IEEE WIE Event – An Engineer’s Exploration of Voting Technology
After the 2000 election with the problem of “hanging chads” Dr Barney worked with colleagues to apply their expertise in document analysis to evaluate and expand the underlying technology needed to automatically read printed ballots in a multi-university research project funded by the NSF. The 2000 election led to the Help America Vote Act, which resulted in an almost universal conversion to paper ballots in the US. Still, the 2008 US Senate race in Minnesota race, and again in the 2020 presidential race reading of paper ballots is in the news. This talk will look at some of the issues with reading and counting ballots, both automatically and manually.
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Dr. Elisa Barney Smith is in her 22nd year as a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at Boise State University in Boise Idaho. She received a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
Dr. Barney’s main research interests are image processing and machine learning. She applies these to document imaging as well as to facilitate image processing for disparate areas from digital humanities to biomedical image processing, materials science research, soil remediation evaluation and computer vision for robotics research. She has applied machine learning to optical character recognition applications, as well as designing automatic target classification algorithms and systems that utilize passive acoustic data. Professor Barney co-authored a textbook on machine learning and showcased some of her research work in a 2019 TEDx talk.
Professor Barney has worked on numerous cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional, national, and international project teams. Her expertise has given her invitations as a paid guest scientist at the NATO Saclant Center in Italy, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris, France, and most recently LORIA in Nancy France and the Technical University Dortmund in Germany. She has received NSF, NASA, and industry funding, including a prestigious NSF CAREER award.
Elisa Barney Smith is a member of the IAPR and a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE. She is past chair of the IEEE Boise section, past IEEE Region 6’s North East Area chair, and the 2019 & 2020 IEEE (global) Student Activities Committee (SAC) Chair.
