Dr. Fenghui Yao

Dr. Fenghui Yao, Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science
Tennessee State University
Email: fyao@tnstate.edu Tel: 615-963-5875

Research

ATR (Automatic Target Recognition)

Video: test-bed

Video: Experiment Result

Video: Experiment Result (Target Detection from Thermal Images)

Video: Auto take-off Video: Auto Landing

Video: 2007-11-02-A Video: 2007-11-02-B

Video: 2007-11-02-C Video: 2007-11-02-D

Video: 2007-11-02-E

Perimeter Surveillance across 2 stationary camera

Perimeter Surveillance across 1 stationary and 1 PTZ camera

MAV Project: video1 video2 crash-test-vide MAV-prototype

Robotics
         - Tunnel inspection robot                           Video: inspection experiment
         - Intelligent powered wheelchair                 Video: obstacle voidance
         - Chinese character calligraphy robot         Video: writing in block-style
　

Autonomous Ground Vehicle Project Video: test-run
　

Image Processing
- Medical imageprocessing
- Solving jigsaw puzzles with pattern recognition techniques

Parallel Computer

Selected Publications

F.H. Yao, Guifeng Shao, A. Sekmen and M. Malkani: “Real-time Multiple Moving Targets Detection from Airborne IR Imagery by Dynamic Gabor Filter and Dynamic Gaussian Detector,” EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, September, 2010, pp.1-22. [part-1] [part-2]
F.H. Yao, and A. Sekmen: “Fusion of the Airborne Optical and IR Images and Target Detection from Fused Images,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5359/2008, pp. 651-660. [pdf]
F.H. Yao, A. Sekmen, and M. Malkani: “A Novel Method for Real-time Multiple Moving Targets Detection from Moving IR Camera,” Proc. of the 19^th ICPR, December 8-11, 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA. [pdf]
F.H. Yao, G. F. Shao, and J.Q. YI: “Extracting the trajectory of writing brush in Chinese character calligraphy”, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, 17 (2004), PP.631- 644. [pdf]
F.H. Yao, G. F. Shao, and J.Q. YI: “Trajectory Generation of the Writing-brush for a Robot Arm to Inherit the Block-style Chinese Character Calligraphy Techniques”, Advanced Robotics, the international journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Volume 18, No. 3, PP.331 - 356, 2004. [pdf-part1, pdf-part2, pdf-part3]
F.H. Yao, G.F. Shao: “A shape and image merging technique to solve jigsaw puzzles”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 24 (2003) 1819-1835. [pdf]
F.H. Yao, G.F. Shao, R. Takaue and A. Tamaki: “Automatic Concrete-tunnel Inspection Robot System”, Advanced Robotics, the international journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.17 No.4, pp319-337, 2003. [pdf]
F.H. Yao, G.F. Shao, H. Yamada and K. Kato: “Solving the Jigsaw Puzzles by the Computer (Part I) ― Jigsaw Pieces Extraction, Corner Point Detection, and Piece Classification and Recognition”, Trans. of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.43, No.5, pp.1492-1504, 2002. [pdf]
F.H. Yao, G.F. Shao, A. Tamaki and K. Kato: “Recovery of Connection Relationships among Two-dimensional Objects”, Trans. of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 38, No.4, pp. 746-761, April 1997. [pdf]

Full List of Publications Conference and journal papers

Teaching
COMP1500 Introduction to Computers and Problem Solving
chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5

chapter 6, chapter 7, chapter 8, chapter 10, chapter 11

COMP2400 Computer Organization
        chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6

        Homework1, Homework2,

COMP2600 Assembly L

anguage
        chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6

COMP3050 Programming Languages

        chapter 1, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5

        Homework1,

COMP3170 Applied Operating System
        chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6, chapter 7, chapter 8, chapter 9, chapter 10, chapter 11, chapter 12

COMP3500 Digital Logic Design
        chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 5
COMP4100 Operating Systems
        chapter 1, chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 5 Part I, Chapter 5 Part II, Chapter 6,

        Chapter 10 Part I, Chapter 10 Part II, Chapter 7, Chapter 8

        Homework 5, Homework 6, Homework 7, Homework 8, Homework 9, Homework10

        Homework 11
COMP4400 Artificial Intelligence
        Chap1&2, Chap3-Part I, Chap3-Part II, Chapter 4 Part I, Chapter 5 Part I, Chapter 5 Part II

        Chap 18 Part I

        Project 1, Program for Project3

        Literature Survey: Summarize this research paper
COMP4500, COMP4510 Senior Project

        Senior Project Topics: Embedded System, Mobile Computing, FPGA related topics, image processing related topics, other topics

　

COMP4600 Game Programming

　

       iPhone Programming:

        Chapter 2 ppt

        Converter sample code: *.h *.m

        Sample code to draw a circle and a line

　

COMP4800 Computer Graphics
COMP4910 Special Topics - explore the development of mobile application.

        The contents contain:

            (1) iPhone Programming

            (2) Android Phone Programming

            (3) Windows Phone Programming.

            See Flyer here.
CISE5020-80 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
        chapter 1, H/W1

        chapter 2, chapter 4, chapter 5 chapter 6 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 chapter 12 chapter 13 chapter 14

        process management, memory management, Homework 12-09 Answer



        Chapter 1 homework solution Chapter 2 homework solution

        Design projects. Datasheets are here (TSU campus only)