His broad research areas include Signal and Image Processing, Radar, and remote sensing. Within these broad areas, Dr. Ball focuses on target detection, data analysis, image classification and segmentation, and digital beamforming. Publications include 2 Journal Articles, 20 Conference Papers, 17 Technical Briefs/Tutorials, and 1 Book Chapter. Dr. Ball also has 16+ years of industry/government experience as an engineer. His Research Interests: Signal and Image processing, Radar, Remote Sensing, Medical Image processing, Machine Learning, Sensor data analysis, and Scene understanding.