Clark N. Taylor, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor / David C. Evans Chair
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Brigham Young University

Research Group: Multiple AGent Intelligent Coordination and Control (MAGICC) Lab

Contact Information:
459 CB
Provo, UT 84602-4099
Email: taylor@ee.byu.edu
Phone: (801) 422-3903
Fax: (801) 422-0201

Education:

Ph.D. June 2004 - Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering), UC San Diego
M.S. Aug 1999 - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University
B.S. April 1995 - Electrical and Computer Engineering , Brigham Young University

Experience:

Aug 2004-present - Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University - researching vision algorithms for Miniature Aerial Vehicles (MAVs)
June 2002-Sept 2002 - Hewlett-Packard internship - researched image verification methods and procedures, 3 patents pending
Sept 1999-July 2004 - Mobile Embedded Systems Design Automation and Test (MESDAT) group, UCSD - led mobile multimedia research group
Jan 1998-Aug 1999 - Reconfigurable Computing Lab - Researched mapping sonar beamforming algorithms (frequency domain, k-omega, adaptive, and matched field implementations) to Xilinx FPGA computing systems
July 1995-July 1997 - Missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Lived and served in Kenya and Uganda, East Africa

Publications

Please note that all of these papers have copyrights associated with them which are owned by the publishers. Therefore, they should only be downloaded and used as specified by copyright law.

Journal Papers

S. Dey, D. Panigrahi, L. Chen, C.N. Taylor, K. Sekar, P. Sanchez, "Using a Soft Core in a SoC Design: Experiences with picoJava", IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 60-71, July-September, 2000.

C. N. Taylor, D. Panigrahi, S. Dey, "Design of an Adaptive Architecture for Energy Efficient Wireless Image Communication", chapter in book, Embedded Processor Design Challenges. Systems, Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation -- SAMOS (Lecture Notes on Computer Science Vol. 2268), pp. 260-73, Springer-Verlag, 2002.

D.B. Barber, J.D. Redding, T.W. McLain, R.W. Beard, C.N. Taylor, "Vision-based Target Localization Using a Fixed-Wing Miniature Air Vehicle", Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, v. 46, pp. 361-382.

Book Chapters

C.N. Taylor, S. Dey, D. Panigrahi, "Energy/Latency/Image Quality Tradeoffs in Enabling Mobile Multimedia Communications", chapter in book, Software Radio -- Technologies and Services, ed. Enrico Del Re, pp. 55-66, Springer Verlag, 2000.

Conference and Workshop Publications

E.D. Andersen and C.N. Taylor, “Improving MAV Pose Estimation Using Visual Information,” in Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, Oct-Nov, 2007.

A. Rodriguez, E. Andersen, J. Bradley, and C.N. Taylor, “Wind Estimation Using an Optical Flow Sensor on a Miniature Air Vehicle,” in Proceedings, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Hilton Head, SC, Aug 2007.

J. Bradley and C.N. Taylor, “Particle Filter Based Mosaicking for Tracking Forest Fires,” in Proceedings, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Hilton Head, SC, Aug 2007.

N. Rasmussen, B. Morse, and C.N. Taylor, “A Fixed-Wing Mini-UAV System for Aerial Search Operations,” in Proceedings, AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Hilton Head, SC, Aug 2007.

D. Johansen, J. Hall, C.N. Taylor, and R. Beard, "Stabilization of Video from Miniature Air Vehicles," in AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Hilton Head, SC, Aug. 2007.

B.B. Ready and C. N. Taylor, "Improving Accuracy of MAV Pose Estimation using Visual Odometry," in American Control Conference, 2007, pp. 3721-3726.

J.M. Ready and C.N. Taylor, "GPU Acceleration of Real-time Feature Based Algorithms", in 2007 IEEE Workshop on Motion and Vision Computing, Feb. 2007.

A. Rodriguez, B.B. Ready, and C.N. Taylor, "Using Telemetry Data for Video Compression on Unmanned Air Vehicles", in AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Keystone, CO, Aug 2006.

B. Call, R.W. Beard, and C.N. Taylor, "Obstacle Avoidance for Unmanned Air Vehicles Using Image Feature Tracking", in AIAA Conference on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, Keystone, CO, Aug 2006.

J. Redding, T.W. McLain, R.W. Beard, and C.N. Taylor, "Vision-based Target Localization from a Fixed-wing Miniature Air Vehicle", in Proc. 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2006.

B.B. Ready, C.N. Taylor, and R.W. Beard, "A Kalman-filter Based Method for Creation of Super-resolved Mosaicks", in Proc. 2006 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

C.N. Taylor, S. Dey, "VSHAPER, An Efficient Method of Serving Video Streams Shaped for Diverse Wireless Communication Conditions", in Proc. 2004 Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dallas, TX, Nov-Dec 2004.

C. N. Taylor, S. Dey, "Run-time Allocation of Buffer Resources for Maximizing Video Clip Quality in a Wireless Last-hop System", in Proc. 2004 International Conference on Communications, Paris, France, June 2004.

C. N. Taylor, S. Dey, "ORBit: An Adaptive Data Shaping Technique for Robust Wireless Video Clip Communication", in Proc. 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, California, November 2003.

D. Panigrahi, C.N. Taylor, S. Dey, "Interface Based Hardware/Software Validation of a System-on-Chip", in Proc. 5th IEEE High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop, November 2000.

C.N. Taylor, S. Dey, "Adaptive Image Compression for Enabling Mobile Multimedia Communication", in Proc. 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communication, June 2001.

C.N. Taylor, S. Dey, Y. Zhao, "Modeling and Minimization of Interconnect Energy Dissipation in Nanometer Technologies", in Proc. 38th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2001.

D. Panigrahi, C.N. Taylor, S. Dey, "A Hardware/Software Reconfigurable Architecture for Adaptive Wireless Image Communication", in Proc. 2002 VLSI Design Conference/ASP-DAC.

External Citizenship

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Vice Chair, Utah Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society
Reviewer / TPC member for multiple conferences/symposia/workshops

Awards

AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2007-2009
David C. Evans Young Faculty Chair
SRC Graduate Fellow, Sept 2000-June 2004
Student Recognition Award, Snow College
Eagle Scout

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2006

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