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

Dr Colin Lewis

Dr Colin Lewis is presently a Consultant Science Advisor to various Government Departments and Industry both in the UK and overseas working in the security and related fields. This includes data processing and extraction, illicit material detection and mitigation, long range surveillance among others. Many of the projects he has worked has led to successful fielded equipment.

He is presently a visiting Professor at Manchester University and in the past has been head of the Science Advisors team in Northern Ireland and the Director of one of MoD's research and Development Establishments. He was awarded on OBE in the early 90s for his work in Northern Ireland. His talk at this conference will be on video analytics which has made mixed progress over all the years it has been worked on. The reasons for this variable progress will be discussed as well as demonstrations of where it has been successfully deployed.

Prof Fredrik Gustafsson

Prof Fredrik Gustafsson is professor in Sensor Informatics at Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, since 2005. He received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, 1992, both from Linköping University. During 1992-1999 he held various positions in automatic control, and in 1999 he got a professorship in Communication Systems. In 2004, he was awarded the Arnberg prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (KVA), in 2007 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and in 2011 he got an award from SAAB in the name of former CEO Åke Svensson.

His research interests are in stochastic signal processing, adaptive filtering and change detection, with applications to communication, vehicular, airborne and audio systems.

He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing 2000-2006 and is currently associate editor for EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

He has supervised 15 PhD, 22 licentiate and more than 170 master theses. He is the author of five books and over 170 conference papers, 60 journal papers and some twenty patents (publication list).

He is co-founder of NIRA Dynamics AB, developing automotive signal processing algorithms, and Softube AB, developing software based simulation products for guitar amplifiers, and SenionLab AB, developing personal indoor navigation solutions.