael V. Klibanov, ``Novel Inverse Methods in Land Mine Imaging,'' 2001 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2001) , Salt Lake City, UT, 7-11 May, 2001. Presentation.

Computer Vision and Image Understanding 2000 Abstract of paper.

Joseph M. Reinhardt, Andrien J. Wang, Thomas P. Weldon, and W. E. Higgins, ``Cue-Based Segmentation of 4D Cardiac Image Sequences,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding , Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 251-262 , Feb. 2000.

SPIE Proceedings April 2000, preprint PDF preprint

Thomas P. Weldon, Yuriy A. Gryazin, and Michael V. Klibanov, ``Comparison of 2D and 1D Approaches to Forward Problem in Mine Detection,'' SPIE Proceedings , Vol. 4038 , pp. 1140-1148 , April 2000.

Optical Engineering 1999 PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon and W. E. Higgins, ``Designing Multiple Gabor Filters for Multi-Texture Image Segmentation,''
Optical Engineering , Vol. 38 No. 9 , pp. 1478-1489 , Sept. 1999.

IEEE ICIP 98 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon and W. E. Higgins, ``An Algorithm for Designing Multiple Gabor Filters for Segmenting Multi-Textured Images,'' 1998 IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP98) , Chicago, IL, 4-7 Oct. 1998.

Optical Engineering April 1997

D. F. Dunn, T. P. Weldon, and W. E. Higgins, ``Extracting Halftones from Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis,'' Optical Engineering , Vol. 36 No. 4, pp. 1044-1052, April 1997.

Pattern Recognition 1996 PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, W. E. Higgins, and D. F. Dunn, ``Efficient Gabor Filter Design for Texture Segmentation,'' Pattern Recognition , Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 2005-2015, Dec. 1996.

Optical Engineering October 1996 PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, W. E. Higgins, and D. F. Dunn, ``Gabor Filter Design for Multiple Texture Segmentation,'' Optical Engineering , Vol. 35 No. 10, pp. 2852-2863, October 1996.

IEEE ICIP 96 Paper #1 . PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon and W. E. Higgins, ``Integrated Approach to Texture Segmentation Using Multiple Gabor Filters,'' 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP96) , Lausanne, Switzerland, vol. III, pp. 955-958, 16-19 Sept. 1996.

IEEE ICIP 96 Paper #2 PDF preprint

D. F. Dunn, T. P. Weldon, and W. E. Higgins,

`` Extracting Halftones from Printed Documents Using Texture Analysis,''
1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP96) , Lausanne, Switzerland, vol. II, pp. 225-228, 16-19 Sept. 1996.

IEEE ICASSP 96 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon and W. E. Higgins, ``Design of Multiple Gabor Filters for Texture Segmentation,'' 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. Acous., Speech, Sig. Proc. (ICASSP96) , Atlanta, GA, vol. IV, pp. 2245-2248, 7 May 1996.

IEEE ICIP 94 Paper or PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon and W. E. Higgins, ``Multiscale Rician Approach to Gabor Filter Design for Texture Segmentation,'' 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing Austin, TX, vol II, pp. 620-624, 13-16 November, 1994.

IEEE ISCAS 94 Paper PDF preprint

T. P. Weldon, W. E. Higgins, and D. F. Dunn, ``Efficient Gabor Filter Design Using Rician Output Statistics,'' 1994 IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits, Systems, London, England, vol. 3, pp. 25-28, 30 May - 2 June, 1994.

T. Weldon, ``An Inductorless Double Scroll Chaotic Circuit,'' American Journal of Physics, October 1990.

Other papers

T. Weldon, ``High Sensitivity Wideband Millimeter Wave Receiver,'' U.S. Air Force Technical Report AFWAL-TR-87-1145, Wright Patterson AFB, February, 1988.

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