• Defense Agency Funds Surveillance Research • Flynn Among Most Frequently Cited Defense Agency Funds Surveillance Research Funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency and National Science Foundation, Assistant Professor Surendar Chandra and Professor Patrick J. Flynn are developing the "Hydra," a self-managing video sensing system for surveillance applications. The ultimate goal of their research, which uses a wireless high-fidelity video sensor network, is to develop technologies that will connect a number of previously uncoordinated views from a particular setting, limiting security threats through the increased surveillance. Applications include retrospective surveillance, where individual scenes would be checked and validated from other angles in order to increase recognition, and adaptive battlefield sensing, where sensors would scan the horizon for a variety of parameters to assess potential threats or enemy movement. Chandra and Flynn will be testing the sensor platform and innovative software in a test bed located in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. They are currently monitoring Chandra's office and the Experimental Systems Laboratory with the Hydra system. [back to top] Flynn Among Most Frequently Cited In the August 2004 issue of Communications of the ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery lists a paper authored by Patrick J. Flynn, professor of computer science and engineering; Anil K. Jain, professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University; and M. Narasimha Murty, professor of computer science and automation at the Indian Institute of Science, as the fourth most downloaded article from computing surveys and the second most downloaded article during its original publication year, which was 1999. The article, titled "Data Clustering: A Review," was also cited by CiteSeer as the 23rd most frequently referenced article in its publication year with 154 citations. The ISI Web of Science lists 130 citations for the paper. Flynn joined the University in 2001. [back to top]