The Skinny

I am a Senior Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I run the Sensing, Learning, and Inference Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I also interact with the Stochastic Systems Group in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.