NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TNO

The Netherlands

TNO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek-TNO) is one of the major research and technology organisations in Europe. With a staff of 2850 and an annual turnover of 530 million Euros, TNO is carrying out research in order to achieve impact on the following five domains: Industry; Healthy Living; Defence, Safety & Security; Energy; and Living Environment. TNO functions as an intermediary between basic research organisations and industry. By translating scientific knowledge into practical applications, TNO contributes to strengthening the innovation capacity of businesses and government. TNO is involved in many international projects (about 30% of the market turnover), including EUfunded collaborations, be it research or service contracts, for the European Commission, the European Parliament or European agencies. TNO has extensive experience in managing and leading international consortia in research projects for a wide variety of (international) clients such as the European Commission (FP7/H2020 as well as service contracts), the European Parliament and other international bodies. The group “Intelligent Imaging” focusses on the image and video analysis and in this project on automatic document verification. The group “Networked Organizations” focusses on risk based security, and concept development & experimentation, including user needs and system requirements. TNO Intelligent Imaging has wide experience in person and object detection, tracking and re-identification, behaviour analysis and document analysis.