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DR BARBARA FRANCESCA LA SCALA



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/people/bflscala/index.html

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
sensor networks, distributed estimation, data fusion, target tracking United States of America, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Australia Defence Science and Technology Organisation Research
Italy University of Florence Research
United States Raytheon Company Research
United States Toyon Associates, Inc. Research
United Kingdom QinetiQ Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (honours) University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1987
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 01-Jan-1992
Member International Society of Information Fusion 10-Jul-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
AUTOMATED ON-LINE ANALYSIS & CONTAMINANT DETECTION IN MINERAL ORE PROCESSING Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
SCANTECH LTD		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/12/2005
Information Geometry and Compressive Sensing for Radar and Communications Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
EARLY DEFAULT PREDICTION FOR CREDIT CARD CUSTOMERS Chief Investigator ANZ BANKING GROUP 29/11/2005
DEVELOPMENT OF THE WTA ALGORITHM (DSTO - MOD) Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 10/04/2006
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS FOR BAYESIAN NETWORKS Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 19/04/2006
ADVANCED METHODS FOR TRACKING & FUSION Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION 01/02/2007
Develop & Demonstrate Novel Mathematical Methodologies for Real-time Sensor Management Chief Investigator MELBOURNE ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL LTD
Development of an Optimised Weapon Target Allocation Algorithm Chief Investigator DEFENCE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Accurate target geolocation using cooperative observers


    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 Information, Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Conference Proceedings of 2007 Information, Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 248-253
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Activation scheduling for a binary sensor network
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 Intelligent Sensors Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 2007 Intelligent Sensors Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference (ISSNIP)
    Page numbers: 185-190
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Node Self-Localisation in Large Scale Sensor Networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 Information, Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Conference Proceedings of 2007 Information, Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 188-192
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Optimal target tracking with restless bandits
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Digital Signal Processing
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 479-487
    Author(s):
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Differential Geometry Measures of Nonlinearity for the Video Tracking Problem
    Year: 2006
    Event name: SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition
    Volume: 6235
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering(Washington)
    Author(s):
  • IMM estimator for ground target tracking with variable measurement sampling intervals
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Optimal scheduling for state estimation using a terminal cost function
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Robust target tracking with unreliable binary proximity sensors
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
    Conference Publication: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings
    Volume: IV
    Page numbers: 953-956
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Scheduling binary proximity sensors for robust target tracking
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Efficient MHT Approximation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: DASP '05
    Conference Publication: 4th TTCP Workshop on Defence Applications of Signal Processing
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: DSTO(Sydney)
    Author(s):
  • Comparison of LMITS and MHT algorithms
    Year: 2005
    Event name: SPIE - Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SPIE - Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2005
    Volume: 5913
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: International Society of Optical Engineering(Bellingham)
    Author(s):
  • Differential geometry measures of nonlinearity for ground moving target indicator (GMTI) filtering
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 8th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion 2005
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Differential geometry measures of nonlinearity for the bearing-only tracking problem
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Signal and data processing of small targets 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of SPIE - Signal and data processing of small target 2005
    Volume: 5809
    Page numbers: 288-300
    Publisher: SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering(Washington)
    Author(s):
  • Manoeuvring target tracking with the IMM-VDA algorithm
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 8th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion 2005
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Minimum necessary data rates for accurate track fusion
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05
    Conference Publication: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 6966-6971
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Multi step ahead beam and waveform scheduling for tracking of manoeuvering targets in clutter
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    Page numbers: 889-892
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Non parametric target tracking in non uniform clutter
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 8th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Optimal adaptive waveform selection for target tracking
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 8th International Conference on Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Fusion 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Integrated track splitting filter for manoeuvring targets
    Year: 2004
    Event name: FUSION 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on information fusion
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: ISIF - International Society of Information Fusion(California)
    Author(s):
  • Measures of effectiveness for waveform selection
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Measures of effectiveness for waveform selection
    Conference Publication: The IEE First International Conference on Waveform Diversity and Design
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineering(Hertford)
    Author(s):
  • Multi-target tracking in clutter without measurement assignment
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 716-721
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
    Author(s):
  • Viterbi data association tracking using amplitude information
    Year: 2004
    Event name: FUSION 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on information fusion
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: ISIF - International Society of Information Fusion(California)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Multi-Scan Parametric Target Tracking in Clutter


    Year: 2003
    Event name: 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 5372-5377
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Intergrated track splitting suite of target tracking filters.
    Year: 2003
    Event name: IF 2003 Information Fusion
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the 6th international conference on information fusion.
    Page numbers: 1039-1046
    Publisher: International Society of Information Fusion (ISIP)(Brisbane)
    Author(s):
  • Optimal adaptive waveform selection for target detection
    Year: 2003
    Event name: International conference on radar.
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the international conference on radar.
    Page numbers: 492-496
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Choosing a Track Association Method
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Information Fusion
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 119-133
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  • MAP Estimation of Target Manoeuvre Sequence with the Expectation-Maximisation Algorithm
    Year: 2002
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 367-377
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