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About Bill Barrett

Dr. Barrett has been at BYU for 16 years and is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He heads an active research group that works in the areas of computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing.

Dr. Barrett received his Ph.D. (1978) in medical biophysics and computing and his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Utah. He was a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in the Division of Computer Research and Technology, where he worked with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He is also a member of IEEE and ACM and has over 60 refereed publications.

Current projects include work with "Intelligent Scissors," "Intelligent Paint," Content-based document/image searching, compression and recognition, and enhancement, compression, recognition, and extraction of information contained in digitized microfilm for Family History research. He would like to scan, and make electronically accessible the microfilm in the Granite Mountain Vault.

Dr. Barrett enjoys his seven children and 3 grandchildren immensely, has coached soccer, baseball, and football on and off for 15 years and enjoys portraiture, cartooning, caricaturing, and singing.

If there is anything more fun than hatching, cultivating and seeing a new idea come to fruition, Dr. Barrett would like to know what it is.

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