PROGRAMME -...

June 30 - July 03, 2008

of the 11th International Conferenceon Information Fusion

Cologne, Germany

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PROGRAMME

ImpressumHerausgeber:Forschungsgesellschaft für Angewandte Naturwissenschaften e. V. (FGAN)Neuenahrer Straße 20, D-53343 Wachtberg, GermanyVertretungsberechtigte und V.i.S.d.P:Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Dornhaus, Vorsitzender des VorstandesProf. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Ender, StellvertreterRegistergericht: Amtsgericht BonnVereinsregisternummer: VR 2530Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer (UID): DE 123382350Druck:Druckerei Holtkamp, Hauptstraße 35, D-52159 Roetgen, GermanyGrafik+Design:Edgar Küpper, D-52152 Simmerath, Germany

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Index

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Organising Committee ...............................................................................4

Technical Programme Committee ................................................................5

Welcome Message ....................................................................................6

Plenary Talks .............................................................................................8

Conference Site .........................................................................................9

Tutorials and Panel Discussions .................................................................10

Technical Programme ...............................................................................12

Social Programme ................................................................................... 26

General Information ................................................................................. 28

Sponsors................................................................................................. 29

Organising Committee

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ADMINISTRATION CHAIRS

Joachim Biermann

[email protected], Germany

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS

Uwe D. Hanebeck

[email protected]ät Karlsruhe (TH)Karlsruhe, Germany

Martin Ulmke


EXECUTIVE CHAIRS

Wolfgang Koch


Peter Willett

[email protected] of ConnecticutStorrs, CT, USA

GENERAL CHAIR

Jürgen Grosche


Peter Neu

[email protected] Conference ServicesFrankfurt, Germany

FINANCE CHAIR

Volker Schanz

[email protected] ITGFrankfurt, Germany

Roy Streit, Metron Inc. (Chair)Sten Andler, Skövde University, SwedenUwe D. Hanebeck, Universität Karlsruhe, GermanyMichael Heizmann, FgH-IITB, GermanyWolfgang Koch, FGAN-FKIE, GermanyJean-Pierre Le Cadre, IRISA, France

James Linas, State University of New York, USASimon Maskell, QinetiQ, UKFelix Opitz, EADS, Deutschlad GmbH, GermanyMark Oxley, AFIT, USAMartin Ulmke, FGAN-FKIE, GermanyPeter Willett, University of Connecticut, USA

BEST PAPER AWARD COMMITTEE

Technical Programme Committee

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Aarabi, ParhamAbraham, DouglasAhrholdt, MalteAmditis, AngelosAndler, StenAppriou, AlainAreta, JavierArnborg, StefanAuger, AlainBaldacci, AlbertoBar-Shalom, YaakovBenameur, KaoutharBenferhat, SalemBerger, ChristianBerger, JeanBesnard, PhilippeBieker, TanjaBiermann, JoachimBlanding, WayneBlasch, ErikBlom, HenkBoers, YvoBostron, HenrikBoury-Brisset, Anne-ClaireBuford, JohnCapponi, AgostinoCarthel, CraigCoraluppi, StefanoCousins, DavidDas, SubrataDaun, MartinaDe Maio, Antoniode Theije, Pascalde Villers, YvesDebouk, RamiDezert, JeanDorion, EricDuflos, EmmanuelDunham, DarinEdwards, Mark

Efe, MuratEhlers, FrankErdinc, OzgurEvans, RobFlorea, Mihai CristianFoucher, SamuelFränken, DietrichFrey, ChristianGagnon, LangisGheta, IoanaGiannopoulos, EvangelosGregoire, EricGu, Irene Y. H.Gustafsson, FredrikHanebeck, UweHempel, ChristianHernandez, MarcelHinman, MichaelHong, Sung-MogJakobson, GabrielJiang, XiaoyiJohannson, RonnieJouan, AlexandreJousselme, Anne-LaureJungert, ErlandKadar, IvanKester, LeonKirubarajan, ThiaKoch, WolfgangKokar, MieczyslawKoller, JostKonieczny, SebastianKronham, ThomasKruse, RudolfKuc, RomanKuh, AnthonyKulpa, KrzysztofLa Cour, BrianLa Scala, BarbaraLambert, Dale

Lavery, JohnLe Cadre, Jean-PierreLee, GordonLewis, LundyLindgren, DavidLlinas, JamesLuettgen, MarkLuginbuhl, TodLynch, RobertMahler, RonaldMahmood, AsherMallick, MahendraMarano, StefanoMaskell, SimonMaupin, PatrickMeidow, JochenMihaylova, LyudmilaMolina, JoseMonney, Paul-AndreMontagner, JulienMontiel, IgnacioMori, ShozoMoshiri, BehzadMusicki, DarkoNicholson, DavidNikolov, StavriNiu, RuixinOlsen, Karl ErikOpitz, FelixOshman, YaakovOxenham, MartinOxley, MarkPannetier, BenjaminPetrovic, VladimirPerez, Ramon PinoRanchin, ThierryRao, NageswaraRatton, LaurentRistic, BrankoRogers, AlexRogova, Galina

Roy, JeanSadjadi, FiroozSalerno, JohnSalmond, DavidSander, JenniferSanton, EugeneScheunert, UllrichSchubert, JohanSemerdjiev, TzevtanSiciliano, BrunoSmith-Carroll, AmySong, Taek-LyulStone, LawrenceStreit, RoySuri, SubhashSvensson, PerSviestins, EgilsTartakovsky, AlexanderThomä, ReinerThorsen, StevenTischler, KarinTrouve, EmmanuelTupin, FlorenceUlmke, MartinValin, Pierrevan Laere, JoeriVanheeghe, PhilippeVarshney, PramodVeeravalli, VenugopalVerlinde, PatrickViswanathan, RamanarayananVo, Ba-NguWang, XuezhiWieneke, MonikaWillett, PeterYu, BinZiemke, Tom

Welcome Message

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Wachtberg, Storrs, and Karlsruhe, June 2008

Welcome to the 11th International Conference of Information Fusion, FUSION 2008, welcome to the 10th Anniversary of ISIF and the successful series of ISIF conferences, which has evolved into the premier global platform for exchanging latest advances in our field of research and its countless applications. And welcome to Cologne as well, one of the oldest cities in Germany, situated in the very heart of Eu-rope and its historic Rhineland region. For more than 2000 years Cologne, the Roman

Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, has been a melting pot “fusing” people, languages, and cul-tures, creating a unique European metropolis. May Cologne’s spiritus loci, her visible witnesses of a grand culture, her modern liveliness and beautiful scenery along the River Rhine dominated by the fa-mous cathedral sheltering the Shrine of the Three Wise Men, create an atmosphere that will stimulate us to learn from each other. May it inspire us to discover new frontiers in one of the most fascinating and dynamically evolving branches of knowledge: Information Fusion.The Hyatt Regency Cologne is not only a conven-

iently situated conference site with a view on Co-logne’s impressive skyline, but also overlooks one of the “historic sites” of Fusion Science, the famous Hohenzollernbrücke. On this Rhine bridge, the German engineer Christian Daniel Hülsmeyer per-formed his legendary radar experiments in April 1904 – one of the very first examples of producing

situational awareness by exploiting information from artificial sensor devices. On the evening of the first conference day, the

Mayor of Cologne will receive the International Fu-sion Community in the historic town hall, built on the foundations of the Praetorium, the residence of the city‘s Roman governor (Tuesday, July 1, 18:30h). “One of us”, Richard Klemm, the well-known ra-dar scientist and classical pianist, will entertain us in these historic surroundings with some pieces taken from Carnaval by Robert Schumann, one of the great sons of the Rhineland, providing you a glimpse of the famous Rhine Valley Carnaval even in July.

The conference dinner on Wednesday, July 2, 19:00h, will be held on the flagship of the White Fleet on the Rhine, the MS RheinEnergie. As you dine and converse with your colleagues, you will cruise on the waves of the River Rhine. This very ship also served His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI when he visited Cologne in August 2005. In a little ceremony during the banquet, Roy Streit, Best Paper Award Chair, will announce which of the Best Paper Nominees will actually win the award.The conference chairs believe that an extraordi-

nary technical programme has been arranged, con-sisting of 274 oral presentations in up to 7 tracks, which were selected from 368 full draft papers sub-mitted from over 40 countries. In a peer-reviewing process, almost 1100 reviews were produced by the 162 members of the Technical Programme Com-mittee and have been evaluated by the conference © U. Ernser—Stadt Köln

© Günther Ventur—Stadt Köln 1998

Welcome Message

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chairs. 13 tutorials will be given by internationally recognized experts providing excellent introductions into the information fusion methodology and its var-ious applications.We are grateful that the state of the art in our sci-

entific discipline and the general lines for potential future progress will be discussed in two panel discus-sions organized by Ivan Kadar and Chee-Yee Chong (Issues and Challenges in Distributed Tracking and Fusion with Applications to Real-World Problems in a Net-Centric World) and by Mitch Kokar and Gary J. Toth (Higher-Level Information Fusion: Challenges to the Academic Community). A record number of 22 special session proposals were received, from which 18 will actually take place. We particularly thank our special session organizers for their valu-able contribution to the conference programme.We have been fortunate to receive either technical

or financial support (and in many cases: both) from a number of sources. We would like to thank those who have provided us with a liasion to academia, government and industry: Professor Dr. Armin B. Cremers, University of Bonn (Academic Liaison), Ms. Marion Sielemann, German Ministry of Defence (Government Liaison), and Dr. Uwe Wacker, EADS Deutschland GmbH (Industry Liaison). FUSION 2008 is much indebted to their personal engage-ment, advice, help, and encouragement.The premier institutional partners of FUSION 2008

are ISIF, the International Information Fusion Soci-ety, the German Defence Research Establishment FGAN, the Information Technology Society ITG within the German Electrical Engineering Organiza-tion VDE, the German defence forces Bundeswehr,

the Technical University of Karlsruhe, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, the Aerospace and Elec-tronic Systems Society AESS within the American In-stitution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE, and the British Institution of Engineering and Tech-nology IET.Many German and international industrial compa-

nies helped us to reduce the financial load: EADS Deutschland GmbH, IABG mbH, Thales Holding GmbH, SAAB AB, Schönhofer Sales and Enginee-ing GmbH, Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Rheinmetall AG, Rhode+Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG, MEDAV GmbH, Agilent Technologies Deutschland GmbH, Diehl Stif-tung & Co. KG, and MathWorks, Inc.Organizing a top-class conference such as FUSION

is a wonderful experience and, in fact, one of the last real adventures modern life can offer. It requires many heads, hearts, and hands to make it a success. We thank all members of the Technical Programme Committee for their hard reviewing work, Roy Streit (Metron Inc.) and the Best Paper Award Committee, Dr. Schanz and Mr. Neu and their colleagues from VDE Conference Services, and the colleagues from FGAN-FKIE who earned particular merits: Gereon Schüller (Conference Proceedings), Susanne Lange (Conference Homepage), Stefanie Woll (Promotion and Publishing), Jane Stannus (Editing Services), and last but not least, Irene Meyer (Conference Secretariat).In our view, the FUSION 2008 technical pro-

gramme clearly demonstrates on this 10th Anniver-sary of ISIF and the FUSION conferences that Infor-mation Fusion has actually evolved into a mature branch of Applied Science characterized by its own methodologies, technologies, and fields of applica-tion. We hope that the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion gives you as much pleasure as we had when preparing it for you.

On behalf of the Organising Committee

Wolfgang Koch, Fusion 2008 Executive Chair

© Köln-Düsseldorfer

Plenary Talks

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Dieter FoxDieter Fox is Associate Professor and Director of the Robotics and State Estimation Lab in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany. Before joining UW, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the CMU Robot Learning Lab.Dieter‘s current research focuses on probabilistic state estimation with ap-plications in robotics and activity recognition.Keynote lecture 1: Activity Recognition From Wearable SensorsTuesday, July 1, 09:00Abstract:Recent advances in wearable sensing and computing devices and in fast, probabilistic inference techniques make possible the fine-grained estimation of a person‘s activities over extended periods of time. In this talk I will show how dynamic Bayesian networks and conditional random fields can be used to estimate the location and activity of a person based on information such as GPS readings or WiFi signal strength. Our models use multiple levels of abstraction to bridge the gap between raw sensor measurements and high level information such as a user‘s mode of transportation, her current goal, and her significant places (e.g. home or work place). I will also present work on using RFID tags or a wearable multi-sensor system to estimate a person‘s fine-grained activities.This is joint work with Brian Ferris, Lin Liao, Don Patterson, Alvin Raj, Amar-nag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes, Gaetano Borriello, and Henry Kautz.

Hugh F. Durrant-WhyteHugh Durrant-Whyte received the B.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of London, U.K., in 1983, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Systems Engineering, from the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., in 1985 and 1986, respectively. From 1987 to 1995, he was a Lecturer in Engineer-ing Science, the University of Oxford, U.K. From 1995 to 2002 he was Professor of Mechatronic Engineering at University of Sydney. In 2002 he was awarded an inaugural Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship. He also now leads the ARC Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems. His research work focuses on autonomous vehicle navigation and decentralised data fusion methods. His work in applications includes auto-mation in cargo handling, mining, defence, and marine systems. He has published over 300 technical papers and has won numerous awards and prizes for his work. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technical Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Robotics Society Distinguished Lecturer. Keynote lecture 2: Maximal Information Systems Wednesday, July 2, 09:00Abstract:Information provides a quantitative metric for describing the value of individ-ual systems components in autonomous systems tasks such as tracking, map-ping and navigation, search and exploration; tasks in which the objective is information gain in some form. An information model is an abstraction of system capabilities in an anonymous form which allows a priori reasoning on the system itself. By construction, information measures have properties of composability and additivity and thus provides a natural means of model-ling and describing large scale systems of systems. This talk will begin by describing how information measures arise naturally in autonomous tracking, mapping and navigation, search and exploration tasks. It is then demonstrated that the performance of individual sensors and platforms can be modelled using these information measures and that sys-tem-level performance metrics can be computed. These ideas are illustrated in a series of tasks involving mixed air and ground autonomous systems. These include flight-tests of cooperative UAVs engaged in tracking and navi-gation tasks, mixed UAV, ground vehicles and human operatives, engaged in mapping and picture compilation operations, and operations involving multi-platform search in constrained environments. In each, it is shown how information provides both a performance metric and design objective under-pinning large-scale systems of systems operation.

Henk A. P. BlomHenk Blom is principal scientist at National Aerospace Laboratory NLR in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He holds a PhD from Delft University of Tech-nology on the thesis “Bayesian estimation for decision-directed stochastic control”, and has over twenty five years experience in stochastic modeling and analysis with application towards data fusion and safety risk in air traf-fic management. He is (co-)author of over 100 articles in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, and of the volume “Stochastic Hybrid Systems, Theory and Safety Critical Systems”, Springer, 2006. Dr. Blom is Fellow, IEEE. Keynote lecture 3: Air Traffic Collision Risk Modelling, Analysis and Rare Event SimulationThursday, July 3, 09:00Abstract:Fault and event trees are the dominantly used safety risk models in air traf-fic. However, the combination of concurrent, dynamic and random effects cannot properly be captured by these classical techniques. In this lecture it will be explained how safety risk modeling and analysis can be formulated as a problem of estimation rare event probability of a large scale stochas-tic hybrid system. This formulation allows using stochastic hybrid modeling, analysis and particle system tools that have proven their power in multi-sen-sor multi-target data fusion. In addition to exploiting this similarity, the com-plementary challenge is to estimate rare events. The modeling and analysis approaches in handling this will be explained and illustrated for air traffic examples, and includes a benchmark versus fault/event trees.

Rabinder N. MadanRabinder N. Madan received the B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. degrees in physics from St. Stephens Collegs of Delhi University in 1954 and 1956, and the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical physics from Princeton University in 1964 and 1967, respectively.He has been on the Faculties of the University of California, Massachusetts and North Carolina, and has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford’s Linear Accelerator Center. There he investigated collision theory, perturbation theo-ry and variation-iteration phenomenon. From 1977-79 he was the Manager of Systems Analysis at the Bunker-Ramo Corporation. From 1979-84 he was a Senior Scientist in the Radar Systems Group at Hughes Aircraft Company.Since 1984 he has been at the Office of Naval Research as Program Man-ager of the Systems and Electromagnetic Theory. Early on, he identified is-sues and nurtured research in detection, estimation and tracking of multiple targets employing multiple and distributed sensors under communication constraints. In the communications area, he focused on the support of multi-user multi-hop scenarios, secure coded waveforms, scheduling, throughput and protocol analysis for integrated digital networks. In the area of phased array radars, sonar and passive arrays, he created programs emphasizing high resolution techniques, eigenstructure methods, vector sensor processing and implementations. He is currently especially interested in MIMO radar.He served as one of the Editors of “Mathematics in Signal Processing, a volume in Conference Series of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applica-tions, and as an Associate Editor for a Special Issue of the IEEE Proceedings. He is a member of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Application, and a Fellow of the IEEE. In 2002, he was accorded a “Tribute”, a special day of presentations by colleagues honoring his name, as part of the 5th Annual ONR/GTRI Workshop on Target track-ing and Sensor Fusion. He received J.C. Bose Memorial Award in 1989 for the Best Paper in Science and Engineering. He is the editor-in-chief of the prestigious Journal of Franklin Institute.He is an accomplished actor, with roles in many plays staged by The Camel-ot Players. He is an accomplished and published cook. He also enjoys play-ing golf, tennis, and bridge. Plenary Talk: “Perspectives in Information Fusion”.July 2, 8:30The talk gives some historical perspective to the topic of Fusion, beginning with Benjamin Franklin and his “Madeira Society”, Condorcet’s “Democracy Models” in the late 18th Century, through Von Neumann, Chow and Bates & Granger in the 1950s and 60s, up to the explosion of interest in the sub-ject today at the sequence of FUSION conferences.

Conference Site

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Hyatt Regency CologneKennedy-Ufer 2A50679 Cologne, GermanyTel: +49 (0)221 828 1234Fax: +49 (0) 221 828 1370

Technical Programme

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Time Rheinpfalz Rheinhessen Mosel Rheingau Franken

9:00-12:00 Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion IY. Bar-Shalom

Multi-Sensor Data Fusion: An Overview with Emphasis on Recent Developments

H. B. Mitchell

Ontology Based Situation Awareness and High Level Fusion: Methods and Tools

M. M. Kokar

Introduction to Distributed FusionP. Svenson, M. Holmberg

Fusion in Image ProcessingJ. Flusser, F. Šroubek, B. Zitová

Lunch Lunch

13:00-16:00 Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion IIY. Bar-Shalom

Implementation and Application of PHD/CPHD FiltersR. Mahler

Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion

J. Dezert

Higher Level Fusion for Situation ManagementG. L. Rogova

Fundamentals of the Class-Specific Method

P. M. Baggenstoss

Coffee Coffee

16:30-19:30 Information Fusion Systems EvaluationE. Blasch

Logic-Based Approaches to Information and Knowledge Fusion

É. Grégoire

Computational Approaches to Situation Assessment and Decision Support

S. Das

19:30-20:30 Ice breaker reception Ice breaker reception

Monday June 30 (Tutorials)

Issues and Challenges in Distributed Tracking and Fusion with Applications to Real-World Problems in a Net-Centric World16:10-18:00

OrganiserIvan Kadar, Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc., USA•

Co-OrganiserChee-Yee Chong, BAE Advanced Information Systems, USA•

ModeratorsIvan Kadar and Chee-Yee Chong•

PanelistsYaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut, USA •William Dale Blair, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA •Erik Blasch, Air Force Research Lab., USA •Kou-Chu Chang, George Mason University, USA •Chee-Yee Chong, BAE Advanced Information Systems, USA •Ivan Kadar, Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc., USA•Wolfgang Koch, FGAN, Wachtberg, Germany•

Wednesday July 2Panel discussion

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Time Rheinpfalz Rheinhessen Mosel Rheingau Franken

9:00-12:00 Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion IY. Bar-Shalom

Multi-Sensor Data Fusion: An Overview with Emphasis on Recent Developments

H. B. Mitchell

Ontology Based Situation Awareness and High Level Fusion: Methods and Tools

M. M. Kokar

Introduction to Distributed FusionP. Svenson, M. Holmberg

Fusion in Image ProcessingJ. Flusser, F. Šroubek, B. Zitová

Lunch Lunch

13:00-16:00 Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion IIY. Bar-Shalom

Implementation and Application of PHD/CPHD FiltersR. Mahler


J. Dezert

Higher Level Fusion for Situation ManagementG. L. Rogova

Fundamentals of the Class-Specific Method

P. M. Baggenstoss

Coffee Coffee

16:30-19:30 Information Fusion Systems EvaluationE. Blasch

Logic-Based Approaches to Information and Knowledge Fusion

É. Grégoire

Computational Approaches to Situation Assessment and Decision Support

S. Das

19:30-20:30 Ice breaker reception Ice breaker reception

Monday June 30 (Tutorials)

Higher-Level Information Fusion: Challenges to the Academic Community16:10-18:00

OrganiserMitch Kokar, Northeastern University, ECE Department, USA•

ModeratorGary J. Toth, Office of Naval Research, USA•

PanelistsGary J. Toth, Office of Naval Research, USA•Otto Kessler, The MITRE Corporation, USA•Gerald M. Powell, RDECOM CERDEC, USA•Klas Wallenius, SAAB Systems, Sweden•Moses Sudit, University at Buffalo, USA•Michael Hultner, Lockheed Martin, Canada•

Thursday July 3Panel discussion

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Room Rheinsaal II Rheinsaal III Rheinpfalz Franken Mosel Rheingau Rheinhessen

9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture III: Henk A. P. Blom10:20-12:00 Ground Target Tracking and

Classification II Mahendra Mallick

Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion J. Dezert F. Smarandache

Multi Target Tracking Mark Morelande

Tracking with Sensor Networks Benjamin Pannetier

Applications II Frank Lorenz

OGC/ISO Web-Enabled GIS for Geospatial Data Fusion

Raffaele Grasso 13:00-14:40 Civil Security

Sten AndlerThomas Planstedt

Finite Set Statistics (FISST): Theory and Applications

Ronald Mahler

Multi-static Tracking Christian Hempel

Intrusion Detection Robert Lynch

Challenges of and Methods for Information Fusion of Soft Data

James Llinas John Lavery

Multisensor Data Fusion I Simon Maskell

Image Fusion Kai Juengling

15:10-16:50 Panel discussionHigher-Level Information

Fusion(Start: 16:10)

Finite Set Statistics (FISST): Theory and Applications II

Ronald Mahler

Multi-static Tracking II Christian Hempel

Image Segmentation and Analysis

Michael Heizmann

Challenges of and Methods for Information Fusion of Soft

Data II James Llinas John Lavery

Multisensor Data Fusion II David Salmond

16:10-18:00

Thursday July 3


8:30-9:00 Welcome Address9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture I : Dieter Fox10:30-12:10 Advances in Nonlinear State

Estimation Uwe Hanebeck

Target Tracking Yvo Boers

Anomaly Detection Stefano Coraluppi

Sensor Networks Jost Koller

Localisation Bruno Demissie

Situation Sensing, Fusion and Management

Gabriel Jakobson, Lundy Lewis

Hard/Soft Information Fusion John Lavery James Llinas

13:10-14:50 Information Fusion in Sensor Networks

Uwe Hanebeck

Track-before-detect Roy Streit

Particle Filters and Monte Carlo Methods

Ba-Ngu Vo

Situation Awareness I Ronnie Johansson

Signal Processing Ulrich Nickel

Fusion Performance Evaluation Erik Blasch

Classification I Max Krueger

15:20-17:00 Sensor Management Emmanuel DuflosPhlippe Vanheege

Track Initialization and Maintenance Peter Willett

Bearings-only Tracking Darko Musicki

Situation Awareness II Maria Riveiro

Optimization Jean-Pierre Le Cadre

Fusion Performance Evaluation II Mark Oxley

Classification II Vincent Nimier

Tuesday July 1


8:30-9:00 Plenary Talk: Rabinder N. Madan9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture II: Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte10:20-12:00 Tracking Maneuvering Targets

Daniel Streller Surveillance

Dietrich Fränken Parameter Estimation

Christian BergerCollaborating Mobile Sensors

Volker Schatz Belief Functions, Theory

Christophe Osswald Car-driver Assistance Systems

Ullrich Scheunert Distributed Inference

and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems

Venugopal Veeravalli13:00-14:40 Ground Target Tracking and

Classification Mahendra Mallick

Fusion I James Nelson

Estimation and Filtering Wayne Blanding

Distributed Fusion Algorithms Fredrik Gustafsson

David Lindgren

Belief Functions, Applications Martin Oxenham

Fusion on Interacting Physical, Perceptual and Policy Levels

Jochen Meidow

Teams Klaus Wild

15:10-16:50 Panel discussionIssues and Challenges in Distributed Tracking and

Fusion

Fusion II Chris Mesterharm

Higher-level Fusion Henrik Boström

Distributed Fusion Algorithms II Fredrik Gustafsson

David Lindgren

Applications Peter Solbrig

Knowledge Modelling Kellyn Kruger

Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems II Alexander Tartakovsky

16:10-18:00 (Start: 16:10)

Wednesday July 2

Session Overview

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9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture III: Henk A. P. Blom10:20-12:00 Ground Target Tracking and

Classification II Mahendra Mallick

Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion J. Dezert F. Smarandache


Tracking with Sensor Networks Benjamin Pannetier



Raffaele Grasso 13:00-14:40 Civil Security

Sten AndlerThomas Planstedt


Ronald Mahler



Challenges of and Methods for Information Fusion of Soft Data

James Llinas John Lavery



15:10-16:50 Panel discussionHigher-Level Information

Fusion(Start: 16:10)

Finite Set Statistics (FISST): Theory and Applications II

Ronald Mahler



Michael Heizmann


Data II James Llinas John Lavery


16:10-18:00

Thursday July 3


8:30-9:00 Welcome Address9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture I : Dieter Fox10:30-12:10 Advances in Nonlinear State

Estimation Uwe Hanebeck

Target Tracking Yvo Boers

Anomaly Detection Stefano Coraluppi

Sensor Networks Jost Koller

Localisation Bruno Demissie


Gabriel Jakobson, Lundy Lewis



Uwe Hanebeck



Ba-Ngu Vo

Situation Awareness I Ronnie Johansson

Signal Processing Ulrich Nickel


Classification I Max Krueger

15:20-17:00 Sensor Management Emmanuel DuflosPhlippe Vanheege

Track Initialization and Maintenance Peter Willett

Bearings-only Tracking Darko Musicki

Situation Awareness II Maria Riveiro

Optimization Jean-Pierre Le Cadre

Fusion Performance Evaluation II Mark Oxley

Classification II Vincent Nimier

Tuesday July 1


8:30-9:00 Plenary Talk: Rabinder N. Madan9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture II: Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte10:20-12:00 Tracking Maneuvering Targets

Daniel Streller Surveillance

Dietrich Fränken Parameter Estimation

Christian BergerCollaborating Mobile Sensors

Volker Schatz Belief Functions, Theory

Christophe Osswald Car-driver Assistance Systems

Ullrich Scheunert Distributed Inference

and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems

Venugopal Veeravalli13:00-14:40 Ground Target Tracking and

Classification Mahendra Mallick




David Lindgren



Jochen Meidow

Teams Klaus Wild

15:10-16:50 Panel discussionIssues and Challenges in Distributed Tracking and

Fusion

Fusion II Chris Mesterharm

Higher-level Fusion Henrik Boström

Distributed Fusion Algorithms II Fredrik Gustafsson

David Lindgren



Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems II Alexander Tartakovsky

16:10-18:00 (Start: 16:10)

Wednesday July 2

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Time Rheinsaal II Rheinsaal III Rheinpfalz Franken Mosel Rheingau Rheinhessen

8:30 Welcome Address

9:00 Keynote Lecture I: Dieter Fox, „Activity Recognition From Wearable Sensors“

10:00 Break Break

10:30-12:10 Advances in Nonlinear State Estimation

Uwe Hanebeck

Target TrackingYvo Boers

Anomaly DetectionStefano Coraluppi

Sensor NetworksJost Koller

LocalisationBruno Demissie


Gabriel JakobsonLundy Lewis


10:30 A Novel Gaussian Sum Filter Methos for Accurate Solution to

Nonlienar Filtering Problem Gabriel Terejanu

Target Tracking Using Delayed Measurements with Implicit

Constraints Umut Orguner

Statistical Analysis of Motion Patterns in AIS Data: Anomaly

Detection and Motion Prediction Branko Ristic

Running Consensus in Wireless Sensor Networks

Paolo Braca

Localization Under Random Measurements with Application to

Radiation Sources Nageswara Rao

Discovery, Analysis, and Characteristics of Event Impacts

Robert Patton

The Identity Management Problem -- A Short Survey Leonidas Guibas

10:50 Progressive Gaussian Mixture Reduction

Marco Huber

Tracking closely spaced targets: Bayes outperformed by an

approximation? Edwin Bloem

Improving maritime anomaly detection and situation awareness through interactive visualization

Maria Riveiro

Online Drift Correction in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Spatio-

Temporal Modeling Maen Takruri

On Basic Properties of Localization Using Distance-Difference Measu-

rements Xiaochun Xu

Unifying multiple knowledge domains using the ARTMAP

information fusion system Arun Ravindran

A framework for dynamic hard/soft fusion

David Hall

11:10 Performance Comparison of Nonlinear Filters for Indoor WLAN

Positioning Hui Wang

Tracking of Extended Objects and Group Targets using Random

Matrices – A New Approach Dietrich Fränken

Anomaly Detection for Sea Surveil-lance

Rikard Laxhammar

Kernel-Based Learning of Decision Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks

Gernot Fabeck

Localization of Multiple Sources with a Moving Array using

Subspace Data Fusion Marc Oispuu

Problems and Prospects for Formally Representing and Reasoning about

Enemy Courses of Action Brian Ulicny

High-Level Information Fusion and Mission Planning in Highly Anisotropic Threat Spaces

Mark Witkowski

11:30 The Sliced Gaussian Mixture Filter for Efficient Nonlinear Estimation

Vesa Klumpp

Road Map assisted Convoy Track Maintenance using Random

Matrices Michael Feldmann

Anomalies Recognition in a Context Aware Architecture based on TBM

Approach Vincent Ricquebourg

Agent-Based Sensor Coalition Formation

Robin Glinton

GNSS Bias Correction for localizati-on systems

Pierre Delmas

Insider Threat Detection Using Situation-Aware MAS

Lundy Lewis

Generation of a Fundamental Data Set for Hard/Soft Information Fusion

Marco Pravia

11:50 Nonlinear Bayesian Estimation with Convex Sets of Probability Densities

Benjamin Noack

General Solution for Asynchronous Sensors Bias Estimation

Yongqing Qi

Intermediate Feature Space Ap-proach for Anomaly Detection in

Aircraft Engine Data Neil Eklund

Minimum-Cost Sensor Coverage of Planar Regions

Nageswara Rao

An Optimal Local Map Registrati-on Technique for Wireless Sensor Network Localization Problems

Yifeng Zhou

Probabilistic Prediction of Vessel Motion at Multiple Spatial Scales for

Maritime Situation Awareness Bradley Rhodes

Abductive Inferencing for Integra-ting Information from Human and

Robotic Sources John Josephson

12:10 Lunch Lunch

Tuesday July 1 - Morning

Technical Programme

15


8:30 Welcome Address

9:00 Keynote Lecture I: Dieter Fox, „Activity Recognition From Wearable Sensors“

10:00 Break Break

10:30-12:10 Advances in Nonlinear State Estimation

Uwe Hanebeck

Target TrackingYvo Boers

Anomaly DetectionStefano Coraluppi

Sensor NetworksJost Koller

LocalisationBruno Demissie


Gabriel JakobsonLundy Lewis


10:30 A Novel Gaussian Sum Filter Methos for Accurate Solution to

Nonlienar Filtering Problem Gabriel Terejanu

Target Tracking Using Delayed Measurements with Implicit

Constraints Umut Orguner

Statistical Analysis of Motion Patterns in AIS Data: Anomaly

Detection and Motion Prediction Branko Ristic

Running Consensus in Wireless Sensor Networks

Paolo Braca

Localization Under Random Measurements with Application to

Radiation Sources Nageswara Rao

Discovery, Analysis, and Characteristics of Event Impacts

Robert Patton

The Identity Management Problem -- A Short Survey Leonidas Guibas

10:50 Progressive Gaussian Mixture Reduction

Marco Huber

Tracking closely spaced targets: Bayes outperformed by an

approximation? Edwin Bloem

Improving maritime anomaly detection and situation awareness through interactive visualization

Maria Riveiro

Online Drift Correction in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Spatio-

Temporal Modeling Maen Takruri

On Basic Properties of Localization Using Distance-Difference Measu-

rements Xiaochun Xu

Unifying multiple knowledge domains using the ARTMAP

information fusion system Arun Ravindran

A framework for dynamic hard/soft fusion

David Hall

11:10 Performance Comparison of Nonlinear Filters for Indoor WLAN

Positioning Hui Wang

Tracking of Extended Objects and Group Targets using Random

Matrices – A New Approach Dietrich Fränken

Anomaly Detection for Sea Surveil-lance

Rikard Laxhammar

Kernel-Based Learning of Decision Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks

Gernot Fabeck

Localization of Multiple Sources with a Moving Array using

Subspace Data Fusion Marc Oispuu

Problems and Prospects for Formally Representing and Reasoning about

Enemy Courses of Action Brian Ulicny

High-Level Information Fusion and Mission Planning in Highly Anisotropic Threat Spaces

Mark Witkowski

11:30 The Sliced Gaussian Mixture Filter for Efficient Nonlinear Estimation

Vesa Klumpp

Road Map assisted Convoy Track Maintenance using Random

Matrices Michael Feldmann

Anomalies Recognition in a Context Aware Architecture based on TBM

Approach Vincent Ricquebourg

Agent-Based Sensor Coalition Formation

Robin Glinton

GNSS Bias Correction for localizati-on systems

Pierre Delmas

Insider Threat Detection Using Situation-Aware MAS

Lundy Lewis

Generation of a Fundamental Data Set for Hard/Soft Information Fusion

Marco Pravia

11:50 Nonlinear Bayesian Estimation with Convex Sets of Probability Densities

Benjamin Noack

General Solution for Asynchronous Sensors Bias Estimation

Yongqing Qi

Intermediate Feature Space Ap-proach for Anomaly Detection in

Aircraft Engine Data Neil Eklund

Minimum-Cost Sensor Coverage of Planar Regions

Nageswara Rao

An Optimal Local Map Registrati-on Technique for Wireless Sensor Network Localization Problems

Yifeng Zhou

Probabilistic Prediction of Vessel Motion at Multiple Spatial Scales for

Maritime Situation Awareness Bradley Rhodes

Abductive Inferencing for Integra-ting Information from Human and

Robotic Sources John Josephson

12:10 Lunch Lunch

Tuesday July 1 - Morning

Technical Programme

16



Uwe Hanebeck



Ba-Ngu Vo

Situation Awareness IRonnie Johansson

Signal ProcessingUlrich Nickel


Classification IMax Krüger

13:10 Decentralised particle filtering for multiple target localisation and

tracking in wireless sensor Tim Bailey

Optimal Tracker-Aware Radar Detector Threshold Adaptation: A

Closed-Form Solution Murat Aslan

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Evaluating Multi-Frame Data

Association Hypotheses Shozo Mori

A user study of the Impact matrix, a fusion based decision support for

enhanced situation awareness Maria Nilsson

A new best fitting Gaussian performance measure for jump

Markov systems Mark Morelande

Optimality Self Online Monitoring (OSOM) for Performance Evaluation

and Adaptive Sensor Fusion Erik Blasch

Radar-camera fusion for object classification

Danil Prokhorov

13:30 Priority List Sensor Scheduling using Optimal Pruning

Marco Huber

Track Initiation for Blind Mobile Terminal Position Tracking Using

Multipath Propagation Vadim Algeier

Particle Filter Based Sensor Selection in Binary Sensor Networks

Yvo Boers

Creating shared situation awareness in a multi-platform sensor network

Miranda van Iersel

Signal Extraction Using Compressed Sensing for Passive Radar with

OFDM Signals Christian Berger

Comprehensive Evaluation of Decision Performance

X. Rong Li

2D Spatial Model Matching using HRR Multi-Radar data

Angie Fasoula

13:50 Incremental Recursive Prediction Error Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Sensor Networks

Sundhar Ram Srinivasan

Collaborative Tracking in Video Sequences Using Corners and

Gradient Information Francesco Monti

Storage Efficient Particle Filters for the Out of Sequence Measurement

Problem Umut Orguner

Extending the scope of Situation Analysis

Anders Dahlborn

Ramp Sequence Analysis to Resolve Multi Target Scenarios for a

77-GHz FMCW Radar Sensor Klaus Pourvoyeur

Performance Evaluation of Distributed Compressed Wideband

Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks Zhi Tian

Acoustic Information Fusion for Ground Vehicle Classification

Baofeng Guo

14:10 Optimal scheduling of mobile sensor networks for detection and

localization of stationary contamination sources

Maciej Patan

A Comparison of Detection Performance for Several Track-

Before-Detect Algorithms Samuel Davey

Weak sense Lp error bounds for leader-node distributed particle

filters Boris Oreshkin

Operator Situation Awareness Monitoring in the Cognisant

Control Room Simon Williams

Cued Passive Bearing Estimation in Distributed Sensor Data Fusion

Thomas Yudichak

Measuring Situation Assessment Performance through the Activities of

Interest Score John Salerno

Fuzzy Pattern Classification Tuning by Parameter Learning based on

Fusion Concept Rui Li

14:30 Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation of Distributed-Parameter Physical Systems based on Sliced

Gaussian Mixture Filter Felix Sawo

Reception State Estimation of GNSS satellites in urban

environment using particle filtering Donnay Nahimana

Measuring Performance of Cyber Situation Awareness Systems

George Tadda

Classification support using confidence intervals Willem van Norden

14:50 Break Break

15:20-17:00 Sensor Management Emmanuel Duflos

Philippe Vanheege

Track Initialization and MaintenancePeter Willett

Bearings-only TrackingDarko Musicki

Situation Awareness IIMaria Riveiro

OptimizationJean-Pierre Le Cadre

Fusion Performance Evaluation II

Mark Oxley

Classification IIVincent Nimier

15:20 A Stochastic Optimization Framework for Resource

Management and Course of Action Analysis Michael Hirsch

Sliding Window Test vs. Single Time Test for Track-to-Track Association

Xin Tian

Bearings-Only TMA Without Observer Maneuver

Claude Jauffret

Hidden Markov Model as a Framework for Situational

Awareness Thyagaraju Damarla

PROLOG: A Multiagent Toolkit for Logistics Planning in Netcentric

Environments Subrata Das

Hyperspectral Imagery Throughput and Fusion Evaluation over

Compression and InterpolationJames Patrick

Classifier fusion for post-classification of textured images

Arnaud Martin

15:40 Game Theoretic Multiple Mobile Sensor Management under Adversarial Environments

Mo Wei

Track Initialization in a Multistatic DAB/DVB-T Network

Martina Daun

Multi Frequencies And Bearing TMA: Properties and

Sonar Applications Claude Jauffret

Uncertainty in the fusion of information from multiple diverse sources for situation awareness

Kellyn Kruger

Three Dimensional Object Tracking Based on Audiovisual Fusion Using

Particle Swarm Optimization Fakheredine Keyrouz

Image Quality Assessment for Performance Evaluation of

Image FusionErik Blasch

User-Oriented Bayesian Identification and Its Configuration

Max Krüger

16:00 Level 4 fusion for Biosensor Location and Setting

Kedar Sambhoos

Comparison and Evaluation of Advanced Motion Models for

Vehicle Tracking Robin Schubert

Robustness Considerations for Bearings-Only Tracking

Benoît Landelle

Situational Awareness in Jammed Environments Using Track

Association and Motion Recognition Maria Andersson

An Optimal Sequential Optimization Approach in Application to

Dynamic Weapon Allocation in Naval Warfare Dany Dionne

Robust Multi-Look HRR ATR Investigation through Decision-Level

Fusion EvaluationBart Kahler

On Evidential Combination Rules for Ensemble Classifiers

Henrik Boström

16:20 Radar Sensor Management for Detection and Tracking

Kruger White

On Track-Management within the PMHT Framework Monika Wieneke

An Analysis of the Single Sensor Bearings-Only Tracking Problem

Mark Moreland

Insider Abuse Comprehension through Capability Acquisition

Graphs Sunu Mathew

A common framework for multitar-get and cross-cueing optimization

Cécile Simonin

Performances of an ATR System via its ROC Manifold

Mark Oxley

Sound and Dynamics of Targets Fusion Technologies in Radar Target

Classification Guy Kouemou

16:40 Optimal Policies Search for SensorManagement : Application to

the ESA Radar Thomas Brehard

Track Maintenance through Cooperating Agents

Rene Thaens

Beamforming Spatially Spread Signals with the Kent Distribution

Carol Christou

Presenting nighttime imagery in daytime colours

Maarten Hogervorst

Source Term Estimation using Convex Optimization

Yang Cheng

Asynchronous Bayesian Algorithm for Object Classification:

Application to Pedestrian Detection in Urban Areas

Laurence Ngako Pangop

18:30 Reception Reception

Tuesday July 1 - Afternoon

Technical Programme

17



Uwe Hanebeck



Ba-Ngu Vo

Situation Awareness IRonnie Johansson

Signal ProcessingUlrich Nickel


Classification IMax Krüger

13:10 Decentralised particle filtering for multiple target localisation and

tracking in wireless sensor Tim Bailey

Optimal Tracker-Aware Radar Detector Threshold Adaptation: A

Closed-Form Solution Murat Aslan

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Evaluating Multi-Frame Data

Association Hypotheses Shozo Mori

A user study of the Impact matrix, a fusion based decision support for

enhanced situation awareness Maria Nilsson

A new best fitting Gaussian performance measure for jump

Markov systems Mark Morelande

Optimality Self Online Monitoring (OSOM) for Performance Evaluation

and Adaptive Sensor Fusion Erik Blasch

Radar-camera fusion for object classification

Danil Prokhorov

13:30 Priority List Sensor Scheduling using Optimal Pruning

Marco Huber

Track Initiation for Blind Mobile Terminal Position Tracking Using

Multipath Propagation Vadim Algeier

Particle Filter Based Sensor Selection in Binary Sensor Networks

Yvo Boers

Creating shared situation awareness in a multi-platform sensor network

Miranda van Iersel

Signal Extraction Using Compressed Sensing for Passive Radar with

OFDM Signals Christian Berger

Comprehensive Evaluation of Decision Performance

X. Rong Li

2D Spatial Model Matching using HRR Multi-Radar data

Angie Fasoula

13:50 Incremental Recursive Prediction Error Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Sensor Networks

Sundhar Ram Srinivasan

Collaborative Tracking in Video Sequences Using Corners and

Gradient Information Francesco Monti

Storage Efficient Particle Filters for the Out of Sequence Measurement

Problem Umut Orguner

Extending the scope of Situation Analysis

Anders Dahlborn

Ramp Sequence Analysis to Resolve Multi Target Scenarios for a

77-GHz FMCW Radar Sensor Klaus Pourvoyeur

Performance Evaluation of Distributed Compressed Wideband

Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks Zhi Tian

Acoustic Information Fusion for Ground Vehicle Classification

Baofeng Guo

14:10 Optimal scheduling of mobile sensor networks for detection and

localization of stationary contamination sources

Maciej Patan

A Comparison of Detection Performance for Several Track-

Before-Detect Algorithms Samuel Davey

Weak sense Lp error bounds for leader-node distributed particle

filters Boris Oreshkin

Operator Situation Awareness Monitoring in the Cognisant

Control Room Simon Williams

Cued Passive Bearing Estimation in Distributed Sensor Data Fusion

Thomas Yudichak

Measuring Situation Assessment Performance through the Activities of

Interest Score John Salerno

Fuzzy Pattern Classification Tuning by Parameter Learning based on

Fusion Concept Rui Li

14:30 Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation of Distributed-Parameter Physical Systems based on Sliced

Gaussian Mixture Filter Felix Sawo

Reception State Estimation of GNSS satellites in urban

environment using particle filtering Donnay Nahimana

Measuring Performance of Cyber Situation Awareness Systems

George Tadda

Classification support using confidence intervals Willem van Norden

14:50 Break Break

15:20-17:00 Sensor Management Emmanuel Duflos

Philippe Vanheege

Track Initialization and MaintenancePeter Willett

Bearings-only TrackingDarko Musicki

Situation Awareness IIMaria Riveiro

OptimizationJean-Pierre Le Cadre

Fusion Performance Evaluation II

Mark Oxley

Classification IIVincent Nimier

15:20 A Stochastic Optimization Framework for Resource

Management and Course of Action Analysis Michael Hirsch

Sliding Window Test vs. Single Time Test for Track-to-Track Association

Xin Tian

Bearings-Only TMA Without Observer Maneuver

Claude Jauffret

Hidden Markov Model as a Framework for Situational

Awareness Thyagaraju Damarla

PROLOG: A Multiagent Toolkit for Logistics Planning in Netcentric

Environments Subrata Das

Hyperspectral Imagery Throughput and Fusion Evaluation over

Compression and InterpolationJames Patrick

Classifier fusion for post-classification of textured images

Arnaud Martin

15:40 Game Theoretic Multiple Mobile Sensor Management under Adversarial Environments

Mo Wei

Track Initialization in a Multistatic DAB/DVB-T Network

Martina Daun

Multi Frequencies And Bearing TMA: Properties and

Sonar Applications Claude Jauffret

Uncertainty in the fusion of information from multiple diverse sources for situation awareness

Kellyn Kruger

Three Dimensional Object Tracking Based on Audiovisual Fusion Using

Particle Swarm Optimization Fakheredine Keyrouz

Image Quality Assessment for Performance Evaluation of

Image FusionErik Blasch

User-Oriented Bayesian Identification and Its Configuration

Max Krüger

16:00 Level 4 fusion for Biosensor Location and Setting

Kedar Sambhoos

Comparison and Evaluation of Advanced Motion Models for

Vehicle Tracking Robin Schubert

Robustness Considerations for Bearings-Only Tracking

Benoît Landelle

Situational Awareness in Jammed Environments Using Track

Association and Motion Recognition Maria Andersson

An Optimal Sequential Optimization Approach in Application to

Dynamic Weapon Allocation in Naval Warfare Dany Dionne

Robust Multi-Look HRR ATR Investigation through Decision-Level

Fusion EvaluationBart Kahler

On Evidential Combination Rules for Ensemble Classifiers

Henrik Boström

16:20 Radar Sensor Management for Detection and Tracking

Kruger White

On Track-Management within the PMHT Framework Monika Wieneke

An Analysis of the Single Sensor Bearings-Only Tracking Problem

Mark Moreland

Insider Abuse Comprehension through Capability Acquisition

Graphs Sunu Mathew

A common framework for multitar-get and cross-cueing optimization

Cécile Simonin

Performances of an ATR System via its ROC Manifold

Mark Oxley

Sound and Dynamics of Targets Fusion Technologies in Radar Target

Classification Guy Kouemou

16:40 Optimal Policies Search for SensorManagement : Application to

the ESA Radar Thomas Brehard

Track Maintenance through Cooperating Agents

Rene Thaens

Beamforming Spatially Spread Signals with the Kent Distribution

Carol Christou

Presenting nighttime imagery in daytime colours

Maarten Hogervorst

Source Term Estimation using Convex Optimization

Yang Cheng

Asynchronous Bayesian Algorithm for Object Classification:

Application to Pedestrian Detection in Urban Areas

Laurence Ngako Pangop

18:30 Reception Reception

Tuesday July 1 - Afternoon

Technical Programme

18


8:30 Plenary Talk: Rabinder N. Madan, “Perspectives in Information Fusion“

9:00 Keynote Lecture II: Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, “Maximal Information Systems“

10:00 Break Break

10:20-12:00 Tracking Maneuvering Targets

Daniel Streller

Surveillance Dietrich Fränken

Parameter Estimation Christian Berger

Collaborating Mobile Sensors Volker Schatz

Belief Functions, Theory Christophe Osswald

Car-driver Assistance Systems Ullrich Scheunert

Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in

Multisensor Systems Venugopal Veeravalli

10:20 Characteristic Errors of the IMM Algorithm under Three Maneuver Models for an Accelerating Target

Erik Blasch

Fuzzy Cognitive Map based Situation Assessment for Coastal

Surveillance Sandeep Chandana

ParameterIdentification of a Pressure Regulator with a Nonlinear Structure Usinga Particle Filter based on the

Nonlinear State Space Model Tsukasa Ishigaki

Mobility as a Fusion Enabler Thomas Pastore

The Effect of Finite Set Representations on the Evaluation of

Dempster's Rule of Combination Martin Oxenham

Track Based Multi Sensor Data Fusion for Collision Mitigation

Panagiotis Lytrivis

Optimal Stationary Binary Quantizer for Decentralized

Quickest Change Detection in Hidden Markov Models

Cheng-Der Fuh

10:40 Pose-Angular Tracking of Maneuvering Targets with High Range Resolution (HRR) Radar

Erik Blasch

Extracting rules from expert opera-tors to support situation awareness

in maritime surveillance Maria Nilsson

Source Parameter Estimation of Atmospheric Pollution Using Regularized Least Squares

X. Rong Li

Multi-Cluster Agent-Based Emitter Geolocation using Hough Transform

Data Fusion Alexander Mikhalev

Mathematical Structure and Formulas for the minC Combination

of Belief Functions Milan Daniel

Advanced multiple objects tracking by fusing radar and image sensor data - Application on a case study.

Fabio Tango

One shot schemes for decentralized quickest change detection

Olympia Hadjiliadis

11:00 Continuous-Time Interacting Multiple Model Extrapolation

Shozo Mori

Integration of ADS-B Surveillance Data in Operative Multiradar

Tracking Processors Gonzalo de Miguel

Heavy-Tailed Exponential Distribution: Basic Properties and

Parameter Estimation Chongzhao Han

A Mobile Network for Mobile Sensors

Paul Scerri

Combining system and user belief on classification using the DSmT

combination rule Willem van Norden

A Fusion Concept of Video and Communication Data for VRU

Recognition Basel Fardi

Quickest Changepoint Detection in Distributed Multisensor Systems

under Unknown Parameters Alexander Tartakovsky

11:20 An Adaptive Road-Constrained IMM Estimator for Ground Target

Tracking in GSM Networks Miao Zhang

Track Modeling for Maritime Surveillance

Marie-Odette St-Hilaire

Distributed data fusion: application to confidence management in

vehicular networks Véronique Cherfaoui

Refined classifier combination using belief functions

Benjamin Quost

Generalized Grid Framework for Multi Sensor Data Fusion

Ullrich Scheunert

11:40 Design of Nearly Constant Velocity Tracks Filters for Tracking

Maneuvering Targets William Blair

Application of Search Theory for Large Volume Surveillance Planning

Adel Goutouni

Data Fusion for Person Identification in People Tracking

Dirk Schulz

About belief function combination on real numbers and fusion based

on maximal coherent sets Olivier Colot

Online-Estimation of Road Map Elements using Spline Curves

Carsten Hasberg

12:00 Lunch Lunch

Wednesday July 2 - Morning

Technical Programme

19


8:30 Plenary Talk: Rabinder N. Madan, “Perspectives in Information Fusion“

9:00 Keynote Lecture II: Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, “Maximal Information Systems“

10:00 Break Break

10:20-12:00 Tracking Maneuvering Targets

Daniel Streller

Surveillance Dietrich Fränken

Parameter Estimation Christian Berger

Collaborating Mobile Sensors Volker Schatz

Belief Functions, Theory Christophe Osswald

Car-driver Assistance Systems Ullrich Scheunert

Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in

Multisensor Systems Venugopal Veeravalli

10:20 Characteristic Errors of the IMM Algorithm under Three Maneuver Models for an Accelerating Target

Erik Blasch

Fuzzy Cognitive Map based Situation Assessment for Coastal

Surveillance Sandeep Chandana

ParameterIdentification of a Pressure Regulator with a Nonlinear Structure Usinga Particle Filter based on the

Nonlinear State Space Model Tsukasa Ishigaki

Mobility as a Fusion Enabler Thomas Pastore

The Effect of Finite Set Representations on the Evaluation of

Dempster's Rule of Combination Martin Oxenham

Track Based Multi Sensor Data Fusion for Collision Mitigation

Panagiotis Lytrivis

Optimal Stationary Binary Quantizer for Decentralized

Quickest Change Detection in Hidden Markov Models

Cheng-Der Fuh

10:40 Pose-Angular Tracking of Maneuvering Targets with High Range Resolution (HRR) Radar

Erik Blasch

Extracting rules from expert opera-tors to support situation awareness

in maritime surveillance Maria Nilsson

Source Parameter Estimation of Atmospheric Pollution Using Regularized Least Squares

X. Rong Li

Multi-Cluster Agent-Based Emitter Geolocation using Hough Transform

Data Fusion Alexander Mikhalev

Mathematical Structure and Formulas for the minC Combination

of Belief Functions Milan Daniel

Advanced multiple objects tracking by fusing radar and image sensor data - Application on a case study.

Fabio Tango

One shot schemes for decentralized quickest change detection

Olympia Hadjiliadis

11:00 Continuous-Time Interacting Multiple Model Extrapolation

Shozo Mori

Integration of ADS-B Surveillance Data in Operative Multiradar

Tracking Processors Gonzalo de Miguel

Heavy-Tailed Exponential Distribution: Basic Properties and

Parameter Estimation Chongzhao Han

A Mobile Network for Mobile Sensors

Paul Scerri

Combining system and user belief on classification using the DSmT

combination rule Willem van Norden

A Fusion Concept of Video and Communication Data for VRU

Recognition Basel Fardi

Quickest Changepoint Detection in Distributed Multisensor Systems

under Unknown Parameters Alexander Tartakovsky

11:20 An Adaptive Road-Constrained IMM Estimator for Ground Target

Tracking in GSM Networks Miao Zhang

Track Modeling for Maritime Surveillance

Marie-Odette St-Hilaire

Distributed data fusion: application to confidence management in

vehicular networks Véronique Cherfaoui

Refined classifier combination using belief functions

Benjamin Quost

Generalized Grid Framework for Multi Sensor Data Fusion

Ullrich Scheunert

11:40 Design of Nearly Constant Velocity Tracks Filters for Tracking

Maneuvering Targets William Blair

Application of Search Theory for Large Volume Surveillance Planning

Adel Goutouni

Data Fusion for Person Identification in People Tracking

Dirk Schulz

About belief function combination on real numbers and fusion based

on maximal coherent sets Olivier Colot

Online-Estimation of Road Map Elements using Spline Curves

Carsten Hasberg

12:00 Lunch Lunch

Wednesday July 2 - Morning

Technical Programme

20


13:00-14:40 Ground Target Tracking and Classification

Mahendra Mallick






Jochen Meidow

Teams Klaus Wild

13:00 Road Map Assisted Ground Target Tracking

Daniel Streller

Common Fallacies in Applying Hypothesis Testing

X. Rong Li

Stochastic Process Estimation using the Fault-Tolerant Interval Functions

Olivier Bilenne

On Scalable Distributed Sensor Fusion

Kuochu Chang

Decision Support with Belief Functions Theory for Seabed Characterization

Arnaud Martin

Synchronised Data Acquisition for Sensor Data Fusion in Aerial

Surveying Volker Schatz

DyKnow Federations: Distributing and Merging Information Among UAVs

Fredrik Heintz

13:20 Incremental fusion of GMTI Tracks for road map estimation

Shlomo Sklarz

A Heterogeneous Descriptor Fusion Process For Visual Concept

Identification Gregoire Lefebvre

Quaternion Unscented Kalman Filtering for Integrated Inertial

Navigation and GPS Wassim Khoder

Modified Value Iteration Algorithm and Dynamic Element Matching based MDP for Distributed Data Fusion and Sensor Management

Dimitry Akselrod

Subjective Effects-Based Assessment Johan Schubert

Online Annotation of Airborne Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Videos Peter Solbrig

An Efficient Information Sharing Approach For Large Scale

Multi-agent Team Paul Scerri

13:40 Ground Target Group Structure and State Estimation with Particle Filtering

Lyudmila Mihaylova

Improving Tracking by Integrating Reliability of Multiple Sources

Luca Marchetti

The Square Root Unscented Kalman Filter Formulation of Risk-Sensitive

Filter Wenyan Guo

An Information Theoretic Approach to Verification of Modular Bayesian

Fusion Systems Patrick De Oude

Map matching algorithm using belief function theory

Ghalia Nassreddine

Fusion of perceptual processes for real-time object tracking

Kai Juengling

Sensor Data Fusion for Terrain Exploration by Collaborating Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Peter Nordin

14:00 Tracking of convoys by airborne STAP radar

Richard Klemm

Design as a Fusion Problem John Gray

Linear filtering with timing uncertainty Mark Morelande

Decreased Complexity and Increased Problem Specificity of

Bayesian Fusion by Local Approaches Jennifer Sander

Conflict measure for the discounting operation on belief functions

Arnaud Martin

Evidence Fusion Using the GESTALT-System

Eckart Michaelsen

Optimal Team Decision: a Cross-Entropic Coordination Approach

Fréderic Dambreville

14:20 Multisensor Particle Filter Cloud Fusion for Multitarget Tracking

Daniel Danu

Combinatorial Fusion with On-line Learning Algorithms Chris Mesterharm

State Estimation with Quantized Measurements: Approximate MMSE

Approach X. Rong Li

Distributed Control in Multi-Agent Systems: A Preliminary Model of

Autonomous MAV Swarms Fabio Ruini

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Fusion for Coalition

Operations Tien Pham

Path Planning for Autonomous Information Collecting Vehicles

Paul Scerri

14:40 Break Break

15:10-16:50 Fusion II Chris Mesterharm

Higher-level Fusion Sten Andler

Distributed Fusion Algorithms II

Fredrik Gustafsson David Lindgren



Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems II

Alexander Tartakovsky

15:10 Tracking Ground Based Targets in Aerial Video with Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Polar Matching and Particle

Filtering James Nelson

A Bayesian network approach to threat evaluation with application to

an air defense scenario Fredrik Johansson

Estimation of Target Trajectories Based on Distributed Channel Energy

MeasurementsSora Choi

A Controlled Search for Radioactive Point Sources Branko Ristic

Adaptive Arbitration by Variant Counting on Commutative Bases with

Weights Giuseppe Primiero

Asymptotically optimum tests for decentralized sequential testing in

continuous timeGeorgios Fellouris

15:30 Estimation Entropy and its Operati-onal Characteristics in Information

Acquisition Systems Mohammad-Jafar Rezaeian

An Empirical Comparison of Bayesian and Credal Networks for

Dependable High-Level Information Fusion

Alexander Karlsson

Analysis of Distributed Fusion Alternatives in Coordinated Vision

AgentsFederico Castanedo

Combining multi-source information for crop monitoring Mahmoud El Hajj

Understanding Aviation Risk Andrew Rose

Quickest Detection of a Change Process Across a Sensor Array

Vasanthan Raghavan

15:50 A spatiotemporal data fusion model for occupancy state estimation: an

evidential approach Laurence Boudet

Statistical Evaluation of Decision-Level Fusion Methods for Non-Cooperative

Target Identification by Radar Signatures

Tanja Bieker

The Optimality of a Class of Distri-buted Estimation Fusion Algorithm

Zhansheng Duan

Neural Network based Data Fusion in Food Transportation System

Amir Jabbari

Natural Language Processing in Information Fusion Terminology

Management Elzbieta Dura

Dimensionally Distributed Learning: Models and Algorithm

Haipeng Zheng

16:10 Panel discussion:Issues and Challenges in Distributed

Tracking and Fusion with Applications to Real-World Problems

in a Net-Centric World(till 18:00)

Fusion of heterogeneous features via cascaded on-line boosting

Ingrid Vistentini

Optimal Distributed Estimation Fusion with Transformed Data

Zhansheng Duan

Applicationof Generalized Parti-al Volume Estimation for Mutual

Information basedRegistration of High Resolution SAR and Optical imagery

Sahil Suri

COALESCE: A probabilistic ontology-based scene understanding approach

Majid Zandipour

16:30 A Modified Evidence Combination Approach Based on Ambiguity

Measure Chongzhao Han

Integration of Thermal and Visible Imagery for Robust Foreground

Detection in Tele-immersive Spaces Peter Bajcsy

Probabilistic Ontologies for Knowledge Fusion Kathryn Laskey

19:00 Banquet on the ship „MS RheinEnergie“ Banquet on the ship „MS RheinEnergie“

Wednesday July 2 - Afternoon

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13:00-14:40 Ground Target Tracking and Classification

Mahendra Mallick






Jochen Meidow

Teams Klaus Wild

13:00 Road Map Assisted Ground Target Tracking

Daniel Streller

Common Fallacies in Applying Hypothesis Testing

X. Rong Li

Stochastic Process Estimation using the Fault-Tolerant Interval Functions

Olivier Bilenne

On Scalable Distributed Sensor Fusion

Kuochu Chang

Decision Support with Belief Functions Theory for Seabed Characterization

Arnaud Martin

Synchronised Data Acquisition for Sensor Data Fusion in Aerial

Surveying Volker Schatz

DyKnow Federations: Distributing and Merging Information Among UAVs

Fredrik Heintz

13:20 Incremental fusion of GMTI Tracks for road map estimation

Shlomo Sklarz

A Heterogeneous Descriptor Fusion Process For Visual Concept

Identification Gregoire Lefebvre

Quaternion Unscented Kalman Filtering for Integrated Inertial

Navigation and GPS Wassim Khoder

Modified Value Iteration Algorithm and Dynamic Element Matching based MDP for Distributed Data Fusion and Sensor Management

Dimitry Akselrod

Subjective Effects-Based Assessment Johan Schubert

Online Annotation of Airborne Surveillance and Reconnaissance

Videos Peter Solbrig

An Efficient Information Sharing Approach For Large Scale

Multi-agent Team Paul Scerri

13:40 Ground Target Group Structure and State Estimation with Particle Filtering

Lyudmila Mihaylova

Improving Tracking by Integrating Reliability of Multiple Sources

Luca Marchetti

The Square Root Unscented Kalman Filter Formulation of Risk-Sensitive

Filter Wenyan Guo

An Information Theoretic Approach to Verification of Modular Bayesian

Fusion Systems Patrick De Oude

Map matching algorithm using belief function theory

Ghalia Nassreddine

Fusion of perceptual processes for real-time object tracking

Kai Juengling

Sensor Data Fusion for Terrain Exploration by Collaborating Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Peter Nordin

14:00 Tracking of convoys by airborne STAP radar

Richard Klemm

Design as a Fusion Problem John Gray

Linear filtering with timing uncertainty Mark Morelande

Decreased Complexity and Increased Problem Specificity of

Bayesian Fusion by Local Approaches Jennifer Sander

Conflict measure for the discounting operation on belief functions

Arnaud Martin

Evidence Fusion Using the GESTALT-System

Eckart Michaelsen

Optimal Team Decision: a Cross-Entropic Coordination Approach


14:20 Multisensor Particle Filter Cloud Fusion for Multitarget Tracking

Daniel Danu

Combinatorial Fusion with On-line Learning Algorithms Chris Mesterharm

State Estimation with Quantized Measurements: Approximate MMSE

Approach X. Rong Li

Distributed Control in Multi-Agent Systems: A Preliminary Model of

Autonomous MAV Swarms Fabio Ruini

Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Fusion for Coalition

Operations Tien Pham

Path Planning for Autonomous Information Collecting Vehicles

Paul Scerri

14:40 Break Break

15:10-16:50 Fusion II Chris Mesterharm

Higher-level Fusion Sten Andler

Distributed Fusion Algorithms II

Fredrik Gustafsson David Lindgren



Distributed Inference and Decision-Making in Multisensor Systems II

Alexander Tartakovsky

15:10 Tracking Ground Based Targets in Aerial Video with Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Polar Matching and Particle

Filtering James Nelson

A Bayesian network approach to threat evaluation with application to

an air defense scenario Fredrik Johansson

Estimation of Target Trajectories Based on Distributed Channel Energy

MeasurementsSora Choi

A Controlled Search for Radioactive Point Sources Branko Ristic

Adaptive Arbitration by Variant Counting on Commutative Bases with

Weights Giuseppe Primiero

Asymptotically optimum tests for decentralized sequential testing in

continuous timeGeorgios Fellouris

15:30 Estimation Entropy and its Operati-onal Characteristics in Information

Acquisition Systems Mohammad-Jafar Rezaeian

An Empirical Comparison of Bayesian and Credal Networks for

Dependable High-Level Information Fusion

Alexander Karlsson

Analysis of Distributed Fusion Alternatives in Coordinated Vision

AgentsFederico Castanedo

Combining multi-source information for crop monitoring Mahmoud El Hajj

Understanding Aviation Risk Andrew Rose

Quickest Detection of a Change Process Across a Sensor Array

Vasanthan Raghavan

15:50 A spatiotemporal data fusion model for occupancy state estimation: an

evidential approach Laurence Boudet

Statistical Evaluation of Decision-Level Fusion Methods for Non-Cooperative

Target Identification by Radar Signatures

Tanja Bieker

The Optimality of a Class of Distri-buted Estimation Fusion Algorithm

Zhansheng Duan

Neural Network based Data Fusion in Food Transportation System

Amir Jabbari

Natural Language Processing in Information Fusion Terminology

Management Elzbieta Dura

Dimensionally Distributed Learning: Models and Algorithm

Haipeng Zheng

16:10 Panel discussion:Issues and Challenges in Distributed

Tracking and Fusion with Applications to Real-World Problems

in a Net-Centric World(till 18:00)

Fusion of heterogeneous features via cascaded on-line boosting

Ingrid Vistentini

Optimal Distributed Estimation Fusion with Transformed Data

Zhansheng Duan

Applicationof Generalized Parti-al Volume Estimation for Mutual

Information basedRegistration of High Resolution SAR and Optical imagery

Sahil Suri

COALESCE: A probabilistic ontology-based scene understanding approach

Majid Zandipour

16:30 A Modified Evidence Combination Approach Based on Ambiguity

Measure Chongzhao Han

Integration of Thermal and Visible Imagery for Robust Foreground

Detection in Tele-immersive Spaces Peter Bajcsy

Probabilistic Ontologies for Knowledge Fusion Kathryn Laskey

19:00 Banquet on the ship „MS RheinEnergie“ Banquet on the ship „MS RheinEnergie“

Wednesday July 2 - Afternoon

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9:00 Keynote Lecture III: Henk A. P. Blom, "Air Traffic Collision Risk Modelling, Analysis and Rare Event Simulation"

10:00 Break Break

10:20-12:00 Ground Target Tracking and Classification II

Mahendra Mallick


Jean Dezert


Tracking with Sensor Networks

Benjamin Pannetier



Raffaele Grasso

10:20 Methodology for Incorporating the Doppler Blind Zone in Target

Tracking AlgorithmsJohn Martin Clark

A new probabilistic transformation of belief mass assignment

Jean Dezert

Particle filters and data association for multi-target tracking

Mats Ekman

Optimal Fusion Performance Modeling in Sensor Networks

Stefano Coraluppi

A Security Assistance System combining Person Tracking with

Chemical Attributes and Video Event Analysis

Peter Kaul

A Web Services Approach for the Development of a Multi-Sensor

Data Fusion System Mihai Cristian Florea

10:40 Lane Tracking for On-Road Targets X. Rong Li

An evaluation of the attribute infor-mation for the purpose of

DSmT fusion in C&C systems Ksawery Krenc

Feature Aided Probabilistic Data Association for Multi-Target Tracking

Xuezhi Wang

A Cooperative Game-Theoretic Measurement Allocation Algorithm

for Localization in Unattended Ground Sensor Networks

Farhad Ghassemi

Information Fusion in a TV program Recommendation System

Claire Laudy

Recombinant Cognition Synthesis - An Introduction Marco Solano

11:00 Ground Moving Target Tracking with Context Information and a Refined

Sensor ModelMichael Mertens

Discrete Labels and Rich Foci in Theory of Evidence

Christophe Osswald

Sensor scheduling for multiple target tracking and detection using

passive measurements Thomas Hanselmann

Target Trajectory Estimation within a Sensor Network Adrien Ickowicz

Forest Fire Growth Modelling with Geographical Information Fusion

Yves Dumond

Integrating Abstract State Machines and Interpreted Systems for Situation

Analysis Decision Support Design Roozbeh Farahbod

11:20 Curvature Nonlinearity Measure and Filter Divergence Detector for

Nonlinear Tracking ProblemsPramod Vashney

Multiple cameras fusion based on DSmT for tracking objects on ground

plane Esteban Garcia

Multitarget Tracking in the Presence of Wakes

Anders Rødningsby

Multi Scan Target Tracking with Finite Resolution Sensors

Darko Musicki

Continuous 3D Sensing for Navigation and SLAM in Cluttered

and Dynamic Environments Dirk Holz

11:40 Modelling Uncertain Implication Rules in Evidence Theory

Alessio Benavoli

Multitarget Tracking Algorithm Based on Finite Mixture Models and

Equivalent Measurement Weifeng Liu

Low-cost loosely-coupled GPS/ odometer fusion: a pattern

recognition aided approach Cheng Chen

A Framework for Multisensor Image Fusion using Graphics Hardware

Seunghun Yoo

12:00 Lunch Lunch

Thursday July 3 - Morning

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9:00 Keynote Lecture III: Henk A. P. Blom, "Air Traffic Collision Risk Modelling, Analysis and Rare Event Simulation"

10:00 Break Break

10:20-12:00 Ground Target Tracking and Classification II

Mahendra Mallick


Jean Dezert


Tracking with Sensor Networks

Benjamin Pannetier



Raffaele Grasso

10:20 Methodology for Incorporating the Doppler Blind Zone in Target

Tracking AlgorithmsJohn Martin Clark

A new probabilistic transformation of belief mass assignment

Jean Dezert

Particle filters and data association for multi-target tracking

Mats Ekman

Optimal Fusion Performance Modeling in Sensor Networks

Stefano Coraluppi

A Security Assistance System combining Person Tracking with

Chemical Attributes and Video Event Analysis

Peter Kaul

A Web Services Approach for the Development of a Multi-Sensor

Data Fusion System Mihai Cristian Florea

10:40 Lane Tracking for On-Road Targets X. Rong Li

An evaluation of the attribute infor-mation for the purpose of

DSmT fusion in C&C systems Ksawery Krenc

Feature Aided Probabilistic Data Association for Multi-Target Tracking

Xuezhi Wang

A Cooperative Game-Theoretic Measurement Allocation Algorithm

for Localization in Unattended Ground Sensor Networks

Farhad Ghassemi

Information Fusion in a TV program Recommendation System

Claire Laudy

Recombinant Cognition Synthesis - An Introduction Marco Solano

11:00 Ground Moving Target Tracking with Context Information and a Refined

Sensor ModelMichael Mertens

Discrete Labels and Rich Foci in Theory of Evidence

Christophe Osswald

Sensor scheduling for multiple target tracking and detection using

passive measurements Thomas Hanselmann

Target Trajectory Estimation within a Sensor Network Adrien Ickowicz

Forest Fire Growth Modelling with Geographical Information Fusion

Yves Dumond

Integrating Abstract State Machines and Interpreted Systems for Situation

Analysis Decision Support Design Roozbeh Farahbod

11:20 Curvature Nonlinearity Measure and Filter Divergence Detector for

Nonlinear Tracking ProblemsPramod Vashney

Multiple cameras fusion based on DSmT for tracking objects on ground

plane Esteban Garcia

Multitarget Tracking in the Presence of Wakes

Anders Rødningsby

Multi Scan Target Tracking with Finite Resolution Sensors

Darko Musicki

Continuous 3D Sensing for Navigation and SLAM in Cluttered

and Dynamic Environments Dirk Holz

11:40 Modelling Uncertain Implication Rules in Evidence Theory

Alessio Benavoli

Multitarget Tracking Algorithm Based on Finite Mixture Models and

Equivalent Measurement Weifeng Liu

Low-cost loosely-coupled GPS/ odometer fusion: a pattern

recognition aided approach Cheng Chen

A Framework for Multisensor Image Fusion using Graphics Hardware

Seunghun Yoo

12:00 Lunch Lunch

Thursday July 3 - Morning

Technical Programme

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13:00-14:40 Civil Security Sten Andler


Ronald Mahler




Data James Llinas



13:00 Parameter Estimation of a Continuous Chemical Plume Source

Ajith Gunatilaka

On Performance Evaluation of Multi-Object Filters

Dominic Schuhmacher

DMHT-based Undersea Surveillance: Insights from MSTWG

Analysis and Recent Sea-Trial Experimentation

Stefano Coraluppi

Modified Evidence theory for Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection Systems

Ciza Thomas

Context Selection For Linguistic Data Fusion

Nicholas Morizio

Automatic generation of 3D models from real multisensor data

Carmen Witte

A Context-Based Fusion Algorithm for Shape Retrieval Akrem El-ghazal

13:20 Radar/AIS Data Fusion and SAR tasking for Maritime Surveillance

Marco Guerriero

Bayes Derivation of Multitarget Intensity Filters

Roy Streit

The Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized PHD Tracker on MSTWG and

SEABAR Datasets Ozgur Erdinc

Real-time Fusion and Projection of Network Intrusion Activity

Shanchieh Yang

First-Principle Approach to Functio-nally Decomposing the JDL Fusion Model: Emphasis on Soft Target

Data Richard Antony

Multi-sensors data fusion using dynamic bayesian network for robo-

tised vehicle geo-localisation Cindy Cappelle

Optimal Contrast for Color Image Fusion using ICA bases Nikolaos Mitianoudis

13:40 Finding behavioural anomalies in public areas using video surveil-

lance data Christoffer Brax

Multisensor Multitarget Intensity Filter

Roy Streit

Multistatic Target Tracking Using Specular Cue Initiation and

Directed Data Retrieval Doug Grimmett

Improving the Detection of Unknown Computer Worms Activity using

Active Learning Robert Moskovitch

Graphical Methods for Real-Time Fusion and Estimation with Soft

Message Data Kedar Sambhoos

Artificial Immune Systems for Data Fusion: A Novel Biologically Inspired

Approach Adam Knowles

Bayesian Fusion of Multivariate Image Series to Obtain Depth

Information Ioana Gheta

14:00 Combined Person Tracking and Classification in a Network of

Chemical Sensors Monika Wieneke

PHD Filtering with Target Amplitude Feature

Daniel Clark

MSTWG Multistatic Tracker Evaluati-on Using Simulated Scenario

Data Sets Doug Grimmett

Evaluation of a Sentry System against Noisy Optimal Intrusions


Perspectives on visualization and virtual world technologies

for multi-sensor data fusion David Hall

Multisensor Background Extraction and Updating for Moving Target

Detection Boban Bondzulic

A Self-Organizing Neural Model for Multimedia Information Fusion

Luong-Dong Nguyen

14:20 Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection Systems using

advances in Sensor Fusion Ciza Thomas

A GMM-Based Multitarget Tracking Algorithm and Analysis

Mohamed Sadek Kemouche

Multistatic Multihypothesis Tracking: Environmentally Adaptive and High-precision State Estimates

Martina Daun

An Extension of STANAG2022 for Information Scoring Jérôme Besombes

Multisensor Data Fusion for Prosthetic Control

Henry Zheng

Improved dynamic image fusion scheme for infrared and visible

sequence based on image fusion system Xiao Gang

14:40 Break Break

15:10-16:50 Finite Set Statistics (FISST): Theory and Applications II

Ronald Mahler



Michael Heizmann


Data II James Llinas


15:10 Some Applications of FISST to Wireless Communications

Daniele Angelosante

Evaluating the influence of parameter variations on

multi-sensor trackingPascal de Theije

Level Set Segmentation of Hyperspectral Images Using Joint

Spectral Edge and Signature Information

Radford Juang

Expression of Uncertainty in Linguistic DataAlain Auger

Geolocation using TDOA and FDOA Measurements

Darko Musicki

15:30 Multi-Target Tracking in a Two-Tier Hierarchical Architecture

Jin Wei

Metric Selection for Information Theoretic Sensor Management

Jason Aughenbaugh

Multi-Resolution Learning Vector Quantisation Based Automatic

Colour Clustering Andrew Payne

Situation and Context in Data Fusion and

Natural Language UnderstandingAlan Steinberg

FuSIA: Future Situation and Impact Awareness

Jared Holsopple

15:50 Data association for PHD filter based on MHT

Yang Wang

Stationary Priors for Bayesian Target TrackingBrian La Cour

Feature Fusion as a Practical Solution toward Noncooperative

Iris Recognition Nima Tajbakhsh

Fusion Challenges in Non- Traditional Warfare – The Road to

an Asymmetric Fusion ModelJames Snyder

Improving Position Accuracy by Combined Processing of Galileo

and GPS Satellite Signals Ulrich Engel

16:10 Panel discussion: Higher-Level Information Fusion:

Challenges to the Academic Community(till 18:00)

Missed Detection Problems in the Cardinalized Probability Hypothesis

Density FilterMartin Ulmke

The Effect of Sensor Registration Error on the Performance of PMHT

Christian Hempel

An Intelligent Decision Combiner Applied to Noncooperative


Soft Data Issues in Fusion of Video SurveillanceGiovanni Ferrin

Target Tracking with Interactive Multiple Model in Geodetic Co-ordinate System for Naval Ships

Cooperative EngagementLi Duan

16:30 Application of Particle Filters in a Hierarchical Data Fusion System

Thomas Lang

Enhancing Graph Matching Tech-niques with Ontologies

Eric Little

Thursday July 3 - Afternoon

Technical Programme

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13:00-14:40 Civil Security Sten Andler


Ronald Mahler




Data James Llinas



13:00 Parameter Estimation of a Continuous Chemical Plume Source

Ajith Gunatilaka

On Performance Evaluation of Multi-Object Filters

Dominic Schuhmacher

DMHT-based Undersea Surveillance: Insights from MSTWG

Analysis and Recent Sea-Trial Experimentation

Stefano Coraluppi

Modified Evidence theory for Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection Systems

Ciza Thomas

Context Selection For Linguistic Data Fusion

Nicholas Morizio

Automatic generation of 3D models from real multisensor data

Carmen Witte

A Context-Based Fusion Algorithm for Shape Retrieval Akrem El-ghazal

13:20 Radar/AIS Data Fusion and SAR tasking for Maritime Surveillance

Marco Guerriero

Bayes Derivation of Multitarget Intensity Filters

Roy Streit

The Gaussian Mixture Cardinalized PHD Tracker on MSTWG and

SEABAR Datasets Ozgur Erdinc

Real-time Fusion and Projection of Network Intrusion Activity

Shanchieh Yang

First-Principle Approach to Functio-nally Decomposing the JDL Fusion Model: Emphasis on Soft Target

Data Richard Antony

Multi-sensors data fusion using dynamic bayesian network for robo-

tised vehicle geo-localisation Cindy Cappelle

Optimal Contrast for Color Image Fusion using ICA bases Nikolaos Mitianoudis

13:40 Finding behavioural anomalies in public areas using video surveil-

lance data Christoffer Brax

Multisensor Multitarget Intensity Filter

Roy Streit

Multistatic Target Tracking Using Specular Cue Initiation and

Directed Data Retrieval Doug Grimmett

Improving the Detection of Unknown Computer Worms Activity using

Active Learning Robert Moskovitch

Graphical Methods for Real-Time Fusion and Estimation with Soft

Message Data Kedar Sambhoos

Artificial Immune Systems for Data Fusion: A Novel Biologically Inspired

Approach Adam Knowles

Bayesian Fusion of Multivariate Image Series to Obtain Depth

Information Ioana Gheta

14:00 Combined Person Tracking and Classification in a Network of

Chemical Sensors Monika Wieneke

PHD Filtering with Target Amplitude Feature

Daniel Clark

MSTWG Multistatic Tracker Evaluati-on Using Simulated Scenario

Data Sets Doug Grimmett

Evaluation of a Sentry System against Noisy Optimal Intrusions


Perspectives on visualization and virtual world technologies

for multi-sensor data fusion David Hall

Multisensor Background Extraction and Updating for Moving Target

Detection Boban Bondzulic

A Self-Organizing Neural Model for Multimedia Information Fusion

Luong-Dong Nguyen

14:20 Performance Enhancement of Intrusion Detection Systems using

advances in Sensor Fusion Ciza Thomas

A GMM-Based Multitarget Tracking Algorithm and Analysis

Mohamed Sadek Kemouche

Multistatic Multihypothesis Tracking: Environmentally Adaptive and High-precision State Estimates

Martina Daun

An Extension of STANAG2022 for Information Scoring Jérôme Besombes

Multisensor Data Fusion for Prosthetic Control

Henry Zheng

Improved dynamic image fusion scheme for infrared and visible

sequence based on image fusion system Xiao Gang

14:40 Break Break

15:10-16:50 Finite Set Statistics (FISST): Theory and Applications II

Ronald Mahler



Michael Heizmann


Data II James Llinas


15:10 Some Applications of FISST to Wireless Communications

Daniele Angelosante

Evaluating the influence of parameter variations on

multi-sensor trackingPascal de Theije

Level Set Segmentation of Hyperspectral Images Using Joint

Spectral Edge and Signature Information

Radford Juang

Expression of Uncertainty in Linguistic DataAlain Auger

Geolocation using TDOA and FDOA Measurements

Darko Musicki

15:30 Multi-Target Tracking in a Two-Tier Hierarchical Architecture

Jin Wei

Metric Selection for Information Theoretic Sensor Management

Jason Aughenbaugh

Multi-Resolution Learning Vector Quantisation Based Automatic

Colour Clustering Andrew Payne

Situation and Context in Data Fusion and

Natural Language UnderstandingAlan Steinberg

FuSIA: Future Situation and Impact Awareness

Jared Holsopple

15:50 Data association for PHD filter based on MHT

Yang Wang

Stationary Priors for Bayesian Target TrackingBrian La Cour

Feature Fusion as a Practical Solution toward Noncooperative


Fusion Challenges in Non- Traditional Warfare – The Road to

an Asymmetric Fusion ModelJames Snyder

Improving Position Accuracy by Combined Processing of Galileo

and GPS Satellite Signals Ulrich Engel

16:10 Panel discussion: Higher-Level Information Fusion:

Challenges to the Academic Community(till 18:00)

Missed Detection Problems in the Cardinalized Probability Hypothesis

Density FilterMartin Ulmke

The Effect of Sensor Registration Error on the Performance of PMHT

Christian Hempel

An Intelligent Decision Combiner Applied to Noncooperative


Soft Data Issues in Fusion of Video SurveillanceGiovanni Ferrin

Target Tracking with Interactive Multiple Model in Geodetic Co-ordinate System for Naval Ships

Cooperative EngagementLi Duan

16:30 Application of Particle Filters in a Hierarchical Data Fusion System

Thomas Lang

Enhancing Graph Matching Tech-niques with Ontologies

Eric Little

Thursday July 3 - Afternoon

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Ice Breaker ReceptionMonday June 30, 19:30-20:30, Hyatt Regency Cologne

Welcome ReceptionTuesday July 1, 18:30-20:30, Historic Town Hall, Cologne

Conference BanquetWednesday July 2, 19:00-23:00, aboard MS RheinEnergie

Guided Tours: OrganisationThe full-day tours into the neighbourhood of Cologne will have a very personal character and are or-•ganized by Dorothea Koch, Nancy Streit, Julia Laars, and Jane Stannus.Please register at the reception desk for the tours, which will start from the conference hotel. •The cost of transportation, entrance fees and cost for guided tours at the sites to be visited will be •shared among the participants (around €20-40, depending on participation).Lunch and coffee & cake have to be paid for individually in the restaurants. •

Guided Tour: TuesdayMaria Laach Abbey(in German: Abtei Maria Laach) is an ancient Benedictine abbey located in the Eifel hills, on the south-western shore of the Laacher See, a beautiful blue crater lake formed by a volcanic erup-tion around 10 000 years ago. A wonderful view of it can be had only a short walk away from the abbey parking area. Maria Laach was founded in 1093 by Heinrich II, Count Palatine of the Rhine, who had no children and so devoted what would have been a dowry to the construction of a mon-astery. The abbey is a true masterpiece of German Romanesque architecture. Among the many artistic jewels to be seen at Maria Laach are Heinrich II’s tomb, an Early Gothic monument covered in paintings of monks and abbots; the 16th-century frescoes of St. Benedict and St. Christopher; and of course the wonderful and unusual Paradise Portal, which was designed by the mason Laacher Samson-Meister or “Master of the Laach Samson” in the 13th century. Maria Laach is still in use as a monastery, where Benedictine monks live a life of prayer apart from the world, assembling five times a day in the church for the service (officium). Lunch will be in the historic cloister restaurant.

Burg Eltzis a medieval castle nestled in the hills above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier. It is still owned by descendants of the same family that lived there in the 12th cen-tury, 33 generations ago. Burg Eltz looks exactly like a fairy-tale castle, with its many turrets, tiny windows, and formidable ramparts. A cross section of eight hundred years of history is reflected in the layout and architecture of the rooms. All the architectural styles from the Romanesque to the early Baroque merge in Burg Eltz to form a symmetrical whole. Inside, weapons, ar-mour, wonderful paintings, and exquisite furniture are on show, making one of the most famous castles in Germany a true pleasure to explore. Coffee will be in the romantic castle garden. © Joachim Biermann

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Guided Tour: WednesdayA personal guided tour to Cologne, the Cathedral and the Romanesque churchesThe city of Cologne contains one of the most impressive cathedrals in Europe, which in its turn houses one of the greatest pilgrim attractions of the medieval world, namely the relics of the Three Wise Men, also known as the Three Kings. Cologne Cathedral is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, and the largest free-hanging bell in the

world swings in its bell tower. Twelve Romanesque Churches can also be found in Cologne’s walled Old City. Severely damaged during the Second World War, they have been completely restored, and now stand witness to Co-logne’s rich early medieval heritage. Among them are the church to St. Gereon, a local martyr of Roman times, and the church to St. Ursula, who is the patron of Cologne, with her legendary 11 000 virgins. Many date back to Roman times; St. Gereon’s was once a Roman chapel, and St. Ursula’s is built on a Roman graveyard. Also the grand witnesses of the Roman Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium will be part of the tour. We will have lunch and coffee in one of the beautiful historic restaurants in the old town.

Guided Tour: Thursday Brühl: the Baroque castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust The palaces of Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl were built by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria, in the early 18th century. Magnificent specimens of Baroque architecture, the two palaces are connected by the lovely Schlosspark gardens that were in-spired by Louis XIV’s Versailles. Augustusburg is the main palace, while Falkenlust is more of a hunting lodge and was one of the Archbishop’s favourite summer residences. The two palaces, along with their charming Schlosspark, have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Until recently, Augustusburg was used for state receptions by the German Federal President. We will have lunch and coffee in the old Orangerie of the residence.

Suggestion for a private tourBeethoven’s and Schumann’s BonnThis tour will give you a glimpse of the lives of two men who not only played a key role in the Rheinland’s cultural history, but also had a significant influence on the entire world of music: Beethoven and Schumann. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, and lived there until his early twenties. The house where he grew up has now been turned into a museum containing many of his instruments and letters. There is also a monument to him on the city square. Robert Schumann, another great German composer, spent the last two years of his life in Bonn and died here. His grave is in the famous Alter Friedhof (Old Cemetery) in downtown Bonn, beside that of his wife Clara, who her-self was an internationally acclaimed concert pianist. His Carnaval seemed an appropriate selection for Dr. Klemm to play at the Welcome Ceremony of FUSION 2008. Information and advice will be provided on request at the registration desk. Perhaps, the thursday tour can be extended by a trip to Bonn.

© Inge Decker Stadt Köln 1997

© Inge Decker Stadt Köln 1995

Beethoven-Haus, StraßenansichtHouse of Beethoven, Street View

© Wolfgang Koch

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MEETING SITEHyatt Regency CologneKennedy-Ufer 2A,50679 Cologne, Germany Tel: +49 (0)221 828 1234Fax: +49 (0)221 828 1370Email: [email protected]

Hyatt Regency Cologne is a luxurious Cologne hotel situated on the right bank of the Rhine River. The hotel is within walking distance of the city centre, the Kölnarena event hall, and the KölnMesse trade fair and exhibition centre. Spectacular views of the Rhine, the old town and Cologne‘s world-famous Cathe-dral (Kölner Dom). The hotel is just 15 minutes drive from Cologne Airport.

REGISTRATION AND SECRETARIAT DESKPhone: +49 (0) 221 8281 18 28Opening HoursSunday June 29: 18:00 to 20:00Monday June 30: 8:00 to 20:30Tuesday July 1 to Thursday July 3: 8:00 to 18:00

AT THIS DESK:Tutorial participants will obtain tutorial notes related to their registration.The certificate of attendance will be provided, upon request.

FEESRegular and student registration fee include:

Access to all the regular and special sessions•Conference kit•Three buffet luncheons•Two coffee breaks per day•Welcome reception at the Old Town Hall of Cologne•Conference Banquet aboard the event ship “MS RheinEnergie”•One copy of CD-ROM proceedings•Certificate of attendance•One year’s ISIF Membership•

Tutorial fee includes:Note(s) of the tutorial(s) you have registered for•Two coffee breaks•One buffet luncheon•

FACILITIESProjectors and video equipment connected to a local PC will be available in each conference room. Pres-entations must be saved in Power Point or PDF format. Note that there will be NO Macintosh computer or VHS video player on site. Lapel microphones and laser pointers will be available for all speakers.All presentations have to be checked in at the conference media centre in Room “Baden“; morning presentations before morning coffee break, afternoon presentations before lunch.

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SCHÖNHOFERSSE SALES AND ENGINEERING GMBH

ATLAS ELEKTRONIKA joint company of ThyssenKrupp and EADS

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Map of Cologne

Genehmigungsvermerk Kommunale Geodaten: Stadt Köln, Amt für Liegenschaften, Vermessung und Kataster (KT 94/2008)

Conference Site Hyatt Regency

Embarquement to„MS RheinEnergie“

ReceptionHistoric Town Hall

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