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Journal Publications

V.Y.F. Tan, S.~Sanghavi, J.W. Fisher, and A.S. Willsky. Learning graphical models for hypothesis testing and classification. Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on, 58 no. 11 pp. 5481 -5495, 2010.
Kush~R. Varshney, Mujdat Cetin, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. Sparse representation in structured dictionaries with application to synthetic aperture radar. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56 no. 8 pp. 1486--1502, August 2008.
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.
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.
Emily~B. Fox, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Detection and localization of material releases with sparse sensor configurations. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 55 no. 5 pp. 1886--1898, May 2007.
Kilian Pohl, J.~Fisher, W.E.L. Grimson, R.~Kikinis, and W.M. Wells. A bayesian model for joint segmentation and registration. Neuroimage, 31 no. 1 pp. 228--239, 2006.
Mujdat Cetin, Lei Chen, John Fisher, Alexander Ihler, Randolph Moses, and Alan Willsky. Distributed fusion in sensor networks: A graphical models perspective. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 23 no. 4 pp. 42--55, Jul 2006.
Alexander~T. Ihler, Fisher John~W. III, and A.S. Willsky. Nonparametric belief propagation for self-localization of sensor networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 23 no. 4 pp. 809--819, Apr 2005.
A.~T. Ihler, J.~W.~Fisher III, and A.~S. Willsky. Loopy belief propagation: Convergence and effects of message errors. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 6 pp. 905--936, May 2005.
Junmo Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, Anthony Yezzi~Jr., Mujdat Cetin, and Alan~S. Willsky. A nonparametric statistical method for image segementation using information theory and curve evolution. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 14 no. 10 pp. 1486-1502, Oct 2004.
A.~T. Ihler, J.~W.~Fisher III, and A.~S. Willsky. Nonparametric hypothesis tests for statistical dependency. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 52, August 2004.
John~W. Fisher~III and Trevor Darrell. Speaker association with signal-level audiovisual fusion. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 6 no. 3 pp. 406-413, Jun 2004.
Erik~G. Learned-Miller and John~W. Fisher~III. Ica using spacings estimates of entropy. Journal of Machine Learning Research, special issue on Independent Components Analysis, 4 pp. 1271-1295, Dec 2003.
Andrew~J. Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Detection and analysis of anisotropic scattering in sar data. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 14 no. 3 pp. 49-82, Jul 2003.
John~A. Richards, Alan Willsky, and John~W. Fisher~III. An expectation-maximization approach to target model generation from multiple sar images. Optical Engineering, 41 no. 1 pp. 150-166, Jan 2002.
John~W. Fisher~III, Martin~J. Wainwright, Erik~B. Sudderth, and Alan~S. Willsky. Statistical and information-theoretic methods for self-organization and fusion of multimodal, networked sensors. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 16 no. 3 pp. 337-355, Aug 2002.
J.~Principe, D.~Xu, Q.~Zhao, and J.~Fisher. Learning from examples with information theoretic criteria. Journal of VLSI Signal Proc. Systems, special issue on neural networks, no. 26 pp. 61-77, Aug 2000.
Jose~C. Principe, Alex Radisavljevic, John~W. Fisher~III, Margarita Hiett, and Leslie~M. Novak. Target prescreening based on a quadratic gamma discriminator. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 34 no. 3 pp. 706-15, Jul 1998.
Jose~C. Principe, Munchurl Kim, and John~W. Fisher~III. Target discrimination in synthetic aperture radar using artificial neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to Image Processing, 7 no. 8 pp. 1136-1149, Aug 1998.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. Recent advances to nonlinear mace filters (invited paper). Optical Engineering, 36 no. 10 pp. 2697-2709, Oct 1997.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. A nonlinear extension of the mace filter. Neural Networks, Special Issue: Neural Networks for ATR, 8 pp. 1131-1141, 1995.

Conference Publications

Dahua Lin, W.E.L. Grimson, and John~W. {Fisher III}. Modeling and estimating persistent motion with geometric flows. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010. CVPR 2010. IEEE Conference on, June 2010.
Dahua Lin, W.E.L. Grimson, and J.~W. {Fisher~III}. Construction of dependent dirichlet processes based on compount poisson processes. In Neural Information Processing Systems, 2010.
Michael~R. Siracusa and John~W. {Fisher III}. Tractable bayesian inference of time-series dependence structure. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2009.
Andrew Mastin, Jeremy Kepner, and John~W. {Fisher III}. Automatic registration of lidar and optical images of urban scenes. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on, June 2009.
Dahua Lin, W.E.L. Grimson, and John~W. {Fisher III}. Learning visual flows: A lie algebraic approach. In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009. IEEE Conference on, June 2009.
John~W. Fisher~III, Michael Siracusa, and King Tieu. Estimation of signal information content for classification. In Proceedings of the IEEE DSP Workshop, January 2009.
Jason Chang and John~W. {Fisher III}. Segmentation and shading estimation in slowly changing textured images. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009.
V.Y.F. Tan, J.W. Fisher, and A.S. Willsky. Learning max-weight discriminative forests. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2008. ICASSP 2008. IEEE International Conference on, pages 1877-1880, 31 2008-April 4 2008.
Michael Siracusa and John~W. Fisher~III. Interaction analysis using switching structures autoregressive models. In Michael Schulte, editor, Proceedings of 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2008.
Ayres Fan, John W.~Fisher III, Jonathan Kane, and Alan~S. Willsky. Mcmc curve sampling and geometric conditional simulation. volume 6814, page 681407. SPIE, 2008.
Jason~L. Williams, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Performance guarantees for information-theoretic sensor resource management. In Proceedings of ICASSP, 2007.
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.
K.R. Varshney, M.~Cetin, J.W. Fisher, and A.S. Willsky. A sparse signal representation-based approach to image formation and anisotropy determination in wide-angle radar. Signal Processing and Communications Applications, 2007. SIU 2007. IEEE 15th, pages 1-4, June 2007.
Michael Siracusa and John~W. Fisher~III. Dynamic dependency tests for audio-visual speaker association. In Proceedings of ICASSP, 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.
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.
Biswajit Bose, John Fisher, Bruce Fischl, Oliver Hinds, and Eric Grimson. Detecting cortical surface regions in structural mr data. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct 2007.
Jason~L. Williams, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. Sensor management for multiple target tracking with heterogeneous sensor models. In Proc.\ SPIE Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition, volume 6235. The International Society for Optical Engineering, April 2006.
Jason~L. Williams, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. Importance sampling actor-critic algorithms. In American Control Conference, June 2006.
Kush~R. Varshney, Mujdat Cetin, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. Wide-angle sar image formation with migratory scattering centers and regularization in hough space. In Proceedings of the Adaptive Sensor Array Processing Workshop, June 2006.
Kush~R. Varshney, Mujdat Cetin, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. Joint image formation and anisotropy characterization in wide-angle sar. In Proc. SPIE Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XIII. The International Society for Optical Engineering, April 2006.
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.
K.M. Pohl, Fisher J., Shenton M., R.~McCarley, W.E.L. Grimson, R.~Kikinis, and W.M. Wells. Logarithm odds maps for shape representation. In Ninth International Conference Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2006.
Emily~B. Fox, Jason~L. Williams, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Detection and localization of material releases with sparse sensor configurations. In Proceedings of ICASSP, volume~4, pages 945--948, 2006.
Jason~L. Williams, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. Optimization approaches to dynamic routing of measurements and models in a sensor network object tracking problem. In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pages 1061--1065. IEEE, March 2005.
Jason~L. Williams, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. An approximate dynamic programming approach to a communication constrained sensor management problem. In Proc. Eighth International Conference of Information Fusion, July 2005.
Jason~L. Williams, John~W. {Fisher III}, and Alan~S. Willsky. An approximate dynamic programming approach for communication constrained inference. In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, July 2005.
L.~Taycher, J.~W. Fisher, and T.~Darrell. Incorporating object tracking feedback into background maintenance framework. In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, 2005.
L.~Taycher, J.~W. Fisher, and T.~Darrell. Combining object and feature dynamics in probabilistic tracking. In Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 106-113, 2005.
Michael Siracusa, Kinh Tieu, Alexander Ihler, John Fisher, and Alan Willsky. Estimating dependency and significance in high-dimensional data. In Proceedings of ICASSP, volume~5, pages 1085--1088, 2005.
K.~Pohl, J.~Fisher, J.J. Levitt, M.E. Shenton, R.~Kikinis, W.E.L. Grimson, and W.M. Wells. A unifying approach to registration, segmentation, and intensity correction. In Eighth International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, 2005.
K.~Pohl, J.~Fisher, R.~Kikinis, W.E.L. Grimson, and W.M. Wells. Shape based segmentation of anatomical structures in magentic resonance images. In Proceedings of the ICCV Workshop on Computer Vision for Bio-medical Image Applications: Current Techniques and Future Trends, 2005.
Alexander Ihler, John Fisher, and Alan Willsky. Particle filtering under communications constraints. In Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2005.
O.~Aranjelovic, G.~Shakhnarovich, J.~Fisher, R.~Cippola, and T.~Darrell. Face recognition with image sets using manifold density divergence. In Proceedings IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 581--588, 2005.
L.~Taycher, J.~W. Fisher, and T.~Darrell. Combining simple models to approximate complex dynamics. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing, 2004.
Alexander~T. Ihler, John Fisher~III, Randolph~L. W.~Moses, and Alan Willsky. Nonparametric belief propagation for sensor network self-calibration. In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. IEEE, 2004.
Alexander~T. Ihler, John~W. Fisher, Randolph~L. Moses, and Alan~S. Willsky. Nonparametric belief propagation for self-calibration in sensor networks. In Thrasos Pappas and Jennifer Hou, editors, Information Processing in Sensor Networks, pages 225-233. ACM, 2004.
A.~T. Ihler, J.~W. {Fisher~III}, and A.~S. Willsky. Message errors in belief propagation. In Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004.
E.R. Cosman, J.W. Fisher, and W.M. Wells. Exact map activity detection in fmri using a glm with an ising spatial prior. In Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2004, pages 703-710, 2004.
Lilla Zollei, John~W. Fisher~III, and W.M. Wells~III. A unified statistical and information theoretic framework for multi-modal image registration. In Chris Taylor and J.~Alison Noble, editors, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, volume 2732 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 366-377. Springer, Jul 2003.
Michael Siracusa, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kevin Wilson, John Fisher, and Trevor Darrell. A multi-modal approach for determining speaker location and focus. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multi-modal Interfaces, 2003.
Erik~G. Learned-Miller and John~W. Fisher~III. Ica using spacings estimates of entropy. In Fourth International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, 2003.
Junmo Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, Anthony Yezzi~Jr., Mujdat Cetin, and Alan~S. Willsky. Incorporating complex statistical information in active contour-based image segmentation. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pages II 655--658, Barcelona, Spain, Sep 2003.
Alexander~T. Ihler, John~W. Fisher, and Alan~S. Willsky. Hypothesis testing of factorizations for data association. In Feng Zhao and Leo Guibas, editors, Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 239-253. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
John~W. Fisher~III and Trevor Darrell. Learning cross-modal appearance models with application to tracking. In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, volume~II, pages 13-16, 2003.
A.~Fan, W.M. Wells~III, J.W. Fisher~III, M.~Cetin, S.~Haker, R.~Mulkern, C.~Tempany, and A.S. Willsky. A unified variational approach to denoising and bias correction in mr. In Chris Taylor and J.~Alison Noble, editors, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, volume 2732 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 148-159. Springer, Jul 2003.
Leonid Taycher, John~W. Fisher~III, and Trevor Darrell. Recovering articulated model topology from observed rigid motion. In Suzanna Becker, Sebastian Thrun, and Klaus Obermayer, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, pages 1335-1342, Vancouver, Canada, 2002. Cambridge Press, Cambridge, MA.
Leonid Taycher, John~W. Fisher~III, and Trevor Darrell. Recovering articulated model topology from observed motion. In ?, editor, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing, volume~?, pages ?-?, 2002.
Gregory Shakhnarovich, John~W. Fisher~III, and Trevor Darrell. Face recognition from long-term observations. In Anders Heyden, Gunnar Sparr, Mads Nielsen, and Peter Johansen, editors, 7th European Conference on Computer Vision, volume 2352 of Lecture Notes in computer science, pages 851-865, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28-31 2002. Springer-Verlag.
Dmitry Malioutov, Mujdat Cetin, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Super-resolution source localization through data-adaptive regularization. In Proceedings of the Adaptive Sensor Array Processing Workshop, pages 194-198, Mar 2002.
Dmitry Malioutov, Mujdat Cetin, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Super-resolution source localization through data-adaptive regularization. In IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, pages 194-198, Rosslyn, VA, Aug 2002.
Junmo Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, Anthony Yezzi~Jr., Mujdat Cetin, and Alan~S. Willsky. Nonparametric methods for image segmentation using information theory and curve evolution. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pages 797-800, Rochester, NY, Sep 2002.
John~W. Fisher~III and Trevor Darrell. Probabalistic models and informative subspaces for audiovisual correspondence. In Anders Heyden, Gunnar Sparr, Mads Nielsen, and Peter Johansen, editors, 7th European Conference on Computer Vision, volume 2352 of Lecture Notes in computer science, pages 592-603, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28-31 2002. Springer-Verlag.
John~W. Fisher~III and Trevor Darrell. Informative subspaces for audio-visual processing:high-level function from low-level fusion. In Proceedings of ICASSP, volume~4, pages 4104-4107, 2002.
Alexander~T. Ihler, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan Willsky. Nonparametric estimators for online signature authentication. In Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume~6, pages 3473--3476. IEEE, 2001.
John~W. Fisher~III, Eric Cosman, C.~Wible, and W.Wells III. Adaptive entropy rates for {\em f}mri data analysis. In ??, editor, Fourth International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, volume~?? of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages ?-? Springer, Oct 2001.
John~A. Richards, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Expectation-maximization approach to target model generation from multiple sar images. In E.~Zelnio, editor, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VII, volume 4053, 2000.
Junmo Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, A.T. Tsai, C.~Wible, A.S. Willsky, and W.Wells III. Incorporating spatial priors into an information theoretic approach for {\em f}mri data analysis. In ??, editor, Third International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, volume 1935 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 62-71. Springer, Oct 2000.
Andrew~J. Kim, Sinan Dogan, John~W. Fisher~III, Randolph~L. Moses, and Alan~S. Willsky. Attributing scatterer anisotropy for model-based atr. In E.~Zelnio, editor, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VII, volume 4053, 2000.
John~W. Fisher~III, Trevor Darrell, William~T. Freeman, and Paul. Viola. Learning joint statistical models for audio-visual fusion and segregation. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, 2000.
John~W. Fisher~III. Nonparametric sensor fusion: An information theoretic learning approach. In Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, editors, Proceedings of the Learning Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, Apr 2000.
Trevor Darrell, John Fisher, Paul Viola, and Freeman Bill. Audio-visual segmentation and the cocktail party effect. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Oct 2000.
A.T. Tsai, J.W. Fisher~III, C.~Wible, W.~III Wells, J.~Kim, and A.S. Willsky. Analysis of functional mri data using mutual information. In Chris Taylor and Alan Colchester, editors, Second International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, volume 1679 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 473--480. Springer, Sep 1999.
John~A. Richards, John~W. Fisher~III, and Alan~S. Willsky. Target model generation from multiple sar images. In E.~Zelnio, editor, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VI, volume 3721, pages 598-611, 1999.
Andrew~J. Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, Alan~S. Willsky, and Paul Viola. Nonparametric estimation of aspect dependence for atr. In E.~Zelnio, editor, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery VI, volume 3721, pages 332-342, 1999.
John~W. Fisher~III and Alan~S. Willsky. Information theoretic feature extraction for atr (invited paper). In Fred~J. Taylor, editor, Proceedings of 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 1999.
John~W. Fisher~III, Alex~T. Ihler, and Paul~A. Viola. Learning informative statistics: A nonparametric approach. In S.~A. Solla, T.~K. Leen, and K-R. M�ller, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12, 1999.
Dongxin Xu, Jose~C. Principe, John~W. Fisher~III, and Hsiao-Chun Wu. A novel measure for independent component analysis (ica). In Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume~2, pages 1161-4. IEEE, 1998.
Jose~C. Principe, Dongxin Xu, and John~W. Fisher~III. Pose estimation in sar using an information theoretic criterion. In E.~Zelnio, editor, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery V, volume 3370, pages 219-229, 1998.
John~W. Fisher~III, Jose~C. Principe, and Hsiao-Chun Wu. A kernel based approach to maximum entropy mappings. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Boston, MA, 1998.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. A methodology for information theoretic feature extraction. In A.~Stuberud, editor, Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 1998.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. Blind source separation by local interaction of output signals. In Proceedings of the IEEE DSP Workshop, Aug 1998.
Jeremy~S. De~Bonet, Paul~A. Viola, and John~W. Fisher~III. Flexible histograms: A multiresolution target discrimination model. In Firooz~A. Sadjadi, editor, Proc. SPIE, Automatic Target Recognition VIII, volume 3371, pages 519-530, 1998.
Li~Kang Yen, Jose~C. Principe, and John~W. Fisher~III. Focus of attention in uwb sar image. In Robert Trebits and James~L. Kurtz, editors, Proc. SPIE, Radar Sensor Technology II, volume 3066, pages 136-142, 1997.
Phu Phuong, E.~Adler, J~Speulstra, J~Clark, M~Bartlet, and John~W. Fisher~III. An ultra-wideband exciter for ground-penetration radar systems. In IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, volume~3, pages 1135-8, 1997.
James~L. Kurtz, John~W. Fisher~III, Gordon Skau, Jashmid Armaghani, and Jonathan~G. Moxley. Advances in ground-penetrating radar for road subsurface measurements. In Robert Trebits and James~L. Kurtz, editors, Proc. SPIE, Radar Sensor Technology II, volume 3066, pages 11-21, 1997.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. Entropy manipulation of arbitrary nonlinear mappings. In J.C. Principe, editor, Proc. IEEE Workshop, Neural Networks for Signal Processing VII, pages 14-23, 1997.
Munchurl Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, and Jose~C. Principe. New cfar stencil for target detections in synthetic aperture imagery. In Edmund~G. Zelnio and Robert~J. Douglass, editors, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery III, volume 2757, pages 432-442, 1996.
J.W. Fisher and J.C. Principe. Unsupervised learning for nonlinear synthetic discriminant functions. In D.~Casasent and T.~Chao, editors, Proc. SPIE, Optical Pattern Recognition VII, volume 2752, pages 2-13, 1996.
Eric~D. Adler, John Clark, Phuong Phu, John Speulstra, Marion Bartlett, and John~W. Fisher~III. Ultrawideband exciter development for a ground-penetrating radar. In Gerald~S. Ustach, editor, Proc. SPIE, Radar Sensor Technology, volume 2747, pages 184-193, 1996.
Jose~C. Principe, Alex Radisavljevic, Munchurl Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, Margarita Hiett, and Leslie~M. Novak. Target prescreening based on 2d gamma kernels. In Dominick~A. Giglio, editor, Proc. SPIE, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery II, pages 251-258, 1995.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C Principe. Experimental results using a nonlinear extension of the minimum average correlation energy (mace) filter. In D.~Casasent and T.~Chao, editors, Proc. SPIE, Optical Pattern Recognition VI, volume 2490, pages 41-52, 1995.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. Formulation of the mace filter as a linear associative memory. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, volume~5, pages 2934-2937, Jun 1994.

Book Chapters

Mujdat Cetin, Lei Chen, John Fisher, Alexander Ihler, Patrick Kreidl, Randolph Moses, Martin Wainwright, Jason Williams, and Alan Willsky. Wireless Sensor Networks:Signal Processing and Communications Perspectives, chapter Graphical Models and Fusion in Sensor Networks. John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd., 2007.
T.~Darrell, J.~Fisher, and K.~Wilson. Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialog Systems, chapter Geometric and Statistical Approaches to Audio-Visual Segmentation for Untethered Interaction. Springer, 2006.
L.~Zollei, J.~Fisher, and William~III Wells. Mathematical Models in Computer Vision: The Handbook, chapter An Introduction to Statistical Methods of Medical Image Registration. Springer, 2005.
John~W. Fisher~III and Trevor Darrell. Multimodal Interface for Human-Machine Communication, chapter Information-Theoretic Fusion for Multimodal Interfaces, pages 219-237. World Scientific, 2002.
Jose~C. Principe, John~W. Fisher~III, and Dongxin Xu. Unsupervised Adaptive Filtering, volume~1, chapter Information Theoretic Learning. John Wiley \& Sons, 2000.

Technical Reports

K.M. Pohl, J.~Fisher, W.E.L. Grimson, and W.M. Wells. An expectation maximization approach for integrated registration, segmentation, and intensity correction. Technical Report 2005-010, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, April 2005.
Lilla Zollei, John~W. Fisher~III, and William~M. Wells~III. A unified statistical and information theoretic framework image registration. AI Memo 2004-011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, Apr 2004.
Erik~G. Learned-Miller and John~W. Fisher~III. Independent components analysis by direct entropy minimization. Technical Report CSD-03-1221, University of California at Berkeley, 2003.
Andrew~J. Kim, John~W. Fisher~III, Paul~A. Viola, and Alan~S. Willsky. Sub-aperture extensions to the flexible histogram for sar atr. In George Lukes, editor, Proceedings of the Image Understanding Workshop. DARPA, 1998.
John~W. Fisher~III and Jose~C. Principe. A performance comparison of the mace filter to a simple nonlinear extension. In Proceedings of the Joint Automatic Target Recognizer Systems and Technology Conference IV and Image Understanding Workshop. DARPA, Aug 1994.
John~W. Fisher~III. Wavelet analysis of high-resolution radar data sets. Technical report, Electronic Communications Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Jul 1992.
John~W. Fisher~III. Response of sar system to coherent ecm (u). Technical report, Electronic Communications Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Feb 1992.
John~W. Fisher~III. Target-location using noisy doppler-derived bearing measurements. Technical report, Electronic Communications Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Nov 1991.
John~W. Fisher~III. Analysis of false target images due to modulation and local oscillator i/q errors. Technical report, Electronic Communications Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Nov 1991.
John~W. Fisher~III. Use of pulse response and correlation angle for analysis of high resolution radar clutter measurements. Technical report, Electronic Communications Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Nov 1990.
John~W. Fisher~III. High-resolution radar measurements of radar cross section and reflectivity of tree clutter and scattering ground. Technical report, Electronic Communications Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Nov 1990.