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David Vernon
Network Coordinator
Membership Number: 1
Address: University of Genoa, LIRA-Lab, 13 viale F. Causa, 16145 Genova, Italy
Email: vernon@ieee.org
Phone: +39 010 3532994
Fax: +39 010 3532948
URL: www.dvernon.net

Biographical Sketch
David Vernon is the coordinator of euCognition – the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems (www.euCognition.org) and a member of the management team of the RobotCub project on cognitive robotics (www.robotcub.org). He holds a contract professor position at the University of Genoa. He graduated from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, in 1979, working as a software engineer with Westinghouse Electric Inc., (’70 –’81), Lecturer in computer science at Trinity College (’83 –’95), Scientific Officer in the European Commission (’91 – ’93), Professor of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (’95 – ’99), Professor of Computer Engineering, Etisalat University College, UAE (’98 –’02, ’03 –’05), Senior Programme Officer, Science Foundation Ireland – SFI (’02 – ’03) and Senior Scientist, Captec Ltd (’02 – ’05) where he was the coordinator of ECVision – The European Research Network for Cognitive Computer Vision. He has authored two and edited three books on computer vision and has published over eighty papers in the fields of Computer Vision and Computer Science. He has been a member of several conference programme committees such as ECCV, ICPR, ECAI, ICVS, IMVIP, OESI, CSNLP,and IROS. In 2000, he organized the Sixth European Conference on Computer Vision – ECCV 2000 – and served as both General Chair and Programme Chair. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a past Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Computer Applied Techniques Ltd. (CAPTEC)
CAPTEC (www.captec.ie) is the prime contractor for ECVision. It is a high-technology Irish owned company that specialises in advanced software development, image processing products and applications. Its staff comprises MSc and PhD level graduates in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines. Aerospace related work is one of CAPTEC's main areas of activity with successful involvement in several European Space Agency (ESA) projects including the Hipparcos, ISO, SOHO, Huygens and XMM satellites. In the ISO and SOHO projects, CAPTEC was responsible for the development of the on-board attitude and orbit control software, pioneering the use of the Ada language for on-board satellite software development in Europe.

CAPTEC’s products include:

- MAVIS – Image Processing Software. Over 150 high performance image processing functions in an easy to use library for PC C/C++ developers. Supports image acquisition, processing, visualization, analysis and many standard file formats.

- RICA – Reversible Image Compression Algorithm. This is a patented state-of-the art lossless image compression method currently implemented as a software utility for the PC platform. It accepts DICOM and other image formats, typically achieving 4:1 compression on greyscale medical images.

- LIAISON – Teleradiology System. This MS-Windows based software allows image acquisition and interactive teleradiology sessions between terminals over any TCP/IP based network.

- MCS – Multimedia Conferencing System. This is a sophisticated multi-point application to present diagnostic data to a large audience for clinical conferences. A wide range of diagnostic data is supported, including CR, Angiography, Ultrasound, ECG, Blood Pressure, Nuclear Medicine, Scanned X-Ray films and Patient Notes, etc.

In the past year, the company has been engaged in the following major development projects:

- Development of an interface for the Multimedia Display System (MDS) for integration with a 3rd party Radiology Information System (RIS).

- Multimedia application for Cardiology Conferencing (CCS) using the PC/Windows platforms.

- Software implementation of a Reversible Image Compression Algorithm (RICA) on the PC platform.

- On-board satellite control software for the European Space Agency's XMM mission.

- Independent software verification of on-board satellite software developed by a European supplier for a joint ESA / NASA mission.


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