Following the ISIF Fusion 2003 conference in Cairns, the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) will host a Workshop on Defence Applications of Data Fusion. This will be held on July 14-15, 2003 at DSTO Edinburgh (near Adelaide).

The goal of the workshop is to promote technical interactions between researchers with interests in defence applications of data fusion. Major themes of the meeting will include:

The meeting will allow for longer and more complete presentations than those possible at the Fusion 2003 conference and will focus on the defence applications of the research.

Draft Program
Monday 14th July 2003
09:00 - 09:15 : Welcome and introduction to DSTO
  • Bruce Ward, DSTO, Australia.

09:15 - 10:45 : Session 1 : Multi-target Tracking

  • Dale Blair, Georgia Tech, USA. "Tracking separating targets with a monopulse radar."
  • John Percival, DSTO, Australia. "To Be Confirmed.

10:45 - 11:15 : Tea

11:15 - 12:45 : Session 2 : Higher Level Fusion

  • Dale Lambert, DSTO, Australia. "Confronting the grand challenges of information fusion."
  • Anne-Laure Jousselme, DRDC, Canada. "Formalisation of uncertainty in situation analysis."

12:45 - 13:45 : Lunch

13:45 - 15:15 : Session 3 : Ground Target Tracking

  • Mahendra Mallick, Orincon, USA. "Comparative evaluation of EKF, UKF, and PF in UGS and GMTI Tracking."
  • Jurgen Grosche, FGAN, Germany. "Sensor data and information fusion: current research activities at FGAN-FKIE and selected results."

15:15 - 15:45 : Tea

15:45 - 17:00 : Session 4 : Nonlinear Filtering

  • Keith Kastella, Veridian, USA. "Particle filtering and information prediction for sensor management."
  • Fred Daum, Raytheon, USA. "Quasi-Monte Carlo hybrid particle filters with smooth densities from the exponential family."
Tuesday 15th July 2003
09:00 - 10:30 : Session 5 : Resource Management

  • Rob Evans, Melbourne University, Australia. "Target tracking and data fusion with data-rate constraints."
  • J. Pierre Le Cadre, IRISA, France. "An overview of resource management for target tracking."

10:30 - 11:00 : Tea

11:00 - 12:30 : Session 6 : Multi-sensor Fusion

  • Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney, Australia. "Decentralised Data Fusion in Airborne Sensor Networks"
  • Alan Steinberg, Utah State University, USA. "System engineering of multi-sensor fusion systems."

12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 : Session 7 : Assignment Algorithms

  • T. Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada. "Assignment algorithms for large-scale target tracking."
  • Simon Maskell, QinetiQ, UK. "Fast J of JPDAF."

15:00 - 15:30 : Tea

15:30 - 16:45 : Session 8 : Tracking Algorithms

  • Rong Li, University of New Orleans, USA. "Optimal Linear Track Fusion."
  • Roy Streit, NUWC, USA. "Tracking in hyperspectral data using PMHT."

Attendance
The meeting will be unclassified, but attendance will be by invitation. Please register your interest in attending by email to Neil.Gordon@dsto.defence.gov.au, providing your full name, nationality and affiliation.

Registration costs
There will be no registration fee

Travel and local information
This will be provided with the invitation to attend.

For more information contact:
Dr Neil Gordon
Tracking and Sensor Fusion group,
DSTO, Edinburgh, SA 5111, Australia
Neil.Gordon@dsto.defence.gov.au

Updated: 12 June 2003
Authorised by: Subhash Challa
Maintained by: tpp