Contact Dr Alessio Balleri
- Email: a.balleri@cranfield.ac.uk
- ORCID
Areas of expertise
- Defence Sensors
Background
Alessio obtained his 5 year Laurea Degree with distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Pisa in 2004 and a PhD degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London (UCL) in 2010.
Alessio was a Research Associate in Radar Systems with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL from February 2010 until March 2012. From June 2004 to December 2004 he was a visiting Research Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Highlights
- Special Issue Editor for the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation
- Co-Technical Chair of the "2020 IEEE International Radar Conference", Washington, DC, USA, 27 April -1 May, 2020.
- New Book - A. Balleri, H. Griffiths, and C. Baker (ed.), "Biologically-Inspired Radar and Sonar: Lessons from nature", IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Series, 2017.
- Technical Program Committee co-chair of the IET International Radar Conference 2017, Belfast, 23-26 October 2017.
- Guest co-editor for the special issue on Biologically Inspired Radar and Sonar Systems for the Institute of Engineering and Technology's Journal of Radar, Sonar and Navigation (published in vol. 6, no. 6, July 2012).
- Guest co-editor for the special issue on Radar Emerging Techniques for the European Association for Signal Processing's Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (published Feb 2013).
Current activities
Current PhD Students- B. Griffin, "Target Detection and Classification with Staring Radars", from Oct 2018.
- S. Zulkifli, "Development of K-Band FMCW Flexible Radar for Detection and Classification of Nano-Drones ", Oct 2016 - Aug 2021.
- G. Frazer, "Deception Jamming Against Anti-Ship Missiles which Use Doppler Beam Sharpening Modes", Feb 2016 - July 2020.
- L. Kocjancic, "Multibeam Radar System based on Waveform Diversity for RF Seeker Applications", Feb 2016 - Feb 2020.
- N. Ghazalli, "Passive Bistatic Radar Based on Staring Radar Illuminators of Opportunity", Feb 2015 - Feb 2019.
- L. Fourtinon, "3D Conformal Antenna Arrays for Radar Applications", Oct 2014 - Jan 2018.
- K. Georgiev, "Biologically Inspired Radar and Sonar Signal Processing", Feb 2014 - Aug 2017.
His research interests include:
- radar signal processing
- biologically inspired radar and sonar systems
- echolocating natural systems
- radar and sonar target classification (High-Resolution Range Profile and micro-Doppler signatures)
- target feature identification and extraction
- radar sea and wind farm clutter
- multi-static radar systems
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Markow J, Balleri A & Catherall A (2022) Statistical analysis of in-flight drone signatures, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 16 (11) 1737-1751.
- Lombardi F, Griffiths HD, Lualdi M & Balleri A (2021) Characterization of the internal structure of landmines using ground-penetrating radar, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 18 (2) 266-270.
- Belloni C, Aouf N, Balleri A, Le Caillecy J-M & Merlet T (2021) Explainability of deep SAR ATR through feature analysis, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57 (1, February 2021) 659-673.
- Frazer G, Balleri A & Jacob G (2020) Deception jamming against doppler beam sharpening radars, IEEE Access, 8 32792-32801.
- Bennett A, Yu N, Castelli M, Chen G, Balleri A, Urayama T & Fang F. (2020) Characterisation of a microwave induced plasma torch for glass surface modification, Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, Available online 06 December 2020 (1).
- Belloni C, Aouf N, Balleri A, Le Caillec J-M & Merlet T (2020) Pose-informed deep learning method for SAR ATR, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 14 (11) 1649-1658.
- Benavoli A, Balleri A & Farina A (2019) Joint waveform and guidance control optimisation for target rendezvous, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 67 (16) 4357-4369.
- Kocjancic L, Balleri A & Merlet T (2018) Multibeam radar based on linear frequency modulated waveform diversity, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 12 (11) 1320-1329.
- Georgiev K, Balleri A, Stove A & Holderied MW (2018) Bio-inspired processing of radar target echoes, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, Early online (12).
- Lombardi F, Griffiths HD, Wright L & Balleri A (2017) Dependence of landmine radar signature on aspect angle, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 11 (6) 892-902. Dataset/s: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2016.0491
- Gurbuz SZ, Clemente C, Balleri A & Soraghan JJ (2017) Micro-Doppler-based in-home aided and unaided walking recognition with multiple radar and sonar systems, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 11 (1) 107-115.
- Balleri A & Farina A (2017) Ambiguity function and accuracy of the hyperbolic chirp: comparison with the linear chirp, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 11 (1) 142-153.
- Balleri A, Farina A & Benavoli A (2017) Coordination of optimal guidance law and adaptive radiated waveform for interception and rendezvous problems, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 11 (7) 1132-1139.
- Fioranelli F, Ritchie M, Balleri A & Griffiths HD (2017) Practical investigation of multiband mono- and bistatic radar signatures of wind turbines, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 11 (6) 909-921.
- Fioranelli F, Ritchie M, Balleri A & Griffiths HD (2016) Experimental analysis of multistatic multiband radar signatures of wind turbines, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 10 (8) 1400-1410.
- Fioranelli F, Ritchie M, Balleri A & Griffiths HD (2016) Experimental analysis of multistatic wind turbine radar clutter statistics, Electronics Letters, 52 (3) 226-228.
- Ricci R & Balleri A (2015) Recognition of humans based on radar micro-Doppler Shape Spectrum features, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation.
- Ritchie M, Fioranelli F, Balleri A & Griffiths HD (2015) Measurement and Analysis of Multiband Bistatic and Monostatic Radar Signatures of Wind Turbines, Electronics Letters, 51 (14) 1112-1113.
- Baker CJ, Smith GE, Balleri A, Holderied M & Griffiths HD (2014) Sensing, cognition, and engineering application [Further Thoughts], Proceedings of the IEEE, 102 (4) 459-459.
- Baker CJ, Smith GE, Balleri A, Holderied M & Griffiths HD (2014) Biomimetic echolocation with application to radar and sonar sensing, Proceedings of the IEEE, 102 (4) 447-458.
- Clemente C, Balleri A, Woodbridge K & Soraghan JJ (2013) Developments in target micro-doppler signatures analysis: radar imaging, ultrasound and through-the-wall radar, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2013 (47).
- Balleri A, Al-Armaghany A, Griffiths HD, Tong KF, Matsuura T, Karasudani T & Ohya Y (2013) Measurements and analysis of the radar signature of a new wind turbine design at X-band, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 7 (2) 170-177.
- Leighton T & Balleri A (2012) Editorial: biologically-inspired radar and sonar systems, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 6 (6).
- Balleri A, Griffiths HD, Baker CJ, Woodbridge K & Holderied MW (2012) Analysis of acoustic echoes from a bat-pollinated plant species: insight into strategies for radar and sonar target classification, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 6 (6) 536-544.
- Balleri A, Chetty K & Woodbridge K (2011) Classification of personnel targets by acoustic micro-doppler signatures, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, 5 (9) 943-951.
- Al-Ashwal WA, Baker CJ, Balleri A, Griffiths HD, Harmanny R, Inggs M, Miceli WJ, Ritchie M, Sandenbergh JS, Stove A, Tough RJA, Ward KD, Watts S & Woodbridge K (2011) Statistical analysis of simultaneous monostatic and bistatic sea clutter at low grazing angles, Electronics Letters, 47 (10) 621-622.
- Balleri A, Woodbridge K, Baker CJ & Holderied MW (2009) Flower classification by bats : radar comparisons, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 24 (5) 4-7.
- Balleri A, Nehorai A & Wang J (2007) Maximum likelihood estimation for compound-Gaussian clutter with inverse gamma texture, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 43 (2) 775-780.
Conference Papers
- Rosamilia M, Aubry A, Balleri A, Carotenuto V & De Maio A (2022) Performance prediction of the coherent radar detector on measured UAVs data. In: IET Radar 2022: International Conference on Radar Systems, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, 24-27 October 2022.
- Rosamilia M, Aubry A, Balleri A, Carotenuto V & De Maio A (2022) RCS measurements of UAVs and their statistical analysis. In: 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace, Pisa, 27-29 June 2022.
- Griffin B, Balleri A, Baker C, Jahangir M & Harman S (2022) Development of a passive dual channel receiver at L-band for the detection of drones. In: European Radar Conference (EuRAD) 2021, London, 5-7 April 2022.
- Balleri A (2021) Measurements of the radar cross section of a nano-drone at K-band. In: 2021 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), Naples (Virtual Event), 23-25 June 2021.
- Jahangir M, Baker CJ, Antoniou M, Griffin B, Balleri A, Money D & Harman S (2021) Advanced cognitive networked radar surveillance. In: 2021 IEEE Radar conference, Atlanta, Georgia and Online, 10-14 May 2021.
- Griffin B, Balleri A, Baker C & Jahangir M (2021) Prototyping a dual-channel receiver for use in a staring cooperative radar network for the detection of drones. In: 2021 21st International Radar Symposium (IRS), Berlin, 21-22 June 2021.
- Benavoli A, Balleri A & Farina A (2021) Joint waveform and guidance control optimization by statistical linearisation for target rendezvous. In: 2021 IEEE Radar conference, Atlanta, Georgia and Online, 10-14 May 2021.
- Markow J & Balleri A (2020) Examination of drone micro-Doppler and JEM/HERM signatures. In: 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Florence, Italy, 21-25 September 2020.
- Zulkifli S & Balleri A (2020) Design and development of K-Band FMCW radar for nano-drone detection. In: 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Florence, Italy, 21-25 September 2020.
- Griffin B, Balleri A, Baker C & Jahangir M (2020) Optimal receiver placement in staring cooperative radar networks for detection of drones. In: 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Florence, Italy, 21-25 September 2020.
- Balleri A, Kocjancic L & Merlet T (2020) Characterisation of sidelobes for multibeam radar based on quasi-orthogonal LFM waveforms. In: IEEE International Conference on Radar, Washington, DC, 28-30 April 2020.
- Zulkifli S & Balleri A (2020) FMCW radar prototype development for detection and classification of nano-targets. In: IEEE International Conference on Radar, Washington, DC, 28-30 April 2020.
- Frazer G, Balleri A & Jacob GS (2019) Deception jamming against doppler beam sharpening radars (Conf paper). In: 2019 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf), Boston, MA, 22-26 April 2019.
- Kocjancic L, Balleri A & Merlet T (2019) Numerical characterisation of quasi-orthogonal piecewise linear frequency modulated waveforms. In: 2019 Sensor Signal Processing for Defence Conference (SSPD), Brighton, 9-10 May 2019.
- Gersone F, Balleri A, Jahangir M & Baker CJ (2018) Simulations of L-band staring radar moving target integration efficiency. In: 2018 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications (CAMA), Vasteras, 3-6 September 2018.
- Lombardi F, Griffiths HD & Balleri A (2018) Landmine internal structure detection from ground penetrating radar images. In: 2018 IEEE Radar Conference, Oklahoma City, 23-27 April 2018.
- Balleri A, Farina A & Benavoli A (2017) Two-dimensional coordination of guidance and adaptive radiated waveform for interception and rendezvous problems. In: 18th International Radar Symposium (IRS), 2017, Prague, 28-30 June 2017.
- Kocjancic L, Balleri A & Merlet T (2017) Study of the frequency slope effect on the chirp waveform orthogonality. In: IET International Conference on Radar Systems, 2017, Belfast, 23-26 October 2017.
- Liu J, Balleri A, Jahangir M & Baker CJ (2017) Investigating jammer suppression with a 3-D staring array. In: IET International Conference on Radar Systems, 2017, Belfast, 23-26 October 2017.
- Georgiev K, Balleri A, Stove A & Holderied M (2017) Bio-inspired two target resolution at radio frequencies. In: 2017 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf17), Seattle, 8-12 May 2017.
- Lombardi F, Griffiths HD & Balleri A (2017) Bistatic radar signature of buried landmines. In: IET International Conference on Radar Systems, 2017, Belfast, 23-26 October 2017.
- Belloni C, Balleri A, Aouf N, Merlet T & Le Caillec JM (2017) SAR image dataset of military ground targets with multiple poses for ATR. In: Target and Background Signatures III, 2017, Warsaw, 11-12 September 2017.
- Ghazalli N, Balleri A & Colone F (2017) Exploitation of deterministic signals for passive single-channel detection. In: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence Conference (SSPD), 2017, London, 6-7 December 2017.
- Lombardi F, Griffiths HD, Balleri A & Lualdi L (2017) Preliminary results on multi offset GPR for imaging of landmines. In: 9th International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar, 2017 (IWAGPR), Edinburgh, 28-30 June 2017.
- Frazer G, Balleri A & Jacob GS (2017) Simulations of repeat jamming against anti-ship missile seekers which use doppler beam sharpening modes. In: Sensor Signal Processing for Defence Conference (SSPD), 2017, London, 6-7 December 2017.
- Fourtinon L, Balleri A, Quere Y, Person C, Martin-Guennou A, Rius E, Lesueur G & Merlet T (2017) Directivity and ellipticity study for planar and 3D conformal RF-seeker antennas. In: IEEE International Conference on Antennas and Applications (IEEE CAMA 2017), Tsukuba, 4-6 December 2017.
- Wright L, Balleri A, Griffiths HD & Lombardi F (2016) Multi-Perspective High Range Resolution Profiles of Landmines. In: 2015 IEEE Radar Conference, Johannesburg, 27-30 October 2015.
- Bruno M & Balleri A (2016) Analysis of the Signature of Rotating Blades with the Empirical Mode Decomposition. In: 2015 IEEE Radar Conference, Johannesburg, 27-30 October 2015.
- Fioranelli F, Ritchie M, Griffiths HD & Balleri A (2016) Analysis of Multiband Monostatic and Bistatic Radar Signatures of Wind Turbines. In: 2015 IEEE Radar Conference, Johannesburg, 27-30 October 2015.
- Georgiev K, Balleri A, Stove A & Holderied MW (2016) Baseband version of the bat-inspired spectrogram correlation and transformation receiver. In: IEEE Radar Conference 2016, Philadelphia, 2-6 May 2016.
- Brewster A & Balleri A (2015) Extraction and analysis of micro-Doppler signatures by the Empirical Mode Decomposition. In: IEEE Radar Conference 2015, Arlington, VA, 10-15 May 2015.
- Newcombe C & Balleri A (2014) Simulations of Waveform Diversity for Doppler Beam Sharpening techniques. In: 2014 International Radar Conference, Lille, 13-16 October 2014.
- Perassoli M, Balleri A & Woodbridge K (2014) Measurements and analysis of multistatic and multimodal micro-Doppler signatures for automatic target classification. In: IEEE Radar Conference, Cincinnati, 19-23 May 2014.
- Balleri A, Al-Armaghany A, Griffiths H, Tong K & Matsuura T (2013) The radar signature of the Wind Lens: a less disruptive wind turbine?. In: IET International Radar Conference: RADAR 2012, Glasgow, 22-25 October 2012.
- Inggs M, Balleri A, Al-Ashwal W, Ward K, Woodbridge K, Ritchie M, Miceli W, Tough R, Baker C, Watts S, Harmanny R, Stove A, Sandenbergh J & Griffiths H (2012) NetRAD multistatic sea clutter database. In: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012, Munich, 22-27 July 2012.
- Balleri A, Woodbridge K & Chetty K (2011) Frequency-agile non-coherent ultrasound radar for collection of micro-Doppler signatures. In: IEEE Radar Conference 2011 , Kansas City, MO, 23-27 May 2011.
- Al-Ashwal WA, Balleri A, Griffiths HD, Miceli WJ, Woodbridge K, Harmanny R, Ritchie MA, Stove AG, Watts S, Baker CJ, Inggs M, Sandenbergh JS, Tough RJA & Ward KD (2011) Measurements of bistatic radar sea clutter. In: IEEE Radar Conference 2011 , Kansas City, MO, 23-27 May 2011.
- Griffiths H, Ohya Y, Balleri A, Tong K, Al-Armaghany A, Matsuura T & Karasudani T (2011) Measurement and analysis of the radar signature of a new type of wind turbine. In: IEEE CIE International Conference on Radar 2011, Chengdu, 24-27 October 2011.
- Balleri A, Griffiths H, Holderied M & Baker C (2010) Bat-inspired multi-harmonic waveforms. In: 2010 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, Niagara Falls, 8-13 August 2010.
- Balleri A, Griffiths HD, Woodbridge K, Baker CJ & Holderied MW (2010) Impact of flight trajectory on the detection and selection of flowers by nectar-feeding bats. In: The 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing, Elba Island, 14-16 June 2010.
- Balleri A, Griffiths HD, Woodbridge K, Baker CJ & Holderied MW (2010) Bat-inspired ultrasound tomography in air. In: IEEE Radar Conference 2010 , Washington DC, 10-14 May 2010.
- Balleri A, Woodbridge K, Baker CJ & Holderied MW (2009) Classification of flowers by bats: comparison with the radar case. In: International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference 2009, Kissimmee, FL, 8-13 February 2009.
- Balleri A, Griffiths H, Woodbridge K, Baker CJ & Holderied M (2009) Bat-pollinated plants: feature extraction for target recognition in the natural world. In: IEEE International Radar Conference 2009, Bordeaux, 12 October 2009.
- Greco M, Gini F, Verrazzani L & Balleri A (2004) Analysis of polarimetric marine scattering at different range resolutions. In: IGARSS 2004 : IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, 20-24 September 2004.
Books
- (2017) Biologically-Inspired Radar and Sonar: Lessons from Nature.
- Balleri A & Mehmood A (2014) Sonar Micro-Doppler Signatures: Principles and Applications. In: Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures: Processing and Applications, IET, p. 329-344, ed. 2014.
- Griffiths HD, Balleri A & Baker CJ (2013) Biologically inspired and multi-perspective target recognition. In: Radar Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) and Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR). Blacknell D, Griffiths HD (ed.), London, UK: IET, p. 177-211, ed. 1.
- Baker CJ , Griffiths HD & Balleri A (2012) Biologically inspired waveform diversity. In: Waveform Design and Diversity for Advanced Radar Systems. F. Gini, A. De Maio and L. Patton (ed.), London: IET, p. 149-172.
