The 9th IET Data Fusion & Target Tracking Conference 2012 (DF&TT'12)

Committee

Conference Chair

Simon Maskell
Technical Manager, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, QinetiQ

Simon had an IEE scholarship to Cambridge University Engineering Department, from where he graduated with Distinction. His PhD was then funded by a Royal Commission of 1851 Industrial Fellowship and ran concurrently with a UK MoD fellowship. One paper that emerged from this research has been cited 4000 times.

Simon now leads projects at QinetiQ on developing state-of-the-art Bayesian algorithms for tracking, data fusion, intelligence processing and video processing. Specifically, Simon is currently leading a MoD task to develop and populate a data fusion and tracking processing architecture for Persistent Wide Area Surveillance (including, for example, video tracking, inter-camera handover and pattern-of-life analysis).

Simon is a fellow of the IET, an honorary research fellow at Imperial and a Senior QinetiQ fellow. Simon regularly reviews conference and journal papers and has given courses and tutorials at international conferences.

Simon has also recently written the Wiley Encyclopaedia of Computer Science definition of “tracking” and was general chair for Fusion 2010, the world’s premier conference in the data fusion and tracking domain.

Conference Co-chair

Mila Mihaylova Lancaster University   Dr. Lyudmila Mihaylova is Reader in Advanced Signal Processing at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her interests are in the area of nonlinear filtering, sequential Monte Carlo methods, statistical signal processing and sensor data fusion.

Her work involves the development of novel Bayesian techniques, e.g. for high dimensional problems (including for vehicular traffic flow estimation and for image processing), localisation and positioning in sensor networks.

Dr. Mihaylova is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, of Elsevier Signal Processing Journal and the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Transportation Journal and. Dr. Mihaylova is a senior member of the IEEE, Signal Processing Society and a member of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF) and an ISIF board member.

She has been serving to the scientific community also as a member of the programme / organising committee of international conferences and symposia, including the International Conferences on Information Fusion, the American Control Conferences, EUSIPCO, conferences on Intelligent Transportation Systems and the German workshops on Multiple Sensor Data Fusion.

Dr Mihaylova has given a number of invited talks and tutorials including for the COST-NEARCTIS workshop. Her research is funded by sponsors such as EPSRC, EU, MOD and industry.

Technical Programme Chairs

David Salmond Senior Fellow - Missile Guidance and Target Tracking, QinetiQ   David Salmond is a QinetiQ Senior Fellow and has worked in missile guidance and target tracking for over 30 years (at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Dstl and latterly QinetiQ).

He has a DPhil in 'Tracking in Uncertain Environments' (University of Sussex, 1989) and has worked closely with the UK tracking community for many years.

His research interests are mainly in the application of Bayesian methods to tracking and guidance, especially for uncertain systems, measurement association uncertainty, data fusion and target selection / acquisition.  He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and a Fellow of The IET.

Dr Neil Robertson Joint Research Institute for Signal and Image Processing, Heriot-Watt University   Neil Robertson is an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and a Fellow of the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh.

He has an M.Sci. degree in Physics from Glasgow and a D.Phil. from Oxford. His published research encompasses many aspects of computer vision, especially the fusion of visual features in video and context-aware vision.

He worked at QinetiQ ltd as a research scientist and was an 1851 Royal Commission Fellow at Oxford University from 2003-06 before coming to Edinburgh.

Neil leads a research team which has strong links with industry; his collaborators include Thales Optronics and Roke Manor.