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Tuesday 15th September 2020

Session 1 - Tracking, Detection and Localisation - Chair Mike Davies, University of Edinburgh

Invited Speaker: Soup in the Souk: A 'Bazaar' Approach to Defence Signal Processing, Paul Thomas, Dstl

Subspace Perturbation Bounds with an Application to Angle of Arrival Estimation using the MUSIC Algorithm, Connor Delaosa¹, Jennifer Pestana¹, Stephan Weiss¹, Ian K. Proudler^1_,1University of Strathclyde

A Gaussian Process based Method for Multiple Model Tracking, Mengwei Sun¹, Mike E. Davies¹, Ian Proudler², James R. Hopgood¹, ¹University of Edinburgh, ²University of Strathclyde

Narrowband Angle of Arrival Estimation Exploiting Graph Topology and Graph Signals, Ian K. Proudler¹, Vladimir Stankovic¹, and Stephan Weiss¹, ¹University of Strathclyde

Session 2 – Radar and Defence Panel - Chair - Stephen Ablett, Dstl

A Sparse Linear Array MIMO Radar Approach Using Matrix Completion, Athina Petropulu, Rutgers University

Information-Theoretic Compressive Measurement Design for Micro-Doppler Signatures, Fraser K. Coutts¹, John Thompson¹, Bernard Mulgrew¹, ¹University of Edinburgh

Identification of Radar Emitter Type with Recurrent Neural Networks, Sabine Apfeld¹, Alexander Charlish¹, Gerd Ascheidy¹, ¹Fraunhofer FKIE

Session 3 Imaging - Chair - Stephen McLaughlin, Heriot-Watt University

Academic Keynote Speaker,

One Click At A Time: Photon- And Electron-Level Modeling For Improved Imaging, Vivek Goyal, University of Boston

Fast Surface Detection Using Single-Photon Detection Events, Abderrahim Halimi^₁, Andrew Wallace¹, Gerald S. Buller¹, Stephen McLaughlin¹, ¹Heriot-Watt University
 
Robust depth imaging in adverse scenarios using single-photon Lidar and beta-divergences, Quentin Legros¹, Stephen McLaughlin¹, Yoann Altmann^1, Sylvain Meignen², Mike E. Davies³, ¹Heriot-Watt University, ²University Grenoble Alpes, ³University of Edinburgh

Session 4 Machine Learning - Chair - Neil Robertson, Queen's University Belfast

Introduction and Welcome to day 2 - Neil Robertson

Invited Speaker: Search & Learn: From User Guided Search to Federated Zero-Shot Learning, Sean Gong, Queen Mary University of London

Optimising Network Architectures for Provable Adversarial Robustness, Henry Gouk¹, Timothy M. Hospedales¹, ¹University of Edinburgh

Tail of Distribution GAN (TailGAN): Generative-Adversarial-Network-Based Boundary Formation, Nikolaos Dionelis¹, Mehrdad Yaghoobi¹, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris¹, ¹University of Edinburgh

Electrical device classification using deep learning, Richard O Lane¹, Steven P Lindsay¹, ¹QinetiQ

Session 5 – Mix of Signal Processing - Chair - James Hopgood, University of Edinburgh

Spotlight presentations

· Multimodal Learning for Early Detection of Explosive Sounds using Relative Spectral Distribution, Vishwajeet Shukla¹, Mayank Singour¹, ¹Samsung Research Institute

· Detection and Identification of Radar Waveforms in Electronic Warfare context, Antoine Foucault¹, Cedric Cornu¹_, Ali Khenchaf², Fabrice Comblet², ¹Thales Defense Mission Systems, ²Lab STICC, ENSTA Bretagne, CNRS.

· Robust Source Number Estimation Based on Denoising Preprocessing, Koichi Ichige¹, Shohei Hamada¹, ¹Yokohama National University, Katsuhisa Kashiwagi²_, Nobuya Arakawa², Ryo Saito²_,²Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

· Learning Entropy of Adaptive Filters via Clustering Techniques, Ivo Bukovsky¹, Gejza Dohnal¹, Pavel Steinbauer¹, Ondrej Budik¹, Kei Ichiji², Homma Noriyasu²,¹Czech Technical University in Prague, ²Tohoku University.

· Classifying LPI signals with transfer learning on CNN architectures, Bunlong Lay¹, Alexander Charlish¹, ¹Fraunhofer FKIE.

Approximate LASSO Model Predictive Control for Resource Constrained Systems, Yun Wu¹, Joao F. C. Mota¹, Andrew M. Wallace¹, ¹Heriot-Watt University

Extraction of Analytic Eigenvectors From a Parahermitian Matrix, Stephan Weiss¹, Ian K. Proudler¹, Fraser K. Coutts², and Julian Deeks³, ¹University of Strathclyde, ²University of Edinburgh, ³Dstl

Session 6 Underwater Signal Processing - Chair Gary Heald, Dstl

Introduction and Welcome to Session 6 – Gary Heald

Defence Keynote Speaker, Sensing and Automation in the Future Maritime Environment, Daniel D. Sternlicht, U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division

Invited Speaker, A Whistle Stop Tour of Processing for Delphinid Vocalisations, Paul White, University of Southampton