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UASP Workshop Agenda - Detailed

Note: the agenda by session may be found here
   
Session A: Wednesday Evening, 8:00pm-9:30pm
Special Session I: Signal & Information Processing for Distributed Systems
A-1 Concurrent Multistatic Tracking and Field Stabilization in GPS-Denied Scenarios ,
  Roy Streit, Metron, Inc.
A-2 A Joint Likelihood Approach to Distributed Detection and Estimation,
  Michael Roan, Virginia Tech.
A-3 Dynamic Ping Scheduling for Multistatic Sonar Buoy Networks under Energy Constraint,
  I-Jeng Wang, Johns Hopokins University Applied Physics Lab.
   
Session B: Thursday Morning, 8:15am-9:30am
Signal Processing for Underwater Communications
B-1 Sparse Multichannel Estimation for Cooperative Underwater Acoustic Communications,
  Nicholas Richard, University of Southern California
B-2 Communications in Sparse and Dynamic Underwater Acoustic Channels,
  Weichang Li, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
B-3 On the Scalability of Multicarrier Underwater Acoustic Communication,
  Shengli Zhou, University of Connecticut
   
Session C: Thursday Morning 10:00am-12:05pm
Special Session II: Node- and Field-level Processing for Distributed Systems
C-1 Using Field-level Observations to Augment Node-level Signal Processing in Undersea Distributed Sensor Networks,
  Joseph DiBiase, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
C-2 In-Network Fusion for Underwater Surveillance in Distributed Sonar Systems,
  Anshu Saksena, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.
C-3 Using Direct-blast Arrivals to Improve Synchronization Between Multiple Sonars,
  Pascal de Theije, TNO Defence, Security and Safety
C-4 Submarine Localization Using an Ad-hoc Network of Rapidly Deployed Simple Sensors,
  Christian Berger, University of Connecticut
C-5 Distributed Detection in Spatially-correlated Clutter,
  Douglas Abraham, CausaSci LLC
   
Session D: Thursday Afternoon, 1:10pm-2:50pm
Sonar Tracking
D-1 Track Initialization for Multi-Static Active Sonar Systems,
  Christian Hempel, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Newport
D-2 Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized PHD Filter Performance on Multistatic Active Sonar Data,
  Peter Willett, University of Connecticut
D-3 N-Step Ahead Prediction for Hybrid Stochastic Systems,
  William P. Malcolm, National ICT Australia
D-4 Detection and Tracking of Underwater Targets Using Directional Sensors,
  Dragana Carevic, Defence Science and Technology Organsation, Australia
   
Session E: Thursday Afternoon, 3:20pm-4:10pm
Array Processing
E-1 A Generalized Function Approach to Implementing Directional Acoustic Sensors,
  Dean Schmidlin, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
E-2 Robust Adaptive Beamforming of Volumetric Arrays,
  Ivars Kirsteins, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
   
Session F: Thursday Afternoon, 4:10pm-5:00pm
Signal Processing for Active Sonar
F-1 A Continuous Multi-static Active Doppler Sonar Using m-Sequences,
  Harry Deferrari, University of Miami
F-2 Classification of Clutter Types in Active Sonar Using Spatial Image Processing Techniques,
  James Gelb, Applied Research Laboratories, Univ. Texas at Austin
   
Session G: Friday Morning, 8:30am-9:45am
Propagation-Based Signal Processing
G-1 Estimating Acoustic Mode Functions of a Deep Water Waveguide Using Ambient Noise Measurements,
  Khalid AlMuhanna, George Mason University
G-2 Wave Propagation in a Random Medium: A Phase-Space Approach,
  Leon Cohen, City University of New York
G-3 Propagation-invariant Classification,
  Patrick Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh
   
Session H: Friday Morning, 10:15am-11:55am
Detection and Classification
H-1 Likelihood Ratios, Maximum Entropy, and an Estimator-Correlator Structure,
  Richard Lee Culver, Applied Research Laboratory and Graduate Program in Acoustics
H-2 Source Classification Based on Amplitude Distribution Estimates,
  Colin Jemmott, Applied Research Laboratory and Graduate Program in Acoustics
H-3 Human-mimetic Classification of Impulsive-source Active-sonar Echoes,
  Jason Summers, Naval Research Laboratory
H-4 Acoustic Modeling and Simulation Tool for Marine Mammal Movement and Vocalizations,
  Alex Yakubovskiy, FarSounder Inc.