SAM2018: Technical Program

Time (London)	Diamond Lecture Theatre 4	Diamond Lecture Theatre 5	Diamond Lecture Theatre 6	Basement Section A	Basement Section B	Basement Section C	Basement Section D	Basement Section E	Basement Section F	Basement Section G
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)