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A Survey on the Applications of Convolutional Neural Networks for Synthetic Aperture Radar: Recent Advances
Selenia Ghio (born in
1991) is currently a Researcher
with the National
Laboratory of Radar and
Surveillance Systems
(RaSS) of CNIT. Her
major research interests
are in the field of radar
signal processing, SSA,
objects' feature extraction
for identification, time-frequency
analysis, deep neural
network applications in
target classification, and 3-D radar imaging. During the
work for her Ph.D. degree, she was hosted for 6 months at
ESA\ESOC (Darmstadt, Germany) for a collaboration with
the Space Debris Team. She has been involved in several
project funded by Italian ministries (Ministry of Defence,
Ministry of Economic Development, etc.) and European
organizations (EDA). She received the bachelor's and master's
(honors) degrees in telecommunication engineering
from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2012 and 2015,
respectively. In 2019, she received the Ph.D. degree in information
engineering from the University ofPisa. In 2018, she
was the recipient ofthe Amelia Earhart Fellowship.
Marco Martorella is
currently an Associate
Professor with the Department
ofInformation Engineering,
the University of
Pisa and an external Professor
with the University
of Cape Town, where he
lectures within the Masters
in Radar and Electronic
Defence. He is also
Director of the CNIT's
National Radar and Surveillance
Systems Laboratory. He has authored more than
250 international journal and conference papers, 3 books,
and 17 book chapters. He received the Laurea degree
bachelor's and master's in telecommunication engineering
(cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing, both
from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1999 and 2003,
respectively. He has presented several tutorials at international
radar conferences, has lectured at NATO Lecture
Series and organized international journal special issues
on radar imaging topics. He is a member of the IEEE AES
Radar Systems Panel, a member of the NATO SET Panel,
where he sits as Chair of the Radio Frequency Technology
Focus Group, and a member of the EDA Radar Captech.
He has chaired several NATO research activities, including
three research task groups, one exploratory team, and
two specialist meetings. He was recipient of the 2008
Italy-Australia Award for Young Researchers, the 2010
Best Reviewer for the IEEE GRSL, the IEEE 2013 Fred
Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, the 2016 Outstanding
Information Research Foundation Book Publication
Award for the book Radar Imagingfor Maritime Observation
and the 2017 NATO Set Panel Excellence Award. He
is a Co-Founder of ECHOES, a radar systems-related
spin-off company. His research interests mainly include
the field of radar, with specific focus on radar imaging,
multichannel radar and space situational awareness. He is
a Fellow of the IEEE.
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