Daniel R. Fuhrmann

Industry Experience
Telex Computer Products
Naval Underwater Systems Center
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Research & Teaching
Statistical signal processing
Image  analysis
Genome sequencing

Memberships
IEEE
Tau Beta Pi
Eta Kappa Nu

Prof. Fuhrmann has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, now the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, at Washington University in St. Louis since 1984. He  is also Research Associate with the Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory, and holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.  During the 2005-06 academic year, he served as chairman of the ESE department's faculty search committee.

Prof. Fuhrmann was the General Chairman for the 2003 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP-03).  He is a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Much of Prof. Fuhrmann's research and consulting work has addressed real-time statistical inference problems for data from sensor arrays, such as those found in wide-area remote sensing and surveillance systems.  His research in this area has focused on the particular problems of structured covariance estimation, array calibration, subspace tracking, and space-time adaptive processing.  Some recent work in this area has been in the use of the terrain elevation and land use data  to estimate the clutter scattering function in an airborne pulse-Doppler radar scenario.  Current work in array processing is in active testing algorithms for MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) radar systems.

Prof. Fuhrmann also has an active research program in image processing. .  In collaboration with researchers at the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center and the British Columbia Cancer Agency Genome Sciences Centre, he has developed an automated image analysis system, called BandLeader,  for use in DNA fingerprinting, a key step in genome sequencing efforts.  This system is now in use at the WU GSC, the BC GSC, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.  An NIH-funded effort to develop the second generation of the BandLeader software is underway.  In collaboration with other faculty members in ESSRL and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Prof. Fuhrmann has studied methods for the analysis of images acquired by hyperspectral sensors.

Prof. Fuhrmann teaches graduate courses in probability and stochastic processes, detection and estimation theory,  radar systems, and statistical signal processing for sensor arrays.   His undergraduate courses include signals and systems, digital signal processing, and communication theory.  He has taken a leading role in the development of the course ESE 102, Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering.

During the 2000-2001 academic year, Prof. Fuhrmann was on sabbatical, visiting the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in La Plata, Argentina, as a Fulbright Scholar.  While in Argentina, he taught a graduate course in sensor array signal processing, collaborated with UNLP host Carlos Muravchik, continued his ongoing research projects described above, and made an attempt at learning Spanish.  ¡Era un año maravilloso!   The photograph above was taken while Prof. Fuhrmann was relaxing outside his house in Acassuso, in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires.

Manuscripts in Review






 

D. Fuhrmann, "Numerically Stable Implementations of the Structured Covariance EM Algorithm", SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications.

D. Fuhrmann and G. San Antonio, "Transmit Beamforming for MIMO Radar Systems using Partial Signal Correlation", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

D. Fuhrmann et al., "Spectrum Estimation from Quantum-Limited Interferograms", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 950-961, April 2004.

D. Fuhrmann and L. Boggio, "Radar Imaging from Multiple Viewpoints and Multiple Noncoherent Data Sets", Proc. 2004 Conf. Information Science and Systems, Princeton University, March 2004.

D. Fuhrmann and L. Boggio, "Active-Testing Surveillance for Multiple Target Detection with Composite Hypotheses", Proc. 2003 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, St. Louis, MO, September 2003..

D. Fuhrmann and W. Smith, "Empirical Modeling and Calibration of Fourier Transform Spectrometers", Optical Engineering, vol. 42, no. 8, pp.  2268-2276, August 2003.

D. Fuhrmann et al., "Software for Automated Analysis of DNA Fingerprinting Gels", Genome Research, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 940-953, May 2003 (available here).

D. Fuhrmann, "Active-Testing Surveillance Systems, or, Playing Twenty Questions with a Radar", Proc. 11th Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, March 2003.

D. Fuhrmann, "Detection of Multiple Overlapping Bands of Known Amplitude, with Application to DNA Fingerprinting", Proc. 36th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2002.

D. Rieken and D. Fuhrmann, "Generalizing MUSIC and MVDR for Distributed Arrays", Proc. 36th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2002.

D. Fuhrmann, "Automated Image Analysis for DNA Fingerprinting", Proc. 1st Workshop on Genomics, Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), Raleigh, NC, October 2002.

D. Rieken and D. Fuhrmann, "Statistical Signal Processing for Time-Varying Sensor Arrays", Proc. 10th Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, March 2002.

J. Schein et al., "Physical Map of the Mouse Genome", presented at the 2001 Meeting on Genome Sequencing and Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 2001.

S. Ness et al., "Developing Computational Strategies for Constructing and Analyzing Physical Maps of Large Genomes", presented at the 2001 Meeting on Genome Sequencing and Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 2001.

D. Rieken and D. Fuhrmann, "Constrained Maximum-Likelihood Covariance Estimation for Time-Varying Arrays", Proc. 9th Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP), MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, March 2001.

D. Rieken, D. Fuhrmann, and A. Lanterman, "Spatial Spectrum Estimation for Time-Varying Arrays using the EM Algorithm", Proc. 38th Allerton Conf. Communications, Control and Computing, University of Illinois, October 2000.

D. Fuhrmann et al., "Automated Image Analysis for DNA Restriction-Fragment Mapping", presented at the 2000 Meeting on Genome Sequencing and Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 2000.

M. Marra et al., "Fingerprinted BAC Clones for Sequencing the Mouse Genome", presented at the 2000 Meeting on Genome Sequencing and Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 2000.

D. Fuhrmann, J. O'Sullivan, D. Snyder, and W. Smith, "Spectrum Estimation from Quantum-Limited Interferograms", Proc. 1st IEEE SP Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel, Cambridge, MA, March 2000.

D. Rieken and D. Fuhrmann, "Interferometric Imaging of Rotating Objects Using Synthetic Aperture Techniques", Proc. 1st IEEE SP Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel, Cambridge, MA, March 2000.

D. Fuhrmann and D. Rieken, "Array Calibration for Circular-Array STAP using Clutter Scattering and Projection-Matrix Fitting", Proc. 8th Workshop on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, March 2000.

D. Harres, D. Fuhrmann, and W. Smith, "Compensation for Optical Distortion in Fourier Transform Spectrometers", in Imaging Spectrometry V, M. Descour and S. Shen, eds., Proc. SPIE vol. 3753, pp. 142-151, July 1999.

D. Fuhrmann, "A Simplex Shrink-Wrap Algorithm", in Automatic Target Recognition IX, F. Sadjadi, ed., Proc. SPIE vol. 3718, pp. 501-511, April 1999.

D. Snyder, J. O'Sullivan, and D. Fuhrmann, "Estimation of Overlapping Spectral Signatures from Hyperspectral Data", in Automatic Target Recognition IX, F. Sadjadi, ed., Proc. SPIE vol. 3718, pp. 470-479, April 1999.

S. Kwon and D. Fuhrmann, "Sampling Theorems for Linear Time-Varying Systems with Bandlimited Inputs", Proc. ICASSP 99, Phoenix, AZ, March 1999.

W. Huang, D. Fuhrmann, D. Politte, D. States, and L. Thomas, Jr., "Filter-Matrix Estimation in Automated DNA Sequencing," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 422-428, April 1998.

D. Fuhrmann, "The Subspace Tracking Loop", Proc. 6th Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP) Workshop, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, March 1998.

D. Fuhrmann, "Complex Random Variable and Stochastic Processes", in V. Madisetti and D. Williams, eds., Digital Signal Processing Handbook, CRC Press, 1998.

D. Fuhrmann, "A Geometric Approach to Subspace Tracking", Proc. 31st Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 1997.

S. Kwon and D. Fuhrmann, "Identifiability Problem in Blind Separation of Synchronous BPSK Signals in Digital Wireless Communication", Proc. 35th Allerton Conf. Communications, Control and Computing, University of Illinois, September 1997.

M. Bakshi and D. Fuhrmann, "Improving the Visual Quality of JPEG-Encoded Images via Companding," J. Electronic Imaging, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1997. 

W. Huang, Z. Yin, D. Fuhrmann, D. States, and L. Thomas, Jr., "A New Method to Determine the Matrix in a 4-Dye Flourescence-based DNA Sequencing," Electrophoresis, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 23-25, January 1997.