C.
RICHARD JOHNSON, JR.
Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Adjunct Research Fellow of the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam)
B.E.E. with high
honors, 1973, (Georgia Institute of Technology); M.S.E.E. 1975; Ph.D. E.E.
with minors in Engineering-Economic Systems and Art History, 1977 (Stanford
University)
C. Richard Johnson,
Jr. was born in Macon, GA in 1950.
He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University,
along with the first PhD minor in Art History granted by Stanford,
in 1977.
After 4 years on the faculty at Virginia Tech,
he joined the Cornell University faculty in 1981, where
he is a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
At the start of 2007, Professor Johnson
accepted a 5-year appointment as an Adjunct
Research Fellow of the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, the
Netherlands) to facilitate the interaction of art historians
and conservation specialists with algorithm-building signal processors.
In May 2007, Professor Johnson served as general chairman of the
First International Workshop on Image Processing for Artist
Identification -- which he conceived and organized -- held at the
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
He was interviewed on NPR for the show
Science Friday on May 18, 2007,
about this workshop.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted
a revised repeat (Version 1.5)
of this workshop on November 9, 2007.
Professor Johnson's activity in this emerging research area
was reported in the spring 2008 issue of
the Cornell Engineering Magazine
and the March 29, 2008 issue of the
The Sunny mail
(which is the in-house newsletter of the Van Gogh Museum).
Research Interests:
Dr. Johnson's principal research interests have been (i) (1977-1991) adaptive feedback systems theory
useful in applications of digital signal processing to
communications systems and in applications of digital control and system
identification to dynamic processes, (ii) (1991-2005) blind equalization
algorithm analysis and creation for communication channel distortion compensation, and (iii) (2005-present) signal processing algorithms in support
of painting analysis, including a canvas
thread count
automation project.
Selected Publications:
Johnson, Jr., C. R., E. Hendriks, I. J. Berezhnoy,
E. Brevdo, S. M. Hughes, I. Daubechies, J. Li, E. Postma,
and J. Z. Wang, ``Image Processing
for Artist Identification:
Computerized Analysis of Vincent van Gogh's Painting
Brushstrokes,'' IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
(Special Issue on Visual Cultural Heritage), July 2008.
Johnson, Jr., C. R. and W. A. Sethares, Telecommunication Breakdown:
Concepts of Communication Transmitted via Software-Defined
Radio, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
Treichler, J. R., C. R. Johnson, Jr., and M. G. Larimore,
Theory and Design of Adaptive Filters, Prentice Hall, 2001
(revision of Treichler, Johnson, and Larimore,
Theory and Design of Adaptive Filters, Wiley/Interscience, 1987).
Johnson, Jr., C. R., Lectures on Adaptive Parameter Estimation,
Prentice Hall, 1988.
Anderson, B. D. O., R. R. Bitmead, C. R. Johnson, Jr., P. V. Kokotovic, R.
L. Kosut, I. M. Y. Mareels, L. Praly, and B. D. Riedle, Stability of
Adaptive Systems: Passivity and Averaging Analysis, MIT Press, 1986.
(CV with list of selected
journal publications)
Courses:
Fall 2008: ECE 421
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