Computer Vision Ph D

Location:

Mount Laurel, NJ

Salary:

85,000

Posted:

June 11, 2024

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RESUME

LAST NAME: PASSINI

FIRST NAME: RICARDO

ADDRESS: *** ******* *****, **. ****** NJ, 08054-2413, USA

Tel.: 856-***-**** (Mobile)

e-mail: *******.*******@*******.*** UNIVERSITY STUDIES

1B.Sc. in Land Surveying (Agrimensor)

Faculty of Engineering. University of Buenos Aires. Argentina Graduation Date: May 1970

2B.Sc. in Geodesy and Geophysics (Ing. Geodesta-Geofisico) Faculty of Engineering. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Graduation Date: August, 1973

3Master of Sciences in Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences. Enschede. The Netherlands.

Graduation Date: April – 1978

4Dr. Ing. (Ph.D.) Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Computer Vision

University of Hannover. Germany Graduation Date: December – 1986

WORK EXPERIENCE INFORMATION

Head of Photogrammetry Section

Agua y Energia Electrica. (Argentine Hydroelectric State Society)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

June 1971 – Dec. 1979.

Main activities:

a.Topographer, Photogrammetric Operator/Compilation, Satellite Image processing operator, Programmer, Mapping Project Manager (i.e., Parana Medio Project 60,000 Km2, Carrenleufu1,500 Km2, many others), Head of Sector.

b.Software / System Development-Analysis / Customization for Geodetic Photogrammetric, Image Data Processing, Cadaster, Hydraulic applications. Last three years emphasis in GIS/LIS.

Used Computer Languages: Fortran 77, Basic, Pascal, Visual Basic, C/C++ Operating Systems: Vax-VMS, DOS, Windows, and knowledge of Unix

c.Data Bases: knowledge of DB4+, Oracle – PC, Access

d.Platforms: IBM 1130, IBM /370, HP 1000, HP 9000, PDP 1170, VAX, PC’s, Intergraph Workstations, Others

Research Associate Engineer

University of Buenos Aires. Faculty of Engineering. Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

December 1979 – February/1990

Duties:

a.Planned, direct, coordinates and manage Geospatial research activities with emphasis in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

b.Developed & implemented new technologies for primary data capture of geo-information, data reduction and derived quantities for different geo-science applications.

c.Formulate and submit research proposals for revision and approval by higher authorities.

d.Negotiate contracts and agreements with private industry,

e.Prepared yearly budget

f.Published technical and scientific papers in professional publications,

g.Recruited and trained research staff and students.

h.Used Programming languages C/C++, Visual Basic, Fortran, etc.

i.Taught Graduate and Undergraduate Courses: Photogrammetry, Remote Sensors, Image Processing, Mathematical Statistic, Adjustment Calculus, Physical Geodesy, Structural Geology, Calculus I, II, III

United Nations-Survey Consultant.

United Nations

Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

March 1990 – June 1996

Duties:

a.Gross Errors Detection and Reliability studies of the old Geodetic/Network.

b.Supervise corrections of blunders and densifications. New LS Adjustment of the Network

c.Direction and supervision of the team in charge of design, measurement and adjustment of the first order GPS network.

d.Removal of systematic errors of the old network based on common points with the GPS network and using Linear Filtering of Stationary Function

e.Preparation of the Request for Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference for the preparation of the Orthophoto-map of the Emirate ca. 3,000 Km2. Award, Inspections, and approval

f.Preparation of the Request for Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference for the preparation of the Digital Planning and Digital Cadaster Maps for the city of Dubai: ca. 250 Km2 and ca. 75,000 parcels. Award, Inspections, and approval

g.Using the Digital map above, data base generation, maintenance and up-dating due to various land transactions.

h.Direction, coordination and supervision of the Photogrammetric and Ground Survey methods used for the maintenance of the Emirate Topographic map.

i.Preparation of the Request for Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference for the preparation of the Satellite Thematic Maps generation for a Regional Planning GIS. Award, Inspections, and approval

j.Collaboration with the Earth Measurement Department of the University of Hannover (Germany) on the Absolute Gravity Measurements through free fall with interferometry method (only point available in the Middle East)

k.Member of the team for the Calibration of the Gravimeter “Lacoste Romberg” in the calibration base of Earth Measurement Department of the University of Hannover (Germany)

l.Design, Preparation of a relative Gravimetric network. Supervision of the gravimetric measurements and computations/reductions (Free air, Topographic-Isostatic, etc.)

m.Collaboration with the Earth Measurement Department of the University of Hannover (Germany) in the computation of the separation Geoid-Ellipsoid

n.Software development / customization for several Survey / Geodetic applications

o.Design of Office Automation System (e.g. job accounting and tracking) for the Administration of the Survey Section

p.Others.

Senior Geospatial (R&D) Specialist

BAE SYSTEMS,

Mount Laurel, NJ, 08054. USA.

July 1997 – June 2019

Duties:

a.Responsible for the Simultaneous Least Squares Bundle Block Adjustment (including Automatic Gross error detection and self-Calibration) of nearly 75,000 airborne aerial photographies. Largest simultaneously adjusted block including ancillary information (airborne GPS) and self-calibration:15,565 Airborne images. Program System BLUH from the University of Hannover, Germany

b.Calibration of non-metric medium and small size COT cameras (e.g., Nikon 180D, Sony 7ar, Cannon EOS Rebel SL1, etc.). Use was made of the Program System BLUH from the University of Hannover, Germany

c.Automatic Geometric QC of several Orthophoto-projects using matching of common oriented patches of images from previously Least Squares Adjusted Blocks and the corresponding Orthophoto-patch. Program System MatchQC

d.Filtering of several Digital Surface Models into Digital Terrain Models using combination of several types of functional and statistical models chosen (mainly) according to the terrain morphology and land use/land cover (e.g., moving average incline plane and polynomials up to third degree, Linear Prediction, etc.). Program System RASCOR of the University of Hannover, Germany

e.Rectification of digital maps deformation due to systematic errors being left when self-calibration is not used during the LS Bundle Block Adjustment. Use was made of a second adjustment with self-calibration and Linear Least Square (of stationary functions) between the two sets of points. Program DTMCOR of the Program Package BLUH of the University of Hannover, Germany

f.Bundle block adjustment of spatial imagery (e.g., Ikonos, QB, WV1, WV2, Pleiades, Kamposat 3 and 3A, etc.) using Rational Polynomial Coefficient Strategy with corresponding refinement

g.Fit the coordinates of object points to support points by the method of least squares interpolation (Linear prediction).

h.Medium and small size camera self-calibration and point positioning using the Brown Parameter. Correction of the affinity and shear of the CCD pixels

i.Analysis of the accuracy and accuracy characteristics of height models against reference height models. Program DEMANAL of the Program Package BLUH of the University of Hannover, Germany

j.Correction of DEMs by model deformation caused by not respecting the systematic image errors. Program DTMCOR of the Program Package BLUH of the University of Hannover, Germany

k.Radial symmetric lens distortion determined by self-calibration or by Brown-parameters K0 K1 K2 K3. Case of calibration of medium and small non-metric COT cameras.

l.Many other duties

Research areas:

a.System and software development for Automatic and Autonomous Aerial Triangulation, Autonomous Orientation

b.Second Generation of Digital Orthophoto

c.Automatic Filtering of Digital Elevation Models

d.Development of Spatial Triangulation models

e.Automatic Feature Extraction from Aerial Photography and Space Imagery

f.Change Detection

g.Lidar: calibration models

h.Cloud of points segmentation, classification

i.Automatic Image Segmentation and Classification

j.Oblique Camera Systems Calibration and the stability of their parameters

k.Software Dev. & Customization, SOCET SET, BLUH, BINGO, RASCOR, DTMCOR, BLASPO, others

l.QA and QC operations guided by ISO 9000 rules/certification.

m.Others

Software Languages and Operating Systems knowledge/used:

a.Software languages: Fortran, Visual Fortran, C/C++, working knowledge of Tcl/TK

Senior Technical Solutions Architecture Advisor

NTTD

Plano, TX 75024

July 2019 – June 2020

Duties:

NTTD as a Consultant for the Texas Department of Transportation, undertook through the undersigned the setup, implementation and conducted various projects related to the transportation Industry.

Among others: “Analysis of the asphalt pavement status by using space borne, airborne and drone imagery of Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared bands”

Photogrammetric Consultant.

Military Geographic Institute of Bolivia

La Paz, Bolivia

Nov. 1978 – Dec. 1979

Duty:

Software, setup, training and supervision of Photogrammetric Data Processing. Part time duties

Survey consultant

Cadaster Department. Province of Entre Rios, AR

February 1980 – February 1981

Duty:

Preparation of the Request of Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference

for the Large-Scale Photogrammetric Mapping for Geometric and Fiscal Cadaster. Part time duties

Survey and Photogrammetric Consultant

Vialidad Nacional (Argentine Roads Department).

March 1981 – December 1982

Duty: Systems Development customization for Photogrammetric applications to Roads

Design and Construction. Part time duties

Survey Consultant.

Direccion Provincial de Catastro

Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

April 1983 – December 1983

Duty: Preparation of the Request of Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference for the Large-Scale Photogrammetric Mapping for Geometric and Fiscal Cadaster. Part time duties

Thematic Mapping Consultant.

Cuenca del Plata (Argentine – Bolivian Government Society)

La Paz, Bolivia

February 1984 – December 1984

Duty: Preparation of small-scale Satellite Thematic Mapping (i.e., Land Use, Hydrology, Soils, Geomorphology) for Agriculture Development. Bermejo Basin. Argentina – Bolivia (ca. 250,000 Km2).

Geophysics Consultant

Proingeo Ltd. (Argentine Consortium)

Buenos Aires, Argentina

March1985 – September 1985

Duty: Digital Data processing of Geo-seismic exploration data of selected areas of

“Bermejo Basin”. Part-time duties.

Thematic Mapping Consultant

Aeroterra – Plus Petrol

Buenos Aires, Argentina

May 1987 – July 1987

Duty: Production and interpretation of a surface Geological Map from satellite images Landsat TM. “Caimancito” oil field, Argentina. Part time duties

Cadaster Mapping Consultant

Swiss Air Photo & Surveys

Buenos Aires, Argentina

August 1987 – November 1987

Duty: Preparation of the Request of Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference for the Geometric and Fiscal Cadaster (GIS / LIS) of the greater Buenos Aires. Approx. 2,450 Km2. Part time duties

Hydrographic and Oceanographic Consultant

Direccion Nacional de Vias Navegables.

April 1988 – June 1988

Rosario - Argentina

Duty: Preparation of the Request of Proposals and Technical Terms of Reference for river/sea bed mapping surrogating and approach areas of big harbors. Part time duties

Small Scale Topo-Mapping Consultant

UNDP

Province of Buenos Ares. Argentina (Capdis)

June 1989 – December 1989

Duty: Satellite image topographic mapping for scales 1:250,000; 1:100,000 and 1:50,000. Training course on image geometry and image processing for technical personnel of CAPDIS. Part Time Duties

Reservoir Characterization Specialist.

Schlumberger

Dubai, UAE

May 1991 – June 1992:

Duty: Digital Mapping of Reservoir geology Structures. Geo-statistics, Reservoir Characterization, underground modeling. Oil Field of Awaz (Iran). Part time duties

Geodetic Consultant

Dubai – Geodelta (Italian Consortium).

Dubai, UAE

October 1993 – January 1994

Duty: Contract for Software development for different Geodetic datum transformations. Part time duties

Thematic Mapping Consultant.

International Petroleum Corporation

Dubai, UAE

June 1995 – August 1995

Duty: Production and Interpretation of Topo – Geological - Hydrology Map from satellite Landsat TM images for oil field 177 –178 Libya, ca. 100,000 Km2. Part time duties

Gravimetric consultant

International Petroleum Corporation.

Dubai, UAE

Nov.1995 – February 1996

Duty: Data Reduction, Computations and Network Adjustment of Gravimetric

Observations. Gravimetric Anomalies Mapping, underground structure modeling. Oilfield concession 177, Libya. Part time duties

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Assistant. Chair of Geodesy

University of Buenos Aires.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

April 1971- November 1972

Duty: Assistant to students during the practical works (Part Time 10hrs./week)

Assistant Professor.

University of Buenos Aires. Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Buenos Aires, Argentina

December 1972 - Dececember-1974

Duty: Subject been taught: “Mathematical Statistics and Adjustment Calculus”, “Photogrammetry I and II”. (Part Time.20 hrs./week).

Adjunct Professor

University of Buenos Aires. Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jan. 1975 – July 1976

Duty: Subject been taught: Photogrammetry I, II, Introduction to Remote Sensing (Part Time.20hrs./week).

Associate Professor

University of Buenos Aires. Chair of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Buenos Aires, Argentina

April 1978 – December 1979

Duty: Subject been taught: Photogrammetry II, Remote Sensing II, Math Statistics II (Part Time. 20hrs per week).

Professor

Technical High School of Engineering. Argentine Army Forces.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

March 1983 – December 1989

Duty: Subject been taught: “Photogrammetry III” (Part Time. 10hrs/week).

Invited Professor

University of Hannover

Hannover, Germany

July 1996 - June 1997

Duty: Subjects been taught: Photogrammetry II, Remote Sensing Mathematical Statistics and Adjustment Calculus (undergraduate and post graduate levels)

GIS and Remote Sensing Instructor

BCIT Medford, NJ

Medford, USA

Sept 2003 - June 2006

Duty: GIS and Remote Sensing. Board Certification Course. Adults Education

Adjunct Professor

Candem College.

Candem, NJ, USA

September 2006 – May 2016

Duties: Subjects. Intermediate Algebra Extended. Calculus I, Statistics Applied Statistics. Part-Time duties at the Math Department

PUBLICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

1Positional Accuracy in Optical Orthophoto Projection (MS.C. Thesis) International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences Enschede, The Netherlands. March, 1978

2AP/C-3 Strip Adjustment Program Oticco Meccanica Italiana. Rome – Italy October 1973

3Computational Block Adjustment by Orthogonal Polynomial Interpolation Ottico Meccanica Italiana. Roma – Italy

November 1974

4Strip and Block Adjustment Program by Orthogonal Polynomial Interpolation Published by: Unica. Official Technical Magazine of the Professional Association of “Agua y Energia Electrica”. National Argentine Electrical Company

December 1974

5Monitoring of Dams using Geodetic and Geophysical Methods. Published by Unica. February 1975

6Accuracy in Orthophotography produced by optical means

Presented paper to the Vth. National (Argentine) Congress of Cartography Neuquén, Argentina. September 1978

7The Orthophotography and its Applications

Published by: Encuentro. Official Technical Magazine of the Argentine Association for Photogrammetry and related Sciences

Issue: September 1979

8The Photogrammetric Digital Equipment. Hardware and Software Published by Encuentro. Issue: September 1979

9The Metric Aspects of Remote Sensors

Presented paper at the II Latin-American Symposium of Remote Sensing Lima, Peru, April 1980

10A very high efficient Digital Rectification Technique for Remote Sensing Images Presented paper at the II Latin-American Symposium of Remote Sensing

Lima, Peru, April 1980

11The Digital Terrain Models. Data Acquisition and Interpolation Techniques Presented paper at the Iith National Congress of Photogrammetry

San Juan, Argentina, September 1980

Published by: Encuentro. Issue: September 1982

12About the use of Ortho-photographs in Cadaster mapping and development projects

Presented paper at the Iith National Congress of Photogrammetry

San Juan, Argentina, September 1980

Published by: Encuentro. Issue: September 1982

13Pre-Adjustment Gross Error Detection in Aero-Triangulation A Mathematical Statistic Approach.

Presented paper at the Iith National Congress of Photogrammetry San Juan, Argentina, September 1980

Published by: Encuentro. Issue: March 1985

14The Aero-Triangulation in AyEE. A revolutionary approach

Presented paper to the XXIII International Congress for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Hamburg, Germany. June 1980

15About the use of Affine Transformation and Filtering in SAR Image s Presented paper to the I Latin American Meeting on Mapping from the Space “Comision de Estudios Espaciales”. Buenos Aires. Argentina. April, 1981

16“Esteros del Ibera”, A Thematic Mapping Project for Regional Planning Presented paper to the I Latin Americal Meeting for Regional Planning Parana, Argentina,December 1981

17Functional and Stochastic Models used in the Geometric Static Calibration of Analogue Plotters

Presented paper to the IVth National (argentine) Congress of Photogrammetry. La Plata. Argentina. September 1982