DARPA/ITO

Collaborative Signal Processing
Workshop

January 14-16, 2001
Xerox PARC
Palo Alto, CA

Introduction           Agenda        Participants Registered

Agenda
Sunday, January 14, 2001
06:00pm-09:00pm Reception at hotel. Hors d'oeurves will be served.
Monday, January 15, 2001
08:15-08:45 BREAKFAST
08:45-09:00 OPENING: Welcome, Expectations,
Feng Zhao, Xerox PARC and Sri Kumar, DARPA/ITO
09:00-09:15 Introduction to Collaborative Signal Processing
Feng Zhao, Xerox PARC
09:15-10:10 SESSION 1: Power-aware signal processing/radio
(15min) Srivastava, UCLA, Power considerations for distributed sensor nets
(15min) Prasanna, USC, Energy efficient adaptive beamforming on sensor networks
(25min) Discussion
10:10-11:10 SESSION 2: Space-time algorithms/array signal processing
(15min) Kyriakakis, USC, Array audio signal processing and virtual microphones
(15min) Yao, UCLA, Blind beamforming using randomly distributed sensors
(30min) Discussion
11:10-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:30 SESSION 3: Distributed signal processing
(20min) Papadopoulos, U Maryland, Resource-efficient encoding communication and fusion in wireless networks of sensors and actuators
(10min) Ramchandran, Berkeley, Distributed compression for sensor nets
(30min) Discussion
12:30-01:30 LUNCH
01:30-02:30 SESSION 4: Sensor fusion and collaborative tracking
(15min) Fisher, MIT, Information theoretic sensor fusion with application to automatic target recognition
(15min) Guibas, Xerox PARC/Stanford, From tracking pixels to tracking predicates
(15min) Sussman, MIT, Biologically-inspired organization for robust distributed systems
(15min) Discussion
02:30-02:50 BREAK
02:50-03:50 SESSION 5: Collaborative tracking and benchmarks
(15min) Herrick, Alphatech, Toward the goal of continuous track and identity
(20min) Reich, Xerox PARC, Benchmarks for tracking algorithms in distributed sensor nets
(25min) Discussion
03:50-04:50 PANEL:
Panelists: Blatt, Friedland, Haussecker, Papadopoulos, Pottie, Sayeed, Theriault 

Position statement: 5 minutes each, focusing on one of the following questions: 

1. (Theriault, Friedland, Sayeed) What can we sense using networks of distributed sensors (e.g. is CPA all we need to transmit)? What properties of targets should we sense? 

2. (Blatt, Haussecker) What is optimal placement/density of sensors for a given tracking or classification problem? What are the advantages/disadvantages of using simple, densely populated nodes versus powerful, sparsely deployed nodes? 

3. (Pottie, Papadopoulos) What are the tradeoff curves for power, communication bandwidth, and delay? How can a network of sensors adaptively allocate resources?

04:50-05:00 Summary, Action Items
05:00-05:45 Xerox PARC Collaborative Sensing Lab Tour
05:45 Depart/self-organizing dinner groups
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
08:30-09:00 BREAKFAST
09:00-09:30 Introductions and Tracker Scenarios
09:30-10:30 Two breakout sessions:
Tracker Design/Scenarios
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:15 Reporting back: tracker design
11:15-11:45 SensIT demo context and brainstorming
11:45-01:30 WORKING LUNCH:
Two breakout groups - demo detail discussions (Notes from Session B)
01:30-02:00 Reporting back: demo discussions
02:00 Depart
                     Notes taken by Arch Owen/BBN