Awards

Moeness Amin from Villanova University receives one of the IEEE’s most prestigious honors: “For contributions to radar signal processing across a wide range of applications including through-the-wall imaging and health monitoring”, Dr. Amin is awarded the 2022 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications. Dr. Amin is a long-term collaborator of the Signal Processing Group at TU Darmstadt.

Christian Schroth, since April 2020 Research Associate with the Signal Processing Group, wins the Ernst-Blickle-Studienpreis 2020 for his Master’s Thesis on Robust Bayesian Cluster Analysis, which was supervised by Michael Muma. In his work, he dealt with robust cluster analysis and developed highly innovative algorithms of statistical learning to identify clusters within a given data set. To this end, the data are modelled as multivariate random variables, which form point clouds in a vector space, the so-called feature space. Those point clouds are to be explained by a suitable underlying statistical model. Both, the number of clusters, as well as the cluster memberships of the individual data points are unknown. A variety of established approaches to this problem exist, but they often lose their statistical guarantees or break down entirely in the presence of outliers or non-symmetrical spread around the cluster centers.

At the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, held virtually, originally supposed to take place in Florence, Italy, Afief Dias Pambudi won the 3MT Competition by presenting his PhD topic “Robust Landmine Detection Using Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR)".

At the 2020 IEEE RadarConference, Aylin Tastan and Afief D. Pambudi both successfully participated in the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference Student Contest. Aylin Tastan’s work on robust clustering for human gait signatures was awarded the Best Student Paper Award, whereas the runner-up by Afief D. Pambudi focused on robust landmine detection.

At the 2020 IEEE RadarConference, Aylin Tastan and Afief D. Pambudi both successfully participated in the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference Student Contest. Aylin Tastan’s work on robust clustering for human gait signatures was awarded the Best Student Paper Award, whereas the runner-up by Afief D. Pambudi focused on robust landmine detection.

At this year's European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) in A Coruña, Spain, Ann-Kathrin Seifert won the Three Minute Thesis Contest by presenting her PhD topic “Signal Processing for Radar-based Medical Gait Analysis”.

Paper was judged to be the best paper in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems in 2014

The paper by Michael Leigsnering, Fauzia Ahmad, Moeness Amin, and Abdelhak Zoubir entitled “Multipath Exploitation in Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging Using Sparse Reconstruction” appeared in the April 2014 Issue of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.

at the IEEE Radar Conference in Boston

Student who wrote her bachelor thesis with the signal processing group receives award for outstanding bachelor degree

The Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award is one of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Awards and honors contributions to the Signal Processing Society, where judging is based on dedication and effort to the Society.