Yair Barniv

Biography

Dr. Barniv is currently an Aerospace Engineer with the Human Information Processing Research Branch, Flight Management & Human Factors Division, NASA Ames Research Center. Early in his career Dr. Barniv worked in maintenance and development of airborne and ground radars, fire-control systems, and air-traffic instrumentation. Later on, in the aircraft industry, he worked on missile guidance design projects, and was responsible for system implementation, integration, and field testing. During that period of nine years he also did performance estimation, feasibility and cost-effectiveness studies on a broad spectrum of projects in the areas of Electro-acoustics, Electro-optics, Electronic Counter Measures, Radar and Navigation. Dr. Barniv earned his advanced degrees at Carnegie-Mellon University in the area of digital/optical signal and image processing. He then joined Systems Control Technology as a research engineer. During this eight-year period he worked on Cruise-Missile path optimization, closed-loop ECM, Synthetic Aperture Radar applications to missile terminal homing, Ballistic Missiles interception, fleet anti-missile defense, and others. His main contribution during that period was an innovative approach to streak detection in IR imagery using dynamic programming. Recently Dr. Barniv has developed new techniques in the areas of Non-Acoustic ASW, Interferometric SAR, and Optical-Flow and stereo-based passive ranging for helicopter nap-of-the-earth obstacle avoidance.

Contact Information

ybarniv@mail.arc.nasa.gov,
(415) 604-5451, (415) 604-3323 (fax),
MS 262-2 NASA Ames Research Center,
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000

Curriculum Vitae.

Personal Pursuits.

Selected Publications

(HTML of Abstract) "Coherent Optical Processing for Multisensor Image Processing", (D. Casasent and Y. Barniv), SPIE, vol. 137, Airborne Reconnaissance III, Mar 1978.
(HTML of Abstract) "Correlation of Images with Random Contrast Reversals", (Y. Barniv, H. Mostafavi, and David Casasent), SPIE, vol. 238, Image Processing for Missile Guidance, p. 156, May 80.
(HTML of Abstract) "Dynamic programming solution for detecting dim moving targets", IEEE Trans. AES (Aerospace and Electronic Systems), vol. 21, no. 3, Mar 85.
(HTML of Abstract) "Dynamic Programming Solution for Detecting Dim Moving Targets, PART II: Analysis", (Y. Barniv and O. Kella), IEEE Trans.,Vol. AES-23, No. 6, Nov. 87, pp. 776-788.
(HTML of Abstract) "Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Detecting Dim Moving Targets", Chapter 4 of book "Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advanced Applications", Edited by Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Artech House 90.
(HTML of Abstract, Intro.) "Application of Velocity Filtering to Optical-Flow Passive Ranging", IEEE, Vol. AES-28, No. 4, Oct. 92, pp. 957-970.
(PDF file) "Error Analysis of Combined Optical-Flow and Stereo Passive Ranging", IEEE Trans., Vol. AES-28, No. 4, Oct. 92, pp. 978-990.
(HTML of Abstract) "Neural networks application to divergence-based passive ranging", NASA-TM-103981, Dec 01, 1992.
(PDF file) "Passive Ranging Using Image Expansion", IEEE Trans, Vol. AES-31, No. 1, Jan. 95, pp. 358-375.
(PDF file) "AMTI Radar for Airline Operations", HSR Report #14-5, Jan 1996.
(HTML of Abstract) "Obstacle detection by recognizing binary expansion patterns", (Baram Y. and Y. Barniv), IEEE Trans., AES vol. 32, no. 1, pp 191-198, Jan 1996.
(PDF file) "Using EMG to Predict Head Motion for Virtual Environment (VE) Applications", (with Mario Aguilar and Aaron Garrett of MCIS Dept., Jacksonville State University. To be published.

For a more extensive reference list, please check the Curriculum Vitae .