Seen in Baltimore -- SPIE DSS Sensing Technology + Applications and Defense + Security conferences and the SPIE DSS Expo run all week! Check this page often for updates.
Wednesday 7 May
Awards Banquet
VIP Reception
DSS Expo
Tuesday 6 May
Poster session
Job Fair
Panel discussions
DSS Expo
Monday 5 May
Welcome Reception
SPIE Fellows Luncheon
Conferences kick off
Registration
Wednesday 7 May
SPIE DSS Awards Banquet





VIP Reception












DSS Expo Day 2




Tuesday 6 May
Poster session






Landing the right job





Panel discussions

Conference 9091: Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXIII; Invited Panel Discussion: Issues and Challenges of Information Fusion in Contested Environments. Panelists: Erik Blasch, Air Force Research Lab.; Chee-Yee Chong, Consultant; Laurie Fenstermacher, Air Force Research Lab; John Gorman, DARPA; Hillary Holloway, Systems & Technology Research Inc.; Eric Jones,Systems & Technology Research, Inc.; Ivan Kadar, Interlink Systems Sciences, Inc.; Georgiy Levchuk, Aptima, Inc.; Nils Sandell, Systems & Technology Research, Inc.

Conference 9110: Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications III; Panel Discussion: Optical Metrology Trends: Moderator: Kevin Harding, GE Global Research (USA); Panelists: Scott Sandwith, New River Kinematics; Peter de Groot, Zygo Corp.; Erik Novak, 4D Technology Corp.; Thomas Hedges, Nikon Metrology, Inc.

Conference 9089: Geospatial InfoFusion and Video Analytics IV; Panel Discussion on Advanced Analysis of Generalized Point-Clouds and Multidimensional Structures: Moderator: Shiloh Dockstader, Exelis Inc.; Panelists: Dave Wasson, Arete Associates; Guna Seetharaman, AFRL; Paul McManamon, Univ. of Dayton;Steven Hall, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; Karl Walli, U. S. Air Force
Recognizing the best

Myron Hohil (left), Associate Director for Technology, US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, was awarded the Eric A. Lehrfeld Award by Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense XIII Conference Chair Edward Carapezza, General Atomics, retired (right). The Lehrfeld award recognizes outstanding contributions to homeland security, commemorating the victims of the 9/11 attacks on America, reminding and stimulating us all to apply our technology to better secure our homeland.

Henry Xue, The City College of New York (left) shared the best student paper award in the Automatic Target Recognition XXIV Conference for his paper titled, Automatic recognition of emotions from facial expressions, with Matthew Scherreik, Wright State Univ. paper second from left), who won for his paper titled, Ladar ATR via probabilistic open set technique. The awards were presented by program committee member Robert Muise, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, and Session Chair Firooz Sadjadi, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs (right).
Lots to see at the DSS Expo

















Monday 5 May
SPIE DSS Welcome Reception at Power Plant Live!














SPIE Fellows Luncheon








Conferences kick off

Adam R. Wichman, Boston Univ., presents his paper: 3D numerical simulation of planar P+n heterojunction In0.53Ga0.47As photodiodes in dense arrays, part II: modulation transfer functions modeling, at conference 9070, Infrared Technology and Applications XL.
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