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Patents
Gamal Seedahmed, Lou Martucci, & Peter Doucette
(2005). Automated Alignment of Spatial Data Sets Using Geometrically
Invariant-information & Parameter Space Clustering
(GIPSC). (Filed in March-29th-2005). US Patent No. 11,095,377.
(Pending).
Research Projects
Abbreviations:
PNNL: Pacific North
West National Lab. US. Dept. of Energy.
DOE: US Dept. of Energy.
DoD: US Dept. of
Defense.
NGA: National Geospatial-intelligence Agency.
GIPSC: Geometrically
Invariant-information & Parameter Space Clustering.
IR&D: Independent Research and Development.
Co-PI: More than one PI in a project.
Pending Projects
Automatic Alignment of
GIS Vector Data and High-Resolution Satellite Imagery. Submitted to the
Army Topographic Engineering
Center. This is a
three phase project. Asked fund for phase#1 $100,000 (Nov-2006), Phase#2
$750,000 (2007), and Phase#3 $500,000 (2008). We are teaming with Central Washington University.
(Co-PI).
Current Projects
An Automated Tool for Conflation of Geospatial
Data. Funded by Battelle, Independent Research & Development
(IR&D), (Sep-2004 to Sep-2006), $75,000, (PI).
Fusion of Text and Images for Vehicle
Identification and Recognition. Funded by PNNL, Lab. Directed Research
& Development (LDRD) under The Home Land
Security Initiative (HSI), (Sep-2004 to Sep-2006). $180,000. (Co-Investigator:
Image Analysis). Parts of my Ph.D findings were applied very successfully
in this project. In particular, we used my automated conic extraction and
fitting algorithms for the wheel hub identification and measurement. In
addition, I developed a color estimation algorithm based on the notion of
the dominant color.
Scale-Space Mutual Information for Textural
Patterns Characterization. Funded by the DOE office of Science (2005-2006).
($50,000). (Co-PI).
Integration of Multi-Tension Permeametry and
Photogrammetric Textural Segmentation for Estimating Directional
Permeability, funded by a consortium of (DOE, DoD, & EPA) [SERDP].
(October-2004 to October-2006). ($525,000). (Co-Investigator). This project
is collaboration between the PNNL and the US Navy.
Previous
Projects
Emerging Architecture and Technologies for Data
Intensive Computing: Applications to Geospatial Data Analysis. Funded by
PNNL, Computational Science Initiative. ($80,000). (2004-2005).
(Co-Investigator). In this project, I’m responsible of image sequences
analysis generated from video streams.
Image-Based Vehicle Recognition & License
Plate Identification: A Preliminary Study. Funded by Homeland Security
Department (May-July 2005), ($20,000). (Co-PI).
Autonomous Registration of Satellite Images to
Site Models, funded by National Geospatial- intelligence Agency (NGA),
(March-2003 to May-31st-2005). ($666,000). (Principal
Investigator and Technical Leader). GIPSC is the methodology of
registration.
A Pilot Study to Understand the Vector-to-Image
Conflation Problems of the Army Topographic Engineering Center,
(April-to-May 2005), ($8,000), (PI). This pilot study led to the
development of an approach that would address the conflation problems faced
by the Army Topographic Engineering
Center, which will
sponsor the development of this approach.
Determination of Soil Anisotropy from Close Range
Digital images. Funded by the Hydrology Group at PNNL (2003-2004).
($25,000). (Co-PI).
Extraction of Soil Features from Infrared Images.
Funded by the Hydrology Group at PNNL (2003-2004). ($30,000). (Co-PI).
Demonstration of GIPSC in Medical Image
Registration. Funded by The Environmental Molecular Science Lab, PNNL
(2003). (PI) ($10,000). Through this pilot project we established the
connection with the National
Institute of Health (NIH). Right now we are pursuing and an opportunity
with the NIH in automated medical image registration.
Demonstration of GIPSC in the Registration of Close Range Soil Images. Funded by the
Hydrology Group at PNNL (2003). ($30,000). (Co-PI).
Design of a Portable Close
Range Photogrammetric
Measurement Unit for Mining Applications. (2002-2003). Principal
Investigator. Funded by US Dept. of Energy. ($50,000). (PI).
Low Altitude Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)
Generation for the Nuclear Site Monitoring Using off-the-shelf Digital
Camera. Funded by the PNNL Hydrology Group through the DOE Office of
Science, (2004-2005). ($50,000). (Co-PI). The findings of this project led
the US Dept. of Energy to select the PNNL as the main Lab for
photogrammetric applications to monitor its Nuclear Barrier Sites.
Texture-Based Characterization of Canopies Areas
Using High Resolution Satellite imagery. A Preliminary Investigation Funded
by the Ecology Group at PNNL (October-to-November-2004). ($10,000).
Texture-Based Soil Classification Using Close Range Visible-Imagery. Funded by the
DOE office of Science. (2002-2003). Co-PI ($50,000).
Automatic Image Registration: Framework and Tool
Design. Sole Principal Investigator and Technical Leader, funded by The US.
DOE, (2001-2002). ($230,000). The initial framework of GIPSC is developed
under this project.
Development of a semi-automated point feature
algorithm for building measurements. Funded by the PNNL (2001-2002) (PI).
($15,000)
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