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Specialties:fast auto focus search algorithm design and performance assessment, image signal processor architectures, camera parameter calibration/tuning/optimization procedures, 3A (AE, AF, AWB) algorithm design, real-time image/video processing implementation strategies, working in large code bases, C/C++, Assembly, MATLAB, LabVIEW, VHDL, Perl, XML Camera Engineer @ Evaluate, qualify, test, and benchmark products with a camera. Develop/perform lab type testing and software for camera evaluation, develop imager test techniques, optimize imager sensor settings, optimize ISPs, design/support production line testing setups, perform testing/data analysis on benchmark products, and deliver executive level presentations of results. From August 2010 to Present (5 years 3 months) Associate Editor @ JRTIP (http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554) bridges the gap between the theory and practice of image processing. It is often the case that an image processing algorithm is developed and proven theoretically sound, presumably with a specific application in mind, but its practical applications and the detailed steps, methodology, and trade-off analysis required to achieve its real-time performance are never fully explored. JRTIP is thus intended to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of image and video processing, serving the greater community of researchers, practicing engineers, and industrial professionals who deal with designing, implementing or utilizing real-time image and video processing systems. (2011 Impact Factor = 1.020) From February 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 11 months) Imaging Systems Architect, OMAP Multimedia IP Architecture @ Responsible for providing imaging expertise for TI imaging products with an emphasis on smart phone camera systems development. Contributed to various smart phone camera customer imaging system needs including image/video quality tuning/assessment, algorithm prototyping, development, tool creation and real-time system integration. Architected, developed, implemented/integrated, field tested and supported an adaptive step auto-focus search algorithm (including its use in a multi-window touch focus feature) along with a MATLAB based automated tuning tool used in the baseline TI camera system solutions based on OMAP3 and OMAP4. Successfully productized the algorithm for use in several commercial products from a leading smart phone manufacturer. Developed specifications for TI’s image quality product tests using Imatest analysis software as a means to objectively assess the quality of the baseline camera phone software releases in terms of 3A (AE, AF, AWB), noise, dynamic range, light falloff, chromatic aberration, lens distortion. Developed specifications for the TI Dynamic Camera Control system whose goal is to allow a customer to tune the ISP offline on a PC for different imaging conditions and then encapsulate the tuning strategies and parameters into a set of files which can be shared with the target system to achieve the same tuning. Led the effort for development and integration of the system into the OMAP4 software baseline by collaborating across organizational boundaries and with an overseas third party. Refined the ISP system simulator for OMAP4 to allow optimization of tuning parameters for different imaging conditions and enabled it to run in parallel on an Electric Cloud system. From February 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 7 months) Graduate Research Assistant, Signal and Image Processing Lab @ Developed single/continuous/low-light auto-focus and auto white balance algorithms for digital camera platforms Performed real-time implementation in C on Texas Instruments’ reference digital still camera platforms Published and presented research in real-time image/video processing in journals and international conferences From May 2003 to January 2009 (5 years 9 months) Co-Op in Imaging Technology, OMAP Multimedia IP Architecture @ Integrated and developed auto-focus algorithms for use in TI camera phone demo systems with voice-coil actuators Developed a C-model for a component of the image signal processor (ISP) for design verification and simulation Created an ISP system simulator framework, combining C-models, Perl, and XML config files to aid in image tuning Analyzed and developed method for adaptive gamma correction (tone mapping) to enhance final image quality From January 2008 to October 2008 (10 months) Ph.D., Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing @ The University of Texas at Dallas From 2004 to 2009 M.S., Electrical Engineering - Signal Processing @ The University of Texas at Dallas From 2003 to 2004 B.S., Electrical Engineering @ The University of Texas at Dallas From 1999 to 2003 Mark PhD is skilled in: Matlab, Image Processing, Signal Processing, Algorithms, C, Pattern Recognition, Digital Imaging, Labview, Simulations, Perl, Testing, Digital Signal..., Sensors, RTOS, VHDL, LabVIEW, Embedded Systems, Semiconductors, Product Development