Tammy L. Blair Best Student Paper Award

2019

Winner

Combining Deep Learning and Model-Based Methods for Robust Real-Time Semantic Landmark Detection
Benjamin Naujoks, Patrick Burger and Hans-Joachim Wuensche

1st Runner Up

Estimation of Target Detectability for Maritime Target Tracking in the PDA Framework
Erik F Wilthil, Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Peter Willett and Edmund Brekke

2nd Runner Up

Unsupervised Fact-finding with Multi-modal Data in Social Sensing 
Huajie Shao, Shuochao Yao, Yiran Zhao, Lu Su, Zhibo Wang, Dongxin Liu, Shengzhong Li, Lance Kaplan and Tarek Abdelzaher

2018

Winner

Remote State Estimation with Data-driven Communication and Guaranteed Stability
Xiaolei Bian, X. Rong Li and Vesselin P. Jilkov

1st Runner Up

Information Decorrelation for an Interacting Multiple Model Filter
Duygu Acar and Umut Orguner

2nd Runner Up

Multi-sensor Multi-object Tracking with Different Fields-of-view Using the LMB Filter 
Suqi Li, Giorgio Battistelli, Luigi Chisci, Wei Yi, Bailu Wang and Lingjiang Kong

2017

Winner

Dual-Satellite Source Geolocation with Time and Frequency Offsets and Satellite Location Errors​
Chao Liu,1 Le Yang,1,2 Lyudmila Mihaylova1
1 University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; 2 Jiangnan University, People’s Republic of China

1st Runner Up

Student-t Process Quadratures for Filtering of Non-Linear Systems with Heavy-Tailed Noise
Jakub Prüher,1 Filip Tronarp,2 Toni Karvonen,2 Simo Särkkä,2 Ondřej Straka1
1 University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic; 2 Aalto University, Finland

2nd Runner Up

Gradient-Based Recursive Maximum Likelihood Identification of Jump Markov Non-Linear Systems
Andre R. Braga,1 Carsten Fritsche,2 Fredrik Gustafsson,2 Marcelo G. S. Bruno3
1 Federal University of Ceara, Brazil; 2 Linköping University, Sweden; 3 Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil

2016

Winner

Approaches for Solving m-Best 3-Dimensional Dynamic Scheduling Problems for Large m
Lingyi Zhang,1 David Sidoti,1 Krishna R. Pattipati,1 David Castañón2
1University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA; 2 Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

1st Runner Up

Sigma-Point Filtering for Nonlinear Systems with Non-Additive Heavy-Tailed Noise
Filip Tronarp, Roland Hostettler, Simo Särkkä
Aalto University, Finland

2nd Runner Up

Gyro-Aided Visual Tracking Using Iterative Earth Mover’s Distance
Gang Yao, Mike Williams, Ashwin Dani
University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

2015

Winner

Improvements in the Implementation of Log-Homotopy Based Particle Flow Filters

Muhammad Altamash Khan, Martin Ulmke

1st Runner Up

Secure and Resilient Distributed Machine Learning Under Adversarial Environments

Rui Zhang, Quanyan Zhu

2nd Runner Up

Crowdsourcing with Multi-Dimensional Trust

Xiangyang Liu, He He, John S. Baras

2014

Winner

Multi-Object Tracking Using Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Random Finite Sets

Stephan Reuter, Ba-Tuong Vo, Ba-Ngu Vo and Klaus Dietmayer

1^st Runner Up

A New Probability Distribution for Simultaneous Representation of Uncertain Position and Orientation

Gilitschenski, Gerhard Kurz, Uwe Hanebeck and Simon J. Julier

2^nd Runner Up

Sensor Control for Multi-Object Tracking Using Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter

Amirali Khodadadian Gostar, Reza Hoseinnezhad and Alireza Bab-Hadiashar Sensor Control for Multi-Object Tracking Using Labeled

2013

Winner

Distributed Emitter Tracking using Random Exchange Diffusion Particle Filters

Stiven Dias, Marcelo Bruno

1^st Runner Up

Recursive Estimation of Orientation Based on the Bingham Distribution 

Gerhard Kurz, Igor Gilitschenski, Simon Julier and Uwe D. Hanebeck

2^nd Runner Up

High Level Information Fusion Through a Fuzzy Extension to Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Keyvan Golestan, Fakhri Karray, and Mohamed S. Kame