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Kathy W. Hylton
 

P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge ,TN 37831-6075
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E-mail: hyltonkw@ornl.gov

Experience
 
  Kathy Hylton
 
Kathy Hylton is a research engineer in the Image Science and Machine Vision Group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In her 18 years of employment with ORNL, Kathy has worked on a wide variety of projects. She has worked on control system for high temperature rotary furnace, robotics for material handling, systems integration for several applications, ion beam milling of optical components, colorimetry for determination of color match for textiles, control system for high accuracy 3 axis stage for Direct to Digital Holography technology developed at ORNL, software components for baggage X-ray inspection system, and RFID (radio frequency identification) systems testing/integration.
 
Education
B.S.

B.S. Computer Science, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, 1988
 

Recent Awards
 

ACM Rising Star Award, 1994

National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, 2001
 

Selected Publications
 

J.R. Price, K.W. Hylton, K.W. Tobin, P.R. Bingham, J.D. Hunn, and J.R. Haines, “ Detection of Cavitiation Pits on Steel Surfaces Using SEM Imagery,” Sixth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, SPIE, Vol. 5132, p. 476-484, May 2003.

C. E. Thomas Jr., M. A. Hunt, T. M. Bahm, L. R. Baylor, P. R. Bingham, M. D. Chidley, X. Dai, A. El-Khashab, J. M. Gilbert, J. S. Goddard, G. R. Hanson, J. D. Hickson, K. W. Hylton, G. C. John, M. L. Jones, M. W. Mayo, C. Marek, J. H. Price, D. A. Rasmussen, L. J. Schaefer, M. A. Schulze, B. Shen, R. G. Smith, A. N. Su, K. W. Tobin, W. R. Usry, E. Voelkl, K. S. Weber. "Direct to digital holography for high aspect ratio inspection of semiconductor wafers." Presented at the 2003 International Conference on Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology, Austin, Texas, March 2003.

J. Price, K. Hylton, K.Tobin, P. Bingham, J. Hunn, J. Haines. “Detection of Cavitation Pits on Steel Surfaces using SEM Imagery,” in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, SPIE vol. 5132, pp. 476-484, April 2003.

C. E. Thomas Jr., T. M. Bahm, L. R. Baylor, P. R. Bingham, S. W. Burns, M. D. Chidley, X. Dai, R. J. Delahanty, C. J. Doti, A. El-Khashab, R. L. Fisher, J. M. Gilbert, J. S. Goddard, G. R. Hanson, J. D. Hickson, M. A. Hunt, K. W. Hylton, G. C. John, M. L. Jones, K. R. MacDonald, M. W. Mayo, I. MacMackin, D. R. Patek, J. H. Price, D. A. Rasmussen, L. J. Schaefer, T. R. Scheidt, M. A. Schulze, P. D. Schumaker, B. Shen, R. G. Smith, A. N. Su, K. W. Tobin, W. R. Usry, E. Voelkl, K. S. Weber, P. G. Jones, and R. W. Owen. "Direct to digital holography for semiconductor wafer defect detection and review." Design, Process Integration, and Characterization for Microelectronics, Proc. SPIE v. 4692, pp. 180-194, March 2002.

K.W. Tobin, Jr., M.A. Hunt, J.S. Goddard, Jr., K.W. Hylton, R.K. Richards, M.L. Simpson, D.A. Treece, “Accommodating multiple illumination sources in an imaging colorimetry environment,” Proceedings of SPIE: Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection VIII, Vol. 3966, January 2000.

M.A. Hunt, J.S. Goddard, K.W. Hylton, T.P. Karnowski, M.L. Simpson, K.W. Tobin, Jr., and D.A. Treece, “Tristimulus Color Measurement of Printed Textile Patterns Using the POCS Algorithm,” Proceedings of SPIE: Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection VII, Vol. 3652, January 1999.

   

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