Seminar by Dr. Jharna Majumdar
Image Exploitation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images
Dr. Jharna Majumdar
Head, Aerial Image Exploitation Laboratory
Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore
Date: August 17, 2001
Time: 03:30 PM
Venue: CC-217
Tea/Snacks will be served at 03:15 PM.Abstract
High revisit multisensor, multi resolution, multispectral imagery from UAV or other reconnaissance platforms is analyzed by the Image Exploitation tools. This talk describes this innovative technology and describes the Image Exploitation System developed at the Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore, for the Remotely Piloted Vehicle, RPV NISHANT.
In flight image exploitation work includes real time enhancement of image frames during RPV flight, target acquisition, calculation of geo location of targets, measurement of image, and image to map correspondence. Post flight image exploitation work includes image mosaicing, change detection, image restoration, classification of terrain, 3D depth computation. Results are presented in each of these areas from actual flight trials.
Keywords: Ground Image Exploitation System, In-flight and post flight image exploitation, Registration, mosaicing, change detection, Restoration, Texture analysis, Classification of terrain, Stereo vision.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jharna Majumdar is a Scientist and Head of Aerial Image Exploitation Laboratory, Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bangalore. Dr. Majumdar is a BTech in ECE and post graduate in Computer Technology from IIT Kharagpur. She has a total of 28 years R & D experience in the country and abroad. She received Ph D degree in EE while working as a research scientist at the CMERI Durgapur. From 1983 to 1989 Dr. Majumdar worked as a Research Scientist in the Robotics and AI Research Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany. She joined DRDO in 1990 at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Dr. Majumdar has 55 reviewed technical papers in the national and international journals, patents and several awards in her credit. She has developed a Ground Image Exploitation System for UAVs which is accepted by Indian Armed Forces.
Her current research area is Aerial Image Exploitation for Automatic Target Recognition, Automatic Mosaicing, Change Detection and Multisensor Fusion.