Program at Glance

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Time/Day

Tuesday - June 16

14.00 - 15.00

Registration

15.00 - 16.30

Tutorial (G. Leus)

16.30 - 16.45

Coffee break

16.45 - 18.15

Tutorial (G. Leus)

18.15 - 19.30

Welcome reception

19.30 - 24.00

Luminara (free attendance)


Time/Day

Wednesday - June 17

Thursday - June 18

08.45 - 09.00

Opening

09.00 - 10.40

Oral Session (5 papers)

Oral Session (5 papers)

10.40 - 11.00

Coffee break

Coffee break

10.40 - 11.00

Oral Session (5 papers)

Oral Session (5 papers)

12.40 - 14.00

Luncheon

Luncheon

14.00 - 15.00

Plenary Talk (M. Amin)

Plenary Talk (H. Rauhut)

15.00 - 16.00

Oral Session 1/2 (3 papers)

Poster Sessions P1 and P2

16.00 - 16.30

Coffee break

Coffee break

16.20 - 17.20

Oral Session 1/2 (3 papers)

Poster Sessions P1 and P2

17.30 - 20.00

Tour "Piazza dei Miracoli"

20.00 - 22.00

Workshop Banquet
(Restaurant "Il Turista", near Piazza dei Miracoli)


Time/Day

Friday - June 19

09.00 - 10.00

Plenary Talk (M. Cetin)

10.00 - 10.20

Coffee break

10.20 - 12.20

Poster Sessions P3 and P4

12.20 - 12.30

Closing

Program

Time

Poster Area

Session

Wednesday, June 17

09:00 AM-10:40 AM

WeML1: Sparse sensing in synthetic aperture imaging systems

11:00 AM-12:40 PM

WeML2: Signal recovery and detection I

03:00 PM-05:20 PM

WeAL1: Sparse sensing application in radar I

Thursday, June 18

09:00 AM-10:40 AM

ThML1: Compressive acquisition techniques

11:00 AM-12:40 PM

ThML2: Signal recovery and detection II

03:00 PM-05:20 PM

ThP1: Signal recovery and detection III
ThP2: Sparse sensing applications in radar II

Friday, June 19

10:20 AM-12:20 PM

FrP1: Compressive sensing in SAR, ISAR and Tomography
FrP2: DoA estimation and array processing

Wednesday, June 17

9:00 AM - 10:40 AM

WeML1: Sparse sensing in synthetic aperture imaging systems

An Augmented Lagrangian Method for Autofocused Compressed SAR Imaging
Alper Gungor (Middle East Technical University & Aselsan, Turkey); Müjdat Çetin (Sabanci University, Turkey); H. Emre Güven (ASELSAN Inc., Turkey)
Gradient Algorithm Based ISAR Image Reconstruction From the Incomplete Dataset
Milos Dakovic and Ljubisa Stankovic (University of Montenegro, Montenegro); Srdjan Stankovic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Montenegro)
Multi Scatterer Detection within Tomographic SAR using a Compressive Sensing Approach
Matthias Weiß (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Gianfranco Fornaro and Diego Reale (CNR-IREA, Italy)
Combined Maximum a posterior and iterative sparse maximum likelihood-based approaches for joint SAR imaging and phase error correction
Habti Abeida (Taif University, Saudi Arabia); Jian Li (University of Florida, USA)
Exploiting Group Sparsity in SAR Tomography
Xiao Xiang Zhu and Nan Ge (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Muhammad Shahzad (Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany)

11:00 AM - 12:40 PM

WeML2: Signal recovery and detection I

Fiber Sensing Using Wavelength-Swept Lasers: A Compressed Sampling Approach
Christian Weiss and Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Multichannel sparse recovery of complex-valued signals using Huber's criterion
Esa Ollila (Aalto University, Finland)
Extensions of sub-Nyquist Radar: Reduced Time-on-Target and Cognitive Radar
Deborah Cohen and Alex Dikopoltsev (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
A Sub-Nyquist Radar System Based on Optimized Sensing Matrices Derived via Sparse Rulers
Hannes Stahl and Jan Mietzner (Airbus Defence & Space, Germany); Robert F.H. Fischer (Ulm University, Germany)
Wall Clutter Mitigation and Target Detection Using Discrete Prolate Spheroidal Sequences
Zhihui Zhu and Michael Wakin (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

3:00 PM - 5:20 PM

WeAL1: Sparse sensing application in radar I

Morphological Component Analysis in SAR Images to Improve the Generalization of ATR Systems
Simon Wagner (Fraunhofer FHR & University of Siegen, Germany)
Bayesian sparse estimation of a radar scene with weak and strong targets
Marie Lasserre (University of Toulouse / ISAE, France); Stéphanie Bidon and Olivier Besson (ISAE, France); François Le Chevalier (Thales Air Systems & TU Delft, France)
Sparse Recovery in MIMO Radar -- Dependence on the Support Structure
Dominik Dorsch and Holger Rauhut (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
CFAR Analysis of the Multicoset-Thresholding Detector: Application to the Low Complexity Sub-Nyquist Radar Electronic Surveillance
Mehrdad Yaghoobi (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Andy Stove (Thales, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
GMTI on short sequences of pulses with compressed sensing

Ludger Prünte (Fraunhofer-Institut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR, Germany)
Compressive sensing for in depth focusing in 3D Automotive Imaging Radar
Gianfranco Matuozzo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy); Fabio Baselice (Università degi Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy); Giampaolo Ferraioli, Gilda Schirinzi and Vito Pascazio (Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)

Thursday, June 18

9:00 AM - 10:40 AM

ThML1: Compressive acquisition techniques

Randomized Approximations of Operators and their Spectral Decomposition for Diffusion Based Embeddings of Heterogeneous Data
Wojciech Czaja (University of Maryland, USA); Ariel Hafftka (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); Benjamin Manning (University of Maryland, USA); Daniel Weinberg (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Ambiguity Function Surface When Using Prior Information in Compressive Sensing and Processing
Ioannis Kyriakides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)
Ultrawideband RF Compressed Sensing Using Spectrally-Encoded Ultrafast Laser Pulses
Bryan Bosworth, Jasper Stroud, Dung Tran, Trac D. Tran, Sang (Peter) Chin and Mark Foster (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
High-dynamic range compressive spectral imaging by adaptive filtering
Nelson Diaz (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia); Hoover Rueda (University of Delaware, USA); Henry Arguello Fuentes (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia)
Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging for Heterogeneous Walls using Compressive Sensing
Eva Lagunas (University of Luxemburg - SnT, Luxemburg); Moeness G. Amin and Fauzia Ahmad (Villanova University, USA)

11:00 AM - 12:40 PM

ThML2: Signal recovery and detection II


Analysis of Sparsity Based Joint SAR Image Reconstruction and Autofocus Techniques
Sedat Camlica (Aselsan, Turkey); Ali Cafer Gurbuz (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey); Orhan Arikan (Bilkent University, Turkey); H. Emre Güven (ASELSAN Inc., Turkey)
Sparse DOA estimation with polynomial rooting
Angeliki Xenaki (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark; & Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA); Efren Fernandez-Grande (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark)
Photonic Compressive Sensing of GHz-band RF Signals
George Sefler, George Valley and Thomas Shaw (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
Antenna-array Design in Compressive-sensing Radar Systems
Radmila Pribic (Thales Nederland BV Delft, The Netherlands); Lorenzo Cifola (Thales Nederland, The Netherlands)
Compressed Sensing based Jammer Detection Algorithm for Wide-band Cognitive Radio Networks
Muhammad Ozair Mughal (University of Genova, Italy); Kresimir Dabcevic (University of Genoa, Italy); Lucio Marcenaro (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy); Carlo S Regazzoni (University of Genoa, Italy)

3:00 PM - 5:20 PM

ThP1: Signal recovery and detection III

Density Evolution of Sparse Source Signals
Erich Zochmann (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA); Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Sparsity-Based Motion Detection Inside Enclosed Structures
Fauzia Ahmad and Moeness G. Amin (Villanova University, USA); Giovanni Alli and Gaetano Mollo (IDS Ingegneria Dei Sistemi S.p.A., Italy)
Improving Linear Inverse Scattering in Aspect-Limited Configurations: the Intra-Wall Imaging Case
Michele Ambrosanio and Vito Pascazio (Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
A Sparse Reduced-Rank Regression Approach for Hyperspectral Image Unmixing
Paris Giampouras, Athanasios A. Rontogiannis, Konstantinos Koutroumbas and Konstantinos E. Themelis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece)
Structure and Rank Awareness for Error and Data Flow Reduction in Phase-Shift-Based ToF Imaging Systems Using Compressive Sensing
Miguel Heredia Conde (Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), University of Siegen, Germany); Klaus Hartmann (University of Siegen, Germany); Otmar Loffeld (Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), University of Siegen, Germany)
From weighted Least Squares Estimation to sparse CS Reconstruction
Otmar Loffeld (Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), University of Siegen, Germany); Thomas Espeter (University of Siegen, Germany); Miguel Heredia Conde (Center for Sensorsystems (ZESS), University of Siegen, Germany)
Sparsifying Time-Frequency Distributions for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Paolo Addesso, Maurizio Longo, Stefano Marano and Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno, Italy); Innocenzo Pinto and Maria Principe (University of Sannio, Italy)
Compressive Sensing for Background Subtraction Based on Error Correction Coding
Narendra N, Girish Chandra and B. S. Adiga (Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Blind calibration for radio interferometry using convex optimization
Sanaz Kazemi (IBM Netherlands, The Netherlands)
Dynamic Underwater Sensor Network for Sparse Field Estimation
Raffaele Grasso and Paolo Braca (CMRE, Italy); Stefano Fortunati, Fulvio Gini and Maria S. Greco (University of Pisa, Italy)

ThP2: Sparse sensing applications in radar II

Extract before Detect, Coherent Extraction based on Gridless Compressed Sensing
Guy Desodt (Thales Air Systems & Thales group, France); Claude Adnet, Aurelie Martin and Richard Castaing (Thales Air Systems, France)
Coprime Sampling with Deterministic Digital Filters in Compressive Sensing Radar
Yu Tao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics Ministry of Education, P.R. China); Gong Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)
Velocity False Target Identification in Random Pulse Initial Phase Radar Based on Compressed Sensing
Jinping Sui and Zhen Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Xizhang Wei (ISchool of Electronic Science and Engineering NUDT, P.R. China); Xiang Li, Peng Bo and Dongping Liao (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
Sinusoidal Frequency Modulation Sparse Recovery for Radar micro-Doppler Analysis
Peng Bo and Zhen Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Xizhang Wei (ISchool of Electronic Science and Engineering NUDT, P.R. China); Xiang Li and Dongping Liao (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
Compressive Sensing in MTI Processing
Ehsan Tohidi, Mojtaba Radmard, Sayyed Mohammad Karbasi, Hamid Behroozi and Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
An Active Divide-and-Conquer Algorithm for Sparse Recovery Support: Fluctuating Targets Case
Marco La Manna and Daniel Fuhrmann (Michigan Technological University, USA)
Anti-jamming Range Imaging Using Slope-Varying LFM Signal Based on Compressed Sensing
Yang Hongyan and Zhen Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Xizhang Wei (ISchool of Electronic Science and Engineering NUDT, P.R. China); Dongping Liao and Peng Bo (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
Compressed Sensing Radar – New Concepts of Incoherent Continuous Wave Transmissions
Filippo Biondi (University of L'Aquila & Italian Ministry of Defence, Italy)
Detection of Marine Target with Quadratic Modulated Frequency Micromotion Signature via Morphological Component Analysis
Yonghua Xue, Xiaolong Chen, Yunlong Dong and Jian Guan (Naval Aeronautical and Astronautical University, P.R. China)
Frequency Domain Sensing System Using Improved Integrate-and-Fire Sampler
Dongmei Huang (Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, P.R. China); Fangqing Wen and Gong Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, P.R. China)

Friday, June 19

10:20 AM - 12:20 PM

FrP1: Compressive sensing in SAR, ISAR and Tomography

Room: Poster Area

Testing Polarimetric SAR Tomography by Continuous Wave Radar and Compressed Sensing For Under soil Hidden Coherent Targets
Filippo Biondi (University of L'Aquila & Italian Ministry of Defence, Italy); Antonio Sarri (IDS - Ingegneria Dei Sistemi S.p.A, Italy); Luca Fiori (IDS Ingegneria dei Sistemi SpA, Italy); Kevin Dell'Omodarme (IDS, Italy)
WASAR Imaging based on message passing with structured sparse constraint: approach and experiment
Chenglong Jiang, Yun Lin and Zhe Zhang (Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Bingchen Zhang (Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Scinece, P.R. China); Wen Hong (National Key Laboratory of Microwave imaging Technology & Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Scienecs, P.R. China)
Compressive Support Detection in SAR Tomography
Alessandra Budillon (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Gilda Schirinzi (Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
Time-Slotted FMCW MIMO ISAR with Compressive Sensing Image Reconstruction
Alessio Bacci, Elisa Giusti, Sonia Tomei, Marco Martorella and Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa, Italy)
SAR Imaging With Noise Waveform and Low Sampling Rate Based on Sparse Optimization
Xiao Dong, Yunhua Zhang and Wenshuai Zhai (Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China); Xiang Gu (Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Xiaojin Shi (Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China)
Compressive Sensing for RADARSAT-2 Tomography
David Kirkland (Defence Research and Development Canada, Canada)
High Resolution Radar Imaging of Fast Rotating Targets Based on Wideband Radar
Zhen Liu (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Xizhang Wei (ISchool of Electronic Science and Engineering NUDT, P.R. China); Peng Bo, Dongping Liao and Xiang Li (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
Low-rank Sparse Matrix Decomposition for Sparsity-driven SAR Image Reconstruction
Abdurrahim Soganlj and Müjdat Çetin (Sabancı University, Turkey)

FrP2: DoA estimation and array processing

Accurate Source Number Detecti on for Low-Cost Nested Array
Koichi Ichige and Keita Yamada (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Nested Array With Time-Delayers for Target Range and Angle Estimation
Wen-Qin Wang and Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Sparse Reconstruction Based Frequency Diverse Array Transmit Beampattern Synthesis
Hui Chen and Huai-zong Shao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Wen-Qin Wang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Sparsity Based Space-Time Adaptive Processing Using Message Passing

Zeqiang Ma (Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China); Yimin Liu and Xiqin Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Compressed Time Difference of Arrival Based Emitter Localization
Johannes Schmitz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Dominik Dorsch (RWTH Aachen, Germany); Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
High Resolution Direction-Of-Arrivals using Extended Multipath Matching Pursuit
Yongsung Park and Woojae Seong (Seoul National University, Korea)
DoA Estimation with Reflectarray According to Single Pixel Camera Principle
Sergii Skoblikov (TU Ilmenau, Germany); Mohamed Ibrahim (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Florian Roemer and Reiner S. Thomä (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Giovanni Del Galdo (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS & Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
Direct Estimation of Time Difference of Arrival from Compressive Sensing Measurements
Y. t. Chan (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada); Francois Chan (Royal Military College, Canada); Sreeraman Rajan (Defence Research and Development Canada-Ottawa, Canada); Bernard Haynes Lee (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
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