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Charles R. Johnson

Jacobs Fellow in Computational Arts and Humanities
Cornell Tech
Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 390
607/255-0429
Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Frank H T Rhodes Hall, Room 390
607/255-0429
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Biography

C. Richard Johnson, Jr. was born in Macon, GA in 1950. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, along with the first PhD minor in Art History granted by Stanford, in 1977. After 4 years on the faculty at Virginia Tech, he joined the Cornell University faculty in 1981, where he is the Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
At the start of 2007, following 30 years of research on adaptive feedback systems theory and blind equalization in communication receivers, Professor Johnson accepted a five-year appointment as an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) to facilitate the interaction of art historians and conservation specialists with algorithm-building signal processors. In 2012, Professor Johnson was appointed a Scientific Researcher of the Rijksmuseum

Research Interests

Digital Signal Processing (Primary Specialization: 1977-1991: Adaptive Feedback Systems Theory; 1991-2005: Blind Equalization in Digital Communication Receivers; 2005-present: Signal Processing Algorithms in Support of Painting Analysis)

Teaching Interests

  • Applications of adaptive signal processing in communication and control systems
  • Applications of image processing to analysis of old master paintings
  • Digital feedback control design

Selected Publications

  • Liedtke, Walter, Jr. Johnson, Don H. Johnson. 2012."Canvas Matches in Vermeer: A Case Study in the Computer Analysis of Fabric Supports."Metropolitan Museum Journal47(1): 99-106.
  • van Tilborgh, L., T. Meedendorp, E. Hendriks, D. H. Johnson, Jr. Johnson, R. G. Erdmann. 2012."Weave Matching and Dating of Van Gogh's Paintings: An Interdisciplinary Approach."The Burlington Magazine153(112-122).
  • Treichler, J. R., Jr. Johnson, M. G. Larimore. 2001.Theory and Design of Adaptive Filters.Prentice-Hall.
  • Johnson, Jr., C. Richard, W. A. Sethares, A. G. Klein. 2011.Software Receiver Design.Cambridge University Press.
  • Anderson, B.D.O., R. R. Bitmead, Jr. Johnson, P. V. Kokotovic, R. L. Kosut, I.M.Y. Mareels, L. Praly, B. D. Riedle. 1986.Stability of Adaptive Systems: Passivity and Averaging Analysis.MIT Press.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Fulbright Research Scholar(Institute of International Education)2005
  • Stephen H. Weiss Presidental Fellow(Cornell University)2004
  • Fellow(IEEE)1989
  • C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teacher(Eta Kappa Nu)1983
  • Oustanding Young Electrical Engineer(Eta Kappa Nu)1982

Education

  • BEE(Electrical Engineering),Georgia Institute of Technology,1973
  • MS(Electrical Engineering),Stanford University,1975
  • Ph D(Electrical Engineering),Stanford University,1977

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Exhibition, research project highlight learning from Rembrandt’s art

More than 60 impressions by the Dutch artist across a wide variety of subject matter – self-portraits to landscapes – are included in “Lines of Inquiry: Learning From Rembrandt’s Etchings,” through Dec. 17. The exhibition and accompanying catalog highlight learning and teaching using academic collections and explore Rembrandt’s artistic process, such as his practice of reissuing small editions of prints after making subtle changes to the plates.

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ECE Prof. Johnson to work with Cornell’s Johnson Art Museum to build a tool to authenticate watermarks in Rembrandt’s prints

Cornell Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor C. Richard Johnson, currently based at Cornell Tech and Andy Weislogel of the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell recently received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

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