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Imaging for Detection
and Identification
23 July--5 August 2006, Il Ciocco, Italy
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There is a coffee break midway in each three-hour lecture.
Monday, July 24
Week I
08:45-09:00 Jim Byrnes
Prometheus Inc.
Brief opening remarks
09:00-12:00 Shaun Lovejoy
McGill University
When size doesn't matter: our multifractal geosphere
14:30-17:30 Jan Flusser
Czech Academy of Sciences
Image fusion: a powerful tool for object identification
[PDF abstract] [PDF paper]
19:30-20:00 Welcome Reception
Main Terrace
Tuesday, July 25
9:00-12:00 Lena Klasen
Swedish Defense Research Agency FOI
Lessons learned from computervision
14:30-17:30 James V. Candy
University of California: Santa Barbara (UCSB) / Livermore (LLNL)
Nonlinear statisical signal processing: a particle filtering approach
[PDF paper]
Wednesday, July 26
09:00-12:00 Stepan Holub
Charles University
Possibilities for quantum information processing
[PDF abstract] [PDF paper]
14:30-15:45 Filip Sroubek & Jan Flusser
Czech Academy of Sciences
Live Demo: Superresolution Imaging
16:15-17:30 Poster Presenters
Introduction to Posters
20:30-22:00 Poster Session
Thursday, July 27
09:00-12:00 Chris Baker
University College London
Multi perspective imaging and image interpretation
[PDF abstract] [PDF paper]
14:30-17:30 Hugh Griffiths
University College London
Radar imaging for combating terrorism
[PDF paper]
Friday, July 28
14:30-15:45 Hermann Spitzer
Director, JUXOCO, US Army
The Unexploded Ordnance Center of Excellence (UXOCOE)
[PDF abstract]
16:15-17:30 Karl Hibbitts
Johns Hopkins APL
Optical effects due to the burial of IEDs
[PDF paper]
Saturday/Sunday
Weekend
Weekend Trips to Florence and Siena
Monday, July 31
Week II
09:00-12:00 Richard Tolimieri
Prometheus Inc.
Characterization and construction of ideal waveforms
[PDF paper]
14:30-17:30 Roberto Paolesse
Universita di Roma 'Tor Vergata'
Chemical images of water
[PDF paper]
Tuesday, August 1
09:00-10:15 Ed Sullivan
Prometheus Inc.
Sequential detection, estimation and noise cancelation in underwater acoustics
[PDF paper]
10:45-12:00 Carlos Godoy
NUWC
High fidelity modeling of active acoustic responses
14:30-17:30 Temo Matcharishvili
Institute of Geophysics, Tbilisi
Identification of complex processes based on analysis of phase space structures
[PDF abstract] [PDF paper]
Wednesday, August 2
09:00-12:00 Stephane Jaffard
University of Paris XII
Multifractal analysis of images with applications
[PDF abstract] [PDF paper]
14:30-15:45 Jose Alvelo
DTRA
An introduction to the chemical & biological defense science & technology program
16:15-17:30 Ben Shenefelt
Prometheus Inc.
Feature-based underwater mine detection
20:30-22:00 Poster Session
Contributed papers
Thursday, August 3
9:00-10:15 Vladimir Krakovsky
National Aviation University, Kiev
Spectrum sliding analysis
[PDF paper]
10:45-12:00 Ismail Alaoui
Faculty of Sciences Semlalia
Time-resolved luminescence imaging
[PDF paper]
14:30-17:30 Jim Byrnes
Prometheus Inc.
Open problems -- a group discussion
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