2005 Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop

Note: the agenda by session may be found here

Session A: Wednesday Evening, 8:00pm-9:30pm
Special Session: UASP Applications to Homeland Security
A-1	Underwater Port Security Signal Processing Challenges,
	Richard Hansen, United States Coast Guard Research & Development Center
A-2	The Navy Maritime Security Test and Evaluation Site,
	Dallas Meggitt, Sound & Sea Technology
A-3	A low-power, high-resolution doppler sonar for ship and harbor defense,
	Harry DeFerrari, University of Miami
Session B: Thursday Morning, 8:00am-9:15am
Special Session: UASP Applications to Homeland Security
B-1	Acoustical signature of a diver in an Estuary Harbor Environment, Alexander Sutin,
	Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology
B-2	Measurements of the Target Strength and Radiated Noise of Divers Wearing SCUBA Equipment,
	Roy Manstan, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
B-3	Bearing estimation and tracking for a swimmer defense sonar node of slightly overlapping directional transducers,
	Geoff Edelson, BAE SYSTEMS E&IS
Session C: Thursday Morning, 9:15am-10:00am
Multistatic Active Sonar
C-1	Multistatic sensor placement with the complementary use of Doppler sensitive and insensitive waveforms,
	Doug Grimmett, NATO Undersea Research Center
C-2	Synchronising multiple sonar systems in time and space: towards accurate contact information for multistatic systems,
	Pascal de Theije, TNO
Session D: Thursday Morning, 10:30am-12:00noon
Multistatic Sonar Tracking
D-1	Progress in Multistatic Sonar Tracking for Undersea Surveillance,
	Stefano Coraluppi, NATO Undersea Research Centre
D-2	Probabilistic Multi-Hypothesis Tracking for Distributed Active Sensors,
	Christian Hempel, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
D-3	Distributed Environmentally-Adaptive Detection, Classification, and Localization using a Cooperative Sensor Network,
	James Pitton, Univ. of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
Session E: Thursday Afternoon, 1:00pm-2:45pm
Adaptive Array Processing
E-1	Robust Detection in Nonstationary Noise,
	Samuel Earp, Multisensor Science, LLC
E-2	Simulation of Adaptive Beamformers in Non-Stationary Interference,
	Bruce Newhall, Johns Hopkins U. Applied Physics Lab
E-3	Accurate rectangular window subspace tracking,
	Timothy Toolan, University of Rhode Island, Department of Electrical Engineering
E-4	Multi-rank MVDR Beamforming
	Henry Cox, Lockheed Martin Orincon
Session F: Thursday Afternoon, 3:15pm-5:00pm
Sonar Performance Analysis and Simulation
F-1	Fading Channel Capacity and Passive Sonar Resolution,
	John Buck, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
F-2	Rate distortion theory bounds on passive sonar performance,
	Tianzhu Meng, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
F-3	Passive Sonar Performance Prediction using a Moving Source of Opportunity,
	Jeffrey Krolik, Duke University
F-4	A Simulation Package for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Signal Processing,
	John Ianniello, SAIC
Session G: Friday Morning, 8:00am-9:45am
Mine Classification and Low Frequency ACOMMS
G-1	Filtering Strategies for Measuring the 2-D Spatial Structure of Elastic Scattering from Buried, Liquid-Filled Symmetric Objects,
	Ivars Kirsteins, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
G-2	Comparison of two model-based echo processing schemes for man-made object recognition; application to a tank experiment data set,
	Manell Zakharia, French Naval Academy
G-3	Baseline Classification of Acoustical Signatures of Mine-Like Objects,
	Juri Sildam, Defence Research and Development Canada Atlantic
G-4	Long-Range Underwater Acoustic Communications Using a Multi-Mode Decision Feedback Equalizer,
	Tarun Chandrayadula, George Mason University
Session H: Friday Morning, 10:15am-12:00noon
Detection and Classification
H-1	Bounds on the performance of nonparametric detectors/normalizers operating on square-law data,
	Ashwin Sarma, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
H-2	Detection enhancement using multiple time-reversed guide sources in shallow water,
	David Calvo, Acoustics Division, Naval Research Laboratory
H-3	Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) processing for improved mid-frequency active multi-ping classification,
	Geoffrey Edelson, BAE SYSTEMS E&IS
H-4	Hybrid Joint PDF Estimation and Classification for Sparse Systems,
	James Gelb, Applied Research Labs, UT Austin
Session I: Friday Afternoon, 1:00pm-2:15pm
Underwater Acoustics
I-1	Adaptive Processing for Range Dependent Propagation Studies,
	Kevin Heaney, OASIS, Inc.
I-2	Wigner and Ambiguity Function Approximation Methods for Acoustic Propagation,
	Patrick Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh
I-3	Propagation Path Data Fusion and Uncertainty Characterizations,
	Cathy Ann Clark, Naval Undersea Warfare Center