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<strong>for</strong> providing the range datasets; to Dr. Wey-Shiuan Hwang <strong>for</strong> providing his face<br />

recognition software; <strong>and</strong> to Dennis Bond <strong>for</strong> his help in creating a graphical user<br />

interface <strong>for</strong> face editing.<br />

Thanks are also due to Cathy M. Davison, Linda Moore, Starr Portice, <strong>and</strong> Beverly<br />

J. Wallace <strong>for</strong> their assistance in the administrative tasks. Special thanks to all the<br />

Prippies: Lin Hong, Aditya Vailaya, Nicolae Duta, Salil Prabhakar, Dan Gutchess,<br />

Paul Albee, Arun Ross, Anoop Namboodiri, Silviu Minut, Umut Uludag, Xiaoguang<br />

Lu, Martin Law, Miguel Figueroa-Villanue, <strong>and</strong> Yilu Zhang <strong>for</strong> their help during my<br />

stay in the PRIP Lab in the Department of Computer Science <strong>and</strong> Engineering at<br />

MSU. I would also like to thank Michael E. Farmer <strong>for</strong> giving me an opportunity to<br />

work on human tracking research.<br />

I would like to thank Mark H. McCullen <strong>for</strong> mentoring me to be a teaching assistant<br />

in CSE232; Dr. Jeffrey A. Fessler at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,<br />

<strong>for</strong> his valuable help during my transfer to the Dept. of Computer Science at Michigan<br />

State University; <strong>and</strong> Dr. Yung-Nien Sun <strong>and</strong> Dr. Chin-Hsing Chen in Taiwan<br />

<strong>for</strong> their encouragement <strong>and</strong> spiritual support.<br />

Special thanks to NASA, Philips<br />

<strong>Research</strong>-USA, Eaton corporation, <strong>and</strong> ONR (grant NO. N00014-01-1-0266) <strong>for</strong> their<br />

financial support during my Ph.D studies.<br />

Finally, but not the least, I would like to thank my parents, my wife, Dr. Pei-jing<br />

Li, <strong>and</strong> my son, Alan, <strong>for</strong> all the happiness they have shared with me.<br />

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