During the 2019 DHS COE Summit, student researchers participated in two DHS competitions: a Summit Grand Challenge on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and a Student Poster Competition.
Ha Le of the University of Houston’s BTI COE took home top honors in the poster competition for presenting the “EDGE: Eye in the Woods Image-based Face Detection and Recognition System” that can automatically detect and match human subjects from trail camera images.
Second place in the poster competition went to Dominiqueca Edwards and Sierra Marshall from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s CAOE COE for their poster, “Determining Optimal Fuel Strategies under Uncertainty.”
A team of students from five universities captured first place in the Summit Grand Challenge for its project on “Automated Drone Integrated Information System.” The team consisted of presenter, Emily Belk from the Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) COE, Northeastern University; Tristan Goers, Arctic Domain Awareness Center (ADAC), University of Alaska Anchorage; Keshav Kasichainula, Borders, Trade, Immigration (BTI), University of Houston; Trinity Reed, Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), Southern University and A&M College; and Emiliano Ruiz, Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE), University of Texas at El Paso.
The second place team in the Summit Grand Challenge presented their project, “Drone-based MIR Laser Induced Thermal Imaging for Identification of Chemical Substances.” The team consisted of William Case, Coastal Resilience Center (CRC), Johnson C. Smith University; Ha Anh Vu Le (BTI), University of Houston; Annette Colón Mercado (ALERT), University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez; Danielle Dobbs, Maritime Security Center (MSC), SUNY Maritime; and Jin Lee (CINA), George Mason University.
For more information on the 2019 DHS COE Summit event, please visit coesummit.org.