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.