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A Primer on Various Approaches to Data Association

Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 6:00 – 7:30
Speaker: Peter Willett, ECE Department, University of Connecticut

To thread measurements (well, many call them “hits” or “plots”) of radar, sonar or imaging observations to a credible, smooth and reportable trajectory requires a filter. We’ll discuss those – Kalman, Unscented, particle, etc. – briefly. But the main topic here arises because one cannot even begin to filter without knowing which hits come from which targets, and which hits are complete nonsense (clutter). When wrapped inside some scheme for such data-association, a filter becomes a tracker.  This talk is intended to explain at a fairly high level the intuition behind some of the popular tracking algorithms.

RSVP required to help us obtain accurate headcount for dinner arrangements.
Please send RSVP NLT 17 October to Bob Berinato at bob.berinato@dynetics.com

Attendance fee of $10/ person to offset the cost of the meals – let Bob know if you have dietary restrictions.  The catered meal consists of a box lunch sandwich, chips, dessert, and drinks.

Location: Dynetics Corporate HQ, 1002 Explorer Blvd, Huntsville

Directions: http://www.dynetics.com/pdf/HuntsvilleAlabama.pdf

Speaker Biography:  Peter Willett received his BASc (Engineering Science) from the University of Toronto in 1982, and his PhD degree from Princeton University in 1986. He has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut ever since, and since 1998 has been a Professor. He has published 146 journal articles (20 more under review),  330 conference papers, and 9 book chapters and one book. He was awarded IEEE Fellow status effective 2003. His primary areas of research have been statistical signal processing, detection, machine learning, data fusion and tracking. He has interests in and has published in the areas of change/abnormality detection, optical pattern recognition, communications and industrial/security condition monitoring.

He is editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, and until recently was associate editor for three active journals – IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (for Data Fusion and Target Tracking) and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, parts A and B. He is also associate editor for the IEEE AES Magazine, associate editor for ISIF’s electronic Journal of Advances in Information Fusion. He was founder of editor of the AES Magazine’s periodic Tutorial issues, and was a member of the editorial board of IEEE’s Signal Processing Magazine. He is a member of the IEEE AESS Board of Governors 2003-2009,  2011.

He was General Co-Chair (with Stefano Coraluppi) for the 2006 ISIF/IEEE Fusion Conference in Florence, Executive Co-Chair (with Wolfgang Koch) in Cologne in 2008, and Emeritus Chair in Chicago in 2011. He was also Program Co-Chair (with Eugene Santos) for the 2003 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics in Washington DC, and Program Co-Chair (with Pramod Varshney) for the 1999 Fusion Conference in Sunnyvale. He was co-organizer of the tracking sub-session at the 1999 IEEE Aerospace Conference, and has been Organizer of the Remote Sensing Track of that conference 2000-2003.  Jointly with T. Kirubarajan, he co-organized the SPIE “System Diagnosis and Prognosis: Security and Condition Monitoring Issues” Conference in Orlando, 2001-2003.  He has been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Sensor-Array & Multichannel (SAM) technical committee since 1997,   serves on that TC’s SAM conference program committees, and maintains the SAM website.