DSS Expo
Benjamin Wu, Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, joins SPIE President-Elect Robert Lieberman in inaugurating the opening of the DSS 2015 Expo. On the right is SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs.
Conference award winners -- congratulations!
Independent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Large Data Analyses, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering
Winners of Pioneer Awards in the conference on Independent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Large Data Analyses, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering gathered for a panel discussion and photo on Friday morning. Award winners and conference organizers are, from left above, program committee member Anke Meyer-Bäse (Florida State University), conference cohair Liyi Dai (U.S. Army Research Office), Nobutaka Ono (Japan National Institute of Informatics), Paul Werbos (National Science Foundation), Joel Tropp (California Institute of Technology), Andrew Ewald (Johns Hopkins University), Michael McAlpine (Princeton University), conference chair Harold Szu (U.S. Army Research Office), and Yufeng Zheng (Alcorn State University).
Automatic Target Recognition
Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) conference chair Firooz Sadjadi (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs) presented several best paper awards on Tuesday.
The Lockheed Martin ATR Best Student Paper Award winner was Satabdi Mukherjee (City University of New York) for "An approach to automatic detection of suspicious individuals in a Crowd" (9476-12). Runner up was Matthew Scherreik (Wright State University) for "An evaluation of open set recognition for FLIR images" (9476-23).
The Lockheed Martin ATR Best Paper Award winner was Sebastian Wong (Defense Science and Technology Organization, Australia) for "Mutual information for enhanced feature selection in visual tracking" (9476-2).
From left above are awardees Wong, Mukherjee, and Scherreik with session chair Shih-Chi Chen, Sadjadi, and program committee member Robert Muise.
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications
Two papers were honored with best paper awards sponsored by FLIR in the Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications conference on Thursday.
The Thermosense Best Paper Award was presented by conference chair Sheng-Jen (Tony) Hseih to Karlien D'huys, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (at left below) for "Detection of seal contamination in heat-sealed food packaging based on active infrared thermography" (9485-52). The award included a FLIR One thermal camera, presented by FLIR Senior Systems Engineer Mark Nussmeier.
The Thermosense Best Student Paper was awarded by conference co-chair Joseph Zalameda to Hai Zhang (Université Laval) (below, right) for "Infrared thermography, ultrasound C-scan and microscope for non-destructive and destructive evaluation of 3D carbon fiber materials: a comparative study" (9485-33).
Poster receptions
Michael Köhring, Technische Universität Clausthal (at right)
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Radar Sensor Technology conference chair Kenneth
Ranney (U.S. Army Research Lab),"Instantaneous,
stepped-frequency, nonlinear radar" (9461-76) |
Satyabrata Sen (Oak Ridge National Lab), "Adaptive
OFDM waveform design for spatio-temporal-sparsity
exploited STAP radar" (9461-80) |
Emily Engel (Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering), "Enhanced vibration energy harvesting using nonlinear oscillations," (9493-25)
Harry Kelderman (St. Mary's College of Maryland), "Spray-on solar cells using non-toxic nanocrystal inks" (9493-23)
Thanh Nguyen (Catholic University of America), at right; “3D high speed characterization of phase and amplitude objects using the transport of intensity equation” (9495-38)
VIP reception
Student Lunch with the Experts
SPIE Fellows luncheon
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| The SPIE Fellows Luncheon provides a chance to meet with friends and colleagues |
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| New Fellow Gisele Bennett and SPIE President-Elect Bob Lieberman |
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| New Fellow Osamu Matoba and SPIE President-Elect Bob Lieberman |
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| New SPIE Fellow John Miller and SPIE President-Elect Bob Lieberman |
Welcome reception
Holger Lutz, Sebastian Zehner, Heinrich Figgemeier, and Andreas Withopf from AIM INFRAROT-MODULE GmbH.
 
SPIE Fellow Anna G. Mignani, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara, with Silvia Serranti, Sapienza Univ di Roma.
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