VISION SEMANTICS LIMITED - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Director
- Head of Technology Transfer
Adam Daykin has been a Non-Executive Director of Vision Semantic Ltd. since company formation.
Adam is currently the Head of Technology Transfer (Tech & Eng) at Queen Mary Innovation (QMI) Ltd, the Technology Transfer Office of Queen Mary, University of London. He has over 20 years' experience of technology commercialization and was part of the founding team that established Vision Semantics Ltd in 2007.
During his time at QMI Adam and his team have formed 15 spin-out companies with a focus on software technology. He has been a Non-Executive Director of 9 of these companies and currently the active portfolio has a value of >£150m.
Adam obtained a PhD from Liverpool University in 1990. He moved from research to QinetiQ, the defense, aerospace and security company, in 1996 where he worked first as a Project Manager and then as a Business Group Manager. In 2002 he moved to Weston Medical as IP manager, followed by a period at NHS Innovations London. Adam has been at Queen Mary, University of London since 2006.
Job Titles:
- VP of Engineering at Vision Semantics Ltd.
A "technical leader & innovator" of the first high speed wireless Local Area Network Product introduced in 1991 and a founder and contributor of the IEEE 802.11 standards group; the engine of broadband Wi-Fi technology. Bruce is an industry leader and trendsetter who helped shape the wireless industry direction.
Bruce's previous roles have been:
At Lucent Technologies & Agere Systems, Bruce was the CTO Wireless Wi-Fi Division & Director of Engineering responsible for the total Wi-Fi product line development & Bell Labs teams, with more than 25 years of industry experience in the Wireless Telecommunications domain.
Job Titles:
- Exec Chairman & CEO at Vision Semantics Ltd.
John has over 20 years' experience in scaling start-up company software innovation and linking it to corporate partners to create new businesses. Running Motorola Ventures in Europe, he invested in 15 companies and enabled Motorola to exploit the technology and get strategy and financial returns.
Sean Gong is Co-Founder and the Chief Scientist at Vision Semantics Ltd.
Sean is a world-authority on Person Re-Identification research and technology deployment for law enforcement video forensic analytics. He is a pioneer in computer vision and machine learning for visual surveillance. He served on the Steering Panel of the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser's Science Review.
He has published over 400 research papers in computer vision and machine learning. He has authored and edited 7 books on Person Re-Identification, Visual Analysis of Behaviour, Video Analytics for Business Intelligence, Dynamic Vision from Images to Face Recognition, Analysis and Modelling of Faces and Gestures. His recent work includes Transfer Learning, Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Deep Learning, Imbalanced Data Deep Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Attention and Memory in Deep Learning, Zero-Shot Learning, and Human-In-The-Loop Active Learning.
Sean was a research fellow on the EU ESPRIT-II project VIEWS (Visual Interpretation and Evaluation of Wide-area Scenes) in 1989-1993, the world's first multinational collaborative computer vision project on visual surveillance in urban environments. He led the EU FP7 Security Programme SAMURAI (Suspicious and Abnormal Behaviour Monitoring Using a Network of Cameras for Situation Awareness Enhancement) that pioneered Person Re-Identification (RE-ID) for public transport infrastructure protection in 2008-2011. Between 2009-2013, he led the UK government project on developing a system for Multi-Camera Tracking of Objects by RE-ID under the INSTINCT Programme, in collaboration with the BAE Systems.
He founded the Queen Mary Computer Vision Laboratory in 1993. He has been the Professor of Visual Computation at Queen Mary University of London since 2001. He is a Fellow of IEE (now IET), a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Member of the UK Computing Research Committee. He has been a Turing Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and was a Royal Society Research Fellow. He received the D.Phil. degree from the Oxford University (Keble College) in 1989, sponsored by GEC Hirst and the Royal Society.