Speakers & Organizers   

Executive Council

Dr. Norman A. Bailey
Gen. Thomas McInerney  
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

Executive Board

Dr. Robert Katz,
Executive Director

John J. Loftus,
President

Clare Lopez,
Vice President

Advisory Board

Talia Adar
Brent M.P. Beleskey
Ilana Freedman
Dr. Gary Katz
Eugene Lebovitz
Alex Porter

2007 SPEAKERS

Dr. Richard Benkin
Prof. Louis Rene Beres
Col. Bill Cowan

Dr. Andrew M. Colarik
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Steve Emerson
Ilana Freedman
Dave Gaubatz
Jerry Gordon
Col. Jonathan Halevi
Joe Kaufman
Aaron Klein
Steven Lutz
Laura Mansfield
Cdr. Richard Marcinko
Ryan Mauro
Gen. Thomas G. McInerney
Richard Miniter
Bob Newman
Dr. William Radasky
Klaus Schmidt
Avi Shachar
Wayne Simmons
Khalsa Hari Singh
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

Secular Islam Summit:
(held concurrently and
in association with The
Intelligence Summit)

Whalid Phares
Shaker al-Nabulsi
Irshad Manji
Amir Taheri
Magdi Allam
Ibn Warraq
Fatemolla
Afshin Ellian
Wajeha Al-Huwaider
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

2006 Speaker list

ADVISORY COUNCIL
Louis Rene Beres
Yossef Bodansky
Brent Budowsky
Col. Gordon Cucullu
Col. Bill Cowan
Nonie Darwish
Drs. Jill Dekker
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
Brigitte Gabriel
Yoram Hessel
Tawfik Hamid
Gen. Thomas G. McInerney
Bahukutumbi Raman
Wayne Simmons
Robert Spencer
Gen. Paul E. Vallely

DIRECTORS
Dr. Robert Katz
Executive Director

John J. Loftus
President

Clare Lopez
Vice President

Lee Mason

MODERATORS
Chris Blackburn
Randall H. Lipson
Don Pitts

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Alexandre Winter, Ph.D.
CTO & Co-Founder - Presenter, LTU technologies
www.LTUtech.com
Biography
Speaker's Photo Prior to starting LTU, Alex worked as a researcher at the Image and Multimedia Indexing Group at INRIA where he developed a new technology that enables object detection and retrieval in the image description engine. He brought to INRIA and LTU his experience working as an engineer at Aerospatiale-Matra, the leading European company in aeronautics, aerospace and defense manufacturing. Alexandre received his Ph.D. with honors in Image Processing from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris. He graduated from ENST with a major in Image Processing.



Session TE33: Technologies for Intelligence and Investigations
February 20, 11:00-11:45
Abstract:
Image/Video mining

Visual Navigation
LTU technologies facilitate similarity searches within a database that enable the retrieval of duplicate or similar sets of images.

Advanced Search
Search parameters are configurable and can be "tuned" to focus directed emphasis on color or shapes associated with given images. Advanced search techniques used in image investigations result in identification of images that may differ in content but, clearly occur in the same environment.

Image Classification: Image-Filter
LTU Image-Seeker has a companion technology, Image-Filter which categorizes unidentified images according to image type classifications.

The Image-Filter classification engine is modeled upon a technique known as the supervised statistical learning process. LTU Image-Filter recognizes an image category from a series of positive and negative examples.

LTU Image Filter is a powerful tool facilitating the selection of only the most pertinent image characteristics related to the needs of a particular investigation.