Andrs CorradaEmmanuel and Howard Schultz

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Applied Physics and Mathematics Research at the
AIRS Lab Computer Science

• Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel and Howard Schultz

2
The Aerial Imaging and Remote Sensing Lab

• One of three Computer Vision labs at the Computer
  Science Department
• Research at the intersection of
• Computer Vision
• Remote Sensing
• Machine Learning
• Experimental and Theoretical Inventiveness in
• Ecology
• Oceanography
• Photogrammetry

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Principals

• Howard Schultz (hschultz_at_cs.umass.edu)
• Physics (UCLA MS) Oceanography (Michigan PhD)
• Govt Research Lab (JPL), Academic (UMass), Small
  Large Business Research
• Novel camera architectures patents on
  undercarriage 3-D scanning, underwater periscope
• Precision photogrammetry software tools
• Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel (corrada_at_cs.umass.edu)
• Physics degree (UMass PhD!)
• Swarthmore, Williams, Dragon Systems
• Statistical/Geometrical reasoning
• Natural language processing, information
  retrieval, pattern recognition, group theory,
  geometry and topology
• Patents speaker identification, test
  classification, underwater periscope

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The Underwater Periscope

• Reconstruct above-water scene with a fully
  submerged camera!
• Snells cone 100? and polarized light
• Oceanographic and military applications

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Geometry of Mapping Precision Errors

• Can robots calculate their own error?
• Concrete and abstract geometry considerations
  projective, symmetry group
• Compressed sensing error is a sparse signal
• Map-making from aerial platforms UAVs, airplanes