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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Durham
A comparison of 3D interest point descriptors with application to airport baggage object detection in complex CT imagery
<23>Collaboration with Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB), TRANSEC (Department of Transport), Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and Metropolitan Police Service under HOSDB grant (HOSDB IRC2007- 02/08/07). Research outputs (including this one) led to follow on grant with same collaborators and US Dept. Homeland Security (HOSDB IRC2010/ITT036, £367k, Contact: Hemant.Desai@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk). Research insights led to commercial interest from Mercury Computer Systems Ltd (contact: Ian Shearar, ishearer@mc.com). Further collaboration with security scanner manufacturer (Reveal Inc., contact: richard.bijjani@revealimaging.com) and US Dept. Homeland Security (contact: rebecca.medina@hq.dhs.gov). Invited keynote address given at DSEi 2011 based on preliminary results from this publication.