ISIF Plenary Talks
2011/Chicago
Dr. Vladimir N. Vapnik, Columbia University, New York, USA
“Learning With Teacher: Learning Using Privileged Information”
Dr. Vikram Krishnamurthy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA
"Social Learning for Reconfigurable Sensor Networks"
Dr. Mica Endsley, President, SA Technologies, Marietta, GA
“Bringing Cognitive Engineering to the Information Fusion Problem: Creating Systems That Understand Situations”
2010/Edinburgh
Dr. Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
“Spatial and Temporal Markov Models in Machine Vision”
Prof. Paul Newman, Oxford University, UK
“Where am I and What is Where? – Navigating with Robots”
Uncertainty Forum: A panel discussion o the topic: “Describe options for representation of uncertainty in open-world situations with hard (physics-based) and soft (human-based) sensors tracking hard and soft targets”
Discussants:
Dr. Jean Dezert, French Aerospace Lab, FR
Dr. Peter Gill, University Liverpool, UK
Prof. Simon Godsill, Cambridge University, UK
Dr. Arnaud Martin
Dr. David Mercier, University of Artois, FR
2009/Seattle
Dr. Charles Morefield, DARPA, IPTO, USA
“The Real World”
Dr. Chris Urmsom, Carnegie Mellon and Google, USA
“The Urban Challenge and the Promise of Autonomous Vehicles”
Dr. Lawrence Stone, Metron, Reston, VA, USA
“Likelihood Ratio Detection and Tracking”
2008/Cologne (Köln)
Dr. Henk A.P. Blom, National Aerospace Lab, The Netherlands, NE
“Air Traffic Collision Risk Modeling, Analysis and Rare Event Simulation"
Dr. Hugh F. Durrant-White, University of Sydney, AU
"Maximal Information Systems"
Dr. Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA
“Activity Recognition From Wearable Sensors"
2007/Quebec
Dr. James Llinas, SUNY-Buffalo, USA
“New Challenges for Defining Information Fusion Requirements”
Dr. Alain Appriou, ONERA, FR
“Knowledge Propagation: A Federative Look at Developments in the Framework of Belief Function Theories”
Dr. Masatoski Ishikawa, Technical University of Tokyo, JA
“System Architecture for Dynamic Information Fusion: Dynamics Matching and Meta Perception”
2006/Florence (Firenze)
Dr. Marcel Hernandez, QinetiQ, UK
“Performance Measures for Sensor Management: Computationally Efficient Formulations and Associated Applications”
Dr. Roy Streit, Metron, Reston, VA, USA
“The PMHT and Related Applications of Mixture Densities”
Dr. Nils Sandell, BAE Systems, USA
“Fusion Technology and Applications: A Retrospective and Some Thoughts about the Future”
2005/Philadelphia
Dr. Theodore Bially, DARPA/IXO, USA
Spoke on platforms and coordinated fusion (directions of DARPA); no title on website, but it may have been something like ‘Operational and Technical Implications of the Robotics Revolution’
Dr. Wilson Felder, Director of Technology Development, US Federal Aviation Agency, USA
Spoke on challenges in air traffic control; no title on website, but it may have been something like ‘Challenges of Testing NextGen for Air Traffic Control’
Dr. Allan Waxman, BAE Systems, USA
“Multisensor & Information Fusion: From Biology to Technology”
2004/Stockholm
Dr. Henrik I. Christensen
“Games as a model for distributed fusion”
Dr. Neil J. Gordon, DERA, UK
“Beyond the Kalman Filter: Particle Filters for Tracking Applications”
Dr. Ronald Mahler, Lockheed Martin, USA
“Random Sets: Unification and Computation for Information Fusion — A Retrospective Assessment”
2003/Cairns
Prof. Yaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
“Data Fusion in Tracking – Architecture and Performance”
Prof. Robin Evans, University of Melbourne, AU
“Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Data Fusion”
Dr. Mandyan Srinivasan, Australian National University, AU
“Small Brains, Smart Minds: Insect Navigation and Robotic Applications”
2002/ Annapolis
Dr. Richard P. Wishner, Director DARPA IXO, USA
“The Information Fusion Challenge in the New World Order”
Prof. H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA
“Turbo Fusion”
Dr. Bijoy Ghosh, Washington University – St. Louis, USA
“Visual Appearance Modeling and Perception with Retinal and Cortical Signal Processing”
2001/ Montreal (from the Fusion Conference Report)
Mr. Bjarni V. Tryggvason, Astronaut, Canadian Space Agency, CA
“Global Challenges: Data Fusion at a Grand Scale”
Prof. Guenther Palm, University of Ulm, DE
“Information Fusion in Soccer-Playing Robots and Service Robotics”
Dr. Pierre Valin, Lockheed-Martin Canada
“Unified Framework for Information Fusion based on random set theory and Bayesian frameworks”
Panel Forum / Discussion
Topic: “Data Fusion for Levels 2, 3, and 4”
Discussants:
Dr. Elisa Shahbazian, CA
Dr. James Llinas, USADr. Franklin White, USADr. Michael Hinman, Air Force Research Laboratory /IFEA, Rome, NY, USA
Dr. Eric Blash, USA
Dr. Allan Waxman, USA
Dr. Pierre Valin, CA
2000/Paris
Dr. Henri Prade, IRIT (Toulouse), FR
“Possibility theory in information fusion”
Prof. Philippe Smets, University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
“Data Fusion in the transferable belief model”
Dr. David A. Schum, George Mason University, Washington, DC, USA
“Information Fusion and Inference Networks: Evidential Foundations”
Dr. Dov M Gabbay
“Hypermodality, shift in mode of evaluation in modal logic“
Prof. X. Rong Li, University of New Orleans, USA (not listed on website)
No title provided on website
1999/Sunnyvale
Prof. Ren Luo, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Dr. Ken Ford and Dr. Peter Norvig, NASA Ames, USA
Dr. Franklin White, SPAWAR, USA
Prof. Gordon Shaw, University of California Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory
Lunch talk: The “Mozart Effect” of music on young learning
1998/Las Vegas
Prof. Chris Harris, University of Southampton, UK
Dr. Paul Vangasse, British Aerospace, UK