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vector borne disease outbreaks caused by floods. “We’re using satellite data to predict malaria outbreak regions in advance and that data allows for life-saving early intervention.”

Olympia Hadjiliadis, Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Brooklyn College

Professor Hadjiliadis addresses fundamental problems in the areas of surveillance and detec-tion in her mathematical project, Sequential Detection and Classification in 3-D Computer Vision, a two-year NSF award totaling $100,000. The project will benefit the computer vision community by providing immediate, high resolution scene classification from specific 3-D data points. By developing a measurement model that applies the online techniques, Professor Hadjiliadis has reconstructed 3-D scenes that identify and classify vegetation regions versus vertical and horizontal surfaces. “We want to use online sequential techniques to immediately identify objects in laser-scanned scenes.”

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