Chiman Kwan is a Senior Professional Staff at JHU/APL. He received his PhD in EE from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1993. Before joining JHU/APL in April 2022, he was the founder of two R&D companies, working on projects related to control, signal processing, image processing, fault diagnostics and prognostics, and remote sensing. Over the past 30 years, he has published 1 book, 4 book chapters, 15 patents, 80+ invention disclosures, and 400+ journal and conference papers and received several awards and recognitions from IEEE. Over the years, he served as the Principal Investigator (PI) of more than 120 projects with total funding exceeding 37 million dollars funded by various government and private agencies. He is a Fellow of SPIE (2021), a Fellow of OSA (2020), and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2022). His recent research areas include image fusion, target detection and tracking, control of unmanned vehicles, deep learning applicaitons, and remote sensing. Since 2021, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in signal and image processing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Sensors Journal, and a few other journals.

Education History

  • Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington

Work Experience

Senior Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory

Publications

Published one book, 15 patents, and 400+ papers. See Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FNF0WSgAAAAJ&view_op=list_works.

Pan, D., Miura, H., Kwan, C. Transfer learning model for estimating site amplification factors from limited microtremor H/V spectral ratios, Geophysical Journal International, Volume 237, Issue 1, April 2024, Pages 622–635, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae065

Kwan, C. Issues and New Results on Bandpass Sampling. Electronics 2024, 13, 280. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020280

Nayak, D., Ray, K.B., Kar, T., Kwan, C. A novel saliency based image compression algorithm using low complexity block truncation coding. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 47367–47385 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15694-2

Uddin, M.S.; Kwan, C.; Li, J. MWIRGAN: Unsupervised Visible-to-MWIR Image Translation with Generative Adversarial Network. Electronics 2023, 12, 1039. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12041039

Hoque, M.R.U.; Wu, J.; Kwan, C.; Koperski, K.; Li, J. ArithFusion: An Arithmetic Deep Model for Temporal Remote Sensing Image Fusion. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 6160. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14236160

Chen, Y., Zhang, H., Zhao, Z., Wang, Z., Wang, H., Kwan, C. “Ultra-fast detail enhancement for a short-wave infrared image,” Appl. Opt. 61, 5112-5120 (2022).

Kwan, C., Budavari, B. A high-performance approach to detecting small targets in long-range low-quality infrared videos. SIViP 16, 93–101 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-021-01970-x

Honors and Awards

  • Top 2% of the most cited researchers worldwide throughout their careers (2023)
  • Best Paper Award from IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (2019)

Professional Organizations

SPIE
OSA
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science