Vince Velten

Technical Advisor, ATR Technology Branch

vvelten@mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil
Phone: 937 255 1115 x 4155
Fax: 937 656 4414
AFRL/SNAT
2241 AVIONICS CIRCLE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OH 45433-7321

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Background

V. Velten holds the BEE (1982), BS Math (1982), and MS in Applied Mathematical Systems (1987) all from the University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio where he is currently enrolled in the EE Ph.D. program. He has been with the Air Force Research Laboratory since 1982. He has been active in Automatic Target Recognizer (ATR) development and evaluation since 1983, and is a past chairperson of the Automatic Target Recognition Working Group (ATRWG) Evaluation committee and is the current Government chairperson of the ATRWG Technology committee.  Mr. Velten is currently the technical advisor for the target recognition technology branch, AFRL sensors directorate.

Research Activities

Under support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Mr. Velten is currently engaged in research into the application of Algebraic Invariance Theory to Infra-Red (IR) imaging or  Thermophysical Invariance, the development of heat transfer models for application to IR Model-Based Vision, and the development of geometric invariants for synthetic aperature radar (SAR) and Electro-optic (EO) sensors.  Mr. Velten was the technical lead for the Image Exploitation/ATR (IMEX/ATR) project of the DARPA Image Understanding Program. His past research has included work on the development of the theory of ATR performance evaluation and ATR mission performance modelling.

Publications

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) geometric invariants: Experimental results (1999)
Geometric invariance for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors (1998)
Standard SAR ATR Evaluation Experiments using the MSTAR Public Release Data Set (1998)
.Lie Group Analysis in Object Recognition (1997)
Robust Thermophysics-based Interpretation of Radiometrically Uncalibrated IR Images for ATR and Site Change Detection (1997)
Thermophysical Algebraic Invariants from Infrared Imagery (1997)
Robust Thermophysics-based Interpretation of Radiometrically Uncalibrated IR Images for ATR and Site Change Detection (1996)
Site Change Detection and Object Recognition using Thermophysical Affine Invariants from Infrared Imagery (1995)
Thermophysical Affine Invariants from IR Imagery for Object Recognition (1995)
Thermophysical Affine Invariants from IR Imagery (1995)
Thermophysical Affine Invariants from IR Imagery for Object Recognition (1994)
Analytic Methods For Code Comparison Evaluation and Target Temperature Prediction (1994)
Thermal Invariants for Infrared Target Recognition (1993)

Hobbies

VV is an avid sports fan with a weakness for NY teams, and has been known to indulge in all manner of tabletop games. He is also notorious for playing Strat-O-Matic (SOM) baseball, and has actually been known to spend weekends at SOM tournaments of which he has 'managed' to win two in 1994, one in 1995, one in 1996, one in 1998, and one in 1999.

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10/20/1999