Qilian Liang & Xin Liu 
Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the 2018 CSPS Volume II: Signal Processing

A Length and Width Feature Extraction Method of Ship Target Based on IR Image.- Lunar Image Matching based on FAST Features with Adaptive Threshold.- Image-based Detecting the Level of Water using Dictionary Learning.- Application of Improved FCM Algorithm in Brain Image Segmentation.- Generating pedestrian images for person re-identification 

Dr. Qilian Liang is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), USA, where he has been working since August 2002. Prior to this, he was a member of the technical staff at Hughes Network Systems Inc. in San Diego, California. Dr. Liang received his B.S. degree from Wuhan University, China, in 1993; his M.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China in 1996; and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA in May 2000, all in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include communications, signal processing and fuzzy logic systems. Dr. Liang has published more than 270 journal and conference papers, 6 book chapters, and has 6 U.S. patents pending. He received 2002 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award; 2003 U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award; 2005 UTA College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Award; 2007, 2009, 2010 U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award; 2012 UTA College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award; 2013 UTA Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Activity Award; and was inducted into UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars in 2015.