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Dr. Scott E Umbaugh is a Distinguished Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Graduate Program Director for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). He is also the Director of the Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP) Laboratory at SIUE. He has been teaching computer vision and image processing, as well as computer and electrical engineering design, for over 30 years. His professional interests include computer vision and image processing education, research and development of both human and computer vision applications, and engineering design education.

Prior to his academic career, Dr. Umbaugh worked as a computer design engineer and project manager in the avionics and telephony industries. He has been a computer imaging consultant since 1986 and has provided consulting services for the aerospace, medical and manufacturing industries with projects ranging from automatic identification of defects in microdisplay chips to analysis of thermographic images for clinical diagnosis of brain disease. He has performed research and development for projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the U. S. Department of Defense.

Dr. Umbaugh is author or co-author of numerous technical papers, two edited books, and multiple editions of his textbooks on computer vison and image processing. His books are used at academic and research organizations throughout the world. He has served on editorial boards and as a reviewer for a variety of IEEE journals and has evaluated research monographs and textbooks in the imaging field.

Dr. Umbaugh received his B.S.E. degree with honors from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1982, M.S.E.E. in 1987 and Ph.D. in 1990 from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he was a Chancellor's Fellow. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a member of Sigma Xi and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Dr. Umbaugh is also the primary developer of the CVIPtools software package and the associated CVIP Matlab Toolbox.