Wood, Sally

2020 - 2024 Associate Dean for Graduate studies

2008 - 2010 Program Director, National Science Foundation

1985 - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University

Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.S., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.S., Columbia University, New York, NY

• Digital Signal Processing
• Image Processing
• Computer Vision
• Logic Design

• Allen Rush and Sally L. Wood, “Feature Map Activation Analysis for Object Key-Point Detection,” IEEE Access, July 2023, 102316-102331 (2023)
• Ebadi, K., Palieri, M., Wood, S. et al. DARE-SLAM: Degeneracy-Aware and Resilient Loop Closing in Perceptually-Degraded Environments. J Intell Robot Syst 102, 2 (2021).
• Yingxu Wang, Bernard Widrow, Lotfi Zadeh, Newton Howard, Sally Wood, Virendrakumar Bhavsar, Gerhard Budin, Christine Chan, Marina Gavrilova, Duane Shell,. (2016). Cognitive Intelligence: Deep Learning, Thinking, and Reasoning by Brain-Inspired Systems. International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence.
• C. Richard Johnson, Jr, Paul Messier, William A. Sethares, Andrew G. Klein, … Sally Wood, et al., PURSUING AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS FROM RAKING LIGHT IMAGES, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Vol 53, Iss. 3 , August 2014.
• Kamak Ebadi, Yun Chang, Matteo Palieri, Alex Stephens, Alex Hatteland, Eric Heiden, Abhishek Thakur, Nobuhiro Funabiki, Benjamin Morrell, Sally Wood, Luca Carlone, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi,. (2020). LAMP: Large-Scale Autonomous Mapping and Positioning for Exploration of Perceptually-Degraded Subterranean Environments. 80-86.
• Soren Madsen, Justin Goh, and Sally L. Wood, “Channel-Reduction Approaches in Deep Learning for Brain-Computer Interfaces,” 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 29 October – 1 November, 2023.
• Kamak Ebadi, Sally Wood, “Vision-Based Aerial-to-Ground Localization in a Mars-Like Environment,” Fifty-second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 28-31 October 2018.
• Allen Rush, Sally Wood, “Image Content Identification from CNNs with Sparse Sampling,” Fifty-second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 28-31 October 2018.
• K. Ebadi, A. Agha, S. Wood, “Rover Localization in Mars Helicopter Aerial Maps: Experimental Results in a Mars-analogue Environment2018 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2018), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5-8 November 2018.
• Allen Rush, Sally Wood, “Bayer Feature Map Approximation through Spatial Pyramid Convolution,” Fifty-first Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 29 October-1 November 2017.
• Marcos Gonzalez, Jerry Hsu, Robert Christiansen, Sally Wood, “Monocular Vehicle Distance Sensor Using HOG and Kalman Tracking,” Fifty-first Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 29 October-1 November 2017.
• Allen Rush, Sally Wood, “Focal Plane Processing for HOG Detection with Bayer Pattern Sensors,” Fiftieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 6-9 November 2016.
• Andrew G. Klein, Paul Messier, Andrea Frost, David Palzer, Sally Wood, “Deep Learning Classification of Photographic Paper Based on Clustering by Domain Experts,” Fiftieth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, 6-9 November 2016.
• Sally Wood, “Cognitive Computing in Medical Imaging - Opportunities and Challenges,” 15th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, Stanford, California, 22-23 August 2016.
• Sally Wood, Ernesto Fontenla, Christopher Metzler, Wah Chiu, Richard Baraniuk, “Dynamic Model Generation for Application of Compressed Sensing to CRYO-Electron Tomography Reconstruction,” IEEE Signal Processing & SP Education Workshop 2015, Snowbird, Salt Lake City, Utah, 9-12 August 2015.