BRAESICKE Katrin
Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Germany
Katrin Braesicke is a departmental Science Management Advisor (SMA) at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation. Following a diploma in physics she did her doctorate at the Chemistry Department of the Freie Universität (FU) in Berlin finishing in 1999 with a thesis on “Computer Simulations of Macro Molecules”. Her first post doc position was in the Behavioural Neuroscience group at the Department for Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. She joint the Fraunhofer Institute in 2013 as a research associate and lead a group on Scene Simulation from 2018 to 2022. Since January 2023 she works as SMA for the Department of Optronics.
LATGER Jean
OKTAL-SE, France
OKTAL Synthetic Environment (OKTAL-SE) was created in 2001 by its Chief Executive Officer Jean LATGER as an emanation of the OKTAL company created in 1989. Today, OKTAL-SE is part of the SOGECLAIR Group located in Toulouse-France. The company is a human-sized structure that ensures a high reactivity and a customer focused attitude. SE-Workbench is the core product of OKTAL-SE. It is a Physics-based simulator of EO/IR and EM/RF sensors that is used by MoDs and Defence industrials for assessing detection and navigation performance. SE-Workbench includes 3D modelling tools, physical data editors and image rendering engines based on advanced ray-tracing and rasterisation techniques. This product line as been recently upgraded in the frame of Artificial Intelligence for automatic computing of synthetic training datasets addressing Neural Networks also for detection and navigation purpose.
BELLISARIO Christophe
ONERA The French Aerospace Lab, Optronics Department, France
Christophe Bellisario is a research scientist at ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab in the Department of Optics and Associated Techniques (DOTA). He received his PhD degree in 2015 and conduct research in the field of environment and signatures for optronic sensors. His research interests include the nightglow emission as a proxy for high altitude dynamics and SWIR night vision, as well as the sea surface and atmospheric turbulence for radiative modeling.
VAITEKUNAS David
W.R. Davis Engineering Ltd., Canada
David Vaitekunas is a Principal Engineer in IR software development at WR Davis Engineering Limited. Davis is a high technology defense company established in 1975 in Ottawa, Canada, providing IR signature management products and services for ships and rotorcraft / fixed wing aircraft, combining computer IR simulations with real-world manufacturing and IR measurements.