Professor

Digital Signal Processing, and Computer Systems and Software



Research

Old page on a DARPA-funded Passive Radar project from my UIUC days (no longer actively maintained, kept up for archival purposes)

Pattern Theoretic ATR Page (sponsored by AFOSR)

Overall Interests: Statistical signal processing, Grenander’s pattern theory

Applied Research: Radar systems, target tracking, image reconstruction, automatic target recognition

Other Interests: Music synthesis, information theory, radio astronomy, crystallography

Current Students

Jason Dixon

Ryan Palkki

John Wilcher

Michael Lee

Jeong Hwan Bang

Former Students

Previous Positions

I held the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, a special chair for the development of young faculty, from 2004-2007.

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Aug. 1998 to Aug. 2001)

Visiting Assistant Professor (Aug. 2000 to Aug. 2002)

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Coordinated Science Laboratory

Project: Design and Optimization of Passive and Active Imaging Radar, focusing on detection, tracking, imaging, and identification of aircraft via reflected commercial television and FM radio signals.

Faculty: Richard Blahut, Yoram Bresler, Weng Chew, Pierre Moulin, David Munson

Graduate: M.S. (May 1995) and D.Sc. (Aug. 1998) in Electrical Engineering

Advisors: Profs. Michael Miller and Donald Snyder.

I worked in the Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory. My graduate work focused on applying Grenander’s pattern theory to automatic target recognition in infrared scenes. Most of this work was funded by the U.S. Army Center for Imaging Science.

Undergraduate: Triple major in computer science, electrical engineering, and music (May 1993). As a music major, I focused on theory and composition.

Coordinates

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mail Code 0250

Atlanta, GA 30332

Voice: 404-385-2548

Fax: 404-894-8363

E-mail: lanterma/at/ece/dot/gatech/dot/edu (remove slashes, change “at” and “dot” to appropriate punctuation – at this point it’s probably pointless for me to try fighting the spambots, but I might as well try!)

Office: Van Leer W431 (I am not often there, so I do not recommend trying to “drop by” to find me; e-mail is the best way to reach me.)

Assorted Activities and Fun Stuff

My wife and I sang in the Dekalb Choral Guild from Fall 2002 to Fall 2007.

Night Times was a St. Louis based music magazine which I was involved with for three years as a writer, photographer, typesetter, and eventually managing editor. The printed version I was involved with closed up shop in 1998, but founding editor Julia Gordon has brought it back in an on-line version.

Last modified 1/8/2018. Comments or questions to my e-mail above.