Pramod K. Varshney received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (with highest honors), and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972, 1974, and 1976, respectively. Since 1976 he has been with Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Research Director of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering. He is an IEEE Fellow. In 2000, he received the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE and the Chancellor's Citation for exceptional academic achievement at Syracuse University. He was the President of the International Society of Information Fusion during 2001. His current research interests are in distributed sensor networks and data fusion, detection and estimation theory, wireless communications, image processing, radar signal processing and remote sensing.

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Lecture:

Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

Multisensor data fusion refers to the acquisition, processing and synergistic combination of information gathered by various knowledge sources and sensors to provide a better understanding of a phenomenon. It is a fascinating and rapidly evolving field that has generated a lot of excitement in the research and development community. These concepts are being applied to a wide variety of fields such as military command and control, robotics, image processing, air traffic control, medical diagnostics, pattern recognition, and environmental monitoring. This talk will present a brief overview of the field and will illustrate its potential by means of some examples. In addition, current research activity of my research group in the areas of distributed radar target detection and recognition, distributed sensor networks, image fusion, and visualization will be described.