Magnus leads projects in both the Government and Commercial Services business areas. His projects are focused on sensor processing, i.e., extracting information content from the real-time data streams generated by a variety of different sensors. The application domains include security & surveillance, navigation, and automatic target recognition, and the work involves computer vision, signal processing, image/video enhancement, object detection/tracking/recognition, 3D reconstruction, and modeling human perception. He manages the development of our VisionKit and Verideo software products. Magnús has been Principal Investigator on numerous projects sponsored by the DoD and NASA, such as an obstacle detection and path planning project funded by NASA's 2004 Mars rover mission. Magnús completed all coursework and qualifiers in the PhD program in Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University. Magnus received his BA degree in Electrical, Computers, and Systems Engineering at Harvard University in 1988. |