Staff Profile

CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences

Professional Interests

Spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, image analysis, remote sensing, spatial statistics

Professional Memberships and Activities

Associate Editor, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis                                                                                         Fellow, Royal Statistical Society 
Member, Statistical Society of Australia
Member, Australian Pattern Recognition Society

Professional Qualifications

Ph.D (1978) in mathematical statistics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London                      Master of Statistics (1976), University of New South Wales                                                                                         B.Sc (1st Class Hons.) and University Medal in mathematical statistics (1974), University of New South Wales 

Awards

Best paper in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1990) - see reference 27 in Publication List

Member of CSIRO Road Crack team which won the following awards:

• 1998 Australian Road Research Board, Transport Research Director's Prize for Application of Research into Practice

• 1999 AusIndustry Award for Innovation

• 1999 Institution of Engineers, Sydney Div., Engineering Excellence Award for Engineering R&D and a Special Commendation for Asset Management

• 1999 CSIRO Medal

Patents    

Publications

   Refereed Papers

1. Burns, K.L., Shepherd, J. and Berman, M. - Reproducibility of geological lineaments and other discrete features interpreted from imagery: measurement by a coefficient of association. Remote Sensing of Environment 5 (1976) 267-301.
2. Berman, M. - Distance distributions associated with Poisson processes of geometric figures. J. Appl. Prob. 14 (1977) 195-199.
3. Berman, M. - Some multivariate generalizations of results in univariate stationary point processes. J. Appl. Prob. 14 (1977) 748-757.
4. Berman, M. - Regenerative multivariate point processes. Adv. Appl. Prob. 10 (1978) 411-430.
5. Berman, M. - Exponential families and conditioning on statistics which are not minimal sufficient. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B. 40 (1978) 358-363.
6. Berman, M. - The covariance of two type II counters. J. Appl. Prob. 18 (1981) 782-787.
7. Berman, M. - Inhomogeneous and modulated gamma processes. Biometrika 68 (1981) 143-152.
8. Berman, M. - The maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters of the gamma distribution are always positively biased. Comm. Statist. A 10 (1981) 693-697.
9. Berman, M. and Eagleson, G.K. - A Poisson limit theorem for incomplete symmetric statistics. J. Appl. Prob. 20 (1983) 47-60.
10. Berman, M. - Estimating the parameters of a circle when angular differences are known. Appl. Statist. 32 (1983) 1-6.
11. Berman, M. and Westcott, M. - On queueing systems with renewal departure processes. Adv. Appl. Prob. 15 (1983) 657-673.
12. Berman, M. - Combining information from linear models on possibly different scales. Aust. J. Statist. 26 (1984) 160-168.
13. Berman, M. - A simple proof of a result of Iglehart and Shedler. Adv. Appl. Prob. 17 (1985) 239-241.
14. Berman, M. and Eagleson, G.K. - A useful upper bound for the tail probabilities of the scan statistic when the sample size is large. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 80 (1985) 886-889.
15. Berman, M. and Griffiths, D.A. - Incorporating angular information into models for stone circle data. Appl. Statist. 34 (1985) 237-245.
16. Berman, M. and Somlo, P.I. - Efficient procedures for fitting circles and ellipses with application to sliding termination measurements. IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 35 (1986) 31-35.
17. Berman, M. - Testing for spatial association between a point process and another stochastic process. Appl. Statist. 35 (1986) 54-62.
18. Berman, M. and Culpin, D. - The statistical behaviour of some least squares estimators of the centre and radius of a circle. J.R. Statist. Soc. B 48 (1986) 183-196.
19. Berman, M. - Discussion of ``On the statistical analysis of dirty pictures'' by J. Besag. J. R. Statist. Soc. B. 48 (1986) 290.
20. Berman, M. and Prowse, D.B. - The statistical properties of the number of observations used for proving meters in dynamic flow measurements. Trans. Institute of Measurement and Control 8 (1986) 158-160.
21. Berman, M. , Somlo, P.I. and Buckley, M.J. - A comparative statistical study of some proposed six-port junction designs. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Tech. 35 (1987) 971-977.
22. Green, A.A., Berman, M., Switzer, P. and Craig, M.D. - A transformation for ordering multispectral data in terms of image quality with implications for noise removal. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 26 (1988) 65-74.
23. Berman, M. - A theorem of Jacobi and its generalization. Biometrika 75 (1988) 779-784.
24. Berman, M. - Large sample bias in least squares estimators of a circular arc center and its radius. Comp. Vision, Graphics and Image Processing 45 (1989) 126-128.
25. Berman, M. and Diggle, P. - Estimating weighted integrals of the second-order intensity of a spatial point process. J. R. Statist. Soc. B 51 (1989), 81-92.
26. Berman, M. - The asymptotic statistical behaviour of some estimators for a circular structural model. Statist. and Probab. Letters 7 (1989), 413-416.
27. Lee, J.B., Woodyatt, A.S and Berman, M. - Enhancement of high spectral resolution remote sensing data by a noise-adjusted principal components transform. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 28 (1990), 295-304.
28. Berman, M. and Turner, T.R. - Approximating point process likelihoods with GLIM. Appl. Statist. 41 (1992), 31-38.
29. Berman, M. - Automated smoothing of image and other regularly spaced data. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 16 (1994), 641-647.
30. Berman, M., Bischof, L.M., Davies, S.J., Green, A.A. and Craig, M. - Estimating band-to-band misregistrations in aliased imagery, CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, 56 (1994), 479-493.
31. Berman, M., Bischof, L.M., Breen, E.J. and Peden, G.M. - Image analysis, Materials Forum, 18 (1994), 1 - 19. (Invited paper).
32. Berman, M., Bason, M.L., Ellison, F., Peden, G. and Wrigley, C.W. - Image analysis of whole grains to screen for flour-milling yield in wheat breeding, Cereal Chemistry, 73 (1996), 323 - 327.
33. Glasbey, C.A., and Berman, M. - A review of image analysis in biometry. In Advances in Biometry (P. Armitage and H.A. David, eds.) (1996), 385 - 403. (Invited paper).
34. Lee, T.C.M. and Berman, M. - Nonparametric estimation and simulation of two-dimensional Gaussian image textures, CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, 59 (1997), 434-445.
35. Glasbey, C.A., Berman, M. and Hudson, H.M. - Image analysis and tomography. In Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics (P. Armitage and T. Colton, eds.) (1998), 1980-1998. (Invited paper).
36. Berman, M. and Buckley, M. - Automated inspection, measurement and prediction using image analysis. The Quality Magazine 7(6) (1998), 69-72.
37. Berman, M. (ed.) - Special issue on image analysis. Statistics and Computing, 10 (2000), 91-182.
38. Berman, M. - Invited discussion on "Practical maximum pseudolikelihood for spatial point patterns". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 42 (2000), 318-320.
39. Berman, M. - Discussion on "A penalized likelihood approach to image warping". J. R. Statist. Soc. B 63 (2001), 499.
40. Evans, C., Jones, R., Svalbe, I. and Berman, M. - Segmenting multispectral Landsat TM images into field units. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing 40 (2002), 1054-1064.
41. Berman, M., Kiiveri, H., Lagerstrom, R., Ernst, A., Dunne, R. and Huntington, J. – A Statistical Approach to Identifying Endmembers in Hyperspectral Images. IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 42 (2004), 2085-2095.
42. Sun, C., Jones, R., Talbot, H., Wu, X., Cheong, K., Beare, R., Buckley, M.J. and Berman, M. - Measuring the distance of vegetation from powerlines using stereo vision. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 60 (2006). To appear.

 Invited Conference Papers

1. Berman, M. - Invited discussion, Meeting on Geological and Geophysical Statistics, 44th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Madrid, L3 (1983) 412-418.
2. Berman, M. - Some unusual examples of extrema associated with hypothesis tests when nuisance parameters are present only under the alternative. Proc. Pacific. Statist. Congress, Auckland (1986) 141-146.
3. Berman, M. - Invited contribution to Forum on Statistical Consulting. Proc. Pacific Statist. Congress, Auckland (1986)   488-490.
4. Berman, M. - Signal and image processing in BHP. Proc. Aust. Symp. Signal Processing and Applications (1989), 1-5.
5. Berman, M. - Some statistical problems arising in the analysis of image data. Proc. XVIth International Biometric Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand (1992), 265-278.

 Conference Proceedings

1. Berman, M. - Automated destriping of aircraft scanner imagery. Proc. Image Processing and the Impact of New Technologies (1989), 205 - 206.
2. Berman, M. , Green, A.A, Bischof, L., Davies, S.J. and Craig, M. - A comparison of methods for estimating band-to-band misregistrations. Proc. 5th Australasian Remote Sensing Conf. (1990), 987-996.
3. Berman, M. , Green, A.A., Bischof, L., Davies, S.J. and Craig, M. - Estimating band-to-band misregistrations in multivariate imaging. Proc. 23rd Symp. on the Interface (1991), 587-592.
4. Berman, M. - Automated smoothing of image data. Proc. Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (1991), 297-305.
5. Breen, E.J., Peden, G.M., Buckley, M.J., Berman, M. and Jiang, Y. - Image analysis and capture for the materials sciences at CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics. Proc. IMMA Conference on Microscopy: Materials and Techniques (1993), 37 - 42.
6. Adams, R., Berman, M. , Buckley, M., Farrant, D.I., Freund, C.H., Hegedus, Z.S., Oreb, B.F. and Walsh, C.J. - Measurements of fine tolerance automotive components using light sectioning techniques. Proc. 26th ISATA Meeting: Laser Applications for the Automotive Industries (1993), 403 - 409.
7. Bason, M.L., Peden, G.M., Zounis, S., Wrigley, C.W. and Berman, M. - Detection of red-grained wheat by tristimulus colorimetry and digital image analysis. Proc. 43rd Aust. Cereal Chemistry Conference (1993), 29-34.
8. Berman, M., Bason, M.L., Ellison, F., Peden, G. and Wrigley, C.W. - Prediction of milling yield by image analysis of whole grains to screen yield in wheat breeding. Proc. 45th Aust. Cereal Chemistry Conference (1995), 227-231.
9. Lee, T.C.M. and Berman, M. - Nonparametric estimation and simulation of two-dimensional Gaussian image textures. Proc. 28th Symp. on the Interface (1996), 115-120.
10. Berman, M., Bischof, L. and Huntington, J. - Algorithms and software for the automated identification of minerals using field spectra or hyperspectral imagery. Proc. 13th International Conference on Applied Geological Remote Sensing (1999), Vol.1, 222-232.
11. Berman, M., Kiiveri, H., Lagerstrom, R., Ernst, A., Dunne, R. and Huntington, J. - An Automated Statistical Approach to Identifying Endmembers in Hyperspectral Images. Proc. 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (2003), vol. 1, 279 - 283.
12. Huntington, J., Mauger, A., Skirrow, R., Bastrakov, E., Connor, P., Mason, P., Keeling, J., Coward, D., Berman, M., Phillips, D., Whitbourn, L., and Heithersay, P. - Automated Mineralogical Core Logging at the Emmie Bluff, Iron Oxide Copper Gold Prospect, South Australia, Proc. PACRIM 2004 (2004), 223 – 230.
13. Berman, M., Phatak, A. and Lagerstrom, R. – ICE: A Statistical Approach to Identifying Constituents of Biomedical Hyperspectral Images. SPIE Proceedings, vol. 5694 (2005), 62-73.

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