Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

12 January
2.15pm, LT308 Huxley
 
company: Skycap

Title: Beyond Selfie Drones
Abstract: UAS technology has gone through a dramatic democratization in recent years. The mental shift in public perception from high-end military technology to low cost package delivery drones operated by Google and Amazon has been astonishing. Most civil drone applications are currently found in media, mapping and inspection and typically use standard RGB cameras. However there are a number of less conventional sensors and applications that deserve attention. In this presentation I will talk specifically about the use of UAVs for landmine detection, orangutan tracking, and as flying object detectors.
Speaker Details: Dirk Gorissen
 
Dirk Gorissen holds Masters degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and a PhD in Computational Engineering. He has worked in research labs in the US, Canada, Europe & Africa and worked with a large range of industrial partners, including: Rolls-Royce, BMW, Arcelor Mittal, NXP, and Airbus. His interests span machine learning, data science, and computational engineering. Particularly in the unmanned systems domains. After eight years he left academia to join BAE Systems Research where he worked on big data analysis, deep learning, Integrated Vehicle Health Management and autonomous systems related topics. He then left to work for himself, diving his time between The World Bank (where he advises the Tanzanian Government), UAV startup Skycap (where he leads the R&D activities), and a number of startups. In addition he is an active STEM Ambassador, organiser of the London Big-O Algorithms & Machine Learning meetups, and is active in the Tech4Good / ICT4D space.

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