New for 2009! Tactical persistent surveillance
presents the 8th Annual from sensor to knowledge dissemination.
training conference
Don’t miss your
opportunity to discuss
these crucial issues:
• Performance metrics for digital
imaging sensors, EO fused systems,
target recognition, and scene and
situation characterization
• Multi-sensor integration to enable
persistent ISR: New architectures for
tactical persistent surveillance from
sensor to knowledge dissemination,
including Green Devil and MICSR-E
MULTI-SENSOR AND • Quantification of algorithm
performance based on the desired
INTELLIGENCE FUSION visual information transfer sought
through fusion
November 16 – 18, 2009 • Washington, D.C. Metro Area
All new speakers for
2009 include:
• William R. Smith, SES, Deputy
Program Executive Officer, PEO
Soldier
• Col Phillip Chudoba, USMC, PM
Intelligence Systems, Marine Corps
Systems Command
• Dr. Amy Vanderbilt, Program
Manager, Information Processing
Techniques Office, DARPA
• CAPT David R. Luber, USN, Deputy
Program Manager for ISR,
Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare &
Combating Terrorism, S&T
Directorate, ONR
• Darlene Minick, Director of Imagery
Intelligence, National Reconnaissance
Office
• Dr. David Boyd, Division Director,
Command, Control & Interoperability
S&T Directorate, DHS
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complete speaker roster!
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Who You Will Meet:
At IDGA’s 8th Annual Image Fusion
Summit, you will have the unique
opportunity to interact and network
with representatives from the relevant
military, government, academic, and
service providers with the following
Dear Colleague, responsibilities and job functions:
• Program Manager
As we enter into the 8th year of cont
inuous operations in OIF/OEF, the
to exploit all possible technological need for our military •
S&T Director
advancements rapidly and effectively
abroad remains at the forefront. at home and
Asymmetric warfare requires that • Fusion Technologist
real time situational awareness of our warfighters can have
the “battlefield.” Evolving image
major advances in ISR. While the fusion systems enable
field of multi-sensor fusion has mad • Test & Evaluation Director
recent years, there remain many e many advances in
challenges for the immediate futu
re. • Imagery Specialist
IDGA’s Image Fusion Summit will
examine next generation technolo
gies, systems, and
• Electro-Optical Device R&D
platforms in a forum that brings
together both solution providers and Director
end-users.
By participating in this summit, you • IR & I2 Technologist
will have the unique opportunity to
multitude of senior level profession interact with a
als to discuss, brainstorm, and netw
methodologies and initiatives, ork in order to define
while forging potential solution
partnerships. The end goal is to s and future
advance possible solutions that enab
have advanced situational awa le our warfighters to
reness in the most efficient man
ner.
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Image Fusion Master Class
IMAGE FUSION MASTER CLASS Monday, November 16, 2009
This Master Class is designed to explore the latest advancement made towards performance metrics and algorithms for image/ multi-sensor fusion. You
will also have the chance to explore how rapid changes in non-traditional warfare have changed the focus of fusion systems to try to assess the human
landscape as well as the physical landscape. Ascertain how providing inputs augment traditional sensor systems
7:30 am – 8:15 am Registration and Coffee
8:15 am – 10:15 am Automated methods for Scene Understanding/Situation Awareness
Scene Understanding and Situation Awareness
This Master Class is designed to help participants understand the latest • Methods for adaptive evidence accrual, context display, and exploration
developments in automated and semi-automated methods for Scene • Algorithms for scene/situation hypothesis generation/evaluation/selection
Understanding and Situation Awareness for military, intelligence, and civil • Performance metrics for target recognition, scene and situation
applications. The intended audience includes users that are tasked with characterization
developing, using or evaluating techniques and systems for scene and
How you will benefit:
situation understanding and for detecting, assessing, tracking, and • Gain an understanding of concepts, current techniques, algorithms, and
prosecuting threat activity. This is also for military or industry
performance metrics
representatives involved in policy-making who have a need to learn the • Learn the application of performance metrics for characterizing objects’
basic concepts, issues, and realistic capabilities of tools and methods for
imagery by combining object literal and induced features together with
image analysis, situation and threat assessment.
contextual information, both within the image and in collateral
What will be covered : information (to include other sensed or descriptive data)
• Template- and model-based target recognition concepts and techniques
Session leader: Dr. Alan Steinberg, Georgia Tech Research Institute
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Understanding underlying information transfer processes during image fusion
In-Depth Objective Evaluation of Image Fusion
Image fusion has already gained acceptance as a useful tool in night and • Measures of various information transfer processes taking place during
improved vision applications where multiple sensors are available with a fusion in order to qualify its performance
wealth of different algorithms proposed for the task. But how can we • Creation of customized metrics to evaluate specifically desired outcome
really know which algorithms to choose for each application and what to of image fusion
expect from them when they encounter real data. This workshop will
How you will benefit:
focus on in-depth fusion evaluation that would allow us to make • Gain an understanding of the underlying information transfer processes
informed decisions based on objective qualification as well as
taking place during image fusion
quantification of algorithm performance based on the desired visual • Understand how more informed qualifications of fusion performance can
information transfer sought through fusion.
be achieved
What will be covered: • Learn how to construct objective metrics for specific image fusion goals
• Theory of visual information transfer during the image fusion process
Session leader: Dr. Vladmir Petrovic, Research Associate, Imaging
and its breakdown into tractable categories.
Science, University of Manchester (UK)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Image fusion system-on-a-chip
Improving Established Image Fusion Algorithms: Image Fusion System-on-a-Chip
In 1991 the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience at technology, integrated along with the back ends of two cameras and a display
UC Berkeley took on the challenge to implement notions of biological driver in a single ASIC......truly an image fusion system-on-a-chip.
image processing in silicon devices. Those studies, published in a variety of
What will be covered:
engineering journals, outlined a number of conceptual advances. Reading • Hear about how algorithms can lead to reduced size, weight, and power
through the published work, it became clear that it could be translated
consumption in silicon-based devices
and implemented into highly efficient algorithms that could lead to • Implementation integrated along with the back ends of two cameras and a
reduced size, weight, and power consumption in silicon-based devices.
display driver in a single ASIC......truly an image fusion system-on-a-chip
This work, originally supported by grants from the Office of Naval
How you will benefit:
Research, has evolved over the last decade, becoming ever more efficient. • Learn about an image fusion system-on-a-chip
Initially implemented in VME boards, the technology has been reduced in • Gain an understanding of best practices towards applying algorithms for
size, weight, and power consumption to our current system that can
efficient outcomes
operate on two 1280 x 1024 video streams at 60 fps, consuming less
than 0.5W. We currently supply fusion technology to many of the leading Session Leader: Dr. Frank Warblin, University of California, Berkley
night vision corporations. The next step will be the implementation of this
*Contact Sherryl Jacobs for session topic updates!
3:45 pm – 5:45 pm Augmenting traditional sensor systems
Human-Centered Multi-INT Fusion
The traditional role of data fusion has involved the use of physical sensors and sonification interfaces)
to observe physical targets, in effect trying to characterize the physical • Humans acting as an ad hoc community of analysts (“crowd-sourcing” of
landscape for situational awareness. In this workshop we will explore how the analysis process)
rapid changes in non-traditional warfare have changed the focus of fusion
How you will benefit?
systems to try to assess the human landscape as well as the physical • Understand the dynamics of ad hoc community of observers
landscape. • Ascertain how providing inputs augment traditional sensor systems
What will be covered?
Session Leader: Dr. David Hall, Professor, The Center for Network-Centric
• Humans acting as new sources of information
Cognition and Information Fusion, Pennsylvania State University
• Human analysts supporting the analysis process (advanced visualization
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MAIN SUMMIT, DAY 1 MAIN SUMMIT, DAY 2
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7:15 Registration and Coffee 7:30 Registration and Coffee
8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks 8:15 Opening Remarks
Keynote – NRO
8:30 PEO Soldier Perspective 8:30 NRO Enterprise Integration: Imagery Intelligence Fusion
• Designing, developing, procuring, fielding, and sustaining virtually
Efforts
Opening
Morning
Keynote
everything the Soldier wears or carries •
Strategic objectives for enhanced imagery intelligence sharing
• Operating to increase combat effectiveness, to save lives, and to improve
•
Technology upgrades and tools for NRO collaboration
quality of life Darlene Minick, Director of Imagery Intelligence, National
William R. Smith, SES, Deputy Program Executive Officer, PEO Reconnaissance Office
Soldier
9:10 PEO Solider Equipment: Sensors and Lasers
9:10 Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Enterprise (MCISR-E)
•
PM Soldier Sensors and Lasers’ development, production, and
•
Conceptual overview fielding of advanced sensor and laser devices that provide
•
Multi-sensor integration to enable Persistent ISR Soldiers with improved lethality, mobility, and survivability
• Updates on future challenges and needs
• Future intelligence capability roadmap
Colonel Phillip C. Chudoba, USMC, Program Manager, Intelligence Lieutenant Colonel Jospeh A. Capobianco, USA, PM Sensors
Systems, Marine Corps Systems Command & Lasers, PEO Solider
9:50 Networking Break 9:50 Networking Break
10:35 Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness & Visualization (ULTRA- 10:35 Update on Applications of Image/ Multi-Sensor Fusion Data
Perspective
Vis) from the Office of Science and Technology Directorate, DHS
• Techniques to create/disseminate/display geo-registered icons and
DHS
• Use of imagery data within the DHS
actionable combat information for Fire Team Leaders/Dismount • Challenges faced when creating optimal situational awareness
Warfighters in real time over an existing soldier radio network Dr. David Boyd, Division Director, Command, Control, and
• Integration with a low-profile, see-through display to prototype and
Interoperability, Department of Homeland Security
demonstrate multi-modal icon-based command and control in a non-
line-of-sight, urban environment 11:15 AquaQuIPS and Sea Mist Sensor and Imagery Data Fusion
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt, Program Manager, IPTO, DARPA Results from Trident Warrior 08 and 09
• Automated, real time sensor and image data fusion
11:15 How Imagery Products Affects Ground Soldier Systems
Theater
Update
• Tracking uncooperative and EMCON silent ("dark") surface ships
• Current usage challenges
• Why the AquaQuIPS data fusion algorithm has been so successful
• Lesson learned
• Future objective: Automated Abnormal Behavior
Master Sergeant (p) Marcus Griffith, USA, PM Ground Soldier
Dr. James H. Wilson, United States Naval Academy Foundation,
11:55 Lunch MULTI-INT Sensor and Image Data Fusion Thesis Advisor
1:00 A New Architecture for Tactical Persistent Surveillance: From Sensor 11:55 LUNCH
to Knowledge Dissemination
• Green Devil, an experiment conducted at Empire Challenge, 1:00 Low Light Level Limiting Resolution and MTF of Various
demonstrates the utility of image and image/SIGINT fusion to building Digital Imaging, Image Intensified, and EO Fused Systems
• Performance metrics for digital imaging sensors and EO fused
an actionable tactical picture
Green
Devil
• Wide area surveillance sensors, high resolution airborne spot sensors, systems
Afternoon
tower based sensors, unattended ground sensors and RF • Utility/validity of measuring spatial limiting resolution and MTF
Keynote
• Measurement of the ability of the PISR network to detect inserted
of various electro-optical systems from high light to low light
behaviors of interest conditions
Captain David R. Luber, USN, Deputy Program Manager for ISR, • Detailed line shape analysis of spatial resolution profiles for low
Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare & Combating Terrorism, S&T light level images using manual and COTS machine vision based
Directorate, ONR processing algorithms
Dr. Joseph Estrera, Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer,
1:40 Fusion to Counter the Improvised Explosive Device: JIEDDO L-3 Electro-Optical Systems
Perspective
• Updates from the S&T department
• Applications on the battlefield
1:40 Air Multispectral Imaging (AMI)
• All-source image fusion
• Future challenges
• Component enablers and integration
Julia Erdley, Science and Technology Advisor, Joint IED Defeat • Application
Organization
Dr. Darrel G. Hopper, Principal Electronics Engineer, Air
2:20 Networking Break Force Research Laboratory
3:05 Ultra Vision – The View to the Future 2:20 Networking Break
• Image fusion today
Power Sources
from CERDEC
• What Marines need to see 2:50 Man-Portable Power Sources
• "Vision" for the future • Challenges faced with creating power sources for our
George Gibbs, Technologist, IWS Strategic Business Team, Marine warfighters
• Updates on current projects
Corps Systems Command
Mike Brundage, Chief of Power Sources Branch, US Army,
3:45 Application of Multi-Variate Visualization Techniques to Multi- CERDEC, Army Power Division
spectral Imagery
• Summary of existing multi-variate display techniques
3:30 Tracking from Commercial Satellite Imagery: SPAWAR
• Demonstration of their use on multi-spectral imagery • RAPIER program update
• Evaluating applicability and user needs for practical use of these
• MDA imagery applications
techniques Heidi Buck, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Mark Livingston, PhD, Research Scientist, Information Technology Office, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
Division, Naval Research Laboratory
4:10 End of Main Summit
4:25 End of Day One
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DRS Optronics Raytheon
DRS Sensor and Targeting Systems Reveal Imaging Technologies Inc
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EOIR Technologies Sagem DS Details for making payment via EFT or wire transfer:
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New for 2009! Tactical persistent surveillance
presents the 8th Annual from sensor to knowledge dissemination.
training conference
All new speakers for
2009 include:
• William R. Smith, SES, Deputy
Program Executive Officer, PEO
Soldier
• Col Phillip Chudoba, USMC, PM
Intelligence Systems, Marine Corps
Systems Command
• Dr. Amy Vanderbilt, Program
Manager, Information Processing
Techniques Office, DARPA
• CAPT David R. Luber, USN, Deputy
Program Manager for ISR,
MULTI-SENSOR AND Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare &
Combating Terrorism, S&T
INTELLIGENCE FUSION
Directorate, ONR
• Darlene Minick, Director of Imagery
Intelligence, National Reconnaissance
Office
• Dr. David Boyd, Division Director,
November 16 – 18, 2009 • Washington, D.C. Metro Area
Command, Control & Interoperability
S&T Directorate, DHS