Dr. Elisa Barney Smith joined the faculty at Boise State University in September 1999. She received a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. She then received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering in 1989 and 1998, respectively, also from RPI. From 1989 to 1993 she worked as an engineer at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in New London, CT. In 1993, she had a research internship at the NATO SACLANT Centre in LaSpezia, Italy. Her work at both NUWC and SACLANT Centre involved designing automatic target classification algorithms and systems that utilize passive acoustic data. Dr. Barney Smith's current research is in image processing and pattern recognition, with a primary focus on document image analysis.
Articles & Proceedings
Evaluation of Voting with Form Dropout Techniques for Ballot Vote Counting (with Shatakshi Goyal, Robbie Scott, and Daniel Lopresti), 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (2011)
Vote counting accuracy has become a well-known issue in the vote collection process. Digital image...
Towards Improved Paper-Based Election Technology (with Daniel Lopresti, George Nagy, and Ziyan Wu), 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (2011)
Resources are presented for fostering paper-based election technology. They comprise a diverse collection of real...
Enhancement of Historical Printed Document Images by Combining Total Variation Regularization and Non-Local Means Filtering (with Laurence Likforman-Sulem and Jérôme Darbon), Image and Vision Computing (2011)
This paper proposes a novel method for document enhancement which combines two recent powerful noise-reduction...
A Mask-Based Enhancement Method for Historical Documents (with Jerôme Darbon and Laurence Likforman-Sulem), Proceedings of SPIE (2011)
This paper proposes a novel method for document enhancement. The method is based on the...
Characterizing Challenged Minnesota Ballots (with George Nagy, Daniel Lopresti, and Ziyan Wu), Proceedings of SPIE (2011)
Photocopies of the ballots challenged in the 2008 Minnesota elections, which constitute a public record,...
Contributions to Books
Presentations
An Analysis of the Comparative Effectiveness of a Computerized Module in Probability Theory (with E. Bringsjord), 30th Annual Conference of the New England Educational Research Organization (1998)
Student Mentored Work
Camera Imaging System (Undergraduate Research Conference Poster) (with Wayne Kreimeyer, Adrian Rothenbühler, and Anita Poudel) (2011)
* Magnetic shape memory alloys are functional materials which can remember their shape
* Currently,...
Degradation Specific OCR (Masters Thesis) (2010)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten,...
Extending the Page Segmentation Algorithms of the OCRopus Document Layout Analysis System (Masters Thesis) (2010)
With the advent of more powerful personal computers, inexpensive memory, and digital cameras, curators around...
Camera Based Image Acquisition for OCR and Other Uses (Undergraduate Research Conference Poster) (with William Grover, Kris Burch, and Josh Johnson) (2010)
A system was developed to acquire images from a digital camera with control coming from...
Descreening of Halftoning (Undergraduate Research Conference Poster) (with CJ Stanger and Thanh Tran) (2010)
Halftoning is the process a printer uses to print color images using black in combination...