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Sunday, July 8

09:00 am-10:30 am   Tutorial 1: Massive MIMO - Fundamentals, Trends and Recent Developments Tutorial 2: Recent Advances in Multisensory Intelligent Signal Analysis              
10:30 am-10:50 am Coffee Break (Basement)
10:50 am-12:20 pm                
02:10 pm-03:40 pm   Tutorial 3: Large-System Analysis: Random Matrices, Free Probability & Replica Method Tutorial 4: Graph Sampling for Signal and Covariance Estimation              
03:40 pm-04:00 pm Coffee Break (Basement)
04:00 pm-05:30 pm                
06:00 pm-09:00 pm Welcome Reception (Firth Hall, Firth Court)

Monday, July 9

08:30 am-09:00 am Opening Ceremony                  
09:00 am-10:00 am Plenary 1: Current Challenges in Multichannel Acoustic Signal Processing for Natural Human/Machine Interfaces                  
10:00 am-10:20 am Coffee Break (Basement)
10:20 am-12:00 pm M1 L1: Special Session: Target Tracking M1 L2: Special Session: Sparse Array Design and Applications M1 L3: Special Session: Signal Processing and Air Interface Design for Beyond 5G Wireless Communications              
12:00 pm-01:20 pm Lunch (Basement)
01:20 pm-02:20 pm Plenary 2: Sparse Modelling in Image Processing and Deep Learning                  
02:20 pm-02:40 pm Coffee Break (Basement)
02:40 pm-04:10 pm       M2 P1: Special Session: Massive-MIMO and Millimeter Wave Communications for 5G and Beyond M2 P2: Adaptive Beamforming M2 P3: Computational and Optimization Techniques for Array Processing M2 P4: Special Session: Advanced Methods for Robust Direction-of-Arrival Estimation M2 P5: Compressed Sensing and Sparsity-based Signal Processing M2 P6: Radar and Sonar Signal Processing  
04:10 pm-05:50 pm M3 L1: Special Session: Advances in Signal Processing and Optimization of Radar Transmitters and Receivers M3 L2: Special Session: Signal Processing and Communications for Resilient Autonomous Systems M3 L3 : Special Session: Advanced Applications of Microphone and/or Loudspeaker Arrays              

Tuesday, July 10

09:00 am-10:00 am Plenary 3: Solving Large Linear Systems with a Double Stochastic Gauss-Seidel Algorithm                  
10:00 am-10:20 am Coffee Break (Basement)
10:20 am-11:40 am T1 L1: Special Session: Large-Scale Optimization and Signal Processing for Big Data and Machine Learning T1 L2: Special Session: Multichannel Signal Processing of Bioelectrical and Biochemical Data T1 L3: Special Session: Localization for Audio Applications              
11:40 am-12:00 pm                
12:00 pm-01:20 pm Lunch (Basement)
01:20 pm-02:20 pm Bus to Chatsworths House
02:20 pm-06:30 pm Visit Chatsworths House & Garden
06:30 pm-10:00 pm Banquet (Chatsworths House)

Wednesday, July 11

09:00 am-10:00 am Plenary 4: Radio Astronomy Image Formation in the SKA Era                  
10:00 am-10:20 am Coffee Break (Basement)
10:20 am-12:00 pm W1 L1: Special Session: Advanced Computational Methods for Multi-Dimensional Data Processing W1 L2: Special Session: Smart Sound Processing over Acoustic Sensor Networks W1 L3 : Special Session: Array Signal Processing for Radio Astronomy              
12:00 pm-01:20 pm Lunch (Basement)
01:20 pm-02:20 pm Plenary 5: Commercial MIMO Radar Successes and Challenges                  
02:20 pm-02:40 pm Coffee Break (Basement)
02:40 pm-04:10 pm       W2 P1: Special Session: Waveform Diverse Array and System Signal Processing W2 P2: Direction-of-Arrival Estimation W2 P3: Massive MIMO W2 P4: Special Session: Signal Processing and Communications for Drone Surveillance W2 P5: MIMO Radar W2 P6: Microphone and Loudspeaker Array Applications W2 P7: Array Imaging and Interference Suppression

Sunday, July 8 9:00 - 12:20

Tutorial 1: Massive MIMO - Fundamentals, Trends and Recent Developments

Tutorial 2: Recent Advances in Multisensory Intelligent Signal Analysis

Sunday, July 8 10:30 - 10:50

Coffee Break (Basement)

Sunday, July 8 2:10 - 5:30

Tutorial 3: Large-System Analysis: Random Matrices, Free Probability & Replica Method

Tutorial 4: Graph Sampling for Signal and Covariance Estimation

Sunday, July 8 3:40 - 4:00

Coffee Break (Basement)

Sunday, July 8 6:00 - 9:00

Welcome Reception (Firth Hall, Firth Court)

Monday, July 9 8:30 - 9:00

Opening Ceremony

Monday, July 9 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary 1: Current Challenges in Multichannel Acoustic Signal Processing for Natural Human/Machine Interfaces

Walter Kellermann

Monday, July 9 10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break (Basement)

Monday, July 9 10:20 - 12:00

M1 L1: Special Session: Target Tracking

Chair: Peter Willett
Goal Driven Autonomy as a Model for Reasoning in Cognitive Active Sonar
Jill Nelson (George Mason University, USA); Steven Schoenecker (Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, USA)
Linear-Time Joint Probabilistic Data Association for Multiple Extended Object Tracking
Shishan Yang (University of Göttingen, Germany); Kolja Thormann and Marcus Baum (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Track Management in Multiple-Hypothesis Tracking
Stefano Coraluppi (Systems and Technology Research, USA); Craig Carthel (Systems & Technology Research, USA)
Time Evolution for Dynamic Probabilistic Tensors in Hierarchical Tucker Decomposition Form
Felix Govaers (Fraunhofer FKIE / University of Bonn, Germany)
Tracking Multiple Evolving Threats With Cluttered Surveillance Observations
Zack Sutton, Peter Willett and Yaakov Bar-Shalom (University of Connecticut, USA)

M1 L2: Special Session: Sparse Array Design and Applications

Chairs: Wei Liu and Palghat P. Vaidyanathan
Compressive Measurements Exploiting Coprime Frequencies for Direction Finding
Muran Guo (Harbin Engineering University, China); Yimin D. Zhang (Temple University, USA); Tao Chen (Harbin Engineering University, China)
Augmented L-shaped Nested Array Based on the Fourth-order Difference Co-array Concept
Xiangnan Li and Shiwei Ren (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Jianyan Liu (Science and Technology on Space Physics Laborator, China); Weijiang Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Comparison of Sparse Arrays From Viewpoint of Coarray Stability and Robustness
Chun-Lin Liu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); P. p. Vaidyanathan (Cal Tech., USA)
DOA Estimation of Quasi-Stationary Signals with a Nested Array in Unknown Noise Field
Huiping Huang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Bin Liao and Qiuxiang Shen (Shenzhen University, China)
Symmetric Sparse Linear Array for Active Imaging
Robin Rajamäki (University of California San Diego & Aalto University, USA); Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland)

M1 L3: Special Session: Signal Processing and Air Interface Design for Beyond 5G Wireless Communications

Chair: Hongyang Chen
Energy Efficient Resource Optimization for a Downlink NOMA Heterogeneous Small-cell Network
Fang Fang (Western University, Canada); Julian Cheng (University of British Columbia, Canada); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Multi-Efficiency based Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio Networks with Deep Learning
Miao Liu (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tiecheng Song (National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China); Lei Zhang (Jiangsu University of Technology, China); Hikmet Sari (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
A Novel Interference Suppression Method in Wireless Relay Networks
Hongyang Chen (Zhejiang Lab, China); Jianming Wu (Fujitsu Laboratory, Japan)
Performance Analysis of Multi-hop Relaying Cooperation for Internet-of-things System
BaoFeng Ji (School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China); Bingbing Xing and Huahong Ma (Henan University of Science and Technology, China); Chunguo Li (Southeast University, China); Hong Wen (UESTC, China); Luxi Yang (Southeast University, China)
GLRAM Algorithm Based Hybrid Precoding for mmWave Multiuser MIMO Systems
Jinle Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Qiang Li (University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China)

Monday, July 9 12:00 - 1:20

Lunch (Basement)

Monday, July 9 1:20 - 2:20

Plenary 2: Sparse Modelling in Image Processing and Deep Learning

Michael Elad

Monday, July 9 2:20 - 2:40

Coffee Break (Basement)

Monday, July 9 2:40 - 4:10

M2 P1: Special Session: Massive-MIMO and Millimeter Wave Communications for 5G and Beyond

Chairs: Lei Zhang and De Mi
Truncated Channel Inversion Power Control for the Uplink of mmWave Cellular Networks
Oluwakayode Onireti and Muhammad Ali Imran (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Advanced Hybrid Beamforming Design for MIMO Systems
Bowen Yang (Samsung Research Institute China - Beijing (SRC-B), China); Mehdi M. Molu (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Constant Envelope Transceivers in Millimetre-Wave Massive MIMO: EVM and Link Budget Considerations
Edward A. Ball and Athanasios Vasileiadis (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
A Self-Calibration Scheme for TDD Massive MIMO with Imperfect Channel Estimation
De Mi (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mehrdad Dianati (University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sami Muhaidat (Carleton University, Canada); Pei Xiao (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Pioneering studies on LTE eMBMS: Towards 5G Point-to-Multipoint Transmissions
Hongzhi Chen (Huawei Tech, China); De Mi (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Manuel Fuentes (Fivecomm, Spain); David Vargas (BBC, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Eduardo Garro (Prodevelop, Spain); Jose Luis Carcel (Fundación Valenciaport, Spain); Belkacem Mouhouche (Samsung Electronics Research and Development UK, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pei Xiao and Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
CFO Estimation for OFDM-based Massive MIMO Systems in Asymptotic Regime
Parna Sabeti, Arman Farhang, Nicola Marchetti and Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

M2 P2: Adaptive Beamforming

Chair: John R. Buck
An Adaptive Sequential Competition Test for Beam Selection in Massive MIMO Systems
Mostafa Khalili (TU Dresden, Germany); Wolfgang Rave (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Analog Beamformer Design for Interference Exploitation based Hybrid Beamforming
Ganapati Hegde (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany)
Listener-Position Adaptive Crosstalk Cancelation Using A Parameterized Superdirective Beamformer
Xiaohui Ma (Dyanudio A/S & Aarhus University, Denmark); Christoph Hohnerlein (Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany); Jens Ahrens (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Experimental Evaluation of a Universal Dominant Mode Rejection Beamformer
Kathleen E. Wage (George Mason University, USA); John R. Buck (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA)
A Performance-Weighted Blended Dominant Mode Rejection Beamformer
John R. Buck (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA); Andrew C. Singer (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Single-Snapshot Adaptive Beamforming
Yujie Gu and Yimin D. Zhang (Temple University, USA)
Adaptive Near-Field Imaging with Robotic Arrays
Belal Korany (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Chitra Karanam (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

M2 P3: Computational and Optimization Techniques for Array Processing

Chair: Joseph Tabrikian
An ADMM Based Target Reconstruction Approach for Deceptively Jammed SAR
Bo Zhao, Lei Huang, Liang Zhang, Qiang Li, Min Huang and Hanfei Zhou (Shenzhen University, China)
Efficient Computation of MSE Lower Bounds via Matching Pursuit
Shahar Sar Shalom and Joseph Tabrikian (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Wet-Dry Classification using LSTM and Commercial Microwave Links
Hai Victor Habi (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Hagit Messer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
An Event-based Diffusion LMS Strategy
Yuan Wang and Wee Peng Tay (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Wuhua Hu (SF Technology Co. Ltd, China)
Enforcing Eigenvector Smoothness for a Compact DFT-based Polynomial Eigenvalue Decomposition
Fraser K Coutts (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Keith Thompson, Jennifer Pestana, Ian Proudler and Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Impact of Space-Time Covariance Estimation Errors on a Parahermitian Matrix EVD
Connor Delaosa (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Fraser K Coutts (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jennifer Pestana and Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Constrained Least Squares for Extended Complex Factor Analysis
Ahmad Mouri Sardarabadi (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands); Alle-Jan van der Veen (TU Delft, The Netherlands); Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

M2 P4: Special Session: Advanced Methods for Robust Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

Chairs: Bin Liao and Xianpeng Wang
Joint DOD and DOA estimation for bistatic MIMO radar in the presence of combined array errors
Fangqing Wen, Lei Wu and Changxin Cai (Yangtze University & National Demonstration Center for Experimental Electrotechnics and Electronics Education, China); Dongmei Huang (Naval Command College, China)
Fast direction of arrival estimation using a sensor-saving coprime array with enlarged inter-element spacing
Jianfeng Li, Ming wei Shen and Defu Jiang (Hohai University, China)
Sparse Bayesian Learning for DOA Estimation with Recursive Grid-Refining
Lan Wang, Jinghao Zheng, Fangfang Chen and Jisheng Dai (Jiangsu University, China)
Online Mutual Coupling Calibration Using a Signal Source at Unknown Location
Tong Wei and Bin Liao (Shenzhen University, China); Huiping Huang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Zhi Quan (Shenzhen University, China)
Robust DOA Estimation for MIMO Radar in Unknown Nonuniform Noise and Mutual Coupling
Xianpeng Wang and Mengxing Huang (Hainan University, China); Chong Shen (Hainan University & University of Strathclyde, China); Chunjie Cao (Hainan University, China); Kun Zhang (Hainan Normal University, China & Hainan University, China); Guoan Bi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

M2 P5: Compressed Sensing and Sparsity-based Signal Processing

Chair: Feng Xi
Unmixing of Absence Epileptic Seizures in GAERS
Saeed Akhavan (University of Tehran, Iran); Ronald Phlypo (Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-lab, France); Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh and Mahmoud Kamarei (University of Tehran, Iran); Christian Jutten (GIPSA-Lab, France)
Antenna Array Based Positional Modulation with a Two-Ray Multi-Path Model
Bo Zhang (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Wei Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
One-Bit Radar Processing and Estimation with Time-Varying Sampling Thresholds
Aria Ameri (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Jian Li (University of Florida, USA); Mojtaba Soltanalian (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
A Neyman-Pearson Type Sensor Censoring Scheme for Compressive Distributed Sparse Signal Recovery
Jwo-Yuh Wu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Ming-Hsun Yang (National Central University, Taiwan); Tsang-Yi Wang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Learning Overcomplete Dictionaries from Markovian Data
Saeed Akhavan and Samaneh Esmaeili (University of Tehran, Iran); Massoud Babaie-Zadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh (University of Tehran, Iran)
Robust Sparse Phase Retrieval From Differential Measurements Using Reweighted l1 Minimization
Pulak Sarangi and Piya Pal (University of California, San Diego, USA)
An Undersampled Phase Retrieval Algorithm via Gradient Iteration
Qiang Li (Shenzhen University, China); Wei Liu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Lei Huang, Weize Sun and Peichang Zhang (Shenzhen University, China)
Super-Resolution Pulse-Doppler Radar Sensing via One-Bit Sampling
Feng Xi and Shengyao Chen (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)

M2 P6: Radar and Sonar Signal Processing

Chair: Qian He
Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Target Detection in Clutter
Yang Li and Qian He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Rick S. Blum (Lehigh University, USA); Kumar Vijay Mishra (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
Underwater Trajectory Estimation based on Grid Localization and Smoothing
Li Liao, Benjamin Henson and Yuriy Zakharov (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Subspace-Based Localization of Near-Field Signals in Unknown Nonuniform Noise
Weiliang Zuo, Jingmin Xin and Nanning Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China); Akira Sano (Keio University, Japan)
A Multi-Channel Partial-Update Algorithm for Sea Clutter Suppression in Passive Bistatic Radar
Yahui Ma (China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China); Shengheng Liu (Southeast University, China); Jun Lu (China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology, China)
Hybrid Particle Filtering based on an Elitist Resampling Scheme
Mhd Modar Halimeh (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Christian Huemmer (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Andreas Brendel (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
On Transmitter Polarization Optimization for Target Scattering Matrix Estimation
Kexiao Hu, Shuli Shi, Zhiwen Liu and Yougen Xu (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Cramér-Rao Bounds for a Coupled Mixture of Polynomial Phase and Sinusoidal FM Signals
Pu Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA); Kota Sadamoto (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Wataru Tsujita (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan); Yoshitsugu Sawa (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

Monday, July 9 4:10 - 5:50

M3 L1: Special Session: Advances in Signal Processing and Optimization of Radar Transmitters and Receivers

Chair: Tuomas Aittomäki
MIMO Radar And Communications Spectrum Sharing: A Multiple-Access Perspective
Yu Rong (ASU, USA); Alex Chiriyath and Daniel W. Bliss (Arizona State University, USA)
Computationally Efficient Waveform Design in Spectrally Dense Environment
Markus Yli-Niemi and Sergiy A. Vorobyov (Aalto University, Finland)
Dynamic Transmit Power Allocation for Distributed MIMO Radar Target Detection
Tuomas Aittomäki (Aalto University, Finland); Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri (Indian Institute of Science, India); Visa Koivunen (Aalto University, Finland)
Generalized Cyclic Algorithms for Designing Unimodular Sequence Sets with Good (Complementary) Correlation Properties
Arindam Bose (KMB Telematics Inc., USA); Israel Alejandro Arriaga-Trejo (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología & Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico); Aldo Orozco (CINVESTAV, Mexico); Mojtaba Soltanalian (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Compressive Sensing based Direction-of-Arrival Estimation in MIMO Radars in Presence of Strong Jamming via Blocking Matrix
Beiyi Liu (Akita Prefectural University, Japan); Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Shinya Matsushita and Li Xu (Akita Prefectural University, Japan)

M3 L2: Special Session: Signal Processing and Communications for Resilient Autonomous Systems

Chair: Dimitris A. Pados
EEG-Based Classification of Emotional State Using an Autonomous Vehicle Simulator
Corey Park, Shervin Shahrdar and Mehrdad Nojoumian (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
QoE-aware UAV flight path design for mobile video streaming in HetNet
Stefania Colonnese (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Andrea Carlesimo and Lorenzo Brigato (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome Sapienza, Italy)
Coalition Game for Emergency Vehicles Re-routing in Smart Cities
Hayder Amer (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hayder A. A. Al-Kashoash (Southern Technical University & Technical Institute Qurna, Iraq); Andrew H. Kemp (University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lyudmila Mihaylova and Martin Mayfield (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Performance of the Asynchronous Consensus Based Bundle Algorithm in Lossy Network Environments
Matthew Rantanen (University at Buffalo, USA); Jalil Modares (Qualcomm, USA); Nicholas Mastronarde (University at Buffalo, USA); Farshad Ghanei (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); Karthik Dantu (University of Buffalo, USA)
Short Data Record Filtering for Adaptive Underwater Acoustic Communications
Adam Gannon (NASA Glenn Research Center, USA); Sarankumar Balakrishnan (University at Buffalo, USA); George Sklivanitis (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA); Dimitris A. Pados and Stella Batalama (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

M3 L3 : Special Session: Advanced Applications of Microphone and/or Loudspeaker Arrays

Chair: Mingsian Bai
Combining Artificial and Natural Background Noise in Personal Audio Systems
Daniel Wallace and Jordan Cheer (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Sine-based EB-ESPRIT for source localization
Byeongho Jo and Jung-Woo Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South))
On the Influence of Transfer Function Noise on Low Frequency Pressure Matching for Sound Zones
Martin Møller (Aalborg University & Bang & Olufsen a/s, Denmark); Jesper Kjær Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Efren Fernandez-Grande (Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark); Søren Olesen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
RLS-based Adaptive Dereverberation Tracing Abrupt Position Change of Target Speaker
Teng Xiang, Jing Lu and Kai Chen (Nanjing University, China)
Impairments of Binaural Sound Based on Ambisonics for Virtual Reality Audio
Jiho Chang and Wanho Cho (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea (South))

Tuesday, July 10 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary 3: Solving Large Linear Systems with a Double Stochastic Gauss-Seidel Algorithm

Zhiquan Luo

Tuesday, July 10 10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break (Basement)

Tuesday, July 10 10:20 - 12:00

T1 L1: Special Session: Large-Scale Optimization and Signal Processing for Big Data and Machine Learning

Chair: Yang Yang
Analytical PARAFAC Decomposition with Application in Semi-Blind Diversity Detection
Janis Nötzel (Technische Universität München, Germany); Christian Arendt (BMW Group & Technical University of Munich, Germany); Eduard A Jorswieck (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
Reduced-Order Zero-Forcing Beamforming vs Optimal Beamforming and Dirty Paper Coding and Massive MIMO Analysis
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas (Virginia Tech, USA); Dirk Slock (EURECOM, France)
Successive Convex Approximation Algorithms for Sparse Signal Estimation with Nonconvex Regularizations
Yang Yang (Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany); Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
An alternating minimization approach to optimizing subarray configuration for a large phased array
Wenqiang Pu (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data & The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Yong Yu (The China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, China); Shuhua Yu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China); Zhi-Quan Luo (Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Model Order Determination for Signed Measurements via the Bayesian Information Criterion
Changheng Li (University of Science and Technology of China, China); Jian Li (University of Florida, USA); Petre Stoica (Uppsala University, Sweden); Rong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

T1 L2: Special Session: Multichannel Signal Processing of Bioelectrical and Biochemical Data

Chair: Amar Kachenoura
Investigating Transmembrane Current Source Formulation for solving the ECG Inverse Problem
Karim El Houari (University of Rennes 1, France); Amar Kachenoura and Paul Berraute (University of Rennes1-LTSI & Inserm - UMR 1099, France); Siouar Bensaid (LTSI, Inserm & Université de Rennes 1 & INSERM, France); Ahmad Karfoul (Université de Rennes1 & INSERM U1099, France); Christelle Boichon-Grivot and Michel Rochette (Ansys Inc., France); Alfredo Hernández (INSERM, France); Laurent Albera (Université de Rennes1 & Inserm, France)
SVM-based Tool to Detect Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Using a Commercial EMG Sensor
Konstantin Akhmadeev (University of Nantes, France); Aya Houssein and Saïd Moussaoui (Ecole Centrale Nantes, France); Hanne Harbo and Einar August Høgestøl (University of Oslo, Norway); Jennifer Graves (School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, USA); Steffan Bos-Haugen (Oslo University Hospital, Norway); Pierre-Antoine Gourraud and David-Axel Laplaud (Université de Nantes, INSERM, Centre de Recherche en Transplantation et Immunologie, France); Ingerid Maria V Tutturen (Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway)
Non-linear source separation under the Langmuir model for chemical sensors
Pierre Maho (Gipsa-Lab/CNRS, France); Simon Barthelme (GIPSA-lab/CNRS, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, University Grenoble Alpes, France)
Using PARAFAC2 for multi-way component analysis of somatosensory evoked magnetic fields and somatosensory evoked electrical potentials
Yao Cheng (TU Ilmenau, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Theresa Götz (University Hospital Jena, Germany); Jens Haueisen (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
Quasi-Periodic Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Phonocardiographic signals denoising
Nafissa Dia (Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG, France); Julie Fontecave-Jallon (UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS / TIMC-IMAG UMR 5525 / PRETA Team, France); Pierre-Yves Guméry (UGA / CNRS / TIMC-IMAG UMR 5525 / PRETA Team, France); Bertrand Rivet (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble INP, France)

Tuesday, July 10 10:20 - 11:40

T1 L3: Special Session: Localization for Audio Applications

Chairs: Heinrich Löllmann and Christine Evers
Robust Source Counting and Acoustic DOA Estimation using Density-based Clustering
Sina Hafezi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alastair H Moore (Square Set Sound, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Tracking of Multiple Sources in an Acoustic Sensor Network using an Extended Gaussian Mixture PHD Filter
Andreas Brendel (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Online Localization of Multiple Moving Speakers in Reverberant Environments
Xiaofei Li (INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France); Bastien Mourgue (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, France); Laurent Girin (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble-INP, France); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Radu P. Horaud (Inria, France)
The LOCATA Challenge Data Corpus for Acoustic Source Localization and Tracking
Heinrich Loellmann (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Christine Evers (University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Alexander Schmidt (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Heinrich Mellmann (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany); Hendrik Barfuss (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany); Patrick A Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Tuesday, July 10 12:00 - 1:20

Lunch (Basement)

Tuesday, July 10 1:20 - 2:20

Bus to Chatsworths House

Tuesday, July 10 2:20 - 6:30

Visit Chatsworths House & Garden

Tuesday, July 10 6:30 - 10:00

Banquet (Chatsworths House)

Wednesday, July 11 9:00 - 10:00

Plenary 4: Radio Astronomy Image Formation in the SKA Era

Alle-Jan van der Veen

Wednesday, July 11 10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break (Basement)

Wednesday, July 11 10:20 - 12:00

W1 L1: Special Session: Advanced Computational Methods for Multi-Dimensional Data Processing

Chair: Abderrahim Halimi
Self-calibrating nonlinear reconstruction algorithms for variable density sampling and parallel reception MRI
Loubna El Gueddari, Carole Lazarus and Hanaé Carrié (CEA/NeuroSpin & INRIA Parietal, France); Alexandre Vignaud (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique & NeuroSpin, France); Philippe Ciuciu (CEA/NeuroSpin & INRIA Saclay, France)
Fast kq-Space Sampling with Motion-Induced Phase in Diffusion MRI
Marica Pesce and Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yves Wiaux (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Estimation of the regularization parameter of an on-line NMF with minimum volume constraint
Ludivine Nus and Sebastian Miron (CRAN, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, France); David Brie (CRAN,Université de Lorraine, CNRS, France)
New Theory for Unmixing Ill-conditioned Hyperspectral Mixtures
Chia-Hsiang Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan); José Bioucas Dias (Technical University Lisbon / Instituto de Telecomunicacoes Lisbon, Portugal)
Geometry-Texture Decomposition/Reconstruction Using a Proximal Interior Point Algorithm
Marie-Caroline Corbineau (CVN, Centrale Supélec, INRIA, Université Paris-Saclay, France); Emilie Chouzenoux (CVN, Inria Saclay, France); Jean-Christophe Pesquet (CentraleSupelec, University Paris-Saclay, France)

W1 L2: Special Session: Smart Sound Processing over Acoustic Sensor Networks

Chairs: Gema Piñero and Amin Hassani
Multi-Source Localization using a Doa Kernel Based Spatial Covariance Model and Complex Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Julio Jose Carabias-Orti, Pablo Cabañas Molero and Pedro Vera-Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Joonas Nikunen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
On Perceptual Audio Equalization for Multiple Users in Presence of Ambient Noise
Juan Estreder (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia & Institute Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications, Spain); Gema Piñero and Fabian Aguirre (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); María de Diego (Universitat Politècnica De València, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Localization of Multiple Simultaneously Active Speakers in an Acoustic Sensor Network
Andreas Brendel (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Sound Source Localization for Hearing Aid Applications using Wireless Microphones
Mojtaba Farmani (Oticon A/S, Denmark); Michael Syskind Pedersen (Oticon, Denmark); Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University Denmark & Oticon A/S, Denmark)
Rate-Distributed Binaural LCMV Beamforming for Assistive Hearing in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks
Zhang Jie, Richard Heusdens and Richard Hendriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

W1 L3 : Special Session: Array Signal Processing for Radio Astronomy

Chair: Yimin D. Zhang
Scalable Algorithm for Polarization Constrained Sparse Interferometric Stokes Imaging
Jasleen Birdi and Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yves Wiaux (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Dimension-Reduced Radio Astronomical Imaging Based on Sparse Reconstruction
Shuimei Zhang, Yujie Gu, Chang-Hee Won and Yimin D. Zhang (Temple University, USA)
Time-Regularized Blind Deconvolution Approach for Radio Interferometry
Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin (Heriot-Watt University & Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Arwa Dabbech (Heriot-Watt Universiy, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yves Wiaux (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
End-to-end Modelling of the Imaging Pipeline in Radio Astronomy
Anthony Griffin (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand); Andrew Ensor (AUT, New Zealand)
Performance analysis of distributed radio interferometric calibration
Sarod Yatawatta (ASTRON, The Netherlands)

Wednesday, July 11 12:00 - 1:20

Lunch (Basement)

Wednesday, July 11 1:20 - 2:20

Plenary 5: Commercial MIMO Radar Successes and Challenges

Jian Li

Wednesday, July 11 2:20 - 2:40

Coffee Break (Basement)

Wednesday, July 11 2:40 - 4:10

W2 P1: Special Session: Waveform Diverse Array and System Signal Processing

Chairs: Wen-Qin Wang and Jingwei Xu
An Anti-jamming Method of ISAR Imaging with FDA-MIMO Radar
Guangming Li (Air Force Engineering University, China); Qun Zhang (Institute of Telecommunication Engineering, AFEU, China); Ying Luo (Inst. of Telecommunication Engineering, AFEU, China); Kai-ming Li (Institute of Information and Navigation, AFEU, China); Linghua Su and Rui Li (Air Force Engineering University, China)
Transmitted Beampattern Synthesis with Waveform Diverse Arrays Based on Arctangent Function
Zhonghan Wang, Yaoliang Song and Tong Mu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Joint Range, Angle and Doppler Estimation for FDA-MIMO Radar
Jian Xu and Wen-Qin Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Can Cui (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China); Ronghua Gui (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
Mainlobe Deceptive Jammer Suppression with FDA-MIMO Radar
Jingwei Xu, Jialin Kang and Guisheng Liao (Xidian University, China); Hing Cheung So (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A Method to Suppress the Main-beam Deceptive Jamming in FDA-MIMO Radar with Random Polyphase Codes
Lan Lan, Guisheng Liao and Jingwei Xu (Xidian University, China)
Robust Beamforming using Multiple Constraints Relaxation
Yang Feng, Guisheng Liao, Jingwei Xu, Shengqi Zhu and Cao Zeng (Xidian University, China)

W2 P2: Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

Chair: Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker
Sparse Bayesian learning for DoA estimation using co-prime and nested arrays
Santosh Nannuru (IIIT Hyderabad, India); Peter Gerstoft, Ali Koochakzadeh and Piya Pal (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Consistent Least Squares Estimator for Co-array-based DoA Estimation
Saeid Sedighi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Sina Maleki (Ericsson, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Robust Spectrum Estimation via Majorization Minimization
Cheng Qian (IQVIA, USA); Yunmei Shi (Tongji University, Shanghai, China); Lei Huang (Shenzhen University, China); Hing Cheung So (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Sparse Bayesian Learning for DOA Estimation of Correlated Sources
Christoph F Mecklenbräuker (TU Wien, Austria); Peter Gerstoft (University of California, San Diego, USA); Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Based on Enhanced Sparse Representation
Qiuxiang Shen and Bin Liao (Shenzhen University, China); Huiping Huang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

W2 P3: Massive MIMO

Chair: Stephan Weiss
OMP with Grid-less Refinement Steps for Compressive mmWave MIMO Channel Estimation
Lorenz Weiland and Christoph Stöckle (Technische Universität München, Germany); Michael Würth and Thomas Weinberger (Technische Univeristät München, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Double full diversity space time block code for massive MIMO system
Jian-Kang Zhang (McMaster University, Canada); Shuangzhi Li and Xiaomin Mu (Zhengzhou University, China)
Joint User Selection and Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming in Massive MIMO Systems
Ganapati Hegde (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt & Merckstr. 25, Germany)
Optimal Signalling for Massive SIMO Channels
Jian-Kang Zhang (McMaster University, Canada); Xiangchuan Gao (Zhengzhou University, China)
Finite-Alphabet Beamformed NOMA For Multiuser MISO Broadcast Visible Light Communications
Jian-Kang Zhang (McMaster University, Canada); Yan-Yu Zhang (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological Research Center (NDSC) of China, China)
Channel Equalisation of a MIMO FBMC/OQAM System Using a Polynomial Matrix Pseudo-Inverse
Amr Nagy (Military Technical College Egypt, Egypt); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

W2 P4: Special Session: Signal Processing and Communications for Drone Surveillance

Chairs: Zhiguo Shi and Guan Gui
A Surveillance System for Drone Localization and Tracking Using Acoustic Arrays
Xianyu Chang (Zhejiang University, China); Chaoqun Yang (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, China); Junfeng Wu (Zhejiang University, China); Xiufang Shi (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, China)
The Energy-efficient UAV-based BS Coverage in Air-to-Ground Communications
Chao Chen, Bin Li, Ruonan Zhang, Hong Jiang and Xianzhen Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Robust Adaptive Beamforming Signal Techniques for Drone Surveillance
Shangang Fan (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Jiangbo Liu (UESTC, China); Mengqian Tian and Hao Huang (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Fei Dai (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication, China); Jie Yang and Guan Gui (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
DOA Estimation Using Amateur Drones Harmonic Acoustic Signals
Chaoqun Yang (Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, China); Zexian Wu and Xianyu Chang (Zhejiang University, China); Xiufang Shi (Zhejiang University of Technology, China); Junfeng Wu and Zhiguo Shi (Zhejiang University, China)
Efficient Relative Fingerprinting Based UAV Localization via Tensor Completion
Changju Kan and Guoru Ding (Army Engineering University of PLA, China); Fei Song (Army Engineering University of PLA, P.R. China); Junfei Qiu (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

W2 P5: MIMO Radar

Chair: Lu Gan
Block Circulant Decomposition of Cross-Correlation Matrix for Transmit Beamforming in MIMO Radar
Christian Hammes (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Parameter Estimation using Quantized Cloud MIMO Radar Measurements
Zhen Wang and Qian He (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China); Rick S. Blum (Lehigh University, USA)
Distributed detection and imaging in MIMO radar network based on averaging consensus
Anton Zabolotsky and Evgeny Mavrychev (Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, Russia)
2D MIMO Radar with Coprime Arrays
Conghui Li (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lu Gan (Brunel University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

W2 P6: Microphone and Loudspeaker Array Applications

Chair: Shoichi Koyama
Direction of Arrival Estimation with Microphone Arrays Using SRP-PHAT and Neural Networks
David Diaz-Guerra and Jose Ramon Beltran (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
A Method for Simultaneous Creation of an Acoustic Trap and a Quiet Zone
Carl Andersson and Jens Ahrens (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Gridless Sound Field Decomposition Based on Reciprocity Gap Functional in Spherical Harmonic Domain
Yuhta Takida (Sony Group Corporation, Japan); Shoichi Koyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Natsuki Ueno (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan); Hiroshi Saruwatari (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based acoustic source localization and signal extraction for intelligent audio classification
Mingsian Bai, Shih-Syuan Lan and Jong-Yi Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Frequency domain TRINICON-based blind source separation method with multi-source activity detection for sparsely mixed signals
Zelin Wang, Jing Lu and Kai Chen (Nanjing University, China)

W2 P7: Array Imaging and Interference Suppression

Chair: Pu Wang
Restoration of Multilayered Single-Photon 3D LiDAR Images
Abderrahim Halimi and Ximing Ren (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Aongus McCarthy (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); José Bioucas-Dias (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); Steve McLaughlin (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Gerald Buller (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Subspace-Based Imaging Using Only Power Measurements
Belal Korany (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Saandeep Depatla (UCSB, USA); Yasamin Mostofi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Multi-Layer Terahertz Imaging of Non-Overlapping Contents
Pu Wang (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Haoyu Fu (Ohio State University, USA); Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA); Philip Orlik (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Interferometric Array Design Under Regularized Antenna Placements for Interference Suppression
Xiangrong Wang (Beihang University, China); Moeness G. Amin (Villanova University, USA); Elias Aboutanios (University of New South Wales, Australia)