Publications -
Fusion and Inference in Surveillance Networks

  1. Refereed Contributions
    1. Articles in refereed publications

      Published:

      [J16] B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, “Analysis of error propagation in particle filters with approximation,” Annals of Applied Probability, accepted, Jan. 2, 2011 [ref: AAP760].

      [J15] B. Oreshkin, X. Liu and M.J. Coates, “Efficient delay-tolerant particle filtering,” IEEE Trans. Sig. Proc., vol. 59, no.7, pp. 3369-3381, July 2011.

      [J14] R. Tharmarasa, T. Kirubarajan, A. Sinha and T. Lang, "Decentralized Sensor Selection for Large-Scale Multisensor-Multitarget Tracking", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 1307-1324, April 2011.

      [J13] A.G. Dimakis, S. Kar, J.M.F. Moura, M. Rabbat, and A. Scaglione, "Gossip algorithms for distributed signal processing", Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 98, no. 11, pp. 1847-1864, November, 2010.

      [J12] D. Üstebay, B. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates, and M. Rabbat, “Greedy gossip with eavesdropping," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 3765-3776, July 2010.

      [J11] B. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates, and M. Rabbat, “Optimization and analysis of distributed averaging with short node memory,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 2850-2865, May 2010.

      [J10] M. Briers, S. Maskell and A. Doucet, “Smoothing Algorithms for State-space Models," Annals Institute Statistical Mathematics, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 61-89, Jan. 2010.

      [J9] A. Jasra and A. Doucet, “Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Diffusion Processes,” Proc. R. Soc. A, vol. 465, no. 2112, pp. 3709-3727, Dec. 2009.

      [J8] R. Martinez-Cantin, N. de Freitas, E. Brochu, J. Castellanos and A. Doucet, “A Bayesian exploration-exploitation approach for optimal online sensing and planning with a visually guided mobile robot,” Autonomous Robots, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 93-103, Aug. 2009.

      [J7] T.C. Aysal, B. Oreshkin, and M.J. Coates, "Accelerated Distributed Average Consensus Via Localized Node State Prediction", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1563-1576, April 2009.

      [J6] T.C. Aysal, M.J. Coates, and M.G. Rabbat, "Distributed Average Consensus with Dithered Quantization," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 4905-4918, Oct. 2008.

      [J5] A. Zia, T. Kirubarajan, J.P. Reilly, S. Shirani and K. Punithakumar, "An EM Algorithm for Nonlinear State Estimation with Model Uncertainties", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 921 - 936, March 2008.

      [J4] K. Punithakumar, A. Sinha and T. Kirubarajan, "A Multiple Model Probability Hypothesis Density Filter for Tracking Maneuvering Targets", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 87-98, January 2008.

      [J3] H. Chen, T. Kirubarajan and Y. Bar-Shalom, "Tracking of Spawning Targets with Multiple Finite Resolution Sensors", IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 2-14, January 2008.

      [J2] S.S. Singh, V.B. Tadic, and A. Doucet, "Policy gradient for semi-Markov processes with applications to call admission control", Europ. J. Operation Research, vol. 178, no. 3, pp. 808-818, 2007.

      [J1] A. Doucet, S.S. Singh, and N. Kantas, "Simulation-Based Optimal Sensor Scheduling with Application to Observer Trajectory Planning," Automatica, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 817-830, May 2007.

    2. Other refereed contributions

      Papers in refereed conference proceedings:

      [C51] B.K. Habtemariam, R. Tharmarasa and T. Kirubarajan, "Multiple Detection Probabilistic Data Association Filter for Multistatic Target Tracking", Proc. Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, USA, July 2011.

      [C50] A.A. Gorji, R. Tharmarasa and T. Kirubarajan, "Performance Measures for Multiple Target Tracking Problems", Proc. Conference on Information Fusion, Chicago, USA, July 2011.

      [C49] F. Thouin, S. Nannuru and M.J. Coates, “Multi-target tracking for measurement models with additive contributions,” in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Chicago, IL, July 2011.

      [C48] Y. Li, X. Chen, M.J. Coates and B. Yen, “Sequential Monte Carlo radio-frequency tomographic tracking”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc., Prague, May 2011.

      [C47] D. Üstebay, M.J. Coates, and M.G. Rabbat, “Distributed auxiliary particle filters using selective gossip”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Proc. (ICASSP), Prague, May 2011.

      [C46] X. Chen, A. Edelstein, Y. Li, M.J. Coates, A. Men, and M. Rabbat, “Sequential Monte Carlo for simultaneous passive device-free tracking and sensor localization using received signal strength measurements”, in Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. Inf. Proc Sensor Networks, Apr. 2011.

      [C45] L. Bazzani, N. de Freitas, H. Larochelle, V. Murino, and J.A. de Ting, “Learning attentional policies for tracking and recognition in video with deep networks,” Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML), 2011.

      [C44] M. Hoffman, E. Brochu, and N. de Freitas, “Portfolio Allocation for Bayesian Optimization,” Int. Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2011.

      [C43] F. Hamze, and N. de Freitas, “Intracluster Moves for Constrained Discrete-Space MCMC,” Int. Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2010.

      [C42] E. Brochu, T. Brochu, and N. de Freitas, “A Bayesian Interactive Optimization Approach to Procedural Animation Design,” ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, July 2010.

      [C41] S A Gadsden, S R Habibi, T Kirubarajan, “A novel interacting multiple model method for nonlinear target tracking”, in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010.

      [C40] X Liu, B.N. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates, “Efficient delay-tolerant particle filtering through selective processing of out-of-sequence measurements”, in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010.

      [C39] B. N. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, “Asynchronous distributed particle filter via decentralized evaluation of Gaussian products,” in Proc. ISIF Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010. Runner Up, Best Paper Award.

      [C38] K. Tsianos and M. Rabbat, “Fast decentralized averaging via multi-scale gossip,” in Proc. IEEE Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Santa Barbara, June, 2010. Received the Best Paper Award (Signal Processing and Information Theory Track).

      [C37] D. Üstebay, R. Castro, and M. Rabbat, "Selective gossip," in Proc. IEEE Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Aruba, December, 2009.

      [C36] M.G. Rabbat and M.J. Coates, “Fusion and Inference in Surveillance Networks,” in Proc. NATO Symposium on C3I for Crisis, Emergency and Consequence Management, Bucharest, Romania, May 2009.

      [C35] B. N. Oreshkin and M. J. Coates, “Particle filters with approximation steps,” in Proc. Int. Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, Dec. 2009.

      [C34] B. N. Oreshkin, M. J. Coates and M. G. Rabbat, “Optimization and Analysis of Distributed Averaging with Memory,” in Proc. Ann. Allerton Conf. Comm. Control Comp., Allerton, IL, Oct. 2009.

      [C33] D. Ustebay, B. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates and M.G. Rabbat, “Multi-hop Greedy Gossip with Eavesdropping,” in Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Fusion, Seattle, WA, USA, July 2009.

      [C32] M. A. Kanso and M.G. Rabbat, "Compressed RF Tomography for Wireless Sensor Networks: Centralized and Decentralized Approaches", in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2009.

      [C31] M. Hoffman, H. Kueck, A. Doucet and N. de Freitas, “New inference strategies for solving Markov decision processes using reversible jump MCMC,” Int. Conf. on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Montreal, Canada, June 2009.

      [C30] D. Ustebay, B. Oreshkin, M. Coates and, M.G. Rabbat, “The Speed of Greed: Characterizing Myopic Gossip through Network Voracity,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.

      [C29] M. Hoffman, N. de Freitas, A. Doucet and J. Peters, “An Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Continuous Markov Decision Processes with Arbitrary Rewards,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Florida USA, April 2009.

      [C28] M. A. Kanso and M.G. Rabbat, "Efficient Detection and Localization of Assets in Emergency Situations," in the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Medical Information & Communication Technology (ISMICT), Montreal, QC, Canada, Feb. 2009.

      [C27] K. Abou-Moustafa and F.P. Ferrie, "Fast and Regularized Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Metric for Query-based Learning," Proc. Int. Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 2008.

      [C26] K. Abou-Moustafa and F.P. Ferrie, "Fast and Regularized Local Metric for Query-based Operations," Proc. Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition , Tampa, FL, USA, Dec. 2008.

      [C25] K. Abou-Moustafa and F.P. Ferrie, "Local Metric Learning on Manifolds with Application to Query--based Operations," Proc. Int. Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition, Orlando, FL, USA, Dec. 2008.

      [C24] D. Ustebay, B.N. Oreshkin, M.J. Coates and M.G. Rabbat, "Rates of Convergence for Greedy Gossip with Eavesdropping," Proc. Allerton Conf., Allerton, IL, USA, Oct. 2008.

      [C23] D. Akselrod and T. Kirubarajan, "Modified Value Iteration Algorithm and Dynamic Element Matching based MDP for Distributed Data Fusion and Sensor Management", Proc. Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, July 2008.

      [C22] B.N. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, "Weak sense Lp error bounds for leader-node distributed particle filters," Proc. Int. Conf. Inf. Fusion, Cologne, Germany, July 2008, Runner Up, Best Student Paper Award.

      [C21] D. Danu, T. Lang, M. McDonald and T. Kirubarajan, "Multisensor Particle Filter Cloud Fusion for Multitarget Tracking", Proc. Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, July 2008.

      [C20] D. Ustebay, M.J. Coates and M.G. Rabbat, "Greedy Gossip with Eavesdropping," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Wireless Perv. Comp., Santorini, Greece, May 2008.

      [C19] J. Vogel and N. de Freitas, "Target-directed attention: sequential decision-making for gaze planning,", Proc. Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 2008.

      [C18] B. Oreshkin, T.C. Aysal and M.J. Coates, "Distributed average Consensus with Increased Convergence Rate," Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Mar. 2008.

      [C17] N. Nandakumaran, R. Tharmarasa, T. Lang and T. Kirubarajan, "Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density smoothing with multistatic sonar", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition XVII, Vol. 6968, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C16] D. Akselrod and T. Kirubarajan, "Collaborative distributed sensor management and information exchange flow control for multitarget tracking using Markov decision processes", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition XVII, Vol. 6968, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C15] K. Punithakumar, M. McDonald and T. Kirubarajan, "Spline filter for multidimensional nonlinear/nonGaussian Bayesian tracking", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C14] R. Tharmarasa, T. Lang and T. Kirubarajan, "Tracking with poorly localized sensors in multistatic sensor networks", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C13] R. Tharmarasa, T. Lang and T. Kirubarajan, "Joint path planning and sensor subset selection for multistatic sensor networks", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C12] D. Danu, T. Lang and T. Kirubarajan, "Track fusion with feedback for local trackers using MHT", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C11] T. Sathyan, M. McDonald and T. Kirubarajan, "Efficient data association for move stop move target tracking", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C10] M. Subramaniam, R. Tharmarasa, M. McDonald and T. Kirubarajan, "Passive tracking with sensors of opportunity using passive coherent location", Proc. SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, Vol. 6969, Orlando, FL, March 2008.

      [C9] E. Brochu, N. de Freitas and A. Ghosh, "Active Preference Learning with Discrete Choice Data," Proc. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 2007.

      [C8] M. Hoffman, A. Doucet, N. de Freitas and A. Jasra, "Bayesian policy learning with trans-dimensional MCMC," Proc. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 2007.

      [C7] M. Hoffman, A. Doucet and N. de Freitas, "A New Control Algorithm for Continuous Spaces with Gaussian-Mixture Reward Models," Proc. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Dec. 2007.

      [C6] K. Abou-Moustafa and F.P. Ferrie, "The Minimum Volume Ellipsoid Metric," Proc. 29th Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, Heidelberg, Germany, Sept. 2007.

      [C5] E. Brochu, A. Ghosh and N. de Freitas, "Preference Galleries for Material Design," sketch in Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA, USA, Aug. 2007. (Winner of the SRC competition).

      [C4] T.C. Aysal, M.J. Coates and M.G. Rabbat, "Distributed Average Consensus using Probabilistic Quantization," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Madison, WI, USA, Aug. 2007.

      [C3] R. Martinez-Cantin, N. de Freitas, A. Doucet and J. Castellanos, "Active Policy Learning for Robot Planning and Exploration under Uncertainty," in Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Atlanta, GA, USA, June 2007.

      [C2] T. Ahmed, B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, "Machine Learning Approaches to Network Anomaly Detection," in Proc. Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques (SysML), Boston, MA, USA, April 2007.

      [C1] B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, "Bootstrapping Particle Filters using Kernel Recursive Least Squares," in Proc. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, March 2007.

       


  2. Non-refereed contributions

    Book Chapters:

    [BC1] M. Hoffman and N. de Freitas, "Inference strategies for solving semi-Markov decision processes". To appear in Decision Theory Models for Applications in Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Solutions, L.E. Sucar, E. Morales, H. Hoey (Eds.), 2011.

    Invited Papers:

    [N2] H. Kueck, M. Hoffman, A. Doucet and N. de Freitas, “Inference and Learning for Active Sensing, Experimental Design and Control” Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Portugal, June 2009. (Invited Paper)

    [N1] T.C. Aysal, M.J. Coates and M.G. Rabbat, "Rates of convergence of distributed average consensus using probabilistic quantization," in Proc. Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep. 2007, Urbana, IL, (Invited Paper).

    Technical Reports:

    [T5] F. Hamze, Z. Wang and N. de Freitas, "Self-Avoiding Random Dynamics on Integer Complex Systems," Technical Report arXiv:1111.5379v1, 2011.

    [T4] N. Mahendran, Z. Wang, F. Hamze and N. de Freitas, "Bayesian Optimization for Adaptive MCMC," Technical Report arXiv:1110.6497v1, 2011.

    [T3] E. Brochu, V. Cora and N. de Freitas, "A Tutorial on Bayesian Optimization of Expensive Cost Functions, with Application to Active User Modeling and Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning," Technical Report TR-2009-023, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2009.

    [T2] T.C. Aysal, B. Oreshkin and M. J. Coates, "Accelerated Distributed Average Consensus via Localized Node State Prediction," Technical Report, McGill University, Oct. 2007.

    [T1] B. Oreshkin and M.J. Coates, "Particle Filtering for Velocity Estimation in Image Sequences," Technical Report, McGill University, Aug. 2007.