Peter James Kootsookos

Date updated: August 11, 2010

Personal Details
Name Citizenship US Visa Status Telephone Home Address E-mail Address Peter James KOOTSOOKOS Australia, Ireland Permanent residence (Green card holder) +1 860 284 3236 (Work) +1 860 206 7488 (Home) 119 High Wood Road West Hartford, CT 06117-1123, USA p.kootsookos@ieee.org

Skills
Project management: project leadership, project planning, team building, execution, highly distributed teams. Full life-cycle systems engineering: requirements, analysis, design, verification, validation, delivery. Software development: C++, C, C# and CASE tools (Rhapsody / Rational Rose) on a variety of platforms (Linux / Solaris / Windows / ThreadX / VxWorks); process automation for build and quality assurance. Quality processes worked with: IS09001-2000, CMMI, ACE (UTCs Achieving Competitive Excellence) Algorithm discovery, analysis and development: I have more than 40 technical publications in conferences and international journals.

Grants and Awards

2008 UTC Fire & Security President's Award for Product Innovation Part of a team that delivered the Modular Video Platform to market. 2008 Talbert Abrams Award (second runner-up) This award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the field of aerial photography and mapping for the paper "Detection and Vectorization of Roads from Lidar Data," PE&RS 73, (5), 517-535. 2004 IEEE Outstanding Chapter Award Prof. Ljubo Vlacic, the receiver of this award, asked me to accept the 2005 Outstanding Chapter Award on his behalf for the Queensland Sections Joint Chapter on Robotics & Automation / Automatic Control at the IEEE's Control & Decision Conference in the Bahamas. Prof. Vlacic and I worked closely together through both Engineers Australia and IEEE to facilitate the meetings and workshops that this award recognizes. 2002 APA(I) with AAM Geoscan Kurt Kubik and colleagues from QUT applied for an APA(I) with AAM Geoscan. I took over running this project with AAM. The scholarship supports Simon Clode in his PhD work. 2000 Venture Capital Funding for eMuse As VP Software Engineering for eMuse, I was responsible for the technical side of the companys operations. eMuse, through a great business model and an innovative technical implementation gained USD 8m in venture capital. 1999/2000 IDA Grant eMuse applied for an IDA (Irish Development Authority) grant for R&D. We obtained approximately IEP250k for this grant. 1987-1991 Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award for postgraduate study in Australian universities (later called Australian Postgraduate Research Award). ISSPA'90 Best Poster Presentation of a Paper by a Full-time Student International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications prize for paper entitled A Critical Examination of Time-Frequency Filtering. 1986 University of Queensland Maude Walker Scholarship for a recent Electrical Engineering graduate continuing to postgraduate study in Electrical Engineering most able to do so (awarded March 6, 1987).

Membership of Professional Organizations

IEEE I am a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Engineers Australia I am a member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust, Membership No. 1178898).

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Peter James Kootsookos

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Employment History
Project Leader, UTC Fire & Security (5/2006 to the present) Currently, I am working system requirements, software engineering and quality assurance for the Next Generation Panel: an embedded Linux system that performs access control (door control) and intrusion detection (burglar alarm) for 500,000 badges over 130 doors. The system integrates tightly with Lenel's OnGuard 2010 software. From May, 2006 to May 2008 I led the Service Efficiency project at UTCFS for enabling remote services for UTCFS products. The software and hardware systems that the UTRC team developed were moved to the relevant UTC operating unit. The initial support is for the Resonance range of fire panels and Verex / Lenel DVRs. Passport 4 (product release) for the Resonance piece occurred in May 2008. Staff Engineer, United Technologies Research Center (6/2004 to 4/2006) I was an individual contributor at UTRC working on projects mostly associated with the Chubb (now UTC Fire & Security) business unit. The work involved the full product life-cycle: Unearthing customer needs through interviews with system participants. Leading a small team for software requirements elicitation and documentation. Architecting the complete system. Managing a contract software team to deliver the required software component. Elicitation of user feedback on GUI aspects of the software. Verification of the software against the requirements. Preparing technical and management review materials.

Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, University of Queensland (2/2002 to 5/2004) The University of Queensland employed me as a Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. My research interests are in the area of industrial image and video signal processing applications. During my time at UQ, I advised or co-advised three PhD students: N. Liu: Hand gesture recognition by hidden Markov models, completed 2004, (advisor: B. C. Lovell). S. Clode: Automated Vector Extraction from Airborne Laser Scan Data, current, (co-advisor: K. Kubik) S. Lehmann: Estimation of 3D rigid body transformations from image sequences, current, (advisor: A. Bradley) Haptica Consultant on Image Processing (12/2001 to 2/2002) I performed some consulting work for Haptica in the area of embedded imaging. eMuse Technologies VP Research & Development (10/1998 to 10/2001) At e-Muse Technologies Limited I was Vice-President, Research & Development after being Vice-President, Software Engineering. I investigated and developed techniques for the embedding, broadcasting and receiving of interactive content via DVB/MPEG-2 digital television systems and iMode mobile phone systems. The system can be deployed on OpenTV, Liberate, MHP and most other set-top box operating systems. I built up the Software Engineering team to build and support this product into a group of approximately 25 people. MVT1 - Senior Software Engineer (03/1997 to 10/1998) I was employed as a senior software engineer with MV Technology Limited. The job involved integration of 3D image acquisition hardware and software into an existing inspection system. The software development was done on Windows/NT using Microsoft VC++5.0.

MVT was purchased by Agilent Technologies in 03/2001 and is now an operation within the Imaging Division of Agilents Manufacturing Test Business Unit, part of Agilents Automated Test Group.

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Peter James Kootsookos CRASys - Senior Research Engineer (Level C) (01/1996 to 02/1997)

Date updated: August 11, 2010

I was employed by the Co-operative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems (CRASys) to work on the following topics: condition monitoring, development of a versatile industrial signal processing platform and initialization of adaptive systems. The condition monitoring involved fieldwork at BHP's Hot Strip Mill at Port Kembla. CRASys - Research Engineer (Level B) (07/1995 to 12/1995) For 50% of the time in this period I was employed by the CRC for Robust and Adaptive Systems (CRASys) working on industrial research problems. ANU - Lecturer (Level B) (01/1994 to 12/1995) My duties in 1994 included teaching three subjects: ENGN3001 Digital Design, ENGN3005 Signals and Systems, ENGN4021 Digital Signal Processing. In 1995, I taught ENGN3005 and ENG4021. Over the two years, I supervised or co-supervised approximately seven final year projects. ANU - A.R.C. Senior Research Associate (07/1993 to 12/1993) Drs R.C. Williamson and R.A. Kennedy of the ANU employed me. The research project investigated microphone array design for teleconferencing use in an office environment. I also taught one-half of a fourth-year engineering Digital Signal Processing course (ENGN4021). CRASys - Research Fellow (Level B) (07/1992 to 07/1993) For '92/'93 I was employed by Anutech Pty Ltd as a Research Fellow at DSTO, Salisbury. I was allocated to the Frequency Estimation and Tracking Project. The two aims of the project were to examine existing and develop new algorithms for the estimation and tracking of frequency, with particular application to towed hydrophone array data. UQ - Visiting Fellowship (01/1992 to 06/ 1992) In the first half of 1992, I was a visiting fellow with the Speaker Verification Group at the University of Queensland investigating noise suppression algorithms for use in a large-database speaker verification system. I implemented a Kalman Filter/Smoother-based algorithm and investigated some adaptive and nonlinear techniques.

University Education
B.E. (Elec. Hons. 1) December 1986, University of Queensland, Australia M.Eng.Sc. (Electrical) November 1989, Thesis title: A Critical Examination of Time-Frequency Filtering, University of Queensland, Australia Ph.D. October 1992, Thesis title: FIR(q) Filter Designs Using H-infinity Techniques, Australian National University Grad. Cert. in Systems Design and Management (SDM) September 2006, MIT

References
References are available upon request.

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Publications
General Articles
1. P.J. Kootsookos, Letter to the editor, "Unis dumb down for foreign cash," Sydney Morning Herald, 08/05/2005. 2. S. Clode, P.J. Kootsookos, F. Rottensteiner, "Accurate Building Outlines from ALS Data", in preparation for Spatial Science Queensland, the magazine of the Spatial Science Institute of Queensland, February 2005 issue. 3. P.J. Kootsookos and I.V.L. Clarkson, "Australian Communications Theory Workshop 2004," Monitor, vol. 29(1), February 2004, p7. 4. P.J. Kootsookos, Lies and Statistics Column, Weekend Australian Financial Review, 01-02/11/2003 [eprint]. 5. P.J. Kootsookos, Letter to the editor, Disinformation on Digital Television, Sydney Morning Herald, 23/12/1999.

Patent
1. J. Mahon, S. O'Neill, P.J. Conlon, P.J. Kootsookos, Solder Paste Measurement, Patent No. IE80748.

Theses
1. P.J. Kootsookos, FIR(q) Filter Designs Using H-infinity Techniques, Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University, 1992. 2. P.J. Kootsookos, A Critical Examination of Time-Frequency Filtering, M.Eng.Sc. thesis, University of Queensland, 1989.

Book Chapters
1. P.J. Kootsookos and R.R. Bitmead, The Nehari Shuffle and Minimax FIR Filter Design, Control and Dynamic Systems series, Volume 64 1994 (Part 1), Advances in Theory and Applications edited by Prof. C.T. Leondes, Academic Press, pp. 239-298. 2. E. Jacobson and P.J. Kootsookos, "Fast, Accurate Frequency Estimators," in Streamlining Digital Signal Processing: A Tricks of the Trade Guidebook (Paperback), Richard G. Lyons (Editor), Wiley-IEEE Press pp. 107-116.

Guest Editor
1. P. J. Kootsookos, DASP'06 - Defense Applications of Signal Processing, Volume 19, Issue 6, pages 903998.

Published Journal Papers

2. E. Jacobsen, P. J. Kootsookos, "Fast, Accurate Frequency Estimators," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24(3), May 2007 pp.123-125. 3. Simon Clode, Franz Rottensteiner, Peter Kootsookos, Emanuel Zelniker "Detection and Vectorisation of Roads from LIDAR Data," Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, May 2007, pp. 517-526. 4. J. Homer, P.J. Kootsookos, V. Selvaraju, Enhanced NLMS Adaptive Array Via DOA Detection, IET Communications, vol. 1, iss. 1, Feb. 2007 pp. 19-26. 5. Stefan Lehmann, Andrew P. Bradley, I. Vaughan L. Clarkson, John Williams, Peter J. Kootsookos, "Correspondence-Free Determination of the Affine Fundamental Matrix," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 82-97. 6. P.J. Kootsookos, D.B. Ward, R.C. Williamson, Imposing Pattern Nulls on Broadband Array Responses, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 105 (6), June 1999, pp. 3390-3398. [eprint] 7. Y.-F. Wang and P.J. Kootsookos, Modelling of Low Shaft Speed Bearing Faults for Condition Monitoring, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 1998, pp. 415-426. [eprint] Page 4 of 7

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8. P.J. Kootsookos and J.M. Spanjaard, An Extended Kalman Filter for Demodulating Polynomial Phase Signals, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 5(3), March 1998, pp. 69-70. [eprint] 9. B.G. Quinn, V. Clarkson, P.J. Kootsookos, On Handel's Analysis of Kay's Weighted Linear Predictor Frequency Estimator, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46(2), February 1998, pp. 526-527. [eprint] 10. P.J. Kootsookos and R.C. Williamson, FIR Approximation of Fractional Sample Delay Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 43(3), March 1996, pp. 269-271. [eprint] 11. B.G. Quinn and P.J. Kootsookos, Threshold Behaviour of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator of Frequency, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 42, November 1994, pp. 3291-3294. [eprint] 12. V. Clarkson, P.J. Kootsookos and B.G. Quinn, Variance Analysis of Kay's Weighted Linear Predictor Frequency Estimator, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 42, September 1994, pp. 2370-2379. [eprint] 13. R.C. Williamson, B. James, B.D.O. Anderson and P.J. Kootsookos, Threshold Effects in Multiharmonic Maximum Likelihood Frequency Estimation, Signal Processing Vol. 37, 1994 pp. 309-331. [eprint] 14. B.G. Quinn, R.F. Barrett, P.J. Kootsookos and S.J. Searle, The Estimation of the Shape of an Array Using a Hidden Markov Model, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 18, October 1993, pp. 557-564. [eprint] 15. P.J. Kootsookos, B.C. Lovell and B. Boashash, A Unified Approach to the STFT, TFDs and Instantaneous Frequency, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 40, August 1992, pp. 1971-1982. [eprint] 16. P.J. Kootsookos, R.R. Bitmead and M. Green, The Nehari Shuffle: FIR(q) Filter Design with Guaranteed Error Bounds, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 40, August 1992, pp. 1876-1883. [eprint]

Published Conference Papers

1. P.J. Kootsookos, "Target Estimation Using Binary Sensors," 5th Workshop on Defence Applications of Signal Processing, Fraser Island, Australia, December 10-14, 2006. 2. Payman Sadegh, Julio Concha, Slaven Stricevic, Adrian Thompson, and Peter J. Kootsookos, "A Framework for Unified Design of Fault Detection & Isolation and Optimal Maintenance Policies," Submitted to: American Control Conference 2006, Special Session on PHM. [eprint] 3. J. Homer, P.J. Kootsookos, V. Selvaraju, DOA-Detection Guided NLMS Adaptive Array, EUSIPCO 2005, Antalya, Turkey, September 4-8, 2005. [eprint] 4. S. Clode, F. Rottensteiner, and Peter J. Kootsookos, "Improving City Model Determination By Using Road Detection From Lidar Data," Joint Workshop of ISPRS and the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), 'Object Extraction for 3D City Models, Road Databases and Traffic Monitoring - Concepts, Algorithms, and Evaluation' (CMRT05), Vienna, Austria, August 29-30, 2005. [eprint] 5. Stefan Lehmann, I. Vaughan L. Clarkson, Andrew P. Bradley, John Williams, and Peter J. Kootsookos, "Robust Fundamental Matrix Determination without Correspondences, APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing, February 21st, 2005, Brisbane. [eprint] 6. Stefan Lehmann, Vaughan Clarkson, and Peter Kootsookos, "An Integral Projection Approach to 3D Rigid Body Transformations," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November 7-10, 2004. [eprint] 7. Nianjun Liu, Brian C. Lovell, Peter J. Kootsookos and Richard I.A. Davis. "Model Structure Selection & Training Algorithms for a HMM Gesture Recogniser," the 9th IAPR International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR-9)}, Toyko, Japan. October 26-29, 2004. [eprint] 8. Nianjun Liu, Brian C. Lovell, Peter J. Kootsookos and Richard I.A. Davis, "Special Shape Gestures to enhance HMM Model Training," IEEE TENCON 2004, ChangMai, Thailand. 21-24, November 2004 [eprint]. 9. Simon Clode, Peter Kootsookos, Franz Rottensteiner, "Accurate Building Outlines from ALS Data," 12th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia 18-22 October 2004. [eprint] 10. S. Clode, E. E. Zelniker, P.J. Kootsookos, I.V.L. Clarkson, A Phase-Coded Kernel Approach to Vectorisation of Thick Lines, EUSIPCO, Vienna, September 7-10, 2004. [eprint] 11. Simon Clode, Peter Kootsookos, Franz Rottensteiner, The Automatic Extraction of Roads from LIDAR data, ISPRS 2004, 12 - 23 July 2004, Istanbul, Turkey. [eprint] Page 5 of 7

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12. N. Liu, R.I.A. Davis, B.C. Lovell, P.J. Kootsookos, Effect of Initial HMM Choices in Multiple Sequence Training for Gesture Recognition, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology 2004, Las Vegas, April 5 7, 2004, pp608-613. [eprint] 13. J. Homer, V. Selvaraju, P.J. Kootsookos, Enhanced adaptive array performance via DOA detection Proceedings of the 5th Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Newcastle, Feb 2004, pp. 28-32 [eprint]. 14. N. Liu, B.C. Lovell, and P.J. Kootsookos, Evaluation of HMM Training Algorithms for Letter Hand Gesture Recognition, Proceedings of IEEE ISSPIT 2003, Darmstadt, Germany. [eprint] 15. C. Walder, B.C. Lovell, P.J. Kootsookos, Algebraic Curve Fitting Support Vector Machines, Proceedings of DICTA2003, Volume II, Sydney 2003, pp693-792 [eprint]. 16. C. Walder, P.J. Kootsookos and B.C. Lovell, Towards a Maximum Entropy Method for Estimating HMM Parameters APRS Workshop on Digital Image Computing, February 7th, 2003, Brisbane pp. 45-50. [eprint] 17. B.C. Lovell, P.J. Kootsookos and I.D. Longstaff, On the Open-Ended Classifier Problem in the Context of Human Face Recognition and Tracking in Cluttered Visual Environments, Proceedings of DICTA99, Perth 7-8 December 1999, pp. 201-205 [eprint]. 18. Y.-F. Wang and P.J. Kootsookos, Frequency Estimation in the Fault Detection of Rolling Element Bearing, ICSV5, Adelaide, December 1997 [eprint]. 19. Y.-F. Wang and P.J. Kootsookos, Simulation of Low Shaft Speed Bearing Faults under a Heavy Load, ICSV5, Adelaide, December 1997 [eprint]. 20. A.J. Connolly, B.F. La Scala, P.J. Kootsookos, Closed-loop Frequency Tracking and Rejection IFAC Conference on Control of Industrial Systems, Belfort, France, May 1997. [eprint] 21. A. J. Connolly, M. Green, B. F. La Scala and P. J. Kootsookos. Robust Controller Design for Sinusoidal Disturbance Rejection, DSTO Workshop on Applications of Robust Control and Filtering in Defence, Adelaide Australia, May 1997 [NOT AVAILABLE ONLINE]. 22. P.J. Kootsookos, D.B. Ward and R.C. Williamson, Frequency Invariant Broadband Beamforming with Exact Null Placement Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing (SSAP-96), Corfu, June 1996 [eprint]. 23. B.G. Quinn, R.F. Barrett, P.J. Kootsookos and S.J. Searle, Array Shape Estimation Using a Hidden Markov Model, Proceedings of the Technical Cooperation Program (GTP1 and GTP9), 1993 [1] [eprint]. 24. P.J. Kootsookos, A.C. Tsoi and B.C. Lovell, Speech Enhancement for Robust Speaker Verification, Proceedings of the Speech, Science and Technology conference (SST'92), December 1992, pp.521-526 [eprint]. 25. P.J. Kootsookos, R.R. Bitmead and M. Green, FIR(q) Filter Design Without the Linear Phase Constraint, Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'91), May 1991, pp.1989-1992 [eprint]. 26. B.C. Lovell, P.J. Kootsookos and R.C. Williamson, The Circular Nature of Discrete-Time Frequency Estimates, Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'91), May 1991, pp.3369-3372 [eprint]. 27. B.C. Lovell, P.J. Kootsookos and R.C. Williamson, Efficient Frequency Estimation and Time-Frequency Representations, International Symposium of Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA'90), August 1990, pp.170-173 [eprint]. 28. P.J. Kootsookos, A Critical Examination of Time-Frequency Filtering, International Symposium of Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA'90), August 1990, pp.174-177[2] [eprint]. 29. B. Boashash, B.C. Lovell and P.J. Kootsookos, Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and Instantaneous Frequency Estimation, Proceedings of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'89), 1989, pp.1237-1242 [eprint]. 30. P.J. Kootsookos and B. Boashash, Signal Synthesis in a Time-Frequency Domain Using the Wigner-Ville Distribution, Proceedings of IREECON'87, September 1987, pp.845-848 [eprint].

Technical Reports
1. P.J. Kootsookos, Speech Enhancement for Robust Speaker Verification, Speaker Verification Project Technical Report [eprint]. 2. P.J. Kootsookos, Noise Performance of Various Speaker Verification Algorithms, Speaker Verification Project Technical Report [eprint]. Page 6 of 7

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3. P.J. Kootsookos, A Review of the Frequency Estimation and Tracking Problems, CRASys Technical Report [eprint]. 4. P.J. Kootsookos, Summary of Currently Available HSM Vibration Data, CRASys Technical Report [Commercially Restricted]. 5. P.J. Kootsookos and J.M. Spanjaard, Preliminary Analysis of Bearing Fault Leading to Failure on or about October 6th, 1995, CRASys Technical Report [Commercially Restricted].

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