Rate My Professor Scott Budge

Scott E. Budge is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Department Head at Utah State University, positions held since 1996 and 2011, respectively. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 1984, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the same institution. His doctoral dissertation, "A Rotation-Invariant Image Pattern Classifier," and master's thesis, "Vector Quantization of Color Digital Images Using Product Codes," reflect his early focus on image processing techniques.

Budge's research specializations encompass LADAR signal processing, texel camera calibration and registration for fused LiDAR and digital imagery, image and data compression via vector quantization and wavelet-based methods, real-time digital signal processing, multispectral image registration, and people counting and tracking using sensor data. Key publications include "Obstacle detection using range-difference events" (Optical Engineering, 2022, with C.B. Cornwall), "Method for 3-D scene reconstruction using fused LiDAR and imagery from a texel camera" (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019, with T.C. Bybee), "Dynamic visualization of three-dimensional images from multiple texel images created from fused ladar/digital imagery" (Optical Engineering, 2017, with C.C. Killpack), "Automatic registration of fused lidar/digital imagery (texel images) for three-dimensional image creation" (Optical Engineering, 2015, with N.S. Badamikar and X. Xie), and earlier contributions such as "Classification using set-valued Kalman filtering and Levi's decision theory" (IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994, with T.K. Moon). He has mentored over 15 graduate students to completion. Awards include Outstanding Teacher of the Year (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012), Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year (2009), Outstanding Researcher of the Year (1997), Faculty Service Awards (2022, department and College of Engineering), IEEE Senior Member elevation (2000), and a Certificate of Appreciation from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2003).