tel: 931 293 4466
E-mail:
hjohncaulfield@gmail.com
Area of Expertise
Holography, Pattern Recognition, Perception
Biography
Dr. Caulfield has received many awards from SPIE including the Gold Medal, The Gabor Award, Fellow, President's Award, and Governors' Award and is past editor of its flagship journal, Optical Engineering. His publications include 13 books, 40 book chapters, 255 refereed journal papers, and a number of popular articles including the 1984 National Geographic cover story on holography read by more than 25 million people. He has been written about in essentially all newsstand magazines on science, news, and business.
Lecture Title(s)
Artificial Color: Nature invented color 550 million tears ago as a means for quick, sensitive, powerful discrimination of objects. We can copy nature's basic scheme in our technology to accomplish precisely the same goals.
Optical Pattern Recognition Reborn: A combination of concepts gleaned from classical pattern recognition and a new way to use any pattern recognition have led to spectacular improvement in discrimination and a new additional function - characterization of the target just recognized.
