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• J. C. Schotland, V. Markel, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Tomography System and Method Using Nonlinear Reconstruction of Scattered Radiation,'' application submitted 2002.
• P.-C. Cheng, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. L. Snyder, M. W. Vannier, and G. Wang, ``Iterative Process for Reconstructing Cone-Beam Tomographic Images,'' US 5,909,476, June 1, 1999.
• G. A. O'Sullivan and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Multimode Power Processor,'' US 5,929,538, July 27, 1999.
• R. S. Indeck, M. W. Muller, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Method for Precompensating Signals for Magnetic Media Noise,'' US 5,959,794, September 28, 1999.

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• J. A. O'Sullivan, editor, Model-Based Image and Signal Processing, a festschrift in honor of Donald L. Snyder.

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• J. A. O'Sullivan and J. Benac, "Alternating Minimization Algorithms for Transmission Tomography," resubmitted to the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, June 2006.(pdf version)
• N. A. Schmid and J. A. O'Sullivan, "Performance Prediction Methodology for Biometric Systems Using a Large Deviations Approach," to appear, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, October 2004. (pdf version)
• D. R. Fuhrmann, C. Preza, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. L. Snyder, and W. H. Smith, ``Spectrum Estimation from Quantum-Limited Interferograms,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 950-961, April 2004. (pdf version)
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. D. DeVore, ``Quantitative Statistical Assessment of Conditional Models for Synthetic Aperture Radar,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 113-125, February 2004. (pdf version)
• Y. Wu, J. A. O'Sullivan, N. Singla, and R. S. Indeck, ``Iterative Detection and Decoding for Separable Two-Dimensional Intersymbol Interference,'' IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 39, No.4, pp. 2115-2120, July 2003. (pdf version)
• V. A. Markel, J. A. O'Sullivan, and J. C. Schotland, ``Inverse Problem in Optical Diffusion Tomography. IV. Nonlinear Inversion Formulas,'' J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Vol. 20, No. 5, May 2003. (pdf version)
• P. Moulin and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Information-Theoretic Analysis of Information Hiding,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 563-593, March 2003. (pdf version)
• J. F. Williamson, B. R. Whiting, J. Benac, R. J. Murphy, G. J. Blaine, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Politte, and D. L. Snyder, ``Prospects for Quantitative Computed Tomography Imaging in the Presence of Foreign Metal Bodies Using Statistical Image Reconstruction,'' Med. Phys. Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 2404-2418, October 2002. (pdf version)
• N. Singla, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck, Y. Wu, ``Iterative decoding and equalization for 2-D recording channels,'' IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 38 No. 5, pp. 2328-2330, September 2002. (pdf version)
• Chi-Chun Hsu; C. T. Miller, R. S. Indeck, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. W. Muller, ``Magnetization estimation from MFM images,'' IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 38 No. 5, pp. 2444-2446, September 2002. (pdf version)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, M. Jiang, X.-m. Ma, and G. Wang, ``Axiomatic Quantification of Multi-Dimensional Image Resolution,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 120-122, April 2002. (pdf version)
• N. A. Schmid and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Thresholding Method for Dimensionality Reduction in Recognition Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 2903-2920, November 2001. (pdf version)
• J. A. O'Sullivan and N. A. Schmid, ``Performance Analysis of Physical Signature Authentication,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 3034-3039, November 2001. (pdf version)
• D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, B. R. Whiting, R. J. Murphy, J. Benac, J. A. Cataldo, D. G. Politte, and J. F. Williamson, ``Deblurring subject to Nonnegativity Constraints When Known Functions are Present, with Application to Object-Constrained Computerized Tomography,'' IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 20, No. 10, PP. 1009-1017, October 2001. (pdf version)
• M. D. DeVore and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A Performance Complexity Study of Several Approaches to Automatic Target Recognition from Synthetic Aperture Radar Images,'' IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 632-648, April 2002. (pdf version)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, M. D. DeVore, V. Kedia, and M. I. Miller, ``SAR ATR Performance Using a Conditionally Gaussian Model,'' IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 37(1), pp. 91-108, Jan. 2001. (pdf version)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, R. E. Blahut, and D. L. Snyder, ``Information Theoretic Image Formation,'' invited paper for the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in honor of the 50th anniversary of C. E. Shannon's 1948 paper, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 2094-2123, October 1998. Also in Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery, S. Verdu and S. W. McLaughlin, Eds., pp. 50-79, 2000. (pdf version)
• D. L. Snyder, A. O. Hero, P. Moulin,J. M. F. Moura, and J. A. O'Sullivan, "Introduction to the special issue on information-theoretic imaging," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 1709-1713, August 2000.
• A. D. Lanterman, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. I. Miller, ``Kullback-Leibler Distances for Quantifying Clutter and Models,'' Optical Engineering, Vol.38, No. 2, pp. 2134-2146, Dec. 1999.
• S. P. Jacobs and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Automatic Target Recognition Using Sequences of High Resolution Radar Range-Profiles,'' IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 364-382, 2000. (pdf version)
• D. G. Porter, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Parameter identification for a micromagnetic recording medium model,'' Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 81, no. 8, p. 4846, April 1997.
• M. I. Miller, U. Grenander, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Automated Target Recognition Organized via Jump-Diffusion Algorithms,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Automatic Target Detection and Recognition, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 157-174, January 1997.
• G. Wang, D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. W. Vannier, ``Iterative Deblurring for CT Metal Artifact Reduction,'' IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 657-664, October 1996.
• D. G. Porter, E. Glavinas, P. Dhagat, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Irregular Grain Structure in Micromagnetic Simulation,'' Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 79, no. 8, pp. 4695-4697, April, 1996.
• D. G. Porter, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Physically Based Information Science of Magnetic Recording II. Physical Sources of Medium Noise,'' IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 4266-4268, November 1994.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Roughness Penalties on Finite Domains,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, pp. 1258-1268, September 1995.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Recording Medium Properties and Capacity Bounds,'' Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 75, no. 10, 1994, pp. 5753-5755.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Physically Based Information Science of Magnetic Recording I. Information Capacity of a Medium Model,'' IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 29, no. 6, November 1993, pp. 4036-4038.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and D. G. Porter, ``An Application of Splines to Maximum Likelihood Radar Imaging,'' International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 4, 1992, pp. 256-264.
• P. Moulin, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``A Method of Sieves for Multiresolution Spectrum Estimation and Radar Imaging,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 1992, pp. 801-813. (pdf version)
• M. I. Miller and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Entropies and Combinatorics of Random Branching Processes and Context-Free Languages,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 1992, pp. 1292-1310. (pdf version)
• D. L. Snyder, T. J. Schulz, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Deblurring Subject to Nonnegativity Constraints,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, May 1992, pp. 1143-1150.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and B.-Y. Sheu, ``Comments on `Design of Optimal Sampling Schedules: Computation of Gradients and Hessians,''' IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January 1991, p. 126.
• M. I. Miller, B. Roysam, K. Smith, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Representing and Computing Regular Languages on Massively Parallel Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, January 1991, pp. 56-72.
• D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. I. Miller, ``The Use of Maximum-Likelihood Estimation for Forming Images of Diffuse Radar-Targets from Delay-Doppler Data,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 35, No. 3, May 1989, pp. 536-548. (pdf version)

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• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Iterative Algorithms for Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection,'' in Codes, Graphs, and Systems, R. E. Blahut and R. Koetter, Editors. 2002, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, MA. pp. 137-158.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Alternating Minimization Algorithms: from Blahut-Arimoto to Expectation-Maximization,'' in A. Vardy, Ed., Codes, Curves, and Signals: Common Threads in Communications, 1998, pp. 173-192.
• P. Moulin, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``A Sieve-Constrained Maximum-Likelihood Method for Target Imaging,'' in Radar and Sonar II, F. A. Grunbaum, M. Bernfeld, and R. E. Blahut, Editors, Springer-Verlag, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, 1992, pp. 95-122.
• M. I. Miller, D. R. Fuhrmann, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Maximum-Likelihood Methods for Toeplitz Covariance Estimation and Radar Imaging,'' in S. Haykin, ed., Advances in Spectrum Analysis and Array Processing, Vol. II, Prentice-Hall, 1989, pp. 145-172.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. K. Sain, ``Optimal Control by Polynomial Approximation: The Discrete Time Case,'' in Proceedings NOLCOS 1989 Symposium, IFAC Publications, Oxford, England, 1989.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and D. L. Snyder, ``High Resolution Radar Imaging Using Spectrum Estimation Methods,'' in Signal Processing Part II: Control Theory and Applications, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and Its Applications, Vol. 23, Eds. F. A. Grunbaum, J. W. Helton, and P. Khargonecker, 1990, pp. 335-346.

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• J. A. O'Sullivan and N. Singla, ``Ordered Subsets Message-Passing,'' 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June 29-July 4, 2004. (pdf version of talk) (pdf version of paper)
• Naveen Singla and Joseph A. O'Sullivan, "Minimum mean square error equalization using priors for two-dimensional intersymbol interference," 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, Illinois, June 27-July 2, 2004. (pdf version of paper)
• M. Brandon Westover and Joseph A. O'Sullivan, "Towards an information theoretic framework for object recognition," Chicago, Illinois, June 27-July 2, 2004.
• Joseph A. O'Sullivan, Naveen Singla, Ronald S. Indeck, "2D Coding for Future Perpendicular and Probe Recording," 2004. (pdf version of paper) (pdf version of talk)
• Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Robert Pless, Joseph A. O'Sullivan, "CoGrid: An Efficient Coverage Maintenance Protocol for Distributed Sensor Networks," 2004. (pdf version of paper)
• Joseph A. O'Sullivan, Jasenka Benac, Jeffrey F. Williamson, "ALTERNATING MINIMIZATION ALGORITHM FOR DUAL ENERGY X-RAY CT," 2004. (pdf version of paper)
• M. D. DeVore, J. A. O'Sullivan, and L. J. Montagnino, ``Azimuth Correlation Models for Radar Imaging,'' SPIE Aerosense, 2003.
• R. J. Murphy, D. L. Snyder, D. G. Politte, J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A sieve-regularized image reconstruction algorithm with pose search in transmission tomography,'' Presented at the SPIE Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing conference, San Diego, CA, February 20, 2003. (pdf version of paper)
• Joseph A. O'Sullivan, Jasenka Benac, "Alternating Minimization Multigrid Algorithms for Transmission Tomography," 2003. (pdf version of paper)
• Donald L. Snyder, Joseph A. O'Sullivan, Ryan J. Murphy, David G. Politte, Bruce R. Whiting, Jeffrey F. Williamson, "Maximum Likelihood Methods for Reconstructing an Image In a Region-of-Interest for Transmission Tomography," 2003. (pdf version of paper)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. L. Snyder, and B. R. Whiting, ``Alternating Minimization Algorithms for Transmission Tomography Using Energy Detectors,'' Proceedings of the 36th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Monterey, CA, Nov. 4-6, 2002. (pdf version of talk) (pdf version of paper)
• Chi-Chun Hsu, Clayton T. Miller, R.S. Indeck, J.A. O’Sullivan, M.W. Muller, "Magnetization Estimation from MFM Images," September 2002. (pdf version of paper)
• R. J. Murphy, J. A. O'Sullivan, J. Benac, D. L. Snyder, B. R. Whiting, D. G. Politte, J. F. Williamson, ``Incorporating known information into image reconstruction algorithms for transmission tomography,'' Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging 2002: Image Processing, M. Sonka and J. M. Fitzpatrick, Editors, SPIE 4684, pp. 29-37, 2002. (pdf version of paper)
• R. J. Murphy, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``An information-theoretic imaging approach to pose search for transmission tomography'', presented at the Fortieth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, October 2002. (pdf version of paper)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, L. Xu, and N. Singla, ``Coding for High-Density Storage Systems,'' 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2-4, 2002. (pdf version of paper) (pdf version of talk)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, N. Singla, Y. Wu, and R. S. Indeck, ``Iterative decoding for two-dimensional intersymbol interference channels,'' Proceedings 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 198, Lausanne, Switzerland, June-July, 2002. (pdf version of talk) (pdf version of paper)
• N. Singla, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck, Y. Wu, ``Iterative decoding and equalization for 2-D recording channels,'' 2002 IEEE International Magnetics Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April-May 2002. (pdf version of paper) (pdf version of talk)
• Chi-Chun Hsu; C. T. Miller, R. S. Indeck, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. W. Muller, ``Magnetization estimation from MFM images,'' 2002 IEEE International Magnetics Conference, 2002. INTERMAG Europe 2002. Digest of Technical Papers. p. BD6, 2002.
• J. F. Williamson, B. R. Whiting, J. Benac, R. J. Murphy, G. J. Blaine, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Politte, D. L. Snyder, ``Prospects for quantitative CT imaging in the presence of foreign metal bodies using statistical image reconstruction,'' Proceedings 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging,, pp. 649-652, 2002.
• P. Moulin and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Optimal Key Design for Information-Embedding Systems,'' Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 20-22, 2002, pp. 714-718.
• J. Benac, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. L. Snyder, D. G. Politte, B. R. Whiting, J. F. Williamson, and R. J. Murphy, ``A Simulation Study of Alternating Minimization Algorithms for CT Image Formation,'' 39th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Oct. 2001.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. D. DeVore, ``Variation of ATR System Performance with System Implementation Parameters,'' in Proceedings of Defense Applications of Signal Processing Workshop, September 2001. (pdf version of paper)
• M. D. DeVore and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Model-Based Approaches to Rejecting Confuser Targets,'' in Proceedings of the First Annual Automatic target Recognition Theory Workshop, Wright State University, August 2001.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. D. DeVore, ``Theoretical Issues in ATR System Design: Approximation Error, Estimation Error, Model Complexity, and Computational Complexity,'' in Proceedings of the First Annual Automatic Target Recognition Theory Workshop, Wright State University, August 2001. (pdf version of talk)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Some Roles of Information Theory in Imaging Problems,'' SPIE AeroSense, Automatic Target Recognition XI, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 2001. (pdf version of talk)
• N. A. Schmid and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Classification of Gaussian Data with Sieve-Regularized Estimates,'' SPIE AeroSense, Automatic Target Recognition XI, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 2001.
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• M. D. DeVore and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Probabilistic Approach to Model Extraction from Training Data,'' SPIE AeroSense, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VIII, Edmund G. Zelnio; Ed., Orlando, April 2001. (pdf version of talk)
• M. D. DeVore and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Statistical Assessment of Model Fit for Synthetic Aperture Radar Data,'' Proc. SPIE AeroSense, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VIII, Edmund G. Zelnio; Ed., Orlando, April 2001.
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• M. D. DeVore, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. D. Chamberlain, and M. A. Franklin, ``Relationships Between Computational System Performance and Recognition System Performance,'' SPIE AeroSense, Automatic Target Recognition XI, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 2001. (pdf version of talk)
• M. D. DeVore, N. A. Schmid, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Analytical and Experimental Performance-Complexity Tradeoffs in ATR,'' Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 2, pp. 1529-1523, October 2000. (pdf version of talk) (pdf version of paper)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, M. A. Franklin, M. D. DeVore, and R. D. Chamberlain, ``Analysis of Computational System Performance in Automatic Target Recognition,'' Proceedings of the Fourth Annual High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Boston, September 2000. (pdf version of talk)
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Properties of the Information Value Decomposition,'' submitted to the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorento, Italy, June 2000.
• N. A. Schmid and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Performance Analysis in ATR from Dimensionality Reduction,'' submitted to the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorento, Italy, June 2000.
• P. Moulin and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Information-Theoretic Analysis of Information Hiding,'' submitted to the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorento, Italy, June 2000.
• P. Moulin and Joseph A. O'Sullivan, "Information-Theoretic Analysis of Watermarking," Proceedings 2000 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '00, Vol. 6, pp. 3630-3633,2000.
• N. A. Schmid and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Method for Reducing Dimensionality in ATR Systems,'' submitted to SPIE Automatic Target Recognition X, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 2000.
• M. D. DeVore, A. D. Lanterman, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``ATR Performance of a Rician Model for SAR Images,'' submitted to SPIE Automatic Target Recognition X, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 2000.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. D. DeVore, ``Performance-Complexity Tradeoffs for Several Approaches to ATR from SAR Images,'' submitted to SPIE Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VII, Edmund G. Zelnio; Ed., Orlando, April 2000.
• D. R. Fuhrmann, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, "Spectrum Estimation from Quantum Limited Interferograms," First Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Cambridge, MA, March 2000.
• D. L. Snyder and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Object-Constrained Computerized-Tomography,'' Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Symposium on Computed Imaging and Inverse Problems, Santa Clara, CA, September 1999.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and Natalia A. Schmid, ``Dependence of ATR System Performance on the Size of Training Sets,'' Proc. SPIE Vol. 3721 pp. 730-739, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VI, Edmund G. Zelnio; Ed., Orlando, April 1999.
• J. Kostakis, M. L. Cooper, T. J. Green, M. I. Miller, J. A. O'Sullivan, J. H. Shapiro, D. L. Snyder, ``Multispectral Sensor Fusion for Ground-Based Target Orientation Estimation: FLIR, LADAR, HRR,'' Proceedings SPIE Vol. 3718, pp. 14-24, Automatic Target Recognition IX, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 1999.
• D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, D. R. Fuhrmann, and W. H. Smith, ``Estimation of Overlapping Spectral Signatures from Hyperspectral Data,'' Proceedings SPIE Vol. 3718, pp. 470-479, Automatic Target Recognition IX, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., Orlando, April 1999.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. D. DeVore, ``Performance Analysis of ATR from SAR Imagery,'' Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, April 1999.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and Natalia A. Schmid, ``Performance of ATR Systems and the Size of Training Sets,'' 1999 Information Theory Workshop on Detection, Estimation, Classification, and Imaging, Santa Fe, NM, February 1999.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, P. Moulin, and M. Ettinger, ``Information Theoretic Analysis of Steganography,'' 1998 International Symposium on Information Theory.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Incremental Optimality for Nonlinear Filtering,'' MTNS98, Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Padova, Italy, July 1998.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, L. Duan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Iterative Bahl Decoding is Maximum Likelihood Decoding,'' IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Captiva Island, FL, May 1998.
• J. Kostakis, M. L. Cooper, T. J. Green, M. I. Miller, J. A. O'Sullivan, J. H. Shapiro, D. L. Snyder, ``Multispectral active-passive sensor fusion for ground-based target orientation estimation,'' Proc. SPIE Vol. 3371, p. 500-507, Automatic Target Recognition VIII, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., September 1998.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, S. P. Jacobs, V. Kedia, ``Stochastic models and performance bounds for pose estimation using high-resolution radar data,'' Proc. SPIE Vol. 3370, pp. 576-587, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery V, Edmund G. Zelnio; Ed., September 1998.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, A. Srivastava, and V. Kedia, ``Performance Analysis of ATR from SAR Imagery,'' 1998 SPIE Aerosense meeting, Orlando, April 1998.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and V. Kedia, ``Target Recognition and Pose Estimation from SAR Imagery,'' National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, January 1998.
• D. L. Snyder, M. Joshi, J. A. O'Sullivan, J. F. Williamson, and C. K. S. Chao, ``Spiral X-ray CT Imaging in the Presence of High Density Brachytherapy Applicators,'' 1997 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, November 1997.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, V. Kedia, and S. P. Jacobs, ``Orientation Estimation Bounds for High Resolution Radar Data,'' Thirty-Fifth Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1997.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and N. Ryleeva, ``Large Deviations Analysis for Performance Analysis of Signature Authentication,'' 1997 International Symposium on Information Theory, Ulm, Germany, June 1997.
• S. P. Jacobs and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``High-resolution radar models for joint tracking and recognition,'' Proc. SPIE Vol. 3069, p. 94-105, Automatic Target Recognition VII, Firooz A. Sadjadi; Ed., June 1997.
• S. P. Jacobs and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``High Resolution Radar Models for Joint Tracking and Recognition,'' Proceedings 1997 National Radar Conference, pp. 99-104, May 1997.
• S. P. Jacobs, J. A. O'Sullivan, M. Faisal, and D. L. Snyder, ``Automatic target recognition system using high-resolution radar,'' Proc. SPIE Vol. 2845, p. 84-95, Radar Processing, Technology, and Applications, William J. Miceli; Ed., November 1996.
• S. P. Jacobs, J. A. O'Sullivan, and Z. Bekker, ``Joint Tracking and Recognition of Ground Targets from High Resolution Radar Range-Profiles,'' Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Conventional Weapon ATR, Redstone Arsenal.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. Agrawal, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Write-read-write signal precompensation techniques for magnetic recording,'' Proc. SPIE Vol. 2605, p. 39-47, Coding and Signal Processing for Information Storage, Mysore R. Raghuveer; Soheil A. Dianat; Steven W. McLaughlin; Martin Hassner; Eds., December 1995.
• D. G. Porter, P. Dhagat, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Irregular Grain Structure in Micromagnetic Simulation,'' 40th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials: Abstracts, AR-15, November 1995.
• D. G. Porter, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Physically Based Information Science of Magnetic Recording II. Physical Sources of Medium Noise,'' The 6th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference: Abstracts, FP-04, pp.397-398, June, 1994.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. Agrawal, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``Signal Precompensation for Multiplicative Noise in Magnetic Recording,'' Conference on Information Science and Systems, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, March 1995.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. Agrawal, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Magnetic Recording System Design to Reduce Medium Noise Through Signal Precompensation,'' Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Information Science and Systems, pp. 1152-1155, (Princeton, NJ), Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1994.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Recording Medium Properties and Capacity Bounds,'' 38th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials: Abstracts, BC-04, pp. 87-88, November 1993.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Physically Based Information Science of Magnetic Recording I. Information Capacity of a Medium Model,'' DIGESTS of INTERnational MAGnetics Conference, GQ-02, Stockholm, Sweden, April 1993.
• N. J. Cutaia and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Performance Bounds for Recognition of Jump-Linear Systems,'' 1995 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 1995.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and D. L. Snyder, ``Deterministic EM Algorithms with Penalties,'' submitted to International Symposium on Information Theory, Whistler, British Columbia, September 1995.
• D. G. Porter and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Physical Limits on the Storage Capacity of Magnetic Recording Media,'' Proceeding 1995 International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 248, Whistler, British Columbia, September 1995.
• N. J. Cutaia and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Automatic Target Recognition Using Kinematic Priors,'' Proc. 33rd Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, December 1994, pp. 3303-3307.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, K. Mark, and M. I. Miller, ``Markov Random Fields on Graphs for Natural Languages,'' Information Theory Workshop on Information Theory and Statistics, Alexandria, VA, October 1994.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Further Convergence Results for Entropies of Random Branching Processes,'' International Symposium on Information Theory, Norway, June 1994.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Divergence Penalty for Image Regularization,'' 1994 ICASSP, Adelaide, Australia, April 1994.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, S. P. Jacobs, M. I. Miller, and D. L. Snyder, ``A Likelihood-Based Approach to Joint Target Tracking and Identification,'' Conference Record 27th Asilomar Conference, Monterrey, CA, November 1993, pp. 290-294.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, M. I. Miller, A. Srivastava, and D. L. Snyder, ``Tracking Using a Random Sampling Algorithm,'' Proceedings 12th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, vol. 5, Sydney, Australia, July 1993, pp. 435-438.
• R. Teichman, A. Srivastava, M. I. Miller, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Automated Tracking and Target Recognition Algorithms Using Jump-Diffusion Processes,'' 1993 IEEE Mohawk Valley Section Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference, Utica, NY, May 1993.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``A Physically Based Approach to Information Theory for Thin Film Magnetic Recording,'' Proceedings of the 30th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 792-798, 1992.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, K. C. Du, R. S. Teichman, M. I. Miller, D. L. Snyder, and V. C. Vannicola, ``Reflectivity Models for Radar Target Recognition,'' SPIE OE/Aerospace Science and Sensing Conference on Automatic Object Recognition III, Orlando, FL, April 1993.
• M. I. Miller, R. Teichman, A. Srivastava, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Jump-Diffusion Processes for Automated Tracking-Target Recognition,'' Proceedings 27th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 1993, pp. 617-622 (invited).
• A. Chinwalla and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Image Regularization Using a Divergence Penalty Method,'' Proceedings 27th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, March 1993, pp. 30-33.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, K. C. Du, R. S. Teichman, M. I. Miller, D. L. Snyder, and V. C. Vannicola, ``Radar Target Recognition Using Shape Models,'' Proceedings of the 30th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1992, pp. 515-523.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller, ``A Physically Based Approach to Information Theory for Thin Film Magnetic Recording,'' Proceedings of the 30th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1992, pp. 792-798.
• A. Srivastava, N. Cutaia, M. I. Miller, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Multi-Target Narrowband Direction Finding and Tracking Based on Motion Dynamics,'' Proceedings of the 30th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1992, pp. 279-288.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A Unitary Algorithm for Wideband Radar Imaging,'' Proceedings of the 1992 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1992, p. 755.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Wideband Radar Imaging with Estimation Theory Applications,'' Proceedings of the 29th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1991, pp. 524-533.
• M. I. Miller and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``On the Entropy of Random Branching Processes,'' IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, Hungary, June 1991.
• P. Moulin, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``A Method of Sieves for Estimating the Spectral Density,'' IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, Hungary, June 1991.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, T. J. Schulz, and D. L. Snyder, ``Image Restoration Subject to Nonnegativity Constraints,'' ICASSP-91, Toronto, May 1991.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and S. P. Jacobs, ``Computational Considerations for Maximum-Likelihood Radar Imaging,'' Proceedings 1990 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1990, pp. 536-540.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. I. Miller, ``Maximum Entropy Supercritical Branching Processes,'' 1990 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 1990.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. I. Miller, ``Representing Context Free Languages via Random Branching Processes,'' IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Diego, January 1990.
• P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A Method for Regularizing Maximum-Likelihood Spectrum Estimates,'' IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Diego, January 1990.
• P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A Sieve-Constrained Maximum-Likelihood Estimator for the Spectrum of a Gaussian Process,'' 27th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, September 1989.
• M. I. Miller and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Stochastic Representations of Formal Languages,'' 1989 IEEE/CAM Information Theory Workshop at Cornell, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 1989.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, D. L. Snyder, and P. Moulin, ``The Role of Spectrum Estimation in Forming High-Resolution Radar Images,'' Proceedings ICASSP-89, Glasgow, Scotland, May 1989, pp. 2365-2367.
• P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Maximum-Likelihood Spectrum Estimation of Periodic Processes from Noisy Data,'' Proceedings of the 1989 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1989, 610-616.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, P. Moulin, and D. L. Snyder, ``Cramer-Rao Bounds for Constrained Spectrum Estimation with Application to a Problem in Radar Imaging,'' Proceedings 26th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1988, pp. 27-34.
• M. I. Miller, M. J. Turmon, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, ``Spectrum Estimation via Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Toeplitz Constrained Covariances,'' Proceedings IEEE Spectrum Estimation Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, August 1988, pp. 182-185.
• D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. I. Miller, ``Forming High Resolution Images of Diffuse Radar Targets,'' Proceedings 1988 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 1988, p. 945.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Optimal Volterra Kernels for Nonlinear Controllers,'' Proceedings 26th Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, December 1987, pp. 505-508.
• D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. I. Miller, ``An Estimation-Theoretic Approach for Imaging Diffuse Radar Targets,'' Proceedings SPIE Conference on Advanced Algorithms and Architectures for Signal Processing II, Volume 826, San Diego, CA, August 1987.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Polynomial Approximation of Discrete Time Optimal Regulators,'' MTNS-87, Phoenix, AZ, June 1987.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. K. Sain, ``An Approximation Approach to Nonlinear Optimal Regulation,'' 1986 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 1986.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. K. Sain, ``A Theorem on the Feedback Equivalence of Nonlinear Systems Using Tensor Analysis,'' Proceedings 23rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1985.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. K. Sain, ``Nonlinear Optimal Control with Tensors: Some Computational Issues,'' Proceedings 1985 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 1985.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. K. Sain, ``Nonlinear Feedback Design: Optimal Responses by Tensor Analysis,'' Proceedings 22nd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana, IL, October 1984.

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• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A New Wideband Radar Imaging Algorithm.''
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. I. Miller, ``Almost Sure Convergence for Functions of Random Branching Processes''
• D. G. Porter, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Physically Based Model and Simulations of Medium Noise,'' Tech. Rep. WUEE-94-164, Washington University Department of Electrical Engineering, 1994.
• D. G. Porter, J. A. O'Sullivan, R. S. Indeck and M. W. Muller, ``Effective Field Equivalences in Thin Film Recording Media for Capacity Computations,'' Tech. Rep. WUEE-93-147, Washington University Department of Electrical Engineering, 1993.
• J. A. O'Sullivan, ``A Transform Approach to Radar Imaging,'' Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory Research Monograph, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, July 1991.
• P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and J. A. O'Sullivan, ``Performance Analysis for Maximum Likelihood Spectrum Estimation of Periodic Processes from Noisy Data,'' Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory Research Monograph ESSRL-88-10, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, August 1988.
• J. A. O'Sullivan and M. K. Sain, ``Volterra Expansions for Optimal Nonlinear Controllers.''

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