June 14-15, 2010 Dayton, Ohio
The OIS – Sensor Summit will be in Dayton, Ohio June 14-15, 2010.   On Monday, June 14th the Summit will be held at the Engineers Club of Dayton and will be a day of sensor talks. One session will highlight the work of Research Scholars hired as part of the Ohio Academic Research Cluster for Layer Sensing (OARCLS).
On Tuesday, June 15th the OIS-Sensor Summit will be a field day where current members of IDCAST and OARCLS will demonstrate their technology.  This event will be held at IDCAST and around Dayton’s Tech Town 2020 location.

Tentative Agenda

7:00 - 8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
Ohio Academic Research Cluster for Layer Sensing
8:15 - 8:30am Explanation of the Ohio Research Scholars Program and the Mission of OARCLS [Larrell Walters]
OARCLS Research Scholars Session I
8:30 - 9:00am Dr. John Volakis,  R. & L. Chope Chair Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Director of the ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University
“Antennas & RF Sensors: Changing the Way We Live” (From mobile communications to electronic textiles and RFIDs)
9:00 - 9:30am Dr. Mikhail Vorontsov, LADAR Endowed Chair, Professor, Electro-Optics, University of Dayton
“Intelligent Optics: How Atmospheric Turbulence Can Improve Optical System Performance”
9:30 - 10:00am Dr. Vijayan Asari, Ohio Research Scholars Chair in Wide Area Surveillance at the University of Dayton
“Wide Area Surveillance for Security Automation: Sensing, Processing and Decision Making in Real Time”
10:00 - 10:30am Break Sponsored by EMTEC Emtec
OARCLS Research Scholars Session II
10:30 - 11:00am Dr. Elliott Brown, Professor and Endowed Chair in Experimental Sensor Physics, Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Wright State University
THz Sensor Science and Technology
11:00 - 11:30am Dr. James Gord, Principal Research Chemist, Director, Combustion & Laser Diagnostics Research Complex, Air Force Research Laboratory Propulsion Directorate  
“Chemical Sensing with Terahertz Radiation and Ultrafast Lasers."
11:30am - 12:00pm Larrell Walters,  IDCAST Director
"IDCAST Update"
12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch Sponsored by RicardoRicardo
Concurrent Sessions
Session III CBRNE Sensors and Sensor Systems
1:30 - 2:00pm Dr. Gilbert Pacey, IDCAST CBRNE Coordinator and Professor of Chemistry and Biocehmistry, Miami University “Development of a CBRNE Roadmap” 
2:00 - 2:30pm Dr. Arunan Nadarajah, Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering, University of Toledo and Jay Johnson, YSI Incorporated  
"The Emerging Need for Portable Environmental Sensors"
2:30 - 3:00pm Dr. Karolyn Hansen, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Dayton
“Biological Sensing in Complex Environments: Towards Multimodal Sensing”
Session IV Algorithms
1:30 - 1:50pm Richard Cortland Tompkins, University of Dayton, ECE Department
"Multi-view Face Detection using Phase Congruency from Haar Features and Discrete Cosine"
1:50 - 2:10pm Richard Cortland Tompkins, University of Dayton, ECE Department
"Transform Domain Analysis for Accurate Iris Recognition"
2:10 - 2:30pm Jacob D. Foytik, University of Dayton, ECE Department
"Nonlinear Manifold with Tied Feature Models for Pose Invariant Face Recognition"
2:30 - 2:50pm Mennatoallah M. Youssef, University of Dayton, ECE Department
"Hull Convexity Defects Features for Human Activity RecSognition"
3:00 - 3:30pm Break Sponsored by Woolpert
Session V Human Signatures
3:30 - 4:00pm Jacob Foytik and Nilesh Powar, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Dayton
"Enhanced Landmark Localization using Gradient Features for Human Emotion Recognition"
4:00 - 4:30pm Scott Ackerson, Photon-X
"Kinesic Analyzer: Combining sensor technology with emotion detection methodology through a graphical interface."
4:30 - 5:00pm Nicole Arbuckle and Laurie Quill,  
"Sensing Human Performance Under Stress"
Session VI Emerging Technologies
3:30 - 4:00pm Keigo Hirakawa, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Dayton  
"Advanced Digital Camera Processing: Modern Architecture and Future Challenges"
4:00 - 4:30pm Eric Balster, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Dayton
"Wide Area Persistent Surveillance Processing Challenges"
4:30 - 5:00pm Lt. Col. Michael Stepaniak, Advanced Navigation Technology Center, AFIT
"Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Challenges for UAVs"
8:30 - 9:30am Keynote Speaker: Joe Sciabica, Director AFRL, "You don't have AT&T here; that's okay because in the US you don't have Telstra”
711 Monument Street
9:30am - 12:00pm Demonstrations
12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:00pm Poster Session
2:00 - 3:30pm Demonstrations
3:30 - 5:00pm THz and CBRNE Demonstrations
444 E. Second Street
4:30 - 6:30pm Grand Reopening Ceremony and Mixer
444 E. Second Street

Projected Groups Demonstrating Technology

Airborne Surveillance – PSS/UDRI (providing operating ground units)
UAV Surveillance and Possibilities – CESI
UAV Close in support – SpinTech Halo
Ground Based Surveillance Vision RL – PSS
No-Loss Wireless Communications – STAN Solutions
Ground Based Surveillance ResoLUT – STAN Solution
Autonomous Navigation and 3D modeling – i23D and UDRI
3D Facial Image Capture  - SSE and Photon-X
Reconfigurable Computing – UDRI/UD/SRC
Chem-Bio Sensing – NoBull Innovation
Terahertz
Portable Power – DC2Dayton