1. Look inside for the
complete speaker roster!
November 16 – 18, 2009 • Washington, D.C. Metro Area
MULTI-SENSOR AND
INTELLIGENCE FUSION
• William R. Smith, SES, Deputy
Program Executive Officer, PEO
Soldier
• Col Phillip Chudoba, USMC, PM
Intelligence Systems, Marine Corps
Systems Command
• Dr. Amy Vanderbilt, Program
Manager, Information Processing
Techniques Office, DARPA
• CAPT David R. Luber, USN, Deputy
Program Manager for ISR,
Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare &
Combating Terrorism, S&T
Directorate, ONR
• Darlene Minick, Director of Imagery
Intelligence, National Reconnaissance
Office
• Dr. David Boyd, Division Director,
Command, Control & Interoperability
S&T Directorate, DHS
All new speakers for
2009 include:
• Performance metrics for digital
imaging sensors, EO fused systems,
target recognition, and scene and
situation characterization
• Multi-sensor integration to enable
persistent ISR: New architectures for
tactical persistent surveillance from
sensor to knowledge dissemination,
including Green Devil and MICSR-E
• Quantification of algorithm
performance based on the desired
visual information transfer sought
through fusion
Media Partners:
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these crucial issues:
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presents the 8th Annual
training conference
New for 2009! Tactical persistent surveillance
from sensor to knowledge dissemination.

2. Who You Will Meet:
At IDGA’s 8th Annual Image Fusion
Summit, you will have the unique
opportunity to interact and network
with representatives from the relevant
military, government, academic, and
service providers with the following
responsibilities and job functions:
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Program Manager
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S&T Director
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Fusion Technologist
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Test & Evaluation Director
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Imagery Specialist
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Electro-Optical Device R&D
Director
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IR & I2 Technologist
Here’s what past
attendees have said
about IDGA’s Image
Fusion Summits:
“To the point, informative,
and challenging to
industry”
- Technical Writer, US Army
Special Operations
“Well presented and full
of information, easily
related to real world
applications”
- Engineer, Hoffman
Engineering
“Extremely interesting, lots
of great information on
current developments”
- Project Manager, Department
of National Defence
“Thought provoking”
- Engineer, Raytheon
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Dear Colleague,
As we enter into the 8th year of continuous operations in OIF/OEF, the need for our militaryto exploit all possible technological advancements rapidly and effectively at home andabroad remains at the forefront. Asymmetric warfare requires that our warfighters can havereal time situational awareness of the “battlefield.” Evolving image fusion systems enablemajor advances in ISR. While the field of multi-sensor fusion has made many advances inrecent years, there remain many challenges for the immediate future.
IDGA’s Image Fusion Summit will examine next generation technologies, systems, andplatforms in a forum that brings together both solution providers and end-users.
By participating in this summit, you will have the unique opportunity to interact with amultitude of senior level professionals to discuss, brainstorm, and network in order to definemethodologies and initiatives, while forging potential solutions and futurepartnerships. The end goal is to advance possible solutions that enable our warfighters tohave advanced situational awareness in the most efficient manner.
IDGA’s 8th Annual Image Fusion Summit is your best opportunity of the year to:•
Hear about new architectures for tactical persistent surveillance from sensor to knowledgedissemination
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Learn about the current needs and challenges of our warfighters from PEO Soldier•
Understand concepts, current techniques, algorithms, and performance metrics forcharacterizing objects in imagery
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Discuss applications of multi-variate visualization techniques to multi-spectral imagery
Don’t delay! Take the time now to block off November 16 – 18, 2009 in your calendar, andreserve your place among your peers and key leaders! Register today by logging on towww.imagefusionsummit.com or calling 1-800-882-8684.
I look forward to seeing you in November!
Very Respectfully,
Monica Mckenzie
Program Director, IDGA
Monica.mckenzie@idga.org
PS: Don’t miss the Master
Class on Image Fusion.
See pg. 3 for details!
About IDGA
The Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA) is a non-partisan information based
organization dedicated to the promotion of innovative ideas in public service and defense. We bring
together speaker panels comprised of military and government professionals while attracting delegates with decision-
making power from military, government and defense industries. For more information, please visit us at www.idga.org.
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Download Center featuring speaker presentations
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Sponsors and Exhibitors

3. Image Fusion Master Class
Monday, November 16, 2009
Scene Understanding and Situation Awareness
This Master Class is designed to explore the latest advancement made towards performance metrics and algorithms for image/ multi-sensor fusion. You
will also have the chance to explore how rapid changes in non-traditional warfare have changed the focus of fusion systems to try to assess the human
landscape as well as the physical landscape. Ascertain how providing inputs augment traditional sensor systems
8:15 am – 10:15 am
This Master Class is designed to help participants understand the latest
developments in automated and semi-automated methods for Scene
Understanding and Situation Awareness for military, intelligence, and civil
applications. The intended audience includes users that are tasked with
developing, using or evaluating techniques and systems for scene and
situation understanding and for detecting, assessing, tracking, and
prosecuting threat activity. This is also for military or industry
representatives involved in policy-making who have a need to learn the
basic concepts, issues, and realistic capabilities of tools and methods for
image analysis, situation and threat assessment.
What will be covered :
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Template- and model-based target recognition concepts and techniques
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Methods for adaptive evidence accrual, context display, and exploration
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Algorithms for scene/situation hypothesis generation/evaluation/selection
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Performance metrics for target recognition, scene and situation
characterization
How you will benefit:
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Gain an understanding of concepts, current techniques, algorithms, and
performance metrics
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Learn the application of performance metrics for characterizing objects’
imagery by combining object literal and induced features together with
contextual information, both within the image and in collateral
information (to include other sensed or descriptive data)
Session leader: Dr. Alan Steinberg, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Automated methods for Scene Understanding/Situation Awareness
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Registration and Coffee7:30 am – 8:15 am
Lunch12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
In-Depth Objective Evaluation of Image Fusion
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Image fusion has already gained acceptance as a useful tool in night and
improved vision applications where multiple sensors are available with a
wealth of different algorithms proposed for the task. But how can we
really know which algorithms to choose for each application and what to
expect from them when they encounter real data. This workshop will
focus on in-depth fusion evaluation that would allow us to make
informed decisions based on objective qualification as well as
quantification of algorithm performance based on the desired visual
information transfer sought through fusion.
What will be covered:
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Theory of visual information transfer during the image fusion process
and its breakdown into tractable categories.
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Measures of various information transfer processes taking place during
fusion in order to qualify its performance
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Creation of customized metrics to evaluate specifically desired outcome
of image fusion
How you will benefit:
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Gain an understanding of the underlying information transfer processes
taking place during image fusion
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Understand how more informed qualifications of fusion performance can
be achieved
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Learn how to construct objective metrics for specific image fusion goals
Session leader: Dr. Vladmir Petrovic, Research Associate, Imaging
Science, University of Manchester (UK)
Understanding underlying information transfer processes during image fusion
Improving Established Image Fusion Algorithms: Image Fusion System-on-a-Chip
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
In 1991 the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience at
UC Berkeley took on the challenge to implement notions of biological
image processing in silicon devices. Those studies, published in a variety of
engineering journals, outlined a number of conceptual advances. Reading
through the published work, it became clear that it could be translated
and implemented into highly efficient algorithms that could lead to
reduced size, weight, and power consumption in silicon-based devices.
This work, originally supported by grants from the Office of Naval
Research, has evolved over the last decade, becoming ever more efficient.
Initially implemented in VME boards, the technology has been reduced in
size, weight, and power consumption to our current system that can
operate on two 1280 x 1024 video streams at 60 fps, consuming less
than 0.5W. We currently supply fusion technology to many of the leading
night vision corporations. The next step will be the implementation of this
technology, integrated along with the back ends of two cameras and a display
driver in a single ASIC......truly an image fusion system-on-a-chip.
What will be covered:
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Hear about how algorithms can lead to reduced size, weight, and power
consumption in silicon-based devices
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Implementation integrated along with the back ends of two cameras and a
display driver in a single ASIC......truly an image fusion system-on-a-chip
How you will benefit:
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Learn about an image fusion system-on-a-chip
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Gain an understanding of best practices towards applying algorithms for
efficient outcomes
Session Leader: Dr. Frank Warblin, University of California, Berkley
*see website for update on session topic
Image fusion system-on-a-chip
Human-Centered Multi-INT Fusion
3:45 pm – 5:45 pm
The traditional role of data fusion has involved the use of physical sensors
to observe physical targets, in effect trying to characterize the physical
landscape for situational awareness. In this workshop we will explore how
rapid changes in non-traditional warfare have changed the focus of fusion
systems to try to assess the human landscape as well as the physical
landscape.
What will be covered?
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Humans acting as new sources of information
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Human analysts supporting the analysis process (advanced visualization
and sonification interfaces)
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Humans acting as an ad hoc community of analysts (“crowd-sourcing” of
the analysis process)
How you will benefit?
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Understand the dynamics of ad hoc community of observers
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Ascertain how providing inputs augment traditional sensor systems
Session Leader: Dr. David Hall, Professor, The Center for Network-Centric
Cognition and Information Fusion, Pennsylvania State University
Augmenting traditional sensor systems
IMAGEFUSIONMASTERCLASS

4. Tuesday, November 17, 2009
MAIN SUMMIT, DAY 1
7:15 Registration and Coffee
8:15 Chairperson’s Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:30 PEO Solider Perspective
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Designing, developing, procuring, fielding, and sustaining virtually
everything the Soldier wears or carries
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Operating to increase combat effectiveness, to save lives, and to improve
quality of life
William R. Smith, SES, Deputy Program Executive Officer, PEO
Soldier
9:10 Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Enterprise (MCISR-E)
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Conceptual overview
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Multi-sensor integration to enable Persistent ISR
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Future intelligence capability roadmap
Colonel Phillip C. Chudoba, USMC, Program Manager, Intelligence
Systems, Marine Corps Systems Command
9:50 Networking Break
10:35 Urban Leader Tactical Response, Awareness & Visualization (ULTRA-
Vis)
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Techniques to create/disseminate/display geo-registered icons and
actionable combat information for Fire Team Leaders/Dismount
Warfighters in real time over an existing soldier radio network
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Integration with a low-profile, see-through display to prototype and
demonstrate multi-modal icon-based command and control in a non-
line-of-sight, urban environment
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt, Program Manager, IPTO, DARPA
11:15 How Imagery Products Affects Ground Soldier Systems
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Current usage challenges
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Lesson learned
Master Sergeant (p) Marcus Griffith, USA, PM Ground Soldier
11:55 Lunch
1:00 A New Architecture for Tactical Persistent Surveillance: From Sensor
to Knowledge Dissemination
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Green Devil, an experiment conducted at Empire Challenge,
demonstrates the utility of image and image/SIGINT fusion to building
an actionable tactical picture
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Wide area surveillance sensors, high resolution airborne spot sensors,
tower based sensors, unattended ground sensors and RF
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Measurement of the ability of the PISR network to detect inserted
behaviors of interest
Captain David R. Luber, USN, Deputy Program Manager for ISR,
Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare & Combating Terrorism, S&T
Directorate, ONR
1:40 Fusion to Counter the Improvised Explosive Device: JIEDDO
Perspective
• Updates from the S&T department
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Applications on the battlefield
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Future challenges
Julia Erdley, Science and Technology Advisor, Joint IED Defeat
Organization
2:20 Networking Break
3:05 Ultra Vision – The View to the Future
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Image fusion today
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What Marines need to see
• "Vision" for the future
George Gibbs, Technologist, IWS Strategic Business Team, Marine
Corps Systems Command
3:45 Application of Multi-Variate Visualization Techniques to Multi-
spectral Imagery
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Summary of existing multi-variate display techniques
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Demonstration of their use on multi-spectral imagery
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Evaluating applicability and user needs for practical use of these
techniques
Mark Livingston, PhD, Research Scientist, Information Technology
Division, Naval Research Laboratory
4:25 End of Day One
7:30 Registration and Coffee
8:15 Opening Remarks
8:30 NRO Enterprise Integration: Imagery Intelligence Fusion
Efforts
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Strategic objectives for enhanced imagery intelligence sharing
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Technology upgrades and tools for NRO collaboration
Darlene Minick, Director of Imagery Intelligence, National
Reconnaissance Office
9:10 PEO Solider Equipment: Sensors and Lasers
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PM Soldier Sensors and Lasers’ development, production, and
fielding of advanced sensor and laser devices that provide
Soldiers with improved lethality, mobility, and survivability
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Updates on future challenges and needs
Lieutenant Colonel Jospeh A. Capobianco, USA, PM Sensors
& Lasers, PEO Solider
9:50 Networking Break
10:35 Update on Applications of Image/ Multi-Sensor Fusion Data
from the Office of Science and Technology Directorate, DHS
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Use of imagery data within the DHS
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Challenges faced when creating optimal situational awareness
Dr. David Boyd, Division Director, Command, Control, and
Interoperability, Department of Homeland Security
11:15 AquaQuIPS and Sea Mist Sensor and Imagery Data Fusion
Results from Trident Warrior 08 and 09
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Automated, real time sensor and image data fusion
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Tracking uncooperative and EMCON silent ("dark") surface ships
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Why the AquaQuIPS data fusion algorithm has been so successful
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Future objective: Automated Abnormal Behavior
Dr. James H. Wilson, United States Naval Academy Foundation,
MULTI-INT Sensor and Image Data Fusion Thesis Advisor
11:55 LUNCH
1:00 Low Light Level Limiting Resolution and MTF of Various
Digital Imaging, Image Intensified, and EO Fused Systems
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Performance metrics for digital imaging sensors and EO fused
systems
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Utility/validity of measuring spatial limiting resolution and MTF
of various electro-optical systems from high light to low light
conditions
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Detailed line shape analysis of spatial resolution profiles for low
light level images using manual and COTS machine vision based
processing algorithms
Dr. Joseph Estrera, Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer,
L-3 Electro-Optical Systems
1:40 Air Multispectral Imaging (AMI)
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All-source image fusion
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Component enablers and integration
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Application
Dr. Darrel G. Hopper, Principal Electronics Engineer, Air
Force Research Laboratory
2:20 Networking Break
2:50 Man-Portable Power Sources
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Challenges faced with creating power sources for our
warfighters
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Updates on current projects
Mike Brundage, Chief of Power Sources Branch, US Army,
CERDEC, Army Power Division
3:30 Tracking from Commercial Satellite Imagery: SPAWAR
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RAPIER program update
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MDA imagery applications
Heidi Buck, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Office, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
4:10 End of Main Summit
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Opening
Keynote
Theater
Update
Green
Devil
Morning
Keynote–NRO
DHS
Perspective
Afternoon
Keynote
PowerSources
fromCERDEC
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
MAIN SUMMIT, DAY 2