Speaker Biograghy: Svetlozar has been with Siemens Logistics and Airport Solutions for the last 18 years. For the majority of these years he has been involved in research and development for the automation and optimisation of logistics processes. For more than 13 years he has led R&D and product development teams, and has cooperated with universities, research institutes and other scientific organisations. Products developed under his leadership have been successfully deployed worldwide. Svetlozar’s expertise extends from mechanical and electrical engineering through software development and engineering including machine vision and automation technologies. In 2012 he was appointed Vice President and assumed worldwide responsibility for product management, product development and R&D for Siemens Airport Logistics.


Day 3 - 12 March
Session: Passenger Processing: Baggage Handling, Tracking & IDs

10:35 - 11:05 - Keeping an eye on bag image recognition in BHS
Synopsis: Image-based object recognition and identification have successfully entered many areas of industrial automation. The presentation gives an outlook of possible use cases within baggage handling, aiming at increasing the number of automatically sorted bags and optimising baggage handling processes.

Audience will learn:

• Optical character recognition
• Image-based recognition and identification
• Process optimisation using image-based recognition