2013

Information Fusion in a Cloud-Enabled Environment, Erik Blasch, Yu Chen, Genshe Chen, Dan Shen, and Ralph Kohler, in Baek-Young Choi, Keesook Han, Sejun Song (Eds.), High Performance Semantic Cloud Auditing, Springer Publishing, 2014, 91-115. Please see the detail.

A Holistic Cloud-Enabled Robotics System for Real-Time Video Tracking Application, Bingwei Liu, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, Khanh Pham, Dan Shen, and Genshe Chen, Future Information Technology Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Volume 276, 2014, pp 455-468. Please see the detail.

A P300 Model for Cerebot-a Mind-Controlled Humanoid Robot, Mengfan Li, Jing Zhao, Wei Li, Qinghao Meng, Ming Zeng, and Genshe Chen, The 2nd International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Application, Dec. 18-20, 2013, Denver, USA. Please see the detail.

The Objective Evaluation Index (OEI) for Evaluation of Night Vision Colorization Techniques, Yufeng Zheng, Wenjie Dong, Genshe Chen, and Erik Blasch, in Qiguang Miao (Eds), New Advances in Image Fusion, ISBN 978-953-51-1206-8, November 2013, INTECH. Please see the detail.

Video-Based Activity Analysis Using the L1 Tracker on VIRAT Data, Erik Blasch, Zhonghai Wang, Haibin Ling, Kannappan Palaniappan, Genshe Chen, Dan Shen, Alex Aved, Guna Seetharaman, IEEE 2013 AIPR, Washington DC, Oct. 23-25, 2013. Please see the detail.

Scalable Sentiment Classification for Big Data Analysis Using Naive Bayes Classifier, Bingwei Liu, Erik Blasch, Yu Chen, Dan Shen, and Genshe Chen, "Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications, " BigData'13 Scalable Machine Learning: Theory and Applications, Santa Clara, CA. Please see the detail.

On Effectiveness of Hopping-Based Spread Spectrum Techniques for Network Forensic Traceback, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Erik Blasch, Khanh Pham, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, and Chao Lu, International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing (IJNDC), Atlantis Press, 1(3), August 2013. Please see the detail.

Context-aware tracking with wide-area motion imagery, Jianjun Gao, Haibin Ling, Erik P. Blasch, Khanh Pham, Zhonghai Wang, Genshe Chen, SPIE Newsroom (invited), 2013. Please see the detail.

Comparison of three Approximate kinematic Models for Space Object Tracking, Xin Tian, Genshe Chen, Erik Blasch, Khanh Pham, and Yaakov Bar-Shalom, 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2013. Please see the detail.

Vehicle Detection in Wide Aerial Surveillance using Temporal Context, Pengpeng Liang, Haibin Ling, Erik Blasch, Guna Seetharaman, Dan Shen, and Genshe Chen, 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2013. Please see the detail.

On Effectiveness of Hopping-Based Spread Spectrum Techniques for Network Forensic Traceback, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Erik Blasch, Khanh Pham, Dan Shen, and Genshe Chen, Proceedings of 14th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2013. Please see the detail.

Conformal prediction for anomaly detection and collision alert in space surveillance, Huimin Chen, Genshe Chen, Khanh Pham, and Erik Blasch, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Cloud-based Space Situational Awareness: Initial Design and Evaluation, Bingwei Liu, Yu Chen, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, Khanh Pham, and Erik Blasch, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

An efficient QoS-aware routing algorithm for LEO polar constellations, Xin Tian, Khanh D. Pham, Erik P. Blasch, Zhi Tian, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

QoS-aware dynamic spectrum access for cognitive radio networks, Xin Tian, Zhi Tian, Khanh D. Pham, Erik P. Blasch, Genshe Chen, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

On Effectiveness of Routing Algorithms for Satellite Communication Networks, Wei Yu, Sixiao Wei, Guobin Xu, Genshe Chen, Khanh D. Pham, Erik P. Blasch, Chao Lu, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

On Detection and Visualization Techniques for Cyber Security Situation Awareness, Wei Yu, Xiao Wei Shi, Guobin Xu, Dan Shen, Misty Blowers, Erik P. Blasch, Khanh D. Pham, Genshe Chen, Hanlin Zhang, Chao Lu, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Multiple sensor estimation using high-degree cubature information filter, Jia Bin, Ming Xin, Khanh D. Pham, Erik Blasch, and Genshe Chen, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Automatic vehicle license plat recognition with color component texture detection and template matching, Jianjun Gao, Erik P. Blasch, Khanh D. Pham, Genshe Chen, Dan Shen, Zhonghai Wang, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

A fuzzy-logic based approach to color segmentation, Quoxing Zhao, Yunyi Li, Genshe Chen, Qinghao Meng, Wei Li, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

A holistic image segmentation framework for cloud detection and extraction, Dan Shen, Haotian Xu, Erik P. Blasch, Gregory Horvath, Khanh D. Pham, Yufeng Zheng, Haibin Ling, Genshe Chen, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Infrared target tracking using multiple instance learning with adaptive motion prediction and spatially template weighting, Xinchu Shi, Weiming Hu, Yun Cheng, Genshe Chen, Jingjing Ji, Haibin Ling, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Low frame rate target localization and tracking testbed, Yu Pang, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, Pengpeng Liang, Khanh D. Pham, Erik P. Blasch, Zhonghai Wang, Haibin Ling, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Pattern of life from WAMI objects tracking based on visual context-awareness tracking and infusion network models, Jianjun Gao, Haibin Ling, Erik P. Blasch, Khanh Pham, Zhonghai Wang, Genshe Chen, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

Spatial Context for Moving Vehicle Detection in Wide Area Motion Imagery with Multiple Kernel Learning, Pengpeng Liang, Dan Shen, Erik P. Blasch, Khanh Pham, Zhonghai Wang, Genshe Chen, Haibin Ling, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

A Low-Cost Near Real Time Two-UAS Based UWB Emitter Monitoring System, Zhonghai Wang, Genshe Chen, Dan Shen, Xingping Lin, Erik Blasch, and Khanh Pham, 2013 IEEE Radar conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 29-May 3, 2013. Please see the detail.

User-Oriented FEC Decoding Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks With Star Topologies, Fan Yang, Xi Zhang, Wei Yu, and Genshe Chen, IEEE 47th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2013), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 20-22, 2013. Please see the detail.

Towards Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing Algorithms in Wireless Networks, Yu Wang, Xinyu Yang, Shusen Yang, Wei Yu, Sulabh Bhattarai, Dan Shen, and Genshe Chen, CCNC 2013- Green Communications and Computations, .January 8- January 11, 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada. Please see the detail.

IFT News and Awards

1. January, 2016 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase II enhancement on SATCOM Cognitive Radio Testbed

2, Sept, 2015 --- IFT received a Navy SBIR Phase I contract on A Camera, Laser Ranger and RF MIMO SAR Mixed Imaging-Ranging Sensor for Precise, Automated Position-Keeping

3, Sept, 2015 --- IFT received a Navy SBIR Phase I contract on A Low SWaP-C Chirped LFMCW Radar Based UAS Collision Avoidance System

4,July, 2015 --- IFT received an Air Force STTR Phase II award on Harness Enhanced Awareness for Radio Systems (HEARS) for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Space Application

5, July, 2015 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase I award on An Intelligent Image Compression Broker Based on Objective with Feedback

6, June, 2015 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase II contract on HEADGTSM: HPC EnAbled Distributed Game-Theoretic Sensor Management for Space Situational Awareness

7, March, 2015 --- IFT received an Air Force STTR Phase II contract on Evaluation of SANDGT Using SOA Framework for Persistent and Risk-Averse Space Situation Awareness

8, January, 2015 --- IFT received an Air Force STTR Phase II contract on Evaluation of High Performance Computing Enabled Multiple-Target Tracking Based on Massive Parallelism for Urban Surveillance Areas

9, Oct, 2014 --- IFT received an ONR SBIR Phase I contract on A Low SWaP Spectrum Monitoring System with Virtual Omni Directional Antenna

10, Oct, 2014 --- IFT received an AF STTR Phase I contract on GUARD: A Game Theoretic Universal Anti-RFI Defense Framework for Satellite Communication

11, Oct, 2014 --- IFT received an AF STTR Phase I contract on AFSCN Upgrade Based on Smart Antenna and Cognitive Satellite Radio

12, Oct, 2014 --- IFT received an AFRL subcontract on RFI detection and prediction from Catholic University of America

13. May, 2014 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase I award on Game-Theoretic Distributed Sensor Management for RSO Detection, Classification and Tracking

14,June, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force STTR Phase I award on Decision-Making under Uncertainty for Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems in Space Application

15, June, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force STTR Phase I award on HPC-MTT: High Performance Computing Enabled Multiple Target Tracking for Urban Surveillance Areas

16, May, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase I award on Consistency Based Gaussian Mixture Tracking Framework for Space Situation Awareness (CbGM-SSA)

17, May, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase I award on Network Survivability Oriented Markov Games (NSOMG) in Wideband Satellite Communications

18, March, 2013 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force Research Lab. BAA award on Video to Text (V2T) for Wide Area Motion Imagery

19, November, 2012 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force STTR Phase I award on SANDGT: a Stochastic Adaptive Nonlinear Differential Game Tool for Persistent and Risk-Averse Space Situation Awareness

20, November, 2012 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase II award on A Holistic Approach to Optimal and Secure Tactical Wireless Broadband Systems

21, November, 2012 --- IFT has been selected for an Air Force SBIR Phase II award on A Network Sensor-Based Defense Framework for Active Network Security Situation Awareness and Impact Mitigation

22, August, 2012 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase III contract on Autonomous ISR Testbed with multiple robots

23, August, 2012 --- IFT received an Air Force STTR Phase I contract on Effective Routing Algorithms for IP based Satellite Networks

24, May, 2012 --- IFT received a DARPA SBIR Phase II contract on VHF/UHF Emitter Localization Based on DOA Fusion with Two UAS

25, Jan., 2012 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract on A Holistic Approach to Optimal and Secure Tactical Wireless Broadband Systems

26, September, 2011 --- IFT received an Air Force SBIR Phase I contract on A Network Sensor-Based Defense Framework for Active Network Security Situation Awareness and Impact Mitigation

27, September, 2011 --- IFT received a contract on SOA based persistent ISR Testbed development

28, July, 2011 --- IFT received a contract on Stackelberg Game Approach to Cognitive Radio Networking with Anti-Jamming

29, June, 2011 --- IFT received a DARPA SBIR Phase I contract on VHF/UHF Emitter Localization Based on DOA Fusion with Two UAS

30, April, 2011 --- IFT received a contract on face detection, eyeglasses detection, image retrieval algorithms for face recognition

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