EUSIPCO-2005 TECHNICAL PROGRAM (Download Printable Version)

4 September 2005, Sunday

16:00-17:30

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SESSION SunPmPO1: SIMILAR Interfaces for Handicapped

DEMO SESSION

SESSION CHAIRS: Dimitris Tzovaras, Georgios Nikolakis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

CUED SPEECH HAND GESTURES RECOGNITION TOOL
Thomas Burger, France Telecom, France; Alice Caplier, Stéphane Mancini, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France

OBJECT RECOGNITION FOR THE BLIND
Georgios Nikolakis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Michael G. Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

ASSISTIVE MULTIMODAL SYSTEM BASED ON SPEECH RECOGNITION AND HEAD TRACKING
Andrey Ronzhin, Alexey Karpov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Russia

REAL TIME GESTURAL INTERFACE FOR GENERIC APPLICATIONS
Cem Keskin, Oya Aran, Lale Akarun, Bogazici University, Turkey

TEXT-TO-SIGN LANGUAGE SYNTHESIS TOOL
Maria Papadogiorgaki, Nikos Grammalidis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Michael G. Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

GAZE DIRECTION ESTIMATION TOOL BASED ON HEAD MOTION ANALYSIS OR IRIS POSITION ESTIMATION
Alexandre Benoit, Alice Caplier, Laurent Bonnaud, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France

SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR SPEECH THERAPY AND VOICE QUALITY MONITORING
Oytun Turk, Levent M. Arslan, Bogazici University

SIGN LANGUAGE TUTORING TOOL
Oya Aran, Cem Keskin, Lale Akarun, Bogazici University, Turkey

CANE SIMULATION FOR THE BLIND
Georgios Nikolakis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Michael G. Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

SYPOLE: A MOBILE ASSISTANT FOR THE BLIND
Vincent Gaudissart, Silvio Ferreira, Céline Thillou, Bernard Gosselin, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

5 September 2005, Monday

10:00-11:20

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SESSION MonAmOR1: Adaptive Filters (Oral I)

ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Yeheskel Bar-Ness, NJIT, United States

10:00 LOW-RESOURCE DELAYLESS SUBBAND ADAPTIVE FILTER USING WEIGHTED OVERLAP-ADD
Hamid Sheikhzadeh, Robert L. Brennan, Zamir Khan, Kevin R. L. Whyte, AMI Semiconductor Canada Company, Canada

10:20 THE FAST DATA PROJECTION METHOD FOR STABLE SUBSPACE TRACKING
Xenofon Doukopoulos, France Telecom R&D, France; George Moustakides, University of Thessaly, Greece

10:40 STOCHASTIC MODELLING OF THE TRANSFORM DOMAIN EPSILON-LMS ALGORITHM FOR A TIME-VARYING ENVIRONMENT
Elen Lobato, Orlando Tobias, Rui Seara, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

11:00 A STOP & GO PRE-WHITENED SIGN ALGORITHM
Hichem Besbes, Sofia Ben Jebara, Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia

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SESSION MonAmOR2: Brain Computer Interface

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: William J. Fitzgerald, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

10:00 MODEL BASED EEG SIGNAL PURIFICATION TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF THE BCI SYSTEMS
Farid Atri, Amir Hossein Omidvarnia, Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan, University of Tehran, Iran

10:20 SINGLE-TRIAL EEG CLASSIFICATION FOR BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE USING WAVELET DECOMPOSITION
Anysia Yong, Neil Hurley, University College Dublin, Ireland

10:40 COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONAL NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SIGNALS
Koray Ciftci, Yasemin Kahya, Bülent Sankur, Ata Akin, Bogazici University, Turkey

11:00 CLASSIFICATION OF CHAOTIC SIGNALS USING HMM CLASSIFIERS: EEG-BASED MENTAL TASK CLASSIFICATION
Soroosh Solhjoo, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran; Ali Motie Nasrabadi, Shahed University, Iran; Mohammad Reza Hashemi Golpayegani, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran

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SESSION MonAmOR3: Speech Analysis, Production and Perception

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Mubeccel Demirekler, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

10:00 HNR EXTRACTION IN VOICED SPEECH, ORIENTED TOWARDS VOICE QUALITY ANALYSIS
Francois Severin, Baris Bozkurt, Thierry Dutoit, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

10:20 PERCEPTUAL TIME-VARYING MODELLING OF SPEECH SIGNALS FOR ASR COMPRESSION APPLICATION
Amir Leibman, Ilan D. Shallom, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

10:40 A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO CONTEXT-FREE VOICE TRANSFORMATION
Ozgul Salor, Mubeccel Demirekler, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

11:00 SEQUENTIAL FORWARD FEATURE SELECTION WITH LOW COMPUTATIONAL COST
Dimitrios Ververidis, Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

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SESSION MonAmOR4: Hardware Implementations of DSP Algorithms

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Levent Oktem, Synplicity Inc, Turkey

10:00 SEGMENT-BASED MOTION ESTIMATION USING A BLOCK-BASED ENGINE
Patrick Meuwissen, Fabian Ernst, Ramanathan Sethuraman, Harm Peters, Philips Research, Netherlands; Rafael Peset Llopis, Philips Consumer Electronics, Netherlands

10:20 A LECTURE COURSE SERIES: FROM CONCEPT ENGINEERING TO IMPLEMENTATION OF SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS WITH FPGAS
Mario Huemer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Michael Lunglmayr, Markus Pfaff, University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria Hagenberg, Austria

10:40 EFFICIENT FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADAPTIVE IQ-IMBALANCE CORRECTOR FOR COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS USING REDUCED RANGE MULTIPLIERS
Ediz Cetin, Suleyman Demirsoy, Izzet Kale, Richard Morling, University of Westminster, United Kingdom

11:00 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW PERSIAN DIGITS OCR ALGORITHM ON FPGA CHIPS
Navid Toosizadeh, Mohammad Eshghi, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

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SESSION MonAmOR5: Independent Component Analysis and Source Seperation

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Asoke Nandi, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

10:00 ICA IN SIGNALS WITH MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE USING FOURTH-ORDER STATISTIC
David Blanco, University of Granada, Spain; Bernard Mulgrew, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Maria del Carmen Carrión, University of Granada, Spain; Diego Pablo Ruiz, Unversity of Granada, Spain

10:20 A SIMPLE ICA ALGORITHM FOR NON-DIFFERENTIABLE CONTRASTS
John Aldo Lee, Frédéric Vrins, Michel Verleysen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

10:40 BLIND SEPARATION OF MORE THAN TWO SOURCES BASED ON HIGH-CONVERGENCE ALGORITHM COMBINING ICA AND BEAMFORMING
Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

11:00 SPATIOTEMPORAL BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION USING DOUBLE-SIDED APPROXIMATE JOINT DIAGONALIZATION
Fabian Joachim Theis, Peter Gruber, Ingo Keck, University of Regensburg, Germany; Anke Meyer-Baese, Florida State University, United States; Elmar Wolfgang Lang, University of Regensburg, Germany

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SPECIAL SESSION MonAmOR6: MIMO Propagation and Channel Modeling

ORAL

SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Peter Grant, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

10:00 DIRECTIONAL MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS AT 5.2GHZ
David Irvine Laurenson, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Chor Min Tan, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; Chia Chin Chong, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Mark A Beach, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

10:20 GAUSSIAN CHANNEL MODEL FOR MACROCELLULAR MOBILE PROPAGATION
Damian Bevan, Nortel, United Kingdom; Victor Ermolayev, Alexander Flaksman, Ilya Averin, Mera Networks, Russian Federation; Peter Grant, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

10:40 SOUNDERS FOR MIMO CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS
Sana Salous, Stuart Feeney, Nima Razavi-Ghods, Mustafa Abdallah, Durham University, United Kingdom

11:20-12:40

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SESSION MonAmOR7: Adaptive Filters (Oral II)

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Tyseer Aboulnasr, University of Ottawa, Canada

11:30 AN IMPROVED VARIABLE TAP-LENGTH ALGORITHM FOR STRUCTURE ADAPTATION
Yu Gong, Colin F. N. Cowan, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

11:50 SIGNAL TRACKING PROPERTIES OF A CLASS OF ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTERS
Maciej Niedzwiecki, Piotr Kaczmarek, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

12:10 A GENERAL APPROACH TO THE DERIVATION OF BLOCK MULTICHANNEL FAST QRD-RLS ALGORITHMS
Antonio Ramos, Jose Apolinario Jr., IME, Brazil; Stefan Werner, HUT, Finland

12:30 ON THE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF GRADIENT-TYPE JOINT PROCESS ESTIMATORS IN ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING
Deniz Gencaga, Aysin Ertuzun, Bogazici University, Turkey

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SESSION MonAmOR8: Speech Synthesis

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Baris Bozkurt, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

11:30 DONOR SELECTION FOR VOICE CONVERSION
Oytun Turk, Levent M. Arslan, SESTEK, Turkey

11:50 BRANDT'S GLR METHOD AND REFINED HMM SEGMENTATION FOR TTS SYNTHESIS APPLICATION
Safaa Jarifi, Dominique Pastor, ENST Bretagne, France; Olivier Rosec, France Telecom, France

12:10 GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC SPEECH FROM TURKISH TEXT
Hasim Sak, Tunga Güngör, Bogaziçi University, Turkey; Yasar Safkan, Yeditepe University, Turkey

12:30 EMOTION INCLUSION IN AN ARABIC TEXT-TO-SPEECH
Oumayma Al-Hakawati Al-Dakkak, Nada Ghneim, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology (HIAST), Syrian Arab Republic; Mohamed Abou Zliekha, Samer Al-Moubayed, Damascus University, Syrian Arab Republic

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SESSION MonAmOR9: Signal and System Modeling and System Identification

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SESSION CHAIR: Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Supélec, France

11:30 THE GAUSSIAN TRANSFORM
Teodor Iulian Alecu, Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland

11:50 FIRST RESULTS ON UNIQUENESS OF SPARSE NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION
Fabian Joachim Theis, Kurt Stadlthanner, University of Regensburg, Germany; Toshihisa Tanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

12:10 REAL-TIME SPEECH VISUALIZATION SYSTEM :KANNON - APPLYING AUDITORY CHARACTERISTICS
Ken Nakamuro, Katsuhiro Haruki, Sueo Sugimoto, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

12:30 A ROBUST NON-UNIFORM LUT INDEXING METHOD IN DIGITAL PREDISTORTION LINEARIZATION OF RF POWER AMPLIFIERS
Sonia Saied-Bouajina, Meriem Jaidane, ENIT, Tunisia; Fadhel Ghannouchi, Slim Boumaiza, POLY-GRAMES, Canada

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SESSION MonAmOR10: Multiview Image Processing

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Levent Onural, Bilkent University, Turkey

11:30 IMAGE COMPRESSION IN A MULTI-CAMERA SYSTEM BASED ON A DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING APPROACH
Giovanni Toffetti, Stefano Tubaro, Augusto Sarti, Marco Marcon, Marco Tagliasacchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Kannan Ramchandran, UC Berkeley, United States

11:50 OPTIMAL USAGE OF COLOR FOR DISPARITY ESTIMATION IN STEREO VISION
Eran David Pinhasov, Nahum Shimkin, Yehoshua Zeevi, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

12:10 CODING DEPTH IMAGES WITH PIECEWISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS FOR MULTI-VIEW SYNTHESIS
Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands

12:30 SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF EFFECTS OF SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL REDUNDANCY REDUCTION ON STEREO IMAGES
Anil Aksay, Cagdas Bilen, Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

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SESSION MonAmOR11: Cardiovascular System Analysis

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Levent Oktem, Synplicity Inc, Turkey

11:30 BALLISTOCARDIOGRAM DIAGNOSIS USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND SHIFT-INVARIANT DAUBECHIES WAVELET TRANSFORM
Alireza Akhbardeh, Mikko Koivuluoma, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Teemu Koivistoinen, Tampere University Hospital, Finland; Alpo Värri, Tampere Tampere University of Technology, Finland

11:50 EFFICIENT ECG COMPRESSION BASED ON M-CHANNEL MAXIMALLY DECIMATED FILTER BANKS
Manuel Blanco-Velasco, Fernando Cruz-Roldan, Universidad de Alcala, Spain; Juan. I Godino-Llorente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; Kenneth E. Barner, University of Delaware, United States

12:10 USING SPEECH PROCESSING METHODS TO MODEL BLOOD FLOW
Derek H. Justice, Joel Trussell, Mette Olufsen, North Carolina State University, United States

12:30 ESTIMATION OF CARDIAC AND RESPIRATORY RHYTHMS BASED ON AN AMFM DEMODULATION AND AN ADAPTIVE EIGENVECTOR DECOMPOSITION
Stéphane Bruno, APHYCARE Technologies, France; Pascal Scalart, IRISA Lannion, France

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SESSION MonAmOR12: Channel Modeling, Estimation and Equalization

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Peter Grant, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

11:30 ADAPTIVE CODED MODULATION WITH RECEIVE ANTENNA DIVERSITY AND IMPERFECT CHANNEL KNOWLEDGE AT RECEIVER AND TRANSMITTER
Duc V. Duong, Geir E. Øien, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway; Kjell J. Hole, University of Bergen, Norway

11:50 BLIND CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION WITH FRAME LENGTH AND OFFSET ESTIMATION
T. Engin Tuncer, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

12:10 RLS DIRECT EQUALIZER ESTIMATION WITH ASSISTANCE OF PILOTS FOR TRANSMISSIONS OVER TIME-VARYING CHANNELS
Zijian Tang, Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

12:30 GENERALIZED PILOT ASSISTED CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR WCDMA
Ahmet Bastug, Giuseppe Montalbano, Philips Semiconductors, France; Dirk Slock, Eurecom Institute, France

14:00-14:50

PLENARY LECTURE:

DATA COMPRESSION AND BIOINFORMATICS SEARCHING FOR STRUCTURE IN ALL KINDS OF PLACES, Khalid Sayood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States

15:10-16:30

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SESSION MonPmOR1: Signal Reconstruction

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Pierre Duhamel, Supelec, France

15:10 BLIND SEPARATION OF COMPLEX-VALUED MIXTURES: SPARSE REPRESENTATION IN POLAR AND CARTESIAN SCATTER-PLOTS
Ehud Orian, Yehoshua Y. Zeevi, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

15:30 ANISOTROPIC LOCAL APPROXIMATIONS FOR POINTWISE ADAPTIVE SIGNAL-DEPENDENT NOISE REMOVAL
Alessandro Foi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Radu Bilcu, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland; Vladimir Katkovnik, Karen Egiazarian, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

15:50 SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING USING COMPLEX DYNAMIC REPRESENTATION
Ewa Hermanowicz, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

16:10 BLIND SEPARATION OF CONVOLUTIVE MIXTURE OF SPEECH SIGNALS
Hakim Boumaraf, Dinh-Tuan Pham, Laboratory of Modélisation et Calcul, France; Christine Servière, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France

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SESSION MonPmOR2: Image Segmentation and Performance Evaluation

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Aytul Ercil, Sabanci University, Turkey

15:10 SEGMENTATION EVALUATION BY FUSION WITH A GENETIC ALGORITHM
Sébastien Chabrier, Christophe Rosenberger, Bruno Emile, LVR, France

15:30 UNSUPERVISED VARIATIONAL CLASSIFICATION THROUGH IMAGE MULTI-THRESHOLDING
Luc Klaine, Benoit Vozel, Kacem Chehdi, IETR-University of Rennes I, France

15:50 A NEW METHOD FOR MULTI-RESOLUTION TEXTURE SEGMENTATION USING GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS
Roni Mittelman, Moshe Porat, Technion, Israel

16:10 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF IMAGE SEGMENTATION. APPLICATION TO PARAMETERS FITTING
Sébastien Chabrier, Hélène Laurent, Bruno Emile, LVR, France

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SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR3: Model-Based Sound Synthesis ( I )

ORAL

SESSION ORGANIZERS: Cumhur Erkut, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Vesa Välimäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

SESSION CHAIRS: Cumhur Erkut, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Matti Karjalainin, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

15:10 MODULAR INTERACTIONS AND HYBRID MODELS: A CONCEPTUAL MAP FOR MODEL-BASED SOUND
Cumhur Erkut, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

15:30 AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATIC BLOCK-WISE SYNTHESIS OF SOUNDS
Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro, Giovanni De Sanctis, Gabriele Scarparo, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy

15:50 PHYSICAL MODELING OF FLAGEOLET TONES IN STRING INSTRUMENTS
Jyri Pakarinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

16:10 AN ENERGY-CONSERVING DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR NONLINEAR COUPLED TRANSVERSE/LONGITUDINAL STRING VIBRATION
Stefan Bilbao, Sonic Arts Research Centre, United Kingdom

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SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR4: Security of Data Hiding and Watermarking ( I )

ORAL

SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Kivanç Mihçak, Microsoft, United States; S. Voloshynovskiy, University of Geneva, Switzerland

15:10 BIOMETRIC TEMPLATE SECURITY: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Anil Jain, Michigan State University, United States; Arun Ross, West Virginia University, United States; Umut Uludag, Michigan State University, United States

15:30 AN AUDIO WATERMARKING ALGORITHM VIA ZERO ASSIGNED FILTER BANKS
Zeynep Yücel, Bilkent University, Turkey; A. Bülent Özgüler, Bikent University, Turkey

15:50 FUSING DIGITAL AUDIO WATERMARKING AND AUTHENTICATION IN DIVERSE SIGNAL DOMAINS
Nedeljko Cvejic, Tapio Seppanen, University of Oulu, Finland

16:10 DATA-HIDING WITH PARTIALLY AVAILABLE SIDE INFORMATION
Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy, Oleksiy Koval, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Fernando Perez-Gonzalez, University of Vigo, Spain; Kivanc Mihcak, Microsoft Research, United States; Thierry Pun, Jose Vila, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR5: Geophysical Signal Processing ( I )

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SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Ali Ozbek, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, United Kingdom; Sinan Ozeren, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

15:10 P PHASE AND S PHASE DETECTION USING THE DAUBECHIES WAVELET TRANSFORM (DWT)
Omer Halil Colak, Akdeniz University, Turkey

15:30 COMPLEX-VALUED FIR SEISMIC MIGRATION FILTER DESIGN USING PURE AND RELAXED PROJECTION ALGORITHMS
Wail Mousa, Said Boussakta, Des McLernon, Leeds University, United Kingdom

15:50 A NON-SEPARABLE 2D COMPLEX MODULATED LAPPED TRANSFORM AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO SEISMIC DATA FILTERING
Jérôme Gauthier, Laurent Duval, IFP, France; Jean-Chistophe Pesquet, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France

16:10 SPATIAL PREDICTION FILTERS FOR ATTENUATION OF SEISMIC INTERFERENCE NOISE
Necati Gulunay, Mag Magesan, Simon Baldock, CGG Americas, United States

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SESSION MonPmOR6: Speech Recognition

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Ahmet Kondoz, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

15:10 WARPED DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM CEPSTRUM: A NEW FEATURE FOR SPEECH PROCESSING
Muralishankar Rangarao, INRS-EMT (Telecommunications), University of Quebec, Canada; Abhijeet Sangwan, Concordia University, Canada; Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT (Telecommunications), University of Quebec, Canada

15:30 ON THE USE OF PHASE INFORMATION IN SPEECH RECOGNITION
Baris Bozkurt, Laurent Couvreur, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

15:50 LANGUAGE MODELING USING INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
Raghunandan Kumaran, John Gowdy, Karthik Narayanan, Clemson University, United States

16:10 TRAJECTORY CLUSTERING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
Yan Han, Johan de Veth, Louis Boves, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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SESSION MonPmPO1: Channel Modeling, Estimation and Equalization

POSTER

SESSION CHAIR: Tuncer Baykas, University of Ottawa, Canada

A BLIND SPATIO TEMPORAL EQUALIZATION OPERATING ON A POLARIZATION
Yvon Erhel, Centre de Recherche des Ecoles de Coetquidan GUER, France; Clency Perrine, Dominique Lemur, Alain Bourdillon, I.E.T.R. Université de Rennes 1, France

A NON-PARAMETERIC ML ESTIMATOR WITH UNKNOWN CHANNEL ORDER
Yu Gong, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom; Vimal Bhatia, Bernard Mulgrew, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Colin Cowan, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

NON-PARAMETRIC ML CHANNEL ESTIMATOR AND DETECTOR FOR OFDM
Vimal Bhatia, Bernard Mulgrew, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; David Falconer, Carleton University, Canada

A NEW TURBO EQUALIZER WITH LINEAR COMPLEXITY
Dimitris Ampeliotis, Kostas Berberidis, University of Patras, Greece

BLIND CHANNEL EQUALIZATION WITH ALGEBRAIC OPTIMAL STEP SIZE
Vicente Zarzoso, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; Pierre Comon, CNRS/UNSA, France

TWO CROSS COUPLED KALMAN FILTERS FOR JOINT ESTIMATION OF MC-DS-CDMA FADING CHANNELS AND THEIR CORRESPONDING AUTOREGRESSIVE PARAMETERS
Ali Jamoos, David Labarre, Eric Grivel, Mohamed Najim, Equipe Signal & Image, LAPS UMR 5131, ENSEIRB, France

A GENERALIZED DUAL MODE BLIND EQUALIZATION SCHEME WITH CARRIER RECOVERY
Bakhtiar Ali, Azzedine Zerguine, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

MMSE ESTIMATION OF BASIS EXPANSION MODELS FOR RAPIDLY TIME-VARYING CHANNELS
Imad Barhumi, K.U.Leuven-ESAT/SISTA, Belgium; Geert Leus, T.U.Delft, Netherlands; Marc Moonen, K.U.Leuven-ESAT/SISTA, Belgium

GEOMETRICALLY-BASED SPACE-TIME DETERMINISTIC MULTIPATH FADING CHANNEL MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO SPATIAL CORRELATION VERIFICATION OF MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEMS
Arastoo Rostami-Ravari, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia; Borhanuddin Mohd. Ali, S.S. Jamuar, UPM, Malaysia; M.U. Siddiqi, MMU, Malaysia

SUBBAND ADAPTIVE EQUALISER TRACKING FOR FRACTIONALLY-SAMPLED FADING BROADBAND MIMO CHANNELS
Stephan Weiss, Viktor Bale, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

ADAPTIVE ITERATIVE LAYERED SPACE-FREQUENCY EQUALIZATION FOR SINGLE-CARREIR MIMO SYSTEMS
Xu Zhu, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

ESTIMATION OF THE SNR FOR WIRELESS SYSTEMS IN A LOCAL FADING ENVIRONMENT WITH MULTI-ELEMENT ANTENNAS
Jean-Pierre Dubois, University of Balamand, Lebanon

IMPROVED OFDM RECEIVER WITH ITERATIVE CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND TURBO DECODING
Yeheskel Bar-Ness, NJIT, United States; Marta Perez Portugal, ETSETB (UPC), Spain

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SESSION MonPmPO2: Nonlinear Methods in Signal Processing (Poster)

POSTER

SESSION CHAIR: Kerem Harmancı, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

A FAST ALGORITHM FOR DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION OF NONLINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS
Ernst Aschbacher, Holger Arthaber, Markus Rupp, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

ROBUST MATCHED FILTERING IN THE FEATURE SPACE
Ignacio Santamaria, University of Cantabria, Spain; Deniz Erdogmus, Oregon Health and Science University, United States; Rati Agrawal, Jose C. Principe, University of Florida, United States

PARAMETRIZATION OF INHARMONIC BIRD SOUNDS FOR AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION
Seppo Fagerlund, Helsinki University of, Finland; Aki Härmä, Philips Research, Netherlands

DETECTION OF NONLINEARLY DISTORTED SIGNALS USING MUTUAL INFORMATION
Umut Ozertem, Deniz Erdogmus, OHSU, United States; Ignacio Santamaria, University of Cantabria, Spain

ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF A CLASS OF CHAOTIC SIGNALS USING THE VITERBI ALGORITHM
David Luengo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; Ignacio Santamaria, Luis Vielva, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

IMPROVING THE INITIALISATION AND RELIABILITY OF THE SELF ORGANISING OSCILLATOR NETWORK
Sameh Salem, Lindsay Jack, Asoke Nandi, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

16:50-18:10

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SESSION MonPmOR7: Sampling, Interpolation and Extrapolation

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Moshe Porat, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

16:50 OPTIMAL SAMPLING OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERIODIC BAND-LIMITED SIGNALS
Sayit Korkmaz, Bilkent University, Turkey

17:10 ON THE REPRESENTATION ERROR OF DIGITIZED SIGNALS
Hagai Kirshner, Moshe Porat, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

17:30 BLOCK-BASED RECONSTRUCTION OF SIGNALS FROM NONUNIFORM SAMPLES
T. Engin Tuncer, Bulent Serdaroglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

17:50 OPTIMAL SQUARED-ERROR SIGNAL RECOVERY FROM NONIDEAL SAMPLES
Yonina Eldar, Tsvi Dvorkind, Technion, Israel

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SESSION MonPmOR8: Modulation, Encoding and Multiplexing

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Ali N. Akansu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States

16:50 COMPARISON OF TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR JOINT SOURCE-CHANNEL DECODING OF VARIABLE LENGTH CODES
Pierre Siohan, France Télécom R&D, France; Marion Jeanne, IRISA-INRIA, France

17:10 BIT-FLIPPING POST-PROCESSING FOR FORCED CONVERGENCE DECODING OF LDPC CODES
Ernesto Zimmermann, TU Dresden, Germany; Prakash Pattisapu, STMicroelectronics, India; Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany

17:30 DESIGN OF INTEGER FILTERS FOR TRANSMULTIPLEXER PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION
Bartosz Ziolko, Mariusz Ziolko, Michal Nowak, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland

17:50 NEW ORTHOGONAL BINARY USER CODES FOR MULTIUSER SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS
Radha Poluri, Ali N. Akansu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States

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SESSION MonPmOR9: Multichannel Signal Processing

ORAL

SESSION CHAIR: Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University, United States

16:50 PARAFAC RECEIVER FOR BLIND MULTIUSER EQUALIZATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH TEMPORAL OVERSAMPLING
André de Almeida, Gérard Favier, Laboratoire I3S UNSA/CNRS, France; Joao Mota, Laboratório GTEL/DETI/UFC, Brazil

17:10 MULTICHANNEL BLIND DECONVOLUTION OF IMPULSIVE SIGNALS
Pablo Lecumberri, Marisol Gómez, Alfonso Carlosena, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

17:30 RECONSTRUCTING ULTRASONIC IMAGES AND FLAW DETECTION IN TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN BY MATCHING A-SCAN INSPECTIONS
Addisson Salazar, Jorge Gosalbez, Ignacio Bosch, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

17:50 FEATURE EXTRACTION OF ARTIFICIAL TONGUE DATA USING GRAM-SCHMIDT ORTHONORMALIZATION
Iasen Hristozov, Pencheva Tania, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria; Selim Eskiizmirliler, INSERM U-742 (ANIM), University of Denis Diderot, France

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SESSION MonPmOR10: Ultrasound, Radar and Sonar

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SESSION CHAIR: Erkan Unal Mumcuoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

16:50 BOAT-GENERATED ACOUSTIC TARGET SIGNAL DETECTION BY USE OF AN ADAPTIVE MEDIAN CFAR AND MULTI-FRAME INTEGRATION ALGORITHM
Eric Dahai Cheng, Massimo Piccardi, Tony Jan, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

17:10 DETECTION OF NONLINEARITIES CAUSED BY BUBBLES IN ULTRASONIC SIGNALS
Ramon Miralles, Jorge Gosalbez, Addisson Salazar, Departamento de Comunicaciones (U.P.V.), Spain

17:30 MULTIPARAMETRIC SMOOTHING BASED ON MEAN SHIFT PROCEDURE FOR ULTRASOUND DATA SEGMENTATION
Thomas Grenier, Franck Davignon, Chantal Muller, Olivier Basset, Gérard Gimenez, Creatis, France

17:50 SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGING FROM TRUNCATED DATA
Vito Pascazio, Alessandra Budillon, Daniele Pisa, Universita' di Napoli Parthenope, Italy; Gilda Schirinzi, Universita' di Cassino, Italy

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SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR11: Model-Based Sound Synthesis ( II )

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SESSION ORGANIZERS: Cumhur Erkut, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Vesa Välimäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

SESSION CHAIRS: Cumhur Erkut, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Matti Karjalainin, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

16:50 TENSION MODULATED NONLINEAR 2D MODELS FOR DIGITAL SOUND SYNTHESIS WITH THE FUNCTIONAL TRANSFORMATION METHOD
Stefan Petrausch, Rudolf Rabenstein, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

17:10 DIFFUSION MODELLING AT THE BOUNDARY OF A DIGITAL WAVEGUIDE MESH
Simon Shelley, Damian Murphy, University of York, United Kingdom

17:30 ARTIFICIAL REVERBERATION USING A HYPER-DIMENSIONAL FDTD MESH
Antti Kelloniemi, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Patty Huang, Stanford University, United States; Vesa Välimäki, Lauri Savioja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

17:50 PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES FOR THE PLATE EQUATION ON A FPGA-BASED MULTI-PROCESSOR ARRAY
Erdem Motuk, Roger Woods, Stefan Bilbao, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

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SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR12: Geophysical Signal Processing ( II )

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SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Ali Ozbek, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, United Kingdom; Sinan Ozeren, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

16:50 LOCAL RADON TRANSFORMS VIA GENERALIZED DECONVOLUTION
Mauricio D. Sacchi, University of Alberta, Canada

17:10 MULTIDIMENSIONAL FILTERING OF IRREGULARLY SAMPLED SEISMIC DATA
Ali Özbek, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, United Kingdom; Ralf Ferber, WesternGeco, United Kingdom

17:30 THE LOCAL HARMONIC DECOMPOSITION: A TOOL FOR EXTRACTING ANGLE INFORMATION FROM WAVEFIELDS
Robert Soubaras, Compagnie Générale de Géophysique, France

17:50 ALGORITHMS AND BASIS FUNCTIONS IN TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION OF IONOSPHERIC ELECTRON DENSITY
Ersin Yavuz, Fintek A.S., Turkey; Feza Arikan, Hacettepe University, Turkey; Orhan Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey; Cemil B. Erol, TUBITAK UEKAE ILTAREN, Ankara, Turkey

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SESSION MonPmPO3: Image Segmentation and Performance Evaluation

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SESSION CHAIR: Yucel Yemez, Koc University, Turkey

THE USE OF HILBERT TRANSFORM ON DSNR ANALYSIS OF STEP AND RIDGE EDGE DETECTION
Emir Tufan Akman, Istanbul University, Turkey

A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF COMPETITIVE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR EDGE DETECTION ENHANCEMENT
Tuba Sirin, Mehmet Izzet Saglam, Isin Erer, Muhittin Gokmen, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Okan Ersoy, Purdue University, United States

THRESHOLDING-BASED SEGMENTATION AND APPLE GRADING BY MACHINE VISION
Devrim Unay, Bernard Gosselin, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

MULTISCALE EDGE DETECTION AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION
Baris Sumengen, B. S. Manjunath, UC, Santa Barbara, United States

NEW ALGORITHM FOR KIKUCHI LINES DETECTION IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGES
Tomasz Zielinski, Rafal Fraczek, AGH - University of Science and Technology, Poland

REGION-LEVEL MOVING OBJECT SEGMENTATION BY GRAPH LABELING
Ilias Grinias, Georgios Tziritas, University of Crete, Greece

IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING COLOR AND TEXTURE FEATURES
Ediz Polat, Mustafa Ozden, Kirikkale University, Turkey

A JOINT MOTION SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM FOR VIDEO CODING
Sylvain Boltz, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud, Laboratory I3s, University of Nice / CNRS, France

VIDEO FRAME SEGMENTATION USING COMPETITIVE CONTOURS
Piotr Stec, University of Zielona Gora, Poland; Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

OFF-LINE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION AND RECOGNITION BY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
Emre Ozgunduz, Tulin Senturk, Elif Karsligil, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey

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SESSION MonPmPO4: DSP Implementation

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SESSION CHAIR: Cem Göknar, Dogus University, Turkey

A FRAMEWORK FOR FPGA BASED DISCRETE BIORTHOGONAL WAVELET TRANSFORMS IMPLEMENTATION
Isa Servan Uzun, Abbes Amira, The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

VOICE TRANSFORMATION ALGORITHMS WITH REAL TIME DSP RAPID PROTOTYPING TOOLS
Graziano Bertini, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - CNR (I), Italy

ARCHITECTURAL OPTIMIZATIONS FOR SOFTWARE-BASED MPEG4 VIDEO ENCODER
Farooq Nasim, Shahid Masud, Nadeem Khan, Kamran Virk, Ayesha Farrukh, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR REAL-TIME SYSTEMS WITH DSP AND RISC ARCHITECTURES
Iskender Serhat Koç, Nortel NETAS, Turkey

PIPELINED MEMORY CONTROLLERS FOR DSP REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS HANDLING UNPREDICTABLE DATA ACCESSES
Bertrand Le Gal, Emmanuel Casseau, Eric Martin, LESTER Lab., France

100% OPERATIONAL EFFICIENT BIT-SERIAL PROGRAMMABLE FIR DIGITAL FILTERS
Paraskevas Kalivas, Andreas Tsirikos, Paul Bougas, Kiamal Pekmestzi, Technical University of Athens, Greece

DESIGN AND AUTOMATIC CODE GENERATION OF A TWO-DIMENSIONAL FAST COSINE TRANSFORM FOR SIMD DSP ARCHITECTURES
Arne Lehman, Pablo Robelly, Gerhard Fettweis, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany

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6 September 2005, Tuesday

08:30-10:30

SESSION TueAmOR1: Segmentation and Object Tracking

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SESSION CHAIR: Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

08:30 FAST IMPLEMENTATION OF VARIATIONAL, CONTOUR-BASED OBJECT TRACKING
Petr Dokladal, School of Mines of Paris, France; Eva Dokladalova, CEA, France

08:50 OBJECT TRACKING BASED ON MULTISCALE MORPHOLOGICAL TEMPLATES
Georgios N. Stamou, Nikos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

09:10 3D TRACKING OF LICENSE PLATE FROM MONOCULAR CAMERA VIEW
Ilhan Kubilay Yalçin, TÜBITAK MAM BTAE, Turkey

09:30 FEATURE-BASED TRACKING USING 3D PHYSICS-BASED DEFORMABLE SURFACES
Michail Krinidis, Nikos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

09:50 WAVELET BASED REAL-TIME SMOKE DETECTION IN VIDEO
B. Ugur Töreyin, Yigithan Dedeoglu, A. Enis Cetin, Bilkent University, Turkey

10:10 STATIC AND DYNAMIC FEATURE-BASED VISUAL ATTENTION MODEL: COMPARAISON WITH HUMAN JUDGMENT
Mickael Guironnet, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux (LIS), France; Nathalie Guyader, University College London, United Kingdom; Denis Pellerin, Patricia Ladret, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux (LIS), France

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SESSION TueAmOR2: Image Filtering

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SESSION CHAIR: Alptekin Temizel, Honeywell Video Systems-Visioprime, United Kingdom

08:30 WAVELET DOMAIN IMAGE RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT USING CYCLE SPINNING AND EDGE MODELLING
Alptekin Temizel, Honeywell Video Systems-Visioprime, United Kingdom; Theo Vlachos, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

08:50 AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR ATTRIBUTE OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS
Jerome Darbon, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France; Ceyhun Burak Akgul, Bogazici University, Turkey

09:10 ADAPTABLE MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY IN D DIMENSIONS USING THE SEPARABLE EUCLIDEAN DT IN D+1 DIMENSIONS
Olivier Cuisenaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

09:30 IMAGE DENOISING USING OVER-COMPLETE WAVELET REPRESENTATIONS
Slaven Marusic, The University of New South Wales, Australia; Guang Deng, David B. H. Tay, La Trobe University, Australia

09:50 QUADRATIC WEIGHTED MEDIAN FILTERS FOR NOISY IMAGE SHARPENING
Tuncer Can Aysal, Kenneth E. Barner, University of Delaware, United States

10:10 DENOISING OF IMAGES WITH MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE CORRUPTION
Zhiling Long, Nicolas Younan, Mississippi State University, United States

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SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR3: OFDM and MC-CDMA Systems

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SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Hikmet Sari, Supelec, France

08:30 SINGLE-CARRIER TRANSMISSION WITH ITERATIVE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN DECISION-FEEDBACK EQUALIZATION
Hikmet Sari, Sainte-Agathe Frédérique, Supelec, France

08:50 FREQUENCY SELECTIVE FADING CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN OFDM SYSTEMS USING KL EXPANSION
Habib Senol, Kadir Has University, Turkey; Hakan Ali Cirpan, Istanbul University, Turkey; Erdal Panayirci, Isik University, Turkey

09:10 BIT RATE COMPARISON BETWEEN MIMO CYCLICALLY PREFIXED SINGLE CARRIER AND MULTICARRIER TRANSMISSIONS
Bertrand Devillers, Thierry Sartenaer, Luc Vandendorpe, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

09:30 MULTI-CARRIER SIGNAL SHAPING EMPLOYING HERMITE FUNCTIONS
Tolga Kurt, University of Ottawa, Canada; Mohamed Siala, Sup Com, Tunisia; Abbas Yongacoglu, University of Ottawa, Canada

09:50 MC-CDMA VERSUS OFDMA IN CELLULAR ENVIRONMENTS
Simon Plass, Stefan Kaiser, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

10:10 ON INTER-CELL INTERFERENCE IN OFDMA WIRELESS SYSTEMS
Jean-Philippe Javaudin, France Telecom, France

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SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR4: NEWCOM Session on the Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Wireless Communications ( I )

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SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Erdal Panayirci, Isik University, Turkey; Hakan Ali Cirpan, Istanbul University, Turkey

08:30 SYNCHRONIZATION OF ENERGY CAPTURE RECEIVERS FOR UWB APPLICATIONS
Cecilia Carbonelli, Umberto Mengali, University of Pisa, Italy

08:50 A FACTOR GRAPH APPROACH TO DESIGN CLOSE-TO-OPTIMAL RECEIVERS IN THE PRESENCE OF A TIMING UNCERTAINTY.
Cédric Herzet, Luc Vandendorpe, Valéry Ramon, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

09:10 CODE-AIDED JOINT CHANNEL AND FREQUENCY ESTIMATION FOR A ST-BICM MULTI-USER DS-CDMA SYSTEM
Mamoun Guenach, Frederik Simoens, Henk Wymeersch, Marc Moeneclaey, Ghent University, Belgium

09:30 PEAK POWER REDUCTION IN OFDM SYSTEMS USING DYNAMIC CONSTELLATION SHAPING
Serdar Sezginer, Hikmet Sari, Supélec, France

09:50 OPTIMAL DESIGN OF NONCOHERENT CAYLEY UNITARY SPACE-TIME CODES
Jibing Wang, Qualcomm Inc., United States; Xiaodong Wang, Columbia University, United States; Mohammad Madihian, NEC Labs, United States

10:10 A SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO METHOD FOR BLIND PHASE NOISE ESTIMATION AND DATA DETECTION
Erdal Panayirci, Isik University, Turkey; Hakan Ali Cirpan, Istanbul University, Turkey; Marc Moeneclaey, University of Gent, Belgium

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SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR5: Bayesian Source Separation

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SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Kevin Knuth, NASA, United States; Ercan Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR, Italy

08:30 INFORMED SOURCE SEPARATION: A BAYESIAN TUTORIAL
Kevin Knuth, NASA Ames Research Center, United States

08:50 A MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION APPROACH TO BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION WITH LP PRIORS
Mahieddine M. Ichir, Ali Mohammad-Djafari, L2S, CNRS-Supélec-UPSUD, France

09:10 BLIND SEPARATION OF SPARSE SOURCES USING VARIATIONAL EM
Ali Taylan Cemgil, Cédric Févotte, Simon J. Godsill, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

09:30 COPING WITH TRIAL-TO-TRIAL VARIABILITY OF EVENT RELATED SIGNALS: A BAYESIAN INFERENCE APPROACH
Mingzhou Ding, University of Florida, United States; Kevin Knuth, NASA Ames Research Center, United States; Yonghong Chen, University of Florida, United States; Steven Bressler, Florida Atlantic University, United States; Charles Schroeder, Nathan Kline Psychiatric Institute, United States

09:50 MARGINALIZED PARTICLE FILTERING FOR BLIND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
Michael Daly, Jim Reilly, McMaster University, Canada

10:10 BAYESIAN MRF-BASED BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION OF CONVOLUTIVE MIXTURES OF IMAGES
Anna Tonazzini, ISTI- CNR, Italy; Ivan Gerace, Università di Perugia- Dip. Matematica e Informatica, Italy

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SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR6: SIMILAR Session on Multimodal Signal Processing

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SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

08:30 A MULTIMODAL APPROACH TO EXTRACT OPTIMIZED AUDIO FEATURES FOR SPEAKER DETECTION
Patricia Besson, Murat Kunt, Torsten Butz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

08:50 IMPACT OF SAMPLE SIZES ON INFORMATION THEORETIC MEASURES FOR AUDIO-VISUAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Ivana Arsic, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ninoslav Marina, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

09:10 BIMODAL COMBINATION OF SPEECH AND HANDWRITING FOR IMPROVED WORD RECOGNITION
Pascale Woodruff, TCTS lab, FPMs, Belgium; Stéphane Dupont, Multitel ASBL, Belgium

09:30 PASSIVE VERSUS ACTIVE: VOCAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
Hammal Zakia, LIS, France; Bozkurt Baris, Couvreur Laurent, Unay Devrim, SPL, FPM, Belgium; Caplier Alice, LIS, France; Dutoit Thierry, SPL,FPM, Belgium

09:50 MULTIMODAL SEGMENTATION COMBINING ACTIVE CONTOURS AND WATERSHEDS
Cédric De Roover, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Ariane Herbulot, CNRS - I3S, France; Annabelle Gouze, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud, CNRS - I3S, France; Benoit Macq, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

10:10 AUDITORY EYES: REPRESENTING VISUAL INFORMATION IN SOUND AND TACTILE CUES
Suresh Matta, Heiko Rudolph, Dinesh K Kumar, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

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SESSION TueAmPO1: Image Watermarking

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SESSION CHAIR: Ahmet M Eskicioglu, CUNY Brooklyn College, United States

VIDEO WATERMARKING FOR DIGITAL CINEMA CONTENTS
Sadi Vural, Hiromi Tomii, Hironori Yamauchi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

DIGITAL WATERMARK TECHNIQUE FOR PROJECTIVE-DISTORTED IMAGES USING COLLINEAR POINTS
Natapon Pantuwong, Wiyada Yawai, Nopporn Chotikakamthorn, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

RELIABLE IMAGE/VIDEO WATERMARK RETRIEVAL IN THE PRESENCE OF LOSSY COMPRESSION
Qing Chen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, United States; Henri Maitre, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France

SAFE ROIS OF COLOR IMAGES BY INDUCTIVE DATA HIDING
Gregory Lo-Varco, William Puech, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France

IMAGE WATERMARKING BASED ON WAVELET HARD THRESHOLDING
Mahmood Al-khassaweneh, Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University, United States

A NEW VIDEO AUTHENTICATION TEMPLATE BASED ON BUBBLE RANDOM SAMPLING
Fabrizio Guerrini, SCL- DEA University of Brescia, Italy; Riccardo Leonardi, Pierangelo Migliorati, SCL - DEA University of Brescia, Italy

SINGLE AND MULTIPLE SPREAD SPECTRUM WATERMARKING BASED ON PERIODIC CLOCK CHANGES
Vincent Martin, Marie Chabert, ENSEEIHT/IRIT, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France; Bernard Lacaze, INSA/IRIT, France

A JUST-NOTICEABLE DISTORTION (JND) PROFILE FOR BALANCED MULTIWAVELETS
Lahouari Ghouti, Ahmed Bouridane, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom

WATERMARKING POLYGONAL LINES USING AN OPTIMAL DETECTOR ON THE FOURIER DESCRIPTORS DOMAIN
Victor Rodriguez-Doncel, Nikos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

IMAGE MANIPULATION DETECTION WITH BINARY SIMILARITY MEASURES
Sevinc Bayram, Ismail Avcibas, Uludag University, Turkey; Bülent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey; Nasir Memon, Polytechnic University, United States

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SESSION TueAmPO2: Statistical Signal Processing (Poster I)

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SESSION CHAIR: Yasemin Yardimci, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

LINE SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF QUADRATIC MODELS
Tom Bäckström, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

ENHANCED LINE SEARCH : A NOVEL METHOD TO ACCELERATE PARAFAC
Myriam Rajih, I3S - UNSA/CNRS, France; Pierre Comon, I3S - CNRS, France

HOS-BASED MULTI-COMPONENT FREQUENCY ESTIMATION
Maciej Pedzisz, Ali Mansour, ENSIETA, France

CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS (CCA) ALGORITHMS FOR MULTIPLE DATA SETS: APPLICATION TO BLIND SIMO EQUALIZATION
Javier Vía, Ignacio Santamaría, Jesús Pérez, University of Cantabria, Spain

SNR IN WSS JITTERED SAMPLED SIGNAL
Ehsan Arbabi, Mohammad Bagher Shamsollahi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

BAYESIAN MAXIMUM A POSTERIOR DOA ESTIMATOR BASED ON GIBBS SAMPLING
Jianguo Huang, Xiong Li, Qunfei Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

BLIND SEPARATION OF BINAURAL SOUND MIXTURES USING SIMO-ICA WITH SELF-GENERATOR FOR INITIAL FILTER
Tomoya Takatani, Satoshi Ukai, Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Hiroshi Saruwatari, Kiyohiro Shikano, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

IMPROVED BEARING ESTIMATION IN OCEAN BY NONLINEAR WAVELET DENOISING UNDER NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE CONDITIONS
Pramod N C, Anand G V, Indian Institute of Science, India

MULTIPATH CHANNEL ESTIMATION VIA THE MPM ALGORITHM
Olivier Rabaste, Thierry Chonavel, ENST Bretagne, France

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION OF NOISY MIXTURES USING A SEMI-PARAMETRIC APPROACH WITH APPLICATION TO HEAVY-TAILED SIGNALS
Mohamed Sahmoudi, Karim Abed-Meraim, Telecom Paris, France; Marc Lavielle, Estelle Kuhn, Université Paris-Sud, France; Phillip Ciblat, Telecom Paris, France

ADAPTIVE COMMON ROOT ESTIMATION AND THE COMMON ZEROS PROBLEM IN BLIND CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION
Nikolay Gaubitch, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Jacob Benesty, Université du Québec, INRS-EMT, Canada; Patrick Naylor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

TWO-STAGE BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION COMBINING SIMO-MODEL-BASED ICA AND ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING
Hiroshi Saruwatari, Satoshi Ukai, Tomoya Takatani, Tsuyoki Nishikawa, Kiyohiro Shikano, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

A NEW METHOD FOR ESTIMATING SCORE FUNCTION DIFFERENCE (SFD) AND ITS APPLICATION TO BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION
Bahman Bahmani, Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Sharif University of Technology, Iran; Christian Jutten, INPG, France

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH OPTIMIZED PAIRWISE PROCESSING
Vicente Zarzoso, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; Juan J. Murillo-Fuentes, Rafael Boloix-Tortosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain; Asoke K. Nandi, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

THREE-DIMENSIONAL AUTOREGRESSIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION FROM NOISY DATA
Youssef Stitou, LAPS - Univesité Bordeaux1, France; Marc Donias, LAPS - ENSEIRB, France; Brahim Aksasse, Departement informatique - FTS - Errachidia, Morocco

A SUBSPACE METHOD FOR THE BLIND EXTRACTION OF A CYCLOSTATIONARY SOURCE
Roger Boustany, Jérôme Antoni, University of Technology of Compiègne, France

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SESSION TueAmOR7: Multicarrier Systems and OFDM

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SESSION CHAIR: Tricia Willink, Communications Research Centre, Canada

10:50 PILOT-SYMBOL-AIDED ITERATIVE CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR OFDM-BASED SYSTEMS
Berna Ozbek, Didier Le Ruyet, Cristiano Panazio, CNAM, France

11:10 WINDOWING TECHNIQUES FOR ICI MITIGATION IN MULTICARRIER SYSTEMS
Luca Rugini, Paolo Banelli, University of Perugia - DIEI, Italy

11:30 DHT-BASED FREQUENCY-DOMAIN EQUALIZER FOR DMT SYSTEMS
Chih-Feng Wu, Muh-Tian Shiue, Chrong-Kuang Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

11:50 ON THE PERFORMANCE OF STANDARD-INDEPENDENT I/Q IMBALANCE COMPENSATION IN OFDM DIRECT-CONVERSION RECEIVERS
Marcus Windisch, Gerhard Fettweis, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

12:10 LOW-COMPLEXITY METHOD FOR PAPR REDUCTION IN OFDM BASED ON FRAME EXPANSION PARAMETER SELECTION
Lucia Valbonesi, Rashid Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

12:30 LOW COMPLEXITY ITERATIVE METHOD OF SIGNAL DETECTION IN OFDM
Sajid Ahmed, Mathini Sellathurai, Cardiff University, United Kingdom; Sangarapillai Lambotharan, Kings Collage London, United Kingdom; Jonathon Chambers, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

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SESSION TueAmOR8: Image Registration and Motion Estimation

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SESSION CHAIR: Yehoshua Zeevi, Technion, Israel

10:50 TEMPORAL DETECTION AND PROCESSING OF TRANSPARENT OVERLAYS FOR VIDEO INDEXING AND ENHANCEMENT
Ahmet Ekin, Radu Jasinschi, Philips Research, Netherlands

11:10 GRAPH-THEORETIC IMAGE REGISTRATION USING PRIOR EXAMPLES
Mert Sabuncu, Peter Ramadge, Princeton University, United States

11:30 ESTIMATION OF TRANSPARENT MOTIONS WITH PHYSICAL MODELS FOR ADDITIONAL BRIGHTNESS VARIATION
Hanno Scharr, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; Ingo Stuke, Cicero Mota, Erhardt Barth, Lübeck University, Germany

11:50 MULTIRESOLUTION MOTION ESTIMATION FOR OMNIDIRECTIONAL IMAGES
Ivana Tosic, Iva Bogdanova, Pascal Frossard, Pierre Vandergheynst, EPFL, Switzerland

12:10 COMPLEX DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM BASED MOTION ESTIMATION FOR VISION-BASED TRACKING OF TARGETS
Sener Yilmaz, Aselsan Inc., Turkey; Mete Severcan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

12:30 3D CUBE VIDEO CODING USING PHASE-BASED MOTION ESTIMATION AND EZW-IP CODER
Kiyohiro Uemura, Masaaki Ikehara, Keio