DSS2015-final-lr

CONFERENCE 9454LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320WEDNESDAY 22 APRILSESSION 10LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320 .........WED 8:20 AM TO 10:00 AMGPR Technologies ISession Chairs: Brian C. Barlow, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA)8:20 am: Automatic target detection and discrimination algorithmapplicable to ground penetrating radar data, Canicious G. Abeynayake,Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia); Minh D. Tran, Univ.of South Australia (Australia) ..................................[9454-37]8:40 am: Design and validation of inert homemade explosive simulants forground penetrating radar, Anthony A. Faust, Brian VanderGaast, DefenceResearch and Development Canada, Suffield (Canada); John E. McFee,McFysics Consulting (Canada); Cristian Mosquera, Defence Research andDevelopment Canada, Suffield (Canada) ........................[9454-38]9:00 am: Deep convolutional neural networks for classifying GPR B-scans,Lance E. Besaw, Phil J. Stimac, Applied Research Associates, Inc.(USA) ....................................................[9454-39]9:20 am: GPR anomaly detection with robust principal component analysis,Matthew P. Masarik, Joseph W. Burns, Brian T. Thelen, Jack Kelly, MichiganTech Research Institute (USA); Timothy C. Havens, Michigan TechnologicalUniv. (USA) ...............................................[9454-40]9:40 am: A layer tracking approach to buried surface detection, Peter J.Dobbins, Joseph Wilson, Brandon Smock, Univ. of Florida (USA) .....[9454-41]SESSION 12LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320 ...........WED 3:30 PM TO 4:10 PMGPR Technologies IIISession Chairs: Richard C. Weaver, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Lance E. Besaw, Applied ResearchAssociates, Inc. (USA)3:30 pm: Improving buried threat detection in ground-penetrating radarwith transfer learning and metadata analysis, Kenneth A. Colwell, Peter A.Torrione, Leslie M. Collins, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Duke Univ. (USA) . . [9454-47]3:50 pm: Leveraging robust principal component analysis to detect buriedexplosive threats in handheld ground-penetrating radar data, Dmitry Kalika,Mary Knox, Peter A. Torrione, Leslie M. Collins, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., DukeUniv. (USA) ...............................................[9454-48]SESSION 13LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320 ...........WED 4:10 PM TO 4:30 PMNeutron BeamSession Chairs: Anthony A. Faust,Defence Research and Development Canada, Suffield (Canada);J. Paul Farrell, Brookhaven Technology Group, Inc. (USA)4:10 pm: Tagged neutron capabilities for detecting hidden explosives,Sergei G. Belichenko, Vyacheslav F. Batyaev, Romeo R. Bestaev, Maxim D.Karetnikov, Alexander V. Gavryuchenkov, All-Russia Research Institute ofAutomatics (Russian Federation). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [9454-51]DEDICATED EXHIBITION TIME AND LUNCH BREAKLOCATION: CONV. CTR. EXHIBITION HALL ..... 10:00 AM TO 1:00 PMEnjoy Wednesday morning coffee break with a complimentary continentalbreakfast while walking the exhibition floor and connecting with reps fromthe largest prime contractors, key suppliers, and dynamic startups. Meet withvendors showcasing their newest products and cutting-edge technologies inoptics, photonics, sensing, and imaging. Various food outlets are also locatedin the DSS Expo Hall and will be open for lunch during Exhibition Hours.SESSION 11LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320 ...........WED 1:00 PM TO 3:00 PMGPR Technologies IISession Chairs: Pete Howard, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Matthew P. Masarik,Michigan Tech Research Institute (USA)1:00 pm: Target signature localization in GPR data by clustering andclassification, Daniel Reichman, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Jordan M Malof,Leslie M. Collins, Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA) ..............[9454-42]1:20 pm: Fast 3D subsurface imaging with stepped-frequency GPR,Matthew P. Masarik, Joseph W. Burns, Brian T. Thelen, Lena Sutter, MichiganTech Research Institute (USA) ................................[9454-43]1:40 pm: Fusion of forward-looking infrared camera and down-lookingground penetrating radar for buried target detection, Firat Gurbuz, IPADEFENCE Ltd. (Turkey) and Hacettepe Univ. (Turkey); Seniha E. Yuksel,Hacettepe Univ. (Turkey); Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical Univ.(Turkey) ..................................................[9454-44]2:00 pm: Detection of deeply buried non-metal objects by groundpenetrating radar using non-negative matrix factorization,Daniel Nabelek, Dominic K. Ho, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA) ....[9454-45]2:20 pm: Recognizing subsurface target responses in ground penetratingradar data using convolutional neural networks, Rayn T. Sakaguchi, KennethD. Morton Jr., Leslie M. Collins, Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA) . . [9454-46]2:40 pm: Anomaly detection of subsurface objects using handheld groundpenetratingradar, Dominic K. Ho, Univ. of Missouri (USA); Samuel Harris,Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA); Alina Zare, Matthew Cook, Univ. of Missouri(USA) ....................................................[9454-49]Coffee Break ..................................Wed 3:00 pm to 3:30 pmTHURSDAY 23 APRILSESSION 14LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320 ..........THU 8:20 AM TO 10:00 AMMaritime Signal Processing ISession Chairs: Tesfaye G-Michael, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr. PanamaCity Div. (USA); John G. Baylog, Naval Undersea Warfare Ctr. (USA)8:20 am: Information surfing with the JHU/APL coherent imager,Christopher R. Ratto, Kara R. Shipley, Nathaniel Beagley, Kevin C. Wolfe,Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab., LLC (USA) .............[9454-52]8:40 am: Multiple pass collaborative search in the presence of false alarms,John G. Baylog, Thomas A. Wettergren, Naval Undersea Warfare Ctr.(USA) ....................................................[9454-53]9:00 am: A solution to the multiple view object detection problem,Syed U. Gilani, Apoorva Shende, Daniel J. Stilwell, Virginia Polytechnic Instituteand State Univ. (USA); Bao Nguyen, Defence Research and DevelopmentCanada (Canada)...........................................[9454-54]9:20 am: Possibilistic context identification for SAS imagery, Xiaoxiao Du,Alina Zare, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA); James T. Cobb, Naval SurfaceWarfare Ctr. Panama City Div. (USA) ...........................[9454-55]9:40 am: Dictionary learning for sparse sonar image representations, JasonC. Isaacs, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr. Panama City Div. (USA) .......[9454-56]Coffee Break ................................ Thu 10:00 am to 10:30 amSESSION 15LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 320 ..........THU 10:30 AM TO 11:50 AMMaritime Signal Processing IISession Chairs: John G. Baylog, Naval Undersea Warfare Ctr. (USA);Tesfaye G-Michael, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr. Panama City Div. (USA)10:30 am: Investigation of measureable parameters that correlate withautomated target recognition performance in synthetic aperture sonar,Julia Gazagnaire, Jason C. Isaacs, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr. Panama City Div.(USA) ....................................................[9454-57]10:50 am: Unsupervised 3D scene understanding and prediction to enableadaptable approximate solutions to the art gallery problem and watchmanroute problem, Bruce A. Johnson, Vatana An, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr.Panama City Div. (USA); Hairong Qi, The Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville(USA) ....................................................[9454-58]11:10 am: Polar format algorithm for cooperative radar engagement SARimaging, Tesfaye G-Michael, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr. Panama City Div.(USA); Rodney G. Roberts, Florida State Univ. (USA); Thomas L. Lewis, AirForce Research Lab. (USA)...................................[9454-59]11:30 am: Automated area segmentation for ocean bottom surveys,John C. Hyland, Cheryl M. Smith, Naval Surface Warfare Ctr. Panama City Div.52 SPIE DSS 2015 · www.spie.org/dss(USA) ....................................................[9454-60]