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
Reconfigurable Threshold Logic Gates Using Memristive Devices (with Thanh Tran, Adrian Rothenbuhler, Vishal Saxena, and Kristy A. Campbell), 2012 IEEE Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference (SubVT) (2012)
We present our early design exploration of reconfigurable Threshold Logic Gates (TLG) implemented using Silver-chalcogenide...
Effect of “Ground Truth” on Image Binarization (with Chang An), Proceedings of the 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) (2012)
Image binarization has a large effect on the rest of the document image analysis processes...
Interaction Between Electromagnetic Waves and Transport in Saturated Media (with Mahsa Azad, Harlan Sangrey, Arvin Farid, and Jim Browning), Annual Congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE (Geo-Congress) (2012)
Air sparging is one of the most popular remediation technologies. However, it is limited to...
Application of Image Processing to Track Twin Boundary Motion in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (with Adrian Rothenbuhler and Peter Müllner), Proceedings of SPIE (2012)
Materials scientists make use of image processing tools more and more as technology advances and...
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...
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
Simulations of Artificial Neural Network with Memristive Devices (Masters Thesis) (2012)
The memristor has been hypothesized to exist as the missing fourth basic circuit element since...
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...