The Skinny

I am a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I work in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. I interact primarily with the Vision Group and the Stochastic Systems Group.

Lately I've been working on signal level approaches to multi-modal data fusion, distributed inference under resource constraints, resource management in sensor networks, and analysis of seismic and radar images.

Recent Publications complete list

• Jason~L. Williams, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Performance guarantees for information theoretic active inference. In Marina Meila and Xiaotong Shen, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pages 616--623, March 2007.
• Jason~L. Williams, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. A constraint generation integer programming approach to information theoretic sensor resource management. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, August 2007.
• Jason~L. Williams, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Approximate dynamic programming for communication-constrained sensor network management. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 55 no. 8 pp. 3995-4003, August 2007.
• Leonid Taycher, John~W. Fisher~III, and Trevor Darrell. Combining object and feature dynamics in probabilistic tracking. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (special issue), 108 pp. 243-260, 2007.
• Michael Siracusa and John~W. Fisher~III. Dynamic dependency tests: Analysis and applications to multi-modal data association. In Marina Meila and Xiaotong Shen, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pages 505--512, March 2007.
• K.M. Pohl, Fisher J., S.~Bouix, Shenton M., R.~McCarley, W.E.L. Grimson, R.~Kikinis, and W.M. Wells. Using the logarithm of odds to define a vector space on probabilistic atlases. Medical Image Analysis, 11 no. 5 pp. 465-477, 2007.
• A.C. Fan, J.W. Fisher~III, W.M. Wells~III, J.J. LEvitt, and A.S. Willsky. Mcmc curve sampling for image segmentation. In N.~Ayache, A.~Ourselin, and A.~Maeder, editors, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2007, pages 477-485. Springer-Verlag, 2007.
• Michael Siracusa and John~W. Fisher~III. Inferring dynamic dependency with applications to link analysis. In Scott Acton, editor, Proceedings of 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2006.