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Bios November 29, 2021

Supun Samarasekera

Senior Technical Director, Vision and Robotics Laboratory, Center for Vision Technologies

Supun Samarasekera is technical director of the Vision and Robotics Laboratory in SRI International’s Center for Vision Technologies. In this role, he directs commercial and government projects in military training, augmented reality, robotics, aerial and ground video surveillance, 3D mapping and modeling, and medical image analysis.

Samarasekera has over 15 years of experience in building integrated multi-sensor systems for training, robotics, surveillance, security, and other applications. He has played a leading role in the design and development of navigation algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), robotic, and dismounted infantry platforms. The paper “Stable Vision-Aided Navigation for Large-Area Augmented Reality” co-authored by him received the best paper award in the IEEE Virtual Reality 2011 conference.

Prior to joining SRI in 1997, Samarasekera was a member of technical staff for Siemens Corporate Research where he was a key developer of 3D CT reconstruction algorithms. He also held the position of programmer analyst at the University of Pennsylvania, working on MR/CT segmentation and real-time 3D visualization. Samarasekera holds a total of 25 patents for his work.

Samarasekera holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Information Systems from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Night-Time GPS-Denied Navigation and Situational Understanding Using Vision-Enhanced Low-Light Imager (3/27/2023) - In this presentation, we describe and demonstrate a novel vision-enhanced low-light imager system to provide GPS-denied navigation and ML-based visual…
Vision based Navigation using Cross-View Geo-registration for Outdoor Augmented Reality and Navigation Applications (3/27/2023) - In this work, we present a new vision-based cross-view geo-localization solution matching camera images to a 2D satellite/ overhead reference…
Cross-View Visual Geo-Localization for Outdoor Augmented Reality (3/25/2023) - We address the problem of geo-pose estimation by cross-view matching of query ground images to a geo-referenced aerial satellite image…
Ranging-Aided Ground Robot Navigation Using UWB Nodes at Unknown Locations (10/23/2022) - This paper describes a new ranging-aided navigation approach that does not require the locations of ranging radios.
Optimized Simultaneous Aided Target Detection and Imagery based Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments (6/8/2022) - We describe and demonstrate a comprehensive optimized vision-based real-time solution to provide SATIN capabilities for current and future UAS in…
Cross-View and Cross-Modal Visual Geo-Localization for Augmented Reality and Robot/Vehicle Navigation Applications (6/6/2022) - We will present methods and results for estimation of geo-location and/ or orientation for dismounts and platforms for wide area,…

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