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Session Schedule (Download Printable Version) September 4 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 8

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

4 September 2005, SUNDAY 10:00 - 11:20 Hour Session Place Type

16:00 – 17:30 SunPmPO1: SIMILAR Interfaces for Handicapped TURKUAZ POSTER top>> 5 September 2005, MONDAY

8:30 - 09:40 Opening

10:00 - 11:20 Hour Session Place Type

10:00 – 11:20 MonAmOR1: Adaptive Filters (Oral I) PLATIN I ORAL

10:00 – 11:20 MonAmOR2: Brain Computer Interface ALTIN ORAL

10:00 – 11:20 MonAmOR3: Speech Analysis, Production and Perception GÜMÜ? ORAL

10:00 – 11:20 MonAmOR4: Hardware Implementations of DSP Algorithms TOMBAK ORAL

10:00 – 11:20 MonAmOR5: Independent Component Analysis and Source Seperation YAKUT ORAL

10:00 – 11:00 SPECIAL SESSION MonAmOR6: MIMO Propagation and Channel Modeling PLATIN II ORAL

11:30 - 12:50 Hour Session Place Type

11:30 – 12:50 MonAmOR7: Adaptive Filters (Oral II) PLATIN I ORAL

11:30 – 12:50 MonAmOR8: Speech Synthesis GÜMÜ? ORAL

11:30 – 12:50 MonAmOR9: Signal and System Modeling and System Identification YAKUT ORAL

11:30 – 12:50 MonAmOR10: Multiview Image Processing TOMBAK ORAL

11:30 – 12:50 MonAmOR11: Cardiovascular System Analysis ALTIN ORAL

11:30 – 12:50 MonAmOR12: Channel Modeling, Estimation and Equalization PLATIN II ORAL LUNCH

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 Hour Session Place Type

15:10 – 16:30 MonPmOR1: Signal Reconstruction PLATIN I ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 MonPmOR2: Image Segmentation and Performance Evaluation TOMBAK ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR3: Model-Based Sound Synthesis (I) GÜMÜ? ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR4: Security of Data Hiding and Watermarking (I) YAKUT ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR5: Geophysical Signal Processing (I) ALTIN ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 MonPmOR6: Speech Recognition PLATIN II ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 MonPmPO1: Channel Modeling, Estimation and Equalization TURKUAZ POSTER
15:10 – 16:30 MonPmPO2: Nonlinear Methods in Signal Processing TURKUAZ POSTER 16:50 - 18:10
Hour Session Place Type

16:50 – 18:10 MonPmOR7: Sampling, Interpolation and Extrapolation PLATIN I ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 MonPmOR8: Modulation, Encoding and Multiplexing PLATIN II ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 MonPmOR9: Multichannel Signal Processing YAKUT ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 MonPmOR10: Ultrasound, Radar and Sonar TOMBAK ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR11: Model-Based Sound Synthesis (II) GÜMÜ? ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR12: Geophysical Signal Processing (II) ALTIN ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 MonPmPO3: Image Segmentation and Performance Evaluation TURKUAZ POSTER
16:50 – 18:10 MonPmPO4: DSP Implementation TURKUAZ POSTER top>> 6 September 2005, TUESDAY

08:30 - 10:30 Hour Session Place Type

08:30 – 10:30 TueAmOR1: Segmentation and Object Tracking YAKUT ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 TueAmOR2: Image Filtering TOMBAK ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR3: OFDM and MC-CDMA Systems PLATIN II ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR4: NEWCOM Session on the Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Wireless Communications (I) ALTIN ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR5: Bayesian Source Separation PLATIN I ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR6: SIMILAR Session on Multimodal Signal Processing GÜMÜ? ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 TueAmPO1: Image Watermarking TURKUAZ POSTER 08:30 – 10:30 TueAmPO2: Statistical Signal Processing (Poster I) TURKUAZ POSTER 10:50 - 12:50 Hour Session Place Type

10:50 – 12:50 TueAmOR7: Multicarrier Systems and OFDM PLATIN II ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 TueAmOR8: Image Registration and Motion Estimation YAKUT ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 TueAmOR9: Image and Video Filtering TOMBAK ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR10: NEWCOM Session on the Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Wireless Communications (II) ALTIN ORAL

10:50 – 12:30 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR11: Novel Directions in Information Theoretic Approaches to Source Separation and Estimation PLATIN I ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR12: Partial Update Adaptive Filters and Sparse Systems GÜMÜ? ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 TueAmPO3: Biomedical Signal Processing TURKUAZ POSTER 10:50 – 12:50 TueAmPO4: Statistical Signal Processing (Poster II) TURKUAZ POSTER LUNCH 14:00 - 14:50 PLENARY LECTURE: EC PROGRAMS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING: FP6 AND BEYOND Eric Badique, European Commission top>> 7 September 2005, WEDNESDAY

08:30 - 10:30 Hour Session Place Type

08:30 – 10:30 WedAmOR1: Nonstationary Signal Processing PLATIN I ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 WedAmOR2: MIMO and Space-Time Processing PLATIN II ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 WedAmOR3: Image Coding YAKUT ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 WedAmOR4: Detection and Estimation GÜMÜ? ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR5: Methods to Improve and Measures to Assess Visual Quality of Images and Video ALTIN ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR6: Recent Advances in Restoration of Audio TOMBAK ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 WedAmPO1: Adaptive Filters TURKUAZ POSTER
08:30 – 10:30 WedAmPO2: Multirate Filtering and Filter Banks TURKUAZ POSTER

10:50 - 12:50 Hour Session Place Type

10:50 – 12:50 WedAmOR7: Filter Design and Structures PLATIN I ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR8: Space-Time Coding, MIMO Systems and Beamforming PLATIN II ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR9: Security of Data Hiding and Watermarking (II) GÜMÜ? ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR10: Recent Applications in Time-Frequency Analysis TOMBAK ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR11: Novel Representations of Visual Information for Analysis and Classification ALTIN ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 WedAmPO3: Image Coding TURKUAZ POSTER
10:50 – 12:50 WedAmPO4: Video Coding TURKUAZ POSTER LUNCH

14:00 - 14:50 PLENARY LECTURE: ADVANCES IN VIDEO COMPRESSION Jens Rainer Ohm, University of Aachen, Germany

15:10 - 16:30 Hour Session Place Type

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmOR1: Speech Coding TOMBAK ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmOR2: Bioinformatics GÜMÜ? ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmOR3: Array Signal Processing PLATIN I ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmOR4: Sensor Signal Processing ALTIN ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmOR5: VESTEL Session on Video Coding (I) YAKUT ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmOR6: Multimedia Communications and Networking PLATIN II ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 WedPmPO1: Signal Processing for Communications TURKUAZ POSTER
15:10 – 16:30 WedPmPO2: Image Analysis, Classification and Pattern Recognition TURKUAZ POSTER
16:50 - 18:10 Hour Session Place Type

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmOR7: Beamforming PLATIN I ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmOR8: Synchronization PLATIN II ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmOR9: Radar ALTIN ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmOR10: VESTEL Session on Video Coding (II) YAKUT ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmOR11: Machine Learning GÜMÜ? ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmOR12: MUSCLE Session on Anthropocentric Multimedia Data Analysis TOMBAK ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 WedPmPO3: Multiresolution and Time-Frequency Processing TURKUAZ POSTER 16:50 – 18:10 WedPmPO4: I) Machine Vision, II) Facial Feature Analysis TURKUAZ POSTER top>> 8 September 2005, THURSDAY 08:30 - 10:30 Hour Session Place Type

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR1: 3DTV (I) TOMBAK ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 ThuAmOR2: Performance Analysis, Optimization and Limits in Communications ALTIN ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 ThuAmOR3: Face and Head Recognition YAKUT ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR4: MIMO Receivers PLATIN II ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR5: Particle Filtering PLATIN I ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR6: Geometric Compression GÜMÜ? ORAL

08:30 – 10:30 ThuAmPO1: Speech, speaker and language recognition TURKUAZ POSTER
08:30 – 10:30 ThuAmPO2: Topics in Audio Processing TURKUAZ POSTER

10:50 - 12:50 Hour Session Place Type

10:50 – 12:50 ThuAmOR7: Statistical Signal Analysis GÜMÜ? ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 ThuAmOR8: Image Watermarking ALTIN ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 ThuAmOR9: Source Localization and Separation PLATIN I ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR10: MIMO Hardware and Rapid Prototyping PLATIN II ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR11: BIOSECURE Session on Multimodal Biometrics (I) YAKUT ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR12: 3DTV (II) TOMBAK ORAL

10:50 – 12:50 ThuAmPO3: Biomedical Signal Processing (Human Neural System Analysis) TURKUAZ POSTER 10:50 – 12:50 ThuAmPO4: Speech Enhancement and Noise Reduction TURKUAZ POSTER LUNCH

14:00 - 14:50 PLENARY LECTURE: OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING Haldun Ozaktas, Bilkent University, Turkey

15:10 - 16:30 Hour Session Place Type

15:10 – 16:30 ThuPmOR1: Isolated Word Recognition PLATIN II ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 ThuPmOR2: Biomedical Signal Analysis TOMBAK ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 ThuPmOR3: Multiuser Communications (I) GÜMÜ? ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 ThuPmOR4: Architecture and VLSI Hardware (I) ALTIN ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 ThuPmOR5: Signal Processing for Music PLATIN I ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 SPECIAL SESSION ThuPmOR6: BIOSECURE Session on Multimodal Biometrics (II) YAKUT ORAL

15:10 – 16:30 ThuPmPO1: Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval TURKUAZ POSTER

16:50 - 18:50 Hour Session Place Type

16:50 – 18:10 ThuPmOR7: Architecture and VLSI Hardware (II) ALTIN ORAL

16:50 – 17:50 ThuPmOR8: Multiuser Communications (II) GÜMÜ? ORAL

16:50 – 18:30 ThuPmOR9: Communication Applications PLATIN II ORAL

16:50 – 18:30 ThuPmOR10: Astronomy TOMBAK ORAL

16:50 – 18:10 ThuPmOR11: Face and Head Motion and Models YAKUT ORAL

16:50 – 18:50 SPECIAL SESSION ThuPmOR12: Ultra wideband PLATIN I ORAL 4 September 2005, Sunday

16:00-17:30 top>> 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 top>> 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 ORAL 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 top>> 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 top>> 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 top>> 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. Řien, 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 top>> 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 Servičre, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France top>> 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, Hélčne Laurent, Bruno Emile, LVR, France top>> 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 top>> 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 top>> SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR5: Geophysical Signal Processing ( I ) ORAL 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 top>> 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 top>> 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 top>> SESSION MonPmPO2: Nonlinear Methods in Signal Processing (Poster) POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Kerem Harmanc?, Bo?aziçi 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 top>> 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 top>> 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 top>> 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 top>> SESSION MonPmOR10: Ultrasound, Radar and Sonar ORAL 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 top>> SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR11: Model-Based Sound Synthesis ( II ) 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 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 top>> SPECIAL SESSION MonPmOR12: Geophysical Signal Processing ( II ) ORAL 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 top>> SESSION MonPmPO3: Image Segmentation and Performance Evaluation POSTER 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 top>> SESSION MonPmPO4: DSP Implementation POSTER 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 top>> 6 September 2005, Tuesday 08:30-10:30 SESSION TueAmOR1: Segmentation and Object Tracking ORAL 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 top>> SESSION TueAmOR2: Image Filtering ORAL 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 top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR3: OFDM and MC-CDMA Systems ORAL 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 top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR4: NEWCOM Session on the Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Wireless Communications ( I ) ORAL 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 top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR5: Bayesian Source Separation ORAL 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, Universitŕ di Perugia- Dip. Matematica e Informatica, Italy top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR6: SIMILAR Session on Multimodal Signal Processing ORAL 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 top>> SESSION TueAmPO1: Image Watermarking POSTER 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 top>> SESSION TueAmPO2: Statistical Signal Processing (Poster I) POSTER 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 Compičgne, France 10:50-12:50 top>> SESSION TueAmOR7: Multicarrier Systems and OFDM ORAL 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 top>> SESSION TueAmOR8: Image Registration and Motion Estimation ORAL 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 University, Japan top>> SESSION TueAmOR9: Image and Video Filtering ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Joel Trussell, North Carolina State University, United States 10:50 A NEW METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING OPTICAL TURBULENCE IN VIDEO Dalong Li, Russell. M Mersereau, David H. Frakes, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Mark J. T. Smith, Purdue University, United States 11:10 LOW COMPLEXITY TWO CLASSES GAUSS WEIGHTING FILTER FOR NOISE REDUCTION IN MOBILE RECEIVED ANALOG TV SIGNALS Markus Friebe, André Kaup, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 11:30 FULL OCCLUSION MANAGEMENT FOR WAVELET-BASED VIDEO CODING Thomas André, Marc Antonini, Michel Barlaud, I3S Laboratory - CNRS - University of Nice, France 11:50 AUTOMATIC TV LOGO REMOVAL USING STATISTICAL BASED LOGO DETECTION AND FREQUENCY SELECTIVE INPAINTING Katrin Meisinger, Tobias Troeger, Marcus Zeller, André Kaup, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 12:10 IMPROVED FREQUENCY DOMAIN SUPER-RESOLUTION ALGORITHM WITH CONJUGATE GRADIENT – NUFFT METHOD AS ITS RECONSTRUCTION CORE Krzysztof Malczewski, Ryszard Stasinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 12:30 CLASSIFICATION BASED DATA MIXING FOR HYBRID DE-INTERLACING TECHNIQUES Meng Zhao, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands; Calina Ciuhu, Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Netherlands; Gerard de Haan, Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR10: NEWCOM Session on the Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms for Wireless Communications ( II ) ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Erdal Panayirci, Isik University, Turkey; Hakan Ali Cirpan, Istanbul University, Turkey 10:50 MULTI-RELAY STRATEGY FOR IMPERFECT CHANNEL INFORMATION IN SENSOR NETWORKS Nima Khajehnouri, Ali H. Sayed, UCLA, United States 11:10 EVOLUTIONARY WIENER-MASK RECEIVER FOR MULTIUSER DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM Abdullah A. Alshehri, Jeddah College of Technology, Saudi Arabia; Luis F. Chaparro, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Aydin Akan, Istanbul University, Turkey 11:30 A SUBSPACE METHOD FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN SOFT-ITERATIVE RECEIVERS Monica Barbara Nicoli, Umberto Spagnolini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 11:50 APPROXIMATE BEST LINEAR UNBIASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION WITH CFAR THRESHOLDING FOR FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SPARSE MULTIPATH CHANNELS WITH LONG DELAY SPREADS Serdar Özen, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey 12:10 HMM-BASED TRACKING OF MOVING TERMINALS IN DENSE MULTIPATH INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS Monica Barbara Nicoli, Carlo Morelli, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Vittorio Rampa, CNR - Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Umberto Spagnolini, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR11: Novel Directions in Information Theoretic Approaches to Source Separation and Estimation ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Sharif University of Technology, Iran; Christian Jutten, INPG, France 10:50 CAN WE ALWAYS TRUST ENTROPY MINIMA IN THE ICA CONTEXT ? Frédéric Vrins, John Aldo Lee, Michel Verleysen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 11:10 MUTUAL INFORMATION AND QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE FOR POST NONLINEAR BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION Sophie Achard, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Christian Jutten, INPG, France; Dinh Tuan Pham, CNRS, France 11:30 ICA BY MUTUAL INFORMATION MINIMIZATION: AN APPROACH FOR AVOIDING LOCAL MINIMA Massoud Babaie-Zadeh, Bahman Bahmani, Sharif University of technology, Iran; Christian Jutten, LIS, INPG, France 11:50 COMPLEX ICA FOR CIRCULAR AND NON-CIRCULAR SOURCES Jan Eriksson, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 12:10 MUTUAL INFORMATION APPROACH TO BLIND SEPARATION-DECONVOLUTION Dinh-Tuan Pham, Laboratoire de Modélisation et Calcul, CNRS, France 12:30 MULTIDIMENSIONAL INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS USING CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS Fabian Joachim Theis, University of Regensburg, Germany top>> SPECIAL SESSION TueAmOR12: Partial Update Adaptive Filters and Sparse Systems ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Kutluyil Dogancay, University of South Australia, Australia; Patrick Naylor, Imperial College, United Kingdom 10:50 RECENT ADVANCES IN PARTIAL UPDATE AND SPARSE ADAPTIVE FILTERS Kutluyil Dogancay, University of South Australia, Australia; Patrick A. Naylor, Imperial College, United Kingdom 11:10 A SET-MEMBERSHIP APPROACH TO NORMALIZED PROPORTIONATE ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS Stefan Werner, HUT, Finland; Jose Apolinario, IME, Brazil; Paulo Diniz, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil; Timo Laakso, HUT, Finland 11:30 DATA-DEPENDENT PARTIAL UPDATE ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS FOR LINEAR AND NONLINEAR SYSTEMS Tyseer Aboulnasr, Qiongfeng Pan, University of Ottawa, Canada 11:50 A NEW MULTI-ALGORITHM APPROACH TO SPARSE SYSTEM ADAPTATION Ashrith Deshpande, Steven L. Grant, University of Missouri -- Rolla, United States 12:10 AN IMPROVED PROPORTIONATE MULTI-DELAY BLOCK ADAPTIVE FILTER FOR PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORK ECHO CANCELLATION Andy Khong, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Jacob Benesty, Universite du Quebec, INRS-EMT, Canada; Patrick Naylor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom 12:30 DOA-DETECTION GUIDED NLMS ADAPTIVE ARRAY John Homer, University of Queensland, Australia; Peter Kootsookos, United Technologies Research Center, United States; Vigneswaran Selvaraju, Hatch Associates, Australia top>> SESSION TueAmPO3: Biomedical Signal Processing POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Ziya Telatar, Ankara University, Turkey DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS USING TEXTURAL FEATURES OF THE LACHRYMAL FLUID CRYSTAL IMAGES Alexander Kupriyanov, Nataly Ilyasova, Alexander Malapheyev, Image Processing Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION OF FLUORESCENT IN SITU CASES Francesco Raimondo, Marios Gavrielides, Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory of Thessaloniki, Greece; Georgia Karayannopoulou, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Kleoniki Lyroudia, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Ioannis Pitas, Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory of Thessaloniki, Greece WEANING FROM MECHANICAL VENTILATION: FEATURE EXTRACTION FROM A STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING VIEWPOINT Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera, Rodrigo de-Luis-García, Federico Simmross-Wattenberg, Carlos Alberola-López, Laboratorio de Procesado de Imagen. ETSI Telecomunicación. Universidad de Valladolid., Spain ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF POSITIVITY CONSTRAINT FOR SOURCE SEPARATION IN FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY Cyril Gobinet, Abdelkamel Elhafid, Valeriu Vrabie, Régis Huez, Danielle Nuzillard, CRESTIC, France BLIND SEPARATION OF TISSUES IN MULTI-MODAL MRI USING SPARSE COMPONENT ANALYSIS Alexander Bronstein, Michael Bronstein, Michael Zibulevsky, Yehoshua Zeevi, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel MEDICAL IMAGES REGISTRATION WITH A HIERARCHICAL ATLAS Nawal Houhou, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR BRONCHOFIBEROSCOPIC PROCEDURES BASED ON IMAGE REGISTRATION WITH SCALE ADAPTIVE IMAGE SIMILARITY MEASURE Pawel Turcza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland IMAGE ANALYSIS AND SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL FEATURES OF CERVIX UTERI IN COLOR SPACE Viara Van Raad, STI - Medical Systems, United States ON A COMPRESSION ALGORTHM FOR ECG SIGNALS Catalina Monica Fira, Liviu Goras, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University, Romania VARIABLE BANDWIDTH MEAN SHIFT FOR SMOOTHING ULTRASONIC IMAGES Thomas Grenier, Franck Davignon, Chantal Muller, Olivier Basset, Gérard Gimenez, CREATIS, France top>> SESSION TueAmPO4: Statistical Signal Processing (Poster II) POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Aysin Ertuzun, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey OPTIMIZATION OF NONUNIFORM PLANAR ARRAY GEOMETRY FOR DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION Toygar Birinci, Yalçin Tanik, Middle East Technical University, Turkey LOCALIZATION OF SOURCES RADIATING ON A LARGE ANTENNA Miloud Frikel, GREYC, France IMPROVING ALIGNMENT OF NOISY SIGNALS USING AN ITERATIVE ZERO PHASE METHOD Roberto Gil-Pita, Manuel Rosa-Zurera, Raúl Vicen-Bueno, Manuel Utrilla-Manso, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain TIME-FREQUENCY ESTIMATION IN THE COSPAS/SARSAT SYSTEM USING ANTENNA ARRAYS: VARIANCE BOUNDS AND ALGORITHMS Carles Fernández Prades, Pau Closas Gómez, Juan A. Fernández Rubio, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain CUBIC PHASE COUPLING ESTIMATION VIA TRISPECTRUM AUTORREGRESIVE MODELLING Diego P. Ruiz, University of Granada, Spain FAULT DETECTION TECHNIQUES ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPPMENT OF ITS PROCEDURAL PHASES H. Mokhneche Ryadh, Maaref Hichem, Vigneron Vincent, Laboratoire Systčmes Complexes, France FREE-FORM PLANAR CURVE TRACKING USING RELATED POINTS Burak Yondem, Mustafa Unel, Aytul Ercil, Sabanci University, Turkey OPTIMAL HANKEL-NORM APPROXIMATION OF IIR BY FIR SYSTEMS Li Chai, Jingxin Zhang, Monash University, Australia; Cisheng Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Australia; Edoardo Mosca, Universitya di Firenze, Italy ASYMPTOTICALLY MINIMUM VARIANCE ESTIMATOR IN THE SINGULAR CASE Jean Pierre Delmas, Habti Abeida, Institut National des Télécommunications, France REMOVAL OF THE PHASE NOISE IN THE AUTOCORRELATION ESTIMATES WITH DATA WINDOWING Mustafa A Altinkaya, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey; Emin Anarim, Bülent Sankur, Bogazici University, Turkey PERFORMING DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF NONSTATIONARY STOCHASTIC PROCESSES USING PERTURBATION ANALYSIS V. Vigneron, H. Maaref, CNRS, France THE INFLUENCE OF A SINGLE-TONE SINUSIOD OVER HURST ESTIMATORS Suleyman Baykut, Tolga Esat Ozkurt, Melike Erol, Tayfun Akgül, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 14:00-14:50 PLENARY LECTURE: EC PROGRAMS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING: FP6 AND BEYOND, Eric Badique, European Commission 7 September 2005, Wednesday 08:30-10:30 top>> SESSION WedAmOR1: Nonstationary Signal Processing ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Aydin Akan, Istanbul University, Turkey 08:30 MULTI-COMPONENT SIGNAL DENOISING USING UNITARY TIME-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMS Arnaud Jarrot, Cornel Ioana, André Quinquis, E3I2 Laboratory, ENSIETA, France; Jean-Claude Le Gac, GESMA, France 08:50 ON THE ESTIMATION OF NON-STATIONARY FUNCTIONAL SERIES TARMA MODELS Aggelos Poulimenos, Fassois Spilios D., University of Patras, Greece 09:10 MULTITAPER SPECTRAL ESTIMATION: A GENERALIZED WINDOWS APPROACH Nurgün Erdöl, Florida Atlantic University, United States 09:30 IS PCA RELIABLE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION? Tolga Esat Özkurt, Tayfun Akgül, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 09:50 MULTICOMPONENT SIGNAL: LOCAL ANALYSIS AND ESTIMATION Meryem Jabloun, Nadine Martin, Michelle Vieira, LIS Laboratoie des Images et des Signaux, France; Francois Leonard, Institut Hydro Quebec, Canada 10:10 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS USING RENYI CRITERION Daoud Boutana, University of Jijel, Algeria; F. Marir, University of Constantine, Algeria; M. Benidir, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systčmes, Supelec, France; B. Barkat, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore top>> SESSION WedAmOR2: MIMO and Space-Time Processing ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Mutlu Koca, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey 08:30 BLIND DIFFERENTIAL SCHEMES FOR CDMA ON DISPERSIVE MIMO CHANNELS Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, Luca Venturino, University of Cassino, Italy 08:50 CONSTANT NORM ALGORITHMS FOR MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Aissa Ikhlef, Daniel Le Guennec, Jacques Palicot, Supelec, France 09:10 BLIND LAYERED SPACE-TIME EQUALIZATION FOR MIMO OFDM SYSTEMS Luciano Sarperi, Xu Zhu, Asoke K. Nandi, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom 09:30 SMART CANDIDATE ADDING: A NEW LOW-COMPLEXITY APPROACH TOWARDS NEAR-CAPACITY MIMO DETECTION Patrick Marsch, Ernesto Zimmermann, Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden, Vodafone Chair, Germany 09:50 ADAPTIVE LAYERED SPACE-FREQUENCY EQUALIZATION FOR SINGLE-CARRIER MIMO SYSTEMS Ye Wu, Xu Zhu, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; Asoke.K Nandi, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom 10:10 ORTHOGONALIZATION OF QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES IN MULTIPATH FADING ENVIRONMENTS BY USING FEEDBACK Cenk Toker, Sangarapillai Lambotharan, King's College London, United Kingdom; Jonathon A. Chambers, Cardiff University, United Kingdom top>> SESSION WedAmOR3: Image Coding ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Gözde Bozda??, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 08:30 DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING OF STILL IMAGES Cagatay Dikici, Radhouane Guermazi, Khalid Idrissi, Atilla Baskurt, INSA de Lyon, France 08:50 QUALITY ESTIMATION IN WAVELET IMAGE CODING Abla Kourzi, Danielle Nuzillard, Gilles Millon, Frédéric Nicolier, CReSTIC, France 09:10 EDGE ADAPTED WAVELET TRANSFORM FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION Fikri Goksu, Ahmed H. Tewfik, University of Minnesota, United States 09:30 PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION IN REDUCED REDUNDANCY WAVELET-BASED MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING OF IMAGES Teodora Petrisor, Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST Paris, France; Jean-Christophe Pesquet, Institut Gaspard Monge, Universite Marne la Vallee, France 09:50 A PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO TRANSFORM-DOMAIN ROUNDING Chen Chen, Ping-Hao Wu, Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 10:10 HIERARCHICAL SECRET IMAGE SHARING METHOD USING JPEG 2000 CODESTREAM SYNTAX Masayuki Hashimoto, Kenji Matsuo, Atsushi Koike, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan; Yoriyuki Minami, Tokyo University of Science, Japan top>> SESSION WedAmOR4: Detection and Estimation ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Pierre Moulin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 08:30 FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION BASED ON PHASE OFFSETS BETWEEN SAMPLE CORRELATIONS Ivan Perisa, University of Ulm, Germany 08:50 GPS/GNSS RESIDUAL ANALYSIS VIA COMPETITIVE-GROWTH MODELING OF IONOSPHERE DYNAMICS Kohji Kamejima, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan 09:10 MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION OF RADAR CROSS SECTION IN SAR IMAGES USING THE HEAVY-TAILED RAYLEIGH MODEL Alin Achim, University of Bristol, United Kingdom; Ercan Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR, Italy; Josiane Zerubia, INRIA, France 09:30 A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH TO BOUNDARY HANDLING Anil Anthony Bharath, Jeffrey Ng, Imperial College London, United Kingdom 09:50 ROBUST DECONVOLUTION OF NOISY SIGNALS Yonina Eldar, Technion, Israel 10:10 DETECTION AND TRACKING OF NON-STATIONARY TRANSIENT SIGNALS BASED ON THE INNOVATIONS FILTER Maciej Lopatka, University of Paris XII and Wroclaw University of Technology, France; Olivier Adam, Christophe Laplanche, Jean-François Motsch, University of Paris XII, France; Jan Zarzycki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland top>> SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR5: Methods to Improve and Measures to Assess Visual Quality of Images and Video ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Ahmet Ekin, Philips, Netherlands; Radu Jasinschi, Philips, Netherlands 08:30 A NO-REFERENCE BLOCKING ARTIFACT MEASURE FOR ADAPTIVE VIDEO PROCESSING Remco Muijs, Ihor Kirenko, Philips Research Eindhoven, Netherlands 08:50 CLOSED-LOOP VIDEO PROCESSING FOR OBJECTIVE QUALITY OPTIMIZATION Jorge Caviedes, Ali Walid, Intel Corporation, United States 09:10 QUALITY ISSUES FOR RESOURCE CONSTRAINED SCALABLE VIDEO ALGORITHMS Christian Hentschel, University of Technology Cottbus, Germany 09:30 QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN STANDARD COMPLIANT FRAME RATE UP CONVERSION BY MOTION SMOOTHING Gokce Dane, Truong Nguyen, University of California, San Diego, United States 09:50 VISUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF LENTICULAR BASED 3D-DISPLAYS Ralph Braspenning, Philips Research, Netherlands; Eric Brouwer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Gerard de Haan, Philips Research, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands 10:10 EVALUATION OF THE QUALITY OF ULTRASOUND IMAGE COMPRESSION BY FUSION OF CRITERIA WITH A SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE Delgorge Cecile, Rosenberger Christophe, Laboratoire Vision & Robotique, France; Rakotomamonjy Alain, Laboratoire Perception Systčmes et Informations, France; Poisson Gérard, Vieyres Pierre, Laboratoire Vision & Robotique, France top>> SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR6: Recent Advances in Restoration of Audio ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: James Hopgood, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Simon Godsill, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 08:30 PROBABILISTIC PHASE VOCODER AND ITS APPLICATION TO INTERPOLATION OF MISSING VALUES IN AUDIO SIGNALS Ali Taylan Cemgil, Simon J. Godsill, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 08:50 MODELS FOR BLIND SPEECH DEREVERBERATION: A SUBBAND ALL-POLE FILTERED BLOCK STATIONARY AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESS James Hopgood, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 09:10 KALMAN FILTERING BASED NOISE POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY ESTIMATION FOR SPEECH ENHANCEMENT Ivo Batina, Jesper Jensen, Richard Heusdens, TU Delft, Netherlands 09:30 A NEW METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF SPEECH SIGNALS IN CONVOLUTIVE MIXTURES Mahmood Ferdosizadeh, Massoud Babaei-zadeh, Farrokh A.Marvasti, Sharif University of Technology, Iran 09:50 BLOCK-BASED SPEECH BANDWIDTH EXTENSION SYSTEM WITH SEPERATED ENVELOPE ENERGY RATIO ESTIMATION Sheng Yao, Cheung-Fat Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 10:10 A SINGLE-MICROPHONE APPROACH FOR SPEECH SIGNAL DEREVERBERATION Fernando Pacheco, Rui Seara, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil top>> SESSION WedAmPO1: Adaptive Filters POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Aysin Ertuzun, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey ADAPTIVE LAGUERRE-VOLTERRA FILTERS OPTIMIZATION BASED ON LAGUERRE SPECTRA Gérard Favier, Alain Yuwa Kibangou, Laboratoire I3S-CNRS-UNSA, France; Moha Hassani, LEI-FSSM-UCAM, Morocco RFI CANCELLATION IN VDSL SYSTEMS USING A NOVEL COMPLEX Fernando Hugo Gregorio, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Juan Edmundo Cousseau, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina; Timo Laakso, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland SET THEORETIC ADAPTIVE FILTERING: USING PERIODOGRAM AND PROJECTIONS ONTO CONVEX SETS. Leonardo Rey Vega, Sara Tressens, Hernán Rey, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina FULLY AND PARTIALLY INTERPOLATED ADAPTIVE VOLTERRA FILTERS Eduardo Batista, Orlando Tobias, Rui Seara, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil SQUARE-ROOT FORM BASED DERIVATION OF A NOVEL NLMS-LIKE ADAPTIVE FILTERING ALGORITHM Mounir Bhouri, ISIMM, Tunisia ON CONVEX VARIABLE STEP-SIZE ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATION Corneliu Rusu, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Colin Cowan, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom TRACKING ANALYSIS OF VARIABLE XE-NLMF ALGORITHM IN THE PRESENCE OF BOTH RANDOM AND CYCLIC NONSTATIONARITIES Muhammad Moinuddin, Azzedine Zerguine, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia NEW DIRECT MULTICHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL BY FREQUENCY-DOMAIN APPROACH Masaki Kamata, Akira Sano, Keio University, Japan A SYNCHRONIZED LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR NONLINEAR PART IN A LATTICE PREDICTOR BASED ADAPTIVE VOLTERRA FILTER Kenji Nakayama, Akihiro Hirano, Hiroaki Kashimoto, Kanazawa University, Japan top>> SESSION WedAmPO2: Multirate filtering and filter banks POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Lutfiye Durak, KAIST, South Korea MINIMUM-PHASE FIR FILTER DESIGN USING REAL CEPSTRUM Soo-Chang Pei, Huei-Shan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan DESIGN OF UNEQUAL-LENGTH LINEAR-PHASE FILTER BANKS WITHOUT REDUNDANCY Yuichi Tanaka, Akihiro Ochi, Masaaki Ikehara, Keio University, Japan DESIGN OF CHANNEL-RESILIENT DFT BANK TRANSCEIVERS Tzung-Hwui Luo, Chih-Hao Liu, See-May Phoong, National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Yuan-Pei Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan SPECIAL LOW-ORDER IIR FILTER BANK DESIGN Zhisheng Duan, Peking University, China; Jingxin Zhang, Monash University, Australia; Cishen Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Edorado Mosca, Universita di Firenze, Italy PERFORMANCE OF NOISE-SHAPING IN OVERSAMPLED FILTER BANKS Tania Leppert, Fabrice Labeau, Peter Kabal, McGill University, Canada FREQUENCY SAMPLING DESIGN OF ARBITRARY LENGTH FILTERS FOR FILTER BANKS AND DISCRETE SUBBAND MULTITONE TRANSCEIVERS Fernando Cruz-Roldán, Manuel Blanco-Velasco, Ángel M. Bravo, Dep. de Teoría de la Seńal y Comunicaciones (UA), Spain; Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Dep. de Ingeniería de Circuitos y Sistemas (UPM), Spain; Ignacio Santamaría-Caballero, Departamento de Ingeniería de Comunicaciones, Spain EFFICIENT NON-UNIFORM FILTER-BANK EQUALIZER Heinrich Wilhelm Löllmann, Peter Vary, IND, RWTH Aachen University, Germany JOINT OVERSAMPLING FDM DEMULTIPLEXING AND PERFECTLY RECONSTRUCTING SBC FILTER BANK FOR TWO CHANNELS Heinz G. Göckler, Mohammed N. Abdulazim, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany FAST NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PATTERN DETECTION USING 2D-FFT Hazem Mokhtar Mokhtar EL-Bakry, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Systems - Mansoura University, Egypt THE OPTIMAL DIRECT DESIGN OF BANDPASS WAVE DIGITAL LADDER FILTERS FOR DISTINCTLY SPECIFIED AMPLITUDES IN THE TWO STOPBANDS Mohamed Yaseen, University of Assiut, Egypt EFFICIENT BIT ALLOCATION FOR HIGH QUALITY SUBBAND CODING USING NON-SELECTIVE FILTER BANKS UNDER QUANTIZATION NOISE CONSTRAINTS Manuel Rosa-Zurera, Miguel Angel López-Carmona, Enrique Alexandre-Cortizo, Roberto Gil-Pita, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain QUATERNIONIC APPROACH TO 8-CHANNEL GENERAL PARAUNITARY FILTER BANK Marek Parfieniuk, Alexander Petrovsky, Bialystok Technical University, Poland MULTIRATE LINEAR PREDICTION Charles Therrien, Naval Postgraduate School, United States 10:50-12:50 top>> SESSION WedAmOR7: Filter Design and Structures ORAL SESSION CHAIR: T. Engin Tuncer, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 10:50 REDUCING NON-ZERO COEFFICIENTS IN FIR FILTER DESIGN USING POCS H. Joel Trussell, NC state university, United States; David M. Rouse, NC State University, United States 11:10 EFFICIENT ECG BACKGROUND NORMALIZATION Mohammad Hossein Sedaaghi, Sahand University of Technology, Iran 11:30 A NEW SHARPENED CASCADED COMB-COSINE DECIMATION FILTER Gordana Jovanovic-Dolecek, INAOE, Mexico; Sanjit Mitra, UCSB, United States 11:50 CLOSED-FORM DESIGN OF DIGITAL FRACTIONAL-DELAY FILTERS WITH CONSTANT MAGNITUDE AND VARIABLE DELAY Zhang Xiaojing, Timo Laakso, Martin Makundi, Signal Processing Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 12:10 ONE METHOD FOR IIR FILTER DESIGN BASED ON COMPLEX ALLPASS FILTERS Alfonso Ferandez-Vazquez, Gordana Jovanovic-Dolecek, INAOE, Mexico 12:30 MODIFIED HERMITE FUNCTIONS FOR DESIGNING NEW OPTIMAL UWB PULSE-SHAPERS Mourad Ouertani, Sys'Com Lab, ENIT, Tunisia; Hichem Besbes, Reseach Unit TECHTRA, SupCom,Tunisia; Ammar Bouallegue, Sys'Com Lab, ENIT, Tunisia top>> SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR8: Space-Time Coding, MIMO Systems and Beamforming ORAL SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Abbas Yongacoglu, University of Ottawa, Canada 10:50 AN EFFICIENT SVD UPDATE ALGORITHM AND APPLICATIONS TO MIMO COMMUNICATIONS Tricia Willink, Communications Research Centre, Canada 11:10 COMBINED SPATIAL/BEAMFORMING AND TIME/FREQUENCY PROCESSING FOR BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION Qiongfeng Pan, Tyseer Aboulnasr, University of Ottawa, Canada 11:30 THE USE OF DECORRELATION AND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PILOTS FOR DS-CDMA SYSTEMS WITH MULTIANTENNA RECEIVERS Claude D'Amours, Naser Salam, University of Ottawa, Canada 11:50 A HIGH-ORDER-MODULATION SPACE-TIME RECEIVER WITH INCREASED PEAK RATE AND THROUGHPUT FOR WIDEBAND CDMA Sofične AFFES, INRS-ÉMT, Canada 12:10 ADAPTIVE RESOLUTION ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION Gunes Karabulut, Abbas Yongacoglu, Tolga Kurt, University of Ottawa, Canada 12:30 LATTICE DECODING OF LAYERED VERTICAL SPACE-TIME CODES Miguel Bazdresch, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Mexico; Jorge Rodriguez-Guisantes, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France top>> SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR9: Security of Data Hiding and Watermarking ( II ) ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Kivanç Mihçak, Microsoft, United States; S. Voloshynovskiy, University of Geneva, Switzerland 10:50 THE METHOD OF TYPES AND ITS APPLICATION TO INFORMATION HIDING Pierre Moulin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 11:30 ON BLIND COMPRESSION OF ENCRYPTED DATA APPROACHING THE SOURCE Daniel Schonberg, Stark Draper, Kannan Ramchandran, UC Berkeley, United States 11:50 JOINT SOURCE-CHANNEL CODING FOR LATTICE WATERMARKING Abdellatif Zaidi, LSS/CNRS Supelec and ENST, France; Pierre Duhamel, LSS/CNRS, France 12:10 A PRACTICAL LATTICE QIM METHOD: TCQ-IS Ersin Esen, Tübitak Bilten, Turkey; A. Aydin Alatan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 12:30 INFORMED WATERMARK EMBEDDING IN THE FRACTIONAL FOURIER DOMAIN Oktay Altun, Mark Bocko, Gaurav Sharma, University Of Rochester, United States top>> SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR10: Recent Applications in Time-Frequency Analysis ORAL SESSION ORAGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Aydin Akan, Istanbul University, Turkey; Luis Chaparro, University of Pittsburgh, United States 10:50 IMPROVEMENT OF THE FAST MOVING TARGETS PRESENTATION IN ISAR BY USING THE S-METHOD LJubisa Stankovic, University of Montenegro, Yugoslavia; Thayananthan Thayaparan, Defence Research and Development, Canada; Milos Dakovic, Univerisity of Montenegro, Yugoslavia 11:10 AN EFFICIENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR DNA SEQUENCES USING MULTIWINDOW GABOR REPRESENTATIONS Nagesh Subbanna, Y.Y. Zeevi, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 11:30 GENERALIZATION OF TIME-FREQUENCY SIGNAL REPRESENTATIONS TO JOINT FRACTIONAL FOURIER DOMAINS Lutfiye Durak, KAIST, South Korea; Ahmet Kemal Ozdemir, WesternGeco Ltd., United Kingdom; Orhan Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey; Iickho Song, KAIST, South Korea 11:50 INFORMATION-THEORETIC SIGNAL PROCESSING ON THE TIME-FREQUENCY PLANE AND APPLICATIONS Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University, United States 12:10 DIGITAL COMPUTATION OF THE FRACTIONAL MELLIN TRANSFORM Edip Biner, Olcay Akay, Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Turkey 12:30 CHANNEL MODELING AND ESTIMATION FOR ROBUST MC-SS SYSTEMS Seda Senay, Yeditepe University, Turkey; Aydin Akan, Istanbul University, Turkey; Luis F. Chaparro, University of Pittsburgh, United States top>> SPECIAL SESSION WedAmOR11: Novel Representations of Visual Information for Analysis and Classification ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Hamid Krim, North Carolina State University, United States; Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST, France 10:50 NONPARAMETRIC SHAPE PRIORS FOR ACTIVE CONTOUR-BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION Junmo Kim, Müjdat Çetin, Alan S. Willsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States 11:10 3D OBJECT REPRESENTATION WITH TOPO-GEOMETRIC SHAPE MODELS Sajjad Baloch, Hamid Krim, North Carolina State University , United States; Dmitry Zenkov, Irina Kogan, North Carolina State University, United States 11:30 A GEOMETRICAL A PRIORI FOR CAPTURING THE REGULARITY OF IMAGES Yann Gousseau, Francois Roueff, TSI - ENST, France 11:50 NON-PARAMETRIC INFORMATION GEOMETRY AND MULTI-SCALE MODELS OF TEXTURE Washington Mio, Dennis Badlyans, Xiuwen Liu, Florida State University, United States 12:10 ADAPTIVE WAVELETS FOR IMAGE REPRESENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION Gemma Piella, Marine Campedel, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, GET-ENST, France 12:30 SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES PAINTED ON PARAMETRIC MANIFOLDS Alon Spira, Ron Kimmel, Technion, Israel top>> SESSION WedAmPO3: Image Coding POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Thomas Sikora, Technical University of Berlin, Germany A FULL-REFERENCE COLOR IMAGE QUALITY MEASURE IN THE DWT DOMAIN Devon Gayle, Hazem Mahlab, Yuksel Ucar, Ahmet M Eskicioglu, CUNY Brooklyn College, United States CRYPTO-COMPRESSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES BY SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF DCT William Puech, José Marconi Rodrigues, LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France IMPROVING COMPRESSION RATIO FOR SATELLITE TRANSMISSION BY USE OF CLOUD EXTRACTION Rusen Oktem, Atilim University, Turkey; Oguz Benderli, Neslin Ismailoglu, Tubitak, Bilten, Turkey A MULTISCALE COLOR QUANTIZATION ALGORITHM FOR PRODUCING SCALABLE MEDIA Yik-Hing Fung, Yuk-Hee Chan, Ka-Chun Lui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong LOSSLESS CODING USING VARIABLE BLOCK-SIZE ADAPTIVE PREDICTION OPTIMIZED FOR EACH IMAGE Ichiro Matsuda, Nau Ozaki, Yuji Umezu, Susumu Itoh, Science University of Tokyo, Japan A LOSSLESS COMPRESSION ALGORITHM BASED ON PREDICTIVE CODING FOR VOLUMETRIC MEDICAL DATASETS Mónica Díez-García, Carlos Alberola-López, Federico Simmross Wattenberg, LPI-UVA, Spain LOSSLESS CONTOUR REPRESENTATION USING EFFICIENT MULTIPLE GRID CHAIN CODING Heechan Park, Graham Martin, Andy Yu, University of Warwick, United Kingdom A NEW MULTISTAGE LATTICE VQ (MLVQ) TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION Mohd Fadzli Mohd Salleh, John Soraghan, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom CONTEXT-BASED PREDICTIVE LOSSLESS CODING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES Andrea De Giusti, Stefano Andriani, Gian Antonio Mian, Universitŕ di Padova, Italy ERROR RESILIENT MULTIPLEXED CODING WITH RVLC Xiaosong Wang, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University, United States AN UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION-BASED CODER FOR MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES Marco Cagnazzo, Luca Cicala, Giovanni Poggi, Luisa Verdoliva, Giuseppe Scarpa, Universitŕ di Napoli - Federico II, Italy FAST ENCODING METHOD FOR IMAGE VECTOR QUANTIZATION BY USING PARTIAL SUM CONCEPT IN WALSH DOMAIN Zhibin Pan, Koji Kotani, Tadahiro Ohmi, Tohoku University, Japan EFFICIENT LOSSLESS COLOUR IMAGE CODING WITH SPECK Fouad Khelifi, Ahmed Bouridane, Fatih Kurugollu, Queen's university, United Kingdom ADAPTIVE DICTIONARIES FOR MATCHING PURSUIT WITH SEPARABLE DECOMPOSITION Leszek Gorecki, Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland top>> SESSION WedAmPO4: Video Coding POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Fatih Kurugollu, Queen's university, United Kingdom JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF SOURCE-CHANNEL VIDEO CODING USING THE H.264 ENCODER AND FEC CODES Simone Milani, Gian Antonio Mian, University of Padova, Italy; Luca Celetto, STMicroelectronics, Italy A LOW COMPLEXITY MOTION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR VIDEO CODING APPLICATIONS Kamran Virk, Nadeem Khan, Shahid Masud, Farooq Nasim, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan; Syed Idris, Lahore University of Management Scineces, Pakistan AN EFFICIENT VIDEO RENDERING SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME ADAPTIVE PLAYOUT BASED ON PHYSICAL MOTION FIELD ESTIMATION Luca Piccarreta, Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy OPTIMAL BIT ALLOCATION STRATEGY BASED ON SPATIAL COMPLEXITY AND TEMPORAL CORRELATION Seung-Hwan Kim, Geun-Yong Kim, Jin Heo, Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea LOSSLESS VIDEO COMPRESSION USING A SPATIO-TEMPORAL OPTIMAL PREDICTOR Stefano Andriani, Giancarlo Calvagno, Gian Antonio Mian, Universita' di Padova, Italy SIMULATION AND APPLICATION OF DVB CHANNEL CODING ON MULTIMEDIA DSP DEVELOPMENT BOARD Tomas Kratochvil, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic INTRA-ADAPTIVE MOTION-COMPENSATED LIFTED WAVELETS FOR VIDEO CODING Oscar Divorra Escoda, Markus Flierl, Pierre Vandergheynst, ITS - EPFL, Switzerland AN ADAPTIVE MOTION ESTIMATION SCHEME USING MAXIMUM MUTUAL INFORMATION CRITERIA Jing Zhao, University of Florida, United States; Deniz Erdogmus, OHSU, United States; Cancan Huang, Dapeng Wu, Yuguang Fang, University of Florida, United States SPIRAL SCAN IN VIDEO COMPRESSION Lukasz Blaszak, Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland LOSSLESS VIDEO CODING USING MULTI-FRAME MOTION COMPENSATION Elias Sebastiano Giuseppe Carotti, DAUIN-Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR Politecnico di Torino, Italy OPTIMAL BIT ALLOCATION IN SCALABLE MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION VIDEO CODING FOR PACKET LOSS RESILIENCE Emrah Akyol, A. Murat Tekalp, M. Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey WHERE TO SPEND THE BITS? EFFICIENCY OF SOURCE AND CHANNEL CODING IN MBMS Kemal Ugur, Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Dong Tian, Moncef Gabbouj, TUT, Finland ANALYSIS OF THE RESPONSE TIME COMPENSATION SYSTEM FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Sanjeev Kumar, Mainak Biswas, T.Q Nguyen, University of California, San Diego, United States COMPRESSION OF VIDEOS CAPTURED VIA BAYER PATTERNED COLOR FILTER ARRAYS Marco Carli, Fabio Gastaldi, Alessandro Neri, University of Roma TRE, Italy; Chin C. Koh, Sanjit K. Mitra, UCSB, United States A CROSS-LAYER APPROACH FOR MINIMUM DELAY CONTENT ADAPTIVE VIDEO STREAMING OVER VARIABLE BITRATE CHANNELS Tanir Ozcelebi, A. Murat Tekalp, M. Reha Civanlar, M. Oguz Sunay, Koc University, Turkey CONSTRAINT TRANSLATIONAL AND ROTATIONAL MOTION FILTERING FOR VIDEO STABILIZATION Marius Tico, Markku Vehvilainen, Nokia Research Center, Finland FAST MODE DECISION ALGORITHM FOR H.264 BASED ON MOTION COST Geun-Yong Kim, Seung-Hwan Kim, Hee-Soon Kim, Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea H.264 FAST INTRA-PREDICTION MODE DECISION BASED ON FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC Takeshi Tsukuba, Waseda University, Japan; Isao Nagayoshi, Tsuyoshi Hanamura, Media Glue Corp., Japan; Hideyoshi Tominaga, Waseda University, Japan 14:00-14:50 PLENARY LECTURE: ADVANCES IN VIDEO COMPRESSION, Jens Rainer Ohm, University of Aachen, Germany 15:10-16:30 top>> SESSION WedPmOR1: Speech Coding ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Peter Kabal, McGill University, Canada 15:10 A NEW CODING METHOD FOR SPEECH AND AUDIO SIGNALS Ümit Güz, Hakan Gürkan, Isik University, Turkey; B. Siddik Yarman, Istanbul University, Turkey 15:30 DYNAMICALLY ADDING REDUNDANCY FOR IMPROVED ERROR CONCEALMENT IN PACKET VOICE CODING Levent Tosun, Peter Kabal, McGill University, Canada 15:50 A SEQUENTIAL FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM FOR GMM-BASED SPEECH QUALITY ESTIMATION Tiago Falk, Wai-Yip Chan, Queen's University, Canada 16:10 REALIZATION OF A PSYCHOACOUSTIC MODEL FOR MPEG 1 USING GAMMACHIRP WAVELET TRANSFORM Samar Krimi, Kaďs Ouni, Noureddine Ellouze, Laboratory of Systems and Signal Processing (LSTS), National Engineering School of Tunis ( ENIT ), Tunisia top>> SESSION WedPmOR2: Bioinformatics ORAL SESSION CHAIR: U?ur Sezerman, Sabanci University, Istanbul 15:10 A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CROSS-CORRELATION METHODS FOR ALIGNMENT OF DNA SEQUENCES CONTAINING REPETITIVE PATTERNS Andrzej Brodzik, MITRE Corporation, United States 15:30 HANDLING UPDATES OF A BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE BASED ON HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS Changjin Hong, University of Minnesota, United States 15:50 ROBUST BICLUSTERING ALGORITHM (ROBA) FOR DNA MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS Alain Beaudelaire Tchagang, Ahmed Hossam Tewfik, University of Minnesota, United States 16:10 GRIDDING THE SPOT CENTERS OF MICROARRAY IMAGES Jinn Ho, Wen-Liang Hwang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taiwan; Henry Horn-Shing Lu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Taiwan; D.T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taiwan top>> SESSION WedPmOR3: Array Signal Processing ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Yasemin Yardimci, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 15:10 WORST CASE ANALYSIS OF DECENTRALIZED KALMAN FILTERS UNDER COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS Markus Stefan Schlosser, Kristian Kroschel, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany 15:30 CALIBRATION OF A LARGE DISTRIBUTED LOW FREQUENCY RADIO ASTRONOMICAL ARRAY (LOFAR) Sebastiaan van der Tol, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Brian D. Jeffs, Brigham Young University, United States; Alle-Jan van der Veen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 15:50 BEARING AND RANGE ESTIMATION USING WIDE-BAND MUSIC METHOD Saidi Zineb, IRENav (EA 3634) Ecole Navale, France; Bourennane Salah, Institut Fresnel, UMR CNRS 6133-EGIM, France; Guillon Laurent, IRENav EA 3634 Ecole Navale, France; Sanchez Patrick, LMA UPR 7051, France 16:10 NULL-STEERING BEAMSPACE TRANSFORMATION DESIGN FOR ROBUST DATA REDUCTION Minghui Li, Yilong Lu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore top>> SESSION WedPmOR4: Sensor Signal Processing ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Billur Barshan, Bilkent University, Turkey 15:10 STATISTICAL AND NEURAL TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING OF NONPARAMETRIC GEOPHYSICAL MINE DATA Taskin Kocak, Matthew Draper, University of Central Florida, United States 15:30 EXTRACTION OF TARGET FEATURES USING INFRARED INTENSITY SIGNALS Tayfun Aytac, Billur Barshan, Bilkent University, Turkey 15:50 A LOW-COST GPS AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE APPLICATIONS Isaac Skog, Peter Händel, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 16:10 FROM A PHYSICAL SCANNED MAP TO A DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL USING THE LEGEND AND KRIGING Carol Rus, Jaakko Astola, Corneliu Rusu, TICSP, Tampere University of Technology, Finland top>> SESSION WedPmOR5: VESTEL Session on Video Coding (I) ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Jens-Rainer Ohm, Aachen University of Technology, Germany 15:10 SEARCH WINDOW ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR FAST AND EFFICIENT H.264 VIDEO CODING WITH VARIABLE SIZE BLOCK CONFIGURATION Gianluca Bailo, Ivano Barbieri, Massimo Bariani, Marco Raggio, University of Genova, Italy 15:30 IMPROVED SUPER-RESOLUTION METHOD AND ITS ACCELERATION Libor Vasa, Ivo Hanak, Vaclav Skala, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic 15:50 A FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACH TO INTRA MODE SELECTION IN H.264/AVC Andy Yu, Graham Martin, HeeChan Park, University of Warwick, United Kingdom 16:10 FAST MULTI-FRAME REFERENCE VIDEO ENCODING WITH KEY FRAMES Nukhet Ozbek, Ege University, Turkey; A. Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey top>> SESSION WedPmOR6: Multimedia Communications and Networking ORAL SESSION CHAIR: M. Reha Civanlar, Koc University, Turkey 15:10 REAL-TIME NETWORK-AWARE OPTIMAL RATE CONTROL FOR VIDEO COMMUNICATION NETWORKS USING AN AUGMENTED STATE FEEDBACK CONTROLLER Bulent Cavusoglu, Dan Schonfeld, Rashid Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States 15:30 JAVANETPHONE: A JAVA CLIENT FOR IP TELEPHONY APPLICATIONS IN AN MGCP FRAMEWORK Susanna Spinsante, Franco Chiaraluce, Ennio Gambi, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (DEIT), Italy; Aldo Vespasiani, Alessio Perotti, Selta Telematica S.p.A., Italy 15:50 CHARACTERIZATION, ESTIMATION AND DETECTION OF NETWORK APPLICATION TRAFFIC Joel Trussell, Arne Nilsson, NC State University, United States; parita Patel, Yi Wang, North Carolina State University , United States 16:10 VARIABLE TIME-SCALE STREAMING FOR MULTIMEDIA TRANSMISSION OVER IP NETWORKS Enrico Masala, Davide Quaglia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Italy top>> SESSION WedPmPO1: Signal Processing for Communications POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy PLM SEQUENCES FOR THE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF LINEAR MULTIUSER DETECTORS Khanfouci Mourad, Marcos Sylvie, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systčmes, France MULTI-CHANNEL ADAPTIVE BIT ALLOCATION AND ERROR CONTROL FOR VIDEO TRANSMISSION OVER WIRELESS NETWORKS Maria Manuela Pereira, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal; Marc Antonini, CNRS-I3S, France ITERATIVE SOURCE CODED MODULATION: EXIT CHARTS, COMPLEXITY COMPARISONS AND NEW INDEX ASSIGNMENTS Thorsten Clevorn, Peter Vary, RWTH Aachen University, Germany UWB PRECISION GEOLOCATION USING FFT INTERPOLATION Kutluyil Dogancay, University of South Australia, Australia; A. Rahim Leyman, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore AN IMPROVED DOPPLER DIVERSITY TECHNIQUE FOR OFDM SYSTEMS IN TIME-VARYING MULTIPATH FADING CHANNELS Hyungjoon Song, Daesik Hong, Yonsei University, South Korea PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION DUE TO BLINDNESS IN SEPARATION OF MIMO-FIR SYSTEMS OVER COST207 CHANNELS Sara Sandberg, James P. LeBlanc, Luleĺ University of Technology, Sweden PERFORMANCES OF TURBO SAGE BASED EQUALIZER FOR MULTIUSER MULTICARRIER SPACE TIME BLOCK CODED SYSTEM Guillaume Ferré, Mohamad Jamalulli Syed, Vahid Meghdadi, Cances Jean Pierre, Jean Michel Dumas, GESTE/ENSIL, France FACTOR ANALYSIS OF NETWORK FLOW THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTS FOR INFERRING CONGESTION SHARING Dogu Arifler, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey; Brian Evans, The University of Texas at Austin, United States NETWORK ADAPTIVE RATE CONTROL FOR TRANSCODER Takayasu Takaoka, Waseda Universiy, Japan; Isao Nagayoshi, Tsuyoshi Hanamura, Media Glue Corp., Japan; Hideyoshi Tominaga, Waseda University, Japan OPTIMUM SPECTRAL SHAPING FOR DISCRETE MULTITONE DEMODULATION Tomasz Twardowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland OPTIMUM CHAOTIC QUANTIZED SEQUENCES FOR ASYNCHRONOUS DS-CDMA SYSTEM Calin Vladeanu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania PULSE SHAPE DESIGN USING ITERATIVE PROJECTIONS H. Emre Guven, Aselsan Inc., Turkey; A. Enis Cetin, Bilkent University, Turkey SIMULATION OF A DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Alpaslan Gungor, Turk Telekom A.S., Turkey; Feza Arikan, Hacattepe University, Turkey; Orhan Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey ANALYSIS OF TIMING OFFSET ESTIMATION SCHEMES FOR UWB SIGNALS Marina Marjanovic, José Manuel Páez Borrallo, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain top>> SESSION WedPmPO2: Image Analysis, Classification and Pattern Recognition POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Lale Akarun, Bo?aziçi University, Turkey COMPLEXITY REDUCTION IN NEURAL NETWORKS APPLIED TO TRAFFIC SIGN RECOGNITION TASKS Raúl Vicen Bueno, Roberto Gil Pita, María Pilar Jarabo Amores, Francisco López Ferreras, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain ADAPTIVE SOFT-SWITCHING FILTER FOR IMPULSIVE NOISE SUPPRESSION IN COLOR IMAGES Bogdan Smolka, Silesian University of Technology, Poland MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION WITH AUTOMATIC BUILDING OF TREE-STRUCTURED MRF MODELS Raffaele Gaetano, Giovanni Poggi, Giuseppe Scarpa, University Federico II of Naples, Italy EXTRACTION OF HYDROGRAPHIC NETWORKS FROM SATELLITE IMAGES USING A HIERARCHICAL MODEL WITHIN A STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY FRAMEWORK. Caroline Lacoste, INSA, France; Xavier Descombes, Josiane Zerubia, INRIA, France; Nicolas Baghdadi, BRGM, France VIDEO CLASSIFICATION BASED ON LOW-LEVEL FEATURE FUSION MODEL Mickael Guironnet, Denis Pellerin, Michele Rombaut, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France A QUANTIZATION NOISE ROBUST SHAPE PREDICTION ALGORITHM M. Khansari, H. R. Rabie, M. Asadi, Sharif University of Tech. (AICTC), Iran; M. Ghanbari, University of Essex & AICTC, United Kingdom MAJORITY ORDERING FOR COLOUR MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY Alessandro Ledda, Wilfried Philips, Ghent University, Belgium A NEW DISTANCE MEASURE EMPLOYING ELEMENT-SIGNIFICANCE FACTORS FOR ROBUST IMAGE CLASSIFICATION Kunio Kawahara, Tadashi Shibata, The University of Tokyo, Japan 16:50-18:10 top>> SESSION WedPmOR7: Beamforming ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy 16:50 ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING BASED ON DOMAIN WEIGHTED PCA Paul Daniel Baxter, John McWhirter, QinetiQ, United Kingdom 17:10 ROBUST SUBSPACE TECHNIQUE FOR JOINT ANGLE/DOPPLER ESTIMATION IN NON-GAUSSIAN CLUTTER Hocine Belkacemi, Sylvie Marcos, LSS/SUPELEC, France 17:30 ON H-INFINITY BASED DIRECTION FINDING AND SOURCE DETECTION Kiriakos Kiriakidis, Richard O'Brien, US Naval Academy, United States 17:50 ADAPTIVE MICROPHONE ARRAY BASED ON MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERION Zoran Saric, Institute of Security, Yugoslavia; Slobodan Jovicic, Srbijanka Turajlic, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia top>> SESSION WedPmOR8: Synchronization ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Erdal Panayirci, Isik University, Turkey 16:50 OPTIMUM PULSE SHAPING FOR DELAY ESTIMATION IN SATELLITE POSITIONING Luca Giugno, Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy 17:10 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF FINE TIME SYNCHRONIZERS FOR WLANS Maria Jose Canet, Vicenç Almenar, Javier Valls, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Spain; Ian Wassel, University Of Cambridge, United Kingdom 17:30 SYNCHRONISATION AND DC-OFFSET ESTIMATION FOR CHANNEL ESTIMATION USING DATA-DEPENDENT SUPERIMPOSED TRAINING Enrique Alameda-Hernandez, Desmond C. McLernon, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Aldo G. Orozco-Lugo, Manuel M. Lara, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico; Mounir Ghogho, University of Leeds, United Kingdom 17:50 DATA-AIDED TIMING RECOVERY IN THE PRESENCE OF DATA-DEPENDENT NOISE Jamal Riani, Steven Van Beneden, Jan Bergmans, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands top>> SESSION WedPmOR9: Radar ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Orhan Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey 16:50 JOINT USE OF SUM AND DIFFERENCE CHANNELS FOR MULTIPLE RADAR TARGET DOA ESTIMATION Maria Greco, Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy; Alfonso Farina, AMS, Italy 17:10 FAST MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD SEA CLUTTER PARAMETER LEARNING FROM THE OUTPUT OF THE ENVELOPE DETECTOR Faruk Sari, Nursen Sari, Tübitak MAM BTAE, Turkey; Lamine Mili, Virginia Tech, Alexandria Research Institute, United States 17:30 DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR SEQUENTIAL DETECTION AND TRACKING OF MOVING TARGETS IN RADAR SYSTEMS Stefano Buzzi, Emanuele Grossi, Marco Lops, University of Cassino, Italy 17:50 A WEIGHTED FEATURE REDUCTION METHOD FOR POWER SPECTRA OF RADAR HRRPS Lan Du, National Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, China top>> SESSION WedPmOR10: VESTEL Session on Video Coding (II) ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Jens-Rainer Ohm, Aachen University of Technology, Germany 16:50 ON THE EFFECTS OF ENCODER-DECODER CONCEALMENT MISMATCH ON VIDEO DISTORTION ESTIMATION Fabio De Vito, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Italy 17:10 WAVELET-BASED DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING OF VIDEO James Fowler, Mississippi State University, United States; Marco Tagliasacchi, Politechnico di Milano, Italy; Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST Paris, France 17:30 MASKING VIDEO INFORMATION BY PARTIAL ENCRYPTION OF H.264/AVC CODING PARAMETERS Susanna Spinsante, Franco Chiaraluce, Ennio Gambi, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (DEIT), Italy 17:50 VIDEO CODING USING NON-MANIFOLD MESH Nathalie Cammas, France Telecom R&D, France; Stéphane Pateux, France Télécom R&D, France; Luce Morin, IRISA-INRIA, France top>> SESSION WedPmOR11: Machine Learning ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Ercan Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR, Italy 16:50 SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM) CLASSIFICATION THROUGH GEOMETRY Michael Mavroforakis, Sergios Theodoridis, University of Athens, Greece 17:10 A STRAIGHTFORWARD SVM APPROACH FOR CLASSIFICATION WITH CONSTRAINTS Abdenour Bounsiar, Pierre Beauseroy, Edith Grall, University of Technology of Troyes, France 17:30 SENSITIVITY OF NEURAL NETWORKS WHICH APPROXIMATE THE NEYMAN-PEARSON DETECTOR TO THRESHOLD VARIATIONS Pilar Jarabo-Amores, Roberto Gil-Pita, Manuel Rosa-Zurera, Francisco López-Ferreras, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain 17:50 A ROBUST METHOD TO IDENTIFY FAULTS IN CORRELATED SENSORS IN MACHINE CONDITION MONITORING Zehra Cataltepe, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Chao Yuan, Claus Neubauer, Meltem Demirkus, Hans-Gerd Brummel, Siemens, United States top>> SESSION WedPmOR12: MUSCLE Session on Anthropocentric Multimedia Data Analysis ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Enis Çetin, Bilkent University, Turkey 16:50 AN ANTHROPOCENTRIC DESCRIPTION SCHEME FOR MOVIES CONTENT CLASSIFICATION AND INDEXING Nicholas Vretos, Vassilios Solachidis, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 17:10 FEATURE-BASED TRACKING USING 3D PHYSICS-BASED DEFORMABLE SURFACES Michail Krinidis, Nikos Nikolaidis, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 17:30 WAVELET BASED DETECTION OF MOVING TREE BRANCHES AND LEAVES IN VIDEO B. Ugur Töreyin, Yigithan Dedeoglu, A. Enis Cetin, Bilkent University, Turkey 17:50 RANDOM MOTION FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION Zoltan Szlavik, Tamas Sziranyi, CARI HAS, Hungary; Laszlo Havasi, Csaba Benedek, PPKE, Hungary top>> SESSION WedPmPO3: Multiresolution and Time-Frequency Processing POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Nurgün Erdöl, Florida Atlantic University, United States MULTIPATH EFFECT MITIGATION IN LPTV-BASED MULTIPLE ACCESS SYSTEM Bogdan Cristea, Daniel Roviras, Benoit Escrig, ENSEEIHT/TeSA, France WEIGHTED AVERAGE INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY BASED ON Desmond McLernon, The University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Sedigheh Ghofrani, Islamic Azad University, Iran; Ahmad Ayatollahi, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran ALGORITHM FOR SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION BY USING THE S-METHOD LJubisa Stankovic, University of Montenegro, Yugoslavia; Thayananthan Thayaparan, Defence Research and Development, Canada; Milos Dakovic, University of Montenegro, Yugoslavia A NEW APPROACH TO MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL ACQUISITION AND SUBBAND PROCESSING Antonio Satué-Villar, Esc. Univ. Politécnica De Mataró, Spain; Juan Fernández-Rubio, E.T.S. Ing. Telecomunicación De Barcelona, Spain A QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON OF NON-PARAMETRIC TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS Luke Rankine, Nathan Stevenson, Mostefa Mesbah, Boualem Boashash, QUT, Australia A TWO PARALLEL EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERING ALGORITHM FOR THE ESTIMATION OF CHIRP SIGNALS IN NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE Mounir Djeddi, Laboratoire des Signaux et systemes, CNRS / Supelec, France; Messaoud Benidir, Laboratoire des signaux et systemes, CNRS / Supelec, France ANALYSIS BANKS, SYNTHESIS BANKS, LPTV FILTERS: PROPOSITION OF AN EQUIVALENCE DEFINITION APPLICATION TO THE DESIGN OF INVERTIBLE LPTV FILTERS Wilfried Chauvet, Bernard Lacaze, Daniel Roviras, TéSA, France; Alban Duverdier, CNES, France THE USE OF WAVELET PACKETS FOR EVENT DETECTION Marwa Chendeb, UTT, France; Mohamad Khalil, Lebanese University, Lebanon; Jacques Duchęne, UTT, France ORTHONORMAL NON-UNIFORM B-SPLINE SCALING AND WAVELET BASES ON NON-EQUALLY SPACED KNOT SEQUENCE FOR MULTIRESOLUTION SIGNAL APPROXIMATIONS Najat Chihab, Anissa Zergainoh, Jean-Pierre Astruc, L2TI, Institut Galilee, Université Paris 13, France; Pierre Duhamel, LSS, Supelec, France top>> SESSION WedPmPO4: I) Machine Vision, II) Facial Feature Analysis POSTER SESSION CHAIR: Ugur Güdükbay, Bilkent University, Turkey MODEL-FREE FACE DETECTION AND HEAD TRACKING WITH MORPHOLOGICAL HOLE MAPPING Udo Ahlvers, Udo Zölzer, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany; Ruben Rajagopalan, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Germany ORDER STATISTICS-BASED UNBIASED HOMOMORPHIC SYSTEM TO REDUCE MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE Debashis Sen, M. N. S. Swamy, M. Omair Ahmad, Concordia University, Canada A SUPERRESOLUTION APPROACH FOR BAR CODE READING Rusen Oktem, Atilim University, Turkey; Levent Oktem, Synplicity Inc, Turkey SUBSPACE BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES Osman Gokhan Sezer, Aytul Ercil, Mehmet Keskinoz, Sabanci University, Turkey PREDICTING FACES IN VIDEO SEQUENCES USING EIGENSPACE UPDATE ALGORITHMS Héctor J. Pérez-Iglesias, Adriana Dapena, Universidad de La Coruńa, Spain SELF-LEARNING SYSTEM FOR SURFACE FAILURE DETECTION Snjeana Rimac-Drlje, Alen Keller, Karlo Emanuel Nyarko, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Osijek, Croatia NON-LINEAR ACTIVE MODEL FOR MOUTH INNER AND OUTER CONTOURS DETECTION Pierre Gacon, Pierre-Yves Coulon, LIS INPG, France; Gérard Bailly, ICP INPG, France RANDOM MOTION FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION Zoltan Szlavik, Tamas Sziranyi, CARI HAS, Hungary; Laszlo Havasi, Csaba Benedek, PPKE, Hungary LOCAL APPEARANCE BASED FACE RECOGNITION USING DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe, Germany TWO-DIMENSIONAL GARCH MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO ANOMALY DETECTION Amir Noiboar, Israel Cohen, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel PLATFORM FOR EVALUATION OF EMBEDDED COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS Wilfried Kubinger, Stefan Borbely, Hannes Hemetsberger, Richard Isaacs, Seibersdorf Research, Austria ACCURATE DEPTH-MAP ESTIMATION FOR 3D FACE MODELING Giovanni Dainese, Marco Marcon, Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy EVALUATION OF THE DISCRIMINATION POWER OF FEATURES EXTRACTED FROM 2-D AND 3-D FACIAL IMAGES FOR FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou, George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece ROBUST COLOR OBJECT DETECTION AND RECOGNITION Maaoui Choubeila, Christophe Rosenberger, Sébastien Chabrier, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Bourges, France PCA BASED CHOICE OF REPRESENTATIVE COLORS FOR SKIN DETECTION Kamel Chenaoua, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia; Ahmed Bouridane, QUB, United Kingdom A ROBUST SEAL IMPRINT VERIFICATION METHOD WITH ROTATION INVARIANCE Takenobu Matsuura, Kenta Yamazaki, Tokai university, Japan A SMART CAMERA APPROACH TO REAL-TIME TRACKING Sven Fleck, Sven Lanwer, Wolfgang Straßer, University of Tübingen, Germany 8 September 2005, Thursday 08:30-10:30 top>> SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR1: 3DTV ( I ) ORAL SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Haldun Ozaktas, Bilkent University, Turkey 08:30 3D MODELING OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS BY A MOBILE PLATFORM WITH A LASER SCANNER AND PANORAMIC CAMERA Peter Biber, Sven Fleck, Florian Busch, Michael Wand, University of Tübingen, WSI/GRIS, Germany; Tom Duckett, University of Örebro, AASS, Sweden; Wolfgang Strasser, University of Tübingen, WSI/GRIS, Germany 08:50 3D VIDEO OBJECTS FOR INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS Aljoscha Smolic, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany; Karsten Müller, Philipp Merkle, Matthias Kautzner, Thomas Wiegand, Fraunhofer-HHI, Germany 09:10 3D VIDEO OBJECTS AT SCALABLE LEVELS OF QUALITY Christian Weigel, Marco Rittermann, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany 09:30 EFFICIENT MOTION ESTIMATION UTILIZING QUADRATURE FILTERS Atanas Boev, Chavdar Kalchev, Atanas Gotchev, Tapio Saramäki, Karen Egiazarian, Tampere University of Technology, Finland 09:50 CARTOON-RECOGNITION USING VIDEO & AUDIO DESCRIPTORS Ronald Glasberg, Amjad Samour, Khalid Elazouzi, Thomas Sikora, Technical University of Berlin, Germany 10:10 SOLVING FUNDAMENTAL MATRIX FOR UNCALIBRATED SCENE RECONSTRUCTION Ugur Topay, Engin Tola, A. Aydin Alatan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey top>> SESSION ThuAmOR2: Performance Analysis, Optimization and Limits in Communications ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Umberto Mengali, University of Pisa, Italy 08:30 POWER RATIO DEFINITIONS AND ANALYSIS IN SINGLE CARRIER MODULATIONS Yves Louët, Jacques Palicot, SUPELEC, France 08:50 OPTIMAL FAULT-TOLERANT EVENT DETECTION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS Xuanwen Luo, Ming Dong, Yinlun Huang, Wayne State University, United States 09:10 INVESTIGATION OF THE CHANNEL ESTIMATION ERROR ON THE MIMO SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Lamia Berriche, Karim Abed-Meraim, Jean-Claude Belfiore, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris, France 09:30 WORST-CASE INTERFERENCE IN DSL SYSTEMS EMPLOYING DYNAMIC SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT Mark H. Brady, John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, United States 09:50 ADAPTIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION USING COMMON-MODE INFORMATION IN DSL Thomas Magesacher, Per Ödling, Per Ola Börjesson, Lund University, Sweden 10:10 MIMO GENERALIZED DECORRELATING DISCRETE-TIME RAKE RECEIVER Tuncer Baykas, Abbas Yongacoglu, University of Ottawa, Canada; Mohamed Siala, Cite Technologique des Communications, Tunisia top>> SESSION ThuAmOR3: Face Recognition ORAL SESSION CHAIR: Alice Caplier, LIS-INPG, France 08:30 NONLINEAR COMMON VECTORS FOR PATTERN CLASSIFICATION Hakan Cevikalp, Marian Neamtu, Vanderbilt University, United States 08:50 COMBINING SVMS FOR FACE CLASS MODELING Julien Meynet, EPFL-ITS-LTS5, Switzerland 09:10 SUPPORT VECTOR DATA DESCRIPTION BASED ON PCA FEATURES FOR FACE DETECTION Verónica Vilaplana, Ferran Marqués, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain 09:30 FACE RECOGNITION USING COMMON MATRIX APPROACH Umit Cigdem Turhal, Anadolu University, Turkey 09:50 LINEAR DISCRIMINANT FEATURE SELECTION TECHNIQUES IN ELASTIC GRAPH MATCHING Stefanos Zafeiriou, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece 10:10 MULTIPLE-RESOLUTION EDGE-BASED FEATURE REPRESENTATIONS FOR ROBUST FACE SEGMENTATION AND VERIFICATION Yasufumi Suzuki, Tadashi Shibata, The University of Tokyo, Japan top>> SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR4: MIMO Receivers ORAL SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Markus Rupp, Technical University of Vienna, Austria 08:30 QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE TIME CODES: APPROACHING OPTIMALITY Hans Weinrichter, Biljana Badic, Markus Rupp, TU Vienna, Austria 08:50 DYNAMIC VERSUS CONVENTIONAL LAYER SORTING FOR NULLING-AND-CANCELLING BASED MIMO DETECTION Dominik Seethaler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; Harold Artes, Stanford University, United States; Franz Hlawatsch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 09:10 INTERPOLATION-BASED MULTI-MODE PRECODING FOR MIMO-OFDM SYSTEMS Nadia Khaled, IMEC, Belgium; Robert Heath, The University of Texas at Austin, United States; Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Bishwarup Mondal, The University of Texas at Austin, United States; Frederik Petre, IMEC, Belgium 09:30 LINEAR PRECODING BASED ON A STOCHASTIC MSE CRITERION Frank Dietrich, Peter Breun, Wolfgang Utschick, Munich University of Technology, Germany 09:50 NON-UNITARY EXTENSIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL MATRIX MODULATION Gerhard Bauch, Anil Mengi, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany top>> SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR5: Particle Filtering ORAL SESSION ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS: Simon Godsill, Cambridge University, United Kingdom; Petar Djuric, SUNY at Stony Brook, United States 08:30 PARTICLE FILTERING FOR QUANTIZED SENSOR INFORMATION Rickard Karlsson, Fredrik Gustafsson, Linköping University, Sweden 08:50 DECISION FUSION FOR DISTRIBUTED TARGET TRACKING USING COST REFERENCE PARTICLE FILTERING Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, United States; Joaquin Miguez, Universidad Carlos III, Spain; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University, United States 09:10 SENSOR VALIDATION FOR FLIGHT CONTROL BY PARTICLE FILTERING Tao Wei, Yufei Huang, Philip Chen, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States 09:30 ON THE USE OF PARTICLE FILTERING FOR MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PARAMETER ESTIMATION Olivier Cappé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Eric Moulines, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France 09:50 ESTIMATION OF TIME-VARYING AUTOREGRESSIVE SYMMETRIC ALPHA STABLE PROCESSES BY PARTICLE FILTERS Deniz Gencaga, Bogazici University, Turkey; Ercan E. Kuruoglu, ISTI, CNR, Pisa, Italy; Aysin Ertuzun, Bogazici University, Turkey 10:10 TRACKING VARIABLE NUMBER OF TARGETS USING SEQUENTIAL MONTE METHODS William Ng, Jack Li, Simon Godsill, Jaco Vermaak, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom top>> SPECIAL SESSION ThuAmOR6: Geometric Compression ORAL

SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR: Atilla Baskurt, INSA Lyon, France

08:30 RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPRESSION OF 3D MESHES Pierre Alliez, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

08:50 PREDICTIVE VECTOR QUANTIZATION OF 3-D POLYGONAL MESH GEOMETRY BY REPRESENTATION OF VERTICES IN LOCAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS Ulug Bayazit, Isik University, Turkey; Ozgur Orcay, Dogus University, Turkey; Umut Konur, Fikret Gurgen, Bogazici University, Turkey

09:10 HIGH RATE COMPRESSION OF 3D MESHES USING A SUBDIVISION SCHEME Guillaume Lavoué, Florent Dupont, Atilla Baskurt, LIRIS UMR 5205, France

09:30 MSE APPROXIMATION FOR MODEL-BASED COMPRESSION OF MULTIRESOLUTION SEMIREGULAR MESHES Frederic Payan, Marc Antonini, I3S laboratory, CNRS, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France

09:50 GEOMETRY COMPRESSION OF TETRAHEDRAL MESHES USING OPTIMIZED PREDICTION Dan Chen, Yi-Jen Chiang, Nasir Memon, Xiaolin Wu, Polytechnic University, United States

10:10 EXTRACTION OF 3D NAVIGATION SPACE IN VIRTUAL URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Türker Yilmaz, Ugur Güdükbay, Bilkent University, Turkey

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SESSION ThuAmPO1: Speech, Speaker and Language Recognition

POSTER

SESSION CHAIR: Hasan Palaz, TUBITAK-UEKAE, Turkey

IMPROVEMENTS ON ISOLATED WORD RECOGNITION USING SUBSPACE METHODS M.Bilginer Gulmezoglu, Osmangazi University, Turkey

ENHANCEMENT OF SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION USING SID-USABLE SPEECH Saurabh Khanwalkar, Dr. Brett Smolenski, Dr. Robert Yantorno, Temple University, United States; Dr. Stanley Wenndt, Air Force Research Laboratory/IFEC, United States

AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH A HYBRID SVM-HMM SYSTEM Mihai Gurban, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

SVM SPEAKER VERIFICATION USING A NEW SEQUENCE KERNEL Jérôme Louradour, Khalid Daoudi, IRIT - UPS, France

TURKISH DICTATION SYSTEM FOR BROADCAST NEWS APPLICATIONS Ebru Arisoy, Levent Arslan, Bogazici University, Turkey
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