CCNY PRISM Lecture on Computer Vision, Robotics and Human-Computer Interaction


Title:  Challenges in Image Understanding

Dr. Greg Arnold and Ms Olga Mendoza
Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio


Date: February 27, 2007
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: NAC 8/207, City College of New York


Abstract

The Air Force Research Laboratory Sensor Directorate Automatic Target Recognition Technology (ATR) Division works on a wide range of problems on computer vision including registration, detection, tracking, and recognition.  Dr. Greg Arnold will give an overview of AFRL/SNA to include persistence and layered sensing concepts.  While not new concepts, they are only recently becoming the operating tenants for generation-after-next exploitation research.  The goal of this talk is to motivate this paradigm shift and to start exploring how it really changes the problems we need to solve.  Ms. Olga Mendoza will discuss registration approaches and problems in this context.  We'll also discuss opportunities for working with AFRL in various roles.

Biographic Sketchs

D. Gregory Arnold earned his BSEE at the University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio), and his Masters and Ph.D. in EE from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia).

He is the ATR and Precision Registration Team Lead at the Air Force Research Laboratory working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (Dayton, Ohio) in the Target Recognition and Fusion Algorithms branch of the Sensors Directorate. His research interests include a wide range of theoretical and practical issues in invariance, computer vision, statistics, and signal processing as applied to radar, ladar, video,
infrared, and spectral sensors.

Olga Lisvet Mendoza received her B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Puget Sound in 1998. After graduating, Miss Mendoza worked in the Information Technology field in the Seattle area for five years, working for two Fortune 500 companies--Weyerhaeuser Company and Nordstrom Inc.  Olga received her M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 2004. Mendoza is currently a Researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate in Dayton, OH.                    


The PRISM lecture series is supported by CCNY Grove School of Engineering, and National Science Foundation.