| DAY 1 : 15 October 2018 | ||
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| 08:00 | Registration | |
| 08:45 | Melita Hadzagic, OODA Technologies, Canada, General Co-Chair, Steven Horn, DRDC CORA, Canada, General Co-Chair | Welcoming Speech and Introductory Remarks |
| Plenary Talk | ||
| 09:00 | Dale Reding, Director, General Science and Technology Air Force and Navy (DGSTAN), DND Canada | Post-SSE Fusion and Sensing Challenges (Air) |
| Video Tracking Chair : Laurence Olivier Marion-Ouellet |
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| 09:45 | Sarah Babbitt, Tanya Gatsak and Bhashyam Balaji, DRDC Ottawa, Canada | Integrating Image and Video Processing into a Python Library for State Estimation of Modelling |
| 10:10 | Roman Palenychka and Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada, and Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada | Attentive Sensing Approach to Object Detection and Tracking in Surveillance Videos |
| 10:35 | Hamidreza Fazlali and Shahram Shirani, McMaster University, Canada, Mike McDonald, DRDC Ottawa, Canada and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | Cloud/haze Detection in Airborne Videos Using a Convolutional Neural Network |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Maritime Surveillance Chair : Melita Hadzagic |
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| 11:15 | Alexander Teske, University of Ottawa, Canada, Rafael Falcon and Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada, Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa,Canada | Extracting Maritime Incidents from Unstructured Articles |
| 11:40 | Ashwin Panchapakesan, University of Ottawa, Canada, Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada, Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada | Predicting Shipping Container Damage in Commercial Maritime Ports through High Level Information Fusion |
| 12:05 | Ibrahim AbuAlhaol, Rafael Falcon and Rami Abielmona, Larus Technologies, Canada and Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada | Mining Port Congestion Indicators from Big Data |
| 12:30 | Lunch (not provided) | |
| Plenary Talk | ||
| 14:00 | Chee-Yee Chong, Independent Consultant, U.S.A. | Forty years of distributed filtering |
| Multitarget Tracking Chair : Thia Kirubarajan |
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| 14:45 | S. Lee, P. Carniglia, E. Altman, and Bhashyam Balaji, DRDC Ottawa, Canada | Pystemlib: Implementing Multiple Target Tracking and Application of Software Engineering Practices |
| 15:10 | Song Li and R. Tharmarasa, McMaster University, Canada,Dan Brookes, DRDC Ottawa, Canada, Daly Brown, General Dynamics, Canada and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | 3-D Tracking of Non-Cooperative Targets Using a 2-D Radar |
| 15:35 | Bethi Pardhasaradhy, R. Tharmarasa, Bumsoo Kim, Rahim Jassemi, DRDC Ottawa, Canada and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | GPS Spoofer Attack Detection and Mitigation Using Association and Tracking |
| 16:00 | Daly Brown and John Clarke, General Dynamics, Canada, Mike McDonald, DRDC Ottawa, Canada and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | Tracking to Learn and Learning to Track |
| 16:25 | Coffee Break | |
| Sensor Fusion Chair : Bhashyam Balaji |
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| 16:40 | H. J. Du and F. A. Dilkes, DRDC Ottawa Canada | Sensor data fusion in passive RF emitter detection and location (U) |
| 17:05 | Jingqun Li and R. Tharmarasa, McMaster University, Canada, Daly Brown, General Dynamics, Canada and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | Efficient Multiframe Assignment for Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion |
| 17:30 | Tongyu Ge and R. Tharmarasa, McMaster University, Canada, Bernard Lebel and Mihai Florea, Thales, Canada and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | Joint multitarget localization and multisensor synchronization for Indoor Localization and Cyber-Security |
| 18:10 | End of Day 1 | |
| 19:30 | No Host Dinner | |
| DAY 2 : 16 October 2018 | ||
| Plenary Talks | ||
| 09:00 | Galina Rogova, Research Professor, The State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A. | Higher level fusion and situation management: challenges and computational approaches |
| High Level Fusion Chair : Anne-Laure Jousselme |
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| 09:45 | Steven Horn, DRDC CORA, Canada | Blockchain Applications in Tracking and Fusion |
| 10:10 | Chi-Hong Cheung and Rahim Jassemi-Zargani, DRDC Ottawa, Canada | Target threat assessment based on MCDM techniques |
| 10:35 | Laurence Olivier Marion-Ouellet, OODA Technologies, Canada, and Glenn Franck and Allan Gillis, DRDC Atlantic, Canada | Using Mixed Reality to Enhance the Mission Planning Process |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Hard and Soft Fusion Chair : Elisa Shahbazian |
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| 11:15 | Saeed Rostami and R. Tharmarasa, McMaster University, Canada, Mike McDonald, DRDC Ottawa, Canada, Mihai Florea, Thales, Canada, and Thia Kirubarajan, McMaster University, Canada | Modeling and Simulation of Realistic Soft Data for Surveillance Applications |
| 11:40 | Isabelle L. Prévost, Olivier Labonté, Éric-Olivier Bossé, Mathieu Lavallée, Melita Hadzagic, Michel Mayrand, Elisa Shahbazian, OODA Technologies, Canada, Nathan Kashyap, DRDC Canada | Reusable Software System Architecture For Soft and Hard Data Fusion |
| 12:05 | Lunch (not provided) | |
| Resource Management Chair : Mihai Florea |
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| 13:30 | Jean Berger, DRDC Valcartier, Canada, N. Lo, WARWII Solutions Inc., M. Barkaoui, Universite Laval, Canada | MOSAIC – A Multi-Satellite Collection Scheduling Solution for Large Area Coverage |
| 13:55 | Mahdi Shaghaghi, Complementrary AI System Corp., Canada, Raviraj S. Adve, University of Toronto, Canada, Zhen (Jack) Ding, DRDC Ottawa, Canada | Multifunction Cognitive Radar Task Scheduling using Monte Carlo Tree Search and Policy Networks |
| 14:20 | Zhen Qu, Zhen Ding and Peter Moo, DRDC Ottawa, Canada | A Radar Task Scheduling Method Using Random Shifted Start Time with the EST Algorithm |
| 14:45 | Hossein Chahrour and Bhashayam Balaji, DRDC Ottawa, Canada, Richard Dansereau and Sreeraman Rajan, Carlton University | MIMO Radar with Hybrid Spread Spectrum Orthogonal Waveforms for Spectrum Sharing |
| 15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| Machine Learning/Deep Learning Chair : Steven Horn |
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| 15:25 | Mohamed Gaafar, University of Toronto, Canada, Mahdi Shaghaghi, Complementrary AI System Corp., Canada Raviraj S. Adve, University of Toronto, Canada, Zhen (Jack) Ding, DRDC Ottawa, Canada | Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Radar Resource Management |
| 15:50 | Aristides Milios and Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Marine Traffic, UK, Dimitris Zissis, Marine Traffic, UK, University of Aegean, Greece and Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada | Sail ho! A deep learning approach for ship detection which utilises complimentary sensing capabilities |
| 16:15 | Anne Claire Boury-Brisset, DRDC Valcartier, Canada, Mihai Florea, Thales Research and Technology, Canada | Ship Classification Using Deep Learning Techniques for Maritime Target Tracking |
| 16:40 | Moslem Ouled Sgaier, Julian Falardeau, Éric-Olivier Bossé, Isabelle Prévost, Melita Hadzagic, OODA Technologies, Canada, Nathan Kashyap, DRDC Canada | NLP Solutions for Enhanced Maritime Domain Awareness |
| 17:05 | Erik Blasch, Air Force of Scientific Research, USA, Shuo Liu and Zheng Liu, Univ. Of British Columbia, Canada | Deep Learning Measures of Effectiveness |
| 17:30 | Melita Hadzagic, OODA Technologies, General Co-Chair Steven Horn, DRDC CORA, General Co-Chair | Wrap-up, Final Remarks |
| 18:30 | FUSION 2019 discussion | |