v      Strong technical expertise in above mentioned areas, combined with hands-on project management skills and excellent knowledge of the VT market and state-of-the-art: 

Ø       Over fifty scientific papers, three patents, several grant proposals, public tutorials and demonstrations, invited lectures.

Ø       CSPS (Canada School of Public Service) LTS (Leading Scientific Teams) program certified project leader.

Ø       Managed a team of four people, with total of fourteen supervisions in five years, that produced several successful licensable technologies.

v      Personal qualities:

Ø       Team-builder, valuing social, professional, democratic and environmental values.

Ø       Multilingual: speak English, French, Russian, Ukrainian

v      Inventor, principle developer and manager for several successful VT technologies: 

Ø       Nouse PVI (Vision-based computer control) – poster

§    Under Phase II testing in St Vincent Hospital – www.videorecognition.com/Nouse/credits.html   

§    Featured in three NRC Excellence Reports: 2002, 2003, 2005

§    Featured in media:  CBC (2007), CNN, ABC, New York Times, New Scientist, Discovery Channel, Macleans (2004) 

§    Requested by several hundreds of individuals in Canada and world-wide.

Ø       ACE-Surveillance (Intelligent Surveillance system) – poster

§    deployed by NRC commissionaires: www.videorecognition.com/ACE/demonstrations.html

§    tested and requested by several security companies (including RCMP, DRDC)

Ø       Face Recognition  from Video biometrics

§    Attracted funding from DND

§    Requested by several security companies

Ø       Other technologies:

§    Automated Video Multiplexor, Video Annotation of Piano Playing, StereoTracking

§    Associative Neural Network Open Source Library

v      Extensive network connections in the area of VT and Security:

Ø       Maintain strong relationship with many Canadian and International researchers in the area.

Ø       Established strong relationship with several federal departments that use VT: CBSA (joint PSTP proposal on Intelligent multi-camera monitoring in airports ), DND (collaboration on  , RCMP (in Intelligent Surveillance), CPRC (Canadian Police Research Center)

Ø       Established relationship with the USA DTO (Disruptive Technology Office) VACE (Video Analysis and Content Extraction) program.

Ø       Established relationship with several Canadian security companies that use VT, for two of whom serve as an external consultant.

Ø       Technical adviser for IRAP, AIF, CCIFF, NSERC in the area of surveillance and security

v      Organizer of several important international and national events in the area of VT & security:

Ø       First federal departments meeting on Deploying Video Technologies for National Security (in coordination with DTO USA), June 2007: - www.videorecognition/vt4ns

Ø       Intern. workshops on Video Processing and Recognition:  (CVPR FPIV'04, CRV FPIV'05,  Video Processing for Security ’06,  VideoRec’07): http://www.computer-vision.org/4security/

                                                              CURRICULUM VITAE

a)  DMITRY O. GORODNICHY

1156 Chimney Hill Way, Ottawa, ON, K1J 8Z8, Canada   
Tel:  (613) 842-0177. Cell: (613) 355-9975. 
Emails: dmitry.gorodnichy@google.com & dg@videorecogntiion.com

 

b)      DEGREES: designation, institution, department, year

 

Ph.D., Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2000

               (on World Modeling from Unreliable Visual Data for Autonomous Robot Navigation)

Ph.D., Mathematics, Ukrainian Ac.Sc.’s Glushkov Cybernetics Institute, Kiev, Ukraine, 1997

               (on Mathematical Models of Human Memory)

M.Sc., Information Technology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia, 1994

 

c)      EMPLOYMENT/PROFESSORSHIP HISTORY:

 

2007-08       On Interchange Agreement with Canada Border Services Agency

2007-          Adjunct Professor, University of Dalhousie, Faculty of Computer Science

2003-07       Research Officer, continuing employee, Computational Video group, IIT-ITI, NRC-CNRC

2001-          Research Officer, Computational Video group, IIT-ITI, NRC-CNRC

2000-          Assistant Research Officer, IIT-ITI, NRC-CNRC

2000           President, “Fiztech Solutions Corp” (a consulting company in data mining)

2000.          Lecturer in ENCMP 100 "Computer Programming for Engineers" at University of Alberta.

1999.          Lecturer, course and lab coordinator in CMPUT 114 "Introduction to Computing Science"

1997-98:      R&D Specialist, Dendronic Decisions Ltd, Edmonton, Canada

1993-95:      Researcher, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukrainian Ac.Sc, Kiev. Ukraine

 

d)      HONOURS:

 

2004        Featured in NRC Top-10 Technology Highlights

2003        Mentioned by the technology name (Blink Detection) in NRC Research Excellence Report.

2003        Listed as one of Canada's  "Leaders of Tomorrow"  by Partnership Group for Science and Engineering (PAGSE)

2002        Mentioned by the technology name (Nouse) in NRC Annual Report

2002        Young Investigator Award from Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS)

2002        "Outstanding Scientific Achievement" Award from IIT-NRC.

1999        Two "Best Presentation" Awards at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

1997        Leadership Award from University of Alberta.

1994        Diploma Cum Laude (with Distinction) from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

 

e)      SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

2007       Organizer of the interdepartmental initiative and meeting on Deploying Video Technologies for National Security (in coordination with DTO USA): - www.perceptual-vision.com/vt4ns

2004-7     Organizer and Chair for International workshops on Video Processing and Recognition:  (CVPR FPIV'04, CRV FPIV'05,  VP4S’06,  VideoRec’07): http://www.computer-vision.org/4security/

2006       Tutorial on Recognition in Video, given at Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'06): www.perceptual-vision.com/videorecognition

2006       Creator of Associative Neural Network Open Source Library: www.perceptual-vision.com/memory/pinn

2006       Editor of Image and Vision Computing, Volume 24, Issue 6 (Special Issue on Face Processing in Video Sequences),  June 1, 2006.

2005       Neural Technology Exhibition Chair, Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'05)

2004       Chair for IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Ottawa chapter)

2004       Co-Editor (with Dr. Hong Zhang from U. of Alberta), Image and Vision Computing journal

2002       Program chair, Int. Conf. on Vision Interface (VI'02) (now Canadian conf. on Computer and Robot Vision)

 

REVIEWING

2000-7         Reviewer for over twenty conferences in the area, including BCMV, ICCV, CVPR, CRV, ICPR, IJCNN.

2000-7     Reviewer for over ten journals in the area, including Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), IEE Electronics Letters, IEE Proc. Vision, Image & Signal Processing, Image and Vision Computing, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEE Electronics Letters, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

2005-8     External advisor for several Canadian companies in the field of security and surveillance (two currently active)  with IRAP, AIF, CCIFF.

2003               Provided feedback on PAGSE’s Setting Priorities for Research in Canada report to the Government of Canada and on the PAGSE 2003 Pre-budget Consultation Submission to House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance.

2002        As a Federal S&T Forum member, provided feedback on the reports to the Government of Canada incorporated in the EDGE (Employees Driving Government Excellence) & SCOPE (Science Communications and Opportunities for Public Engagement) CSTA Reports, 2002.

2002-7     NSERC Reviewer

 

MEMBERSHIPS

 

·    NSERC TC Committee on Biometrics and Surveillance

·    PSEPS Biometrics Working Group

·    IEEE member (2002-2006)

        

f)       SUPERVISIONS:

 

2007        HuiQiong Chen, MSc. Dalhousie U. (Internship student)

2006-7      Mohammad A. Ali, MSc. (Contract worker)                .

2006-7      Elan Dubrovsky (Carlton U, COOP student, 4.y,, Contract worker) 

2006        Amir Dadjou, (Contract worker)                                

2006        Kris Woodbeck (Ottawa U, MSc, contract worker)     

2005        Arjun Yogeswaran (Ottawa U, COOP student, 3.y)     .

2005        Mihir Sharma (Ottawa U, COOP student, 3.y - Co-supervised with Bruno Emond)

2004-5      Gilles Bessens, M.Sc. (Contract worker)                   .

2004-5      Slawo Wesolkowski, M.Sc. (Contract worker)            .

2003        Steve McDonald (co-supervised with  Gerhard Roth) (M.Sc. Carleton U)

2003        Supervisor for Nabilla Hadibi (“Horizon” New Immigrant Program)

2002        Supervisor for Saranya Murthy (COOP student, 3.y)

2002        Shazad Malik (co-supervised with  Gerhard Roth)

 

 

h)      RESEARCH  FUNDING: (Include information on principal- or co-investigator)

 

Year         Source                          Type*    Amount per year            Purpose**

        

2007        DRDC, Principle Investigator and project manager

               Project: Face-from-Video-based Biometrics for Intelligent Surveillance

               Amount: $50.000 (suspended because of WFA)

               To contract students, to build infrastructure

2005        TransAtlantic Teaching  fund (part of the team)

               Project: Video recognition tools for music teaching

               Hired two students

2003        Licence revenue             $15,000 (negotiated by BDO)      

               Project: Blink-based computer-human interfaces

               Hired a student

 

 

*Type: C-Granting councils; G-Government; F-Foundations; O-Other

** Purpose: research,  travel, publication, etc.

 

i)       INTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING: past 7 years only, by year (university funds, SSHRC minor grants awarded through the university, etc.)

 

Year         Source                          Type*    Amount per year            Purpose**

 

2006        NRC-IIT Reserve Fund                $24,000                         to contract students

2004        NRC VP Operations Reserve Competition  $35,000           to hire students

               Project Perceptual Vision Interfaces (part of team)

2002        IIT-NRC DG Reserve Competition   $10,000           for equipment (part of team)

 

 

Licenses:

 

·  Nouse Perceptual Vision Interface: SCO Health Services of Ottawa, Elisabeth Bruyere Research Institute and Saint-Vincent Hospital

·  ACE Surveillance (Annotated Critical Evidence): Commissioners of Canada, NRC, RCMP.

·  Blink Detection in Video for Control: Midlands Rehabilitation Center, UK

 

Invited presentations:

 

·  "Intelligent Video: problems and solutions", Transport Canada Rail and Urban Transit Security Workshop, Montreal, Nov. 2007. 

·  “NRC-IIT Video Recognition Systems and Canadian national interests in deploying video technologies", USA DTO VACE Phase III meeting, Washington DC, October 31, 2006.

·  “Recognition in Video: Recent Advances in Perceptual Vision Technology", University of Windsor, March 31, 2006.

·  "Face recognition in video as a new biometrics modality and the appropriate associative memory framework", IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Ottawa U, Ottawa, 2004.

·  "Seeing Faces in Video: By Humans and Machines. Recent Advances in Perceptual Vision Technology" , IIT-NRC Colloquium 2004 Series. 

 

  

Patents:

• Gorodnichy, Dmitry O. "ACTIVE CURSOR: Feedback Providing Cursor For Hands-free Pointing in Computer-User Interfaces", New Canadian Informal Patent Application, November 1, 2005.
• Gorodnichy, Dmitry O. "Method for video-based nose location tracking and hands-free computer input devices based thereon", 
  Canadian Patent 2,395,886. US Patent 10/201,957. Filed 2002
• Gorodnichy, Dmitry O. "Second order change detection in video". 
  Canadian patent #2,440,015, United States patent 10/653,090. Filed 2003

 

Books edited:   

 

·      Author of “Face databases and evaluation” chapter of Encyclopedia of Biometrics (Editor: Stan Li), to appear 2008, Elsevier Publisher

·      Editor of Special Issue of Image and Vision Computing journal on Face Processing in Video Sequences. (Vol. 24, No. 6). June 1, 2006. Elsevier Publisher.

       

 

Papers in refereed Journals:

• Dmitry O. Gorodnichy and Gerhard Roth. "Nouse 'Use your nose as a mouse' perceptual vision technology for hands-free games and interfaces". Image and Vision Computing, Volume 22, Issue 12 , 1 October 2004, Pages 931-942, 2004.

• Dmitry O. Gorodnichy. "The Influence of Self-Connection On The Performance of Pseudo-Inverse Autoassociative Networks", "Radio Electronics. Computer Science. Control" journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 49-57, 2001.

• D.O. Gorodnichy and W.W. Armstrong. "Building and Using Parametrically Represented Occupancy Models in Mobile Robot World Exploration", Robotics Today, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 1-6, Society of Manufacturing Engineers,

• D.O. Gorodnichy and A.M. Reznik. "Increasing Attraction of Pseudo-Inverse Autoassociative Networks", Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 123-127, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997     

 

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

 

• Dmitry O. Gorodnichy and Tony Mungham. “Automated video surveillance: challenges and solutions. ACE Surveillance (Annotated Critical Evidence) case study”,  NATO-125 Symposium "Sensor and Technology for Defence against Terrorism", Meinheim, Germany, April 22-23, 2008

• Dmitry O. Gorodnichy, Mohammad A. Ali, Elan Dubrofsky, Kris Woodbeck, Zoom on the evidence with ACE Surveillance, International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition (VideoRec’07). May 28-30, 2007. Montreal , QC , Canada . NRC 49349.

• Gorodnichy, D., Dubrofsky, E., and Mohammad, A.Ali, Working with a computer hands-free using the Nouse Perceptual Vision Interface. International Workshop on Video Processing and Recognition (VideoRec’07). May 28-30, 2007. Montreal , QC , Canada . NRC 49354. 

 

Dekhtyarenko, O.K., Gorodnichy, D. "High Performance Associative Neural Networks: Overview and Library," The Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'06). Québec City, Québec, Canada. June 7-9, 2006. NRC 48496.

 

Gorodnichy, D. "Associative Tracking and Recognition in Video," The First International Workshop on Video Processing for Security (VP4S-06). Québec City, Québec, Canada. June 7-9, 2006. NRC 48494.

 

Gorodnichy, D. "ACE Surveillance: The Next Generation Surveillance for Long-Term Monitoring and Activity Summarization," The First International Workshop on Video Processing for Security. Québec City, Québec, Canada. June 7-9, 2006. NRC 48493.

 

Gorodnichy, D., Yogeswaran, A. "Detection and Tracking of Pianist Hands and Fingers," Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2006). Québec, Québec, Canada. June 7-9, 2006. NRC 48492.

 

Gorodnichy, D. "Seeing Faces in Video by Computers," Editorial in Image and Video Computing, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Special Issue on Face Processing in Video Sequences). Editor: Gorodnichy, D. May 2006. pp 551-556. NRC 48295.

 

Gorodnichy, D. "Associative Neural Networks as Means for Low-Resolution Video-Based Recognition," International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'05). Montréal, Québec, Canada. ISBN: 0-7803-9049-0. July 31 - August 4, 2005. NRC 48217.

 

Gorodnichy, D. "Video-Based Framework for Face Recognition in Video," Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPiV'05) in Proceedings of Second Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV'05). Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. ISBN 0-7695-2319-6. May 9-11, 2005. pp. 330-338. NRC 48216.

 

 

Bessens, G., Gorodnichy, D. "Towards Building User Seeing Computers," Second Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision Workshop on Face Processing in Video (FPIV'05). Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. May 9-11, 2005. NRC 48210.

 

Gorodnichy, D., "Using Associative Memory Principles to Enhance Perceptual Ability of Vision System," Proceedings of the First IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop on Face Processing in Video. Washington, District of Columbia, USA. June 28, 2004. NRC 47139.

Gorodnichy, D. "Towards Automatic Retrieval of Blink-Based Lexicon for Persons Suffered from Brain-Stem Injury Using Video Cameras," Proceedings of the First IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop on Face Processing in Video. Washington, District of Columbia, USA. June 28, 2004. NRC 47138.

Gorodnichy, D. "Second Order Change Detection, and its Application to Blink-Controlled Perceptual Interfaces," Proceedings of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2003). Benalmadena, Spain. September 8-10, 2003. pp. 140-145. NRC 47151.

Gorodnichy, D. "Facial Recognition in Video," Proceedings of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA'03). LNCS 2688. Guildford, United Kingdom. June 9-11, 2003. pp. 505-514. NRC 47150.

Gorodnichy, D., Malik, S., Roth, G. "Affordable 3D Face Tracking using Projective Vision," In Vision Interface 2002, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. May 2002. pp. 383-390 NRC 45862.

Gorodnichy, D., Roth, G. "Affordable Yet Robust and Precise Face Tracking using USB Cameras with Application to Designing Hands-Free User Interfaces," Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Software and Technology of Human-Computer Interfaces. October 27-30, 2002. NRC 45856.

Gorodnichy, D., Malik, S., Roth, G. "Nouse 'Use Your Nose as a Joystick or a Mouse" - A New Technology for Hands-Free Games and Interfaces," Proceedings of the International Conference on Vision Interface (VI2002). Calgary, Alberta, Canada. May 27-29, 2002. NRC 45855.

Gorodnichy, D. "On Importance of Nose for Face Tracking," Proceedings of the International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2002). Washington, DC, USA. May 20-21, 2002. NRC 45854.

D.O. Gorodnichy and W.W. Armstrong. "Vision-based Occupancy Modeling", International Simposium on Robotics (AI/GI/VI/ISR'2000) Proceedings (to appear), Montreal, 14-17 May 2000.

D.O. Gorodnichy and W.W. Armstrong. "Single Camera Stereo for Mobile Robots", Vision Interface (VI'99) conference proceedings, pp. 528-535, Trois Rivières, Canada, May 18-21, 1999.

D.O. Gorodnichy, W.W. Armstrong, and X. Li "Adaptive Logic Networks for Facial Feature Detection", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 1311 (Proc. of 9th Intern. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP'97), Florence, Italy, Vol. II), pp. 332-339, Springer, 1997.

D.O. Gorodnichy and W.W. Armstrong. "Neurocomputational Approach for Modeling Large Scale Environments from Range Data", Neural Computation Simposium (NC'2000) Proceedings (to appear), Berlin, May 23-26, 2000.

D.O. Gorodnichy and W.W. Armstrong. "A Parametric Alternative for Grids in Occupancy Based World Modeling" , Quality Control by Artificial Vision Conference (QCAV'99) conference Proceedings, pp. 125-132, Trois Rivières, Canada, May 18-21, 1999.

Dmitry O. Gorodnichy. "On Using Regression in Range Data Fusion", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'99) proceedings, pp. 1345-1350, Edmonton, Canada, May 9-12, 1999.

W.W. Armstrong and D.O. Gorodnichy. "Breaking hyperplanes to fit data, with applications to 3D world modeling and oil sand data analysis", Neural Computation Simposium (NC'2000) Proceedings,, Berlin, May 23-26, 2000.

W.W. Armstrong, B. Coghlan, and D.O. Gorodnichy. "Reinforcement learning for robot navigation", International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99) Proceedings, Washington DC, July 21-23, 1999.

Dmitry O. Gorodnichy. "The Optimal Value of Self-Connection", International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'99) proceedings, Washington DC, July 1999 - "Best Presentation" award.

D.O. Gorodnichy and A.M. Reznik. "Static and Dynamic Attractors of Autoassociative Neural Networks", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 1311 (Proc. of 9th Intern. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP'97), Florence, Italy, Vol. II), pp. 238-245, Springer, 1997.

 

 

Papers in Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings and Technical Reports

 

Gorodnichy, D., Yogeswaran, A., Comeau, G. "C-MIDI stands for MIDI that “sees” the notes. Video recognition of pianist hands and fingers," 4th Toronto-Montreal Computer Vision Workshop. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 29-30, 2006. NRC 48786.

 

Gorodnichy, D. "Perceptual Cursor - A Solution to the Broken Loop Problem in Vision-Based Hands-Free Computer Control Devices," NRC/ERB-1133. February 2006. 23 pages. NRC 48472.