Program

Reinforcement Learning-Based Joint Adaptive Frequency Hopping and Pulse-Width Allocation for Radar anti-Jamming: Ailiya Ailiya, Wei Yi and Ye Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
CNN-LSTM Based Approach for Parameter Estimation of K-clutter plus Noise: Taha Hocine Kerbaa and Amar Mezache (University of Mohamed Boudiaf, M'sila. Algeria); Fulvio Gini and Maria S. Greco (University of Pisa, Italy)
Deep Learning for Accurate Indoor Human Tracking with a mm-Wave Radar: Jacopo Pegoraro, Domenico Solimini, Federico Matteo, Enver Bashirov, Francesca Meneghello and Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)
Discrimination of Air Breathing Targets and Ballistic Missiles Using Deep Learning: Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy); Massimo Loffreda (Leonardo spa, Italy); Luca Timmoneri (Leonardo Spa, Italy)
Deep Learning for Radar Signal Detection in Electronic Warfare Systems: Mustafa Nuhoglu (Istanbul Technical University & ASELSAN, Turkey); Yasar Kemal Alp (ASELSAN Inc., Turkey); Fatih Cagatay Akyon (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

TM-L2: Passive Radars

Detecting and Tracking a Small UAV in GSM Passive Radar Using Track-before-Detect: Benjamin Knoedler (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Christian Steffes (Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE, Germany); Wolfgang Koch (Fraunhofer FKIE & University of Bonn, Germany)
Localization of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Digital Audio Broadcast Signals: Samuel Welschen (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Christof Schüpbach (Armasuisse Science+Technology, Switzerland); Stephen Paine (Armasuisse Science+Technology, Switzerland & University of Cape Town, South Africa); Urs Böniger (Armasuisse Science+Technology, Switzerland); Pascal Leuchtmann (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Juerg Leuthold (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Polarimetric Antenna Diversity for Improved Reference Signal Estimation for Airborne Passive Radar: Philipp M. Wojaczek, Diego Cristallini, Jochen Schell and Daniel O Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Ashley Summers (Defence Science and Technology Group, Australia)
Multi-carrier Adaptive Detection in Polarimetric Passive Radars: Francesca Filippini and Fabiola Colone (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Joint Measurement of Target Angle and Angular Velocity Using Interferometric Radar with FM Waveforms: Jason Michael Merlo and Jeffrey Nanzer (Michigan State University, USA)

TM-L3: Phased Array Antennas

Phased-Array Antenna Pattern Optimization with Evolution Strategies: Paul Dufossé (Inria & Ecole Polytechnique, Thales DMS, France); Cyrille Enderli (Thales Airborne Systems, France); Laurent Savy (THALES DMS, France); Nikolaus Hansen (Inria, France)
Multi-channel Microwave-Photonic Link for Antenna Remoting in Multifunctional Phased-Array Radar: Luca Banchi (GEM Elettronica srl, Italy)
Two-way MIMO Sparse Array Antenna Optimization with NSGA-III: Asgeir Nysaeter (FFI, Norway)
AESA Adaptive Beamforming Using Deep Learning: Simone Bianco (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy); Maurizio Feo (MBDA Missile Systems, Italy); Paolo Napoletano (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy); Alberto Raimondi (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy); Giovanni Petraglia and Pietro Vinetti (MBDA Missile Systems, Italy)
Co-existence of AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) Radar and Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems on Board of a Military Ship: Salvatore Celentano (Leonardo spa, Italy); Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy); Luca Timmoneri (Leonardo Spa, Italy); Goffredo Foglia (Elettronica S.P.A., Italy)

TM-L4: Radar Detection

Subspace-Based Target Detection in the Presence of Multiple Alternative Hypotheses: Eloisa Faro (Università Roma 3, Italy); Gaetano Giunta (University of Roma Tre, Italy); Sudan Han (National Innovation Institute of Defense Techonology, China); Danilo Orlando (Unviersity of Pisa, Italy); Luca Pallotta (University of Basilicata, Italy)
Three-Dimensional Deterministic Detection and Estimation Algorithms for MIMO SFCW Radars: Alessandro Davoli, Emilio Sirignano and Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Improving Detection of Unknown Signal with Unknown Duration Using an Information Criterion: Abigael Taylor (ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab, France); Olivier Rabaste (Onera, France)
Persymmetric Adaptive Detector for FDA-MIMO Radar: Cheng Jie, Hui Chen, Ronghua Gui, Jia Wenkai and Wen-Qin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Hybrid Detection Approaches Using the Single Data Set Algorithm: Elias Aboutanios (University of New South Wales, Australia); Luke Rosenberg (Lockheed Martin Australia & University of Adelaide, Australia)

TM-SS1: Urban remote sensing using SAR.

Compressed Sensing-Based Multi-Aperture Focusing of Spaceborne Transmitter/Stationary Receiver Bistatic SAR Data: Adrian Focsa (Military Technical Academy Ferdinand I, Romania); Mihai Datcu (Politehnica Bucharest, Romania); Andrei Anghel (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
Generation of Large-Scale High Quality 3-D Urban Models: Yilei Shi (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Richard Bamler (Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany); Yuanyuan Wang (Technical University of Munich & German Aerospace Center, Germany); Xiao Zhu (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Scattering Component Selection and Multi-resolution Detection of Persistent Scatterers in Sparsely Urbanized Areas: Gianfranco Fornaro (CNR-IREA, Italy); Antonio Pauciullo (IREA, CNR, Italy); Diego Reale and Simona Verde (CNR-IREA, Italy)
Using Neural Networks for Change Detection and Classification of COSMO-SkyMed Images: Alessia Benedetti (University of Rome "Tor Vergata, Italy); Ludovica Porzio (Tor Vergata, Italy); Giovanni Schiavon (Tor Vergata University - DISP, Italy); Daniele Latini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy); Luca Fasano (Italian Space Agency, Italy); Fabio Del Frate (Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy)
Bistatic Scattering from a Canonical Building: Gerardo Di Martino (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Alessio Di Simone (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Walter Fuscaldo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy); Antonio Iodice (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Daniele Riccio (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Giuseppe Ruello (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

TM-P1: PSS1-Resource management for cognitive radar systems

Joint Optimization of Target Assignment and Resource Allocation for Multi-Target Tracking in Phased Array Radar Network: Chenguang Shi, Lintao Ding and Wei Qiu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China); Fei Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China); Jianjiang Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Joint Online Route Planning and Power Allocation for Multitarget Tracking in Airborne Radar Systems: Xiujuan Lu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Jun Sun and Ye Yuan (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Antenna Placement Algorithm for Distributed MIMO Radar with Distance Constrains: Yao Wang, Wei Yi and Shixing Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Mahendra Mallick (USA); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Sensor Selection for Multi-target Tracking in Phased Array Radar Network Under Hostile Environment: Jinhui Dai and Junkun Yan (Xidian University, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China); Wang Penghui and Bo Jiu (Xidian University, China); Hongwei Liu (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China)
Mobile Sensors Path Planning for Cooperative Monitoring of Different Mission Importance Areas: Yaoying Tang and Yao Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Joint Waveform Selection and Time-Space Resource Management in Netted Colocated MIMO Radar System for Multi-target Tracking: Yang Su (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Ting Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China); Zi-Shu He (University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China); Xi Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Fast Constant Modulus MIMO Radar Waveform Design for Interference Mitigation: Hao Zheng (XiDian University, China); Bo Jiu (Xidian University, China); Hongwei Liu (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China)

TM-P2: Multistatic and passive radars

Reinforcement Learning Based Dynamic Task Scheduling for Multifunction Radar Network: Longxiao Xu and Tianxian Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Airplane Detection by FSR Using Cosmic Radio Emissions: Hristo A. Kabakchiev (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria); Vara Behar (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgaria); Ivan Garvanov (University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Bulgaria); Dorina Kabakchieva (University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria); Avgust Kabakchiev (BULATSA, Bulgaria); Nikola Petrov (National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen Smolyan, Bulgaria); Hermann Rohling (Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany); Mark Bentum (Eindhoven University of Technology & ASTRON, The Netherlands)
Exploitation of Bi-Static Radar Architectures for LEO Space Debris Surveying and Tracking: The BIRALES/BIRALET Project: Angelo Podda (Vitrociset spa, Italy); Sergio Casu (Vitrociset Spa, Italy); Antonio Coppola (Vitrociset, Italy); Fabio Protopapa (Vitrociset spa, Italy); Andrea Lazzareschi Sergiusti (Vitrociset Spa, Italy); Germano Bianchi, Claudio Bortolotti, Mauro Roma, Giuseppe Pupillo, Luca Lama, Federico Perini, Marco Schiaffino, Andrea Maccaferri, Giovanni Naldi and Andrea Mattana (INAF - IRA, Italy); Tonino Pisanu and Enrico Urru (INAF - OAC, Italy); Luca Schirru (National Institute for Astrophysics - Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari, Italy); Pierluigi Ortu and Francesco Gaudiomonte (INAF - OAC, Italy); Pierluigi Di Lizia, Giovanni Purpura and Mauro Massari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Direct Localization of Shortwave Emitters in Multipath Ionosphere Channel: Lichan Yan, Xing-peng Mao and Minqiu Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
An Adaptive Optimization Algorithm for Antenna Deployment in Dynamic Environment: Ziqin Wang, Yanli Zeng, MingMin Shu, Mingfeng Pu and Chuanlin Huang (Science and Technology on Electronic Information Control Laboratory, China)
Topology Design for Distributed Radar Imaging Based on Wavenumber Domain Splicing Analysis: Fanyun Xu, Rufei Wang, Junyu Zhu, Yongchao Zhang, Yin Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Radiometric Passive Imaging for Robust Concealed Object Identification: San Hlaing Myint (Global Information and Telecommunication Institute Waseda University); Yutaka Katsuyama and Toshio Sato (Waseda University, Japan); Xin Qi (School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Japan); Zheng Wen (Waseda University, Japan); Keping Yu (Hosei University, Japan); Kiyohito Tokuda and Takuro Sato (Waseda University, Japan)
Iso-Motion-Compensation Curves for Bistatic SAR: Yi Li, Wenchao Li, MIn Li and Wenjing Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zhongyu Li and Junjie Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Yulin Huang and Jianyu Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
2D Constrained PBR Localization via Active Radar Designation: Angela Marino (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Augusto Aubry (Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Paolo Braca (CMRE, Italy)
A Novel Phase Compensation of the Target Detection for CSI with Commodity WiFi: Xiang Zhu, Bin Zhao, Zhang Yun, Jin Wei and Hongbo Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Network Architecture Optimization for Area Surveillance in Multi-static Radar Systems: Chengxin Yang, Yao Wang and Wei Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Efficient Direct Signal Cancellation for FM-based Passive Radar: Christof Schüpbach (Armasuisse Science+Technology, Switzerland); Stephen Paine (Armasuisse Science+Technology, Switzerland & University of Cape Town, South Africa); Daniel O'Hagan (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

TM-P3: Wideband antennas and phased array

Research on the Effect of Phased Array Beam Scanning on Self-interference Cancellation: Jie Zhang (NRIET, China); Wensheng Chang (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, China)
Modeling and Experimental Study of Full-Duplex Channel Characteristics for Phased Array Simultaneous Transmission and Reception: Jie Zhang (NRIET, China); Wensheng Chang (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, China)
Research on Modeling and Principle Verification of Full-Duplex Technology Based on Phased Array: Jie Zhang (NRIET, China); Wensheng Chang (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, China)
Design of a Spherical Conformal Phased Array Antenna Based on the Truncated Icosahedron: Jihong Zhang, Peiguo Liu, Zhaowen Zhuang, Jibo Wei, Xiaohui Liu, Hongqiang Wang and Ligang Li (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Robust Adaptive Beamformer Based on Weighted Sparse Constraint: Qin He, Ziyang Cheng, Zhihang Wang and Zishu He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Difference Pattern Synthesis for Spherical Arrays: Zhijiang Huang (China Academy of Engineering Physics, China); Yimao Sun (Sichuan University, China & University of Missouri, USA)
Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Implementing the MVDR Beamformer for the Circular Antenna Array: Somayeh Komeylian (Ryerson University, Canada)
Design of an HF Transmitter Antenna for Bistatic Ionospheric Soundings in Antarctica: Kathleen C MacWilliam (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

TM-P4: Cognitive radars

Deinterleaving Pulse Trains via Interleaved Markov Process Estimation: Gabriel Ford, Benjamin Foster and Stephen Braun (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA)
Fully Adaptive Resource Management in Radar Networks: Roland Oechslin (Armasuisse, Switzerland); Sebastian Wieland (Büro für Sensorik und Signalverarbeitung, Germany); Andreas Zutter (PrecisionWave AG, Switzerland); Uwe Aulenbacher (Büro für Sensorik und Signalverarbeitung, Germany); Peter Wellig (Armasuisse, Switzerland)
Radar-camera Fusion for Road Target Classification: Kheireddine Aziz (InterUniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium); Eddy De Greef, Maxim Rykunov and Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium); Hichem Sahli (VUB, Belgium)
Multistatic Radar Deployment Within A Non-Connected Region: Yi Han, Tianxian Zhang and Xiaobo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Cognitive Radar System for Obstacle Avoidance Using In-Motion Memory-Aided Mapping: Liyong Guo (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Michail Antoniou and Christopher J. Baker (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
AI-Augmented Multi Function Radar Engineering with Digital Twin: Towards Proactivity: Mathieu Klein (Thales Air Systems, France); Thomas Carpentier (THALES LAnd & Air Systems, France); Eric Jeanclaude (THALES Land & Air Systems, France); Rami Kassab (Thales Air Systems, France); Konstantinos Varelas and Nico de Bruijn (THALES Land & Air Systems, France); Frederic Barbaresco (Thales Air Systems, France); Yann Briheche (THALES Research & Technology, France); Yann Semet (THALES Group, Germany); Florence Aligne (Thales Research and Technology, France)
Generating Synthetic Short-Range FMCW Range-Doppler Maps Using Generative Adversarial Networks and Deep Convolutional Autoencoders: Marcio L Lima de Oliveira (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Marco Bekooij (University of Twente and NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands)
Transmit-Receive Design for Non-Uniform Pulse Repetition Interval Airborne Radar in the Presence of Signal-Dependent Clutter: Tao Fan, Mengmeng Ge, Na Gan and Yanqin Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Zhihao Jiang (Naval Research Academy, China)

TM-P5: Target detection and clutter suppression

MIMO Radar Detection in Compound Gaussian Sea Clutter Using Joint Model and Sample Selection: Zhihang Wang, Zishu He and Qin He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Parameter Optimization of Sparse Fourier Transform for Radar Target Detection: Hongchi Zhang and Tao Shan (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Shengheng Liu (Southeast University, China); Ran Tao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Modified Iterative Adaptive Approach Based on Range-Doppler Matched Filter Outputs: Biao Zhang, Jing Tian and Siliang Wu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Maritime Target Detection Using Frequency Estimation: Brian Ng (University of Adelaide, Australia); Luke Rosenberg (Lockheed Martin Australia & University of Adelaide, Australia)
Clutter-Ridge Matched SR-STAP Technique for Non-stationary Clutter Suppression: Hongda Ye (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zhongyu Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Zhutian Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Junjie Wu and Haiguang Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Enhanced Graph-Based Detection for Moving Targets in Sea Clutter: Wenjing Zhao and Minglu Jin (Dalian University of Technology, China)
A Single Dataset Joint Domain Localized Algorithm for Clutter Suppression in Shipborne High Frequency Surface Wave Radar: Liang Guo, Xin Zhang, Yang Qiang, Lin Wang, Jiazhi Zhang and Weibo Deng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Coherent Fusion of Polarization Diversity Channels with Phase-Locked Loop for Target Detection: Yiheng Guo (Xidian University, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China); Aoya Wang (Xidian University, China); Hongwei Liu (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Yuehong Zhang (PLA Air Force Xi'an Flight Academy, China); Yunhe Cao (Xidian University Xi'an China, China); Hongtao Su (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China)
Clutter Suppression and Moving Target Indication Using Deramp-STAP with Radon Transform for Multichannel HRWS SAR System: Tingting Zhang, Ke Tan, Xingyu Lu, Weimin Su, Hong Gu and Chenchen Wang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
A Novel Method to Suppress Short-Range Clutter in Airborne Radar: Fengde Jia, Ping Zhao, Lei Zhang and Menglin Zhai (Donghua University, China)
Optimal Mismatched Filter Design for Radar Using Bounded Real Lemma: Tuomas Aittomäki and Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland)
Region Based Single-Stage Interference Mitigation and Target Detection: Anand Dubey (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Jonas Fuchs (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Venkat Madhavan (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany); Maximilian Lübke (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Robert Weigel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Fabian Lurz (Otto Von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)
Broadened Sea Clutter Suppression Method for Shipborne HF Hybrid Sky-Surface Wave Radar: Xibo Zhou, Wei Yinsheng and Yong-Tan Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

TM-P6: Space-based/Airborne radars

A Quad-Pol SAR Imaging Mode with Sound Azimuth Ambiguity: Yanyan Zhang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences & Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yongwei Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Yunkai Deng (Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Sheng Chang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Dacheng Liu (Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China); Robert Wang (Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR)，Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China)
Space-borne Sub-THz ISAR System for Objects with Translational Motion: Emidio Marchetti, Andrew Stove and Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); David Blacknell (DSTL, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
NewSpace SAR: Disruptive Concepts for Cost-Effective Earth Observation Missions: Michelangelo Villano, Nertjana Ustalli and Luca Dell'Amore (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Se-Yeon Jeon and Gerhard Krieger (DLR, Germany); Alberto Moreira and Maxwell Nogueira Peixoto (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Jan Krecke (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Effect of Wind Speed on Internal Wave Imaging of Multi-Polarimetric Spaceborne SAR: Zhang Yun, Tian Xiao, Lupeng Guo and Hongbo Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
WIVERN: An ESA Earth Explorer Concept to Map Global In-Cloud Winds Precipitation and Cloud Properties: Anthony Illingworth (University of Reading, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessandro Battaglia (Politecnico of Turin, Italy & University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Julien Delanoe (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, France)
Bayesian Azimuth Super-resolution of Sea-surface Target in Forward-looking Imaging: Yao Kang (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China); Yin Zhang, Deqing Mao, Xingyu Tuo, Yulin Huang and Yongchao Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Context Semantic Perception Based on Superpixel Segmentation for Inshore Ship Detection in SAR Image: Rufei Wang and Fanyun Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jifang Pei (University of Electronic Science and Techonology of China, China); Zhang Qian (UESTC, China); Yulin Huang and Yin Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Imaging Region Bound of Scanning Radar Angular Super-resolution on Motion Platform: Deqing Mao and Yongchao Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Junyu Zhu (UESTC, China); Yin Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Forward Looking Airborne Radar for Landing Aid: Konstantin Alexandrovich Lukin (IRE NASU National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine); Joao Moreira (Embrier, Brasil); Sergii Lukin (University of Alcalá, Spain)
Calibration and Weather Observation of a Dual-polarized Phased Array Line Replaceable Unit Radar Demonstrator: Pei-Sang Tsai (National Center for Atmospheric Research & NCAR, USA); Rodrigo Lebron (University of Oklahoma, USA); Jonathan Emmett, Adam Karboski and Christopher Burghart (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA); Jorge L. Salazar-Cerreno (University of Oklahoma, USA); Scott Ellis, James Ranson and Eric Loew (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
Study of SAR Internal Wave Imaging Parameters Based on Experimental Data: Lupeng Guo, Bin Zhao, Zhang Yun and Tian Xiao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

Opening ceremony

Inaugural Plenary Talk - Marco De Fazio (Leonardo Spa, Italy): Radars at Leonardo Company: a 70 years long heritage in land, naval, airborne, and spaceborne systems. Looking backward, moving forward.

Coffee Break

TA-L2: Multistatic radars

Extended Target Detection and Localization in 802.11ad/y Radars: Emanuele Grossi (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio & Consorzio Nazionale Inter-universitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Marco Lops (University of Naples Federico II & CNIT - Consorzio Universitario Nazionale per le Telecomunicazioni, Italy); Antonia Tulino (Bell Labs, USA & Università Federico II, Italy); Luca Venturino (Universita' degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Merdionale & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy)
A New Method and a Case Study in Statistical Modeling of Bistatic Radar Cross Section: Michał Meller (PIT-RADWAR, Poland); Maciej Wielgo and Mateusz Malanowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Jonathan Pisane (John Cockerill Defense, Belgium); Sylvian Azarian (SDR Technologies SAS, France)
Occupancy Detection and People Counting Using WiFi Passive Radar: Chong Tang (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wenda Li (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shelly Vishwakarma, Kevin Chetty and Simon Julier (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Karl Woodbridge (University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Optimal Receiver Placement in Staring Cooperative Radar Networks for Detection of Drones: Benjamin D Griffin (Cranfield Defence and Security & Aveillant, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessio Balleri (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christopher J. Baker and Mohammed Jahangir (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
DVB-T Based Forward Scatter Radar for Small Target Surveillance: Marco Di Seglio and Fabiola Colone (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

TA-L4: Short range civilian radars

Vibration Disturbance Cancellation Method for Estimation of Target Displacement by CW Doppler Radar: Takahiro Kinoshita (Nippon Steel Corporation & Niigata University, Japan); Hiroyoshi Yamada (Niigata University, Japan)
A Comparison of the Recursive and FFT-Based Reassignment Methods in Micro-Doppler Analysis: Karol Abratkiewicz and Piotr Samczynski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Dominique Fourer (IBISC, University of Evry/Paris-Saclay, France)
Motion Blur Suppression Accommodating to Fast Radar Imaging for Walk-Through Concealed Weapon Detection: Tatsuya Sumiya and Kazumine Ogura (NEC Corporation, Japan); Shingo Yamanouchi (NEC, USA); Nagma Khan, Masayuki Ariyoshi and Toshiyuki Nomura (NEC Corporation, Japan)
Derivative Target Line (DTL) for Continuous Human Activity Detection and Recognition: Ronny Gerhard Guendel (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Francesco Fioranelli and Alexander Yarovoy (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Hand Gesture Recognition via Radar Sensors and Convolutional Neural Networks: Stefano Franceschini, Michele Ambrosanio, Sergio Vitale and Fabio Baselice (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Angelo Gifuni (Universita di Napoli PArthenope, Italy); Giuseppe Grassini (University of Naples Parthenope, Italy); Vito Pascazio (Università di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)

TA-SS2: Topics, trends and challenges in cognitive radars

The Role of Cognition in Radar Sensing: Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy)
Practical Aspects of Cognitive Radar: Anthony Martone (US Army Research Laboratory, USA); Kelly Sherbondy (Army Research Laboratory, USA); Jacob Kovarskiy and Benjamin Kirk (The Pennsylvania State University, USA); Jonathan Owen (University of Kansas, USA); Brandon Ravenscroft (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Austin Egbert, Adam C. Goad and Angelique Dockendorf (Baylor University, USA); Charles E Thornton and R. Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA); Ram M Narayanan (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Shannon D Blunt (University of Kansas, USA); Charles Baylis (Baylor University, USA)
Modeling and Simulation of Cognitive Radars: Sandeep Gogineni and Joseph Guerci (ISL, Inc., USA); Hoan Nguyen (Information Systems Laboratories, USA); Jamie Bergin (ISL, USA); Brian Watson (ISL, Inc., USA); Muralidhar Rangaswamy (AFRL, USA)
Implementing Perception-Action Cycles Using Stochastic Optimization: Alexander Charlish (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany); Kristine Bell (Metron, Inc., USA); Chris Kreucher (Centauri)
Neural Networks & Machine Learning in Cognitive Radar: Graeme E Smith (The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Sevgi Z Gurbuz (The University of Alabama, USA); Stefan Bruggenwirth (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Peter John-Baptiste (The Ohio State University, USA)

TA-SS3: Quantum radar: real world experiments and new theory

Microwave Quantum Illumination with a Digital Phase-Conjugated Receiver: Shabir Barzanjeh (University of Calgary, Canada); Stefano Pirandola (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); David Vitali (University of Camerino, Italy); Johannes Fink (IST, Austria)
Practical Advantage in Microwave Quantum Illumination: Nizar Messaoudi (University of Waterloo & Keysight Technologies, Canada); A. m. Vadiraj (University of Waterloo, Canada); Jérôme Bourassa (Qubic, Canada); Bhashyam Balaji (Defence R&D Canada, Canada); Christopher M. Wilson (University of Waterloo & Institute for Quantum Computing, Canada)
A Comparison Between Quantum and Classical Noise Radar Sources: Robert Sven Jonsson (Chalmers University of Technology & Saab AB, Sweden); Roberto Di Candia (Aalto University, Finland); Martin Ankel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Anders Strom (Saab AB, Sweden); Goran L. Johansson (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Simulation Study of a Detector Function for QTMS Radar and Noise Radar: David Luong (Carleton University, Canada); Bhashyam Balaji (Defence R&D Canada, Ottawa Research Center, Canada); Sreeraman Rajan (Carleton University, Canada)
Multiple Input-Multiple Output Quantum Radar: Marco Frasca (MBDA Italia, Italy); Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy)

TA-SS4: Distributed SAR systems and missions

An Iso-Frequency MIMO SAR Formation for Wide-Swath Imaging Interferometry and Tomography: Davide Giudici (Aresys srl, Italy); Pietro Guccione (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Marco Manzoni and Andrea Monti-Guarnieri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Fabio Rocca (Politecnico di Milano (emeritus), Italy)
Concepts and Applications of Multi-statitc MirrorSAR Systems: Josef Hermann Martin Mittermayer (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Gerhard Krieger (DLR, Germany); Alberto Moreira (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
A Highly Flexible and Scalable S-band SwarmSAR from Very Simple Nodes: Lorenzo Iannini (European Space Agency, The Netherlands); Paco Lopez Dekker and Peter Hoogeboom (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Timing and Design Issues in Formation Flying Distributed SAR: Alfredo Renga, Maria Daniela Graziano, Marco Grasso and Antonio Moccia (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Polychromatic Time Domain Reconstruction Approach for Along-track Multistatic SAR Constellations with Varying PRI: Nida Sakar (German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffernhofen, Germany); Marc Rodriguez-Cassola (DLR, Germany); Pau Prats-Iraola and Alberto Moreira (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)

WM-L2: Radar waveform design/optimization

Transceiver Design in Signal-Dependent Interference and Spectrally Dense Environments: Jing Yang (Zhengzhou University, China); Augusto Aubry (Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Xianxiang Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China)
Radar Waveform Synthesis Using Generative Adversarial Networks: Vesa T Saarinen and Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland)
Simultaneous Unambiguous Range and Doppler Through Non-Uniform Sampling: Warren P du Plessis (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Optimization of Pulse-agile Sequence for Suppressing Range Folded Clutter Based on Diverse NLFM Waveforms: Ying-hao Sun, Hua-yu Fan, Ruo-dan Zhuang, Li-xiang Ren, Er-ke Mao and Teng Long (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Joint Optimization of the Spectral Coexistence of Radar and Communications System: Junhui Qian, Shuya Zhang and Mengchen Lu (Chongqing University, China); Fengchun Tian (College of Communication Engineering，Chongqing University, China)

WM-L4: Classification and recognition of drones

Machine and Deep Learning for Drone Radar Recognition by Micro-Doppler and Kinematic Criteria: Frederic Barbaresco (Thales Air Systems, France); Daniel A Brooks (Thales - LIP6, France); Claude Adnet (Thales Air Systems, France)
Deep Learning and Information Geometry for Drone Micro-Doppler Radar Classification: Daniel A Brooks (Thales - LIP6, France); Olivier Schwander (École Polytechnique, France); Frederic Barbaresco (Thales Air Systems, France); Jean-yves Schneider (Thales, France); Matthieu Cord (Sorbonne Universités, France)
Examination of Drone Micro-Doppler and JEM/HERM Signatures: John M Markow (United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessio Balleri (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Parametric Investigation on Simulated Staring FMCW Radar for Anti-Drone Swarms: Joongsup Yun and David Anderson (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Francesco Fioranelli (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

WM-SS5: Sparse array design techniques for radar applications

Learning Sparse Array Capon Beamformer Design Using Deep Learning Approach: Syed Ali Hamza (Widener University, USA); Moeness G. Amin (Villanova University, USA)
Online Antenna Selection for Adaptive Beamforming in MIMO Radar: Hamed Nosrati (CSIRO, Australia); Elias Aboutanios (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Cognitive Wideband Beamforming for Sparse Array: Qinghui Lu, Ruitao Liu and Lifang Feng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Zhenghong Zhang and Lin Zhou (Southwest China Research Institute of Electronic Equipment, China)
Covariance Matrix Reconstruction Using Parsimonious Measurements and Low-Sample Support: Aboulnasr Hassanien (Wright State University, USA); Moeness G. Amin (Villanova University, USA)
Deterministic Sparse Array Capon Beamformer Design for Mitigating Spatially-Closed Interferences: Xiangrong Wang (Beihang University, China); Maria S. Greco and Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy)

WM-SS6: Emerging technologies in automotive radars

STAP in Automotive MIMO Radar with Transmitter Scheduling: Guohua Wang and Siddhartha Siddhartha (Hertzwell Pte Ltd, Singapore); Kumar Vijay Mishra (United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Adaptive Integration Time in Automotive SAR: David Wright and Shahzad Gishkori (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Liam Y. Daniel (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Simulator Design for Interference Analysis in Complex Automotive Multi-User Traffic Scenarios: Lizette Lorraine Tovar Torres (University of Ulm, Germany); Fabian Roos (Ulm University, Germany); Christian Waldschmidt (University of Ulm, Germany)
Effect of Volume Distributed Clutter in PSK Modulated Automotive Radar: Marco Bersaglia (Radar and Surveillance Systems National Lab - CNIT, Italy); Fatemeh Norouzian, Edward Hoare, Marco Martorella and Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

WM-SS7: Multitemporal SAR image processing and analysis

Urban Change Pattern Exploration Using Fine-Resolution SAR of Ascending and Descending Orbits: Meiqin Che (University of Pavia, Italy); Paolo Gamba (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy)
Change Detection in Single- And Multi-Look Polarimetric SAR Data: Allan A Nielsen, Paul J Connetable, Knut Conradsen and Henning Skriver (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Ernst Krogager (Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO) & LU-VV06, Denmark)
Unsupervised Heterogeneous Change Detection in Radar Images by Cross-Domain Affinity Matching: Stian Normann Anfinsen, Luigi Tommaso Luppino and Mads Hansen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway); Gabriele Moser (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy); Sebastiano Serpico (University of Genoa, Italy)
Analysis of Dense Coregistration Methods Applied to Optical and SAR Time-Series for Ice Flow Estimations: Laurane Charrier (ONERA/LISTIC, France); Pierre Godet (ONERA, France); Clément Rambour (ONERA/CNAM, France); Flora Weissgerber, Simon Erdmann and Elise Colin Koeniguer (ONERA, France)
A Geometrical Wavelet Framework for the Time-Series Analysis of Full-Polarimetric Features: Davide Pirrone (LISTIC, University Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy, France); Abdourrahmane M. Atto (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LISTIC, France); Emmanuel Trouve (University Savoie Mont Blanc, France)

Coffee Break

WM-L10: Space-based radar systems and missions

Investigation into the Weight Update Rate for Scan-On-Receive Beamforming: Felipe Queiroz de Almeida (German Aerospace Center (DLR) & Microwaves and Radar Institute, Germany); Marwan Younis (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Gerhard Krieger (DLR, Germany); Scott Hensley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory & Radar Science and Engineering Section, USA); Alberto Moreira (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Impact of Ambiguity Statistics on Information Retrieval for Conventional and Novel SAR Modes: Nertjana Ustalli and Michelangelo Villano (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Possible Sources of Imaging Performance Degradation in Advanced Spaceborne SAR Systems Based on Scan-on-Receive: Federica Bordoni (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Marc Rodriguez-Cassola and Gerhard Krieger (DLR, Germany)
SPRATS: A Versatile Simulation and Processing RAdar ToolS for Planetary Missions: Oriane Gassot, Alain Hérique and Yves Rogez (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, France); Wlodek Kofman (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG/Space Research Centre, PAS, France); Sonia Zine and Petit-prince Ludimbulu (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, France)
VISAR and VENSAR: Two Proposed Radar Investigations of Venus: Scott Hensley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory & Radar Science and Engineering Section, USA); Bruce Campbell (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, USA); Dragana Perkovic (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA); Kevin Wheeler (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Walter Kiefer (Lunar and Planetary Institute, USA); Richard Ghail (Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

WM-L6: Compressed sensing and sparsity exploitation

Improved IF Estimation of Multi-Component FM Signals Through Iterative Adaptive Missing Data Recovery: Vaishali Amin and Yimin D. Zhang (Temple University, USA); Braham Himed (AFRL, USA)
Phase Transition in Frequency Agile Radar Using Compressed Sensing: Yuhan Li, Tianyao Huang, Xingyu Xu and Yimin Liu (Tsinghua University, China); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Optimum Sparse Array Configuration for Mismatched DOA on Moving Platforms: Guodong Qin (Xidian University, China); Moeness G. Amin (Villanova University, USA)
A Sparsity Based CFAR Algorithm for Dense Radar Targets: Jingxuan Chen (Xidian University, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA); Jing Lu (Xidian University & National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Jibin Zheng and Liu Hongwei (Xidian University, China); Hongtao Su (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China)
Truncated Nuclear Norm Regularization Based Covariance Estimation for Airborne STAP: Ming Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guohao Sun (Sichuan University, China); Zi-Shu He (University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China)

WM-SS10: Detection, tracking, and classification of small drones

A Feature-Based Approach for Loaded/Unloaded Drones Classification Exploiting micro-Doppler Signatures: Luca Pallotta (University of Basilicata, Italy); Carmine Clemente (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessandro Raddi and Gaetano Giunta (University of Roma Tre, Italy)
On the Impact of Drone Airscrews Signature on Passive Radar Detection and Tracking Stages: Maria-Pilar Jarabo-Amores and David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalá, Spain); Pedro-Jose Gomez-del-Hoyo, Nerea del-Rey-Maestre and Javier Rosado-Sanz (University of Alcala, Spain)
Exploitation of Long Coherent Integration Times to Improve Drone Detection in DVB-S Based Passive Radar: Tatiana Martelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Octavio Cabrera (Sapienza University, Italy); Fabiola Colone (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Pierfrancesco Lombardo (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
Use of Symmetrical Peak Extraction in Drone Micro-Doppler Classification for Staring Radar: Cameron Bennett (University oif Glasgom, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammed Jahangir (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Francesco Fioranelli (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Bashar I. Ahmad (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Julien Le Kernec (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Radar Signatures of Drones Equipped with Liquid Spray Payloads: Samiur Rahman (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Duncan Robertson (The University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mark Govoni (US Army Research Laboratory, USA)

WM-SS8: Coexistence of radar and communication systems

A Power Control Problem for a Dual Communication-Radar System Facing a Jamming Threat: Andrey Garnaev (Rutgers University, USA); Athina Petropulu (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); Wade Trappe (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Automotive Radar Interference Characterization and Reduction by Partial Coordination: Khurram Usman (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Robert Heath (University of California, San Diego, USA); Kapil Gulati and Junyi Li (Qualcomm, USA)
Joint Beamforming Design for Extended Target Estimation and Multiuser Communication: Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Joint Radar Target Detection and Parameter Estimation with MIMO OTFS: Lorenzo Gaudio (University of Parma, Italy); Mari Kobayashi (CentraleSupelec, France); Giuseppe Caire (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy)
On Wilks' Theorem for Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test Performance of Cooperative Radar-Communications: Touseef Ali (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan & Arizona State University, USA); Akshay Bondre (Arizona State University, USA); Christ D. Richmond (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA & Pratt School of Engineering, USA)

WM-SS9: Interference in automotive radars

Comparison of Automotive FMCW and OFDM Radar Under Interference: Gisela Carvajal (Qamcom Research and Technology, Sweden); Musa Furkan Keskin and Canan Aydogdu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Olof Eriksson and Hans Herbertsson (Veoneer, Sweden); Hans Hellsten (Saab Microwave Systems, Sweden); Emil Nilsson (Halmstad University, Sweden); Mats Rydström (Veoneer, Sweden); Karl Vänas (Volvo Cars, Sweden); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Stochastic-Geometry-Based Interference Modeling in Automotive Radars Using Matérn Hard-Core Process: Kumar Vijay Mishra (United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Sweep-Based Spectrum Sensing Method for Interference-Aware Cognitive Automotive Radar: Gor Hakobyan and Martin Fink (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany); Ayinhu Soyolyn, Nour Mansour and Dirk Dahlhaus (University of Kassel, Germany)
Automotive Radar and MmWave MIMO V2X Communications: Interference or Fruitful Coexistence: Andrew Graff (The University of Texas at Austin, USA); Anum Ali (University of Texas at Austin, USA); Nuria González-Prelcic (University of California San Diego, USA); Amitava Ghosh (Nokia Bell Labs, USA)
Combined Object Detection and Tracking on High Resolution Radar Imagery for Autonomous Driving Using Deep Neural Networks and Particle Filters: Ana Stroescu and Liam Y. Daniel (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Lunch Break

Plenary Talk 2 - Markus Gardill (University of Würzburg. Germany): State-of-the-Art Automotive Radar System Architectures - and What Else We Can Do with Them.

WA-L3: Automotive radars

Monostatic RCS Measurements of Representative Road Traffic Objects in the 76 … 81 GHz Frequency Band: Sreehari Buddappagari Jayapal Gowdu, Andreas Schwind, Ralf Stephan and Matthias Hein (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
Performance Evaluation of Wide Aperture Radar for Automotive Applications: Oded Bialer (University of Tel-Aviv, Israel); Sammy Kolpinizki (Tel Aviv University & General Motors ATCI, Israel); Amnon Jonas (General Motors, Israel)
Compressive Sensing for Automotive 300GHz 3D Imaging Radar: Dominic Michael Phippen (Airbus Defence and Space, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Liam Y. Daniel, Edward Hoare and Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Radar Tracking with Orthogonal Velocity Measurements for Autonomous Ground Vehicles: Eric Klinefelter, Jeffrey Nanzer and Hayder Radha (Michigan State University, USA)
Extended Object Tracking with Automotive Radar Using Learned Structural Measurement Model: Yuxuan Xia (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China); Pu Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Karl OE Berntorp (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA); Petros T. Boufounos and Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Lennart Svensson (Chalmers University, Sweden); Karl Granström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

WA-L4: Radar for structural monitoring

Extraction of Small Objects from Ground-Based Multi-Static SAR Images Using CFAR Algorithm with Generalized Gamma Distribution: Andreas Heinzel, Eric Schreiber, Markus Peichl and Stephan Dill (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Copula-Based Robust Landmine Detection in Multi-View Forward-Looking GPR Imagery: Afief Dias Pambudi (Signal Processing Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Fauzia Ahmad (Temple University, USA); Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
A Spatial Inference Approach for Landmine Detection Using Forward-Looking GPR: Afief Dias Pambudi (Signal Processing Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Martin Gölz (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Fauzia Ahmad (Temple University, USA); Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Comparison Between Sparse Array and Compressive Sensing for Designing a 4X4 MIMO Radar: Massimiliano Pieraccini, Lapo Miccinesi and Enrico Boni (University of Florence, Italy)
RockSpot: An Interferometric Doppler Radar for Rockfall/Avalanche Detection and Tracking: Federico Viviani, Alberto Michelini and Lorenzo Mayer (IDS GeoRadar Srl, Italy)

WA-L5: Space-based/Airborne radar remote sensing applications

A Fast Forward-looking Super-resolution Imaging Method for Scanning Radar Based on Low-rank Approximation with Least Squares: Xingyu Tuo, Yin Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Airborne Passive Radar Detection for the APART-GAS Trial: Vichet Duk and Philipp M. Wojaczek (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Luke Rosenberg (Lockheed Martin Australia & University of Adelaide, Australia); Diego Cristallini and Daniel W O'Hagan (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
A Novel Geo-Statistical Approach for Transport Infrastructure Network Monitoring by Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI): Valerio Gagliardi, Luca Bianchini Ciampoli and Fabrizio D'Amico (Roma Tre University, Italy); Fabio Tosti (University of West London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Amir M. Alani (University of West London (UWL), United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Andrea Benedetto (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Multi-Channel Calibration for Airborne Post-Doppler Space-Time Adaptive Processing: Andre Barros Cardoso da Silva and Stefan V. Baumgartner (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Drone-Borne P-band Single-Pass InSAR: Laila Moreira (Radaz, Brazil); Dieter Lübeck (Radaz Ltda, Brazil); Christian Wimmer (Wimmer Consulting, Germany); Felicio Harley Garcia de Castro (UNICAMP, Brazil); Juliana A Góes (Campinas Agronomic Institute, Brazil); Valquiria Lima Bessa de Castro, Marlon Alcântara and Gian Oré (University of Campinas, Brazil); Luciano P. Oliveira (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates & University of Campinas, Brazil); Leonardo Sant´Anna Bins (INPE, Brazil); Barbara Teruel (University of Campinas, Brazil); Lucas H Gabrielli (Flexcompute, Brazil); Hugo Enrique Hernandez-Figueroa (Unicamp, Brazil)

WA-SS11: Emerging technologies for radar applications: compressive sensing meets machine learning

A Fast-Learning Sparse Antenna Array: Satish Mulleti (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Chiranjib Saha (Qualcomm, USA); Harpreet S Dhillon (Virginia Tech, USA); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Sparse Signal Models for Data Augmentation in Deep Learning ATR: Tushar Agarwal, Nithin Sugavanam and Emre Ertin (The Ohio State University, USA)
Online Dictionary Learning Techniques for Sea Clutter Suppression: Fabio Giovanneschi (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Luke Rosenberg (Lockheed Martin Australia & University of Adelaide, Australia); Diego Cristallini (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
Combined CS and DL Techniques for DOA with a Rotman Lens: Matthias Weiß (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Michael Kohler (HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Germany); Alexander Saam and Josef Worms (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
Simultaneous Resolution of Range-Doppler Ambiguities Using Agile Pulse Intervals with Sparse Signal Processing: Wim Lambertus van Rossum (TNO, The Netherlands); Laura Anitori (CNIT Radar and Surveillance Systems Laboratory, Italy)

WA-SS12: Dual-function radar/communication systems

On Spectrum Sharing for Pulse-Doppler Radar and OFDM Communications: Justin Metcalf (University of Oklahoma, Italy); Shane Flandermeyer (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Assessment of Constant Envelope OFDM as a Class of Random FM Radar Waveforms: Erik Biehl (University of Kansas, USA); Charles Mohr (Air Force Research Laboratory); Brandon Ravenscroft (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Shannon D Blunt (University of Kansas, USA)
A Study on the Performance of Symbol Dictionary Selection for the Frequency Hopped DFRC Scheme: William Baxter (University of New South Wales, Australia); Hamed Nosrati (CSIRO, Australia); Elias Aboutanios (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Optimum Code Design Using Genetic Algorithm in Frequency Hopping Dual Function MIMO Radar Communication Systems: Indu Priya Eedara, Moeness G. Amin and Ahmad Hoorfar (Villanova University, USA)
Phase Modulated Communications Embedded in Correlated FH-MIMO Radar Waveforms: Xiangrong Wang (Beihang University, China); Aboulnasr Hassanien (Wright State University, USA)

Coffee Break

WA-D1: DEMO 1

Reconfigurable, Low-Cost Monostatic Ultra-Wide Band Radar: Maxime Schutz (University of Limoges, XLIM & INOVEOS SAS Company, France); Cyril Decroze (XLIM, France); Michele Lalande (University of Limoges, France); Bertrand Lenoir (INOVEOS SAS, France)

WA-D2: DEMO 2

Demonstration of High-Fidelity Modeling & Simulation for Cognitive Radar: Sandeep Gogineni and Joseph Guerci (ISL, Inc., USA); Hoan Nguyen (Information Systems Laboratories, USA); Jamie Bergin (ISL, USA); Brian Watson (ISL, Inc., USA); Muralidhar Rangaswamy (AFRL, USA)

WA-D3: DEMO 3

A Hardware Prototype of Sub-Nyquist Radar with Distorted Pulse Shape: Satish Mulleti (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Yariv Shavit (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Moshe Namer (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

WA-P1: PSS2 - Advanced radar waveform design strategies

Range-Doppler Decoupling and Interference Mitigation Using Cognitive Random Sparse Stepped Frequency Radar: Kumar Vijay Mishra (United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Satish Mulleti (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Transmit Signal and Receive Filter Design of PMCW Radar with Low-Resolution ADC: Foozie Foroozmehr (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Mahdi Naghsh (Isfahan University of Technology & Uppsala University, Iran); Mahmood Modarres-Hashemi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran)
Finite Alphabet Unimodular Sequence Design with Low WISL via an Inexact ADPM Framework: Xianxiang Yu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Jing Yang (Zhengzhou University, China); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
ADMM Based Transmit Waveform and Receive Filter Design in Cognitive Radar Systems: Ehsan Raei (SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi (Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Diversifying the Processing Chain of the Modified Stepped Frequency Radar Waveform Combined with Pulse Compression Techniques: Mahdi Saleh (Lebanese University, Lebanon); Samir Omar (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Eric J. Grivel (Bordeaux INP, France)

WA-P2: Localization and estimation

Angular Target Detection by Means of DPCA like Technique: Enzo Carpentieri (Mbda, Italy); Gregorio De Stefano and Luca Musetta (MBDA, Italy); Giovanni Petraglia and Pietro Vinetti (MBDA Missile Systems, Italy)
Joint Range and Doppler Estimation with Amplitude Weighted Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance Method for OFDM-Based RadCom Systems: Fuqiang Zhang, Zenghui Zhang and Wenxian Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
An Improved Closed-Form Solution for Differential RSS-based Localization: Yimao Sun (Sichuan University, China & University of Missouri, USA); LiXianglu (iee of CAEP, China); Zhijiang Huang and Jie Tian (China Academy of Engineering Physics, China)
Range-Doppler Spectrum Estimation Based on Matrix Completion for Frequency Agile Radar: Xueyao Hu (Beijing Institute of Technology Chongqing Innovation Center, China); Fugang Lu (No. 203 Research Institute of China Ordnance Industries, China); Can Liang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Jianhu Liu (Beijing Rxbit Electronic Technology Co., Ltd, China); Yanhua Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
A-4 Skyhawk Aircraft Stealth Capacity Against L-Band Radar Based on Dynamic Target Detection: Renan Richter (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil); Newton Gomes (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA, Brazil)
Radon-Fourier Transform in FMCW Radar: Longhui Wang and Jian Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Searching Velocity Fourier Transform: A Novel Focus-Before-Detection Algorithm in FMCW Radar: Longhui Wang and Jian Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Low-Rank Approximation-Based Super-Resolution Imaging for Airborne Forward-Looking Radar: Jie Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China); Yongchao Zhang, Yin Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Radar SLAM for Autonomous Indoor Grinding: Nils Mandischer, Sami Charaf Eddine, Mathias Huesing and Burkhard Corves (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Polarization Parameter Estimation of Conformal MIMO Radar Targets: Xin Wang (Xidian University, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China); Hongwei Liu (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Junkun Yan (Xidian University, China); Hongtao Su (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing,China); Huijing Li (Xidian University, China); Kuiying Yin (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology, China); Wei Sun (Nanjing Electronic Technology Research Institute, China); Lin Zhou (Southeast University, China)
Parameter Estimation and Imaging of Three-Dimensional Moving Target in Dual-Channel CSAR-GMTI Processing: Beibei Ge, Daoxiang An and Zhimin Zhou (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Fixed Budget Kernel LMS Based Estimator Using Random Fourier Features: Aditya Ramesh (IIIT Sricity, India); Uday Kumar Singh (SnT University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Rangeet Mitra (ETS Montreal, Canada); Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Amit Mishra (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

WA-P3: Waveform diversity and MIMO radars

Unified Metric-Based Multi-Platform Network: Integrating Radar, Communication and Jamming: Yuanhan Ni, Zulin Wang and Qin Huang (Beihang University, China)
Adaptive Transmit Power Allocation for FDA Radar with Spectral Interference Avoidance: Ronghua Gui and Wen-Qin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Design of (Quasi) Complementary Waveform with Doppler Resilience for Range Sidelobe Suppression: Zhongjie Wu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Chenxu Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology，Weihai, China); Zhiquan Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China); Xiang Feng (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Waveform Design for MIMO Radar with Partial Low-Resolution ADCs: Ziyang Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jinyang He (UESTC, China); Bin Liao (Shenzhen University, China); Zishu He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Mismatched Filter for Integrated Sidelobe Level Minimization over a Continuous Doppler Shift Interval: Maria-Elisavet Chatzitheodoridi (ONERA, France); Abigael Taylor (ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab, France); Olivier Rabaste (Onera, France)
CP-OFDM Radar Range Reconstruction in a Chaotic Doppler Disturbed Scenario: Xinyu Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China & School of Communication and Information Engineering, China); Tianxian Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Qiao Shi (Southwest Jiaotong University, China); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China)
Ergodic Interference Steering for Joint Phased Array Radar and Communication Systems: Bingqing Hong and Wen-Qin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Fast Optimization for Unimodular Sequences Design with Good Correlation Properties: Yi Bu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jing Yang (Zhengzhou University, China); Xianxiang Yu and Yanqin Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Zhihao Jiang (Naval Research Academy, China)
Correlation-Based Radar Receivers with Pulse-Shaped OFDM Signals: Steven Mercier (ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, France); Damien Roque (Direction Générale de l'Armement, France & ISAE-SUPAERO, Université de Toulouse, France); Stéphanie Bidon (University of Toulouse / ISAE, France); Cyrille Enderli (Thales Airborne Systems, France)
FPGA Design and Implementation of a Real-Time FM/PM Pseudo Random Waveform Generation for Noise Radars: Alisson Barreto (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil); Leandro Guimarães Figueroa Pralon (CTEX, Brazil); Bruno Pompeo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Mariana G Pralon (Brazilian Army Technological Center, Brazil); Gabriel Beltrão (IEE S.A., USA)
Fractional Wideband Ambiguity Function for MIMO Radar: Chang Gao (Xidian University, China); Yongzhe Li (Beijing Institute of Technology & School of Information and Electronics, China); Ran Tao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Direction Blanking with Controlable Width in MIMO Radar via Phase Code Optimization: Olivier Rabaste (Onera, France)
A Learning Approach to Design Binary Sequences with Good Correlation Properties: Omid Rezaei and Mahdi Ahmadi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Mahdi Naghsh (Isfahan University of Technology & Uppsala University, Iran)
Doppler-Tolerant NLFM Radar Signal Synthesis Method: Hubert Milczarek, Czesław Leśnik and Adam Kawalec (Military University of Technology, Poland)
Performance Prediction of FDA-MIMO Radar Detector: Ziting Xu, Bang Huang and Wen-Qin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

WA-P4: Automotive radar technology and signal processing

Automotive Radar Interference Reduction Based on Sparse Bayesian Learning: Shengyi Chen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany); Jalal Taghia (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany); Uwe Kühnau (HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Germany); Tai Fei (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany); Frank Grünhaupt (HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Germany); Rainer Martin (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
An Adaptive Interference Detection and Suppression Scheme Using Iterative Processing for Automotive FMCW Radars: Masahiro Umehira (Nanzan University, Japan & Ibaraki University, Japan); Takeo Okuda, Xiaoyan Wang and Shigeki Takeda (Ibaraki University, Japan); Hiroshi Kuroda (Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan & TechnoPro Design Company, Japan)
A Ghost Target Suppression Technique Using Interference Replica for Automotive FMCW Radars: Daiki Ammen (Ibaraki University & Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Japan); Masahiro Umehira (Nanzan University, Japan & Ibaraki University, Japan); Xiaoyan Wang and Shigeki Takeda (Ibaraki University, Japan); Hiroshi Kuroda (Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan & TechnoPro Design Company, Japan)
A Graphical Heatmap Tool to Analyse the Effects of Interference in Automotive Radar: Fatemeh Norouzian, Anum Ahmed Pirkani, Edward Hoare and Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Designing Radar Waveform Parameters Oriented to Performance of Collision Warning System: Hang Ruan, Yimin Liu, Tianyao Huang and Xiqin Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Multiple Access Radar Using Slow Chirp Modulation: Hans Hellsten (Saab AB, Halmstad University); Emil Nilsson (Halmstad University, Sweden)
Statistical Analysis of Automotive Radar Interference: Anum Ahmed Pirkani, Fatemeh Norouzian and Edward Hoare (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Statistical Study of Hardware Impairments Effect on mmWave 77 GHz FMCW Automotive Radar: Mohammad Hossein Moghaddam and Sina Rezaei Aghdam (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Alessio Filippi (NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands); Thomas Eriksson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Localization and 3D Mapping Using 1D Automotive Radar Sensor: Robin van Gaalen (TU delft, The Netherlands); Faruk Uysal (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Netherlands); Alexander Yarovoy (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
A 79GHz Millimeter Radar Based Car and Motorcycle Counter: Weijie Liu (Panasonic Corporation, Japan); Yoshiyuki Okubo (Panasonic, Japan); Jerry Sun and Yasuhiro Aoyama (Panasonic, Taiwan)
Automotive Radar Waveform Parameters Randomisation for Interference Level Reduction: Fatemeh Norouzian, Anum Ahmed Pirkani, Edward Hoare and Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
GIP Test for Automotive FMCW Interference Detection and Suppression: Thomas Pernstal (Flöjelbergsgatan 6 & SafeRadar Research, Sweden); Johan Degerman and Henric Broström (SafeRadar Research Sweden AB, Sweden); Vu Viet Thuy and Mats I. Pettersson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Assessment of Micro-Doppler Based Road Targets Recognition Based on Co-Operative Multi-Sensor Automotive Radar Applications: Pasquale Striano (University of Strathclyde & Mr, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christos V. Ilioudis, Carmine Clemente and John J Soraghan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Interference Characterization in FMCW Radars: Sandeep Rao (Texas Instruments, India); Anil Varghese (Indian Institute of Science & Texas Instruments, India)

WA-P5: Experimental short-range target detection and classification

Class Factorized Variational Auto-encoder for Radar HRRP Target Recognition: Jian Chen, Lan Du and Leiyao Liao (Xidian University, China)
From Unsupervised to Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection Methods for HRRP Targets: Martin Bauw (MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CMM - Center of Mathematical Morphology & Thales LAS, France); Santiago Velasco-Forero (MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CMM-Center of Mathematical Morphology, France); Jesus Angulo (Mines ParisTech, France); Claude Adnet (Thales Air Systems, France); Olivier Airiau (Thales LAS, France)
Micro-Range Micro-Doppler for Classification: Dave Tahmoush (University of Kansas, USA)
Preliminary Studies to Identify Oil Well Perforations with Radar Installed Outside the Well: Yaser Norouzi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Ali Jamaluddin (Najaf Technical Institute, AL-Furat AL-Awsat Technical University, Iraq); Gholamreza Moradi and Sajjad Kaveh (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Comparative Analysis of 300 GHz and 79 GHz Radar Performance in Fire Environments: Aleksandr Bystrov, Liam Y. Daniel, Edward Hoare, Fatemeh Norouzian and Mikhail Cherniakov (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
UAV Micro-Doppler Signature Analysis: Dave Tahmoush (University of Kansas, USA)
Design and Development of K-Band FMCW Radar for Nano-Drone Detection: Safiah Zulkifli and Alessio Balleri (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Simulation-Based Approach to Classification of Airborne Drones: Lasse Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark & Terma A/S, Denmark); Jørgen Dall (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

WA-P6: Radar tracking and track-before-detect

Ship Tracking in High-Resolution Range-Compressed Airborne Radar Data Acquired During Linear and Circular Flight Tracks: Sushil Kumar Joshi and Stefan V. Baumgartner (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
A Data Association Approach for Plot-Sequences Outputted by Multi-Frame Track-Before-Detect: Kezhu Liu, Ph Zhang, Wujun Li and Wei Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China)
Trajectory Tracking by the Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm: Genetic Approach to Improve the Performance: Dmitrii A Bedin and Alexey Ivanov (N. N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia)
Unbiased Measurements Conversion Based Sequential Filtering for Target Tracking with Range, Range Rate and Direction Cosine Measurements: Lifu Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Ting Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China)
Joint Detection and Tracking Scheme for Target Tracking in Moving Platform: Yongsheng Guan (Information Science Academy of China Electronics Technolog Group Corporation, USA); Yingping Wang (Xidian University, China)
Tracker Integrity Performance Assessment: Nicolas Honoré and Marc Fragu (Thales LAS/AMS, France); Christophe Labreuche and Bruno Marcon (Thales Research and Technology, France)
Track-Before-Detect Method Based on Preprocessing with Pseudo-Spectrum: Liangliang Wang and Gongjian Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Thia Kirubarajan (McMaster University, Canada)
Supervised Learning Based Online Filters for Targets Tracking Using Radar Measurements: Jie Deng, Wei Yi, Kai Zeng, Qiyun Peng and Xiaobo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Multi-Scan Joint Tracking and Classification Method for Weak Targets: Kai Zeng, Wei Yi, Qiyun Peng and Jie Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
An Aircraft-Centered Multi-Frame TBD Method for Airborne Radar Systems: Qiyun Peng, Wei Yi, Kai Zeng, Jie Deng, Wujun Li and Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Target Tracking and Ghost Mitigation Based on Multi-view Through-the-wall Radar Imaging: Huquan Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Shisheng Guo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Xiaobo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

ThM-L1: DOA Estimation

A Comparison of Two Stochastic Maximum Likelihood DoA Estimators - Rotating Array Case: Michał Meller (PIT-RADWAR, Poland); Kamil Stawiarski (Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Computer Science & PIT-RADWAR S.A., Poland)
Robust Semiparametric DOA Estimation in Non-Gaussian Environment: Stefano Fortunati (CentraleSupélec, France); Alexandre Renaux (University of Paris-Saclay, France); Frederic Pascal (CentraleSupélec, France)
Simultaneous Radar Detection and Constrained Target Angle Estimation via Dinkelbach Algorithm: Massimo Rosamilia (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Augusto Aubry (Universita degli studi di Napoli, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Stefano Marano (University of Salerno, Italy)
Large Array DOA Estimation Based on Extreme Learning Machine and Random Matrix Theory: Anqi Zhao, Hong Jiang and Qi Zhang (Jilin University, China)
Multi-frame DOA Estimation Algorithm for Weak Moving Targets: Ph Zhang, Kezhu Liu, Wujun Li, Wei Yi and Xiaobo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

ThM-L2: Joint radar and communications

Realization of a Joint MIMO Radar and Communication System Using a PSK-LFM Waveform: Muge Bekar, Christopher J. Baker and Edward Hoare (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Effect Analysis of Spatial Modulation on Clutter Mitigation for Joint RadCom Systems and Solutions: Xin Zhang and Xiangrong Wang (Beihang University, China); Elias Aboutanios (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Green Communications with Radar Spectrum Sharing: Emanuele Grossi (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio & Consorzio Nazionale Inter-universitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Marco Lops (University of Naples Federico II & CNIT - Consorzio Universitario Nazionale per le Telecomunicazioni, Italy); Luca Venturino (Universita' degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Merdionale & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy)
Distributed Radar-Aided Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication: Canan Aydogdu (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Rydström (Veoneer, Sweden)
Can Automotive Radars Form Vehicular Networks?: Canan Aydogdu and Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Rydström (Veoneer, Sweden)

ThM-L3: Radar technology

Airborne Polarimetric Doppler Phased Array Weather Radar: Performance Requirements and Design Specifications: Jothiram Vivekanandan, Luis Perez-Clifford, Eric Loew and Adam Karboski (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
Quantum Radar with Digital Waveform Generators: Fred E Daum (Raytheon, USA)
Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate UWB ESM Receiver Design via Direct RF Sub-Nyquist Sampling: Abdullah Pinarcik (ASELSAN A. S., Turkey); Ali Bugra Korucu and Yasar Kemal Alp (ASELSAN Inc., Turkey); Lutfiye Durak-Ata (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Sectoral Horn and Patch Array Antenna Design for a 76-81 GHz High-Resolution Tomographic Radar: Wafa Pathan Rahamtulla (Chalmers University of Technology); Andreas Och (Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria & Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Patrick Hölzl (Infineon Technologies Austria AG); Stefan Schuster (voestalpine Stahl GmbH); Venkata Pathuri Bhuvana (Silicon Austria Labs GmbH, Austria); Robert Weigel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Design of a Substrate Integrated Waveguide Slots Antenna in W Band for Aircraft Radar Application: Lamia Sadaoui (Universite Cote d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT, France); Jerome Lanteri (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Jean-Yves Dauvignac (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT, France); Claire Migliaccio (Université Côte d'Azur, France); Fabien Ferrero (Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT & CREMANT, France); Laurent Brochier (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); Ronnie Rexhaeuser and Thilo Lenhard (InnoSenT GmbH, Germany); Federico Lolli and Claudio Palleschi (Interconsulting, Italy)

ThM-L4: Radar phenomenology and modeling

Scanning Radar Simulation in the Maritime Environment: Luke Rosenberg (Lockheed Martin Australia & University of Adelaide, Australia); Simon Watts (UCL, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stephen Bocquet (DST Group, Australia)
HF RCS of Small Boat Displacement in the Ocean: Gordon Frazer and Charlie Williams (FrazerLab Pty Ltd, Australia)
Multistatic Radar Measurements of UAVs at X-Band and L-Band: Piers Jerome Beasley, Matthew Ritchie, Hugh Griffiths and William Miceli (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michael R Inggs (University Cape Town, South Africa)
Bi-static Reflectivity Patterns of Vulnerable Road Users in the C-V2X Frequency Range: Andreas Schwind, Willi Hofmann, Sreehari Buddappagari Jayapal Gowdu, Ralf Stephan, Reiner S. Thomä and Matthias Hein (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
Virtual Multistatic Illumination by Exploitation of Multipath Propagation with Coherent MIMO Radar: Oliver Biallawons (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Joachim Ender (University of Siegen, Germany)

ThM-SS13: SAR meets AI

Balanced Feature Pyramid Network for Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images: Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Jun Shi, Shunjun Wei and Jianguo Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianwei Li (Naval Aeronautical University, China)
InSAR Phase Unwrapping Using Convolutional Neural Network: Francesco Calvanese (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Francescopaolo Sica (University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw), Germany); Giuseppe Scarpa (University Parthenope of Napoli, Italy); Paola Rizzoli (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
An Adversarial Learning Approach for Oil Spill Detection from SAR Images: Federico Ronci, Corrado Avolio, Mauro Di Donna and Massimo Zavagli (E-Geos, Italy); Veronica Piccialli (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy); Mario Costantini (E-GEOS - an Italian Space Agency and Telespazio Company, Italy)
Low Resolution for DNN in SAR: Iulia Calota and Daniela Faur (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Mihai Datcu (Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
Classification of Synthetic Aperture Radar Images of Icebergs and Ships Using Random Forests Outperforms Convolutional Neural Networks: William Franz Lamberti (George Mason University, USA)

Coffee Break

ThM-L10: High resolution radar imaging

First Results of a Joint Measurement Campaign with PAMIR-Ka and MIRANDA-94: Ingo Walterscheid, Patrick Berens, Michael Caris, Stefan Sieger, Olaf Saalmann, Daniel Janssen, Gabriel El-Arnauti and Angel Ribalta (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Daniel Henke (University of Zurich, Switzerland); Elias Mendez Dominguez (University of Zurich & Remote Sensing Laboratories, Switzerland)
IED Command Wire Detection Using Multi-Aspect Processing on SAR Images: Keith T.J. Klein (Delft University of Technology & TNO, The Netherlands); Faruk Uysal (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Netherlands); Miguel Caro Cuenca, Matern Otten and Jacco de Wit (TNO, The Netherlands)
High- Resolution, Contiguous SAR Imaging Using Co-Located MIMO Arrays: Experimental Proof of Concept: Furkan Korkmaz (The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain) & Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey); Michail Antoniou (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
3D Fast Factorized Back-Projection in Cartesian Coordinates: Juliana A Góes (Campinas Agronomic Institute, Brazil); Valquiria Lima Bessa de Castro (University of Campinas, Brazil); Leonardo Sant´Anna Bins (INPE, Brazil); Hugo Enrique Hernandez-Figueroa (Unicamp, Brazil)
Scanning Radar Target Reconstruction Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network: Jifang Pei (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Deqing Mao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Weibo Huo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Yin Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)

ThM-L8: Radar classification

Target Classification Using Combined YOLO-SVM in High-Resolution Automotive FMCW Radar: Woosuk Kim, Hyunwoong Cho and Jongseok Kim (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Korea (South)); Byungkwan Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea (South)); Seongwook Lee (Chung-Ang University, Korea (South))
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Human Activity Recognition in Radar: Xinyu Li (Southeast University, China); Xiao jun Jing and Yuan He (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Novel Microwave Staring Correlated Imaging Approach Based on Single Transmitting Antenna: Jianlin Zhang, Bo Yuan, Zheng Jiang, Yuanyue Guo and Dongjin Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Comparison of SEM Methods for Poles Estimation from Scattered Field by Canonical Objects: Yasmina Zaky (Université Cote d'Azur, France); Nicolas Fortino (University of Nice, France); Jean-Yves Dauvignac (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, LEAT, France); Fabien Seyfert and Martine Olivi (Inria Sophia Antipolis, France); Laurent Baratchart (INRIA, France)
Feature-Based Classification for Image Segmentation in Automotive Radar Based on Statistical Distribution Analysis: Yang Xiao and Liam Y. Daniel (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marina S. Gashinova (University of Birmngham, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

ThM-SS14: Multisensor multitarget tracking in surveillance applications

GCI Fusion Based Multi-Detection Multitarget Tracking: Lin Gao (University of Florence, Italy); Giorgio Battistelli and Luigi Chisci (Università di Firenze, Italy); Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy)
Track Before Detect for Radar Using Stochastic Particle Flow Filters: Fred E Daum and Arjang Noushin (Raytheon, USA)
On the Probability of Cross-Radar Assignment Error: Paolo Braca (CMRE, Italy); Leonardo Maria Millefiori (NATO STO CMRE, Italy); Stefano Marano (University of Salerno, Italy); Peter Willett (University of Connecticut, USA); William Dale Blair (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)
Progress on the Study for the Use of Long-Range Radars for Space Situational Awareness: Sonia Tomei and Luca Gentile (CNIT RaSS, Italy); Elisa Giusti (CNIT & RaSS, Italy); Marco Martorella (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sandro Strappaveccia (CTO Naval Systems, Electronics IT Leonardo spa, Italy); Domenico Vigilante (Leonardo, Italy); Luca Timmoneri (Leonardo Spa, Italy); Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy)
Design of NCA Filters for Tracking Maneuvering Targets: William Dale Blair (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)

ThM-SS15: Multi-function spectral system co-design

Joint Radar-Communication-Based Bayesian Predictive Beamforming for Vehicular Networks: Weijie Yuan and Fan Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology, China); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jinhong Yuan and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng (University of New South Wales, Australia)
A Joint Design of MIMO-OFDM Dual-Function Radar Communication System Using Generalized Spatial Modulation: Zhaoyi Xu (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA); Athina Petropulu (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA); Shunqiao Sun (The University of Alabama, USA)
Vehicular RF Convergence: Simultaneous Radar, Communications, and PNT for Urban Air Mobility and Automotive Applications: Andrew Herschfelt, Alex Chiriyath and Daniel W. Bliss (Arizona State University, USA); Christ D. Richmond (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA & Pratt School of Engineering, USA); Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA); Shannon D Blunt (University of Kansas, USA)
Multicarrier DS-CDMA Waveforms for Joint Radar-Communication System: Salil Sharma (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Maarit Melvasalo and Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland)
Hybrid Beamforming for Multi-User Dual-Function MIMO Radar-Communication System: Ziyang Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Shengnan Shi (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Bin Liao (Shenzhen University, China)

ThM-SS16: Ground based radar remote sensing of clouds and precipitation

Development and Observations of the Phased Array Radar for Weather Application: Tomoo Ushio (Osaka University, Japan); Eiichi Yoshikawa (Colorado State University, USA); Hiroshi Kikuchi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Masakazu Wada (Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
Triple Frequency Doppler Spectra Closure Study Across the Melting Layer: Lessons Learnt: Kamil Mroz (UK-NCEO, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessandro Battaglia (Politecnico of Turin, Italy & University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stefan Kneifel, Leonie von Terzi, Markus Karrer and Davide Ori (University of Cologne, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
AI in Weather Radars: V. Chandrasekar (Colorado State University, USA)
Nonlinear Iterative Optimization Approaches for Pulse Compression in Weather Radars: Luca Facheris and Fabrizio Argenti (University of Florence, Italy)

WIE Panel: Gender bias in the workplace

Plenary Talk 3 - Mahta Moghaddam (University of Southern California, USA): Microwave Sensing for Medical Imaging and Monitoring of Thermal Therapies: Accelerated Inverse Scattering via Learning.

ThA-L1: Radar tracking

PLA-JPDA for Indoor Multi-Person Tracking Using IR-UWB Radars: Hongyu Qian, Xiuzhu Yang, Xinyue Zhang, Yi Ding and Lin Zhang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Track-Before-Detect Approach for UWB Radar Sensor Networks: Bo Yan (University of Bologna, Italy); Andrea Giorgetti (University of Bologna, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Enrico Paolini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Radar Fusion for Multipath Mitigation in Indoor Environments: Evert Ismael Pocoma (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium); Kheireddine Aziz (InterUniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium); Maxim Rykunov, Eddy De Greef and Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium); François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
BAAS: Bayesian Tracking and Fusion Assisted Object Annotation of Radar Sensor Data for Artificial Intelligence Application: Stefan Haag and Bharanidhar Duraisamy (Daimler AG, Germany); Felix Govaers (Fraunhofer FKIE / University of Bonn, Germany); Wolfgang Koch (Fraunhofer FKIE & University of Bonn, Germany); Martin Fritzsche and Juergen Dickmann (Daimler AG, Germany)
Note on Autocorrelation of the Residuals of the NCV Kalman Filter Tracking a Maneuvering Target: Paul Miceli (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA); William Dale Blair (Georgia Institute of Technology & Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)

ThA-L2: Software-defined, small radar architectures, prototypes

Reviewing the Application and Integration of Software Defined Radios to Radar Systems: Shiqi Feng (Per Vices Corporation, Canada); Neelam Mughees (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan); Victor Wollesen (Per Vices Corporation, Canada)
SDR-Based Hardware Implementation and Performance Measurement of Transmit Beampattern Design Algorithms: Ahmad Bin Rabiah and Mohammed Alsakabi (Prince Sultan Defense Studies and Research Center, Saudi Arabia); Omar Aldayel and Saleh A Alshebeili (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
The UAV Radar Imaging Prototype Developed in the Frame of the VESTA Project: Giuseppe Esposito (IREA-CNR, Italy); Carlo Noviello (IREA-CNR & University of Napoli Federico II, Italy); Francesco Soldovieri (CNR, Italy); Giancarmine Fasano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Graziano Gagliarde (TopView srl, Italy); Gianluca Luisi and Federico Saccoccio (TopView Srl, Italy); Ilaria Catapano (IREA-CNR, Italy)
An All-COTS High Sampling Frequency Pulse-Doppler Imaging Radar: Russell H Kenney (University of Oklahoma & Advanced Radar Research Center, USA); Kurt Konyalioglu, Mark Yeary and Hjalti Sigmarsson (University of Oklahoma, USA); Jay W McDaniel (Capella Space & Advanced Radar Research Center, USA)
Experimental Implementation of a Multi-Antenna 802.11Ax-Based Passive Bistatic Radar for Human Target Detection: Laurent Storrer, Hasan Can Yildirim and Evert Ismael Pocoma (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium); Jerome Louveaux (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Philippe De Doncker (ULB, Belgium); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgium); François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

ThA-SS17: Radar for health monitoring and biomedical applications

Joint Waveform/Receiver Design for Vital-Sign Detection in Signal-Dependent Interference: Gabriel Beltrão (IEE S.A., USA); Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi (Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Udo Schröder (IEE S.A., Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Comparative Study of Radar Architectures for Human Vital Signs Measurement: Etienne Antide (Université Grenoble Alpes & CEA, LETI, France); Mykhailo Zarudniev (Université Grenoble Alpes, France); Olivier Michel (INPG, France); Michael Pelissier (CEA-Leti/Minatec, France)
Distributed Radar Information Fusion for Gait Recognition and Fall Detection: Haobo Li and Julien Le Kernec (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ajay Mehul and Sevgi Z Gurbuz (The University of Alabama, USA); Francesco Fioranelli (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Body Movement Cancellation Using Adaptive Filtering Technology for Radar-Based Vital Sign Monitoring: Li Zhang and Chuanwei Ding (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Xudong Zhou (Nanjing University of Science and Technology，China); Hong Hong (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Changzhi Li (Texas Tech University, USA); Xiaohua Zhu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
An Unsupervised Approach for Graph-based Robust Clustering of Human Gait Signatures: Aylin Tastan and Michael Muma (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

ThA-SS18: Satellite sensing of the atmosphere: radar technologies and methods for advancing atmospheric and climate science.

Spaceborne Atmospheric Radar Technology Development: Lihu Li, Gerald Heymsfield and Matthew McLinden (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA); Paul Racette (NASA GSFC, USA); Michael Cooley, Peter Stenger and Thomas Spence (Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA)
A Compact W-band Breadboard Radar for Atmospheric Measurements: Raquel Monje, Robert Beauchamp, Ken Cooper, Shivani Joshi and Simone Tanelli (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA)
Cloud Dynamics Revealed by a G-band Humidity-Sounding Differential Absorption Radar: Ken Cooper (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology); Robert Beauchamp, Richard Roy, Luis Millan, Matt Lebsock and Raquel Monje (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA)
RainCube and Its Legacy for the Next Generation of Spaceborne Cloud and Precipitation Radars: Simone Tanelli (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA); Eva Peral, Eastwood Im and Mauricio Sanchez-Barbetty (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Robert Beauchamp and Raquel Monje (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA)
Ground-Based Radar Insight into Warm Marine Boundary Layer Clouds for Shaping Future Spaceborne Radar Missions: Katia Lamer (Brookhaven National Laboratory Stony Brook, USA); Pavlos Kollias (Stony Brook University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alessandro Battaglia (Politecnico of Turin, Italy & University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Simon Preval (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

ThA-SS19: Millimeter-wave synthetic aperture radar

k-Space Decomposition Based Super-resolution Three-dimensional Imaging Method for Millimeter Wave Radar: Tomoki Omori (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yusuke Isono, Katsuhiko Kondo and Yusuke Akamine (SOKEN, Japan); Shouhei Kidera (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
High-Throughput 3-D Millimeter-Wave Imaging of Packaged Goods: Andreas Pedross-Engel (University of Washington & ThruWave Inc., USA); Claire Watts and Matthew Reynolds (University of Washington, USA)
Near-Field MIMO-ISAR Millimeter-Wave Imaging: Josiah W. Smith (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Muhammet Emin Yanik (Texas Instruments, USA & The University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Murat Torlak (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Image Enhancement with Blind Deconvolution in Millimeter-Wave 3-D FLoSAR: Kumar Vijay Mishra (United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Lam Nguyen (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
A Review of Recent Advancements Including Machine Learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar Using Millimeter-Wave Radar: Arindam Sengupta (The University of Arizona, USA); Feng Jin, Reydesel A Cuevas and Siyang Cao (University of Arizona, USA)

Coffee Break

ThA-D1: DEMO 1

Audio Sonar for Gaining Hands-On Experience of Radar Principles: Warren P du Plessis (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

ThA-D2: DEMO 2

Radar for Structural Monitoring and Assets Mapping: Fabio Giannino and Guido Manacorda (IDS GeoRadar, Italy); Alessandro Simi (IDS GeoRadar, Greece); Matteo Cecchetti (IDS GeoRadar srl, Italy); Daniele Vacca (IDS GeoRadar, Italy)

ThA-D3: DEMO 3

Hardware Demonstration of a Scalable Cognitive Sparse Array: Satish Mulleti (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Yariv Shavit (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Moshe Namer (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina C. Eldar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

ThA-P1: PSS3 - Multitarget tracking

Distributed Multi-Target Tracking over an Asynchronous Multi-Sensor Network: Guchong Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China); Giorgio Battistelli and Luigi Chisci (Università di Firenze, Italy); Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Decentralized PHD Filter for Multi-Target Tracking in Asynchronous Multi-Static Radar System: Qi Yang and Wei Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Mahendra Mallick (USA)
An Efficient PHD Filter for Multi-target Tracking with Out-of-Sequence Measurement: Qi Yang and Wei Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Distributed Multi-object Tracking and Registration with LMB Filter in Multistatic Radar Systems: Lei Chai, Wei Yi, Wujun Li and Lingjiang Kong (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Resource Allocation for Multi-Target Tracking in Multi-Static Radar Systems with Imperfect Detection Performance: Xiujuan Lu, Jun Sun, Ye Yuan and Xiaobo Yang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

ThA-P2: PSS4 - Multisensor multitarget tracking

A Non-Markovian Prediction for the GM-PHD Filter Based on Recurrent Neural Networks: Isabel Schlangen, Steffen Jung and Alexander Charlish (Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany)
Random Finite Set Tracking for Anomaly Detection in the Presence of Clutter: Nicola Forti and Leonardo Maria Millefiori (NATO STO CMRE, Italy); Paolo Braca (CMRE, Italy); Peter Willett (University of Connecticut, USA)
Multiple-Hypothesis Group Tracking: Stefano Coraluppi (STR, USA); Constantino Rago (Systems and Technology Research, USA); Craig Carthel (Systems & Technology Research, USA)

ThA-P3: PSS5 - Radar networks for climate change

Weather Detection with an AESA-Based Airborne Sense and Avoid Radar: Florian Kunstmann, Dietmar Klarer, Anouk Puchinger and Stefan Beer (Hensoldt Sensors GmbH, Germany)
Application of Micro Rain Radar for Supporting Quantitative Weather Radar Precipitation Measurements: Gerhard Peters and Piet Markmann (METEK GmbH, Germany); Hans-Jürgen Kirtzel (Metek GmbH, Germany)
A Novel Antenna Concept for Weather Applications Based on a Cylindrical Parabolic Reflector: Stefano Turso (Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Germany); Carlos Salzburg (Fraunhofer, Germany); Marc Vizcarro (Hensoldt, Germany); Thomas Bertuch (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany)
Validation of Space-Borne Radar Precipitation Retrievals Using Disdrometer Data over Italy: Elisa Adirosi (Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy); Luca Baldini (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy); Mario Montopoli (National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR, ISAC), Italy); Alessandro Bracci (University of Bologna, Italy)
Regional Precipitation Mosaicking Using Multifrequency Weather Radar Network in Complex Orography: Errico Picciotti (HIMET, Italy); Stefano Barbieri (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Saverio Di Fabio (CETEMPS, Italy); Klaide De Sanctis (HIMET, Italy); Raffaele Lidori (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Frank S. Marzano (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

ThA-P4: Indoor, GPR and through-the-wall radars

Accurate People Counting Based on Radar: Deep Learning Approach: Jae-Ho Choi, Ji-Eun Kim and Nam-Hoon Jeong (POSTECH, Korea (South)); Seung-Hyun Jin (Defense Agency for Technology and Quality, Korea (South)); Kyung-Tae Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea (South))
Super-resolution Doppler Velocity and Range Estimator for Short-range Human Recognition Radar: Takeru Ando and Shouhei Kidera (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
NLP Based Skeletal Pose Estimation Using mmWave Radar Point-Cloud: A Simulation Approach: Arindam Sengupta (The University of Arizona, USA); Feng Jin and Siyang Cao (University of Arizona, USA)
Improved People Counting Algorithm for Indoor Environments Using 60 GHz FMCW Radar: Jonas Weiß (TU Munich, Germany); Rodrigo Pérez and Erwin Biebl (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Analyzing the Classification Capability of Micro-Doppler Spectra: Hans-Günter Hirsch (Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany); Jan Stähler (Institute for Pattern Recognition, Germany); Manfred Hägelen and Reinhard Kulke (IMST GmbH, Germany)
Radar Based Deep Learning Technology for Loudspeaker Faults Detection and Classification: Alessio Izzo and Carmine Clemente (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ludovico Ausiello (Solent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); John J Soraghan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Detailed Feature Representation and Analysis of Low Frequency UWB Radar Range Profile for Improving Through-wall Human Activity Recognition: Yansong Peng and Shisheng Guo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Combat Gesture Classification Using Through-The-Wall Radar Based on Multi-domain Features Association: Beili Ma and Baixiao Chen (Xidian University, China)
A Ground Penetrating Radar Data Reconstruction Method Based on Generation Networks: Longhao Xie (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China); Qing Zhao and Jianjian Huo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guo Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Italy)
Health Assessment of Trees Using GPR-derived Root Density Maps: Livia Lantini, Fabio Tosti, Iraklis Giannakis, Lilong Zou and Daniel Egyir (University of West London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Dale Mortimer (Tree Service, London Borough of Ealing, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Amir M. Alani (University of West London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Knowledge-assisted Building Layout Reconstruction for Through-the-wall Radar Imaging: Yang Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Qingxin Ran, Huquan Li, Shisheng Guo and Jiahui Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Real-Time Human Activity Recognition Method for Through-the-Wall Radar: Can Cheng and Fei Ling (University of Electronic Science and Tech, China); Shisheng Guo (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guolong Cui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Qiang Jian, Chao Jia and Qingxin Ran (University of Electronic Science and Tech, China)

ThA-P5: ECCM, defense and technology

Nodes Positions Optimization for Sparse Large Aperture Radar System with Enhanced Target Search Efficiency: Minglong Deng, Ziyang Cheng and Chunchun Zheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zi-Shu He (University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China)
Novel Radar North Correction Estimation Algorithm: Ondrej Nemec and Jan Pidanic (University of Pardubice, Czech Republic); Pavel Sedivy (Retia, a. s., Czech Republic)
A Study on the Memory Effect of Mixer: Bowei Zhang, Ling Tong and Bo Gao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Baoguo Yang, Shubiao Li, Shengli Liang and Fushun Nian (Science and Technology on Electronic Test & Measurement Laboratory, China)
Determination of Radiometric Radar Cross-Section: Massimiliano Rossi (MBDA Italia S.p.A., Italy); Marco Frasca (MBDA Italia, Italy)
Single Data Set Side-lobe Cancellation Method for Non-stationary Clutter Suppression in HF Mixed Mode Surface Wave Radar: Jiazhi Zhang, Xin Zhang, Weibo Deng, Yang Qiang and Mengxiao Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Multi-Receiver Deception Jamming Against SAR Using Frequency Diverse Array: Jianfei Yu, Mu Zhou and Zengshan Tian (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Bang Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Empirical Calibration Coefficient Estimation in the Context of Multi-Functional RF Systems: Michael Kohler (HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH, Germany); Daniel W O'Hagan and Josef Worms (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Oliver Bringmann (University of Tuebingen, Embedded Systems / FZI, Germany)
Performance Analysis and Optimal Placement for Unambiguous DOA Estimation Using Interferometry: Huaiyuan Liang and Xiangrong Wang (Beihang University, China); Alfonso Farina (Leonardo Company Consultant, Italy)
High Resolution Harmonic Radar ISAR Experiments and System Design Strategies: Florian Bischeltsrieder, Andreas Heinzel and Markus Peichl (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Exclusion of Target Signals from Training Samples for Robust Adaptive Beamforming in Radar: Ryuhei Takahashi (MitsubishiElectricCorporation, Japan); Toshio Wakayama (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)
A Random Antenna Subset Selection Jamming Method Against Multistatic Radar System: Xiangtuan Wang, Yimin Liu and Tianyao Huang (Tsinghua University, China)
Clustering for Jamming Environment Classification: Vincenzo Carotenuto (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Antonio De Maio (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy); Salvatore Iommelli (Ente di Formazione Professionale Maxwell, Italy)
Frequency Modulation Parasitic DOA Error Compensation: Sungdo Choi (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Hyunwoong Cho and Woosuk Kim (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Korea (South)); Minsung Eo and Seungtae Khang (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Jongseok Kim (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Korea (South))
Mainlobe Deceptive Jammer Suppression with MIMO Radar Using Element-Pulse Coding: Lan Lan, Guisheng Liao and Jingwei Xu (Xidian University, China); Yuhong Zhang (Xidian University, USA)

ThA-P6: High resolution SAR/ISAR

A Computationally Efficient Approach for Velocity Estimation of Ground Moving Targets: Amir Hossein Oveis (Radar and Surveillance Systems (RaSS Lab - CNIT), Italy); Marco Martorella (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); MohammadAli Sebt (K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran); Ali Noroozi (K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Australia)
A Fast ISAR Imaging Method for Rapidly Spinning Targets Using Pseudo-Polar Coordinate in Range-Doppler Domain: Mengyi Qin and Dong Li (Chongqing University, China); Xi Luo (Xi'an Institute of Space Electronics and Information Technology, China); Hongqing Liu (Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Jinzhi Ren and Qihang Cao (Chongqing University, China)
A Registration Strategy for Cicular SAR Noncoherent Imaging: Yuxiao Luo, Daoxiang An, Xiaotao Huang, Leping Chen and Wu Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Three Dimensional Electromagnetic Vortex Radar Imaging Based on the Modified RD Algorithm: Lin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Lujing Tao (The 28th Research Institute China Electronic Technology Group Corporation, China); Zhongyu Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Junjie Wu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Sparse Reconstruction for Synthetic Aperture Radar Based on Split SPICE: Jiawei Luo, Yongchao Zhang, Deqing Mao, Yin Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China)
Road Surface Quality Assessment Using Polarimetric Airborne SAR: Arun Babu and Stefan V. Baumgartner (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Optimized Minimum-Search for SAR Backprojection Autofocus on GPUs Using CUDA: Niklas Rother, Christian Fahnemann and Jan Wittler (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany); Holger Blume (Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany)
Hybrid Conditional Random Fields Based on Complex-valued 3D CNN for PolSAR Image Classification: Peng Zhang, Beibei Li, Xiaofeng Tan and Yinyin Jiang (Xidian University, China); Ming Li (XIDIAN University, China); Yan Wu (Xidian University, China)
Improved Frequency Division Algorithm for Residual Motion Errors in Synthetic Aperture Radar: Qianrong Lu (Shanghai Radio Equipment Research Institute, China)
Vector Extrapolation Based Fast Split Bregman Algorithm for Radar Forward-Looking Imaging: Qiping Zhang, Yin Zhang, Yongchao Zhang and Yulin Huang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, China); Qingying Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
A Modified CSA for Missile-borne SAR with Curved Trajectory: Zhang Yun and Lu Chenyue (Harbin Institute of Technology, China); Haojian Zhang (Beijing Institute of Aerospace Systems Engineering, China); Hongbo Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)

ThA-P7: Detection and estimation

A Coarse-to-Fine Robust Estimation of FMCW Radar Signal for Vital Sign Detection: Kang Liu and Yuanhui Zhang (China Jiliang University, China)
A Parameter-Controlled Rx Beamspace Transformation Design Method: Nadav Neuberger and Risto Vehmas (Fraunhofer FHR, Germany); Joachim H. G. Ender (Fraunhofer FHR & Universität Siegen, Germany)
Coherent Detection for Weak Target Based on Frequency Phase Compensation Function: Lanjin Lin (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Guohao Sun (Sichuan University, China); Ziyang Cheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Zi-Shu He (University of Electronics Science and Technology of China, China)
Doppler Signature Separation of Mixed O/X-Mode over-the-Horizon Radar Signals: Ammar Ahmed and Yimin D. Zhang (Temple University, USA); Braham Himed (AFRL, USA)
Moving Target Detection for Asynchronous Data with Distributed MIMO Radar: Shixing Yang, Wei Yi, Yangming Lai and Yao Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
An Efficient Multi-PRF and Multi-frame Joint Detection Approach in Multi-PRF Radar System: Wujun Li, Ph Zhang, Lei Chai, Kezhu Liu, Qiyun Peng and Wei Yi (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Signal Fusion-Based Detection with an Intuitive Weighting Method: Jing Lu (Xidian University & National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China); Jianlai Wang, Dawei Li and Tieshan Feng (China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China); Hongwei Liu (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Hui Ma (Xidian University, China)
Distributed Radar Multi-Frame Detection with Least Squares Quantization: Jing Lu (Xidian University & National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Shenghua Zhou (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China); Pramod Varshney (Syracuse University, USA); Jibin Zheng (Xidian University, China); Xiaojun Peng (China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, China); Hongwei Liu (National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, China); Zhiqiang Shao (Xidian University, China)
Incoherent Change Detection Methods for Wavelength-Resolution SAR Image Stacks Based on Masking Techniques: Dimas Irion Alves (Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil); Crístian Müller (Federal University of Pampa, Brazil); Vu Viet Thuy and Mats I. Pettersson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden); Pablo Kunz de Jesus (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - ITA, Brazil); Renato Machado and Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho (Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil)
A Genetic Approach to MTI Filter Design with Nonuniform Sampling: Abbas Ghorbani, Seyed Mohammad Karbasi and Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Structure-Based Sensing Matrix Optimization for Extended Target Ranging: Yating Wang, Feng Xi and Shengyao Chen (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Derivation and Performance of an MLE Based Path Loss Augmented Correlation Radar Receiver: Jase Furgerson and Dinesh Rajan (Southern Methodist University, USA)

When STEM and Management mingle harmoniously: a conversation with Dr. Elena Grifoni Winters

PT1: Plenary Talk1 - Peter Knott (FHR, Germany): Radar Research at Fraunhofer FHR - Challenges and Way Ahead

Coffee Break

TM-L1: Learning techniques for radar and EW

TM-L2: Passive Radars

TM-L3: Phased Array Antennas

TM-L4: Radar Detection

TM-SS1: Urban remote sensing using SAR.

TM-P1: PSS1-Resource management for cognitive radar systems

TM-P2: Multistatic and passive radars

TM-P3: Wideband antennas and phased array

TM-P4: Cognitive radars

TM-P5: Target detection and clutter suppression

TM-P6: Space-based/Airborne radars

Opening ceremony

Inaugural Plenary Talk - Marco De Fazio (Leonardo Spa, Italy): Radars at Leonardo Company: a 70 years long heritage in land, naval, airborne, and spaceborne systems. Looking backward, moving forward.

Coffee Break

TA-L2: Multistatic radars

TA-L4: Short range civilian radars

TA-SS2: Topics, trends and challenges in cognitive radars

TA-SS3: Quantum radar: real world experiments and new theory

TA-SS4: Distributed SAR systems and missions

WM-L2: Radar waveform design/optimization

WM-L4: Classification and recognition of drones

WM-SS5: Sparse array design techniques for radar applications

WM-SS6: Emerging technologies in automotive radars

WM-SS7: Multitemporal SAR image processing and analysis

Coffee Break

WM-L10: Space-based radar systems and missions

WM-L6: Compressed sensing and sparsity exploitation

WM-SS10: Detection, tracking, and classification of small drones

WM-SS8: Coexistence of radar and communication systems

WM-SS9: Interference in automotive radars

Lunch Break

Plenary Talk 2 - Markus Gardill (University of Würzburg. Germany): State-of-the-Art Automotive Radar System Architectures - and What Else We Can Do with Them.

WA-L3: Automotive radars

WA-L4: Radar for structural monitoring

WA-L5: Space-based/Airborne radar remote sensing applications

WA-SS11: Emerging technologies for radar applications: compressive sensing meets machine learning

WA-SS12: Dual-function radar/communication systems

Coffee Break

WA-D1: DEMO 1

WA-D2: DEMO 2

WA-D3: DEMO 3

WA-P1: PSS2 - Advanced radar waveform design strategies

WA-P2: Localization and estimation

WA-P3: Waveform diversity and MIMO radars

WA-P4: Automotive radar technology and signal processing

WA-P5: Experimental short-range target detection and classification

WA-P6: Radar tracking and track-before-detect

ThM-L1: DOA Estimation

ThM-L2: Joint radar and communications

ThM-L3: Radar technology

ThM-L4: Radar phenomenology and modeling

ThM-SS13: SAR meets AI

Coffee Break

ThM-L10: High resolution radar imaging

ThM-L8: Radar classification

ThM-SS14: Multisensor multitarget tracking in surveillance applications

ThM-SS15: Multi-function spectral system co-design

ThM-SS16: Ground based radar remote sensing of clouds and precipitation

WIE Panel: Gender bias in the workplace

Plenary Talk 3 - Mahta Moghaddam (University of Southern California, USA): Microwave Sensing for Medical Imaging and Monitoring of Thermal Therapies: Accelerated Inverse Scattering via Learning.

ThA-L1: Radar tracking

ThA-L2: Software-defined, small radar architectures, prototypes

ThA-SS17: Radar for health monitoring and biomedical applications

ThA-SS18: Satellite sensing of the atmosphere: radar technologies and methods for advancing atmospheric and climate science.

ThA-SS19: Millimeter-wave synthetic aperture radar

Coffee Break

ThA-D1: DEMO 1

ThA-D2: DEMO 2

ThA-D3: DEMO 3

ThA-P1: PSS3 - Multitarget tracking

ThA-P2: PSS4 - Multisensor multitarget tracking

ThA-P3: PSS5 - Radar networks for climate change

ThA-P4: Indoor, GPR and through-the-wall radars

ThA-P5: ECCM, defense and technology

ThA-P6: High resolution SAR/ISAR

ThA-P7: Detection and estimation