Leslie M. Collins

Research Interests

Physics-based machine learning algorithms for big data, including developing remediation strategies for the hearing impaired and sensor-based algorithms for the detection of hazardous buried objects

Bio

Leslie M. Collins earned the BSEE degree from the University of Kentucky, and the MSEE, and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan, AArbor. From 1986 through 1990 she was a Senior Engineer at Westinghouse Research and Development Center in Pittsburgh, PA. She joined Duke in 1995 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and to Professor in 2007. Her research interests include physics-based statistical signal processing, subsurface sensing, auditory prostheses and pattern recognition. She is a member of the Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies. Dr. Collins has been a member of the team formed to transition MURI-developed algorithms and hardware to the Army HSTAMIDS and GSTAMIDS landmine detection systems. She has been the principal investigator on research projects from ARO, NVESD, SERDP, ESTCP, NSF, and NIH. Dr. Collins was the PI on the DoD UXO Cleanup Project of the Year in 2000. As of 2015, Dr. Collins has graduated 15 PhD students.

Education

• B.S.E. University of Kentucky, 1985
• M.Sc.Eng. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1986
• Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1995

Positions

• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
• Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

Courses Taught

• IDS 793: Independent Study
• EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
• ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
• ECE 891: Internship
• ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 585: Signal Detection and Extraction Theory
• ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 392: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 391: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 292: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• ECE 280L: Introduction to Signals and Systems
• ECE 280L9: Signals and Systems - Lab
• BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
• BME 494: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
• BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)

Publications

• Karpurapu A, Williams HA, DeBenedittis P, Baker CE, Ren S, Thomas MC, et al. Deep Learning Resolves Myovascular Dynamics in the Failing Human Heart. JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2024 May;9(5):674–86.
• Shahidi LK, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. Objective intelligibility measurement of reverberant vocoded speech for normal-hearing listeners: Towards facilitating the development of speech enhancement algorithms for cochlear implants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2024 Mar;155(3):2151–68.
• Ren S, Luzi F, Lahrichi S, Kassaw K, Collins LM, Bradbury K, et al. Segment anything, from space? In: Proceedings - 2024 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2024. 2024. p. 8340–50.
• Spell GP, Ren S, Collins LM, Malof JM. Mixture Manifold Networks: A Computationally Efficient Baseline for Inverse Modeling. In: Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2023. 2023. p. 9874–81.
• Luzi F, Gupta A, Collins L, Bradbury K, Malof J. Transformers For Recognition In Overhead Imagery: A Reality Check. In: Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2023. 2023. p. 3767–76.
• Chu K, Collins L, Mainsah B. Suppressing reverberation in cochlear implant stimulus patterns using time-frequency masks based on phoneme groups. In: Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 2022.
• Shahidi LK, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. Parameter tuning of time-frequency masking algorithms for reverberant artifact removal within the cochlear implant stimulus. Cochlear implants international. 2022 Nov;23(6):309–16.
• Chen XJ, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. Language Model-Guided Classifier Adaptation for Brain-Computer Interfaces for Communication. In: Conference proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 2022. p. 1642–7.
• Huang B, Yang J, Streltsov A, Bradbury K, Collins LM, Malof JM. GridTracer: Automatic Mapping of Power Grids Using Deep Learning and Overhead Imagery. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 2022 Jan 1;15:4956–70.
• Chen XJ, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. Mitigating the Impact of Psychophysical Effects During Adaptive Stimulus Selection in the P300 Speller Brain-Computer Interface. In: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual International Conference. 2021. p. 5796–9.
• Chen XJ, LaPorte ET, Olsen C, Collins LM, Patel P, Karra R, et al. Heart Sound Analysis in Individuals Supported With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2021 Oct;68(10):3009–18.
• Mainsah BO, Patel PA, Chen XJ, Olsen C, Collins LM, Karra R. Novel Acoustic Biomarker of Quality of Life in Left Ventricular Assist Device Recipients. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Mar 16;10(6):e018588.
• Karpurapu A, Krekorian A, Tian Y, Collins LM, Karra R, Franklin AD, et al. Evaluating the effect of longitudinal dose and INR data on maintenance warfarin dose predictions. In: BHI 2021 - 2021 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Proceedings. 2021.
• Spell GP, Collins LM, Malof JM. APPLICATION OF COMPOSITIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ROBUST CLASSIFICATION OF INFRARED IMAGERY. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2021. p. 2799–802.
• Chu K, Collins L, Mainsah B. A causal deep learning framework for classifying phonemes in cochlear implants. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2021. p. 6498–502.
• Huang B, Bradbury K, Collins LM, Malof JM. Do Deep Learning Models Generalize to Overhead Imagery from Novel Geographic Domains? the xGD Benchmark Problem. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2020. p. 1476–9.
• Hu W, Alexander B, Cathcart W, Hu A, Nair V, Zuo L, et al. Mapping Electric Transmission Line Infrastructure from Aerial Imagery with Deep Learning. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2020. p. 2229–32.
• Chen XJ, Collins LM, Patel PA, Karra R, Mainsah BO. Heart Sound Analysis in Individuals Supported with Left Ventricular Assist Device: A First Look. In: Computing in Cardiology. 2020.
• Chu K, Collins L, Mainsah B. USING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS TO IMPROVE THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS IN REVERBERANT LISTENING ENVIRONMENTS. In: Proceedings of the . IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP (Conference). 2020. p. 6929–33.
• Stump EA, Reveriano F, Collins LM, Malof JM. How robust are deep object detectors to variability in ground truth bounding boxes? experiments for target recognition in infrared imagery. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2020.
• Malof JM, Reichman D, Karem A, Frigui H, Ho KC, Wilson JN, et al. A large-scale multi-institutional evaluation of advanced discrimination algorithms for buried threat detection in ground penetrating radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2019 Sep 1;57(9):6929–45.
• Kong F, Chen C, Huang B, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. Training a single multi-class convolutional segmentation network using multiple datasets with heterogeneous labels: Preliminary results. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2019. p. 3903–6.
• Lin K, Huang B, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. A simple rotational equivariance loss for generic convolutional segmentation networks: Preliminary results. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2019. p. 3876–9.
• Prabhudesai KS, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. Automated feature learning using deep convolutional auto-encoder neural network for clustering electroencephalograms into sleep stages. In: International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER. 2019. p. 937–40.
• Stump E, Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. How transferable are downward-looking and handheld ground penetrating radar data? Experiments in the context of buried threat detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2019.
• Jacobson S, Reichman D, Bjornstad J, Collins LM, Malof JM. Reliable training of convolutional neural networks for GPR-based buried threat detection using the Adam optimizer and batch normalization. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2019.
• Stump E, Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. An exploration of gradient-based features for buried threat detection using a handheld ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2019.
• Malof JM, Reichman D, Collins LM. Data augmentation in feature-space with generative adversarial networks, applied to GPR-based buried threat detection. In: 10th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, Held at Near Surface Geoscience Conference and Exhibition 2019, NSG 2019. 2019.
• Shahidi LK, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. Application of a Graphical Model to Investigate the Utility of Cross-channel Information for Mitigating Reverberation in Cochlear Implants. In: Proceedings of the . International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. 2018. p. 847–52.
• Huang B, Lu K, Audebert N, Khalel A, Tarabalka Y, Malof J, et al. Large-scale semantic classification: Outcome of the first year of inria aerial image labeling benchmark. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2018. p. 6947–50.
• Huang B, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. Deep convolutional segmentation of remote sensing imagery: A simple and efficient alternative to stitching output labels. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2018. p. 6899–902.
• Huang B, Reichman D, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. On the extraction of training imagery from very large remote sensing datasets for deep convolutional segmenatation networks. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2018. p. 6895–8.
• Wang R, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. Semisupervised adversarial discriminative domain adaptation, with application to remote sensing data. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2018. p. 3611–4.
• Harmon RS, Throckmorton CS, Hark RR, Gottfried JL, Wörner G, Harpp K, et al. Discriminating volcanic centers with handheld laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Journal of Archaeological Science. 2018 Oct 1;98:112–27.
• Prabhudesai KS, Mainsah BO, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Augmented Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Lda) Topic Model with Gaussian Mixture Topics. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2018. p. 2451–5.
• Clements JM, Kopper R, Zielinski DJ, Rao H, Sommer MA, Kirsch E, et al. Neurophysiology of Visual-Motor Learning during a Simulated Marksmanship Task in Immersive Virtual Reality. In: 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2018 - Proceedings. 2018. p. 451–8.
• Chu KM, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM, Mainsah BO. USING MACHINE LEARNING TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS OF REVERBERATION AND NOISE IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTS. In: Proceedings of meetings on acoustics Acoustical Society of America. 2018. p. 050003.
• Ryan DB, Colwell KA, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM, Caves K, Sellers EW. Evaluating Brain-Computer Interface Performance in an ALS Population: Checkerboard and Color Paradigms. Clin EEG Neurosci. 2018 Mar;49(2):114–21.
• Camilo JA, Collins LM, Malof JM. A large comparison of feature-based approaches for buried target classification in forward-looking ground-penetrating radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2018 Jan 1;56(1):547–58.
• Malof JM, Reichman D, Collins LM. How do we choose the best model? The impact of cross-validation design on model evaluation for buried threat detection in ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2018.
• Mainsah BO, Kalika D, Collins LM, Liu S, Throckmorton CS. Information-based adaptive stimulus selection to optimize communication efficiency in brain-computer interfaces. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2018. p. 4820–30.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. How much shape information is enough, or too much? Designing imaging descriptors for threat detection in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2018.
• Malof JM, Bralich J, Reichman D, Collins LM. Improving the histogram of oriented gradient feature for threat detection in ground penetrating radar by implementing it as a trainable convolutional neural network. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2018.
• Mainsah BO, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Designing a BCI Stimulus Presentation Paradigm Using a Performance-Based Approach. In: Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advances. 2018. p. 487–500.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. On choosing training and testing data for supervised algorithms in ground-penetrating radar data for buried threat detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2018 Jan 1;56(1):497–507.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. If training data appears to be mislabeled, should we relabel it? Improving supervised learning algorithms for threat detection in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2018.
• Huang B, Knox M, Bradbury K, Collins LM, Newell RG. Non-intrusive load monitoring system performance over a range of low frequency sampling rates. In: 2017 6th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2017. 2017. p. 505–9.
• Malof JM, Collins LM, Bradbury K. A deep convolutional neural network, with pre-training, for solar photovoltaic array detection in aerial imagery. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2017. p. 874–7.
• Qian S, Chelikani S, Wang P, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. Trading spatial resolution for improved accuracy when using detection algorithms on remote sensing imagery. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2017. p. 3716–9.
• So B, Nezin C, Kaimal V, Keene S, Collins L, Bradbury K, et al. Estimating the electricity generation capacity of solar photovoltaic arrays using only color aerial imagery. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2017. p. 1603–6.
• Sakaguchi R, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A Comparison of Feature Representations for Explosive Threat Detection in Ground Penetrating Radar Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2017 Dec 1;55(12):6736–45.
• Harmon RS, Hark RR, Throckmorton CS, Rankey EC, Wise MA, Somers AM, et al. Geochemical Fingerprinting by Handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. 2017 Dec 1;41(4):563–84.
• Kalika D, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS, Mainsah BO. Adaptive stimulus selection in ERP-based brain-computer interfaces by maximizing expected discrimination gain. In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2017. 2017. p. 1405–10.
• Kalika D, Collins L, Caves K, Throckmorton C. Fusion of P300 and eye-tracker data for spelling using BCI2000. Journal of neural engineering. 2017 Oct;14(5):056010.
• Mainsah BO, Reeves G, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Optimizing the stimulus presentation paradigm design for the P300-based brain-computer interface using performance prediction. Journal of neural engineering. 2017 Aug;14(4):046025.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. The effect of translational variance in training and testing images on supervised buried threat detection algorithms for ground penetrating radar. In: 2017 9th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2017 - Proceedings. 2017.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. Some good practices for applying convolutional neural networks to buried threat detection in Ground Penetrating Radar. In: 2017 9th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2017 - Proceedings. 2017.
• Camilo JA, Collins LM, Malof JM. Three-dimensional features, based on beamforming at multiple depths, improves landmine detection with a forward-looking ground-penetrating radar. In: 2017 9th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, IWAGPR 2017 - Proceedings. 2017.
• Wang R, Camilo J, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. The poor generalization of deep convolutional networks to aerial imagery from new geographic locations: An empirical study with solar array detection. In: Proceedings - Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop. 2017.
• Malof JM, Chelikani S, Collins LM, Bradbury K. Trading spatial resolution for improved accuracy in remote sensing imagery: An empirical study using synthetic data. In: Proceedings - Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop. 2017.
• Wang R, Camilo J, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Malof JM. The poor generalization of deep convolutional networks to aerial imagery from new geographic locations: An empirical study with solar array detection. In: Proceedings - Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop. 2017.
• Mainsah BO, Collins LM, Reeves G, Throckmorton CS. A performance-based approach to designing the stimulus presentation paradigm for the P300-based BCI by exploiting coding theory. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2017. p. 3026–30.
• Malof JM, Reichman D, Collins LM. Discriminative dictionary learning to learn effective features for detecting buried threats in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2017.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. Learning improved pooling regions for the histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) feature for buried threat detection in ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2017.
• Knox M, Rundel C, Collins L. Sensor fusion for buried explosive threat detection for handheld data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2017.
• Bralich J, Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. Improving convolutional neural networks for buried target detection in ground penetrating radar using transfer learning via pre-training. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2017.
• Reichman D, Collins LM, Malof JM. Improvements to the histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) prescreener for buried threat detection in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2017.
• Camilo JA, Crosskey M, Morton K, Collins LM, Malof JM. An improved frequency domain feature with partial least-squares dimensionality reduction for classifying buried threats in forwardlooking ground-penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2017.
• Bradbury K, Saboo R, L Johnson T, Malof JM, Devarajan A, Zhang W, et al. Distributed solar photovoltaic array location and extent dataset for remote sensing object identification. Scientific data. 2016 Dec;3:160106.
• Malof JM, Bradbury K, Collins LM, Newell RG. Automatic detection of solar photovoltaic arrays in high resolution aerial imagery. Applied Energy. 2016 Dec 1;183:229–40.
• Mainsah BO, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Using the detectability index to predict P300 speller performance. Journal of neural engineering. 2016 Dec;13(6):066007.
• Clements JM, Sellers EW, Ryan DB, Caves K, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Applying dynamic data collection to improve dry electrode system performance for a P300-based brain-computer interface. J Neural Eng. 2016 Dec;13(6):066018.
• Malof JM, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A Probabilistic Model for Designing Multimodality Landmine Detection Systems to Improve Rates of Advance. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2016 Sep 1;54(9):5258–70.
• Reichman D, Malof JM, Collins LM. Leveraging seed dictionaries to improve dictionary learning. In: Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP. 2016. p. 3723–7.
• Czarnek N, Morton K, Collins L, Newell R, Bradbury K. Performance comparison framework for energy disaggregation systems. In: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015. 2016. p. 446–52.
• Czarnek NM, Clark K, Peters KB, Collins LM, Mazurowski MA. Radiogenomics of glioblastoma: A pilot multi-institutional study to investigate a relationship between tumor shape features and tumor molecular subtype. In: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2016.
• Malof JM, Bradbury K, Collins LM, Newell RG, Serrano A, Wu H, et al. Image features for pixel-wise detection of solar photovoltaic arrays in aerial imagery using a random forest classifier. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2016. 2016. p. 799–803.
• Camilo JA, Malof JM, Collins LM. A feature learning approach for classifying buried threats in forward looking ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2016.
• Reichman D, Malof JM, Collins LM. Algorithm development for deeply buried threat detection in GPR data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2016.
• Malof JM, Collins LM. Using queuing models to aid design and guide research effort for multimodality buried target detection systems. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2016.
• Colwell KA, Collins LM. Attribute-driven transfer learning for detecting novel buried threats with ground-penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2016.
• Mazurowski MA, Czarnek NM, Collins LM, Peters KB, Clark K. Predicting outcomes in glioblastoma patients using computerized analysis of tumor shape - Preliminary data. In: Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. 2016.
• Malof JM, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Newell RG. A deep convolutional neural network and a random forest classifier for solar photovoltaic array detection in aerial imagery. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2016. 2016. p. 650–4.
• Mainsah BO, Morton KD, Collins LM, Sellers EW, Throckmorton CS. Moving Away From Error-Related Potentials to Achieve Spelling Correction in P300 Spellers. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2015 Sep;23(5):737–43.
• Czarnek N, Morton K, Collins L, Tantum S, Throckmorton C. The impact of time on seizure prediction performance in the FSPEEG database. Epilepsy & behavior : E&B. 2015 Jul;48:79–82.
• Throckmorton CS, Mayew WJ, Venkatachalam M, Collins LM. Financial fraud detection using vocal, linguistic and financial cues. Decision Support Systems. 2015 Jun 1;74:78–87.
• Manandhar A, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A nonparametric bayesian approach to multiple instance learning. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. 2015 May 28;29(3).
• Manandhar A, Torrione PA, Collins LM, Morton KD. Multiple-instance hidden markov model for GPR-based landmine detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2015 Apr 1;53(4):1737–45.
• Mainsah BO, Collins LM, Colwell KA, Sellers EW, Ryan DB, Caves K, et al. Increasing BCI communication rates with dynamic stopping towards more practical use: an ALS study. J Neural Eng. 2015 Feb;12(1):016013.
• Camilo JA, Malof JM, Torrione PA, Collins LM, Morton KD. Clutter and target discrimination in forward-looking ground penetrating radar using sparse structured basis pursuits. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015.
• Knox M, Torrione P, Collins L, Morton K. Buried threat detection using a handheld ground penetrating radar system. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015 Jan 1;9454.
• Reichman D, Morton KD, Malof JM, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Target signature localization in GPR data by jointly estimating and matching templates. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015.
• Kalika D, Knox MT, Collins LM, Torrione PA, Morton KD. Leveraging robust principal component analysis to detect buried explosive threats in handheld ground-penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015.
• Malof JM, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A queuing model for designing multi-modality buried target detection systems: Preliminary results. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015.
• Sakaguchi RT, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Recognizing subsurface target responses in ground penetrating radar data using convolutional neural networks. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015.
• Colwell KA, Torrione PA, Morton KD, Collins LM. Improving buried threat detection in ground-penetrating radar with transfer learning and metadata analysis. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2015.
• Malof JM, Hou R, Collins LM, Bradbury K, Newell R. Automatic solar photovoltaic panel detection in satellite imagery. In: 2015 International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications, ICRERA 2015. 2015. p. 1428–31.
• Colwell K, Throckmorton C, Collins L, Morton K. Projected accuracy metric for the P300 Speller. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2014 Sep;22(5):921–5.
• Colwell KA, Ryan DB, Throckmorton CS, Sellers EW, Collins LM. Channel selection methods for the P300 Speller. J Neurosci Methods. 2014 Jul 30;232:6–15.
• Mainsah BO, Colwell KA, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Utilizing a language model to improve online dynamic data collection in P300 spellers. IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 2014 Jul;22(4):837–46.
• Desmond JM, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. The effects of reverberant self- and overlap-masking on speech recognition in cochlear implant listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2014 Jun;135(6):EL304–10.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Analysis of linear prediction for soil characterization in gpr data for countermine applications. Sensing and Imaging. 2014 Jan 1;15(1).
• Ratto CR, Jr KDM, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Bayesian context-dependent learning for anomaly classification in hyperspectral imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2014 Jan 1;52(4):1969–81.
• Kalika D, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Hyperbolic and PLSDA filter algorithms to detect buried threats in GPR data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Reichman D, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Target localization and signature extraction in GPR data using expectation-maximization and principal component analysis. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Knox M, Tantum S, Collins L. Target detection and identification using synthetic aperture acoustics. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Torrione P, Collins LM, Morton KD. Multivariate analysis, chemometrics, and machine learning in laser spectroscopy. In: Laser Spectroscopy for Sensing: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications. 2014. p. 125–64.
• Torrione PA, Collins LM, Morton KD. Experiment design for measuring the probability of detection in remote sensing: How many objects and how many passes. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A robust Bayesian approach to target detection applied to explosive threat detection in handheld ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Sakaguchi RT, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Physics-based deformations of ground penetrating radar signals to improve the detection of buried explosives. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Malof JM, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Fusion of forward looking infrared and ground penetrating radar for improved stopping distances in landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Malof JM, Knox M, Torrione PA, Collins LM, Morton KD. A novel algorithm for buried target detection evaluated on a collection of seismo-acoustic data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2014.
• Torrione PA, Morton KD, Sakaguchi R, Collins LM. Histograms of oriented gradients for landmine detection in ground-penetrating radar data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2014 Jan 1;52(3):1539–50.
• Desmond JM, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Using channel-specific statistical models to detect reverberation in cochlear implant stimuli. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2013 Aug;134(2):1112–20.
• Throckmorton CS, Colwell KA, Ryan DB, Sellers EW, Collins LM. Bayesian approach to dynamically controlling data collection in P300 spellers. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2013 May;21(3):508–17.
• Malof JM, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A novel framework for processing forward looking infrared imagery with application to buried threat detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2013.
• Torrione PA, Morton KD, Sakaguchi R, Collins LM. Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Landmine Detection in Ground-Penetrating Radar Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2013;
• Manandhar A, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Multiple instance hidden markov models for GPR-based landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2013.
• Tantum SL, Colwell KA, Scott WR, Torrione PA, Collins LM, Morton KD. Sparse model inversion and processing of spatial frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensor array data for improved landmine discrimination. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2013.
• Tantum SL, Scott WR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Target classification and identification using sparse model representations of frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensor data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2013 Jan 1;51(5):2689–706.
• Sakaguchi RT, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Application of image categorization methods for buried threat detection in GPR data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2013.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Bayesian Context-Dependent Learning for Anomaly Classification in Hyperspectral Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2013;
• Torrione P, Morton KD, Gottfried JL, Collins LM. A new approach to elemental inference in LIBS: A statistical model for spectral analysis. In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. 2013.
• Wang P, Torrione P, Collins L, Morton K. Rapid tracking for autonomous driving with monocular video. In: 2013 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2013 - Proceedings. 2013. p. 133–8.
• Torrione P, Morton KD, Gottfried JL, Collins LM. A new approach to elemental inference in LIBS: A statistical model for spectral analysis. In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. 2013.
• Duran SI, Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Stream segregation on a single electrode as a function of pulse rate in cochlear implant listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2012 Dec;132(6):3849–55.
• Torrione P, Morton KD, Sakaguchi R, Collins LM. Histogram of gradient features for buried threat detection in ground penetrating radar data. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2012. p. 3182–5.
• Torrione P, Morton KD, Sakaguchi R, Collins LM. Computer vision techniques for target detection in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, SIP 2012. 2012. p. 41–7.
• Dedigama A, Angelo M, Torrione P, Kim TH, Wolter S, Lampert W, et al. Hemin-functionalized InAs-based high sensitivity room temperature NO gas sensors. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2012 Jan 12;116(1):826–33.
• Collins L. Chemometrics and machine learning for spectral analysis. In: Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis, LACSEA 2012. 2012.
• Manandhar A, Morton KDJ, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Multiple Instance Learning for Landmine Detection using GPR. In: DETECTION AND SENSING OF MINES, EXPLOSIVE OBJECTS, AND OBSCURED TARGETS XVII. 2012.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A Bayesian method for discriminative context-dependent fusion of GPR-based detection algorithms. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Sakaguchi RT, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Keypoint-based image processing for landmine detection in GPR data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Morton K, Ratto C, Malof J, Gunter M, Collins L, Torrione P. Change-based threat detection in urban environments with a forward-looking camera. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Tantum SL, Colwell KA, Morton KD, Scott WR, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Feature extraction and processing of spatial frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensor data for improved landmine discrimination. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Wang PK, Torrione PA, Collins LM, Morton KD. Rapid position estimation and tracking for autonomous driving. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Malof JM, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Processing forward-looking data for anomaly detection: Single-look, multi-look, and spatial classification. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, McMichael IT, Burns BP, Clark WW, Collins LM, et al. Integration of lidar with the NIITEK GPR for improved performance on rough terrain. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Tantum SL, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Investigation of the effects of operator technique on handheld sensor data for landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2012.
• Collins L. Chemometrics and machine learning for spectral analysis. In: Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis, LACSEA 2012. 2012.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A comparison of principal components and endmember-based contextual learning for hyperspectral anomaly classification. In: Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, Evolution in Remote Sensing. 2011.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. A hidden Markov context model for GPR-based landmine detection incorporating stick-breaking priors. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2011. p. 874–7.
• Morton KD, Torrione PA, Collins L. Signal processing for the detection of explosive residues on varying substrates using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Contextual learning in ground-penetrating radar data using Dirichlet process priors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Torrione P, Morton K, Ratto C, Gunter M, Collins L. Change detection for detecting potential threats in forward-looking video and downward-looking ground-penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Torrione PA, Morton K, Collins LM. The Viterbi algorithm as an approach for incorporating spatial information into air/ground interface inference in GPR data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Morton KD, Torrione PA, Collins L. Classification of acoustic gunshot signatures using a nonparametric Bayesian signal model. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Wang PK, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Exploiting spectral content for image segmentation in GPR data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Tantum SL, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensor data feature extraction and processing for improved landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Ratto CR, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Physics-based features for identifying contextual factors affecting landmine detection with ground-penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Manandhar A, Morton KD, Collins LM, Torrione PA. Multiple instance learning framework for landmine detection using ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2011.
• Morton KD, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Variational bayesian learning for mixture autoregressive models with uncertain-order. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 2011 Jun 1;59(6):2614–27.
• Kolba MP, Scott WR, Collins LM. A framework for information-based sensor management for the detection of static targets. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans. 2011 Jan 1;41(1):105–20.
• Ratto CR, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Exploiting ground-penetrating radar phenomenology in a context-dependent framework for landmine detection and discrimination. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2011 Jan 1;49(5):1689–700.
• Ratto C, Torrione P, Collins L. Estimation of soil permittivity through autoregressive modeling of time-domain ground-penetrating radar data. In: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2010. 2010.
• Tantum SL, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Sparse model representations of target signatures for improved landmine detection using frequency-domain electromagnetic induction sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2010.
• Kolba MP, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Fusion of ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction sensors for landmine detection and discrimination. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2010.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Information-based sensor management for the intelligent tasking of ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic induction sensors in landmine detection pre-screening. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2010.
• Ratto CR, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Context-dependent feature selection using unsupervised contexts applied to GPR-based landmine detection. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2010 Dec 1;7664.
• Morton KD, Torrione PA, Collins L. Nonparametric Bayesian time-series modeling and clustering of time-domain ground penetrating radar landmine responses. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2010.
• Morton KD, Torrione P, Collins LM. Dirichlet process based context learning for mine detection in hyperspectral imagery. In: 2nd Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, WHISPERS 2010 - Workshop Program. 2010.
• Alvey DC, Morton K, Harmon RS, Gottfried JL, Remus JJ, Collins LM, et al. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy-based geochemical fingerprinting for the rapid analysis and discrimination of minerals: The example of garnet. Applied Optics. 2010 May 1;49(13).
• Ratto C, Torrione P, Morton K, Collins L. Context-dependent landmine detection with ground-penetrating radar using a hidden Markov context model. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2010. p. 4192–5.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Identifying channel-specific impairments in cochlear implant patients via partial least squares discriminant analysis of speech-token confusion matrices. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2010. p. 4746–9.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Phenomenolgical model inversion with fisher information metrics for unexploded ordnance detection. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2010. p. 691–4.
• Ybarra GA, Collins LM, Huettel LG, Coonley KD, Massoud HZ, Board JA, et al. Integrated sensing and information processing theme-based redesign of the undergraduate electrical and computer engineering curriculum at Duke University. Advances in Engineering Education. 2010;2(4).
• Torrione P, Collins L. Spatial latency reduction in GPR processing using stochastic sampling. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2010. p. 3354–7.
• Torrione P, Ratto C, Collins LM. Multiple instance and context dependent learning in hyperspectral data. In: WHISPERS ’09 - 1st Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing. 2009.
• Ybarra GA, Collins LM, Huettel LG, Massoud HZ, Board JA, Brooke M, et al. Integrating sensing and information processing in an electrical and computer engineering undergraduate curriculum. In: Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE. 2009.
• Ratto CR, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Context-dependent feature selection for landmine detection with ground-penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2009.
• Bradbury K, Torrione PA, Collins L. Realtime gaussian markov random field based ground tracking for ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2009.
• Morton KD, Collins L. Bayesian detection of acoustic muzzle blasts. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2009.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Sensor management using a new framework for observation modeling. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2009.
• Torrione P, Morton K, Lunsford C, Collins L. A graphical user interface for real-time spectroscopy: Software architecture for data collection, feature extraction, model development, and real-time testing. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2009.
• Stohl JS, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Investigating the effects of stimulus duration and context on pitch perception by cochlear implant users. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2009 Jul;126(1):318–26.
• Harmon RS, Remus J, McMillan NJ, McManus C, Collins L, Gottfried JL, et al. LIBS analysis of geomaterials: Geochemical fingerprinting for the rapid analysis and discrimination of minerals. Applied Geochemistry. 2009 Jun 1;24(6):1125–41.
• Tantum SL, Zhu Q, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Modeling position error probability density functions for statistical inversions using a Goff-Jordan rough surface model. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 2009 Jan 1;23(2):155–67.
• Stohl JS, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Investigating the influence of pulse rate and duration on pitch perception in cochlear implants. In: Proceedings - European Conference on Noise Control. 2008. p. 459–64.
• Kolba MP, Torrione PA, Scott WR, Collins LM. Information-based sensor management for landmine detection using electromagnetic induction, ground-penetrating radar, and seismic sensors. In: Proceedings - European Conference on Noise Control. 2008. p. 63–8.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Analysis of an information-based sensor manager applicable to landmine detection. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2008.
• Remus JJ, Morton KD, Torrione PA, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Comparison of a distance-based likelihood ratio test and k-nearest neighbor classification methods. In: Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2008. 2008. p. 362–7.
• Morton KD, Torrione PA, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Mandarin Chinese tone identification in cochlear implants: predictions from acoustic models. Hearing research. 2008 Oct;244(1–2):66–76.
• Erdogan ES, Ozev S, Collins LM. Online SNR detection for dynamic power management in wireless ad-hoc networks. In: PRIME - 2008 PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, Proceedings. 2008. p. 225–8.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Sensor management for landmine detection using correlated sensor observations. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2008.
• Torrione PA, Collins L. Application of Markov random fields to landmine discrimination in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2008.
• Fails EB, Torrione PA, Scott WR, Collins LM. Performance comparison of frequency domain quadrupole and dipole electromagnetic induction sensors in a landmine detection application. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2008.
• Stohl JS, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Assessing the pitch structure associated with multiple rates and places for cochlear implant users. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2008 Feb;123(2):1043–53.
• Tantum SL, Yu Y, Collins LM. Bayesian mitigation of sensor position errors to improve unexploded ordnance detection. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 2008 Jan 1;5(1):103–7.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Matching pursuits decomposition for discrimination of unexploded ordnance: Isolated and overlapping signatures. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2008. p. 21–4.
• Torrione P, Collins L. Statistical models for landmine detection in ground penetrating radar: Applications to synthetic data generation and pre-screening. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2008. p. 367–70.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Comparison of adaptive psychometric procedures motivated by the theory of optimal experiments: simulated and experimental results. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2008 Jan;123(1):315–26.
• Remus JJ, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Expediting the identification of impaired channels in cochlear implants via analysis of speech-based confusion matrices. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2007 Dec;54(12):2193–204.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Sensor management for static target detection with non-binary sensor observations and observation uncertainty. In: IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Proceedings. 2007. p. 74–8.
• Tang L, Torrione PA, Eldeniz C, Collins LM. Ground bounce tracking for landmine detection using a sequential Monte Carlo method. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2007.
• Torrione PA, Collins L. Image segmentation techniques for improved processing of landmine responses in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2007.
• Fails EB, Torrione PA, Scott WR, Collins LM. Performance of a four parameter model for modeling landmine signatures in frequency domain wideband electromagnetic induction detection systems. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2007.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Managing landmine detection sensors: Results from application to AMDS data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2007.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Predictions of psychophysical measurements for sinusoidal amplitude modulated (SAM) pulse-train stimuli from a stochastic model. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2007 Aug;54(8):1389–98.
• Torrione P, Collins LM. Texture features for antitank landmine detection using ground penetrating radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2007 Jul 1;45(7):2374–82.
• Throckmorton CS, Selin Kucukoglu M, Remus JJ, Collins LM. The effect of frequency estimation on speech recognition using an acoustic model of a cochlear implant. Hearing research. 2007 Jun;228(1–2):230–1.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Information-based sensor management in the presence of uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 2007 Jun 1;55(6 I):2731–5.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. A comparison of adaptive psychometric procedures based on the theory of optimal experiments and bayesian techniques: implications for cochlear implant testing. Perception & psychophysics. 2007 Apr;69(3):311–23.
• Throckmorton CS, Tantum SL, Tan Y, Collins LM. Independent component analysis for UXO detection in highly cluttered environments. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 2007 Mar 19;61(3–4):304–17.
• Liao Y, Nolte LW, Collins LM. Decision fusion of ground-penetrating radar and metal detector algorithms - A robust approach. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2007 Feb 1;45(2):398–409.
• Huettel L, Coonley K, Gustafson M, Kim J, Ybarra G, Collins L. Experiment, explore, design: A sensor-based introductory ECE laboratory. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2007.
• Tantum SL, Tan Y, Collins LM. Kalman filtering for weak signal detection in remote sensing. In: Signal Processing for Remote Sensing. 2007. p. 127–50.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Identifying impaired cochlear implant channels via speech-token confusion matrix analysis. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2007. p. 741–4.
• Huettel LG, Brown AS, Coonley KD, Gustafson MR, Kim J, Ybarra GA, et al. Fundamentals of ECE: A rigorous, integrated introduction to electrical and computer engineering. IEEE Transactions on Education. 2007;50(3):174–81.
• Huettel L, Coonley K, Gustafson M, Kim J, Ybarra G, Collins L. Experiment, explore, design: A sensor-based introductory ECE laboratory. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2007.
• Brown A, Ybarra G, Massoud H, Board J, Holmes J, Coonley K, et al. Redesign of the core curriculum at Duke University. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2006.
• Torrione P, Collins L. Ground response tracking for improved landmine detection in ground penetrating radar data. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2006. p. 153–6.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Sensor management with uncertain performance characteristics. In: 2006 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop Proceedings, SAM 2006. 2006. p. 456–60.
• Huettel L, Brown A, Collins L, Coonley K, Gustafson M, Kim J, et al. A novel introductory course for teaching the fundamentals of electrical and computer engineering. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2006.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. The effects of uncertainty and uncertainty modeling on information-based sensor manager performance. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2006.
• Torrione PA, Collins L, Clodfelter F, Lulich D, Patrikar A, Howard P, et al. Constrained filter optimization for subsurface landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2006.
• Torrione P, Remus J, Collins L. Comparison of pattern recognition approaches for multi-sensor detection and discrimination of anti-personnel and anti-tank landmines. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2006.
• Throckmorton CS, Selin Kucukoglu M, Remus JJ, Collins LM. Acoustic model investigation of a multiple carrier frequency algorithm for encoding fine frequency structure: implications for cochlear implants. Hearing research. 2006 Aug;218(1–2):30–42.
• Torrione PA, Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Performance of an adaptive feature-based processor for a wideband ground penetrating radar system. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 2006 Apr 1;42(2):644–58.
• Tantum SL, Wang YQ, Collins LM. Statistical and adaptive signal processing for UXO discrimination for next-generation sensor data. In: PIERS 2006 Cambridge - Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Proceedings. 2006. p. 302–5.
• Kolba MP, Collins LM. Information-theoretic sensor management for multimodal sensing. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2006. p. 3918–21.
• Song J, Liu QH, Torrione P, Collins L. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional NUFFT migration method for landmine detection using ground-penetrating radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2006;44(6):1462–9.
• Brown A, Ybarra G, Massoud H, Board J, Holmes J, Coonley K, et al. Redesign of the core curriculum at Duke University. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2006.
• Huettel L, Brown A, Collins L, Coonley K, Gustafson M, Kim J, et al. A novel introductory course for teaching the fundamentals of electrical and computer engineering. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2006.
• Tantum SL, Tan Y, Collins LM. Kalman filtering for weak signal detection in remote sensing. In: Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing. 2006. p. 129–52.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Expediting the identification of impaired cochlear implant acoustic model channels through confusion matrix analysis. In: 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. 2005. p. 418–21.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. The effects of noise on speech recognition in cochlear implant subjects: Predictions and analysis using acoustic models. Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing. 2005 Dec 1;2005(18):2979–90.
• Torrione PA, Throckmorton CS, Collins L, Clodfelter F, Frasier S, Starnes I, et al. Application of matched subspace detectors to target detection and identification in ground penetrating radar data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2005. p. 1160–71.
• Yu Y, Collins LM. Multi-modal Iterative Adaptive Processing (MIAP) performance in the discrimination mode for landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2005. p. 1108–17.
• Zachery KN, Schultz GM, Collins LM. Force Protection Demining System (FPDS) detection subsystem. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2005. p. 1018–29.
• Whitecotton B, McManus T, Kuhn S, Dalichaouch Y, Carin L, Torrione P, et al. Analysis of wideband EMI field data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2005. p. 254–62.
• Kolba MP, Torrione PA, Collins LM. Information-based sensor management for landmine detection using multimodal sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2005. p. 1098–107.
• Tan Y, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Kalman filtering for enhanced landmine detection using quadrupole resonance. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2005 Jul 1;43(7):1507–16.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Predicting dynamic range and intensity discrimination for electrical pulse-train stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of stimulus noise. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2005 Jun;52(6):1040–9.
• Tan Y, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Uxo discrimination using blind source separation. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophyics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, SAGEEP. 2005. p. 1306–17.
• Torrione P, Collins L. Application and extension of texture feature coding methods to anti-tank landmine detection. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophyics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, SAGEEP. 2005. p. 1211–21.
• Zhu Q, Collins LM. Application of feature extraction methods for landmine detection using the wichmann/niitek ground-penetrating radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2005 Jan 1;43(1):81–5.
• Collins LM, Huettel LG, Brown AS, Ybarra GA, Holmes JS, Board JA, et al. Theme-based redesign of the duke university ECE curriculum: The first steps. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2005. p. 14313–26.
• Wang C, Collins L. Feature selection for physics model based object discrimination. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2005. p. 1200–8.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. A vertically-integrated application-driven signal processing laboratory. In: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 2005. p. 15613–23.
• Schultz GM, Zachery KN, Collins LM. Multisensor, remotely-operated force protection mine detection. In: Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophyics to Engineering and Environmental Problems, SAGEEP. 2005. p. 1222–35.
• Huettel LG, Baier JM, Collins LM. Man versus machine: Robust regional processing of EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 866–73.
• Torrione PA, Throckmorton CS, Collins L, Clodfelter F, Frasier S, Starnes I, et al. Feature-based processing of pre-screener generated alarms for performance improvements in target identification using the niitek ground-penetrating radar system. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 984–95.
• Marr B, Torrione P, Miller J, Collins L. Parameterized likelihood ratio method for EMI unexploded ordnance detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 843–54.
• Borgonovi GM, Holslin DT, Collins LM, Tantum SL. Data analysis for classification of UXO filler using pulsed neutron techniques. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 502–9.
• Tan Y, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Signal processing for improved explosives detection using quadrupole resonance. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 822–33.
• Throckmorton CS, Torrione PA, Collins LM, Gader P, Lee WH, Wilson JN. The efficacy of human observation for discrimination and feature identification of targets measured by the NIITEK ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 963–72.
• Yu Y, Torrione P, Collins LM. Landmine discrimination via Bayesian adaptive multi-modal processing: Results for handheld and vehicular sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 791–8.
• Lang DA, Duston BM, Torrione P, Collins L. Three dimensional features to improve detection using ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2004. p. 913–22.
• Torrione P, Collins L. Application of texture feature classification methods to landmine / clutter discrimination in off-lane GPR data. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2004. p. 1621–4.
• Huettel L, Brown A, Gustafson M, Massoud H, Ybarra G, Collins L. Work in progress: Theme-based redesign of an electrical and computer engineering curriculum. In: Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE. 2004.
• Hu W, Tantum SL, Collins LM. EMI-based classification of multiple closely spaced subsurface objects via independent component analysis. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2004 Nov 1;42(11):2544–54.
• Remus J, Collins LM. Predicting vowel and consonant confusions using signal processing techniques. In: International Congress Series. Elsevier BV; 2004. p. 15–8.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Dynamic range and intensity discrimination with high-rate pulse-train carriers: Predictions from a stochastic model and comparison with performance for noise-modulated pulse-train stimuli. In: International Congress Series. 2004. p. 27–31.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Vowel and consonant confusion in noise by cochlear implant subjects: Predicting performance using signal processing techniques. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2004.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Theoretical prediction of dynamic range and intensity discrimination for electrical noise-modulated pulse-train stimuli. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2004.
• Hu W, Collins LM. Classification of closely spaced subsurface objects using electromagnetic induction data and blind source separation algorithms. Radio Science. 2004 Jul 1;39(4).
• Riggs L, Chilaka S, Collins L, Lowe L, Weaver R. Discrimination experiments with the U.S. Army's standard metal detector. Radio Science. 2004 Jul 1;39(4).
• Tan Y, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Cramer-Rao lower bound for estimating quadrupole resonance signals in non-Gaussian noise. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 2004 May 1;11(5):490–3.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. A theoretical analysis of normal- And impaired-hearing intensity discrimination. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. 2004 May 1;12(3):323–33.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Predicting the threshold of pulse-train electrical stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of stimulus noise. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2004 Apr;51(4):590–603.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. Predicting auditory tone-in-noise detection performance: the effects of neural variability. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2004 Feb;51(2):282–93.
• Remus JJ, Collins LM. Vowel and consonant confusion in noise by cochlear implant subjects: Predicting performance using signal processing techniques. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2004. p. IV-13-IV–16.
• Ho KC, Collins LM, Huettel LG, Gader PD. Discrimination mode processing for EMI and GPR sensors for hand-held land mine detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2004 Jan 1;42(1):249–63.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Theoretical prediction of dynamic range and intensity discrimination for electrical noise-modulated pulse-train stimuli. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2004. p. IV-21-IV–24.
• Schofield D, Hu W, Collins L. Separation of overlapping signatures in EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 904–15.
• Yu Y, Collins LM. Adaptive Multi-Modality Processing for the Discrimination of Landmines. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1316–23.
• Torrione P, Collins L, Clodfelter F, Frasier S, Starnes I. Application of the LMS Algorithm to Anomaly Detection Using the Wichmann/Niitek Ground Penetrating Radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1127–36.
• Liao Y, Nolte LW, Collins L. Optimal Multisensor Decision Fusion of Mine Detection Algorithms. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1252–60.
• Huettel LG, Riggs LS, Collins LM. Region processing of EMI data for landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 680–8.
• Nelson B, Schofield D, Collins L. A comparison of neural networks and sub-space detectors for the discrimination of low-metal content landmines. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1046–53.
• Zhang Y, Collins L, Carin L. Physics model based unexploded ordnance discrimination using wideband EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1023–34.
• Zhang Y, Collins LM, Carin L. Model-Based Statistical Signal Processing for UXO Discrimination: Performance Results from the JPG-V Demonstration. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1116–26.
• Tantum SL, Collins LM, Khadr N, Barrow BJ. Correcting GPS Measurement Errors Induced by System Motion over Uneven Terrain. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 1105–15.
• Tantum SL, Collins LM. Performance bounds and a parameter transformation for decay rate estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2003 Oct 1;41(10 PART I):2224–31.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Predicting the threshold of single-pulse electrical stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of noise. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 2003 Jul;50(7):825–35.
• Ferguson WD, Collins LM, Smith DW. Psychophysical threshold variability in cochlear implant subjects. Hearing research. 2003 Jun;180(1–2):101–13.
• Zhang Y, Collins L, Yu H, Baum CE, Carin L. Sensing of unexploded ordnance with magnetometer and induction data: Theory and signal processing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2003 May 1;41(5 PART 1):1005–15.
• Xu Y, Collins L. Stochastic resonance in the electrically stimulated auditory nerve: Predictions using a stochastic model of neural responsiveness. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2003. p. 77–91.
• Zhang Y, Collins LM, Carin L. Unexploded ordnance detection using Bayesian physics-based data fusion. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering. 2003 Jan 1;10(3):231–47.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. A theoretical comparison of information transmission in the peripheral auditory system: Normal and impaired frequency discrimination. Speech Communication. 2003 Jan 1;39(1–2):5–21.
• Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. The effect of channel interactions on speech recognition in cochlear implant subjects: predictions from an acoustic model. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2002 Jul;112(1):285–96.
• Collins L, Gao P, Schofield D, Moulton JP, Makowsky LC, Reidy DM, et al. A statistical approach to landmine detection using broadband electromagnetic induction data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2002 Apr 1;40(4):950–62.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. A theoretical analysis of the effects of auditory impairment on intensity discrimination. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2002.
• Tan Y, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Landmine detection with nuclear quadrupole resonance. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2002. p. 1575–8.
• Tantum SL, Collins LM. A parameter transformation and cramér-rao bounds for estimating decay rates from exponential signals. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2002. p. 2568–71.
• Tantum SL, Collins LM. A parameter transformation for improved decay rate estimation. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2002. p. 812–20.
• Collins LM, Torrione P, Munshi V, Throckmorton CS, Zhu Q, Clodfelter F, et al. Algorithms for landmine detection using the NIITEK ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2002. p. 709–18.
• Tantum SL, Wei Y, Munshi VS, Collins LM. A comparison of algorithms for landmine detection and discrimination using ground penetrating radar. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2002. p. 728–35.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. Model-based predictions of intensity discrimination for normal- and impaired-hearing listeners. In: 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002. 2002. p. 421–4.
• Collins LM, Zhang Y, Carin L. Model-based statistical sensor fusion for unexploded ordnance detection. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2002. p. 1556–9.
• Torrione P, Collins L. The performance of matched subspace detectors and support vector machines for induction-based landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2002. p. 800–11.
• Zhang Y, Wang CM, Collins LM. Adaptive time delay estimation method with signal selectivity. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2002. p. 1477–80.
• Xu Y, Collins LM. Threshold prediction for noise-modulated electrical stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: Implications for cochlear implants. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2002.
• Collins LM, Huettel LG, Simpson WA, Tantum SL. Sensor fusion of EMI and GPR data for improved landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2002. p. 872–9.
• Collins L, Gao P, Tantum S. Model-based statistical signal processing using electromagnetic induction data for landmine detection and classification. In: IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Proceedings. 2001. p. 162–5.
• Tan Y, Tantum S, Collins L. Enhanced signal and auditory processing for landmine detection using EMI sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2001. p. 852–8.
• Collins LM, Huettel LG. Single sensor processing and sensor fusion for GPR and EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2001. p. 952–8.
• Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. A comparison of two loudness balancing tasks in cochlear implant subjects using bipolar stimulation. Ear and hearing. 2001 Oct;22(5):439–48.
• Tantum SL, Collins LM. A comparison of algorithms for subsurface target detection and identification using time-domain electromagnetic induction data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2001 Jun 1;39(6):1299–306.
• Dogaru T, Collins L, Carin L. Optimal time-domain detection of a deterministic target buried under a randomly rough interface. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 2001 Mar 1;49(3):313–26.
• Collins LM, Zhang Y, Li J, Wang H, Carin L, Hart SJ, et al. A comparison of the performance of statistical and fuzzy algorithms for unexploded ordnance detection. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 2001;9(1):17–30.
• Chiang PJ, Tantum SL, Collins LM. Signal processing of ground penetrating radar data for subsurface object detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2001. p. 470–5.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. A theoretical study of information transmission in the auditory system using signal detection theory: Frequency discrimination by normal and impaired systems. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2001. p. 3305–8.
• Collins L, Gao P, Makowsky L, Moulton J, Reidy D, Weaver D. Improving detection of low-metallic content landmines using EMI data. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2000. p. 1631–3.
• Tantum SL, Collins LM. Performance bounds for target identification using decay rates estimates from EMI measurements. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 2000. p. 2278–80.
• Gao P, Collins LM. A theoretical performance analysis and simulation of time-domain EMI sensor data for land mine detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2000 Dec 1;38(4 II):2042–55.
• Collins LM, Throckmorton CS. Investigating perceptual features of electrode stimulation via a multidimensional scaling paradigm. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2000 Nov;108(5 Pt 1):2353–65.
• Gao P, Collins LM, Carin L. Bayesian optimal classification of metallic objects: a comparison of time-domain and frequency-domain EMI performance. In: Dubey AC, Harvey JF, Broach JT, Dugan RE, editors. SPIE Proceedings. SPIE; 2000. p. 25–25.
• Ping Gao, Collins L, Garber PM, Geng N, Carin L. Classification of landmine-like metal targets using wideband electromagnetic induction. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2000 May;38(3):1352–61.
• Collins L, Tantum S, Gao P, Moulton J, Makowsky L, Reidy D, et al. Improved detection of low-metallic content landmines using EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. 14–24.
• Gao P, Collins LM. Two-dimensional generalized likelihood ratio test for land mine and small unexploded ordnance detection. Signal Processing. 2000 Jan 1;80(8):1669–86.
• Tan Y, Huettel L, Collins L. Predicting improved human auditory discrimination for landmine detection using EMI sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. I/-.
• Gao P, Collins L. Time-domain metal detector and GPR data processing and fusion for landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. II/-.
• Tantum S, Collins L. Detection and classification of landmine-like targets in a non-Gaussian noise environment. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000.
• Tantum S, Collins L. Physics-based statistical signal processing for improved landmine detection and classification via decay rate estimation. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000.
• Collins L, Tantum S, Gao P, Moulton J, Makowsky L, Reidy D, et al. Improved detection of low-metallic content landmines using EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000.
• Tan Y, Huettel L, Collins L. Predicting improved human auditory discrimination for landmine detection using EMI sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. 122–9.
• Gao P, Collins L. Time-domain metal detector and GPR data processing and fusion for landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. 847–52.
• Tantum S, Collins L. Physics-based statistical signal processing for improved landmine detection and classification via decay rate estimation. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. 36–44.
• Tantum S, Collins L. Detection and classification of landmine-like targets in a non-Gaussian noise environment. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. 900–9.
• Zhang Y, Li J, Carin L, Collins L. Improved UXO detection via sensor fusion. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000. p. 816–23.
• Gao P, Collins L, Carin L. Bayesian optimal classification of metallic objects: a comparison of time-domain and frequency-domain EMI performance. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2000.
• Liu F, Tantum S, Collins L, Carin L. Statistical signal processing for detection of buried landmines using quadrupole resonance. In: DETECTION AND REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MINES AND MINELIKE TARGETS V, PTS 1 AND 2. 2000. p. 572–7.
• Gao P, Collins L, Geng N, Carin L. Classification of buried metal objects using wideband frequency-domain electromagnetic induction responses: a comparison of optimal and sub-optimal processors. In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 1999. p. 1819–22.
• Huettel LG, Collins LM. Using computational auditory models to predict simultaneous masking data: model comparison. IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering. 1999 Dec;46(12):1432–40.
• Gresham LC, Collins LM. Effect of a Poisson 'internal noise' process on theoretical acoustic signal detectability. In: IEEE ASSP Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. 1999. p. 219–22.
• Gao P, Tantum S, Collins L, Weaver D, Moulton J, Makowsky L, et al. Statistical signal processing techniques for the detection of low-metal landmines using EMI and GPR sensors (topic area: E.1). In: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 1999. p. 2465–7.
• Collins L, Gao P, Carin L. An improved bayesian decision theoretic approach for land mine detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 1999 Dec 1;37(2 I):811–9.
• Pfingst BE, Holloway LA, Zwolan TA, Collins LM. Effects of stimulus level on electrode-place discrimination in human subjects with cochlear implants. Hearing research. 1999 Aug;134(1–2):105–15.
• Throckmorton CS, Collins LM. Investigation of the effects of temporal and spatial interactions on speech-recognition skills in cochlear-implant subjects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1999 Feb;105(2 Pt 1):861–73.
• Gao P, Collins L, Moulton J, Makowsky L, Weaver R, Keiswetter D, et al. Enhanced detection of landmines using broadband EMI data. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1999. p. 2–13.
• Gresham LC, Collins LM. Comparison using signal detection theory of the ability of two computational auditory models to predict experimental data. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 1999. p. 933–6.
• Throckmorton S, Tan Y, Gao P, Gresham L, Collins L. Enhanced auditory processing for landmine detection using EMI sensors. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1999. p. 787–96.
• Tantum S, Collins L, Carin L, Gorodnitsky I, Hibbs A, Walsh D, et al. Signal processing for NQR discrimination of buried landmines. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1999. p. 474–82.
• Gao P, Collins L. Comparison of optimal and suboptimal processors for classification of buried metal objects. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 1999 Jan 1;6(8):216–8.
• Gao P, Tantum S, Collins L. Single sensor processing and sensor fusion of GPR and EMI data for landmine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1999. p. 1139–48.
• Gao P, Collins LM. Improved signal processing approaches for land mine detection. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1998. p. 1034–43.
• Dogaru T, Collins LM, Carin L. Time-domain sensing of targets buried under a rough air-ground interface. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1998. p. 976–86.
• Geng N, Garber P, Collins LM, Carin L, Hansen D, Keiswetter DA, et al. Wideband electromagnetic induction for metal-target identification: Theory, measurement, and signal processing. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1998. p. 42–51.
• Gresham LC, Collins LM. Analysis of the performance of a model-based optimal auditory signal processor. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1998 May;103(5 Pt 1):2520–9.
• Collins L, Gao P. Hypothesis testing for landmine detection with EMI images. In: 1998 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems Proceedings - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 1998. p. 237–40.
• Zwolan TA, Collins LM, Wakefield GH. Electrode discrimination and speech recognition in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1997 Dec;102(6):3673–85.
• Collins LM, George V, Altshuler TW, Nolte LW, Carlin L. Improved decision-theoretic approach to the optimum detection of mines. In: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1997. p. 716–23.
• Gelenbe E, Koęak T, Collins L. Sensor fusion for mine detection with the RNN. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 1997. p. 938–42.
• Collins LM, Zwolan TA, Wakefield GH. Comparison of electrode discrimination, pitch ranking, and pitch scaling data in postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant subjects. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1997 Jan;101(1):440–55.
• Subotic NS, Collins LM, Gorman JD, Thelen BJ. Multiresolution target detection in SAR imagery. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 1995. p. 2157–60.
• Subotic NS, Collins LM, Reiley MF, Gorman JD. A multiresolution generalized likelihood ratio detection approach to target screening in synthetic aperture radar data. In: Proc SPIE - Int Soc Opt Eng (USA). 1995. p. 226–34.
• Collins LM, Wakefield GH, Feinman GR. Temporal pattern discrimination and speech recognition under electrical stimulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1994 Nov;96(5 Pt 1):2731–7.
• Gorman JD, Subotic NS, Thelen BJ, Collins L. Multiresolution detection of coherent radar targets. In: Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP. 1994. p. 446–50.
• Subotic NS, Collins LM, Gorman JD, Thelen BJ. A multiresolution approach to target detection in synthetic aperture radar data. In: Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. 1994. p. 122–6.
• Collins LM, Wakefield GH, Feinman GR. Temporal pattern discrimination and speech recognition under electrical simulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1994;96(5 pt 1):2731.

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