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2009 SSR-RC Spring Symposium

Thursday, June 11, 2009–Friday, June 12, 2009
402 Walter Library

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

(everybody: IAB, academics)

6:30–8:30 p.m.Early Bird Reception and appetizers, 401 Walter Library

Thursday, June 11, 2009

(everybody: IAB, researchers, others)
All meetings in Walter Library, Room 402, unless otherwise noted

8:00–8:30Poster Set-up (academic types), Walter Library, 401
8:30–9:00Registration and continental breakfast, Walter Library, 401
9:00–9:05Welcome Comments by DTC Director Georgios Giannakis
9:05–9:10Opening Remarks by IT Associate Dean Mos Kaveh
9:10–9:15Opening Remarks by IT Dean Steve Crouch
9:15–9:30SSR-RC's Year in Review and Business re-cap
9:30–11:15UMN Project Progress Reports and LIFE forms Each presentation is 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes questions

Incremental Learning of People Appearances for Tracking Across Cameras
(Vassilios Morellas and Nikos Papanikolopoulos)

Miniature Rotorcraft Teleoperation System for Indoor and Confined SSR Tasks
(Bernard Mettler)

Analysis of Practical Methods for Counting Bicycles and Pedestrians
(Nikos Papanikolopoulos and Vassilios Morellas)

Distributed Decision Making for Large Scale Disaster Management
(Maria Gini)

An Indoor Navigation Aid for First Responders in Low-Visibility Conditions
(Stergios Roumeliotis)

The Social Dimension of Camera Surveillance Systems
(Tasoulla Hadjiyanni)

UAS Certification Artifact Formulation Environment
(Mats Heimdahl)
11:15–11:30Coffee Break and Posters
11:30–11:50NSF Survey (Vida Scarpello)
12:00–1:15Box Lunches in 401 DTC and Plenary Talk

Dr. Max Donath, Director of the ITS Institute, "Designing Human Centered Systems: DGPS Based Augmented Reality — 'Seeing' the Road"
1:15–2:45UPenn Projects and LIFE forms Each presentation is 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes questions

Surveillance and Environmental Monitoring with Smart Camera Networks
(Camillo Taylor)

Path Planning for Unmanned Helicopters Navigating Urban Environments
(Maxim Likhachev)

Autonomous Landing Site Selection and Confirmation for Unmanned Helicopters
(Maxim Likhachev)

Place Recognition for Fast Rescue Operations - Report on 2008 Research
(Kostas Daniilidis)
2:45–3:15 Denver University Projects and LIFE Forms
Each presentation is 10 minutes followed by 5 minutes questions

An Emergency Landing System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(Kimon Valavanis)

Automated Activity Recognition for Video Surveillance Applications
(Mohammad Mahoor)

Sensor Networks for Predictive Failure Detection and Load Balancing During Anomalous Events
(Richard Voyles)
3:15–3:30Coffee Break and Posters
3:30–4:00Company Feedback
4:00–5:30IAB Closed Meeting
6:30–9:00Dinner on Lake Minnetonka

Friday, June 12, 2009

8:30–9:00Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00Company Talks (Roland Miezianko and Firooz Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin, and Saad Bedros, Honeywell Labs)
10:00–10:15Coffee Break
10:15–12:00Tutorial on "Machine Learning in Computer Vision" (Ajay Joshi, Anoop Cherian, and Ravishankar Sivalingam, UMN)

 
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