Research Projects at The Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL)

  • Automatic Alignment of GIS Vector Data and High-Resolution Satellite Imagery. Funded by The Topographic Engineering Center. This is a three phase project. Phase#1 $120,000 (Nov-2006), Phase#2 $750,000 (2007), and Phase#3 $500,000 (2008). We are teaming with Central Washington University. (Co-PI).
  • Integration of Multi-Tension Permeametry and Photogrammetric Textural Segmentation for Estimating Directional Permeability, funded by a consortium of [SERDP]. (October-2004 to October-2006). ($525,000). (Co-Investigator: Leading the photogrammetry work). The project is collaboration between the PNNL and the US Navy.
  • An Automated Tool for Conflation of Geospatial Data. Funded by Battelle, Independent Research & Development (IR&D), (Sep-2004 to Sep-2005), $50,000, (PI).
  • Image-Based Vehicle Recognition & License Plate Identification: A Preliminary Study. Funded by PNNL (May-July 2005), ($20,000). (Co-PI).
  • Fusion of Text and Images for Vehicle Identification and Recognition. Funded by PNNL, Lab. Directed Research & Development (LDRD), (Sep-2004 to Sep-2005). $180,000. (Co-Investigator: Image Analysis). Parts of my Ph.D findings were applied very successfully in this project. In particular, we used my automated conic extraction and fitting algorithms for the wheel hub identification and measurement. In addition, I developed a color estimation algorithm based on the notion of the dominant color.
  • Emerging Architecture and Technologies for Data Intensive Computing: Applications to Geospatial Data Analysis. Funded by PNNL, Computational Science Initiative. ($80,000). (2004-2005). (Co-Investigator). In this project, I’m responsible of image sequences analysis generated from video streams.
  • Scale-Space Mutual Information for Textural Patterns Characterization. Funded by the PNNL Hydrology Group (The DOE office of Science) (2005-2006). ($50,000). (Co-PI).
  • Autonomous Registration of Satellite Images to Site Models, funded by (NGA), (March-2003 to May-31st-2005). ($666,000). (Principal Investigator and Technical Leader). GIPSC is the methodology of registration.
  • A Pilot Study to Understand the Vector-to-Image Conflation Problems of The Topographic Engineering Center, (April-to-May 2005), ($8,000), (PI). This pilot study led to the development of an approach that would address the conflation problems faced by the The Topographic Engineering Center.
  • Determination of Soil Anisotropy from Close Range Digital images. Funded by the office of science, US Dept. of Energy (2003-2004). ($25,000). (Co-PI).
  • Extraction of Soil Features from Infrared Images. Funded by the office of science, US Dept. of Energy (2003-2004). ($30,000). (Co-PI).
  • Demonstration of GIPSC in Medical Image Registration. Funded by The Environmental Molecular Science Lab, PNNL (2003). (PI) ($10,000). Through this pilot project we established the connection with the National Institute of Health (NIH). Right now we are pursuing and an opportunity with the NIH in automated medical image registration.
  • Demonstration of GIPSC in the Registration of Close Range Soil Images. Funded by the office of science, US Dept. of Energy (2003). ($30,000). (Co-PI).
  • Design of a Portable Close Range Photogrammetric Measurement Unit for Coal Mining Applications. (2002-2003). Principal Investigator. Funded by US Dept. of Energy. ($50,000). (PI).
  • Low Altitude Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) Generation for the Nuclear Site Monitoring Using off-the-shelf Digital Camera. Funded by the PNNL Hydrology Group through the DOE Office of Science, (2004-2005). ($50,000). (Co-PI). The findings of this project led the US Dept. of Energy to select the PNNL as the main Lab for photogrammetric applications to monitor its Nuclear Barrier Sites.
  • Texture-Based Characterization of Canopies Areas Using High Resolution Satellite imagery. A Preliminary Investigation Funded by the Ecology Group at PNNL (October-to-November-2004). ($10,000).
  • Texture-Based Soil Classification Using Close Range Visible-Imagery. Funded by the Hydrology Group at PNNL. (2002-2003). Co-PI ($50,000).
  • Automatic Image Registration: Framework and Tool Design. Sole Principal Investigator and Technical Leader, funded by The US. DOE, (2001-2002). ($230,000). The initial framework of GIPSC is developed under this project (PI). This was my first funded project at the PNNL.
  • Development of a semi-automated point feature algorithm for building measurements. Funded by the PNNL (2001-2002) (PI). ($15,000)