Prof. Fowler's Publications                                                       

Journal Papers

  1. 1.     M.W. Rochι, M. L. Fowler, & M. F. Lenzenweger. “Deeper into schizotypy and motor performance: Investigating the nature of motor control in a non-psychiatric sample,” Psychiatry Research (in press).

  2. Lauren Huie and M. L. Fowler, “Strategies for Information Injection for Networks Estimating Emitter Location,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, to appear 2015

  3. M. Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Distributed Computation for Direct Position Determination,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, to appear 2015.

  4. M. Pourhomayoun, Z. Jin and M. L. Fowler, “Accurate Tumor Localization and Tracking in Radiation Therapy Using Wireless Body Sensor Networks,” Computers in Biology and Medicine (ELSEVIER), Volume 50, 1 July 2014, pp. 41 – 48.

  5. Mohammad Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Cramer-Rao Bound for Frequency Estimation for Coherent Pulse Train with Unknown Pulses,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 50, no. 2, April 2014, pp. 1304 – 1312.

  6. Mohammad Pourhomayoun, Z. Jin and M. L. Fowler, “Accurate Localization of In-Body Medical Implants Based on Spatial Sparsity,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 61, no. 2, February 2014, pp. 590 – 597.

  7. Mohammad Pourhomayoun, Z. Jin and M. L. Fowler, “Indoor Localization, Tracking and Fall Detection for Assistive Healthcare Based on Spatial Sparsity and Wireless Sensor Network,”  International Journal of Monitoring and Surveillance Technologies Research, 1(2), April 2013, pp. 72-83.

  8. M. L. Fowler, M. Chen, J. A. Johnson, and Z. Zhou, “Data Compression using SVD and Fisher Information for Radar Emitter Location,” Signal Processing, vol. 90, no. 7, July 2010, pp. 2190–2202.

  9. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Data Compression for Multiple Parameter Estimation with Application to Emitter Location Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 46, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 308 – 322.

  10. M. L. Fowler and X. Hu, “Signal Models for TDOA/FDOA Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 44,  no. 4,  Oct. 2008, pp. 1543 – 1550.

  11. N. E. Wu, Y. Guo, K. Huang, M. C. Ruschmann, M. L. Fowler,  “Fault-tolerant tasking and guidance of an airborne location sensor network,” J. of Control, Autom. and Systems, vol. 6, no. 3, June 2008.

  12. N. E. Wu and M. L. Fowler, “An Error Bound for Sensor Fusion with Application to Doppler Frequency Based Emitter Location,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 51, no. 4, April 2006, pp. 631 – 635.

  13. M. L. Fowler and M. Chen, “Fisher-Information-Based Data Compression for Estimation Using Two Sensors,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 41, no. 3, July 2005, pp. 1131 - 1137.

  14. N. E. Wu and M. L. Fowler, “Aperture Error Mitigation via Local-State Estimation for Frequency-Based Emitter Location,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 39, no. 2, April 2003, pp. 414 – 429.

  15. M. L. Fowler, “Phase-Based Frequency Estimation: A Review,” Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 12, no. 4, October 2002, pp. 590 – 615.  

  16. M. L. Fowler, “Analysis of Passive Emitter Location using Terrain Data,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 495 – 507, April 2001.

  17. M. L. Fowler, “Coarse Quantization for Data Compression in Coherent Location Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 1269 – 1278, Oct. 2000.

  18. M. L. Fowler and J. Johnson, “Extending the Threshold and Frequency Range for Phase‑Based Frequency Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 2857 - 2863, Oct. 1999.

  19. L. H. Sibul and M. L. Fowler.  “Optimum Array Processing In Inhomogeneous Random Fields,” (Invited Paper), Special Issue on Statistical Signal Processing, J. Instn. Electronics and Telecom. Engrs., vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 98-104,1989.

 

Chapter in Edited Book

  1. L. H. Sibul, M. L. Fowler, and R. K. Young,  “Optimum Signal Processing and Medium Characterization in the Time‑Frequency and Wavelet Transform Domains,” in Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Exploration, edited by J. M. F. Moura and I. M. G. Lourtie, 1993, pp. 523 ‑ 534.

 

Conference Papers

  1. M. L. Fowler, “Flipping Signals and Systems – Course Structure & Results,” IEEE ICASSP, May 2014.

  2. J. Reale, L. Huie, and M. L. Fowler, “Locating Closely Spaced Coherent Emitters Using TDOA Techniques,” IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, Nov 2013.

  3. M. Pourhomayoun, P. Dugan, M. L. Fowler, J. Zollweg, M. Popescu, D. Ponirakis, and C. Clark, “Underwater Noise Analysis of Massachusetts Bay: Acoustical Recordings Using High Performance Computing System.” MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2013.

  4. M. Pourhomayoun, M. L. Fowler and Z. Jin, “Robustness Analysis of Sparsity Based Tumor Localization under Tissue Configuration Uncertainty” IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB12), New York, Dec 2012.  

  5. M. Pourhomayoun, M. L. Fowler, and Z. Jin,“A Novel Method for Tumor Localization and Tracking in Radiation Therapy,” IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, CA, Nov 2012.  

  6. M. Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Improving WLAN-Based Indoor Mobile Positioning Using Sparsity,” IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Monterey, CA, Nov 2012.  

  7. M. Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Estimation of Phase in LBI-Based Localization Systems,” IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Monterey, CA, Nov 2012.

  8. Mohammad Pourhomayoun, Z. Jin and M. L. Fowler, “Spatial Sparsity Based Indoor Localization in Wireless Sensor Network for Assistive Healthcare Systems” 34th Intnl. Conf. of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC2012), San Diego, August 2012.

  9. Mohammad Pourhomayoun,  M. L. Fowler, and Z. Jin, “A Novel Method for Medical Implant In-Body Localization” 34th Intnl. Conf. of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC2012), San Diego, August 2012.

  10. Mohammad Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Sensor Network Distributed Computation for Direct Position Determination” 7th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM2012), Stevens Institute of Technology, June 2012.

  11. Mohammad Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Spatial Sparsity Based Emitter Localization,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 2012.

  12. Mohammad Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “De-Noising by Wiener Filter and Wavelet Based Methods for Emitter Localization Systems,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 2012.

  13. Mohammad Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “An SVD Approach for Data Compression in Emitter Location Systems,” 45th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November, 2011.

  14. Lauren Huie and M. L. Fowler, “Biasing Emitter Location Estimates via False Location Injection,” IEEE International Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing 2011 (SSP'11), Nice, France, June 2011.

  15. M. L. Fowler, “Polyphase Filters – A Model for Teaching the Art of Discovery in DSP,” IEEE ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.

  16. Mohammad Pourhomayoun and M. L. Fowler, “Exploiting Cross Ambiguity Function Properties for Data Compression in Emitter Location Systems,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 2011.

  17. Lauren Huie and M. L. Fowler, “A Closed Form for False Location Injection underTime Difference of Arrival,” 44th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 7 – 10, 2010.

  18. Mohammad Pourhamouyan and M. L. Fowler, “Data compression for complex ambiguity function for emitter location,”  Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 7799, (10 pp.), Mathematics of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XII, 2 Aug. 2010, San Diego, CA

  19. Lauren Huie and M. L. Fowler, “Emitter Location in the Presence of Information Injection,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 2010.

  20. Ran Ren and M. L. Fowler, “An LBI Based Emitter Location Estimator with Platform Trajectory Optimality,” 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 1 – 4, 2009.

  21. Ran Ren, M. L. Fowler, and N. E. Wu, “Finding Optimal Trajectory Points for TDOA/FDOA Geo-Location Sensors,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 2009.

  22. Xi Hu and M. L. Fowler, “Data compression in emitter location systems via sensor pairing and selection,” Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XI, August 2008.

  23. M. L. Fowler and Xi Hu, “Impact of signal model on data compression for TDOA/FDOA emitter location,” Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications XI, 2008.

  24. K. Huang, N. E. Wu, M. L. Fowler, “Optimal guidance of unmanned aerial vehicles for emitter location,” to appear Proc. World Congress, Intern. Fed. of Auto. Control, 2008.
  25. J. A. Johnson and M. L. Fowler, “Cramer-Rao Lower Bound on Doppler Frequency of Coherent Pulse Trains", IEEE ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, NV.

  26. M. L. Fowler and Xi Hu, “Sensor Selection for Multiple Sensor Emitter Location Systems,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 1 – 8 March, 2008.

  27. M. L. Fowler and Xi Hu, “The Impact of Acoustic Signal Models on TDOA/FDOA Estimation,” (Invited Paper), Acoustical Society of America, 154th Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 27 November--1 December 2007.

  28. Xi Hu, Mo Chen, and M. L. Fowler, “Exploiting Data Compression Methods for Network-Level Management of Multi-Sensor Systems,” Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Op-tical Engineering, v 6315, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications IX, 2006.

  29. M. L. Fowler and Mo Chen, “Perspectives on Data Compression for Estimations From Sensors,” Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 6315, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, and Encryption with Applications IX, 2006.

  30.  M. Chen, M. L. Fowler, A. Noga, “Data Compression for Simultaneous/Sequential Inference Tasks in Sensor Networks,” (Invited Paper), IEEE ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 14 – 19, 2006, vol. V, pp. 1057 – 1060.

  31.  M. L. Fowler and M. Chen, “Evaluating Fisher Information From Data for Task-Driven Data Compression,” Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 22-24, 2004, pp. 976 – 972.

  32. P. Dugan, R. Paradis, S. Wilcox, G. Sackman, and M. Fowler,  “Signals in Spider Webs: Detecting the Portia Smokescreen using Wavelet Features,” Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE 2005), Nov. 7 – 9, 2005.

  33. A. Goddard, G. Madhavan, J. Cole, M. Fowler, and K. McLeod,  “Time-Frequency Analysis of Endogenous Calf Skeletal Muscle Vibromyograms,” 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Shanghai, China, Sept. 1 - 4, 2005, pp. 6742 - 6744.   

  34. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Geometry-Adaptive Data Compression For TDOA/FDOA Location,” IEEE ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, March 18 – 23, 2005, vol. 4, pp. 1069 – 1072.

  35. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Data Compression Trade-Offs In Sensor Networks,” in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption VII, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Denver, CO, August 4 – 5, 2004.

  36. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Data Compression Trade-Offs for Multiple Inferences in Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 17-19, 2004.

  37. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Non-MSE Data Compression for Emitter Location for Radar Pulse Trains,” in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption VI, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5208, San Diego, CA, August 5 – 7, 2003, pp. 58 – 67.

  38. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Standards-Compatible Compression for Automated Image Recognition in Sensor Networks,” in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption VI, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5208, San Diego, CA, August 5 – 7, 2003, pp. 46 – 57.

  39. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “The Importance of Data Compression for Energy Efficiency in Sensor Networks,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 12-14, 2003

  40. M. Chen and M. L. Fowler, “Optimizing Non-MSE Distortion for Data Compression in Emitter Location Systems,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 12-14, 2003.

  41. N. E. Wu and  M. L. Fowler, “Uncertainty Reduction in Doppler Shift Model Using Measurements from Micromachined Accelerometers,” in Proceedings of 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, December 2002, pp. 3664 – 3669.

  42. M. L. Fowler and M. Chen, “Integer Optimization Methods for Non-MSE Data Compression for Emitter Location in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption V, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4793, Seattle, WA, July 8 – 11, 2002, pp. 188 – 195.

  43. J. A. Johnson and M. L. Fowler, “Handling Side-Information for Data Compression of Radar Pulse Trains in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption V, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4793, Seattle, WA, July 8 – 11, 2002, pp. 176 – 187.

  44. N. E. Wu and M. L. Fowler, “Application of MEMS for Improved Emitter Location Accuracy,” First IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Orlando, FL, June 12 - 14, pp. 843 - 848.

  45. M. L. Fowler, “A Signal Separation Algorithm for Single-Antenna Passive Bistatic Radar,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 20-22, 2002, Paper #83 on CD-ROM Proceedings.

  46. M. L. Fowler, “New Distortion Measures for Data Compression for Emitter Location,” Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 5 – 7, 2001, pp. 658 – 662.

  47. M. L. Fowler and Z. Zhou, “Data Compression via Pulse-to-Pulse Redundancy for Radar Emitter Location,” in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption IV, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4475, San Diego, CA, July 29 – August 3, 2001, pp. 1 – 12.

  48. M. L. Fowler, “Non-MSE Wavelet-Based Data Compression for Emitter Location,” in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption IV, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4475, San Diego, CA, July 29 – August 3, 2001, pp. 13 – 22.

  49. M. L. Fowler, Z. Zhou, and A. Shivaprasad, “Pulse Extraction for Radar Emitter Location,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 21 – 23, 2001, pp. 623 – 628.

  50. M. L. Fowler, “Exploiting RMS Time-Frequency Structure for Data Compression in Emitter Location Systems,” National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, October 10-12, 2000, pp. 227 – 234.

  51. M. L. Fowler, “Decimation vs. Quantization for Data Compression in TDOA Systems,” in Mathematics and Applications of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption III, Mark S. Schmalz, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4122, San Diego, CA, July 30 – August 4, 2000, pp. 56 – 67.

  52. M. L. Fowler, “Data Compression for Emitter Location Systems,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 15-17, 2000, pp. WA7b-14 – WA7b-19.

  53. M. L. Fowler, “Air-to-Air Passive Location,” presented at the 14th Annual Technical Symposium of the Empire Chapter of The Association of Old Crows, Rome Laboratory, 29 October 1996

  54. M. L. Fowler and L. H. Sibul, “A Unified Formulation for Detection Using Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Methods,” Twenty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 4 - 6 1991, pp. 637 – 642.

  55. M. L. Fowler and L. H. Sibul, “Signal Detection Using Group Transforms,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 14 – 17, 1991, pp. 1693 – 1696.

  56. M. L. Fowler and L. H. Sibul, “A Comparison of the Cross Wigner Distribution and the Gabor Transform,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 1991.

  57. P. Chaiyasena, L. H. Sibul, A. Banyaga, and M. L. Fowler, “Wavelet Transforms and Signal Ambiguity Functions(Invited Paper) Twenty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 5 – 7, 1990, pp. 1084 – 1089.

  58. L. H. Sibul, A. P. Chaiyasena, and M. L. Fowler, “Signal Ambiguity Functions, Wigner Transforms,  And Wavelets,” IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing and Digital Filtering, Lugano, Switzerland, M. H. Hamza, ed., June 1990.

  59. M. L. Fowler and L. H. Sibul, “A Class of Correlation Detectors Based on Isometries onto Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 1990.

  60. M. L. Fowler and L. H. Sibul, “Optimum Array Processing and Inverse Kernels in the Time‑Frequency and Frequency‑Frequency Domains,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 1989.

  61. L. H. Sibul, M. L. Fowler, and G. J. Harbison, “Optimum Array Processing and Representation of Nonstationary Random Scattering(Invited Paper) Twenty-Second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 1988, pp. 431 – 435.

 

Magazine/Newsletter Articles

  1. M. L. Fowler, “Task-Driven Data Compression Improves Efficiency of Sensor Networks,” (Invited Article) SPIE Newsroom (on-line), http://spie.org/x8551.xml, October 2006

  2. M. L. Fowler, “New Distortion Measures for Compression of Remote-Sensing Data,” Electronic Imaging, SPIE’s International Technical Group Newsletter, pp. 7-9, December 2001.

 

Patents

  1. M. L. Fowler and J.A. Johnson, “Phase‑Based Frequency Estimation Using Filter Banks,” US Patent # 6,477,214 Issued 11/05/2002

  2. M. L. Fowler, “Method and Apparatus for Demodulating Digital FM Signals,” US Patent #6,031,418  Issued 2/29/2000

  3. M. L. Fowler, “Data Compression for TDOA/DD‑Based Location System,” US Patent #5,991,454  Issued 11/23/1999

  4. M. L. Fowler, “Frequency Domain Correction of I/Q Imbalance,” US Patent #5,872,538  Issued 2/16/1999

  5. M. L. Fowler, “Air‑to‑Air Passive Location,” US Patent #5,870,056  Issued 2/9/1999

  6. M. L. Fowler and S.V. Czarnecki, “Multipath and Co-Channel Signal Preprocessor” US Patent #5,604,503  Issued 2/18/1997

 

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