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Computer Science Department Seminars
Seeking Change Detection with a difference
Monday 5th March, 1:15pm
Speaker: Dr Mohammed Jahangir (TRL Technology)
Location: PT005
Biography:
Dr Jahangir is a Senior Consultant with the Disruptive Technology group at L-3 TRL
Technology. His specialist interest is novel image exploitation techniques. Previously
he worked with the radar group at QinetiQ Malvern where he developed a number of
patented change detection techniques. He qualified with First Class Honours in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College. In 2000 he was awarded
PhD by University College London for his work on land clutter radar statistics. With
L-3 TRL he has been instrumental in building close working relationship with a
number of academic groups providing application focus and supporting technology
pull-through.
Synopsis:
The reality of modern asymmetric warfare is that the foot soldier is still very much at the fore front of operations.
Timely situational awareness is critical to force protection and mission success. The huge proliferation of sensors
systems has led to abundance of surveillance imagery. The challenge for tactical operations is combining imagery
arising from different viewpoints and possibly different sensor type to obtain real-time actionable intelligence
without overloading the user with huge quantities of irrelevant data. Conventional change detection approaches can
provide rapid alerts through combining different time instances of images of the same scene provided they are from
near identical viewpoints. However, when it comes to combining images over wide baselines the change detection
problem for this situation remains largely unexplored. The eventual goal is to be able to generate accurate change
detection alerts using any available imagery in a robust manger so as to aid tactical situational awareness.