Fayetteville State University Students Awarded Internships from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Fayetteville State University students Raymond Kimble, Germaine Gregory and Robert Deal have been awarded on-campus internships from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).

The three students are working on creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that can automatically analyze visual data such as pictures and videos acquired by robot cameras to create meaningful descriptions of environments and events. These descriptions must be concise, stated in natural language and transferred over resource-constrained networks for efficient communication between human soldiers and remotely located surveillance robots. The US Army can potentially use the technology developed from this research to support the warfighter. 

The students are Computer Science majors at FSU and researchers of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science where they started work on this project in summer of 2019 under the supervision of the lab' s director Dr. Sambit Bhattacharya, and in partnership with the Adelphi Laboratory Center of the US Army Research Laboratory.

Raymond Kimble and Germaine Gregory have also received partial support from the NSF supported Geospatial Data Analytics program to work on this project. Along with Robert Deal, they have presented their research at several on-campus and external meetings