People : Faculty
Faculty Associate
School of Computing and Informatics
John A. Black, Jr. earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University in 1972. Upon graduation, he worked in the electronics industry as an engineer for Sperry Flight systems and Motorola, where he was responsible for the development of the VMEbus specification, which has been internationally standardized as ANSI/IEEE std 1014 and IEC 821. Upon completion of his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984, John left Motorola to launch Open Systems Publishing, http://www.opensystems-publishing.com. In 1988 he authored a book titled The System Engineer's handbook which was published by Academic Press. In 2003, John earned his PhD in Computer Science, and has been serving on the ASU faculty since that time.
Structure and function of the human visual system. Modeling of human visual perception and cognition with the goal of building perceptive and cognitive computers that can understand images and videos in a manner similar to humans, and can augment human visual perception.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science - Arizona State University 2003
Contact Info
Office Location: BYENG 372
Phone: 480.727.7985
Email: john.black@asu.edu
Research/Areas of Expertise
- Human visual perception/cognition
- Modeling structure and function of the human visual system
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Perceptive and cognitive computers
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Assistive technologies for people who are blind
Research Center Involvement
- Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC)
Honors and Distinctions
- Author of the VERSAbus specification. (Approved as an international standard by the IEEE.)
- Author of the VMEbus specification. (Approved as an international standard by the IEEE, ANSI, and the IEC.)
- Editor of The System Engineer's Handlbook, Academic Press, 1992, 1059 pages, ISBN 0121028208
- Founder and co-owner of OpenSystems Publishing, http://www.opensystems-publishing.com
- Honored member of Strathmore's Who's Who
- Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Education
- Listed in Who's Who in America
- Listed in Who's Who in the World
Selected Publications
JA Black Jr, C Narayanan, and S. Panchanathan, "The role of eye movement signals in dorsal and ventral processing", Accepted for presentation at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI 2007), San Jose, CA, January 2007
S. Krishna, JA Black, Stuart Braiman, and S. Panchanathan, "Temporal relation between bottom-up versus top-down strategies for gaze prediction", Accepted for presentation at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI 2007), San Jose, CA, January 2007
G. F. Fahmy, J. Black, and S. Panchanathan, "Texture characterization for joint compression and classification based on Human Perception in the JPEG2000", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No.2, pp. 1389-1396, June 2006.
M Phiellip, JA Black Jr, and S. Panchanathan, "Using words as lexical basis functions for automatically indexing face images in a manner that correlates with human perception of similarity", Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI 2006), San Jose, CA, January 2006
S. Krishna, G. Little, JA Black Jr, and S. Panchanathan, "Using Genetic Algorithms to Find Person-Specific Gabor Feature Detectors for Face Indexing and Recognition", International Conference on Biometrics (ICBA 2006), Hong Kong, January 2006
JA Black Jr, L. Bonnasse, P. Satyan, S. Ozer, S. Panchanathan, "Using perceptually-based face indexing to facilitate human-computer collaborative retrieval", Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI 2005), San Jose, CA, January 2005
JA Black Jr, M. Phielipp, G. Nielson, and S. Panchanathan, "Can the high-level content of natural images be indexed using local analysis?," presented at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference (HVEI2004), San Jose, CA USA, January 2004.
JA Black Jr, K. Kahol, P. Tripathi, P. Kuchi, and S. Panchanathan, "Indexing natural images for retrieval based on kansei factors," presented at Human Vision and Electronic Imaging Conference, San Jose, CA USA, January 2004.
John Arthur Black, The System Engineer's Handbook, Academic