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Researcher Wins Federal Funding for Homeland Security Projects

Mohan Trivedi
Mohan Trivedi talks about using computer vision for face detection, video surveillance and remote tele-viewing. [4:58]
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San Diego, Sept. 4, 2002 -- The Computer Vision and Robotics Research (CVRR) Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has won federal funding for three separate research projects, including one of the first awards from the group that coordinates inter-agency U.S. counter-terrorism research. “Homeland security has become a major focus for our group,” said Mohan Trivedi, CVRR director and professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering. “We are making great strides in the area of computer vision, and we expect all of these projects to yield real-world results in the next 12 to 18 months.”

Trivedi--leader of Calit²'s Intelligent Transportation and Telelmatics layer at UCSD--is working on technologies that range from a handheld computer that lets the user customize views of a remote crisis site, to camera-network surveillance systems that are programmed to alert authorities in the event of suspicious activity.

The three projects announced today include:

More information on these and other research at UCSD related to homeland security can be found at http://homelandsecurity.ucsd.edu.

There is more on Mohan Trivedi and his lab at http://cvrr.ucsd.edu.

Media Contact: Doug Ramsey (858) 822-5825 dramsey@ucsd.edu

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