ITRI Projects

ITRI

The Wright State Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a cooperative research and development organization involving partnerships among WSU, the Miami Valley’s industrial and government organizations, and state of Ohio activities involved in the information technology field. The goal of ITRI is to conduct basic and applied research in a way that shortens the timeline between university research and products reaching the marketplace. ITRI is sponsored by the Ohio Board of Regents, the Miami Valley Economics Development Coalition, the Greater Dayton Development, the Greater Dayton IT Alliance, federal and local government, private industry, and Wright State University.


Wright State University	The Coalition	Greater Dayton IT Alliance	Ohio Board of Regents	Ohio Department of Development

Representative Projects at WSU

“SCAN: Multimodal Information Accessing and Processing,” Dr. Nikolaos G. Bourbakis.

Focus is on developing a tool that provides security and assurance on information processing tasks, including lossless compression, encryption and information hiding on still images and video.

“Electronic Nose,” Dr. Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna.

Focus is on sensor-based machine olfaction. Several electronic-nose prototypes have been developed that employ the multivariate response of chemical sensor arrays to characterize odors by pattern recognition.

“Registration of Multimodal Volume Images,” Dr. A. A. Goshtasby.

Focus is on addressing the need for more effective use of MRI images through machine diagnostics. The method under research is designed to register multimodal volume images of the brain, but the approach can be used to register whole-body images.

“DNA Profiling,” Dr. Dan Krane.

Focus is on addressing the need for quicker, more accurate identification in areas of special security through the rapid collection and processing of “DNA Fingerprints.” Current research is generating approximately 15,000 DNA profiles each year as part of an EPA funded project.

“Multimedia Tool for Situated Multimodal Analysis and Feature Discovery,” Dr. Francis Quek.

Focus is on addressing the basic science of verbal and nonverbal conversational inter-human interaction. Human gesture, speech, and gaze together function as an integrated whole where no part can be understood in isolation. Goal is to catch a glimpse into the function of the deeper semantic source of the human mind involved in human communication.

“Region-based Regression Techniques for Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships Analysis of Drug Lead Compounds,” Drs. M. Raymer, T. Doom, and G. Dong.

Focus is on developing region-based regression techniques to improve QSAR analysis of potential drug leads. Long-term goal is to develop empirical potential functions for computational drug screening and docking algorithms. Research uses evolutionary algorithms, pattern recognition, graph theory, databases and data mining, protein structure and function, and structural bioinformatics.