Contact Dr Lounis Chermak
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 864458
- Email: l.chermak@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Autonomous Systems
Background
Dr Lounis Chermak received his Diplome d'Ingenieur in Electrical Engineering from Polytech' Grenoble, France. He then joined Cranfield University, UK, where he obtained an MSc in Computer Vision and completed a PhD in Visual based Autonomous Systems.
Lounis also held visiting researcher positions at the Physiology of Perception and Action Laboratory, College de France, France and also in the Automation and Robotics Laboratory, at the European Space Research and Technology Center Netherland.
Current activities
Lounis is leading the Joint Autonomy Lab and holds a Lecturer position at the Centre for Electronic Warfare Information and Cyber at Cranfield Defence and Security.
His research interest focuses in situational awareness and includes perception, decision-making and mobility of autonomous systems platforms. He specialises in computer vision, sensor fusion, artificial intelligence, robotics and navigation.
Lounis is leading research activities in Robotics and Autonomous Systems supported by staff, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral (PhD) and postgraduate (MSc) research students in various civilians and defence autonomous aerial, ground, maritime and space system applications.
The Joint Autonomy Laboratory is a 200 m2 indoor facility that includes a drone netting, a motion capture system and virtual reality test bench while providing several vehicle platforms ( UAV fleet, ground robot fleet, 2 Electric Vehicles), multiple visual, ranging and motion sensors to support ongoing educational and research applications.
Clients
Aerospace: Astroscale, ESA, HEO Robotics, Thales Alenia Space, UK Space Agency
Defence: MoD,BAE Systems, DSTL, MBDA, Safran
Techs: Samsung
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Lee SJ, Yoo PD, Asyhari AT, Jhi Y, Chermak L, .... (2020). IMPACT: Impersonation Attack Detection via Edge Computing Using Deep Autoencoder and Feature Abstraction. IEEE Access, 8
- Jackson E & Chermak L. (2019). PUGTIFs: Passively User-Generated Thermal Invariant Features. IEEE Access, 7
- Chermak L, Aouf N, Richardson M & Visentin G. (2019). Real-time smart and standalone vision/IMU navigation sensor. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 16(4)
- Kechagias-Stamatis O, Aouf N, Gray G, Chermak L, Richardson M, .... (2018). Local feature based automatic target recognition for future 3D active homing seeker missiles. Aerospace Science and Technology, 73
- Chermak L, Aouf N & Richardson MA. (2017). Scale robust IMU-assisted KLT for stereo visual odometry solution. Robotica, 35(9)
- Chermak L, Breckon TP, Flitton GT & Megherbi N. (2015). Geometrical approach for automatic detection of liquid surfaces in 3D computed tomography baggage imagery. The Imaging Science Journal, 63(8)
- Mouats T, Aouf N, Chermak L & Richardson MA. (2015). Thermal Stereo Odometry for UAVs. IEEE Sensors Journal, 15(11)
Conference Papers
- Felicetti L, Hobbs S, Leslie C, Rowling S, Dhesi M, .... (2023). HySim: A Tool for Space-To-Space Hyperspectral Resolved Imagery
- Di Fraia MZ, Feetham L, Felicetti L, Sanchez J-P & Chermak L. (2021). Perception fields: analysing distributions of optical features as a proximity navigation tool for autonomous probes around asteroids
- Di Fraia MZ, Chermak L, Cuartielles J-P, Felicetti L & Scannapieco AF. (2020). NAV-Landmarks: Deployable 3D Infrastructures to Enable CubeSats Navigation Near Asteroids
- Di Fraia MZ & Chermak L. (2020). Countermeasure Leveraging Optical Attractor Kits - CLOAK: interpretational disruption of a visual-based workflow
- Parker LR, Yoo PD, Asyhari TA, Chermak L, Jhi Y, .... (2019). DEMISe
- Wieszok Z, Aouf N, Kechagias-Stamatis O & Chermak L. (2017). Stixel based scene understanding for autonomous vehicles
- Kechagias-Stamatis O, Aouf N & Chermak L. (2017). B-HoD: A lightweight and fast binary descriptor for 3D object recognition and registration
- Chermak L, Aouf N & Richardson M. (2014). HDR imaging for feature tracking in challenging visibility scenes
- Chermak L & Aouf N. (2012). A Minimax solution for stereo based motion estimation
- Chermak L & Aouf N. (2012). Enhanced feature detection and matching under extreme illumination conditions with a HDR imaging sensor
