14-16 Jun 2022 AVIGNON (France)

DETAILED PROGRAM

5th SONDRA WORKSHOP
Programme

 

Talk Session Index 

 

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  

Aaron THEAN, NUS, SHINE 

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 

 

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WEDNESDAY, 15 June, 8:00 - 10:00 – QUANTUM TECH  

Chaiman: Fabrice BOUST – Mihai DATCU 

QT.1: Introduction to Quantum 08:00-08:20 

Fabrice Boust,ONERA 

QT.2: Quantum technologies at ONERA for AeroSpace and Defense applications 08:20-08:40 

Sylvain Schwartz, ONERA 

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 Observation09:20-09h40 

Mihai Datcu, DLR 

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 

Mihai Datcu, DLR 

AI.2: Unsupervised Deep Learning Parameter Estimation for High Fidelity Synthetic Aperture Radar Super Resolution – 10:35-10:55 

Matthew Tay, DSO 

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 – 13h50-14h1 

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 

Hongbo Sun, A*Star 

RS.4: Approximate Methods to Reduce Computational Resources for On-Board Image Formation– 14:50-15:10 

Chun Jian Ho, DSO 

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 BRELOYWeixian 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 

Wen-Hao John Lee, DSO 

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 

Ping-Yi Gabriel Ng, DSO 

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 

 

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THURSDAY, 16 June, 08:00 - 10:00 – ANTENNA & PROPAGATION 

Chaiman: Koen MOUTHAAN – Mohammed SERHIR 

A.1: Antenna works at ONERA – 08:00-08:20 

André Barka, ONERA 

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 

Tse Tong Chia, TL-NUS 

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 

Gohar Dashyan, PRELIGENS 

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 

Olivier Besson, ISAE 

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 

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Poster Session Index 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

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 

 

RADAR IMAGING 

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 

M.C. Gokul, NUS 

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  

Ricardo Dal Molin, DLR 

 

 

RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING 

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 

 

 

RADAR SYSTEM 

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  

Jonathan Israel, ONERA 

RS.P4: Nanosat Projects at ONERA 

Yoann Paichard, ONERA 

 

SIGNAL PROCESSING 

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  

Olivier Besson, ISAE 

 

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