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Welcome to University Defence Research Centre

Signal Processing is fundamental to the capacity of all modern sensor/weapon systems. The University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) is concerned with fundamental research in Signal Processing with emphasis given to areas that play a substantial role in improving the performance of defence systems. 

The main mission of UDRC is to maintain the global leading position of UK in defence related signal processing research and applications. In order to achieve this, UDRC is aiming to promote fundamental research in signal processing and related areas, particularly with application to defence related industry. At the same time UDRC aims to provide a forum to invite and engage signal processing researchers from academia, industry and government to tackle open but significant challenges in the field. 

Currently there are 30 research projects running in the centre. From these, 17 come from the EPSRC-DSTL Open Call, 6 from the Core Research at Imperial College and 7 are DSTL Internal research project. More specifically the following projects are part of the MOD-UDRC.

Research Themes

The research projects in UDRC have been grouped in the following 4 technical Themes.
 

  • Classification and Multimodal Processing
  • Supper resolution Source Separation
  • Distributed Signal Processing
  • Non Conventional Signals

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Research Challenges

The main research focus and challenges of the UDRC are:

 

  • Array Signal Processing
  • Radar, Sonar and Audio Signal Processing
  • Signal Processing for Security
  • Multimodal Signal Processing
  • Sensor Fusion
  • Image and Video Classification
  • Distributed Signal Processing for Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Signal Processing for Communications

Research Spotlight

[O15] Scalable Information Fusion: Adaptivity for Complex Environments and Secure Data
Visual analysis by human operators or service personnel is widely acknowledged to benefit from a fused representation, where images or video information from different spectral bands are combined into a single representation. To provide maximum utility fused data, or its constituent components, must be delivered in a timely manner, must facilitate simple and flexible processing and must be robust to loss and network congestion. Non infrastructure-based Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks are emerging as suitable platforms for exchanging and fusing real-time multi-sensor content.  Such networks are...