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Calendar Archive, September 2006
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Bethesda Marriott, 6711 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From Silver Spring, take I-495 West to Exit 36 North (Rt. 187, Old Georgetown Rd.), turn right onto Old Georgetown Rd., then left onto Democracy Blvd. and look for the Marriott on the right.
From Rockville, take I-270, follow the signs for Northern Virginia at the divide, then take Exit 1 (Democracy Blvd.), turn left onto Democracy Blvd, and look for the Marriott on the left (make a U-turn at Fernwood Rd.). From Northern Virginia, take I-495 to I-270, then take Exit 1 (Democracy Blvd. East), and proceed as above.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Brio Tuscan Grille, 7854-L Tysons Corner Center, McLean, VA
More Info: This will be a social and planning meeting.
Contact: Please RSVP by Sept. 6 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Design and Performance of Microwave and Millimeter-wave High Efficiency Power Amplifiers
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Speaker: Dr. James J. Komiak, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH
Time: Social period 5:30 pm, dinner 6:00 pm, lecture 7:00 pm
Place: American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.acp.org/map.html. Ten-minute walk from College Park Metro station (Green line).
More Info: This is the first lecture in the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society series for 2006-07. All are welcome to attend. For additional details see Diamond story below and www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva.
Cost: $15. Cash or check will be collected after dinner.
Contact: Dinner reservations are required for the catered buffet. Please RSVP by COB Friday, Sept. 8 to Roger Kaul at r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: eCitie Restaurant, 8500 block of Tyco Rd., Tysons Corner, VA
Directions: From I-495, take the Rt. 7 West Exit. After passing Tysons Corner Mall on the right, turn Right on Tyco Rd. The eCitie entrance is 0.4 mile on right. For additional directions, see
www.eciticafe.com/pages/Directions-VA.htm.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultant’s Network
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Chevy's Fresh Mex Restaurant, Ballston Common Mall, 4238 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: Ballston Common is two blocks south of Ballston Metro station (Orange line).
More Info: Members will demonstrate their favorite "free" software programs and discuss the usefulness and limitations of each. See Diamond story, below, for a topic list and how to add your favorite.
Contact: Rick Cunningham at
rick@corridor-rd.com.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Recent Advances in Human Identification Using Face and Gait
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, College Park
Time: Reception and networking 6:00 pm, lecture 6:30 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Computer Science Instruction Center (CSIC), Room 1115, College Park, MD
Directions: From the north or I-495, take Route 1 South. Approx. 2 miles south of the Beltway, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately turn right onto Paint Branch Drive and the CSIC Building will be on the right, next to the parking lot. From the south on Route 1, turn left onto Campus Drive, and follow above directions. Free parking after 5:00 pm. See www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
From the College Park Metro Station (Green line), take the free UM campus shuttle, get off at the first stop, walk back for a hundred yards, turn left onto Paint Branch Drive and look for the CSIC building on the right.
More Info: See Diamond story, below. This is the first meeting and lecture of the new Signal Processing Society Washington Chapter. All are welcome to attend.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contact: Min Wu at minwu@umd.edu.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
High Performance Distributed Computing Research and Enabling Technologies
Sponsor: Computer Society
Speaker: Dr. Bijan Jabbari, George Mason University
Time: Dinner 6:30 pm; technical talk 7:00-8:00 pm
Place: 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
Directions: From I-495, take the Dulles Toll Road (Route 267) to Exit 12, Reston Parkway. Turn right onto Reston Parkway, right onto Sunset Hills Road, and right onto Oracle Way.
See
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/directions.html#oracle.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, $4 for non-members.
Contact: Please register at least 48 hours in advance at
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/archives/sep06.htm.
For more information, contact the chapter program chair Prabhat at
prabhat@ieee.org, or the chapter co-chairs T.K. Ramesh at t.ramesh@computer.org
and Shahid Shah at
shahid.shah@netspective.com.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: John Berry and Mike Kociolek
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Hecht’s, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. ARI is on the 7th floor.
If driving, see
www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.htm.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. For more information about the speakers, see Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members.
Contact: Monica Mallini at 703-387-6021 or
m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Non-Conventional Image Formation Inspired by Opposing Neural Pathways
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Cosponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Speaker: Dr. Damon Tull, DVIP Multimedia, Inc.
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Place: George Mason University, Johnson Center, Third Floor Meeting Room A, Fairfax, VA
More Info: See Diamond story, below. Free pizza and soda provided.
Contact: Dr. Timothy Settle at
settlet@saic.com
Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society
Place: Hyatt Regency, 1800 Presidents Street, Reston, VA
More Info: See
www.ieee-secon.org/2006.
Contact: Krishna M. Sivalingam at
krishna@umbc.edu or 410-455-3961.
Sponsors: Communications Society (Northern Virginia, Washington chapters), Women in Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland
Time: Dinner 6:00 pm; speaker 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N 100 A/B, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions:
See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre1_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contract: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at fred.seelig@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Speakers: Dr. Mihai Datcu, German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; and Dr. Klaus Seidel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Time: 4:30 pm
Place: George Mason University, Research I Building, Room 301 (building #25 on campus map), Fairfax, VA
Directions: See
www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html
and
http://coyote.gmu.edu/map/maphtml/researchi.html. Attendees should park in the ground level (F) of the Sandy Creek Parking Deck.
More Info: See Diamond story below. A related presentation by Dr. Seidel and Dr. Datcu at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on September 27 will be hosted by the Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series at NASA Goddard and cosponsored by the GRSS chapter.
See
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/grss for more information.
Contact: James C. Tilton at
james.c.tilton@nasa.gov.
Sponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Cosponsors: Women in Engineering, Consultants' Network, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Communications Society, Signal Processing Society, Computer Society, Oceanic Engineering Society
Speaker: Fari Schlake
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 1, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre1_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below. Refreshments will be provided.
Contact: Please RSVP to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Design and Performance of Microwave and Millimeter-wave High Efficiency Power Amplifiers
Dr. James J. Komiak, BAE Systems, will describe solid-state power amplifiers covering L-band through W-band including state-of-the-art benchmarks. The principles of operation, device and circuit structures and operating characteristics will be addressed. The device technologies include Si BJT, MESFET, HBT, PHEMT, InP, MHEMT, and Wide Bandgap (SiC, GaN).
Dr. Komiak received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1978. His Ph.D. research was directed towards a novel broadband matching technique for arbitrary loads using measured data directly, the "Real Frequency Technique."
He is an engineering/scientific fellow in the Microwave Electronics Group at BAE Systems. His current activities are in MMIC, module, and sub-system design for EW, communication, and radar system applications. Principally known for his work in power, Dr. Komiak has designed over 100 MMICs achieving state of the art results. Prior to consolidation at Sanders and the subsequent sale to BAE Systems, he was with the Lockheed Martin/Martin Marietta/General Electric Electronics Laboratory.
Dr. Komiak became an IEEE Fellow in 2005 for contributions to “monolithic microwave integrated circuits, high power amplifiers, and transmit/receive modules.”
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Open source isn't just for software developers and programmers any more! It's not necessary to write code and extend open source software just to be able to use it. In fact, you don't even need to know what a compiler is, let alone know how to use it in order to benefit from open source. Lots of complete, highly functional tools for engineers are available as free, open source projects, and can greatly enhance the consultant's bag of tricks. Similarly, many commercial programs, while not open source, are frequently available in "lite" or express versions for the occasional user, with hopes of eventually making you a paid user. However, there's a lot of junk out there, too, and it's not always easy to know whether obtaining and learning to use a particular tool will be worth the time investment.
At this meeting, members of the Consultant's network will discuss a number of free tools that they are using in their work, and will give attendees an idea of just what can be accomplished with them. The format will be a series of brief demonstrations of the actual use of the software to solve a real-world engineering problem. Features and limitations of the free versions of each tool will be highlighted. Attendees should come away from the meeting with a good idea of whether a particular tool would be right for them, what the learning curve might entail, and where to find some local expertise on its use.
A sample of the types of tools we'll be discussing:
- Alibre CAD - a 3D parametric CAD package with a free "Express" version that's extremely capable – a SolidWorks workalike - if you ever have to make small parts, you really ought to get this and get proficient at it.
- Blender - a 3D modeling and animation package that's useful for everything from producing your own version of Toy Story to providing a virtual demonstration of your new (but not yet built!) product.
- SciLab – an open source scientific software package – somewhat like MatLab.
- NeatTools - a software package originally designed to permit people to easily develop custom programs to help physically challenged persons by providing visual tools to integrate unusual input devices with arbitrary output devices. Examples might include developing custom wheelchair controls or providing a "keyboard" to someone who can't use a standard keyboard but can move some parts of their body.
We haven't yet finalized the list, so if you are particularly fond of a tool and would be willing to demonstrate it in a 10-15 minute time slot, please contact Rick Cunningham at
rick@corridor-rd.com and mention "September Meeting Topic" in the subject line.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Recent Advances in Human Identification Using Face and Gait
Over the past five years, advances in human identification using face and gait have enabled the integration of these biometrics into a video-based surveillance system. In this talk, Dr. Chellappa will discuss recent work on human identification using face and gait. The face recognition algorithm computes the probability of seeing a person in a watch list in the acquired video. The gait-based human identification algorithm is based on training a hidden Markov model for each person in the gallery. Methods for handling variations due to pose and illumination will also be presented. Finally, a multi-modal algorithm that fuses face and gait-based identification algorithms will be presented followed by a brief discussion of face recognition across aging, human activity modeling and recognition.
Rama Chellappa is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and an affiliate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also affiliated with the Center for Automation Research (director) and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (permanent member). Recently, he was named a Minta Martin Professor of Engineering.
He received a B.E. from the University of Madras, India, in 1975 and an M.E. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1977. He received the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. Degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1978 and 1981 respectively. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 1991, Dr. Chellappa was a faculty member and director of the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Over the last 25 years, he has published numerous book chapters, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in image and video processing, analysis and recognition. He has also co-edited or co-authored six books on neural networks, Markov random fields, face and gait-based human identification and activity modeling. His current research interests are face and gait analysis, 3D modeling from video, automatic target recognition from stationary and moving platforms, surveillance and monitoring, hyper spectral processing, image understanding, and commercial applications of image processing and understanding.
Dr. Chellappa has served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions On Signal Processing, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Image Processing, and Neural Networks. He was a co-editor-in-chief of Graphical Models and Image Processing. He also served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence during 2001-2004. He served as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors during 1996-1999 and as its vice president of awards and membership during 2002-2004.
He has received several awards, including an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, two IBM Faculty Development Awards, the 1990 Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Engineering at USC, the 1992 Best Industry Related Paper Award from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (with Q. Zheng), and the 2000 Technical Achievement Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
High Performance Distributed Computing Research and Enabling Technologies
In this talk, we will review issues and progress made in developing wide-band networking technologies for high performance distributed computing. We will discuss novel architectures and technologies which will require further research to tap the high capacity of optical fiber medium. This will include transport, routing, path computation, traffic engineering and signaling areas within an Inter-domain IP and Optical Network framework. As an example, we will focus on dynamical provisioning of resources for high end applications using a fast path computation algorithm and show how this can be deployed in a regional research network.
Bijan Jabbari is a professor of electrical engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and an affiliated faculty with ENST, Paris, France. He is an international division editor for the Journal of Communications and Networks, an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and was on the editorial board of Proceedings of the IEEE. He is the past chair of the IEEE Communications Society technical committee on Communications Switching and Routing.
Dr. Jabbari received the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, and was named Engineer of the Year by the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies (DCCEAS) in 2003. He continues to research multi-access communications and high performance networking. He received the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in electrical engineering.
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Lighting control, applications and benefits, and considerations of changes to EPAct, IECC and NEC
Lighting is the largest single consumer of electric power in a typical building, often exceeding 30 percent of the total energy cost. By controlling lights during non-occupied periods, energy cost associated with lighting can often be reduced by over 50 percent. In addition, lighting control helps defer replacement costs of lamps and ballasts by reducing the number of annual burn hours.
Many building codes now require the use of lighting controls to reduce energy consumption. Meeting such requirements, while still creating a comfortable and productive workspace, requires an intelligent lighting control system. Providing light, when and where needed, while reducing lighting in unoccupied areas is the main function of an intelligent lighting control system.
John Berry has been involved in the electrical industry since 1981. He joined Square D in 2001 as a business development specialist for their lighting control division. He has worked with various building owners and managers, electrical specifiers and installers as well as internal personnel to provide optimal lighting control systems. As part of Square D Power Management Organization, he has helped to provide a coordinated product to address individual power and control needs across a variety of buildings.
Mike Kociolek is the local support for the consulting community on behalf of Square D. He rejoined the company in 2006 with over 25 years of experience in power distribution and control applications. As the consultant engineering specialist, he provides technical assistance for all product lines during the engineering phase including; budgeting, layout and specification development.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Non-Conventional Image Formation Inspired by Opposing Neural Pathways
In this talk we inspire the need to reform the image formation strategies of present day digital imaging systems. The current digital image formation strategies, inherited from film photography, have tradeoffs that allow image distortions to corrupt the final image and limit image utility after capture. Recent studies in biological image formation reveal mechanisms that predict and prevent image distortions. These mechanisms are expected to have a significant impact on many critical image processing tasks. DVIP Multimedia has begun to capture these mechanisms in a class of adaptive algorithms and, in this seminar, the impact of these algorithms in the area of image restoration is demonstrated. We will conclude with a discussion of future directions.
Dr. Damon Tull is co-founder and president of DVIP Multimedia, Inc., an early stage digital imaging company that produces advanced imaging software technology for mission critical digital imaging systems. He is the author of a number of publications, patents, and standards contributions in digital video and image processing and inventor of several advanced technologies. His research interests include ill-posed inverse problems, image and video processing (restoration, concealment), device modeling and forensics, visual learning, neural networks, and biological vision modeling. Dr. Tull has experience at some of the nation's premier academic and corporate research centers. He holds a B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an M.S.E.E. and a Ph.D. (in electrical engineering) from Northwestern University.
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This talk will describe the extension of conventional theories on wireline networks to those on wireless networks. Essential aspects of wireless networking will be reviewed, including interaction between physical layers and upper layers, need for energy efficiency, graph models and cross-layer dependencies. It will also identify major issues and technical challenges, as well as new concepts and promising techniques.
Anthony Ephremides holds the Cynthia Kim Eminent Professorship Chair of Information Technology at the University of Maryland College Park. He is a founding member of the Institute for Systems Research at UM, and a member and former co-director of Maryland Hybrid Networks Center (HyNET). He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1971 and has been at the University of Maryland since then.
Dr. Ephremides has held various visiting positions at other institutions, including MIT, UC Berkeley, ETH Zurich and INRIA. In 1991, he co-founded and co-directed a NASA-funded Center on Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks, and he has been president of Pontos, Inc., since 1980. He was the founding director of the Fairchild Scholars and Doctoral Fellows Program, a university-industry partnership, from 1981 to 1985.
He was president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1987 and served on the IEEE Board of Directors in 1989 and 1990. He has been general chair and technical program chair of major conferences including the IEEE Information Theory Symposium in 1991 and 2000, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 1986, the ACM Mobihoc in 2003 and the IEEE Infocom in 1999.
Dr. Ephremides received the IEEE Donald E. Fink Prize Paper Award in 1991 and the first ACM Achievement Award for Contributions to Wireless Networking in 1996, as well as the 2000 Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Best Paper Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2000 Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the Institute for Systems Research, and the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize from the University of Maryland in 2001.
He is the author of several hundred papers, conference presentations and patents, and has served on the editorial board of numerous journals. His research interests lie in the areas of communication systems and networks and all related disciplines, such as information theory, control and optimization, satellite systems, queueing models, signal processing, etc. He is especially interested in wireless networks and energy efficient systems.
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The widespread availability of high resolution Earth Observation (EO) imagery gives rise to volumes of data but also brings orders of magnitude of image detail and enormously increased information content. Heterogeneous data supporting the interpretation of EO imagery, e.g., multimedia, scientific and engineering measurements, is also continuously generated and stored. However, communicating the information content of such data to people for use in practical applications is still limited by current data processing concepts and technologies. In this contribution, we present novel methods for making inferences using EO imagery by objectively and systematically identifying specified characteristics of images and implementing these algorithms in a new concept for knowledge-driven image information mining and scene understanding. The concept enables the communication of information from a very large image repository of data to users. The communication is at a semantic level of representation and is adapted to the user’s conjecture by storing data in form of text that has implicit meaning (i.e., semantic significance).
Specifically, we present novel theoretical concepts and collaborative methods for:
- Extraction and exploration of the content of large volumes of high resolution images
- Establishing the link between the user needs and knowledge and the information content of images
- Communicating at a high semantic abstraction between heterogeneous sources of information and users with a very broad range of interests
- Accessing intelligently and effectively the information content in large EO data repositories
- Improved exploration and understanding of Earth structures and processes
- Increasing the accessibility and utility of EO data.
The presentation provides a new perspective on methods for information extraction, sensor and information fusion, machine learning, understanding of user conjecture, and related supporting technologies, e.g. semantic image indexing, categories and ontology generation, etc. The presentation will also cover examples and online demos using a broad variety of data, including high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and meter resolution optical and hyperspectral imagery. Several examples will address the class of medium-resolution optical images.
Mihai Datcu received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and telecommunications from the University "Politechnica" of Bucharest (UPB), Romania, in 1978 and 1986. In 1999, he received the title "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. He has held a professorship in electronics and telecommunications with UPB since 1981. Since 1993, he has been a scientist with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen. He is developing algorithms for model based information retrieval from high complexity signals and methods for scene understanding from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR data. He is engaged in research related to information theoretical aspects and semantic representations in advanced communication systems.
Currently, Dr. Datcu is senior scientist and image analysis research group leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, coordinator of the CNES-DLR-ENST Competence Centre on Information Extraction and Image Understanding for Earth Observation, and a professor at ENST Paris. His interests are in Bayesian inference, information and complexity theory, stochastic processes, model-based scene understanding, image information mining, for applications in information retrieval and understanding of high resolution SAR and optical observations.
Dr. Datcu held visiting professor appointments from 1991 to 1992 with the Department of Mathematics of the University of Oviedo, Spain, and from 2000 to 2002 with the Université Louis Pasteur, and the International Space University, both in Strasbourg, France. In 1994, he was guest scientist with the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS), Manno, Switzerland, and in 2003, he was visiting professor with the University of Siegen, Germany. From 1992 to 2002, he had a longer invited professor assignment with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich. He is involved in advanced research programs for information extraction, data mining and knowledge discovery and data understanding with the European Space Agency (ESA), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and NASA, and in a variety of European projects. He is member of the European Image Information Mining Coordination Group (IIMCG).
Klaus Seidel received his B.S. degree in experimental physics in 1965 and the Ph.D. degree in 1971, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). He was with the Computer Vision Lab at ETHZ and head of the remote sensing group until 2002.
Beginning in 1987, Dr. Seidel was a Swiss Delegate and Expert in various working groups of the European Space Agency (ESA) and at the same time functioning as the National Point of Contact for Switzerland. He is currently a consultant for ESA projects specialized in image information mining related to remote sensing archives. He has also taught courses in digital processing of satellite images and has published several papers concerning snow cover monitoring, geometric correction and multispectral analysis of satellite images, and remote sensing image archiving. Recently, he published a book, Remote Sensing in Snow Hydrology, with J. Martinec.
Dr. Seidel was involved in the Knowledge-driven Image Information Mining (KIM) project and is currently contributing to Knowledge Enabled Services (KES), KIM Validation (KIMV) and Knowledge Centered EO (KEO) projects for ESA. Hel is member of the European Image Information Mining Coordination Group (IIMCG) and the Data Archiving and Distribution Technical Committee of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
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Sensitive tele-medicine communications claim high demand on network security, reliability and efficiency. Regardless of the type of communications, whether real-time remote operations or regular transfer of patients’ privacy sensitive information, the network must provide the required reliability. Different security mechanisms may degrade the guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) through additional delays, error propagations and throughput limitations. This presentation provides insight and analysis into this problem as result of research work done to overcome these negative influences. As an example solution, a new adaptive security protocol for broadband ATM networks – the preferred network for broadband communications in the existing hybrid landscape – is introduced. It provides the simultaneous capability of implementing required security services, while still offering the user-requested QoS parameters during a broadband connection. This way, only security mechanisms are selected, which fit into the QoS range requested. The communication stays safe and uninterrupted. The necessity for the implementation of these protocols in the modern tele-medicine communications will be emphasized through the analysis of a real-life and presently in-use example of a medical network. The presentation will also include a brief demonstration of a developed simulation software to illustrate the proposed protocol.
Fari Schlake is the president and co-founder of Stravigant, an innovation management and technical consulting firm. She is also a lecturer and executive trainer. She has a successful track record of project management and systems engineering at large-scale international commercial and U.S. government projects. She has worked with and for companies like CACI Federal, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Loral Federal, Bell Atlantic and MCI (now Verizon) in the U.S. and Siemens AG in Germany. She has a B.S. in electrical engineering in telecommunications from the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. She earned her M.S. in electrical engineering internationally, in combined studies at the George Washington University, University of Duisburg and University of Siegen. Currently at the late stage of her Ph.D. research work, she has finished her dissertation, “Adaptive Security Protocols in Broadband Networks.” Her research interests are in the areas of QoS signaling and security protocols for hybrid wired and wireless networks with emphasis in healthcare and tele-medicine implementations as well as mobile software applications in pervasive computing.
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