2009 IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop

Alton Jones Campus, University of Rhode Island
West Greenwich, RI, USA

October 14-16, 2009


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Detailed Agenda

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Session A: Wednesday Evening, 8:00pm-9:30pm
Special Session Plenary Talk
A-1 Underwater Acoustic Communications: Working at the Intersection of Physics, Signal Processing, and Communications Theory,
  James C. Preisig, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
   
Session B: Thursday Morning, 8:15am-9:55am
Special Session I: Underwater Acoustics Communications Fields Experiment Results
B-1 Taxonomy of Underwater Communication for US Navy Needs,
  Arthur B. Baggeroer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B-2 Recent results on underwater acoustic communication research,
  T. C. Yang, Naval Research Lab
B-3 Measurement-based simulation of underwater acoustic communication channels,
  Paul Van Walree, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment FFI
B-4 Training Sequence Synthesis, Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection for MIMO Underwater Acoustic Communications,
Jian Li, University of Florida
   

Morning Break,  9:55am -10:20am

Session C: Thursday Morning 10:20am-12:00pm
Special Session II: Underwater Acoustics Communications Fields Experiment Results
C-1 Signal Processing for Underwater Acoustic MIMO OFDM,
  Milica Stojanovic, Northeastern University
C-2 Results of OFDM Transmissions in the Kauai Acomms MURI 2008 Experiment,
  Tolga Duman, Arizona State University
C-3 Receiver Comparisons on an OFDM Design for Doppler Spread Channels,
  Shengli Zhou, University of Connecticut
C-4 On Optimal Resampling for OFDM Signaling in Doubly Selective Underwater Acoustic Channels,
  Srinivas Yerramalli, University of Southern California

Lunch, 12:00pm-1:00pm

   
Session D: Thursday Afternoon, 1:00pm-2:15pm
Active Sonar
D-1 Detection-Threshold Approximation for non-Gaussian Backgrounds,
  Douglas Abraham, CausaSci LLC
D-2 A Generalized Linear Filtering Approach for Sonar Receivers,
  Nabin Sharma, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
D-3 Robust Sonar Identification and Authentication in Shallow Water,
  Bijan Mobasseri, Villanova University
Session E: Thursday Afternoon, 2:15pm-3:05pm
Passive Sonar I
E-1 Multiband DEMON Estimation with Compensation for Channel-Induced Modulation Distortions,
  Ivars Kirsteins, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
E-2 Minimum Hellinger Distance Classification of Passive Underwater Acoustic Signals,
  Brett Bissinger, Penn State University

Afternoon Break, 3:05pm-3:30pm

   
Session F: Thursday Afternoon, 3:30pm-5:10pm
Propagation-based Sonar Processing
F-1 Time-Frequency Approach and Approximation to Range-Dependent Pulse Propagation,
  Patrick Loughlin, University of Pittsburgh
F-2 The propagation of noise fields in a dispersive medium: a phase-space approach,
  Leon Cohen, City University of New York
F-3 Sequential and iterative Bayesian methods for acoustic feature estimation,
Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, New Jersey Institute of Technology
F-4 Statistics-based classification of passive sonar signals,
   R. Lee Culver, Penn State University
   
Session G: Friday Morning, 8:15am-9:30am
Special Session III: Underwater Acoustics Communications Fields Experiment Results
G-1 Application of the Turbo principle to Underwater Acoustic Communications: Receiver Architectures and Experimental Results,
  Jun Won Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
G-2 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Detectors for underwater acoustic channels,
  Rong-Rong Chen, University of Utah
G-3 High rate time reversal communications for underwater MIMO channels,
  Aijun Song, University of Delaware

Morning Break, 9:30am-9:55am

   
Session H: Friday Morning, 9:55am-10:45am
Passive Sonar II
H-1 Maximum entropy probability density functions and recursive Bayesian state estimation,
  Colin Jemmott, Penn State University
H-2 Detection and classification of odontocetes - algorithms and architecture for autonomous, deployable system,
  Paul Hursky, Heat, Light, and Sound Research Inc.
   
Session I: Friday Morning, 10:45am-12:00pm
Array Processing I
I-1 Performance Prediction Analysis of Depth Discrimination Algorithm,
Shawn Kraut, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
I-2 A Globally Convergent CML Algorithm,
Neil Malloy, Multisensor Science LLC
I-3 Application of Multitaper Spectral Estimation Methods For Adaptive Beamforming,
Joseph Schwarzwalder, Argon ST, Inc.

Lunch, 12:00pm-1:00pm

   
Session J: Friday Afternoon, 1:00am-2:15am
Array Processing II
J-1 Spatial Compressive Sensing for Passive Sonar Arrays,
Igal Bilik, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
J-2 Exploiting Towed Array Dynamics for Passive Field Directionality Mapping,
Jeffrey Rogers, Duke University
J-3 Passive Ranging Capability of Multi-Module Arrays in Underwater Acoustic Environments,
Hongya Ge, New Jersey Institute of Technology