With the joint KTN/IET Intelligent Imaging event just a couple of weeks away we wanted to introduce you to the speakers you can look forward to hearing from on the day. This year's programme is particularly exciting, with speakers coming from across industry and academia. Join us on the 1st March at Savoy Place, London to ensure you're up-to-date with the lastest vision and imaging technologies and developmentsdirectly from some of the biggest companies and research centres in the field.
Miguel Rodrigues, Reader, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London
Multi-modal Image Processing with Applications to Art Investigation and Beyond
Ken Primrose, CEO, ITS plc
Advances in Process Imaging Using Electrical Tomography
About Ken:
A successful CEO with over a decade of experience, Ken Primrose took a small incubator company that was responsible for commercializing technologies developed by the University of Manchester and grew it into into Industrial Tomography Systems (ITS): the world-leader in tomography-based process visualization tools.
With a degree in chemistry paired with an MBA from a premier business school, Ken brings detailed technical insights into the challenges his team faces, enabling him to spearhead R&D projects and to provide inspiring leadership and motivation to all those he works with.
Jiye Chen, Reader, School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Portsmouth
Extended Image Correlation Method for Detecting Multiscale Damage in Engineering Materials
About Jiye:
Dr Jiye Chen, Reader in Material Damage Mechanics, School of Civil Engineering and Surveying, Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth, UK. Dr Chen obtained his PhD in the area of computational mechanics of composite structures from the University of Birmingha, UK in 1997. As a Research Associatem he worked with Aeronautics Department at the Imperial College London from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he became a Research Fellow with School of Engineering Science at the University of Southampton. He joined Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Bristol in 2004. In 2007 he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth; and promoted to Reader in Material Damage Mechanics in 2-15. Research area's include: Non-destructive detection of material damage; Computational damage mechanics of engineering materials; Multiscale modelling technique; Design, analysis and test of strucural composites.
Robert A Lamb, Chief Technical Officer (EO), Leonardo
Image Processing for Long-Range Targeting
About Robert:
Robert directs the Applied Research programme for electro-optic technologies in support of future product development in laser systems and EO sensors for airborne targeting. He has thirty years’ experience as a research scientist in solid state lasers, non-linear optics, low-light level sensing and photonics in both MoD and industry. His main areas of research include solid state lasers for designation, rangefinding and countermeasures, single photon counting 3D imaging lidar, computational imaging and photonics. He is also an honorary professor in the School of Engineering Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.
About the Company:
Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in the Aerospace, Defence and Security sectors. Headquartered in Italy, the company employs more than 47,000 employees worldwide. Leonardo has offices and industrial plants across 15 countries, with a strong presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States and Poland, and strategic partnerships in the most important high potential international markets.
Prejaas Tewarie, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics, University of Nottingham
Complex Brain Networks in Health and Disease
About Prejaas:
Prejaas obtained his medical degree at VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, followed by a PhD in clinical neuroscience. His work during his PhD research was focused on functional brain networks in multiple sclerosis, but also included methodological work on brain network organization in healthy subjects. The empirical brain networks were mainly studied using the neuroimaging techniques: magnetoencephalography (MEG) and (functional) MRI. During the same period, he received his BSc and MSc in applied physics from the same university, where he developed a strong interest for computational physics and computational neuroscience. After receiving his PhD he moved to the University of Nottingham where he works as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Dr. Matthew Brookes. His current interest are in methods to quantify functional brain networks, and in the mechanisms that drive these functional brain networks.
Owen Nicholson, CEO, Slamcore
Event Cameras and the Future of Robotic Vision – An Introduction from Slamcore Limited
About Owen:
Owen is one of the five co-founders has over a decade of experience in early stage R&D management working on various research portfolios including the UK Special Forces and the Nuclear Submarines Programme. He spent four years building the External Research Programme at Dyson and is now the Head of Operations at the Dyson Robotics Lab. He also holds the position of Head of Growth for IN-PART, a digital start-up specialising in connecting university research to industry’s needs.
About the company:
Slamcore is a recently formed, spin out from the department of Computing at Imperial College. They are developing a series of technologies within the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). In computer science, SLAM concerns the challenges of taking senor information and creating and updating a map of an unknown environment, while at the same time keeping track of the machine’s position within the same map it is creating.
Slamcore aims to create technological solutions to enable the integration of SLAM into augmented and virtual reality products, as well as autonomous robots.
The company’s core founding team, led by Professor Andrew Davison, Professor of Robot Vision, have combined expertise in wide-ranging aspects of this technology. These include obtaining 3D reconstructions of environments, the use of different kinds of camera systems, and the integration of various sensors in mapping. Prof. Davison has pioneered research in SLAM using vision for more than 20 years.
Alex Knight, CEO, Holistx Ltd
Super-resolution Microscopy: Imaging Life at the Nanoscale
About Alex:
Alex received his BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1990. He then moved to the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, where his PhD research focused on the molecular biology and biochemistry of myosin molecular motors in plants and animals. After receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1994, he moved to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA, USA, as an EMBO postdoctoral fellow and began an enduring fascination with single molecule biophysics. In 1996 he moved back to the UK and the laboratory of Justin Molloy at the University of York, where he built optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence imaging systems to study myosins (again). In 2002, he moved to NPL where he was involved in setting up the new Biotechnology Group. Alex became a Principal Research Scientist in 2009. In 2016 he left NPL to found a new company, Holistx Limited.
His current interests:
• Super-resolution microscopy methods including localisation microscopy (dSTORM), and Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM).
• Point of care diagnostics and their application to the detection and monitoring of disease and treatment
• Combining genetic, microbiome and biomarker measurements for healthcare applications, in particular treatment of chronic wounds
Paul Jerram, Chief Engineer, Space Imaging, e2v
Imaging from Space
Responsible for new design and development activities for image sensors for Space and Astronomy applications at e2v. This includes design of both CMOS sensors and CCDs as well as the development of processing technology to optimise the device performance. Paul has worked in the imaging division of e2v for over 20 years following a Ph.D. at University College London and a number of roles in different technology areas within e2v. Image sensors for e2v are used in many of the major space based imaging instruments including Hubble, Rosetta, New Horizons , GAIA, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Solar Dynamics Observatory.
About the company:
E2v has provided image sensors for a number of missions that have made headline news in recent years including; the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Rosetta mission to comet 67P. The talk will cover the type of image sensors that are made for space and how they differ from those that we use in everyday applications, including the performance driver that are often critical for space but of little or no interest for the consumer market. It will then review a few of the missions that use image sensors made by e2v. This will start will missions that look down on the earth to monitor the state of health of our planet and then increasingly look further away to our solar system, our galaxy and the whole Universe.
Maria Kalama, Lead, Satellite Telecommunications, Innovate UK
In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) Programme
Maria Kalama works for the space team at Innovate UK as an Innovation Lead for Satellite Communications. During the last 4 years she has been overseeing the UK’s participation to the European Space Agency Telecommunications programme and a portfolio of national space programmes which includes In Orbit Demonstration
Andrew Schofield, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
A Vision for General Purpose Computer Vision
All speakers subject to change