Presenter - Bryan Kerrigan
Bryan Kerrigan is a Senior Sales Representative and Trainer at Ocean Systems, the developer and manufacturer of market leading Forensic Video, Image and Audio Analysis solutions sold throughout North America and around the world. Kerrigan joined Ocean Systems in April 2007 from MCI Telecommunications, where he was a Senior Manager, having worked there for 16 years in product development, product management, sales and training. In his role at Ocean Systems, Bryan provides consultation, sales and training support, and in so doing has consulted in the Forensic Video space with hundreds of law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal levels in the U.S. and abroad. Bryan has also been instrumental in the development of Ocean Systems newest product, “The Omnivore.”
Presenter- Robert W. Sanderson
Rob is the President and Forensic Video Analyst at Audio Video Forensic Labs. Rob's career stems from a nearly interest in electronics. Coupled with a good ear for sound, Rob transitioned from hobbyist to building his own world class recording studio which he operated for 14 years. Later, Rob dove head first into video engineering and for 13 years successfully operated SVS Television Productions. Rob brings 30 years of combined professional A/V experience exclusively to the forensics world. Professionally trained in audio and video authentication and clarification as well as voice identification, Rob's experience and intuitive capabilities can yield impressive results where others fail.
Presenter-Tom Hessen
Tom serves as the VP of Sales & Marketing for MediaSolv Solutions, Corp., a privately held technology company that develops products that efficiently and effectively managing digital evidence for the Justice and Public Safety markets. With over 8 years of business experience in software and technology companies, Tom has a diverse and well rounded expertise bringing new and valuable solutions to market. At MediaSolv, Tom oversees Sales and Marketing and has been instrumental in helping clients understand how much cost they are incurring with their existing digital evidence processes and ultimately how much they can save with our solutions. "This approach allows MediaSolv to better understand our customers and their needs."
Presenter- Sam Burgiss
Upon joining Signalscape in 2000, Sam Burgiss began collaborating with federal agencies to develop forensic video applications. He has since consulted with numerous law enforcement agencies on cases involving video evidence. Mr. Burgiss' background is in Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Computer Vision and Video Processing. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee and a BS in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He currently serves as Director of Products for StarWitness at Signalscape, Inc.
Presenter- Dr. Lenny Rudin
Ph.D. CS, Imaging Science, CALTECH
Dr. Lenny Rudin received a PhD and an MS. Sci. (1987) degree in Computer Science from the
California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Pasadena, CA, specializing in Computational Imaging Science. He also holds an MS.Sci. degree in Applied Mathematics. After graduation from CALTECH, and as Cognitech’s Director of R&D, Dr. Rudin has applied his novel computational image processing and analysis techniques to practical law enforcement problems, such as feature preserving video enhancement of surveillance video tapes, and bio-metric measurements for forensic comparison and identification. This technology was successfully used in several thousand forensic investigation cases, including the positive identification of chief suspects in the Los Angeles Riots Trial. The California Supreme Court has accepted these novel forensic techniques into California (and US) Courts in an
important decision (Criminal Law and Procedure Citation, 96 Daily Journal DAR. 8023).
As a Principal Scientific Investigator, Dr. Rudin and his R&D scientific team at Cognitech’s Image Processing Lab have produced several major breakthroughs in video processing and the analysis of surveillance data, which resulted in awards to Cognitech of more than thirty US Government contracts, including a prime role in a lead contract with the National Geospatial Agency (NGA). In recognition of the ground breaking geo-spatial video analysis technology that derives complete scene geospatial GPS information just from the image sequences, Dr. Rudin and his research team has been awarded the prestigious 2010 American Technology Award, the highest technology award in the US Government
Defense and Security sector. To advance the professional field of forensic video processing and identification/comparison analysis, Dr. Rudin and his Cognitech team have instructed various national and international law enforcement and security agencies (e.g. Scotland Yard, FBI, CIA, etc.) on Cognitech’s state of the art forensic video processing software. He has served as Co-Chair of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE, Electronic Imaging) Conference on Investigative Image/Video Processing (1994-2006). Dr. Rudin has held academic positions of a Full Professor, Chair of Industrial Imaging Science at the Ecole Normal Superier, De Cachan-Paris, France, research faculty of Caltech, UCLA, and a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, IBM, and Rockwell International Corp. Dr. Rudin has been recognized with Distinguished Speaker Awards, including the Millennium Queen Elizabeth II, Conference on Forensic Identification (2000, London, England). He presented numerous peer-reviewed and invited talks at the American Academy of Forensic Science, International
Academy of Forensic Science, American Mathematical Society (AMS), IEEE, SIAM, SPIE, American Society of Photogrammetry (ASPRS), IAI, National Academy of Sciences, etc. Dr. Rudin is a co-author on eighteen US PTO awarded and pending patent inventions in the field of image processing. For example, he is the principal inventor of the algorithms-software-based video-demultiplexing technique that revolutionized computer video-processing of multiplexed surveillance video and two earliest patents in video super-resolution Frame Fusion. He is an author of numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles in the field of scientific and forensic imaging. Dr. Rudin is the principal co-author of one of the
most quoted image processing research paper of the second part of the 20th Century, the “Nonlinear Total Variation Noise Removal Algorithms”, Physica D, 1992, which currently has one of the highest Google Scholar Science Citation scores of over 3600 peer-review references. Dr. Rudin and his Cognitech research team’s professional work were featured in lead articles published by the Wall Street Journal (Technology Section) and the LA Times among others. He has also been covered by national networks (FOX, CNN, ABC, etc.) and participated in several Discovery and Learning Channel Specials on applications of advanced Cognitech technology to forensic and law enforcement fields, including the Discovery Channel Special on the forensic analysis of the J.F.K. assassination (solving Grassy Knoll Mystery). Dr. Rudin has also contributed to community service as a Specialist Reserve Police Officer in the LAPD Scientific Investigation Division, and also as part of the Reserve Corps.