Position

I am a Royal Academy of Engineering/ EPSRC Research Fellow and a Lecturer in Vision, Image and Signal Processing in the Joint Research Institute in Signal and Image Processing at Heriot-Watt University.

Research

Advances in sensing technologies have led to an enormous growth in applications which are based on the estimation and control of multi-object systems. With the recent advances in autonomous systems, such an Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), the need for a mathematically coherent framework for data fusion from different vehicles is necessary if the best understanding of the environment is to be achieved. The fundamental aim of this project is the development of a framework for the detection, identification, and tracking of targets to enable the surveillance of environments from multiple sensor platforms.

The research objectives of my fellowship are:

1. To develop novel multi-sensor multi-target data fusion methodology.
2. To develop algorithms for modelling and tracking co-ordinated multi-target motion.
3. To develop algorithms for tracking multiple extended objects, where objects produce multiple observations.
4. To formulate techniques for multi-target tracking with unthresholded sensor data.
5. To exploit the commercial opportunities for practical applications.

Details of my research projects and publications can be found through the links on the left.