Professional Background
Dr. Barniv is currently an Aerospace Engineer with the
Human Information
Processing Research Branch at NASA Ames Research Center.
Dr. Barniv earned his advanced degrees at Carnegie-Mellon University
in the area of digital/optical signal and image processing. He then
joined Systems Control Technology as a research engineer.
At SCT, he worked on Cruise-Missile path optimization,
closed-loop Electronic-Counter-Measures, Synthetic Aperture Radar
applications to missile terminal
homing, Ballistic Missiles interception, Fleet anti-missile defense, and
others. His main contribution during that period was an innovative approach
to streak detection in Infra-Red imagery using dynamic programming.
Recently Dr. Barniv has developed new techniques in the areas of
Non-Acoustic Anti-Submarine-Warfare, Interferometric SAR, and
optical-flow and stereo-based
passive
ranging
for helicopter nap-of-the-earth obstacle avoidance. He also did
research in modeling of human vision, and in applications of
Neural Networks to Pattern Recognition.