Image and Pattern Publications, Patents, Grants, Honors of Allen Klinger

Facial Identification, Biometric Data Processing, Educational Management

Microelectronics Innovation and Computer Research Opportunities research project #02-034, “Facial Image Access,” Office of the President, University of California, Aug. 2002.

Finelli, C., Klinger, A., Budny D., "Strategies for Improving the Classroom Environment," ASEE Journal of Engineering Education (invited), Oct. 2001, 90, 4, 491-498.

Klinger, A., Darrah, B., “Execcuting Remote Procedures in a Remote Processor from a Client Process Executed in a Local Processor.” U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 09/786,286, Oct. 9, 2001.

Klinger, A., and Salingaros, N., "A Pattern Measure," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2000, 27-4, pp. 537-547, July 2000.

Klinger, A. ed., Human Machine Interactive Systems, NY: Plenum Press, 1991

Rhodes, M., and Klinger, A., "Conversational Text Input for Modifying Graphics Facial Images," Fuzzy Reasoning and its Applications, Mamdani, E., Gaines, B. eds., Academic Press, 198l , 273-287; International Journal of Man-Machine Studies., 9: 653-667, 1977.

Valenzuela, W., Klinger, A., McDonald, J., "Pattern Recognition Applied to Monitoring Waveforms," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, BME-33: 1, 18-24, 1975.

Alexandridis, N., and Klinger, A., "Real Time Walsh-Hadamard Transformation of Two-Dimensional Discrete Pictures." U.S. Patent 3,775,602, Nov. 27, 1973.

Alexandridis, N., and Klinger, A., "Real-Time Walsh-Hadamard Transformation," IEEE Trans. on Computers, C-21: 3, 288-292, 1972.

Klinger, A., Kochman, A., Alexandridis, N., "Computer Analysis of Chromosome Patterns: Feature Encoding for Flexible Decision Making," IEEE Trans. on Computers, C-20: 9, 1014-1022, 1971.

Pattern Recognition and Medical Data Processing

Klinger, A., Fu, K., Kunii, T. eds., Data Structures, Computer Graphics and Pattern Recognition, NY : Academic Press, 1977.

Tanimoto, S., Klinger, A. eds., Structured Computer Vision, NY: Academic Press, 1980.

Klinger, A., "Patterns and Search Statistics," Optimizing Methods in Statistics, Rustagi, J. ed., NY: Academic Press, 1972, 303-339.

Klinger, A., "Data Structures and Pattern Recognition," Advances in Information Systems Science, Vol. 7, Tou, J. ed., NY: Plenum Press, 1978, 273-310.

Omolayole, J., and Klinger, A., "A Hierarchical Data Structure Scheme for Storing Pictures", Pictorial Information Systems, Chang, S., Fu, K. eds., NY: Springer-Verlag, 1980, 1-39.

Klinger, A., "Computer System Organization for Pictorial Data," Picture Engineering, Kunii, T., Fu, K. eds., NY: Springer-Verlag, 1982, 24-32.

Klinger, A., "Multi-resolution Processing," Multi-resolution Image Processing and Analysis, Rosenfeld, A. ed., NY: Springer-Verlag, 1984, 77-85.

Klinger, A. and Pizano, A., "Visual Structure and Data Bases," Visual Database Systems, ed. by Kunii, T. L., NY: North Holland, 3-25, 1989.

Pizano, A., Cardenas, A., and Klinger, A., "Communicating with Pictorial Databases," Klinger, A., ed., Human Machine Interactive Systems, NY: Plenum Press, 1991, 61-88.

Klinger, A., "Mnemonic Assistance,"Klinger, A., ed., Human Machine Interactive Systems, NY: Plenum Press, 1991, pp.89-102.

Klinger, A., "Data Structures", The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Meyers, R. ed., NY: Academic Press, 1987, 125-135; revision Vol. 5, 43-56, 1992; revision, Vol. 4, 3rd Edition, 2002, pp. 263-276.

Klinger, A., "Pattern Width at a Given Angle," Comm. of the ACM, 14: 15-20, 1971.

Alexandridis, N., Klinger, A. "Walsh Orthogonal Functions in Geometrical Feature Extraction," IEEE Trans. on Electromagnetic Compatibility, EMC-13: 18-25, 1971.

Klinger, A., Kochman, A., Alexandridis, N., "Computer Analysis of Chromosome Patterns: Feature Encoding for Flexible Decision Making," IEEE Trans. on Computers, C-20: 9, 1014-1022, 1971.

Valenzuela, W., Klinger, A., McDonald, J., "Pattern Recognition Applied to Monitoring Waveforms," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, BME-33: 1, 18-24, 1975.

Klinger, A. and Rynell, I. "Pattern Recognition Simulation, and Decision-Making," Comunicacion e Informatica, Vol. 2, No. 9, 5-12, Maya, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico, September 1981.

Chock, M., Cardenas, A. , and Klinger, A., "Manipulating Data Structures in Pictorial Information Systems," Computer, November 1981, 43-52.

Chock, M., Cardenas, A. , and Klinger, A., "Database Structure and Manipulation Capabilities of a Picture Database Management System (PICDMS)," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-6, 4, July 1984, 484-492.

Klinger, A., and Fox, W., "Point Data Analysis," Computers and Graphics, 12, 3, 1988, 557-564.

Bourbakis, N., and Klinger, A., "A Hierarchical Picture Coding Scheme," Pattern Recognition, 22, 3, 1989, 317-329.

Bourbakis, N., Alexopoulos, C., and Klinger, A., "A Parallel Implementation of the Scan Language," International J. on Computer Languages, Pergamon Press, 1989, 1-16.

Pizano, A., Klinger, A., and Cardenas, A., "Specification of Spatial Integrity Constraints in Pictorial Databases," IEEE Computer, 22, Dec. 1989: 59 - 71.

Klinger, A. and Pizano, A., "Visual Structure and Data Bases," Visual Database Systems, ed. by Kunii, T. L., NY: North Holland, 3-25, 1989.

Klinger, A., "Vector-Valued Performance Criteria," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, AC3: 1, 117-118, 1964.

Klinger, A., and Sugiyama, H., "Some Mathematical Models for the Determination of Optimal Searching Policies in Nuclear Medicine Tumor Detection," Proc. Third Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1970, Honolulu, 517-520.

Klinger, A., and Sugiyama, H., "Computer-Aided Scanning," Pre-Prints of Papers for IFAC Kyoto Symposium on Systems Engineering Approach to Computer Control, August 1970, Kyoto, Japan, 615-618.

Rynell, I., and Klinger, A., Simulation Research on Some Effective Scanning Strategies for Tumor Detections," Proceedings of the Tokyo AICA Symposium on Simulation of Complex Systems, September 1971, H-3/1-H-3/9.

Klinger, A., and Satterfield, J., "Stimulant Drug Treatment of Hyperkinetic Children: Data Analysis," Proceedings of the Fifth Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science: Supplement on Computers in Biomedicine, 166-169, January 1972.

Klinger, A., and Rynell, I., "An Investigation of Some Principles of Simulation and Their Application to a Biomedical Pattern Recognition Problem in Radio-Isotope Scanning," Proc. 1973 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, 781-787, July 1973.

Klinger, A., "Data Structures and Pattern Recognition," Proc. First International Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition, Washington, D. C., IEEE, N. Y., 73CHO821-9C, 497-498, October 1973.

Klinger, A., "Pattern Recognition Programs with Level Adaptation," Proc. 1973 IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition, 89-91, December 1973.

Klinger, A., "Regular Decomposition and Picture Structure," Proc. International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE, N. Y., 74CHO908-4 SMC, 207-310, Oct. 1974.

Wall, R., Klinger, A., Castleman, K. R. "Analysis of Image Histograms," Proc. Second Int. Joint Conference on Pattern Recognition, Copenhagen, Denmark, 341-344, August 1974.

Klinger, A., "Sampling Images: Search Statistics and Computer Pattern Recognition," Proc. Computer Science and Statistics: 8th Annual Symposium on the Interface, Health Sciences Computing Facility UCLA.,

Klinger, A., "Data Structures and Pattern Recognition," Proc. of the American-Hungarian Joint Seminar on Pattern Recognition, Hungarian Academy of Science, 1975, 73-100.

Klinger, A. "Chairman's Preface," Proc. Conference on Computer Graphics, Pattern Recognition, Data Structure, Los Angeles, IEEE, NY 75CHO981-1C, ii, May 1975.

Klinger, A., Rhodes, M. L., and Omolayole, J. "Image Data Organization," Proc. of the San Diego Biomedical Symp., 15, Martin, J. I. ed., Academic Press, NY, 1976, 175-179.

Wall, R. J., Klinger, A., and Harami, S. " An Algorithm for Computing the Medial Axis Transform and Its Inverse," Proc. 1977 Workshop on Picture Data Description and Management, IEEE Computer Society 77CH1187-4C, Piscataway, N.J., 1977, 121-2.

Klinger, A., "Data Structures & Pattern Recognition," IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, SE-3, No. 2, March 1977.

Klinger, A., Rhodes, M. L., and Glenn, W., "General View Imagery From Orthogonal Planes," Proc. San Diego Biomedical Symposium, 1978,

Rhodes, M. L., Glenn, W., and Klinger, A. "Interactive Volume and Surface Isolation Using Tomographic Data," Proc. San Diego Biomedical Symposium, 1978,387-391.

Rhodes, M. L., and Glenn, W., and Klinger, A. "Three Dimensional Structure Isolation Using Parallel Image Planes," Proc. Fourth Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kyoto, Japan, 1978.

Klinger, A. "Recognizing CT-Radiologic Patterns - The Man-Machine Interface," Proc. of MECO '78, The Panhellenic Society of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Athens, Greece, 1978.

Paul, J., Kilgore, T.E., and Klinger, A., "New Algorithms for Automated Symmetry Recognition," Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, Sixth Volume, SPIE Proceedings Volume 848, Bellingham Washington: International Society of Optical Engineering, 1987.

Bourbakis, N.G., Klinger, A., and Lewis, C., "An Efficient Implementation Scheme for the Scan Language," IEEE Workshop on Languages for Automation, NY : Computer Society Press, 1987, 103-106.

Baraghimian, G.A., and Klinger, A., "Hexagonal Decomposition: A Data Structure for Planar Image Tesselation," Proc. IEEE Conf. on Systems Man and Cybernetics, NY: IEEE, 1987.

Baraghimian, G.A., and Klinger, A., "Space and Time Requirements for Two Image Data Structures," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1002, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision, 1988, 514-523.

Klinger, A., "Data Structures for Gigabyte Systems," presented July 1994, Proceedings Workshop on Gigabyte Image Processing and Visualization - Challenges and Opportunities, Argonne National Laboratory, 1994.

Klinger, A., "Data Structures for Gigabyte Systems," Proceedings of SPIE -The International Society of Optical Engineering, Aerospace Sensing, 1995, SPIE. 2410, 66-76.

Honors

Fellow, Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers. "For contributions to image analysis by computer."

Introduced as “Father of Quadtrees” by A. Rosenfeld at Multi-resolution workshop that led to Multi-resolution Image Processing and Analysis, Rosenfeld, A. ed., NY: Springer-Verlag, 1984.

District Director, Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society.