Scott E. Umbaugh

Author Biography

Dr. Scott E Umbaugh is a University Distinguished Research Professor and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). He is also the Director of the Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP) Laboratory at SIUE. He has been teaching computer vision and image processing, as well as computer and electrical engineering design, for over 30 years.

Dr. Umbaugh has authored four editions of his textbook on digital image processing and analysis, with the fourth edition being extensively re-organized and divided into two books based on the application area. Additionally, he has co-authored several book chapters, as well as publishing numerous papers in the field. He is the primary developer of the CVIPtools development environment used throughout the world for imaging education and research.

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Umbaugh worked as a computer design engineer and project manager in the avionics and telephony industries. He has been a computer imaging consultant since 1986 and has provided consulting services for the aerospace, medical and manufacturing industries with projects ranging from automatic identification of defects in microdisplay chips to analysis of thermographic images for clinical diagnosis of brain disease. He has performed research and development for projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and many private companies.

Dr. Umbaugh received his B.S.E. degree with honors from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1982, M.S.E.E. in 1987 and Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Missouri Rolla (currently, Missouri University of Science and Technology), where he was a Chancellor's Fellow. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of Sigma Xi and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).

Web site: https://www.siue.edu/~sumbaug/