5th SONDRA WORKSHOP
Programme
TUESDAY, 14 June, 09:00 –12:30 – CHECK-IN
TUESDAY, 14 June, 12:30 – LUNCH
TUESDAY, 14 June, 14:00 – 15:15 – OPENING SESSION and VIP TESTIMONIALS
Stéphane Saillant, SONDRA Director
Romain Soubeyran, CentraleSupélec General Director
Chee Hoo Cheong, CEO DSO
Bruno Sainjon, CEO ONERA
Voon-Yew Aaron Thean, Dean NUS
Marc Lesturgie, International Affairs Director ONERA
TUESDAY, 14 June, 15:15 - 15:45 – BREAK
TUESDAY, 14 June, 15:45 - 17:50 – SPECIAL TOPICS
Régis Guinvarc’h, SONDRA Technical Manager
Alexis BONNIN, ONERA/DPHY, Marine & Airborne Gravimetry with an Absolute Cold Atom Sensor
Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupelec, Photonics Chair@CentraleSupélec
Tugdual CEILLIER, PRELIGENS, Presentation of PRELIGENS - AI for Earth Observation
Hubert CANTALLOUBE, ONERA/DEMR, ONERA SAR survey on Greenland icecap for recovery of A380 engine fragments
TUESDAY, 14 June, 18:00 - 19:00 – POSTER SESSION
TUESDAY, 14 June, 19:30 – GALA DINNER
Espace Jeanne Laurent – Palais des Papes
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 8:00 - 10:00 – QUANTUM TECH
Chaiman: Fabrice BOUST – Mihai DATCU
QT.1: Introduction to Quantum – 08:00-08:20
QT.2: Quantum technologies at ONERA for AeroSpace and Defense applications – 08:20-08:40
QT.3: Can quantum correlations improve radar technology?– 08:40-09:00
Giacomo Sorelli, Sorbonne University
QT.4: A Feasibility Study on Quantum Illumination Radar - 09:00-09:20
Jun Wei Lam, DSO, W. H. Wee, DSO, M. H. Teo, DSO, Y. H. Sum, DSO, C. Y. Chong, DSO
QT.5: Quantum computing - Results and Perspectives in Earth Observation – 09:20-09h40
QT.6: Quantum computing - Phase-Coded Radar Waveform AI-Based Augmented Engineering and Optimal Design by Quantum Annealing – 09:40-10h00
Timothe Presles,THALES, R. Bricout, THALES, C. Enderli, THALES, F. Aligne, THALES, F. Barbaresco, THALES
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 10:00 - 10:15– BREAK – POSTER ACCESS
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 10:15 - 12:15 – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Chaiman: Jean-Philippe OVARLEZ – Frederic BARBARESCO
AI.1: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Twin Earth – 10:15-10:35
AI.2: Unsupervised Deep Learning Parameter Estimation for High Fidelity Synthetic Aperture Radar Super Resolution – 10:35-10:55
AI.3: GAN-based EO-SAR Domain Transfer - 10:55-11:15
Yuanyuan Qing, NTU, J. Zhu, NTU, W. Liu, NTU, B. Wen, NTU
AI.4: AI-Enabled Airplane Recognition Using Radar Cross-Section Signals – 11:15-11:35
Songnan Lin, NTU, Y. Qing, NTU, W. Liu NTU, and B. Wen, NTU,
AI.5: Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Polarimetric SAR Segmentation – 11:35-11:55
Agustin Barrachina, ONERA/SONDRA, C. Ren, SONDRA, C. Morisseau, ONERA,G. Vieillard, ONERA,J.-P. Ovarlez, ONERA/SONDRA
AI.6: Geometric-Informed Deep Learning and Symplectic Model of New Generation Radar Processing – 11:55-12:15
Frédéric Barbaresco,THALES, Pierre-Yves Lagrave, THALES
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 12:15 - 13:50 – LUNCH – POSTER ACCESS
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 13:50-15:50 - RADAR SYSTEM
Chaiman: Hélène ORIOT – Heong Wann SEAH
RS.1:Hybridization of Fast Scattering Model and Physical Optics for Modelling in UHF Band – 13h50-14h10
Dihia Sidi Ahmed, SONDRA, P. Russo, Università Politecnica delle Marche, G. Cerri, Università Politecnica delle Marche, L. Thirion Lefèvre, SONDRA, R. Guinvarc'h, SONDRA
RS.2: SAR-LIGHT - The New ONERA SAR Sensor on UAV Platform – 14:10-14:30
Frédéric Brigui, ONERA, S. Angelliaume, ONERA, N. Castet, ONERA, X. Dupuis, ONERA, P. Martineau, ONERA, X. de Milly, ONERA
RS.3: I2R’s Research Activities on Comm and Radar for Aviation Applications – 14:30-14:50
RS.4: Approximate Methods to Reduce Computational Resources for On-Board Image Formation– 14:50-15:10
RS.5: Digital Pre-Distortion with Direct Digital Synthesizer for Wide Bandwidth Waveform Generation – 15:10-15:30
Kwang Siong Jeremy Leow, DSO
RS.6: AI-Augmented MFR Radar Engineering with DIGITAL TWIN: Towards PROACTIVITY
Mathieu Klein, THALES, T. Carpentier, THALES, E. Jeanclaude, THALES, R. Kassab, THALES, K. Varelas, THALES, N. de Bruijn, THALES, F. Barbaresco, THALES, Y. Briheche, THALES, Y. Semet, THALES, F. Aligne, THALES - 15:30-15:50
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 15:50 - 16:10 – BREAK – POSTER ACCESS
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 16:10 -18:30 – RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING
Chaiman: Arnaud BRELOY – Weixian LIU
RSP.1: Bistatic Passive SAR Imaging Using TerraSARXTransmiting Signal – 16:10-16:30
Olivier Boisot, ONERA, J.-F. Nouvel, ONERA, F. Brigui, ONERA/SONDRA, H. Cantalloube, ONERA
RSP.2: Multiple Radar Sensor Fusion for Drone Surveillance in Urban Environment - 16:30-16:50
Xin Guo, THALES Asia, C. S. Ng,THALES Asia
RSP.3: Geometric programming for optimizing SAR waveform parameters - 16:50-17:10
RSP.4: Collaborative Multi-Radars Tracking by Distributed Auctions - 17:10-17:30
Pierre Larrenie, THALES, C. Buron, THALES, F. Barbaresco, THALES
RSP.5: Digital filtering approach to reduce pulse extension loss in Scan-on-Receive Digital Beamforming - 17:30-17:50
RSP.6: Radar techniques for human detection and classification in urban areas - 17:50-18:10
Kaiyi Yang, NTU, J. Zhang, NTU, B. Liu, NTU, W. Liu, NTU, B. Wen, NTU
RSP.7: Persistent Sensing of Moving Target with Single Channel Ka-band SAR Imaging System – 18:10-18:30
Wen-Hao John Lee, DSO, R. J. Peh, DSO, Y. X. Lim, DSO, P. S. Koh, DSO
WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 18:30 – 19:30 – POSTER SESSION – COCKTAIL DRINK
THURSDAY, 16 June, 08:00 - 10:00 – ANTENNA & PROPAGATION
Chaiman: Koen MOUTHAAN – Mohammed SERHIR
A.1: Antenna works at ONERA – 08:00-08:20
A.2: A Foldable Dual-Polarized Patch Array – 08:20-08:40
Lu Jian, DSO/NUS, A. Liu, NUS, P. K. Tan, NUS, T. H. Gan, NUS
A.3: Reconfigurable Rasorbers- A New Era of Stealth Technology - 08:40-09:00
Saikat Chandra Bakshi, NUS, K. Mouthaan, NUS
A.4: A C-band hat-fed reflector antenna - 09:00-09:20
Su Yee Aye, NUS, T. T. Chia, NUS, S. Huber, NUS, K. Mouthaan, NUS
A.5: Reflectarray antenna research in TL@NUS & DSO – Part I & II – 09:20-09:40
A.6: Modeling of the ionosphere for HF & L bands propagation: impact of Space Weather – 09:40-10:00
Aurélie Marchaudon, IRAP, Pierre-Louis Blelly,IRAP
THURSDAY, 16 June, 10:00 - 10:15 – BREAK – POSTER ACCESS
THURSDAY, 16 June, 10:15 - 11:55 – RADAR IMAGING
Chaiman: Laurent FERRO-FAMIL – Shen Guang Alex TAN
RI.1: Tomographic imaging methods for the characterization of forests using multi-baseline interferometric and polarimetric SAR data – 10:15-10:35
Laurent Ferro-Famil, ISAE, Y. Huang, IETR
RI.2: Assessment of Ionospheric Effects Mitigation Techniques on Space-borne Low-Frequency SAR data- 10:35-10:55
Sébastien Angelliaume, ONERA, A. Mainvis, ONERA, V.Fabbro, ONERA, H. Oriot, ONERA, J. Lemorton, ONERA
RI.3: Internal Imaging of Asteroid Analogues Using Electromagnetic Methods - 10:55-11:15
Astrid Dufaure, Institut Fresnel, Y. Yusuf, Institut Fresnel, J.-M. Geffrin, Institut Fresnel, L.-I. Sorsa, Institut Fresnel, S. Pursiainen, Institut Fresnel, C. Eyraud, Institut Fresnel
RI.4: Transferring deep learning techniques from Optical to SAR - 11:15-11:35
RI.5: Presentation of a New Multi-Data Temporal Method Based on Differential Entropy – 11:35-11:55
Nathan Paillou, SONDRA, R. Guinvarc'h, SONDRA, L. Thirion Lefèvre, SONDRA
THURSDAY, 16 June, 11:55 - 13:30 – LUNCH – POSTER ACCESS
THURSDAY, 16 June, 13:30 - 16:10 – SIGNAL PROCESSING
Chaiman: Han Lun YAP – Chengfang REN
SP.1: Analysis of Adaptive Multichannel Filters Trained with Covariance Mismatched Sampled – 13:30-13:50
SP.2: Multidimensional Stationary Time-Series Machine Learning for Radar Clutter Classification -13:50-14:10
Yann Cabanes, THALES, M. Arnaudon, Bordeaux University, F. Barbaresco, THALES, R. Kassab, THALES
SP.3: Joint estimation of location and Positive-Definite Scatter Matrix in Elliptical Distributions – 14:10-14:30
Stefano Fortunati, L2S, A. Renaux, L2S, F. Pascal, L2S
SP.4: On the False Alarm Probability of the Normalized Matched Filter for Off-Grid Target Detection – 14:30-14:50
Pierre Develter, ONERA/SONDRA, J. Bosse, ONERA, O. Rabaste, ONERA, P. Forster, ENS. Paris Saclay, J.-P. Ovarlez, ONERA/SONDRA
SP.5: On the Use of Geodesic Triangles Between Gaussian Distributions for Classification Problems - 14:50-15:10
Antoine Collas, SONDRA, F. Bouchard, CNRS L2S, C. Ren, SONDRA, A. Breloy, Nanterre University, G. Ginolhac, Savoie Mont-Blanc University, J.-P. Ovarlez, ONERA/SONDRA
SP.6: Fast Computation of the Optimal ISL Filter for Large-Scaled Problems - 15:10-15:30
Maria-Elisavet Chatzitheodoridi, ONERA, A. Taylor, ONERA, O. Rabaste, ONERA, H. Oriot, ONERA
SP.7: Waveforms and Bio-Inspired Processing – 15:30-15:50
Anthony Torre, ONERA, A. Taylor, ONERA, D. Poullin, ONERA, T. Chonavel, IMT Atlantique
SP.8: Radar Emitter Classification with Optimal Transport Distances – 15:50-16:10
Manon Mottier, L2S, G. Chardon, L2S, F. Pascal, L2S
THURSDAY, 16 June, 16:10 – CLOSING ADDRESS
AI.P1: AI-Empowered Remote Sensing Imagery Generation
Yuanyuan Qing, NTU, J. Zhu, NTU, S. Cao, NTU, W. Liu, NTU, B. Wen, NTU
AI.P2: Applicative Potential of Convolutional Autoencoders to SAR Time-Series of Boreal Forest Environments
Thomas Di Martino, ONERA/SONDRA, E Colin Koeniguer, ONERA, R. Guinvarc'h, SONDRA, L. Thirion Lefèvre, SONDRA
AI.P3: Deep Learning for SAR Image Denoising
Jit Soon Foo, DSO, Teo Ching Lik, DSO
AI.P4: Deep Learning for SAR Image Super Resolution
Youssef Adarrab, CentraleSupelec, A. Daly, CentraleSupelec, D. Colombo, CentraleSupelec, J. Fix, CentraleSupelec, C. Ren, SONDRA, I. Hinostroza, SONDRA
AI.P5: Machine Learning for Radar Tracking in Urban Environments
Jiarui Zhang, NTU, K. Yang, NTU, W. Liu, NTU, H. Feng, NTU, B. Wen, NTU
AI.P6: SAR Anomaly Detection Based on Generative Networks
Max Muzeau, ONERA/SONDRA, C. Ren, SONDRA, S. Angelliaume, ONERA, J.-P. Ovarlez, ONERA/SONDA
AI.P7: Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Micro-Doppler, Cadence Velocity, Human Activity
Israel Hinostroza, SONDRA, C. Ren, SONDRA, J. Fix, CentraleSupelec, G. Manfredi, T. Letertre, SONDRA
RI.P1: Uncertainty Analysis on Wall and Radar's Characteristics Applied to Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging
Yanisse Boudrouz, SONDRA, M. Serhir,SONDRA, C. Eyraud, Institut Fresnel, I. Hinostroza, SONDRA
RI.P2: First Trials to Retrieve Permittivities from Double Bounces in SAR Images
Steve Tyler, SONDRA, X. Dupuis, ONERA, R. Guinvarc'h, SONDRA, L. Thirion-Lefevre, SONDRA
RI.P3: An In-House WiFi-Based Decentralised Load-Balancing Framework for SAR Applications
RI.P4: Imaging Comparison of GPR Based on Multi- and Bi-static Configurations
Mohammed Serhir, SONDRA, A. Aboudourib, GEEPS, M. Lambert, L2S, D. Lesselier, L2S
RI.P5: Robust PCA for Through The Wall Radar Imaging
Hugo Brehier, SONDRA, A. Breloy, Nanterre University, C. Ren, SONDRA, I. Hinostroza, SONDRA,G. Ginolhac, Savoie Mont-Blanc University
RI.P6: Simulation of Extended Scenes for Radar Raw Data and SAR Image Simulation
Etienne Everaere, ONERA, X. Husson, ONERA, S. Roussel, ONERA, B. Talibart, ONERA, K. Unger, ONERA, P. Martineau, ONERA
RI.P7: Through-the-Wall Doppler-based Human Sensing
Lei, NTU, S. G. Razul, NTU
RI.P8: Detection of Archaeological Sites Hidden by a Forest Canopy Using Sentinel-1 Time-Series
Florent Michenot, SONDRA, R. Guinvarc'h, SONDRA, L. Thirion Lefèvre, SONDRA
RI.P9: Deep Learning for Land Cover Classification from Sentinel-1 InSAR Short-Time-Series in the Amazon Forest
DSP.P1: Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics for Radar Network Placement
Quentin Renau, THALES, J. Dreo, Institut Pasteur, A. Peres, THALES, Y. Semet, THALES, C. Doerr, Sorbonne University, B. Doerr, CNRS
DSP.P2: Contribution of Multipath Direction of Arrival Information to the Reduction of Localization Ambiguities in Around-the-Corner Radar
Ba Huy Pham, ONERA/SONDRA, J. Bosse, ONERA, O. Rabaste, ONERA, I. Hinostroza, SONDRA, T. Chonavel, IMT Atlantique
RS.P1: Ka-band radar development and experiment results at NTU
Weixian Liu, NTU, H. C. Feng, NTU, W.S. Lim, NTU, A. Chandran, NTU, Y. L. Lu, NTU, E. Charles, NTU
RS.P2: Simple and Fast Visualization Solution of the RF Electromagnetic Fields
Daniel Prost, ONERA, S. Gemble, ONERA
RS.P3: Urban Propagation Study for Improving Communications and Radar Systems From 250 MHz to 6 GHz
RS.P4: Nanosat Projects at ONERA
SP.P1: Large Dimensional Analysis of LS-SVM Transfer Learning - Application to PolSARClassification
Cyprien Doz, SONDRA, C. Ren, SONDRA, R. Couillet, Grenoble University, J.-P. Ovarlez, ONERA/SONDRA
SP.P2: A New Phase Linking Algorithm for Multi-temporal InSAR based on the Maximum Likelihood EstimatorPartially adaptive filtering using randomized projections
Phan Viet Hoa Vu, ONERA, F. Brigui, ONERA/SONDRA, A. Breloy, Nanterre University, Y. Yan, Savoie Mont-Blanc University G. Ginolhac, Savoie Mont-Blanc University
SP.P3: Adaptive Beamforming for Conformal Antenna Arrays using Software Defined Radio
Jiahao Wang, NUS, K. Mouthaan, NUS
SP.P4: Classification of GPR Signals Via Covariance Pooling on CNN Features Within a Riemannian Framework
Matthieu Gallet, Savoie Mont-Blanc University, A. Mian, Savoie Mont-Blanc University, G. Ginolhac, Savoie Mont-Blanc University, N. Stelzenmuller, Geolithe
SP.P5: Robust Structured Covariance Matrix Estimation for Source Localization
Bruno Mériaux, EPSI, C. Ren, SONDRA, A. Breloy, Paris Nanterre University, M. N. El Korso, Paris Nanterre University, P. Foster, Paris Nanterre University
SP.P6: Partially adaptive filtering using randomized projections