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I led and developed core perception algorithms for a vision-based autonomous ground vehicle as part of Sarnoff’s DARPA Urban Challenge team – Team Autonomous Solutions.

Overview Talk by Mike Geertsen, Program Manager for the DARPA VMR Program. The DARPA Visual Media Reasoning Program [DoD News] was a multi-year [2012-2016], multi-million dollar project with an objective to create visual exploitation and indexing tools to rapidly extract mission-relevant visual intelligence from large quantities of diverse, ill-defined, unstructured imagery captured from multiple adversary sources. I was the technical lead on the large-scale image clustering effort and developed novel algorithms to perform unsupervised clustering on millions of unstructured images and videos into inherent semantic groups that allowed fast discovery and search.