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Selected Publications

Journal Publications

Lyon, E., Roan, M. et al., Genesis of the Cube: The Design and Deployment of a High Density Loudspeaker Array-Based Performance and Research Facility, Journal of Computer Music, To Appear.


Milo, M., Roan, M., Detecting Anomalous Patterns in Time-Series Data using Sparse Hierarchically Parameterized Transition Matrices, Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. XX, pp. xx-xx, 2016. (Accepted)


Goode BJ, Krishnan S, Roan M, Ramakrishnan N (2015) Pricing a Protest: Forecasting the Dynamics of Civil Unrest Activity in Social Media. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139911. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139911


Naren Ramakrishnan, Chang-Tien Lu, Madhav Marathe, Achla Marathe, Anil Vullikanti, Stephen Eubank, Scotland Leman, Michael Roan, John S. Brownstein, Kristen Summers, Lise Getoor, Aravind Srinivasan, Tanzeem Choudhury, Dipak Gupta, David Mares, "Model-Based Forecasting of Significant Societal Events", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol.30, no. 5, pp. 86-90, Sept.-Oct. 2015, doi:10.1109/MIS.2015.74


Milo, M., Roan, M., Harris, B., “A new statistical approach to automated quality control in manufacturing processes”, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, July 2015, Vol. 36, Pages 159-167.


Harris, B., Roan,. M., Milo, M., “A general anomaly detection approach applied to rolling element bearings via reduced-dimensionality transition matrix analysis”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, June 2015, 0(0) 1-12, DOI: 10.1177/0954406215592439.

Milo, M., Harris, B., Bjerke, B., Roan, M., “Anomaly Detection in Rolling Element Bearings via Hierarchical Transition Matrices”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol 48, Issues 1-2, 3 October 2014, Pages. 120-137.


Harris, B., Milo, M., Roan, M., Symbolic target detection in SAR imagery via rotationally invariant-weighted feature extraction”, International Journal of Remote Sensing. Volume 34 Issue 24, 20 December 2013,  Pages 8724-8740.


Cooper, Roan, and Vlachos, “Acoustic Source Separation for the Detection of Coronary Artery Sounds”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 130, Issue 6, pp. 4158-4166 (2011).


Hoppe, E. and Roan, M., “Principal component analysis for emergent acoustic signal detection with supporting simulation results”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America”,  Vol. 130, pp1962-1973 (2011).


Goode, B., and Roan, M., “A Differential Game Theoretic Approach for Two-Agent Collision Avoidance with Travel Limitations”, Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 67, Issue3-4, pp 201-218, September 2012.


Goode, B., Chin, P., and Roan, M., “A sensor reduction technique using Bellman optimal estimates of target agent dynamics”, SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol.6, 2012.


Goode, B., Kurdilia, A., and Roan, M. , “A Partitioning Scheme for a Switched Feedback Control Law in Two Agent Pursuit-Evasion Scenarios”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, Control, Vol. 134, Issue 1, January 2012.


Hoppe, E., and Roan, M., “Non-linear, adaptive array processing for acoustic interference suppression”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Impact Factor 1.273), June 2009,125 (6), Pages 3835-43.


Y.T. Cho, J.S. Bolton, and M.J. Roan, “Acoustic source property prediction based on near-field measurements in planar coordinates”, Journal of Sound and Vibration (Impact Factor 1.679), Volume 324, Issues 3-5, 24 July 2009, Pages 587-607.


Lee, M. J. Roan, and T. Lockhart, “Gait analysis to classify external load conditions using linear discriminant analysis”, Human Movement Science, 28 (2009) 226–235. (Impact Factor 1.252)


Smith, B., Lee, M. and Roan, M., “The effect of evenly distributed load carrying on lower body gait dynamics for normal weight and overweight subjects”, Gait and Posture (Impact Factor 2.576), 32 (2010) 176–180.


Lee, M., Roan, M., and Smith, B., “An application of principal component analysis for lower body kinematics between loaded and unloaded walking”, Journal of Biomechanics (Impact Factor 2.657), 42 (2009) 2226–2230. 


Y.T. Cho, and M. J. Roan “Visualization of bearing noise using adaptive high resolution near-field beamforming”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, (Impact Factor 0.226), Volume 223, Number 6 / 2009 .


Y.T. Cho, M. J. Roan, and J. S. Bolton, “Dual surface beamforming and acoustical holography for sound field visualization in reverberant environments”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science(Impact Factor 0.226), Volume 224, Number 1 / 2010.


Y.T. Cho, and M. J. Roan, and J.S. Bolton “A comparison of near-field beamforming and acoustical holography for sound source visualization”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, (Impact Factor 0.226), Volume 223, Number 4 / 2009 Pages 819-834.


Y.T. Cho, J.S. Bolton, and M.J. Roan, “Adaptive, high resolution near-field techniques for sound source imaging”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,  (Impact Factor 1.273) 125 (2), February 2009.


J. G. Erling, M.J. Roan, and M.G. Gramann*, “Performance Bounds for Multi-Source Parameter Estimation Using a Multi-Array Network,” (Impact Factor 1.64) IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, No. 10, October 2007 


L.H.Sibul, M.J., Roan, S.C., Schwartz, and C., Coviello, ”Lossless Information Integration in Multistatic Active Detection Systems,” (Impact Factor 1.64)  IEEE Transactions Signal Processing, vol.54, no. 10, October 2006.


M.J. Roan, M.G. Gramann*, J. G. Erling*, and L.H. Sibul, “Blind Deconvolution applied to acoustical systems identification with supporting experimental results,” (Impact Factor 1.273) The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October, 2003.


M. J. Roan and J. Erling, and L.H. Sibul, “A New,  Non-Linear, Blind Source Separation Algorithm for Gear Tooth Failure Analysis,”  (Impact Factor 1.333) The Journal of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 16, No. 5,pp. 719-740, September, 2002. 


M.J. Roan, “Artificial Target Discrimination Using Weapon-Platform Connectivity as an Enabling Technology,” (Impact Factor:  N/A This refereed journal is a publication of the U.S. Navy Research Community) U.S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, Special Issue on Remote Sensing Technology, April 2002.


M.J. Roan, J.G. Erling, and M. G. Gramann, “Blind Deconvolution for Horizontal Multipath Removal –    An Angle Space Pre-Filter,” (Impact Factor:  N/A This refereed journal is a publication of the U.S. Navy Research Community)U.S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, Special Issue on Remote Sensing Technology, April 2002.


M.J. Roan, L.H. Sibul and J.J. Rokita, “Estimator-Correlator: A Wavelet Transform Domain Approach to Wideband Detection and Estimation,” (Impact Factor:  N/A This refereed journal is a publication of the U.S. Navy Research Community) U.S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics Special Issue on Undersea Signal Processing, January 2001.

Conferences 

Event Detection from Blogs using Large Scale Analysis of Metaphorical Usage, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SBP-BriMS) Washington, DC, June-July 2016 (with B.J. Goode and others). 


M. Milo, D. K. Wilson, M. Roan, “Anomaly Detection:  Processing and Analysis of Geographically-Linked Sensor Network Data”, SENSIAC, Georgia Tech, 2011 – Washington D.C.


Roan, M. J. and Hoppe, E., “Source Localization Performance Of A Multi-array Network Under Sensor Orientation And Position Uncertainty,” CISS Conference, March 27 2008, Princeton, NJ.


Roan, M.J., “A Kalman Filter Approach to Non-Stationary Blind Deconvolution,” ICSV 2006, Vienna , Austria, July 2-4, 2006.


S.H. Son, S. Schwartz, S. Kulkarni, M. J. Roan, “Communication-Estimation Tradeoffs in Wireless Sensor Networks,” ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA. March 2005.


M.J., Roan, and L.H., Sibul, “A Kalman Filtering Approach to Wideband Scattering Function Estimation and Tracking,” Proc. Of the IEEE/MTS Oceans 2002 Conf., Vol. 3, October 29-31, 2002. 


L. H. Sibul M. J. Roan, and  M. Gramann, "Wavelet Domain Information Fusion", Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 20-23, 2002.


M.J. Roan and J. G. Erling, "A New Tap-Weight Updating Algorithm For Blind Deconvolution", Special session on Acoustics Signal Processing, Ninth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Orlando, Fl.  8-11 July 2002.


M. J. Roan, J. Erling "Practical Issues in Blind Source Separation and Blind Deconvolution", Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 20-23, 2002.


L.H. Sibul, L.G. Weiss, and M.J. Roan, “Wideband Signal Processing” in ARL 2000.


M.J. Roan and L.H. Sibul, “A Kalman Filtering Approach to Recursive Wideband Scattering Function Estimation and Updating,”  The 34th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 17, 2000.


M.J. Roan and L.H. Sibul, “Performance Quantification for the Wavelet Transform Domain Estimator Correlator,” Proc. of Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 23, 1999.


L.H. Sibul, M.J. Roan and K.L. Hillsley , “Wavelet Transform Techniques for Time Varying Propagation and Scattering Characterization,” 32nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 1-4, 1998. 


Sibul, L.H., Roan, M.J., and Abel, M. R., “Information Theoretic Approach to Blind Source Separation for Noise Analysis”, The Seventh International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 4-7 July 2000.


Sibul, L. H., Weiss, L. G., and Roan, M.J., “Generalized Wavelet Transforms and Their Applications,” SPIE’s Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation and Control Wavelet Applications IV Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 3391, Orlando, FL., April 16, 1998.


INVITED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


M. J. Roan, “A Turbo Approach to Distributed SONAR Signal Processing,” 154th Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 27 November--1 December 2007.


M.J. Roan, “A New Approach to Distributed Detection and Estimation Based on Iterative Decoding Methods,” Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop October 17-19, 2007, Alton Jones Campus, University of Rhode Island.


M. J. Roan, “Model-Based Blind Deconvolution for Noisy, Non-Stationary Propagation Channels,” 152nd Meeting (4th joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan), Honolulu, Hawaii, 28 November--2 December 2006.


L.H. Sibul, M.J. Roan, and C. Coviello, "Blind deconvolution and source separation in acoustics."  150th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 17-21 October 2005


L.H. Sibul,  M.J. Roan and J. G. Erling,, “Deconvolution and Signal Extraction on Geophysics and Acoustics,” 144th  Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,” Cancun, Mexico, 2-6 December 2002.


M.J. Roan Invited Presentation/Participation, Scientists Helping America Conference, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. March 11-13 2002.


M.J. Roan and J. G. Erling, Invited Paper, “Blind Source Separation and Blind Deconvolution in Experimental Acoustics,” 140th  Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,” Newport Beach, CA, 3-8 December 2000.


L.H. Sibul and M.J. Roan, “Application of Wavelet Transforms to Detection, Estimation, Modeling, and Remote Sensing in Underwater Acoustics,” 136th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,” Norfolk, VA, 12-16 October 1998.

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