As part of the UDRC phase III, a themed meeting on Signal Processing in the Underwater Environment was held on Thursday March 25th 2021. This virtal event was for academic researchers, industrial partners and Dstl staff to learn about and discuss current trends in Signal Processing in the Underwater Environment. The program consisted of a series of talks from academia and defence industry.
Presentations
Introductions and welcome, Jason Ralph/Simon Maskell, University of Liverpool, Listen to recorded talk
Session 1 Underwater Signal Processing
- Signal processing challenges in the Underwater Environment, Andrew Flinn and Ian Colley, MoD Listen to recorded talk
- An overview of signal and data processing for active and passive sonar at CMRE, Pietro Stinco, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) - Listen to recorded talk
- Modelling of acoustic wave propagation in realistic ocean environment, Sourav Sahoo, National Oceanography Centre (NOC) - Listen to recorded talk
Session 2 Tracking and Monitoring
- Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filters for multi-target tracking using sonars, Angel Garcia-Fernandez, University of Liverpool Listen to recorded talk
- Acoustic detection networks, Jeff Neasham, Newcastle University- Listen to recorded talk
Session 3 Industry Concerns
- Magic Carpets: Overcoming the challenges of live sonar trials onboard an uncrewed vessel, Tina Haggett/Lisa Symes, Atlas Elektronik, Link to YouTube Video
- Data to Decision – Delivering Exploitable Capability from Advanced Processing in Complex Sonar Systems, Andy Marlor, Thales - Listen to recorded talk
- Adaptive Seabed Characterization With Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of SAS Imagery to Assist Sonar ATR, Scott Brandes, BAE Systems - Listen to recorded talk
Session 4 Autonomy and Situational Awareness
- Underwater robot perception and autonomy: From image enhancement to autonomous navigation / Underwater mapping and navigation using high resolution acoustic imaging, Sen Wang/Yvan Petillot, Heriot-Watt University - Listen to recorded talk
- Self-Interference Cancellation for Full-Duplex Underwater Acoustic Systems, Lu Shen, University of York - Listen to recorded talk
- Estimation of Source-Sensor Responses from Sensor Second Order Statistics, Stephan Weiss, University of Strathclyde - Listen to recorded talk
- A multi-frame resolution enhancement framework for multi-beam sonar systems, James Hopgood, University of Edinburgh (can be shared subject to commercial agreement contact james.hopgood@ed.ac.uk)
- Emerging undersea signal processing challenges for future Navy systems, Mike Vaccaro, Office of Naval Research (ONR)
