Program
The program for SITB in PDF format can be downloaded here.
Wednedsay, June 1st 2022
09:30 – 10 :00 Welcome and Registration
10:00 – 10:05 Opening
10:00 – 10:50 Invited talk : Communications design in 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks
Symeon Chatzinotas (University of Luxembourg)
Coffee break
11:10 – 12 :30 Session 1 : Communications
Probabilistic Constellation Shaping Algorithms: Performance vs. Complexity Trade-offs, Yunus C. Gültekin, Alex Alvarado (TU/e)
RF fingerprinting for wireless localization networks using Bayesian techniques, Amélia Struyf, Cédric Hannotier, François Quitin (ULB)
Linear Precoder Design in Massive MIMO under Realistic Power Amplifier Consumption Constraint, Emanuele Peschiera, François Rottenberg (KUL)
Observability analysis of Direction-of-Arrival estimation using dual-antenna receivers, Youssef Agram, Jianqiao Cheng, François Quitin (ULB)
12:30 – 14 :00 Lunch and Poster session P1
14:30 – 15 :30 Session 2 : Biomedical
Joint Estimation of Parameters in a Cardiac Tissue Model Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Miao Sun, Natasja M.S. de Groot, Richard C. Hendriks (TUD)
Unsupervised neural decoding of auditory attention using a Binary Quadratic Program, Nicolas Heintz, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand (KUL)
Unraveling Finger Veins: An Improvement to Unsupervised Finger Vein Recognition with a Convolutional Autoencoder, Tugce Arican, Raymond Veldhuis, Luuk Spreeuwers (UTwente)
Coffee break
15 :45 Departure to Museum (Social event)
19:00 WIC General Assembly (Citizen Kane Restaurant)
Thursday, June 2nd 2022
09:30 – 10 :30 Invited talk: Radio Localization and Sensing in 5G and Beyond
Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology)
Break
10:50 – 12:30 Session 3 : Signal Processing
Embedded AI Enabled Air-Writing for a Post-COVID World, Koen Goedemondt, Jie Yang, Qing Wang (TUD)
Tensor-based Hemodynamic Response Estimation in Functional Ultrasound Data, Sofia-Eirini Kotti, Borbála Hunyadi (TUD)
Relative Kinematics Estimation Using Accelerometer Measurements, Anurodh Mishra, Raj Thilak Rajan (TUD)
On the Integration of Acoustics and LiDAR: a Multi-Modal Approach to Acoustic Reflector Estimation, Ellen Riemens, Pablo Martínez-Nuevo, Jorge Martinez, Martin Møller, Richard C. Hendriks (TUD)
Extreme Precipitation Nowcasting using Deep Generative Models, Haoran Bi, Maksym Kyryliuk, Zhiyi Wang, Cristian Meo, Yanbo Wang, Ruben Imhoff, Remko Uijlenhoet and Justin Dauwels (TUD)
12:30 – 14:15 Lunch and Poster session P2
14:15 – 15:55 Session 4 : Cryptography / Radar
Characterisation and Cancellation of Interference with Multiple Phase-coded FMCW Dual-Function RADAR Communication Systems, François De Saint Moulin, Claude Oestges, Luc Vandendorpe (UCL)
Approximate quantum encryption with faster key expansion, Mehmet Hüseyin Temel and Boris Škorić (TU/e)
Multi-Objective Game Theory for Multi-User OFDM Integrated Radar Waveform Design, Guillaume Thiran, Ivan Stupia, Luc Vandendorpe (UCL)
Single-Pulse Estimation of Target Velocity on Planar Arrays, Costas A. Kokke, Mario Coutiño, Richard Heusdens, Geert Leus, Laura Anitori (TUD)
Unconditional tamper evidence from short keys, Bart van der Vecht, Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Boris Škorić (TU/e)
16:45 Awards and drinks
List of posters for Poster session P1
Biometric testing: aligning standards and practice, Florens de Wit, Chris Zeinstra, Luuk Spreeuwers (UTwente)
A Diffraction Aware Alternative to Image Method in Ray Tracing, Jérome Eertmans, Claude Oestges, Laurent Jacques (UCL)
Estimation of Atrial Fibre Direction Based on Activation Maps, Johannes W. de Vries, Richard C. Hendriks and Miao Sun (TUD)
Finite Impulse Response Filters for Simplicial Complexes, Maosheng Yang, Elvin Isufi, Michael T. Schaub, Geert Leus (TUD)
Wi-Fi-based passive radars for crowd monitoring, Martin Willame, Jérôme Louveaux, François Horlin (UCL)
Hardware-Friendly Iterative Projection Aggregation Decoder for Reed-Muller Codes, Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari and Kees Goossens and Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming (TU/e)
Strategies for Increasing Longevity of IoT Devices, Jona Cappelle , Jarne Van Mulders , Sarah Goossens , Guus Leenders, Liesbet Van der Perre (KUL)
Distributed Gaussian Process for Multi-agent Systems, Peiyuan Zhai, Raj Thilak Rajan (TUD)
Exploring the GANformer for Face Generation: Investigating the segmentation and smile augmentation potential, Romano Ferla, Chris Zeinstra, Luuk Spreeuwers (UTwente)
Grant-Free Random Access in Massive MIMO for Static Low-Power IoT Nodes, Gilles Callebaut, Liesbet Van der Perre, François Rottenberg (KUL)
Epileptic Seizure Detection using a Tensor-Network Kalman Filter for LS-SVMs, Seline de Rooij, Borbála Hunyadi (TUD)
Cross-Modal Deep Learning for CSI-based Activity Recognition, Shervin Mehryar (TUD)
Adaptive Map Matching Based on Dynamic Word Embeddings for Indoor Positioning, Xinyue Lan, Lijia Zhang, Zhuoling Xiao, Bo Yan (UESTChina)
Dynamic Bi-Colored Graph Partitioning, Yanbin He, Mario Coutino, Elvin Isufi, Geert Leus (TUD)
Object Detection and Person Tracking in CathLab with Automatically Calibrated Cameras, Yingfeng Jiang, Renjie Dai, Jinchen Zeng, Rick Butler, Teddy Vijfvinkel, Yanbo Wang, John van den Dobbelsteen, Maarten van der Elst, Justin Dauwels (TUD)
Reliability of wireless intra-aircraft networks: A comparative analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 protocols, Berna Eraslan, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Georgios Exarchakos, Ignas Niemegeers (TU/e)
Relative Affine Localization for Robust Distributed Formation Control, Zhonggang Li, Raj Thilak Rajan (TUD)
Tracking Rental Bikes in Smart Cities: a Multi-RAT Approach, Guus Leenders , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre , Lieven De Strycker (KUL)
List of posters for Poster session P2
Analyzing the Leakage Resistance of the NIST’s Lightweight Crypto Standardization Process Finalists, Corentin Verhamme, Gaëtan Cassiers, François-Xavier Standaert (UCL)
Adaptation of Simultaneous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing, Adelin Roty, Jean-François Determe (ULB)
Learning Time-Varying Graphs from Online Data, Alberto Natali, Elvin Isufi, Mario Coutino, Geert Leus (TUD)
Adaptive Optimizer Design for Constrained Variational Inference, Alp Sarı, Semih Akbayrak, Ismail Senöz, Bert de Vries (TU/e)
Collusion-resistant fingerprinting of parallel content channels, Basheer Joudeh, Boris Škorić (TU/e)
Sensor-to-cell height estimation for conductivity estimation in cardiac cells, Cees H. Kos, Miao Sun, Richard C. Hendriks (TUD)
A Distributed Adaptive Signal Fusion Framework for Spatial Filtering within a Wireless Sensor Network, Cem Ates Musluoglu, Charles Hovine, Alexander Bertrand (KUL)
Compressed Sensing in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks, Chesney Buyle, Bert Cox, Tuur Baele, Laura Monteyne, Lieven De Strycker (KUL)
Convergence of Stochastic PDMM, Sebastian Jordan, Richard Heusdens (TUD)
Spatial Diversity Effects for Multi-node Ultrasonic Indoor Positioning, Daan Delabie, Liesbet Van der Perre, Lieven De Strycker (KUL)
Aircraft Trajectory Prediction using ADS-B Data, Xuzhou Yang, Junzi Sun, Raj Thilak Rajan (TUD)
Temporal synchronization of radar and lidar streams, David Aledo, Tanmay Manjunath, Raj Thilak Rajan, Darek Maksimiuk, Rene van Leuken (TUD)
Distributed Detect-and-Avoid with Non-Stationary Obstacles, Ellen Riemens, Raj Thilak Rajan (TUD)
Image Search Engine by Deep Neural Networks, Yuanyuan Yao1, Qi Zhang1, Yanan Hu1, Cristian Meo, Yanbo Wang, Andrea Nanetti, Justin Dauwels (TUD)
Dramco Uno: A Low-Entry IoT Learning Platform for STE(A)M-Oriented Education, Guus Leenders , Geoffrey Ottoy , Gilles Callebaut (KUL)
Surface Electrocardiogram Reconstruction Using Intra-operative Electrograms, Hanie Moghaddasi, Borbála Hunyadi, Alle-Jan van der Veen, Natasja M.S. de Groot, Richard C. Hendriks (TUD)
Feasibility of CSMA/NDA protocol for wireless systems using On-Off Keying, Mehmet Fatih AYTEN, François Quitin (VUB)
Node Attachment and Filtering on Expanding Graphs, Bishwadeep Das, Elvin Isufi (TUD)
Invited keynote speakers
Symeon Chatzinotas (MEng, MSc, PhD, SMIEEE) is currently Full Professor / Chief Scientist I and Head of the research group SIGCOM in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. In the past, he has lectured as Visiting Professor at the University of Parma, Italy and contributed in numerous R&D projects for the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos,” the Institute of Telematics and Informatics, Center of Research and Technology Hellas and Mobile Communications Research Group, Center of Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey. He has received the M.Eng. in Telecommunications from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from University of Surrey, UK in 2003, 2006 and 2009 respectively. He has authored more than 450 technical papers in refereed international journals, conferences and scientific books and has received numerous awards. He is currently in the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology and the International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking.
Communications design in 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks (June 1st)
Non-Terrestrial networks have been building up momentum in the scientific community, driven by the unprecedented private investment in New Space. However, there are many misconceptions as researchers pursue the application of terrestrial communication principles to the complex world of space systems. This talk will separate myths from realities regarding NTN communications and will present latest research advances and important open research challenges.
Henk Wymeersch is a Professor in Communication Systems with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven). Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a Postdoctoral Associate during 2006-2009 with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied Sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He has served as Associate Editor for several IEEE journals and also as General Chair of the 2015 International Conference on Localization and GNSS. Awards include an ERC Starting Grant and a Chalmers supervision award. He currently leads the CROSSNET team at Chalmers.
Radio Localization and Sensing in 5G and Beyond (June 2nd)
Increases in carrier frequencies and bandwidths, driven by high-rate communication applications have led to vastly improved capabilities for user positioning. With research underway towards 6G, opportunities for integrating positioning and sensing into the communication system have become even more apparent. The aim of this talk is to provide an overview of this evolution, focusing on 5G and 6G. The talk will comprise 3 main parts: first, the foundations of radio-based positioning are introduced. Second, we go deeper into 5G positioning, covering both the standard approaches, as well as more forward-looking potential modifications. In the last part, we consider 6G from the perspective of positioning and sensing, highlighting some of the novel enablers, methods, potentials, but also the corresponding challenges.