technical_programme

Monday June 30 (Tutorials)

Time	Rheinpfalz	Rheinhessen	Mosel	Rheingau	Franken
9:00-12:00	Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion I Y. 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 Fusion P. Svenson, M. Holmberg	Fusion in Image Processing J. Flusser, F. Šroubek, B. Zitová
	Lunch		Lunch
13:00-16:00	Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion II Y. Bar-Shalom	Implementation and Application of PHD/CPHD Filters R. Mahler	Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion J. Dezert	Higher Level Fusion for Situation Management G. L. Rogova	Fundamentals of the Class-Specific Method P. M. Baggenstoss
	Coffee		Coffee
16:30-19:30	Information Fusion Systems Evaluation E. 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

Session Overview

Tuesday July 1

Room	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
9:00-10:00	Plenary Lecture I
10:30-12:10	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 Duflos Phlippe 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

Wednesday July 2

Room	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
9:00-10:00	Plenary Lecture II
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
13:00-14:40	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 discussion Issues 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)

Thursday July 3

Room	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
9:00-10:00	Plenary Lecture III
10:20-12:00	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 F Andler Tomas Plansted	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 discussion Higher-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

Tuesday July 1 - Morning

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 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
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 Measurements 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 Surveillance 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 localization 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 Approach for Anomaly Detection in Aircraft Engine Data Neil Eklund	Minimum-Cost Sensor Coverage of Planar Regions Nageswara Rao	An Optimal Local Map Registration 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 Integrating Information from Human and Robotic Sources John Josephson
12:10	Lunch			Lunch

Tuesday July 1 - Afternoon

Time	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
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
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 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
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 Interpolation James 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 Fusion Erik 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 Evaluation Bart Kahler	On Evidential Combination Rules for Ensemble Classifiers Ronnie Johansson
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 multitarget 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

Wednesday July 2 - Morning

Time	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
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 operators 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 - Afternoon

Time	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
13:00-14:40	Ground Target Tracking and Classification Mahendra Mallick	Fusion I James Nelson	Estimation and Filtering Wayne Blanding	Distributed Fusion Algorithms Fredrik Gustafsson	Belief Functions, Applications Martin Oxenham	Fusion on Interacting Physical, Perceptual and Policy Levels 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 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
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 Measurements Sora 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 time Georgios Fellouris
15:30		Estimation Entropy and its Operational 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 Agents Federico 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 Distributed 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 Partial 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“

Thursday July 3 - Morning

Time	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
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	Advances and Applications of DSmT for Information Fusion Jean Dezert	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
10:20	Methodology for Incorporating the Doppler Blind Zone in Target Tracking Algorithms John 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 information 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 Model Michael 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 Problems Pramod 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	Integrated Web Service Broker for Meteorological and Oceanographic Data Frederick E. Petry
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 - Afternoon

Time	Rheinsaal II	Rheinsaal III	Rheinpfalz	Franken	Mosel	Rheingau	Rheinhessen
13:00-14:40	Civil Security Sten F Andler Tomas Plansted	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	Multisensor Data Fusion I Simon Maskell	Image Fusion Kai Juengling
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 Functionally Decomposing the JDL Fusion Model: Emphasis on Soft Target Data Richard Antony	Multi-sensors data fusion using dynamic bayesian network for robotised 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 surveillance 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 Evaluation Using Simulated Scenario Data Sets Doug Grimmett	Evaluation of a Sentry System against Noisy Optimal Intrusions Fréderic Dambreville	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	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	Multisensor Data Fusion II David Salmond
15:10		Some Applications of FISST to Wireless Communications Daniele Angelosante	Evaluating the influence of parameter variations on multi-sensor tracking Pascal de Theije	Level Set Segmentation of Hyperspectral Images Using Joint Spectral Edge and Signature Information Radford Juang	Expression of Uncertainty in Linguistic Data Alain 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 Understanding Alan 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 Tracking Brian 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 Model James 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 Filter Martin Ulmke	The Effect of Sensor Registration Error on the Performance of PMHT Christian Hempel	An Intelligent Decision Combiner Applied to Noncooperative Iris Recognition Nima Tajbakhsh	Soft Data Issues in Fusion of Video Surveillance Giovanni Ferrin	Target Tracking with Interactive Multiple Model in Geodetic Coordinate System for Naval Ships Cooperative Engagement Li Duan
16:30			Application of Particle Filters in a Hierarchical Data Fusion System Thomas Lang		Enhancing Graph Matching Techniques with Ontologies Eric Little