David Casasent
David Casasent | |
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| Born | David Paul Casasent December 8, 1942 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | November 16, 2015 (aged 72) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering |
| Workplaces | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | An on-line electro-optical video processing system (1969) |
| Wolfgang J. Poppelbaum | |
Doctoral students | Demetri Psaltis |
| Website | users |
David Paul Casasent (December 8, 1942 — November 16, 2015) was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist, who was a professor emeritus at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as the president of SPIE in 1993 and the International Neural Network Society in 1999.[1]
Born in Washington, D.C.,[2] Casasent received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Illinois in 1964, 1965 and 1969, respectively. He joined Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member in 1969 and was named as the George Westinghouse Chair in 1980. His research at Carnegie Mellon University mainly concerned optics with a focus on image and optical signal processing.[3] Retiring in 2009, he died on November 16, 2015 near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was survived by his wife and children.[4]
Being the recipient of SPIE President's Award in 1996, Casasent was a fellow of SPIE, IEEE, and the Optical Society of America.[1] He has previously served as the associate editor of the journal Optical Engineering.[3]
Selected publications
- Books
- Casasent, David P. (1973). Electronic Circuits. New York: Quantum Publishers.
- Casasent, David P., ed. (1978). Optical Data Processing: Applications. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/BFb0057980. ISBN 978-3-662-30844-8.
- Casasent, David P., ed. (1979). Optical Pattern Recognition. SPIE Proceedings Vol. 201. Bellingham, WA: SPIE.
- Journal articles
- Casasent, David; Psaltis, Demetri (April 1976). "Scale invariant optical correlation using Mellin transforms". Optics Communications. 17 (1): 59–63. doi:10.1016/0030-4018(76)90179-6.
- Casasent, David; Psaltis, Demetri (May–June 1976). "Scale invariant optical transform". Optical Engineering. 15 (3): 258–261. doi:10.1117/12.7971962.
- Casasent, David; Psaltis, Demetri (July 1976). "Position, rotation, and scale invariant optical correlation". Applied Optics. 15 (7): 1795–1799. doi:10.1364/AO.15.001795.
- Casasent, David; Psaltis, Demetri (1977). "New optical transforms for pattern recognition". Proceedings of the IEEE. 65 (1): 77–84. doi:10.1109/PROC.1977.10432.
- Psaltis, Demetri; Casasent, David (15 January 1979). "Optical residue arithmetic: a correlation approach". Applied Optics. 18 (2): 163–171. doi:10.1364/AO.18.000163.
- Casasent, David P.; Smokelin, John-Scott; Ye, Anqi (September 1992). "Wavelet and Gabor transforms for detection". Optical Engineering. 31 (9): 1893–1898. doi:10.1117/12.59913.
- Casasent, David P.; Neiberg, Leonard M. (1995). "Classifier and shift-invariant automatic target recognition neural networks". Neural Networks. 8 (7/8): 1117–1129. doi:10.1016/0893-6080(95)00047-X.
References
- 1 2 "In memoriam: David Casasent, SPIE Past President, researcher, mentor". spie.org. SPIE. January 22, 2016.
- ↑ "David Casasent" (PDF). ece.cmu.edu. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
- 1 2 "Biographical Notes: David Casasent". Journal of the Optical Society of America. 70 (4): 468–468. 1980. doi:10.1364/JOSA.70.000468.
- ↑ Ritenbaugh, Stephanie (November 19, 2015). "Obituary: David Casasent, Prolific researcher at CMU". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
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