Dr. Thomas M. Strat is a world-renowned leader in image understanding research and the founder of ObjectVideo and SET Corp.Dr. Strat served as the Assistant Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Systems Office, where he was responsible for DARPA’s Sensor Exploitation programs. During that time he oversaw the progress of technology-rich programs that spanned research, systems engineering, and integration elements.

He has served as Program Manager of the DARPA Image Understanding Program, which has been characterized as the world’s premiere computer vision research community. During that tenure, he initiated the DARPA Airborne Video Surveillance Program, and also was the originator of the Bosnian Cantonment Area Monitoring System (BCAMS), which is currently in operational use in Europe. Previously, Dr. Strat spent 15 years as a research scientist and project leader at the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center, where he designed and implemented computer vision and evidential reasoning systems.

Tom received the B.S., M.S., and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T., and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and has authored or edited numerous books on computer vision.