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Conference 8709 · Room: Conv. Ctr. 336SESSION 10Room: Conv. Ctr. 336 . . . . . . . . . . . . Wed 2:00 pm to 2:40 pmRadar IISession Chairs: Brian C. Barlow, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Ian T. McMichael, U.S. Army Night Vision &Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA)2:00 pm: Millimeter-wave detection of landmines with no-metal content,Hilmi Ozturk, TÜBITAK National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology(Turkey); Hakki Nazli, TÜBITAK Marmara Research Ctr. (Turkey); Korkut Yegin,Yeditepe Univ. (Turkey); Mehmet Sezgin, TÜBITAK Marmara Research Ctr.(Turkey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-39]2:20 pm: A parametric analysis of time and frequency domain GPR scatteringsignatures from buried landmine-like targets, Fabio Giovanneschi, MariaAntonia Gonzalez Huici, Udo Uschkerat, Fraunhofer FHR (Germany) . . . . [8709-40]Coffee/Exhibition Break. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wed 2:40 pm to 3:40 pmSESSION 11Room: Conv. Ctr. 336 . . . . . . . . . . . . Wed 3:40 pm to 5:00 pmInfrared and Electro-OpticsSession Chairs: John E. McFee, Defence Research and DevelopmentCanada, Suffield (Canada); Robert H. Luke,U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC NVESD (USA)3:40 pm: Optical detection of buried explosive threats: Longitudinalcomparison of visible, SWIR, and TIR signal strengths, James J. Staszewski,Carnegie Mellon Univ. (USA); Charles A. Hibbitts, Johns Hopkins Univ. AppliedPhysics Lab. (USA); Luke Davis, Carnegie Mellon Univ. (USA). . . . . . . . . . [8709-42]4:00 pm: Comparison of broadband and hyperspectral thermal infraredimaging of buried threat objects, John E. McFee, Defence Research andDevelopment Canada, Suffield (Canada); Stephen Achal, Alejandra U. Diaz, ITRESResearch Ltd. (Canada); Anthony A. Faust, Defence Research and DevelopmentCanada, Suffield (Canada). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-43]4:20 pm: A broad-band field portable reflectometer to characterize soils andchemical samples, Eldon Puckrin, Defence Research and Development Canada,Valcartier (Canada); Louis Moreau, Hugo A. Bourque, Real Ouellet, Florent M.Prel, Claude B. Roy, Christian A. Vallieres, Guillaume Thériault, ABB AnalyticalMeasurement (Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-44]4:40 pm: Thermal inertia mapping of below ground objects and voids,Nancy K. Del Grande, Brian M. Ascough, Geo-Temp Corp. (USA); Richard L.Rumpf, Rumpf Associates International (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-45]Thursday 2 MaySESSION 12Room: Conv. Ctr. 336 . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 8:20 am to 10:00 amSignal Processing: IRSession Chairs: Robert H. Luke III,U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA);James M. Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA)8:20 am: Buried target detection in forward looking IR (FLIR) images usingShearlet features, Mihail Popescu, Alexander T. Paino, Brian Thomson, James M.Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-46]8:40 am: Using evolutionary computation to optimize an SVM used indetecting buried objects in FLIR imagery, Alexander T. Paino, Mihail Popescu,James M. Keller, Kevin E. Stone, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA) . . . . . [8709-47]9:00 am: Automatic detection system for buried explosive hazards in FL-LWIRbased on soft feature extraction using a bank of Gabor energy filters, StantonR. Price, Derek T. Anderson, Mississippi State Univ. (USA); Robert H. Luke, U.S.Army RDECOM CERDEC, Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA);Kevin E. Stone, James M. Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA) . . . . . [8709-48]9:20 am: Moving beyond flat earth: dense 3D scene reconstruction from asingle FL-LWIR camera, Kevin E. Stone, James M. Keller, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA); Derek T. Anderson, Mississippi State Univ. (USA) . . . . . [8709-49]9:40 am: A novel framework for processing forward looking infrared imagerywith application to buried threat detection, Jordan M. Malof, Kenneth D. MortonJr., Leslie M. Collins, Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-51]Coffee Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Thu 10:00 am to 10:30 amSESSION 13Room: Conv. Ctr. 336 . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 10:30 am to 11:50 amSignal Processing: EM SensorsSession Chairs: Richard C. Weaver, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA)10:30 am: Sparse model inversion and processing of spatial frequencydomainelectromagnetic induction sensor array data for improved landminediscrimination, Stacy L. Tantum, Kenneth A. Colwell, Duke Univ. (USA); WaymondR. Scott Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology (USA); Peter A. Torrione, Leslie M.Collins, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Duke Univ. (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-52]10:50 am: Possibilistic K-nearest neighbor classifier for landminediscrimination, Josephine Dula, Univ. of Missouri (USA); Alina Zare,Dominic K. Ho, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia (USA); Paul D. Gader, Univ. of Florida(USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-53]11:10 am: Sweep detection and alignment, Peter J. Dobbins, Univ. of Florida(USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-54]11:30 am: Material identification reflectivity kernel (MIRK), real-timeprocessing for in-stride sea mine countermeasures, John D. Pearson,Prometheus Inc. (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-55]Lunch/Exhibition Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Thu 11:50 am to 1:20 pmSESSION 14Room: Conv. Ctr. 336 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 1:20 pm to 3:00 pmSignal Processing for GPR ISession Chairs: Pete Howard, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Paul D. Gader, Univ. of Florida (USA)1:20 pm: Detection of shallow buried objects using an autoregressive modelon the ground penetrating radar signal, Daniel Nabelek, Dominic K. Ho, Univ. ofMissouri-Columbia (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-56]1:40 pm: Evaluation of landmine detection performance applying two differentalgorithms to GPR field data, Roi Mendez Rial, Udo Uschkerat, Fernando Rial,Maria Antonia Gonzalez Huici, Fraunhofer FHR (Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-57]2:00 pm: A run packing technique for multiple sensor fusion, Taylor Glenn,Joseph N. Wilson, Univ. of Florida (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-59]2:20 pm: Multiple instance learning for landmine detection with groundpenetrating radar using hidden Markov models, Achut Manandhar, Kenneth D.Morton Jr., Leslie M. Collins, Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA). . . . . . . [8709-60]2:40 pm: Multiple instance learning for hidden Markov models:application to landmine detection, Jeremy Bolton, Paul D. Gader, Univ. of Florida(USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-61]Coffee Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 3:00 pm to 3:30 pmSESSION 15Room: Conv. Ctr. 336 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thu 3:30 pm to 4:50 pmSignal Processing for GPR IISession Chairs: Joe Wilson, Federal Signal Corp. (USA);Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Duke Univ. (USA)3:30 pm: Robust entropy-guided image segmentation for ground detectionin GPR, John W. Roberts, Yakov P. Shkolnikov, Jonathan Varsanik, TimothyChevalier, Exponent, Inc. (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-62]3:50 pm: GPR preprocessing optimization with signal-to-clutter metrics,Jonathan Varsanik, John W. Roberts, Timothy Chevalier, Adam D. Mulliken,Exponent, Inc. (USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-63]4:10 pm: Application of image categorization methods for buried threatdetection in GPR data, Rayn T. Sakaguchi, Kenneth D. Morton Jr., Leslie M.Collins, Peter A. Torrione, Duke Univ. (USA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [8709-64]4:30 pm: Embedding the multiple instance problem into linear classifiers:applications to landmine detection with ground penetrating radar,Jeremy Bolton, Univ. of Florida (USA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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