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Faculty & Staff Luis F. Chaparro

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering


412-624-9665
Fax: 412-624-8003
Office: BENDM 436

Education

Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), University of California at Berkeley, 1980

Professional Interests

Dr. Chaparro's research interests include statistical signal processing, time-frequency analysis, nonlinear image processing and multidimensional system theory. He is a senior Member of IEEE, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, past Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing and member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Statistical Signal and Array Processing.

Selected Publications

Akan, A. and Chaparro L. F., "Modeling and estimation of wireless OFDM channels using time-frequency analysis," Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 389-403, 2006.

Senay, S., Akan, A. and Chaparro L. F., "Time-frequency channel modeling and estimation of multi-carrier spread spectrum communications systems," J. Franklin Institute, Vol. 342, pp. 776-792, 2005

Aysin, A., Chaparro, L. F., Grave I. and Shusterman V., "Orthonormal-Basis Partitioning and Time-Frequency Representation of Cardiac Rhythm Dynamics,'' IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 878-889, May 2005.

Chaparro, L. F. and Suleesathira, R., "Non-stationary Jammer Excision in Spread Spectrum Communications Using the Discrete Evolutionary and the Hough Transforms,'' Signal Processing, Vol. 83, pp. 1117-1133, 2003.

Akan, A. and Chaparro, L. F., "Evolutionary Chirp Representation of Non-stationary Signals via Gabor Transform,'' Signal Processing, Vol. 81, pp. 2429-2436, Oct. 2001.

Chaparro, L. F. and Akan, A., Eds., Editorial for Special Issue on Time-Frequency Signal Analysis and its Applications, J. of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 337, No. 4, July 2000.

Shah, S. I., El-Jaroudi, A., Loughlin, P. J. and Chaparro, L.F., "Signal Synthesis and Positive Time-frequency Distributions,'' J. Franklin Institute, Vol. 337, pp. 317-328, July 2000.

Suleesathira, R., Chaparro, L. F. and Akan, A., "Discrete Evolutionary Transform for Time-frequency Signal Analysis,'' J. Franklin Institute, Vol. 337, pp. 347-364, July 2000

Oh, J. and Chaparro, L. F., "Adaptive Fuzzy Morphological Filtering of Impulse Noise in Images,'' Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 11, pp. 233-256, Aug. 2000.

Khan, H. A. and Chaparro, L. F., "Formulation and Implementation of the Non-stationary Evolutionary Wiener Filtering,'' Signal Processing, Vol. 76, pp. 253-267, Jul. 1999.

Shah, S.I., Chaparro, L.F. and El-Jaroudi, A., "Generalized Transfer Function Estimation Using Evolutionary Spectral Deblurring,'' IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 2335-2339, Aug. 1999.

Shah, S.I., Chaparro, L.F., El-Jaroudi, A., and Furman, J.M., "Evolutionary Maximum Entropy Spectral Estimation and Heart Rate Variability Analysis,'' Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Time-Frequency, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 453-458, Oct. 1998.

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