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CONFERENCE 9476 · LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349Monday–Wednesday 20–22 April 2015 • Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9476Automatic Target Recognition XXVConference Chairs: Firooz A. Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs. (USA); Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin Missiles andFire Control (USA)Program Committee: Mohammad S. Alam, Univ. of South Alabama (USA); Farid Amoozegar, Jet Propulsion Lab. (USA); Mahmood R. Azimi-Sadjadi, Colorado State Univ. (USA); David Casasent, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (USA); Leon Cohen, Hunter College (USA); Frederick D. Garber,Wright State Univ. (USA); Guillermo C. Gaunaurd, Consultant (USA); Izidor Gertner, The City College of New York (USA); Patti S. Gillespie,U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA); Riad I. Hammoud, BAE Systems (USA); Bahram Javidi, Univ. of Connecticut (USA); Ismail I. Jouny, LafayetteCollege (USA); Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA); Timothy J. Klausutis, Air Force Research Lab. (USA); Wolfgang Kober,Data Fusion Corp. (USA); Aaron D. Lanterman, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Randolph L. Moses, The Ohio State Univ. (USA);Robert R. Muise, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (USA); Nasser M. Nasrabadi, U.S. Army Research Lab. (USA); Les Novak,Scientific Systems Co., Inc. (USA); Joseph A. O’Sullivan, Washington Univ. in St. Louis (USA); Mubarak Ali Shah, Univ. of Central Florida (USA);Andre U. Sokolnikov, Visual Solutions and Applications (USA); Alan J. Van Nevel, Naval Air Warfare Ctr. Aircraft Div. (USA); Bradley C. Wallet,Automated Decisions LLC (USA); Edmund Zelnio, Air Force Research Lab. (USA)MONDAY 20 APRILSESSION 1LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 .......... MON 8:30 AM TO 9:50 AMNew Methodologies in ATR ISession Chair: Firooz A. Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp. (USA)8:30 am: Target classification strategies, Bruce J. Schachter, NorthropGrumman Electronic Systems (USA).............................[9476-1]8:50 am: Mutual information for enhanced feature selection in visualtracking, Victor Stamatescu, Anthony Milton, Univ. of South Australia(Australia); Sebastien Wong, Defence Science and Technology Organisation(Australia); Ivan Lee, David Kearney, Univ. of South Australia (Australia). [9476-2]9:10 am: The effect of contrast in camouflage patterns on detectabilityby human observers and CAMAELEON, Daniela H. Heinrich, Gorm K. Selj,Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (Norway) ..............[9476-3]9:30 am: Evaluation methodology for query-based scene understandingsystems, Todd P. Huster, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (USA) and Air ForceResearch Lab. (USA); Timothy D. Ross, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (USA)and Air Force Research Lab. (USA); Jared L. Culbertson, Air Force ResearchLab. (USA) .................................................[9476-4]Coffee Break .................................Mon 9:50 am to 10:20 amSESSION 2LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 .........MON 10:20 AM TO 11:30 AMNew Methodologies in ATR IISession Chair: Abhijit Mahalanobis,Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (USA)10:20 am: Ambiguities of instantaneous frequency, and complex signalrepresentations through pole-zero manipulations (Invited Paper),Patrick J. Loughlin, Univ. of Pittsburgh (USA)......................[9476-5]10:50 am: A novel method for determining target detection thresholds,Stanley I. Grossman, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (USA) ...[9476-6]11:10 am: Sparsity-driven anomaly detection for ship detection andtracking in maritime video, Scott Shafer, Joshua D. Harguess, Pedro Forero,Space and Naval Warfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (USA) ...............[9476-8]Lunch Break .................................Mon 11:30 am to 1:20 pmSESSION 3LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 ...........MON 1:20 PM TO 2:40 PMNew Methodologies in ATR IIISession Chair: Izidor Gertner, The City College of New York (USA)1:20 pm: Vessel classification in overhead satellite imagery using weighted“bag of visual words”, Shibin Parameswaran, Katie Rainey, Space and NavalWarfare Systems Ctr. Pacific (USA) .............................[9476-9]1:40 pm: Segmentation and tracking of electrokinetic particles inmicroscopic video, Qiang Le, Hampton Univ. (USA); Shizhi Qian, Old DominionUniv. (USA) ...............................................[9476-10]2:00 pm: Shape distance transform for morphological filtering and landingsite selection, Bing C Li, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration-Owego(USA) ....................................................[9476-11]2:20 pm: An approach to automatic detection of suspicious individuals in acrowd, Stephen Lucci, Satabdi Mukherjee, Izidor Gertner, The City College ofNew York (USA)............................................[9476-12]Coffee Break ..................................Mon 2:40 pm to 3:20 pmSESSION 4LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 ...........MON 3:20 PM TO 4:20 PMRadar/SAR ATRSession Chair: Firooz A. Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp. (USA)3:20 pm: Empirical evaluation of standard tracking process models andproposed enhancements, Bhargav R. Avasarala, Northrop Grumman Corp.(USA); Ryan Turner, Steven Bottone, Northrop Grumman Corp. (USA); Clay J.Stanek, Northrop Grumman Corp. (USA) ........................[9476-13]3:40 pm: Aided target recognition using hyperdimensional manifolds, Shih-Chi K. Chen, Robert Stanfill, Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin Missiles andFire Control (USA) ..........................................[9476-14]4:00 pm: Recognizable 3D scene reconstruction from 2D imagery withdeep learning, Timothy S. Khuon, Michael J. Laielli, Robert S. Rand, NationalGeospatial-Intelligence Agency (USA) ..........................[9476-44]DSS PLENARY PRESENTATION .. MON 5:00 PM TO 6:00 PMLOCATION: CONV. CTR. BALLROOM 1, LEVEL 4Emerging Research and Engineering Capabilitiesfor NextGen WarfightersALAN R. SHAFFERPrincipal Deputy Assistant Secretary ofDefense Research and EngineeringDepartment of DefenseSee details page 9102 SPIE DSS 2015 · www.spie.org/dss