DSS2015-final-lr

TUESDAY 21 APRILSESSION 5LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 ...........TUE 8:00 AM TO 9:50 AMUnderwater/Acoustic/Sonar ATR8:00 am: Enhanced target versus clutter discrimination using timefrequency(LTV) filters (Invited Paper), Vikram T. Gomatam, Patrick J. Loughlin,Univ. of Pittsburgh (USA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [9476-16]8:30 am: Stereo image segmentation with application in underwater fishdetection and tracking, Dimitrios Charalampidis, Madhuri Gundam, GeorgeE. Ioup, Juliette W. Ioup, Univ. of New Orleans (USA); Charles H. Thompson,National Marine Fisheries Service (USA).........................[9476-17]8:50 am: Types and classification of noises (Invited Paper), Leon Cohen,Hunter College (USA) .......................................[9476-18]9:10 am: Why the inverse scattering by topological sensitivity may work,Bojan Guzina, Fatemeh Pourahmadian, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities(USA) ....................................................[9476-19]9:30 am: Knowledge-directed adaptive automated underwater sonar minedetection and classification, Firooz A. Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Corp.(USA) ....................................................[9476-20]Coffee Break ................................ Tue 10:00 am to 10:30 amSESSION 6LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 ..........TUE 10:30 AM TO 11:50 AMInfrared-based ATRSession Chair: Abhijit Mahalanobis,Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control (USA)10:30 am: Performance of peaky template matching under additive whiteGaussian noise and uniform quantization, Matt S. Horvath,Brian D. Rigling, Wright State Univ. (USA) .......................[9476-21]10:50 am: Performance and time requirement analysis of top-hat transformbased small target detection, Ozan Yardımcı, Roketsan Roket Sanayii veTicaret A.S. (Turkey); Ilkay Ulusoy Parnas, Middle East Technical Univ. (Turkey);Seyit Tunc, Roketsan Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret A.S. (Turkey) .........[9476-22]11:10 am: An evaluation of open set recognition for FLIR images,Matthew Scherreik, Brian D. Rigling, Wright State Univ. (USA) .......[9476-23]11:30 am: Automatic solar panel recognition and defect detection usinginfrared imaging, Xiang Gao, Eric Munson, Arizona State Univ. (USA); GlenAbousleman, General Dynamics C4 Systems (USA); Jennie Si, Arizona StateUniv. (USA) ...............................................[9476-24]Lunch/Exhibition Break ......................... Tue 11:50 am to 1:30 pmAWARD PRESENTATIONLOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 .............1:30 PM TO 1:40 PM2015 ATR BEST PAPER AWARDSession Chair: Firooz A. Sadjadi,Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs. (USA)Lockheed Martin Corporation has generously offered to sponsor the BestPaper Awards for the Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) conference. Twoawards are planned: the first is the overall Best Paper Award, and the secondis a Best Student Paper Award.Award Sponsored byCONFERENCE 9476LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349SESSION 7LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 349 ............TUE 1:40 PM TO 5:40 PMAdvanced Concepts on ATR ISession Chair: Andre U. Sokolnikov,Visual Solutions and Applications (USA)1:40 pm: Estimation, tracking and geolocation of maritime burst signalsfrom a single receiver (Invited Paper), Douglas J. Nelson, National SecurityAgency (USA); Jeffrey N. Townsend, U.S. Dept. of Defense (USA) ....[9476-25]2:10 pm: THz devices based on 2D electron systems (Invited Paper), HuiliGrace Xing, Univ. of Notre Dame (USA) .........................[9476-38]2:40 pm: Distributed estimation of a parametric field with random sensorplacements (Invited Paper), Marwan Alkhweldi, Zhicheng Cao, Natalia A.Schmid, West Virginia Univ. (USA) .............................[9476-27]Coffee Break ..................................Tue 3:10 pm to 3:40 pm3:40 pm: Inferential statistics for transient signal detection in PAF’s (InvitedPaper), Natalia A. Schmid, West Virginia Univ. (USA); Richard M. Prestage,National Radio Astronomy Observatory (USA); Marwan Alkhweldi, West VirginiaUniv. (USA) ...............................................[9476-28]4:10 pm: Composite multi-lobe descriptor for cross spectral facerecognition: matching active IR to visible light images (Invited Paper),Zhicheng Cao, Natalia A. Schmid, West Virginia Univ. (USA) .........[9476-29]4:40 pm: Identification of partially occluded firearms through partonomy(Invited Paper), Abdullah N. Arslan, Christian F. Hempelmann, SalvatoreAttardo, Grady P. Blount, Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce (USA); Nona N Sirakova,Redmond (USA); Nikolay M Sirakov, Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce(USA) ....................................................[9476-30]5:10 pm: Toward low-loss, infrared and THz nanophotonics andmetamaterials: surface photon polariton modes in polar dielectric crystals(Invited Paper), Joshua D. Caldwell, U.S. Naval Research Lab. (USA) . . [9476-42]INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION: TUESDAY EVENINGLOCATION: CONV. CTR. LEVEL 200 MEZZANINE ...TUE 6:00 TO 7:30 PMAll symposium attendees – You are invited to attend the evening Interactive PosterSession to view the high-quality posters and engage the authors in discussion.Enjoy light refreshments while networking with colleagues in your field. Authorsmay set up their posters between 7:30 am and 12:00 noon the day of their postersession. Special daytime previewing prior to the session from 12:00 noon to4:30 pm. Attendees are required to wear their conference registration badges toaccess Level 200, Mezzanine to view the posters.Posters that are not set up by the 5:00 pm cut-off time will be considered noshows,and their manuscripts may not be published. Poster authors shouldaccompany their posters from 6:00 to 7:30 pm to answer questions fromattendees. All posters and other materials must be removed no later than 8:00pm. Any posters or materials left behind at the close of the poster session will beconsidered unwanted and will be discarded. SPIE assumes no responsibility forposters left up after the end of each poster session.An estimation of distribution method for dynamic programming algorithmbased on Copulas, Shuo Wang, Yiqun Zhang, China Aerospace Science &Industry Corp. (China); Zhiguo Wang, Beijing Institute of Electronic SystemEngineering (China) .........................................[9476-32]Fast algorithm of infrared small target detection in jitter background,Weiping Yang, Xinping Lu, Jicheng Li, National Univ. of Defense Technology(China) ...................................................[9476-33]Image feature extraction based multiple ant colonies cooperation,Zhilong Zhang, Weiping Yang, Jicheng Li, National Univ. of Defense Technology(China) ...................................................[9476-34]Spherical Gaussian mixture model and object tracking system for PTZcamera, Hwangbo Seok, Chan-Su Lee, Yeungnam Univ. (Korea,Republic of) ...............................................[9476-35]BMVT-M based IR ground target detection, Yun-Ji Lim, Sungho Kim,Yeungnam Univ. (Korea, Republic of) ...........................[9476-36]DEFENSE + SECURITY+1 360 676 3290 · help@spie.org · (Twitter) #DSS 103