2026 The 8th International Conference on Video, Signal and Image Processing (VSIP)

Special Session 6: Radar Signal Processing for Marine Information Perception

Brief Description


With the growing demands for maritime rights protection, maritime security, and ocean resource development, radar has become a core means of marine information perception. It faces a series of formidable challenges, including complex sea clutter suppression, weak target detection, and adaptation to high sea states. This special session focuses on new theories, methods, and technologies of radar signal processing for marine information perception, highlighting cutting-edge directions such as sea clutter modeling and characterization, advanced detection and estimation theory, intelligent target recognition, distributed cooperative sensing, and multi-source information fusion. It aims to bring together experts and scholars worldwide to share the latest research findings, foster academic exchange and technological integration, and promote innovative developments in radar ocean remote sensing and perception technology.

Session Organizers


Prof. Shuwen Xu, Xidian University, China
Prof. Jibin Zheng, Xidian University, China
Assoc. Prof. Biao Jin, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China

Sepcial Session Topics

 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Sea Clutter Characterization and Cognitive Modeling
• Weak Target Detection and Tracking in Complex Clutter Backgrounds;
• Machine Learning-Based Intelligent Maritime Target Recognition
• Radar Target Echo Characteristics and Processing in High Sea States
• Distributed and Multistatic Radar Cooperative Ocean Sensing
• Parameter Inversion and Image Interpretation for Radar Ocean Remote Sensing
• Multi-Sensor Marine Information Fusion (Radar, AIS, Optical, etc.)
• Applications of Novel Radar Systems in Ocean Sensing (Cognitive, MIMO, 3D Imaging, etc.)


Submission Method


Submit your Full Paper (no less than 8 pages) or your paper abstract—without publication (200–400 words)—via the Online Submission System, then choose Special Session 6 (Radar Signal Processing for Marine Information Perception).

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Introduction of Session Organizers


Prof. Shuwen Xu
Xidian University, China

Shuwen Xu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Xidian University. He has published over 80 papers indexed by SCI and more than 30 indexed by EI. He holds 30 granted national patents, over 10 patent applications pending, and 2 granted software copyrights. His representative works have appeared in leading international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Electronics Letters, IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, and Science China. He has served as Program Committee Chair and Session Chair for multiple international conferences and has delivered over 30 invited talks. He has led several projects under the General Program and the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as various national-level projects, with total funding exceeding RMB 30 million over the past three years. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and acts as a reviewer for international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Electronics Letters, and IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. He has received multiple provincial and ministerial-level science and technology achievement awards. His main research interests include target detection, weak target detection in complex clutter backgrounds, and time–frequency analysis.

 

 

Prof. Jibin Zheng
Xidian University, China

Jibin Zheng is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, China. He is affiliated with the discipline of Information and Communication Engineering, a national “Double First-Class” discipline with an A+ rating in the national discipline evaluation. He is a recipient of the Ministry of Education’s “U40” Young Scholar Program and the National Outstanding Youth Fund. He pursued joint doctoral training at Duke University in the United States from 2012 to 2014. Since 2015, he has been working at the National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, and currently serves as an editorial board member for journals including Signal Processing, Acta Electronica Sinica, Journal of Radars, and Radar Science and Technology. He is also a member of the Radar Branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE). Professor Zheng has long been engaged in fundamental theoretical and applied research on radar signal processing. He has received 7 provincial and ministerial-level awards, including the First Prize of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province, the First Prize of Natural Science of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Excellent Academic Paper Award of Natural Science of Shaanxi Province, and the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Shaanxi Province. As the first or corresponding author, he has published more than 50 papers in IEEE and Elsevier journals, such as IEEE TII and IEEE TSP.

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Biao Jin
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China

Biao Jin, Ph.D., is a master’s supervisor. He received his Ph.D. degree through a combined master’s and doctoral program from the National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University. He is currently with the School of Oceanography, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. His research primarily focuses on intelligent radar signal processing, radar resource management, and millimeter-wave radar system design. He has led more than 10 research projects, including the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and various provincial and ministerial-level projects. As the first or corresponding author, he has published over 30 high-quality academic papers in leading domestic and international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), and Journal of Radars, and has been granted 8 national invention patents. He currently holds academic appointments as a member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and a Youth Editorial Board Member of Modern Radar. His academic honors include the Outstanding Presenter Award at the 16th International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2024), Excellent Reviewer of Journal of Radars (2024–2025), and the Excellent Paper Award of Journal of Radars (2025). He has delivered invited talks at major conferences, including the IEEE International Conference on Signal, Information and Data Processing (ICSIDP) and the Young Scientists Forum on the 10th Anniversary of Journal of Radars, and has served as a session chair at the ICSPS International Conference in 2024 and 2025.