EUSIPCO2006 - European Signal Processing Conference

Image segmentation with a class-adaptive spatially constrained mixture model: Christophoros Nikou (https://florafox-kdr.ru/); Nikolaos Galatsanos (University of Ioannina, Greece); Aristidis Likas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Konstantinos Blekas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Supervised evaluation of synthetic and real contour segmentation results: Helene Laurent (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France); Sebastien Chabrier (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France); Christophe Rosenberger (ENSI de Bourges - Université d'Orléans, France); Yu-Jin Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Enhanced Spatial-Range Mean Shift Color Image Segmentation by Using Convergence Frequency and Position: Nuan Song (Chalmers university of technology, Sweden); Irene Y.H. Gu (Chalmers university of technology, Sweden); ZhongPing Cao (Chalmers university of technology, Sweden); Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Multi-scale Image Segmentation in a Hierarchy of Partitions: Olivier Lezoray (University of Caen, France); Cyril Meurie (University of Caen, France); Philippe Belhomme (University of Caen, France); Abderrahim Elmoataz (University of Caen, France)
Identification of image structure by the mean shift procedure for hierarchical MRF-based image segmentation: Raffaele Gaetano (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy); Giovanni Poggi (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy); Giuseppe Scarpa (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy)
Color Image Segmentation In RGB Using Vector Angle And Absolute Difference Measures: Sanmati Kamath (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Joel Jackson (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Tue.5.1: Distributed signal processing in sensor networks (Invited special session) - 6 papers

Hypothesis Testing Over a Random Access Channel in Wireless Sensor Networks: Elvis Bottega (University of Padova, Italy); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Hiroyuki Yomo (CTIF, Aalborg University, Denmark); Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Reducing Power Consumption in a Sensor Network by Information Feedback: Mikalai Kisialiou (University of Minnesota, USA); Zhi-Quan Luo (University of Minnesota, USA)
Distributed Estimation with Dependent Observations in Wireless Sensor Networks: Sung-Hyun Son (Princeton University, USA); Sanjeev Kulkarni (Princeton University, USA); Stuart Schwartz (Princeton University, USA)
Distributed Estimation with Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks: Ioannis Schizas (University of Minnesota, USA); Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Minnesota, USA); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota,, USA)
Distributed Detection and Estimation in Decentralized Sensor Networks: An Overview: Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy); Gesualdo Scutari (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Spatio-Temporal Sampling and Distributed Compression of the Sound Field: Thibaut Ajdler (EPFL, Switzerland); Robert Konsbruck (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland); Olivier Roy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Luciano Sbaiz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland); Martin Vetterli (EPFL, Switzerland)

Tue.1.1: OFDM and Multicarrier Systems - 6 papers

Balanced allocation strategy in multi-user OFDM with Channel State Information at the transmitter: Antonio Cipriano (ENST, France); Philippe Ciblat (ENST, France); Sophie Gault (Motorola Labs, France); Walid Hachem (Supélec, France)
Group-wise Blind OFDM ML Detection for Complexity Reduction: Tsung-Hui Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Wing-Kin Ma (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chong-Yung Chi (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Joint Compensation of OFDM Transmitter and Receiver IQ Imbalance in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset: Deepaknath Tandur (Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
First arrival detection based on channel estimation for positioning in wireless OFDM systems: Ali Aassie-Ali (University of Magdeburg, Germany); Van Duc Nguyen (International University Bremen, Germany); Kyandoghere Kyamakya (Department of Informatics Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Austria); Abbas S. Omar (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Frequency-Domain IQ-Imbalance and Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation for OFDM over Doubly Selective Channels: Imad Barhumi (KULeuven-ESAT/SCD, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Analysis of Vector Quantizers Using Transformed Codebook with Application to Feedback-Based Multiple Antenna Systems: Jun Zheng (University of California at San Diego, USA); Bhaskar Rao (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Tue.6.1: Filter Bank Design and Analysis - 6 papers

Fast windowing technique for designing discrete wavelet multitone transceivers exploiting spline functions: Fernando Cruz-Roldán (Universidad de Alcalà¡, Spain); Manuel Blanco-Velasco (University of Alcala, Spain); Pilar Martín-Martín (Universidad de Alcalà¡, Spain); Tapio Saramaki (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Oversampled complex-modulated causal IIR filter banks for flexible frequency-band reallocation networks: Linnea Rosenbaum (Linkoping University, Sweden); Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden); Per Lowenborg (Linkoping University, Sweden)
Basis orthonormalization procedure impacts of the basic quadratic non-uniform spline space on the scaling and wavelet functions: Anissa Zergainoh (LSS, Supelec, France); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
Quaternionic Approach to the One-Regular Eight-Band Linear Phase Paraunitary Filter Banks: Marek Parfieniuk (Bialystok Technical University, Poland); Alexander Petrovsky (Bialystok Technical University, Poland)
The Design of Low-Delay Nonuniform Pseudo QMF Banks: Ying Deng (University of Utah, USA); V. John Mathews (University of Utah, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (Univ of Utah, USA)
Theory and Lattice Structures for Oversampled Linear Phase Paraunitary Filter Banks with Arbitrary Filter Length: Zhiming Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Anamitra Makur (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Tue.4.1: Beamforming - 6 papers

On the Efficient Implementation and Time-Updating of the Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance Beamformer: Andreas Jakobsson (Karlstad University, Sweden); Stephen Alty (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Generalization and Analysis of the Conventional Beamformer for Localization of Spatially Distributed Sources: Mikael Coldrey (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Multichannel fast QR-decomposition RLS algorithms with explicit weight extraction: Mobien Shoaib (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Stefan Werner (Helsinki University of Tehcnology, Finland); José Apolinário Jr. (IME, Brazil); Timo Laakso (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Downlink beamforming under EIRP constraint in WLAN OFDM systems: Alex Kuzminskiy (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom)
Interference Suppression in Multiuser Downlink MIMO Beamforming using an iterative optimization approach: Vimal Sharma (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Wiener solution for OFDM pre and post-FFT beamforming: Daniele Borio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Laura Camoriano (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Letizia Lo Presti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Tue.3.1: Reverberant Environment and Human Audition - 6 papers

An evaluation measure for reverberant speech using tail decay modelling: Jimi Wen (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Audio Masking and Time-Frequency Analysis: Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Blind Estimation of Reverberation Time in Occupied Rooms: Yonggang Zhang (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Cardiff University Wales, United Kingdom); Francis Li (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom); Paul Kendrick (University of Salford, United Kingdom); Trevor Cox (University of Salford, United Kingdom)
Analysis of a Multichannel Filtered-X Partial-Error Affine Projection Algorithm: Alberto Carini (University of Urbino, Italy); Giovanni Sicuranza (University of Trieste, Italy)
On Robust Inverse Filter Design for Room Transfer Function Fluctuations: Takafumi Hikichi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Marc Delcroix (Hokkaido University, Japan); Masato Miyoshi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Adaptive Quadratic-Metric Parallel Subgradient Projection Algorithm and its Application to Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Masahiro Yukawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Isao Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break T1

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Tue.2.2: Filter Design and Analysis - 5 papers

The Design of Multi-Dimensional Complex-Valued FIR Digital Filters by Projections Onto Convex Sets: Wail Mousa (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Des McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Said Boussakta (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
On the Time Invariance of Linear Systems: Valentina Cellini (University of Padova, Italy); Gianfranco Cariolaro (University of Padova, Italy); Francesco De Pellegrini (Universita` di Padova, Italy)
Variable Digital Filter Design with Least Square Criterion subject to Peak Gain Constraints: Hai Huyen Dam (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Australia); Antonio Cantoni (University of Western Australia, Australia); Kok Teo (Curtin University of Technology, Australia); Sven Nordholm (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Australia)
Parametric Higher-Order Shelving Filters: Martin Holters (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany); Udo Zölzer (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany)
Reconstruction of M-Periodic Nonuniformly Sampled Signals Using Multivariate Polynomial Impulse Response Time-Varying FIR Filters: Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden); Per Lowenborg (Linkoping University, Sweden); Kameswaran Vengattaramane (Linkoping University, Sweden)

Tue.5.2: Channel Estimation - 5 papers

Joint MIMO Channel Tracking and Symbol Decoding for Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes: Balasingam Balakumar (McMaster University, Canada); Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Kiruba Kirubarajan (McMaster University, Canada)
Wavelet domain channel estimation for Multiband OFDM UWB communications: Sajad Sadough (Ecole Natonale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France); Emmanuel Jaffrot (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
Blind subspace-based channel identification for quasi-synchronous MC-CDMA systems employing improper data symbols: Giacinto Gelli (University of Napoli - Federico II, Italy); Francesco Verde (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
LOW COMPLEXITY MIMO CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR FEXT PRECOMPENSATION IN VECTORED xDSL SYSTEMS: Pawel Turcza (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
A Low Complexity Iterative Channel Estimation and Equalisation Scheme for (Data-Dependent) Superimposed Training: Syed Moosvi (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Des McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Enrique Alameda-Hernandez (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Aldo Orozco-Lugo (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico); M. Mauricio Lara (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico)

Tue.1.2: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds I (Special session) - 5 papers

System Level Design Considerations for HSUPA User Equipment: Moritz Harteneck (Aeroflex Inc, United Kingdom)
IEEE 802.11n MIMO-Prototyping with Dirty RF Using the Hardware-in-the-Loop Approach: Matthias Stege (Signalion GmbH, Germany); Tim Hentschel (Signalion GmbH, Germany); Michael Löhning (Signalion GmbH, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany); Marcus Windisch (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Real-Time Implementation of a Sphere Decoder-Based MIMO Wireless System: Mikel Mendicute (University of Mondragon, Spain); Luis Barbero (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Gorka Landaburu (University of Mondragon, Spain); John. S Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Jon Altuna (University of Mondragon, Spain); Vicente Atxa (University of Mondragon, Spain)
Real-Time Experiments on Channel Adaptive Transmission in the Multi-User Up-link at very high Data Rates using MIMO-OFDM: Thomas Haustein (Heinrich Hertz Institut Berlin, Germany); Andreas Forck (HHI, Germany); Holger Gäbler (FhG-HHI, Germany); Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) Berlin, Germany); Stefan Schiffermueller (FhG-HHI, Germany)
An 8x8 RLS based MIMO detection ASIC for broadband MIMO-OFDM wireless transmissions: Jingming Wang (Marvell Semiconductor, USA); Babak Daneshrad (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Poster: Feature extraction in image and video - 10 papers

Morphological Image Processing for Echo Detection on Ultrasonic Signals: An application to foreign bodies detection in the alimentary industry: Ramón Miralles-Ricós (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Maria Jover-Andreu (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Ignacio Bosch-Roig (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Impact of noise on the polarimetric imaging based shape recovery of transparent objects: Romain Roux (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Jihad Zallat (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Alex Lallement (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Ernest Hirsch (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France)
Short Reference Image Quality Rating Based on Angular Edge Coherence: Licia Capodiferro (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Elio Di claudio (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Giovanni Jacovitti (INFOCOM Dpt. University of Rome, Italy)
Objetive Video Quality Metrics: A Performance Analysis: Jose Luis Martinez Martinez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain); Pedro Cuenca (Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain); Francisco Delicado (University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain)
Application of advanced image processing techniques to automatic Kikuchi lines detection: Rafal Fraczek (AGH, University of Science and Technology, Poland); Tomasz Zielinski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
Interactive Detection of 3D Models of Building's Roofings for the Estimation of the Solar Energy Potential: Sergio Brofferio (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy); Mariaelena Gaetani (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy); Daniele Passoni (Politecnico Di Milano, Algeria); Massimo Spertino (CNR-IEIIT, Italy)
Points of interest extraction using pairwise clustering and spatial features: Dimitrios Besiris (University of Patras, Greece); Nikolaos Laskaris (Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Aristotle Univ, Greece); Evagellos Zigouris (University of Patras, Greece); George Economou (University of Patras, Greece); Spiros Fotopoulos (University University of Patras, Greece)
A blind image super-resolution algorithm for pure translational motion: Fatih Kara (TUBITAK-UEKAE, Turkey); Cabir Vural (Sakarya University, Turkey)
Automatic Matching of Aerial Images with Map Data using Dynamic Programming: Metin Kahraman (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey); Sevket Gumustekin (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)
A novel eye-detection algorithm utilizing edge-related geometrical information: Stylianos Asteriadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Greece); Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Andras Hajdu (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece)

Poster: Image Restoration and Enhancement - 12 papers

Image Sharpening by Coupled Nonlinear-Diffusion on the Chromaticity-Brightness color Representation: Takahiro Saito (Kanagawa University, Japan); Reina Nosaka (Kanagawa University, Japan); Takashi Komatsu (Kanagawa University, Japan)
Stereo-Polarimetric Measurement of pair of Mueller images for Three Dimensional Partial Reconstruction: Jawad Elsayed Ahmad (University Louis Pasteur, France); Yoshitate Takakura (Université Louis pasteur-Strasbourg, France)
Improving Quality of Autofluorescence Images Using Non-rigid Image Registration: Libor Kubecka (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Jiri Jan (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Radim Kolar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Radovan Jirik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
An Iterative Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Image Sequences using a Bayesian Approach and Affine Block-Based Registration: Vorapoj Patanavijit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Automated Removal of Overshoot Artefact from Images: Naomi Harte (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Anil Kokaram (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Resolution Enhancement of Digital Images Based on Interpolation with Biasing: Yasuaki Okamoto (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan); Akira Taguchi (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Fuzzy Metrics and Peer Groups for Impulsive Noise Reduction In Color Images: Samuel Morillas (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Adaptive-3D-Wiener for hyperspectral image restoration: influence on detection strategy: Jean-Michel Gaucel (Institut Fresnel, France); Mireille Guillaume (Institut Fresnel, France); Salah Bourennane (Institut Fresnel, France)
Grain Noise Reduction using the Human Visual System characteristics: Valery Naranjo Ornedo (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Soledad Gómez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Antonio Albiol (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Jose M. Mossi (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Restoration of astrophysical images - The case of Poisson Gamma data: Celine Theys (Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Henri Lanteri (Universit de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Image Interpolation Using an Adaptive Invertible Approach: Olivier Crave (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France); Gemma Piella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France)
Color Histogram Equalization using Probability Smoothing: Nikoletta Bassiou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece); Constantine Kotropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Poster: Signal Processing Education - 3 papers

Teaching Signal Processing Applications With joPAS: Java To Octave Bridge: Javier Vicente (University of Deusto, Spain); Begonya Garcia (University of Deusto, Spain); Amaia Mendez (University of Deusto, Spain); Ibon Ruiz (University of Deusto, Spain); Oscar Lage (University of Deusto, Spain)
E-Learning on Multimedia: Marek Domañski (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)
A Simulink and Texas Instruments C6713 based Digital Signal Processing Laboratory: Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Vadim Avrin (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Poster: Speech Enhancement - 9 papers

Speech Enhancement with Kalman Filtering the Short-Time DFT Trajectories of Noise and Speech: Esfandiar Zavarehei (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Saeed Vaseghi (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Qin yan (Brunel University, United Kingdom)
Predictive deconvolution and kurtosis maximization for speech dereverberation: David Fee (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Colin Cowan (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Stefan Bilbao (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Izzet Ozcelik (Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom)
A Novel Voiced Speech Enhancement Approach Based on Modulated Periodic Signal Extraction: Mahdi Triki (CNRS - Eurecom Institute, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom Institute, France)
Parametric Approach for Speech Denoising Using Multitapers: Werayuth Charoenruengkit (IBM, USA)
Subband Particle Filtering for Speech Enhancement: Ying Deng (University of Utah, USA); V. John Mathews (University of Utah, USA)
A Harsh Noise Assessment Measure for Speech Enhancement: Kohei Yamashita (Saitama University, Japan); Tetsuya Shimamura (Saitama University, Japan)
Computation of common acoustical poles in subbands by means of a clustering technique: Pedro Zuccarello (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Juan Domingo (Universitat de Valencia, Spain); Guillermo Ayala (Universitat de Valencia, Spain)
Spectral Peaks Enhancement For Extracting Robust Speech Features: Babak Nasersharif (Iran university of science and technology, Iran); Ahmad Akbari (Iran university of science and technology, Iran); M. Mehdi Homayounpour (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Measurement of the Effects of Nonlinearities on the Network-Based Linear Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Ted Wada (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Rafid Sukkar (Tellabs, Inc., USA)

Tue.6.2: Transforms analysis and implementation - 5 papers

Relations between Gabor Transforms and Fractional Fourier Transforms and Their Applications for Signal Processing: Soo-Chang Pei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Jian-Jiun Ding (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Efficient Computation Of The Discrete Pascal Transform: Athanassios Skodras (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
No Minimum Rate Multisampling of a Fourier Series: Michael Grotenhuis (University of Minnesota, USA)
Extending Laplace and z Transform Domains: Michael Corinthios (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
On Improving the Performance of Multiplierless DCT Algorithms: Raymond Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Moon-Chuen Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Tue.4.2 - Speech and Audio Source Separation - 5 papers

Blind source separation of anechoic mixtures in time domain utilizing aggregated microphones: Mitsuharu Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan); Shuji Hashimoto (Waseda University, Japan)
Blind Source Separation for Convolutive Mixtures Using Spatially Resampled Observations: Johan Synnevåg (University of Oslo, Norway); Tobias Dahl (University of Oslo, Norway)
Reducing reverberation effects in convolutive blind source separation: Radoslaw Mazur (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Alfred Mertins (Signal Processing Group, Dept. of Physics, University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Source Extraction from Two-Channel Mixtures by Joint Cosine Packet Analysis: Andrew Nesbit (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Plumbley (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Parametric Pearson approach based independent component analysis for freqeucny domain blind speech separation: Hiroko Kato (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Yuichi Nagahara (Meiji University, Japan); Shoko Araki (NTT communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Hiroshi Sawada (NTT communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Shoji Makino (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

Tue.3.2: Signal Synthesis and Reconstruction - 5 paper

Improving the Accuracy of Noise Estimation when Using Decision Feedback: Stefan Edinger (University of Mannheim, Germany); Markus Gaida (University of Mannheim, Germany); Norbert Fliege (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Spectral correlations and synthesis of multidimensional fractional Brownian motion: Tor Oigard (University of Tromso, Norway); Louis Scharf (Colorado State, USA); Alfred Hanssen (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Optimal Estimation of a Random Signal from Partially Missed Data: Anatoli Torokhti (University of South Australia, Australia); Phil Howlett (University of South Australia, Australia); Charles Pearce (The University of Adelaide, Australia)
New fast recursive algorithms for simultaneous reconstruction and identification of AR processes with missing observations: Rawad Zgheib (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France); Gilles Fleury (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France); Elisabeth Lahalle (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France)
A Real-Time Algorithm for Time Decoding Machines: Aurel Lazar (Columbia University, USA); Ern\H{o} K. Simonyi (Ministry of Defense Electronics, Hungary); Laszlo T. Toth (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Algeria)

1:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Lunch

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Plenary: Distributed signal processing for sensor networks

3:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Tue.2.3: Wavelet Image Processing - 5 papers

Full Exploitation of Wavelet Coefficients in Radar Imaging for Improving the Detection of a Class of Sources in the Context of Real Data: Mohamed Tria (UNIVERSITY OF PARIS XI, France); Jean-Philippe Ovarlez (ONERA, France); Luc Vignaud (ONERA, France); Juan-Carlos Castelli (ONERA, France); Messaoud Benidir (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systmes, France)
A geometrical wavelet shrinkage approach for image denoising: Bruno Huysmans (University of Ghent, Belgium)
Nonlinear models for the statistics of adaptive wavelet packet coefficients of texture: Johan Aubray (INRIA, France); Ian Jermyn (INRIA, France); Josiane Zerubia (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)
A wavelet domain filter for correlated speckle: Stian Solbø (Norut IT, Norway); Torbjørn Eltoft (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Construction of Triangular Biorthogonal Wavelet Filters for Isotropic Image Processing: Susumu Sakakibara (Tokyo Denki University, Japan); Oleg Vasilyev (University of Colorado, USA)

Tue.5.3: Signal Detection - 5 papers

Low-Complexity Gain and Phase I/Q Mismatch Compensation using Orthogonal Pilot Sequences: Luca Giugno (WISER srl, Italy); Vincenzo Lottici (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy)
A robust signal detection scheme: Jean-Jacques Fuchs (irisa/université de Rennes, France)
Soft-Output Detection of Differentially Encoded M-PSK Over Channels with Phase Noise: Alan Barbieri (University of Parma, Italy); Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy)
Detection of Unknown Signals Based on Spectral Correlation Measurements: Omar Yeste (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Jesús Grajal (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Blind Phase Noise Estimation and Data Detection Based on SMC Technique and Unscented Filtering: Erdal Panayirci (Bilkent University, Turkey); Hakan Cirpan (Istanbul University, Turkey); Marc Moeneclaey (Ghent University, Belgium); Nele Noels (Ghent University, Belgium)

Tue.1.3: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds II (Special session) - 5 papers

Design of WARP: A Wireless Open-Access Research Platform: Patrick Murphy (Rice University, USA); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, USA); Behnaam Aazhang (Rice University, USA)
High-throughput multi-rate LDPC decoder based on architecture-oriented parity check matrices: Predrag Radosavljevic (Rice University, USA); Alexandre de Baynast (Rice University, USA); Marjan Karkooti (Rice University, USA); Joseph Cavallaro (Rice University, USA)
Fast Prototyping of Digital Signal Processing Systems by Means of a Model-based Codesign Environment: Leonardo Reyneri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Fabio Ancona (Sundance Italia s.r.l., Italy)
MIMO Signal Processing on a reconfigurable architecture: Klaus Hueske (University of Dortmund, Germany); Juergen Goetze (University of Dortmund, Germany)
VLSI Implementation of Pipelined Sphere Decoding with Early Termination: Andreas Burg (ETHZ, Switzerland); Markus Wenk (IIS/ETH-Zurich, Switzerland); Wolfgang Fichtner (ETHZ, Switzerland)

Poster: BSS and ICA - 16

Separation of Correlated Signals Using Signal Canceler Constraints in a Hybrid CM Array Architecture: Vishwanath Venkataraman (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA); John Shynk (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
ICA-Based Semi-Blind Spatial Equalization for MIMO Systems: Zhiguo Ding (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Colin Cowan (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Yu Gong (Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom)
The Effectiveness of ICA-based Representation: Application to Speech Feature Extraction for Noise Robust Speaker Recognition: Xin Zou (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom); Peter Jancovic (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom); Ju Liu (Shandong University, P.R. China)
Contributions to ICA of natural images: Ruben Martin-Clemente (University of Sevilla, Spain); Susana Hornillo-Mellado (University of Sevilla, Spain)
A Learning Algorithm with Distortion Free Constraint and Comparative Study for Feedforward and Feedback BSS: Akihide Horita (Kanazawa University, Japan); Kenji Nakayama (Kanazawa Univ., Japan); Akihiro Hirano (, ? ); Yasuhiro Dejima (Kanazawa University, Japan)
A DOA estimation method for 3D multiple source signals using independent component analysis: Hao Yuan (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan); Makoto Yamada (KDDI R&D Loboratories, Inc., Japan); Hisashi Kawai (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan)
Multi-Speaker Voice Activity Detection using ICA and Beampattern Analysis: Suneeth Maraboina (IIT Guwahati India, India); Dorothea Kolossa (TU Berlin, Germany); Prabin Kumar Bora (IIT Guwahati, India, India); Reinhold Orglmeister (TU Berlin, Germany)
Iterative blind source separation by decorrelation: algorithm and performance analysis: Abdeldjalil Aïssa-El-Bey (ENST, France); Karim Abed-Meraim (Dept TSI, Télécom Paris, France); Yves Grenier (ENST-Paris, TSI department, France)
Performance indexes of BSS for real-world applications: Ali Mansour (ENSIETA, 29806 Brest cedex 09, (FRANCE)., France); Ayman Alfalou (ISEN BREST, France)
a simple decoupled estimation of DoA and angular spread for spatially dispersed sources: Anne Ferreol (Thales Communications, France); Eric Boyer (ENS de Cachan, France); Xuefeng Yin (Aalborg University, Denmark); Pascal Larzabal (ENS de Cachan, France); Bernard Fleury (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Source Separation Using Multiple Directivity Patterns Produced by ICA-based BSS: Takashi Isa (Waseda University, Japan); Toshiyuki Sekiya (Waseda University, Japan); Tetsuji Ogawa (Waseda University, Japan); Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
A Method for Solving the Permutation Problem of Frequency-Domain BSS Using Reference Signal: Takashi Isa (Waseda University, Japan); Toshiyuki Sekiya (Waseda University, Japan); Tetsuji Ogawa (Waseda University, Japan); Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
Flexible ICA approach to nonlinear blind signal separation in complex domain.: Daniele Vigliano (Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Michele Scarpiniti (Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Raffaele Parisi (Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Aurelio Uncini (Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Optimal Separation of Polarized Signals by Quaternionic Neural Networks: Sven Buchholz (University of Kiel, Germany); Nicolas Le Bihan (LIS, France)
Two-Stage Blind Separation of Moving Sound Sources with Pocket-Size Real-Time DSP Module: Yoshimitsu Mori (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Tomoya Takatani (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Hiroshi Saruwatari (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Kiyohiro Shikano (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Takashi Hiekata (Kobe Steel, Ltd, Japan); Takashi Morita (Kobe Steel, Ltd, Japan)
Global Signal Elimination from ELF Band Electromagnetic Signals by Independent Component Analysis: Motoaki Mouri (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Arao Funase (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan); Ichi Takumi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Hiroshi Yasukawa (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan); Masayasu Hata (Chubu University, Japan)

Poster: Multicarrier and OFDM Systems - 10

Receiver Window Designs for Radio Frequency Interference Suppression: Chien-Chang Li (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan); Yuan-Pei Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
A Simple Adaptive Filter Method for Cancellation of Coupling Wave in OFDM Signals at SFN Relay Station: Hideaki Sakai (Kyoto University, Japan); Tetsuya Oka (Kyoto University, Japan); Kazunori Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Closed-form approximation for the outage capacity of OFDM-STBC and OFDM-SFBC systems: Jesus Perez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Jesus Ibañez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Luis Vielva (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Slepian Pulses For Multicarrier OQAM: Ivana Raos (UPM, Spain); Santiago Zazo (Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain); Igor Arambasic (Politechnical University of Madrid, UPM, Spain)
EM-based Enhancement of the Wiener Pilot-aided Channel Estimation in MIMO-OFDM Systems: Dragan Obradovic (Siemens, Germany)
NP-Hardness of Bit Allocation in Multiuser Multicarrier Communications: Manish Vemulapalli (The University of Iowa, USA); Soura Dasgupta (The University of Iowa, USA)
A phase noise compensation scheme for OFDM wireless systems: Qiyue Zou (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Alireza Tarighat (University of California. Los Angeles (UCLA), USA); Nima Khajehnouri (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Ali Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Novel Efficient Weighting Factors for PTS-based PAPR Reduction in Low-Power OFDM Transmitters: Thodoris Giannopoulos (University of Patras, Greece); Vassilis Paliouras (University of Patras, Greece)
Coupling Channel Identification for SFN OFDM Relay Station: Akira Sano (Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, Japan); Lianming Sun (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan)
Low Complexity Zero-Padding Zero-Jamming DMT Systems: Yuan-Hwui Chung (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); See-May Phoong (National Taiwan Universityiversity, Taiwan)

Poster: EEG Signal Analysis - 5

Parallel Space-Time-Frequency Decomposition of EEG Signals For Brain Computer Interfacing: Kianoush Nazarpour (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Saeid Sanei (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Leor Shoker (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Cardiff University Wales, United Kingdom)
Integer Sub-optimal Karhunen-Loeve Transform For Multi-channel Lossless EEG Compression: Yodchanan Wongsawat (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Soontorn Oraintara (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
A Novel Space-Time-Frequency Masking Approach for Quantification of EEG Source Propagation With an Application to Brain Computer Interfacing: Leor Shoker (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Saeid Sanei (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Kianoush Nazarpour (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Alex Sumich (Institute of Psychiatry, United Kingdom)
Coherence Estimation between EEG signals using Multiple Window Time-Frequency Analysis compared to Gaussian Kernels: Johan Sandberg (Lund University, Sweden); Maria Hansson (Lund University, Sweden)
Ranking Features of Wavelet-Decomposed EEG Based On Significance in Epileptic Seizure Prediction: Pedram Ataee (University of Tehran, Iran); Alireza Nasiri Avanaki (University of Tehran, Iran); Hadi Fatemi Shariatpanahi (University of Tehran, Iran); Seyed Mohammadreza Khoee (University of Tehran, Iran)

Poster : Cryptography, Watermarking, and Steganography - 10 papers

Dual Watermarking Algorithm Exploiting The Logarithmic Characteristic Of The Human Eye's Sensitivity To Luminance: Zhe Wang (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Stephen Marshall (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Asymmetric cryptography as subset of digital hologram watermarking: Michele De Santis (University of Roma Tre, Italy); Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo (University of "roma Tre", Italy)
A Multidimensional Map For A Chaotic Cryptosystem: Rhouma Rhouma (Ecole nationale d'ingénieur de tunis, Tunisia); Safya Belghith (ecole nationale d'ingnieurs de Tunis, Tunisia)
Benchmarking Image Watermarking Algorithms with OpenWatermark: Benjamin Michiels (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Benoit Macq (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Substitutive Watermarking Algorithms based on Interpolation: Vincent Martin (IRIT/ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France); Marie Chabert (IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France); Bernard Lacaze (IRIT/INSA, France)
Halftone Visual Cryptography via Direct Binary Search: Gonzalo Arce (University of Delaware, USA); Zhongmin Wang (University of Delaware, USA); Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
A Fibonacci LSB Data Hiding Tecnique: Diego De Luca Picione (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Federica Battisti (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Marco Carli (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Video Watermarking in 3D DCT Domain: Marco Carli (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Riccardo Mazzeo (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Alessandro Neri (University of ROMA TRE, Italy)
Data hiding in fingerprint images: Lahouari Ghouti (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Ahmed Bouridane (Queen's University, United Kingdom)
A DCT-Based Data-Hiding Method to Embed the Color Information in a JPEG Grey Level Image: Marc Chaumont (University of Montpellier, LIRMM, France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France)

Tue.6.3: Signal Representation and Filter Analysis - 5 papers

On Signal Representation From Generalized Samples: Minmax Approximation with Constraints: Hagai Kirshner (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Tsvi Dvorkind (Technion, Israel); Yonina Eldar (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Structural Equivalences in Wave Digital Systems based on Dynamic Scattering Cells: Augusto Sarti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Parametric Phase Equalizers for Warped Filter-Banks: Heinrich Loellmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Fast reconstruction from non-uniform samples in shift-invariant spaces: Laurent Condat (Laboratory of Images and Signals, France); Annick Montanvert (Laboratory of Images and Signals, France)
Design Trade-Offs for Linear-Phase FIR Decimation Filters and Sigma-Delta-Modulators: Anton Blad (Linköping university, Sweden); Per Lowenborg (Linkoping University, Sweden); Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden)

Tue.4.3: Bayesian Methods for Inverse Problems in Image and Signal Processing I (Special session) - 5 papers

Analysis versus Synthesis in Signal Priors: Ron Rubinstein (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Michael Elad (Technion, Israel); Peyman Milanfar (University of California, Santa Cruz, Canada)
Adaptive Bayesian/Total-Variation Image Deconvolution: A Majorization-Minimization Approach: José Bioucas-Dias (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); Mario Figueiredo (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); João Oliveira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
A Perceptual Bayesian Estimation Framework and its Application to Image Denoising: Javier Portilla (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientìficas (CSIC), Spain)
Adaptive regularization of noisy linear inverse problems: Lars Kai Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Kristoffer Madsen (Tecnical University of Denmark, Denmark); Tue Lehn-Schioler (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Parameter Estimation and Order Selection for Linear Regression Problems: Yngve Selén (Uppsala University, Sweden); Erik G. Larsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Tue.3.3: Signal Processing for Music - 5 papers

A spectral difference approach to downbeat extraction in musical audio: Matthew Davies (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Plumbley (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
New methods in structural segmentation of musical audio: Mark Levy (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Evaluation of MFCC estimation techniques for music similarity: Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Manohar Murthi (University of Miami, USA); Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Speech/music discrimination using a Warped LPC-based feature and a fuzzy expert system for intelligent audio coding: Nicolas Ruiz Reyes (University of Jaen, Spain); Sebastian Garcia Galan (University of Jaen, Spain); Jose Enrique Muñoz Exposito (University of Jaen, Spain); Pedro Vera Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Fernando Rivas Peña (University of Jaen, Spain)
Use of Continuous Wavelet-Like Transform in Automated Music Transcription: Aliaksandr Paradzinets (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

Coffee-break T2

5:10 PM - 6:30 PM

Tue.2.4: Bioinformatics - 4 papers

A Method For Analysing A Gene Expression Data Sequence Using Probabilistic Boolean Networks: Stephen Marshall (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Le Yu (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
On Probe-Level Interference and Noise Modeling in Gene Expression Microarray Experiments: Paul Flikkema (Northern Arizona University, USA)
Exactly Periodic Subspace Decomposition Based Approach for Identifying Tandem Repeats in DNA Sequences: Ravi Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Divya Sarthi (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Ankush Mittal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Kuldip Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Identifying Inverted Repeat Structure in DNA Sequences using Correlation Framework: Ravi Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Ankush Mittal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Kuldip Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)

Tue.5.4: Spread Spectrum, CDMA, and MC-CDMA - 4 papers

Non-relatively measurable spread-sequences for secure transmission of direct-sequence spread-spectrum signals: Jacek Leskow (Wyzsa Szkola Biznesu WSB-NLU, Poland); Antonio Napolitano (Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
Subband Adaptive Array for MIMO-CDMA Space-Time Block Coded System: Nordin Ramli (University of Electro-communications, Japan); Tetsuki Taniguchi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Yoshio Karasawa (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Minimizing the Delay Estimation Error of a Spread Spectrum Signal for Satellite Positioning: Giacomo Bacci (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy)
Performance Analysis of a MC-CDMA Forward Link over Nonlinear Channels: Filippo Giannetti (University of Pisa, Italy); Vincenzo Lottici (University of Pisa, Italy); Ivan Stupia (University of Pisa, Italy)

Tue.1.4: Color Image Processing (Invited special session) - 4 papers

A Kernel Approach to Gamut Boundary Computation: Joachim Giesen (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland); Eva Schuberth (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland); Klaus Simon (EMPA, Switzerland); Peter Zolliker (EMPA, Switzerland)
Thin-plate splines for printer data interpolation: Gaurav Sharma (University of Rochester, USA); Mark Shaw (Hewlett Packard Company, Boise, USA)
HDR CFA Image Rendering: David Alleysson (University Pierre Mendes-France, France); Sabine Susstrunk (EPFL, Switzerland); Laurence Meylan (EPFL, Switzerland)
Recent advances in acquisition and reproduction of multispectral images: Jon Hardeberg (Gjøvik University College, Norway)

Tue.6.4: Deconvolution Methods - 4 papers

Frequency domain blind deconvolution in multiframe imaging using anisotropic spatially-adaptive denoising: Vladimir Katkovnik (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Dmitriy Paliy (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Comparison of supergaussianity and whiteness assumptions for blind deconvolution in noisy context: Anthony Larue (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France); Dinh Tuan Pham (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France)
A Channel Deflation Approach for the Blind Deconvolution of a Complex FIR Channel with Real Input: Konstantinos Diamantaras (Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece); Theophilos Papadimitriou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece); Efthimios Kotsialos (Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Iterative Image Deconvolution Using Overcomplete Representations: Chaux Caroline (Univ Marne la Vallee, France); Patrick Combettes (Universite Paris 6, France); Jean-Christophe Pesquet (Univ. Marne la Vallee, France); Wajs Valerie (Univ Paris 6, France)

Tue.4.4: Bayesian Methods for Inverse Problems in Image and Signal Processing II (Special session) - 4 papers

Variational Bayesian Blind Image Deconvolution Based on a Sparse Kernel Model for the Point Spread Function: Dimitris Tzikas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Aristidis Likas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Nikolaos Galatsanos (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Hierarchical Bayesian Super Resolution Reconstruction of Multispectral Images: Rafael Molina (Universidad de Granada, Spain); MIguel Vega (University of Granada, Spain); Javier Mateos (University of Granada, Spain); Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern University, USA)
Hirarchical Markovian Models for 3D Computed Tomography in Non Destructive Testing Applications: Ali Mohammad-Djafari (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), France); Lionel Robillard (EDF, France)
Bayesian Inference for Multidimensional NMR image reconstruction: Ji Won Yoon (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Tue.3.4: Speech Recognition - 4 papers

Neural Networks with Random Letter Codes for Text-To-Phoneme Mapping and Small Training Dictionary: Eniko Bilcu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Multimodal speaker localization in a probabilistic framework: Mihai Gurban (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland); Jean-Philippe Thiran (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)
Optimal Selection of Bitstream Features for Compressed-Domain Automatic Speaker Recognition: Matteo Petracca (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Antonio Servetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Juan Carlos De Martin (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Hybrid Approach for Unsupervised Audio Speaker Segmentation: Hachem Kadri (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia); Zied Lachiri (INSAT, Tunisia); Noureddine Ellouze (ENIT, Tunisia)

Wednesday, Sep 6

8:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Wed.2.1: Image and Video Quality Evaluation (Invited special session) - 7 papers

H.264 Coding Artifacts And Their Relation To Perceived Annoyance: Tobias Wolff (Harman Becker Automotive Systems, Germany); Hsin-Han Ho (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); John Foley (University of California Santa Barbara, USA); Sanjit K. Mitra (UCSB, USA)
Task impact on the visual attention in subjective image quality assessment: Alexandre Ninassi (University of Nantes, France); Olivier Le Meur (Thomson R&D, France); Patrick Le Callet (University of Nantes, France); Dominique Barba (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes, France); Arnaud Tirel (University of Nantes, France)
No-Reference perceptual quality assessment of colour image: Benjamin Bringier (SIC, Université de Poitiers, France); Noël Richard (Université de Poitiers, France); Chaker Larabi (SIC, Université de Poitiers, France); Christine Fernandez-Maloigne (SIC, Université de Poitriers, France)
Estimation of accesible quality in noisy image compression: Nikolay Ponomarenko (National Aerospace University, Kharkov, Ukraine); Mikhail Zriakhov (National Aerospace University, Ukraine); Vladimir Lukin (National Aerospace University, Kharkov, Ukraine); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
No reference quality assessment of Internet multimedia services: Alessandro Neri (University of ROMA TRE, Italy); Marco Carli (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Marco Montenovo (HP C&I, Italy); Francesco Comi (University of Roma TRE, Italy)
Intelligent Sharpness Enhancement for Video Post-Processing: Jorge Caviedes (Intel Corporation, USA)
Application Dependent Video Segmentation Evaluation - A Case Study for Video Surveillance -: Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, Switzerland)

Wed.2.1: Transceiver Processing for Fast Time-Varying Channels (Invited special session) - 7 papers

Time-Varying Communication Channels: Fundamentals, Recent Developments, and Open Problems: Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Franz Hlawatsch (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Estimation of Doubly-Selective Channels in Block Transmissions: Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)
Minimum-Energy Bandlimited Time-Variant Channel Prediction With Dynamic Subspace Selection: Thomas Zemen (ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria); Christoph Mecklenbräuker (FTW, Austria); Bernard Fleury (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Direct Equalization of Multiuser Doubly-Selective Channels Based on Superimposed Training: Shuangchi He (Auburn University, USA); Jitendra Tugnait (Auburn University, USA)
Banded Equalizers for MIMO-OFDM in fast Time-Varying Channels: Luca Rugini (University of Perugia, Italy); Paolo Banelli (University of Perugia, Italy)
Spatial Multiplexing with Linear Precoding in Time-Varying Channels with Limited Feedback: Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Claude Simon (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Nadia Khaled (Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Belgium)
Blind CFO estimation for OFDM with constant modulus constellations: performance bounds and algorithms: Timo Roman (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Andreas Richter (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Visa Koivunen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)

Wed.1.1: Cultural Heritage (Invited special session) - 7 papers

Opportunities and issues of Image Processing for Cultural Heritage Applications: Alessandro Piva (University of Florence, Italy); Vito Cappellini (University of Florence, Italy)
Using Spanning Trees for Reduced Complexity Image Mosaicing: Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece)
Automated Investigation of Archeological Vessels: Martin Kampel (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Hubert Mara (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Robert Sablatnig (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Damages of Digitized Historical Images as Objects for Content Based Applications: Edoardo Ardizzone (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy); Haris Dindo (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy); Umberto Maniscalco (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (I.A.C.) M. Picone - C.N.R, Italy); Giuseppe Mazzola (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
The image processing system for art specimens: Nephele: Miroslav Benes (1) Institute of Information Theory and Automation 2) Charles University, Czech Republic); Barbara Zitova (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic); Jan Flusser (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic); Janka Hradilova (Academic Laboratory of Materials Research of Paintings, Czech Republic); David Hradil (Academic Laboratory of Materials Research of Paintings, Czech Republic)
Multispectral UV Fluorescence Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Anna Pelagotti (INOA, Italy); Luca Pezzati (INOA, Italy); Alessandro Piva (University of Florence, Italy); Andrea Del Mastio (University of Florence - Media Integration and Communication Center, Italy)
Analysis of Multispectral Images of Paintings: Philippe Colantoni (Jean Monnet University, France); Ruven Pillay (C2RMF, France); Christian Lahanier (C2RMF, France); Denis Pitzalis (C2RMF, France)

Wed.6.1: Parameter Estimation - 7 papers

Bayesian estimation of mixtures of skewed alpha stable distributions with an unknown number of components: Diego Salas-González (University of Granada, Spain); Ercan Kuruoglu (CNR, Pisa, Italy); Diego Pablo Ruiz Padillo (Dpto Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Spain)
Parameter Estimation For Multivariate Gamma Distributions: Florent Chatelain (University of Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France); Jordi Inglada (CNES, France); André Ferrari (Nice-Sophia-Antipolis University, France)
ML approach to radial acceleration estimation and CRLB computation: Luciana Ortenzi (SELEX-SI, Italy); Luca Timmoneri (SELEX-SI, Italy); Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy)
Consistent Signal Parameter Estimation with 1-Bit Dithered Sampling: Onkar Dabeer (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India); Aditya Karnik (University of Waterloo, Canada)
On the Influence of Detection Tests on Deterministic Parameters Estimation: Eric Chaumette (Thales Naval France, France); François Vincent (ENSICA Toulouse, France); Jérôme Galy (LIRMM Montpellier, France); Pascal Larzabal (SATIE ENS-Cachan, France)
Estimation of Parameters of Input Traffic Streams From Statistically Multiplexed Output: Rajesh Narasimha (Georgia Tech, USA); Raghuveer Rao (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA); Sohail Dianat (RIT, USA)
Efficient time delay estimation based on cross-power spectrum phase: Marco Matassoni (ITC-irst, Italy); Piergiorgio Svaizer (ITC-irst, Italy)

Wed.4.1: Speech Analysis and Synthesis - 7 papers

Robust F0 estimation based on a multi-microphone periodicity function for distant-talking speech: Federico Flego (ITC-irst (Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy); Maurizio Omologo (ITC-irst (Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), Italy)
A multi-decision sub-band voice activity detector: Alan Davis (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Australia); Sven Nordholm (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Australia); Siow Yong Low (Curtin University of Technology, Australia); Roberto Togneri (University of Western Australia, Australia)
Noise Reduction Using Reliable A Posteriori Signal-To-Noise Ratio Features: Cyril Plapous (France Telecom, France); Claude Marro (France Télécom R&D, France); Pascal Scalart (University of Rennes, France)
Theoretical and experimental bases of a new method for accurate separation of harmonic and noise components of speech signals: Laurent Girin (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France)
Dynamic Selection of Acoustic Features in an Automatic Speech Recognition System: Loïc Barrault (University of Avignon, France); Driss Matrouf (LIA - University of Avignon, France); Renato De Mori (LIA - University of Avignon, France); Roberto Gemello (Loquendo - Italy, Italy); Franco Mana (Loquendo - Italy, Italy)
Singing Voice Recognition Considering High-Pitched and Prolonged Sounds: Akira Sasou (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Japan)
Natural Sounding TTS Based on Syllable-Like Units: Samuel Thomas (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Nageshwara Rao (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Hema Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); C.S. Ramalingam (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)

Wed.3.1: Advances in Monte Carlo methods for target tracking (Special session) - 7 papers

Controlling particle filter regularization for GPS/INS hybridization: Audrey Giremus (university of Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France)
Efficient Variable Rate Particle Filters For Tracking Manoeuvring Targets Using An MRF-based Motion Model: William Ng (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Sze Kim Pang (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Jack Li (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
A Particle Filter for Beacon-Free Node Location and Target Tracking in Sensor Networks: Joaquín Míguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Antonio Artés-Rodríguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
On Low-Power Analog Implementation of Particle Filters for Target Tracking: Rajbabu Velmurugan (Georgia Tech, USA); Shyam Subramanian (Georgia Tech, USA); Volkan Cevher (University of Maryland, USA); David Abramson (Monash University, Australia); Kofi Odame (Georgia Tech, USA); Jordan Gray (Georgia Tech, USA); Haw-Jing Lo (Georgia Tech, USA); James McClellan (Georgia Tech, USA); David Anderson (Georgia Tech, USA)
A Joint Radar-Acoustic Particle Filter Tracker with Acoustic Propagation: Volkan Cevher (University of Maryland, USA); Milind Borkar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); James McClellan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Advances in Cost-Reference Particle Filtering: Monica Bugallo (Stony Brook University, USA); Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Tracking Multiple Acoustic Sources using Particle Filtering: Fabio Antonacci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Davide Riva (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Diego Saiu (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Augusto Sarti (DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Tagliasacchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break W1

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Wed.2.2: Wireless Sensors Networks - 5 papers

Distributed particle filter for target tracking in wireless sensor network: Zhenya Yan (Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, P.R. China); Baoyu Zheng (Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); JingWu Cui (Nanjing University of Posts And Telecomm, P.R. China)
Ring Based Wavelet Transform with Arbitrary Supports in Wireless Sensor Networks: Siwang Zhou (Hunan University, P.R. China); Yaping Lin (College of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, P.R. China); Yonghe Liu (UT Arlington, USA)
Locally Optimum Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks: Stefano Marano (University of Salerno, Italy); Vincenzo Matta (University of Salerno, Italy); Peter Willett (University of Connecticut, USA)
Training a SVM-based Classifier in Distributed Sensor Networks: Kallirroe Flouri (University of Crete, Greece); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Panagiotis Tsakalides (University of Crete, Greece)
Accurate Sequential Weighted Least Squares Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Network Localization: Kit Wing Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Hing Cheung So (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Wed.5.2: Video Analysis and Understanding - 5 papers

Hierarchical video summaries by dendrogram cluster analysis: Sergio Benini (University of Brescia, Italy); Aldo Bianchetti (University of Brescia, Italy); Riccardo Leonardi (University of Brescia, Italy); Pierangelo Migliorati (University of Brescia, Italy, Italy)
A geometric segmentation approach for the 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes in 2D video sequences: Sebastian Knorr (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Evren Imre (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Aydin Alatan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Thomas Sikora (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Dense Optical Flow Field Estimation using Recursive LMS Filtering: Mejdi Trimeche (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Marius Tico (Nokia Reseach Center, Finland); Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Spatiotemporal Algorithm for Joint Video Segmentation and Foreground Detection: Sevket Derin Babacan (Northwestern University, USA); Thrasyvoulos Pappas (Northwestern University, USA)
Contour Based Smoke Detection in Video Using Wavelets: Behcet Toreyin (Bilkent University, Turkey); Yigithan Dedeoglu (Bilkent University, Turkey); A. Enis Cetin (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Wed.1.2: Image restoration and denoising - 5 papers

Signal and Image Denoising via Scale- Space Atoms: Vittoria Bruni (National Council of Researches - C.N.R, Italy); Benedetto Piccoli (C.N.R., Italy); Domenico Vitulano (C.N.R., Italy)
Maximum a Posteriori Super Resolution Based on Simultaneous Non-Stationary Restoration, Interpolation and Fast Registration: Giannis Chantas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Nikolaos Galatsanos (University of Ioannina, Greece); Nathan Woods (Binary Machines, Inc, 1320 Tower Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60173, USA)
Psycho-visual Quality Assessment of state-of-the-art Denoising Schemes: Ewout Vansteenkiste (Ghent University, Belgium)
A Novel Technique For Reducing Demosaicing Artifacts: Daniele Menon (University of Padova, Italy); Stefano Andriani (University of Padova, Italy); Giancarlo Calvagno (University of Padova, Italy)
Virtual Restoration of Faded Photographic Prints: Vittoria Bruni (National Council of Researches - C.N.R, Italy); Giovanni Ramponi (University of Trieste, Italy)

Poster: Hardware and Implementation - 9

A New Efficient Implementation of TDAC Synthesis Filterbank Based On Radix-2 FFT: Anup K.c (Emuzed - A Flextronics Company, India); Ajay Kumar Bangla (Emuzed-A Flextronics Company, India)
An architecture for real-time design of the system for multidimensional signal analysis: Veselin Ivanovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro); Radovan Stojanovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro); Srdjan Jovanovski (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro); Ljubisa Stankovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro)
Analysis of Steady-State Excess Mean-Square-Error of the Least Mean Kurtosis Adaptive Algorithm: Junibakti Sanubari (Satya Wacana University, Indonesia)
Bandpass/ Wideband ADC architecture using parallel Delta Sigma modulators: Ali Beydoun (Supelec, France); Philippe Benabes (Supelec, France)
On the Equivalence of a Reduced-Complexity Recursive Power Normalization Algorithm and the Exponential Window Power Estimation: Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia)
Efficient implementations of operations on runlength-represented images: Øyvind Ryan (University of Oslo, Norway)
Tradeoff Between Complexity and Memory Size in the 3GPP enhanced aacPlus Decoder: Speed-Conscious and Memory-Conscious Decoders on a 16-bit Fixed-Point DSP: Osamu Shimada (NEC Corporation, Japan); Toshiyuki Nomura (NEC Corporation, Japan); Akihiko Sugiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan); Masahiro Serizawa (NEC, Japan)
Realization of Block Robust Adaptive Filters using Generalized Sliding Fermat Number Transform: Hamze Alaeddine (University of Brest, France); El-Houssain Baghious (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France); Guillaume Madre (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France); Gilles Burel (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
FPGA Architecture for Object Segmentation in Real Time: Jozias de Oliveira (Genius Institute of Technology, Brazil); Andre Printes (Genius Institute of Technology, Algeria); Raimundo Freire (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil); Elmar Melcher (Federal University of Campina Grande, Algeria); Ivan Sebastião (Federal University of Para, Algeria)

Poster: Video and Image Coding - 19 papers

QoS Mapping for Fine Granular Scalability with Base Layer Scaling: Masayuki Inoue (NTT Corporation, Japan)
Quality evaluation model using local features of still picture: Yuukou Horita (University of Toyama, Japan)
An Adaptive Error Concealment Mechanism for H.264 Encoded Low-Resolution Video Streaming: Olivia Nemethova (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Ameen Al-Moghrabi (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)
An Adaptive Color Transform Approach and its Application in 4:4:4 Video Coding: Detlev Marpe (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Heiner Kirchhoffer (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Valeri George (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Peter Kauff (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Thomas Wiegand (HHI/FhG, Germany)
Spatio-Temporal Filter for ROI Video Coding: Linda Karlsson (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Mårten Sjöström (Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Roger Olsson (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Pdf sharpening for multichannel predictive coders: Omer Gerek (Anadolu University, Turkey)
An Improved Error Concealment Strategy Driven by Scene Motion Properties for H.264/AVC Decoders: Susanna Spinsante (Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy); Ennio Gambi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Franco Chiaraluce (Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
H.264 Encoding of Videos with Large Number of Shot Transitions Using Long-Term Reference Pictures: Nukhet Ozbek (Ege University, Turkey); A. Murat Tekalp (Koc University, Turkey)
Embedded Image Processing/Compression For High-Speed CMOS Sensor: Romuald Mosqueron (University of Burgundy, France); Julien Dubois (university of Burgundy, France); Michel Paindavoine (Université de Bourgogne, France)
Improving Wyner-Ziv Video coding by block-based distortion estimation: Zouhair Belkoura (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Thomas Sikora (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
A low-complexity multiple description video coder based on 3D-transforms: Andrey Norkin (University of Tampere, Finland); Atanas Gotchev (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Adaptive Interpolation Algorithm for Fast and Efficient Video Encoding in H.264: Gianluca Bailo (University of Genova, Italy); Massimo Bariani (University of Genova, Italy); Chiappori Andrea (University of Genova, Italy); Riccardo Stagnaro (University of Genova, Italy)
Efficient Image Registration With Subpixel Accuracy: Irene Karybali (University of Patras, Greece); Emmanouil Psarakis (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece); Georgios Evangelidis (, ? )
H.264 video coding for low bit rate error prone channels: an application to Tetra systems: Stefania Colonnese (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy); Alessandro Piccoli (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Claudio Sansone (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Gaetano Scarano (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy)
Spatio-temporal selective extrapolation for 3-D signals applied to concealment in video communications: Katrin Meisinger (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Sandra Martin (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); André Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
A scalable SPIHT-based multispectral image compression: Fouad Khelifi (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Ahmed Bouridane (Queen's University, United Kingdom); Fatih Kurugollu (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)
Temporal And Spatial Scaling For Stereoscopic Video Compression: Anil Aksay (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Cagdas Bilen (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Engin Kurutepe (Koc University, Turkey); Tanir Ozcelebi (Koc University, Turkey); Gozde Bozdagi Akar (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); Reha Civanlar (Koc University, Turkey); A. Murat Tekalp (Koc University, Turkey)
Linear and Nonlinear Temporal Prediction Employing Lifting Structures for Scalable Video Coding: Behcet Toreyin (Bilkent University, Turkey); Maria Trocan (ENST, France); Béatrice Pesquet (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France); Enis Çetin (Bilkent University, Turkey)
An H.264-Based Video Encoding Scheme for 3D TV: Mahsa T. Pourazad (University of British Columbia, Canada); Panos Nasiopoulos (University of British Columbia, Canada); Rabab Ward (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Poster: Source Localization - 6 papers

A Novel Signal Subspace Approach for Mobile Positioning with Time-of-Arrival Measurements: Hing Cheung So (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Kit Wing Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Bayesian Mobile Location in Cellular Networks: Mohamed Khalaf-Allah (University of Hannover, Germany); Kyandoghere Kyamakya (Department of Informatics Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Position and Velocity Recovery from Independent Ultrasonic Beacons: Michael McCarthy (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Henk Muller (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Andrew Calway (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); R Wilson (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Spectral Separation Coefficients for digital GNSS receivers: Daniele Borio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Letizia Lo Presti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Paolo Mulassano (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy)
Cramer-Rao Bounds for Source Localization in Shallow Ocean with Generalized Gaussian Noise: Pramod N. c. (Indian Institute of Science, India); Anand G. v. (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Unscented Kalman Filter For Location In Non-Line-Of-Sight: Marc Bosch (UPC, Spain); Montse Najar (UPC, Spain)

Wed.6.2: Radar Detection - 5 papers

GLRT-Based Detection-Estimation of Gaussian Signals in Under-Sampled Training Conditions: Ben Johnson (JORN Technical Director, Australia); Yuri Abramovich (Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing, Australia)
On a SIRV-CFAR detector with radar experimentations in impulsive noise: Frederic Pascal (ONERA, France); Jean-Philippe Ovarlez (ONERA, France); Philippe Forster (Universit Paris X - GEA, France); Pascal Larzabal (SATIE ENS-Cachan, France)
Permutation Detectors under Correlated K-Distributed Clutter in Radar Applications: J.e. Gonzalez (Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain); José Sanz-González (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Francisco Álvarez-Vaquero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
GLRT detection for range and doppler distributed targets in non-Gaussian clutter: Nicolas Bon (Laboratoire E3I2-EA 3876, France); Ali Khenchaf (Laboratoire E3I2-EA3876, France); Jean Michel Quellec (thales airborne systems, France); René Garello (GET-ENST Bretagne, France)
A Hybrid STAP Approach for Radar Target Detection in Heterogeneous Environments: Elias Aboutanios (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Bernard Mulgrew (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Wed.4.2: Equalization I - 5 papers

Two Nonequivalent Structures for Widely-Linear Decision-Feedback MMSE Equalization over MIMO Channels: Fabio Sterle (University of Naples Federico II, Italy); Davide Mattera (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Luigi Paura (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
SVD-Based Equalization for Zero Padded Multicarrier Systems in Time-Variant Fading Channels: Tiziano Bianchi (University of Florence, Italy); Fabrizio Argenti (University of Florence, Italy)
Widely-linear fractionally-spaced blind equalization of frequency-selective channels: Angela Sara Cacciapuoti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Giacinto Gelli (University of Napoli - Federico II, Italy); Luigi Paura (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Francesco Verde (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Low Complexity Turbo Space-Frequency Equalization for Single-carrier MIMO Wireless Communications: Ye Wu (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Asoke Nandi (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Yi Huang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Gaussian processes for regression in channel equalization: Sebastián Caro (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain); Fernando Pérez-Cruz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Estonia); Juan José Murillo-Fuentes (Departamento de Teorìa de la Señal y Comunicaciones. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

Wed.3.2: Channel Coding and Decoding - 5 papers

New Full-Diversity High-Rate Space-Time Block Codes Based on Selective Power Scaling: Sushanta Das (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); A. Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, USA); Jimmy Chui (Princeton University, USA)
Serial LDPC Decoding on a SIMD DSP Using Horizontal-Scheduling: Marco Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Vitor Silva (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal); Cláudio Neves (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Ricardo Marques (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Building Space Time Block Codes with set partitioning for three transmit antennas: application to STTC Codes: Guillaume Ferré (University of Limoges, France); Jean Pierre Cances (University of Limoges, France); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Jean-Michel Dumas (University of Limoges, France)
Error Performance Of Super-Orthogonal Space-Time Trellis Codes with Transmit Antenna Selection: Özgür Özdemir (Selcuk University, Turkey); Ibrahim Altunbas (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Mehmet Bayrak (Selcuk University, Turkey)
High-Precision LDPC Codes Decoding at the Lowest Complexity: Massimo Rovini (University of Pisa, Italy); Francesco Rossi (Dept. of Information Engineering - University of Pisa, Italy); Nicola L'Insalata (University of Pisa, Italy); Luca Fanucci (University of Pisa, Italy)

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Plenary: Signal Processing in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

3:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Wed.2.3: Biomedical Signal Processing - 5 papers

Embedded Wavelet Packets--based Algorithm for ECG compression: Manuel Blanco-Velasco (University of Alcala, Spain); Fernando Cruz-Roldán (Universidad de Alcalà¡, Spain); Juan-Ignacion Godino-Llorente (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Kenneth Barner (Univesity of Delaware, USA)
A Geometrically Constrained Anechoic Model for Blind Separation of Temporomandibular Joint Sounds: Clive Cheong Took (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Saeid Sanei (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Stephen Dunne (Kings College London, United Kingdom)
Nonlinear Projective Techniques To Extract Artifacts in Biomedical Signals: Ana Teixeira (DETUA/IEETA,University of Aveiro, Algeria); Ana Maria Tom (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Kurt Stadlthanner (Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Germany); E.w. Lang (Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Germany)
A time-frequency adaptive signal model-based approach for parametric ECG compression: Nicolas Ruiz Reyes (University of Jaen, Spain); Pedro Vera Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Pedro Jesus Reche Lopez (University of Jaen, Spain)
Extracting the Haemodynamic Response Function from fMRI Time Series using Fourier-Wavelet Regularised Deconvolution with Orthogonal Spline Wavelets: Alle Meije Wink (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Jos Roerdink (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Wed.5.3: Image Compression - 5 papers

Lossless Compression of Bayer Mask Images Using An Optimal Vector Prediction Technique: Stefano Andriani (University of Padova, Italy); Giancarlo Calvagno (University of Padova, Italy); Daniele Menon (University of Padova, Italy)
Representing Laplacian Pyramids with Varying Amount of Redundancy: Gagan Rath (IRISA-INRIA, France, France); Christine Guillemot (IRISA-INRIA, France, France)
Region based compression of multispectral images by classified KLT: Marco Cagnazzo (University of Napoli, Italy); Raffaele Gaetano (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy); Sara Parrilli (University of Napoli, Italy); Luisa Verdoliva (University of Napoli, Italy)
A Rate-Distortion Approach to Optimal Color Image Compression: Evgeny Gershikov (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Pointwise Shape-Adaptive DCT for high-quality deblocking of compressed color images: Alessandro Foi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Vladimir Katkovnik (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Wed.1.3: MIMO Channel Modelling, Emulation and Sounding I (Special session) - 5 papers

A review of radio channel sounding techniques: David Laurenson (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Peter Grant (Edinburgh School of Engineering and Electronics, United Kingdom)
Performance Verification of MIMO Concepts using Multi-Dimensional Channel Sounding: Christian Schneider (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Uwe Trautwein (TeWiSoft, Germany); Reiner Thomae (University of Ilmenau, Germany); Walter Wirnitzer (MEDAV GmbH, Germany)
A Simple Approach to MIMO Channel Modelling: Rafal Zubala (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Hubert Kokoszkiewicz (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland); Martijn Kuipers (IT / IST-TUL, Portugal); Luis Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal)
Enhanced Tracking of Radio Propagation Path Parameters Using State-Space Modeling: Jussi Salmi (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Andreas Richter (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Visa Koivunen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Characterization of MIMO Channels for Handheld Devices in Personal Area Networks at 5 GHz: Johan Karedal (Lund Univ., Sweden); Anders Johansson (Lund University, Sweden); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden); Andreas Molisch (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA)

Poster: Audio Processing and Enhancement - 18 papers

Low-Delay Nonuniform Oversampled Filterbanks for Acoustic Echo Control: Bogdan Dumitrescu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Robert Bregovic (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tapio Saramaki (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Riitta Niemisto (Nokia Corporation, Finland)
Multiband Source/Filter Representation of Multichannel Audio for Reduction of Inter-Channel Redundancy: Athanasios Mouchtaris (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece); Kiki Karadimou (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece); Panagiotis Tsakalides (University of Crete, Greece)
Tracking Behaviour of Acoustic Echo Canceller Using Multiple Sub-filters: Ravinder Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
Frequency domain simultaneous equations method for active noise control systems: Kensaku Fujii (University of Hyogo, Japan); Mitsuji Muneyasu (Kansai University, Japan); Yusuke Fujita (Catsystem corp., Japan)
On the use of linear prediction for acoustic feedback cancellation in multi-band hearing aids: Papichaya Chaisakul (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand); Nisachon Tangsangiumvisai (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand); Parinya Luangpitakchumpon (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand); Akinori Nishihara (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Multi-Resolution Partial Tracking with Modified Matching Pursuit: Pierre Leveau (Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musicale (UPMC Paris), France); Laurent Daudet (Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musicale (UPMC Paris), France)
A Double-talk Detection Algorithm Using a Psychoacoustic Auditory Model: Thien-An Vu (University of Ottawa, Canada); Heping Ding (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Martin Bouchard (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Statistical Properties of the FXLMS-Based Narrowband Active Noise Control System: Yegui Xiao (Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan)
Logarithmic temporal processing applied to accurate empirical transfer function measurements in vocal sound propagation: Masanori Morise (Wakayama University, Japan); Toshio Irino (Wakayama University, Japan); Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University, Japan)
A time improvement over the Mycielski algorithm for predictive signal coding: Mycielski-78: Omer Gerek (Anadolu University, Turkey)
Sound Reproduction System with Simultaneous Perturbation Method: Kazuya Tsukamoto (Kansai University, Japan); Yoshinobu Kajikawa (Kansai Univ., Japan); Yasuo Nomura (Kansai University, Japan)
A multi-channel maximum likelihood approach to de-reverberation: Massimiliano Tonelli (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Maria Jafari (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Michael Davies (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
A Time Domain System for Transient Enhancement in recorded music: Graziano Bertini (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Massimo Magrini (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Tommaso Giunti (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Testing supervised classifiers based on non-negative matrix factorization to musical instrument classification: Emmanouil Benetos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Constantine Kotropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Thomas Lidy (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
On the efficiency of time-varying channel models: Scott Rickard (University College Dublin, Ireland); Konstantinos Drakakis (University of Edinburgh, Scotland); Nikolaos Tsakalozos (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Noise Robust Relative Transfer Function Estimation: Markus Schwab (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Peter Noll (TU Berlin, Germany); Thomas Sikora (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
An identification system of monophonic musical tones: Vincenzo Di Salvo (CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Italy); Graziano Bertini (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Digital Sound Effects Echo and Reverb Based on Non-Exponentially Decaying Comb Filter: Vitezslav Kot (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

Poster: Sensor Array Processing - 10 papers

Efficiency of subspace-based estimators: Jean-Pierre Delmas (INT, France); Habti Abeida (INT, Algeria)
A Novel Technique for Broadband Subspace Decomposition: John McWhirter (QinetiQ ltd, United Kingdom); Paul Baxter (QinetiQ Ltd, United Kingdom); Tom Cooper (QinetiQ Ltd, United Kingdom); Soydan Redif (QinetiQ Ltd, United Kingdom)
Stochastic ML Estimation under Misspecified Number of Signals: Pei-Jung Chung (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Nonparametric Method for Detecting the Number of Narrowband Signals without Eigendecomposition in Array Processing: Jingmin Xin (Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan); Yoji Ohashi (Fujitsu, Japan); Akira Sano (Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, Japan)
Adaptive array detection algorithms with steering vector mismatch: Chin Heng Lim (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Aboutanios Elias (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Subspace-based Estimation of DOA with Known Directions: Guillaume Bouleux (LSS, France); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France)
Undersea buried object detection using Stoneley-Scholte waves: application in coherent noise: Cyril Kotenkoff (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France); Jean-Louis Lacoume (Laboratory of Images and Signals, France); Jerome Mars (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France)
Robust Adaptive Beamformer with Feasibility Constraint on the Steering Vector: Wenyi Zhang (University of California, San Diego, USA); Bhaskar Rao (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Localization of Tactile Interactions through TDOA analysis: geometric vs. inversion-based methods: Augusto Sarti (DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Giovanni De Sanctis (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Diego Rovetta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Gabriele Scarparo (DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
New Recursive Adaptive Beamforming Algorithms for Uniform Concentric Circular Arrays with Frequency Invariant Characteristics: Haihua Chen (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Poster: Detection of Digital Data Signals - 5 papers

Joint deregularization and box-constraint in multiuser detection: Yuriy Zakharov (University of York, United Kingdom); Jie Luo (University of Maryland, USA); Christos Kasparis (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
The Demodulation of M-PSK and M-QAM Signals Using Particle Filtering: Maoge Xu (Nanjing University of Science & Technology, P.R. China)
Soft-Output Detection of CPM Signals Transmitted Over Channels Affected by Phase Noise: Alan Barbieri (University of Parma, Italy); Giulio Colavolpe (University of Parma, Italy)
An MMSE Based Weighted Aggregation Scheme for Event Detection using Wireless Sensor Network: Bhushan Jagyasi (IIT Bombay, India); Bikash Dey (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); S. n. Merchant (IIT Bombay, India); Uday Desai (IIT Bombay, India)
Blind Bayesian Multiuser Detection for Impulse Radio UWB Systems with Gaussian and Impulsive Noise: Ahmet Ay (Bogazici University, Turkey); Hakan Delic (Bogazici University, Turkey); Mutlu Koca (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Low Complexity Post-Coded OFDM Communication System : Design and Performance Analysis: Syed Faisal Shah (University of Minnesota, USA); Ahmed Tewfik (Prof. University of Minnesota, USA)

Poster: Signal Processing Applications in Engineering - 8 papers

Gabor feature vectors to detect changes amongst time series: a geoacoustic example: Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands)
A new approach for roughness analysis of soil surfaces: Edwige Vannier (Centre d'étude des Environnements Terrestres et Planétaires, France); Antoine Gademer (CETP/IPSL, France); Valérie Ciarletti (CETP/IPSL, France)
Histogram-Based Orientation Analysis for Junctions: Jan Hendrik Moltz (University of Luebeck, Germany); Ingo Stuke (University of Luebeck, Germany); Til Aach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Frequency Selective Detection of NQR Signals in the Presence of Multiple Polymorphic Forms: Samuel Somasundaram (King's College London, United Kingdom); Andreas Jakobsson (Karlstad University, Sweden); John Smith (King's College London, United Kingdom)
A high resolution pursuit-based approach for detecting ultrasonic flaw echoes: Nicolas Ruiz Reyes (University of Jaen, Spain); Pedro Vera Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Jose Curpian Alonso (University of Jaen, Spain)
Abrupt noise rejection using wavelet transform for electromagnetic wave: Akitoshi Itai (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan); Hiroshi Yasukawa (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan); Ichi Takumi (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan); Masayasu Hata (Chubu University, Japan)
Modelling Elastic Wave Propagation In Thin Plates: Diego Rovetta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Augusto Sarti (DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Giovanni De Sanctis (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Fabiani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
HOS-Based Method for Power Quality Events Classification: Danton Ferreira (UFJF, Brazil); Augusto Cerqueira (UFJF, Brazil); Moises Ribeiro (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil); Carlos Duque (UFJF, Brazil)

Wed.6.3: Sonar signal processing - 5 papers

Signal processing for an active sonar system suitable for advanced sensor technology applications and environmental adaptation schemes: Alberto Baldacci (NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy); Georgios Haralabus (NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy)
Sonar Signal Processing Based On COTS Components: Dirk Maiwald (ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH, Germany)
Use of statistical hypothesis test for mines detection in SAS imagery: Lionel Bombrun (Images and Signals Laboratory, France); Frédéric Maussang (Images and Signals Laboratory, France); Eric Moisan (Images and Signals Laboratory, France); Alain Hétet (DGA/DCE/GESMA, France)
Advances in Active Sonar Tracking: Stefano Coraluppi (NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy); Craig Carthel (NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy)
Directivity Analysis of Time-Reversal Arrays in a Simple Ocean Waveguide: Joao Gomes (ISR - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)

Wed.4.3: Equalization II - 5 papers

Semi-Blind Space-Time Equalization for Single-Carrier MIMO Systems with Block Transmission: Luciano Sarperi (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Asoke Nandi (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Digital estimation of analog imperfections using blind equalization: Davud Asemani (Ecole Supeieure d'Electricite (Supelec), France); Jacques Oksman (Supelec, France); Daniel Poulton (Supelec, France)
A frequency domain conjugate gradient algorithm and its application to channel equalization: Aris Lalos (University of Patras, Dept. of Computer Eng. and Informatics, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)
Robust Group DelayEqualization of Discrete-Time Filters Using Neural Networks: Maurício Quélhas (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Antonio Petraglia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
PDA-BCJR Algorithm for Factorial Hidden Markov Models with Application to MIMO Equalisation: Robert Piechocki (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Christophe Andrieu (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Magnus Sandell (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, United Kingdom); Joe McGeehan (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Wed.3.3: Synchronization and Parameter Estimation - 5 papers

Closed-form expressions of the true Cramer-Rao bound for parameter estimation of BPSK, MSK or QPSK waveforms: Jean-Pierre Delmas (INT, France)
ML Symbol Synchronization For General MIMO-OFDM Systems In Unknown Frequency-Selective Fading Channels: Amir Saemi (University of Limoges, France); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Jean Pierre Cances (University of Limoges, France); Mohammad Reza Zahabi (University of Limoges, France); Jean-Michel Dumas (University of Limoges, France); Guillaume Ferré (University of Limoges, France)
A comparison of soft and hard decision-directed feedforward phase estimators: Mathieu Dervin (IRIT - ENSEEIHT, France); Marie-Laure Boucheret (ENSEEIHT, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France)
Blind frame synchronisation for Block code: Sebastien Houcke (ENST-Bretagne, France); Guillaume Sicot (ENST-Bretagne, France)
Phase Estimation Mean Square Error and Threshold Effects for Windowed and Amplitude Modulated Sinusoidal Signals: Stefan Schuster (University of Linz, Austria); Stefan Scheiblhofer (University Linz, Austria); Reinhard Feger (University Linz, Austria); Andreas Stelzer (University of Linz, Austria)

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

Coffee-break W2

5:10 PM - 6:30 PM

Wed.2.4: Image Understanding - 4 papers

Automatic Fire Detection in Video Sequences: Turgay Celik (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey); Hasan Demirel (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey); Huseyin Ozkaramanli (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey)
Image fusion based on level set segmentation: Filip Sroubek (Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Spain); Gabriel Cristobal (Instituto de Optica (CSIC), Spain); Jan Flusser (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic)
Comparison of the estimation of the degree of polarization from four or two intensity images degraded by speckle noise: Muriel Roche (Institut Fresnel - EGIM, France); Philippe Réfregier (Fresnel Institute, France)
Enhancing facial expression classification by information fusion: Ioan Buciu (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Zakia Hammal (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France); Alice Caplier (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France); Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece)

Wed.5.4: Undetermined Sparse Audio Source Separation (Special session) - 4 papers

Sparse sources are separated sources: Scott Rickard (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Towards Underdetermined Source Reconstruction from a Clap-and-Play Binaural Live Recording: Pau Bofill (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Bayesian blind separation of audio mixtures with structured priors: Cédric Févotte (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Normalized Observation Vector Clustering Approach for Sparse Source Separation: Shoko Araki (NTT communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Hiroshi Sawada (NTT communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Ryo Mukai (NTT communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Shoji Makino (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

Wed.1.4: MIMO Channel Modelling, Emulation and Sounding II (Special session) - 4 papers

Modelling and Manipulation of Polarimetric Antenna Beam Patterns via Spherical Harmonics: Giovanni Del Galdo (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Jörg Lotze (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Markus Landmann (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
Distributed UWB MIMO Sounding for Evaluation of Cooperative Localization Principles in Sensor Networks: Rudolf Zetik (Technical University Ilmenau, Germany); Jürgen Sachs (TU Ilmenau, Germany); Reiner Thomä (TU-Illmenau, Germany)
System-level performance evaluation of MMSE MIMO turbo equalization techniques using measurement data: Mariella Särestöniemi (University of Oulu, Finland); Tadashi Matsumoto (CWC - Oulu, Finland); Christian Schneider (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Reiner Thomä (TU-Illmenau, Germany)
Widely Linear MMSE Transceiver for Real-Valued Sequences over MIMO Channel: Davide Mattera (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Luigi Paura (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Fabio Sterle (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Wed.6.4: TOA and DOA Estimation - 4 papers

Time-delay Estimation of Signals in Nonstationary Random Noise via Stationarization and Wigner Distribution-based Approach: Hiroshi Ijima (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan); Akira Ohsumi (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan); Satoshi Yamaguchi (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Time-of-arrival estimation under impulsive noise for wireless positioning systems: Hacioglu Isa (Yeditepe University, Turkey); Frederic Kerem Harmanci (Bogazici University, Turkey); Emin Anarim (Bogazici University, Turkey); Hakan Delic (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Time-delay estimation using Farrow-based fractional-delay FIR filters: filter approximation vs. estimation errors: Mattias Olsson (Linköping university, Sweden); Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden); Per Lowenborg (Linkoping University, Sweden)
DOA estimation based on cross-correlation by two-step particle filtering: Mitsunori Mizumachi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan); Norikazu Ikoma (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan); Katsuyuki Niyada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

Wed.4.4: Speech coding - 4 papers

An Adaptive Equalizer for Analysis-By-Synthesis Speech Coders: Mark Jasiuk (Motorola, USA); Tenkasi Ramabadran (Motorola, USA)
SCELP: Low Delay Audio Coding with Noise Shaping based on Spherical Vector Quantization: Hauke Krueger (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Bandwidth Efficient Mixed Pseudo Analogue - Digital Speech Transmission: Carsten Hoelper (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Embedding Side Information into a Speech Codec Residual: Nicolas Chetry (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)

Wed.3.4: Audio Watermarking - 4 papers

Digital audio watermarking for QoS assessment of MP3 music signals: Francesco Benedetto (University of Roma Tre, Italy); Gaetano Giunta (University of "Roma TRE", Italy); Alessandro Neri (University of ROMA TRE, Italy); C. Belardinelli (University of Roma Tre, Italy)
A Hybrid Pre-Whitening Technique for Detection of Additive Spread Spectrum Watermarks in Audio Signals: Krishna Kumar S. (Centre for Development of Advanced computing, India); Thippur Venkat Sreenivas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Speech processing in the watermarked domain: application in adaptive acoustic echo cancellation: Imen Marrakchi (university, Tunisia); Turki Monia (National School of Engineers, Tunisia); Sonia Larbi (University, Tunisia); Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia); Gael Mahé (University, France)
A fingerprinting system for musical content: Lahouari Ghouti (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Ahmed Bouridane (Queen's University, United Kingdom)

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

EURASIP General Assembly

Thursday, Sep 7

8:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Thu.2.1: MIMO Transmission Techniques (Special session) - 7 papers

Design of robust linear dispersion codes based on imperfect CSI for ML receivers: Svante Bergman (KTH, Sweden); Bjorn Ottersten (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
MIMO-ISI Channel equalization -- Which Price We Have to Pay for Causality: Holger Boche (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin GmbH, Germany); Volker Pohl (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
Multi-user Topologies in Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks: Christian Peel (Brigham Young University, USA); Lee Swindlehurst (Brigham Young University, USA); Wolfgang Utschick (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
An Efficient Feedback Scheme with Adaptive Bit Allocation for Dispersive MISO Systems: Leonid Krasny (Ericsson Inc., USA); Dennis Hui (Ericsson Inc., USA)
Randomized distributed Multi-antenna Systems in Multi-path channels: Anna Scaglione (Cornell University, USA); Birsen Sirkeci (Cornell University, USA); Stefan Geirhofer (Cornell University, USA); Lang Tong (Cornell University, USA)
Linear transmitter design for the MISO compound channel with interference: Ami Wiesel (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yonina Eldar (Technion---Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Shlomo Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
On the Duality of MIMO Transmission Techniques for Multiuser Communications: Wolfgang Utschick (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Michael Joham (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Thu.5.1: Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Communication Systems (Special session) - 7 papers

Sub-carrier SNR Estimation at the Transmitter for Reduced Feedback OFDMA: Patrick Svedman (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); David Hammarwall (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Bjorn Ottersten (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Distributed Algorithms for Maximum Throughput in Wireless Networks: Yufang Xi (Yale University, USA); Edmund Yeh (Yale University, USA)
Autonomous QoS Control for Wireless Mesh and Ad-hoc Networks - the Generalized Lagrangean Approach: Marcin Wiczanowski (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Comm., Germany); Holger Boche (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications HHI, Germany)
A framework for resource allocation in OFDM broadcast systems: Gerhard Wunder (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Thomas Michel (German-Sino Mobile Communications Institute (MCI), Germany); Chan Zhou (Mobile Communication Lab for Mobile Communications MCI, HHI, Germany)
On the interplay between scheduling, user distribution, CSI, and performance measures in cellular downlink: Eduard Jorswieck (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Mats Bengtsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Bjorn Ottersten (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Cross-layer Solutions to Performance Problems in VoIP over WLANs: Federico Maguolo (University of Padova, Italy); Francesco De Pellegrini (Universita` di Padova, Italy); Andrea Zanella (University of Padova, Italy); Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy)
Coordination and resilience in wireless adhoc and sensor networks: Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)

Thu.1.1: MUSCLE: Recognizing Humans and Human Behaviour in Video (Invited special session) - 7 papers

Active Video-Surveillance Based on Stereo and Infrared Imaging: Gabriele Pieri (CNR, Inst. of Information Science and Technologies, Italy); Ovidio Salvetti (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Adding geometrical terms to shadow detection process: László Havasi (Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary)
Human Face Detection in Video Using Edge Projections: Mehmet Turkan (Bilkent University, Turkey); Ibrahim Onaran (Bilkent University, Turkey); Enis Çetin (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Human Model and Motion Based 3D Action Recognition in Multiple View Scenarios: Cristian Canton (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Josep Casas (UPC - Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Montse Pardas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Multimodal Fusion by Adaptive Compensation for Feature Uncertainty with Application to Audiovisual Speech Recognition: Athanassios Katsamanis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); George Papandreou (National Technical University Athens, Greece); Vassilis Pitsikalis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Visual speech detection using mouth region intensities: Spyridon Siatras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece)
Cooperative Background Modelling using Multiple Cameras Towards Human Detection in Smart-Rooms: Jose-Luis Landabaso (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain); Montse Pardas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

Thu.6.1: Signal Processing in Radar Imaging (Special session) - 7 papers

A slope-based technique for motion estimation and optimum time selection for ISAR imaging of ship targets: Debora Pastina (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Chiara Spina (Selex Airborne and Sensor Systems - Galileo Avionica Spa, Italy); Angelo Aprile (Selex Airborne and Sensor Systems - Galileo Avionica Spa, Italy)
Radar Imaging via Adaptive MIMO Techniques: Luzhou Xu (University of Florida, USA); Jian Li (University of Florida, USA); Petre Stoica (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Optimised Image Autofocusing for Polarimetric ISAR: Marco Martorella (University of Pisa, Italy)
S-Method in radar imaging: Ljubisa Stankovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro); Thayananthan Thayaparan (Radar Applications and Space Technology, Defence Research and Development Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Canada); Milos Dakovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro); Vesna Popovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro)
Atomic Decomposition based Detector for Denoising in ISAR Imaging: Omar Yeste (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Jesús Grajal (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
A Novel Focusing Technique for ISAR in case of Uniform Rotation Rate: José María Muñoz-Ferreras (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Félix Pérez-Martínez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Signal Processing for Target Motion Estimation and Image Formation in Radar Imaging of Moving Targets: Trygve Sparr (FFI, Norway)

Thu.4.1: Speech Recognition and Understanding I - 7 papers

Hands-free speech recognition using a reverberation model in the feature domain: Armin Sehr (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Marcus Zeller (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Recognising verbal content of emotionally coloured speech: Theo Athanaselis (Institute for language and speech processing, Greece); Stelios Bakamidis (ILSP, Greece); Ioannis Dologlou (ILSP, Greece)
A step further to objective modeling of conversational speech quality: Marie Guéguin (Université de Rennes1, France); Régine Le Bouquin-Jeannès (University of Rennes 1, France); Gérard Faucon (University of Rennes 1, France); Valérie Gautier-Turbin (France Télécom R&D, France); Vincent Barriac (France Télécom R&D, France)
Support Vector Machines for Continuous Speech Recognition: Jaume Padrell-Sendra (Applied Technologies on Language and Speech S.L., Spain); Darío Martín-Iglesias (Unversidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Fernando Diaz-de-Maria (Unversidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Combining Categorical and Primitives-Based Emotion Recognition: Michael Grimm (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany); Emily Mower (University of Southern California, USA); Kristian Kroschel (Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany); Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California, USA)
Parallel Training Algorithms for Continuous Speech Recognition, Implemented in a Message Passing Framework: Vladimir Popescu (CLIPS Laboratory, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Romania); Corneliu Burileanu (University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania); Monica Rafaila (University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania); Ramona Calimanescu (University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania)
Unsupervised Speaker Change Detection for Broadcast News Segmentation: Kasper Jørgensen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Lasse Mølgaard (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Lars Kai Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

Thu.3.1: Blind Source Separation - 7 papers

Separation of instantaneous mixtures of cyclostationary sources and application to digital communication signals: Pierre Jallon (University of Marne La Vallée, France); Antoine Chevreuil (Universityiversite Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Dependent Component Analysis as a tool for blind Spectral Unmixing of remote sensed images: Cesar Caiafa (Laboratorio de Sistemas Complejos. Facultad de Ingenierìa. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina); Emanuele Salerno (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione - CNR, Italy); Araceli Noemi Proto (Comisià³n de Investigaciones Cientìficas de la Prov. de Buenos Aires, Argentina); Lorenza Fiumi (Laboratorio Aereo Ricerche Ambientali. Istituto sull'Inquinamento Atmosferico - CNR, Italy)
A Computationally Affordable Implementation of An Asymptotically Optimal BSS Algorithm for AR Sources: Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic); Eran Doron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Jan Nielsen (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic)
A new approach for Sparse Decomposition and Sparse Source Separation: Arash Ali-Amini (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Massoud Babaie-Zadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Christian Jutten (INP de Grenoble, France)
Blind Separation of Time-Varying Signal Mixtures Using Sparseness and Zadeh's Transform: Ran Kaftory (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yehoshua Zeevi (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, Israel)
A closed form solution for the blind separation of two sources from two: Adel Belouchrani (Ecole Nationale Polythechnique, Algiers,, Algeria); El-Bey Bourennane (Universite de BourgogneLE2I, Dijon, France., France); Karim Abed-Meraim (Dept TSI, Télécom Paris, France)
Underdetermined Source Separation for Colored Sources: Stefan Winter (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Hiroshi Sawada (NTT communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Shoji Makino (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break Th1

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Thu.2.2: Computationally Efficient Algorithms - 5 papers

An Efficient Method for Multi-Tap Long Term Predictor (LTP) Transcoding: Application To ITU-T G.723.1: Claude Lamblin (France Telecom, France); Mohamed Ghenania (France Telecom, France)
An Improved Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coder for the H.264/AVC standard: Simone Milani (University of Padova, Italy, Italy); Gian Antonio Mian (University of Padova, Italy)
The Block LMS Algorithm and its FFT based Fast Implementation--- New Efficient Realization using Block Floating Point Arithmetic: Mrityunjoy Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology., Kharagpur, India); Shaik Rafiahamed (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
Using GPU for fast block-matching: Sebastien Mazare (Eurécom, France); Renaud Pacalet (Enst, France); Jean-Luc Dugelay (Eurécom, France)
Fast Renormalization for H.264/MPEG4-AVC Arithmetic Coding: Detlev Marpe (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Heiner Kirchhoffer (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Gunnar Marten (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)

Thu.5.2: Wavelet Transform for Image Processing and Artificial Vision - 5 papers

Automation of pavement surface crack detection with a matched filtering to define the mother wavelet function used: Peggy Subirats (Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, France); Jean Dumoulin (Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, France); Vincent Legeay (Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, France); Dominique Barba (Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes, France)
Rotation-Invariant Local Feature Matching with Complex Wavelets: Nick Kingsbury (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Wavelet-Constrained Regularization for Disparity Map Estimation: Wided Miled (Université de Marne la vallée, France); Jean-Christophe Pesquet (Univ. Marne la Vallee, France); Michel Parent (INRIA, France)
Multichannel image deconvolution in the wavelet transform domain: Amel Benazza-Benyahia (SUPCOM Tunis, Tunisia); Jean-Christophe Pesquet (Univ. Marne la Vallee, France)
Bootstrap for log Wavelet Leaders Cumulant based Multifractal Analysis: Herwig Wendt (ENS Lyon, France); Stéphane Roux (ENS-Lyon, France); Patrice Abry (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France)

Thu.1.2: Source Localization - 5 papers

Experimental evaluation of a localization algorithm for multiple acoustic sources in reverberating environments: Fabio Antonacci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Diego Saiu (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Paolo Russo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Augusto Sarti (DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Marco Tagliasacchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Information Content-Based Sensor Selection for Collaborative Target Tracking: Tolga Onel (Turkish Navy, Turkey); Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University, Turkey); Hakan Delic (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Sensor Node Localization via Spatial Domain Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Seshan Srirangarajan (University of Minnesota, USA); Ahmed Tewfik (Univ. of Minnesota, USA)
Bias Reduction for The Scan-Based Least-Squares Emitter Localization Algorithm: Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia); Samuel Drake (Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
Bearing and range estimation of buried cylindrical shells in presence of sensor phase errors: Zineb Saidi (IRENav Ecole Navale, France); Salah Bourennane (Institut Fresnel, France)

Poster: CDMA Systems and Signals - 9 papers

A family of spatiotemporal chaotic sequences outperforming Gold ones in asynchronous DS-CDMA systems.: Soumaya Meherzi (SYSCOM Laboratory & LSS, Tunisia); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, France); Safya Belghith (SYSCOM Laboratory/ ENIT, Tunisia)
Performance of the Super Stable Orbits based Spreading Sequences in a DS-CDMA System with a MMSE Receiver: Zouhair Ben Jemaa (Signaux and Systems Laboratory, Supélec, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR8506, France); Safya Belghith (SYSCOM Laboratory/ ENIT, Tunisia)
Bayesian multiuser detection based on a network of NLMS: Bessem Sayadi (LSS-SUPELEC-CNRS, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, France)
Blind Multiuser Detection by Kurtosis Maximization for Asynchronous Multi-rate DS/CDMA Systems: Chun-Hsien Peng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chong-Yung Chi (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chia-Wen Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
A new LDPC-STB coded MC-CDMA systems with SOVA-based decoding and soft-interference cancellation: Luis Paredes (Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain)
A Turbo Receiver For Wireless MC-CDMA Communications Using Pilot-Aided Kalman Filter-Based Channel Tracking And MAP-EM Demodulator With LDPC Codes: Tung Man Law (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Shing-Chow Chan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A MC-CDMA Iterative Solution for Broadband over Powerline Communications: Vincent Le Nir (K. U. Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Global Calibration of CDMA-Based Arrays: Azibananye Mengot (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Athanassios Manikas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
A Linear Chip-Level Model for Multi-Antenna Space-Time Coded Wideband CDMA Reconfigurable Receivers: Giovanni Garbo (Università di Palermo, Italy); Stefano Mangione (Università di Palermo, Italy); Vincenzo Maniscalco (Università di Palermo, Italy)

Poster: Speech and Speaker Recognition and Analysis - 15 papers

Speaker recognition experiments on a bilingual database: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy (Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro, Spain); Antonio Satue-Villar (EUP Mataro, Spain)
Efficient Implementation of GMM Based Speaker Verification Using Sorted Gaussian Mixture Model: Hamid Sadegh Mohammadi (Iranian Research Institute for Electrical Engineering, Iran); Rahim Saeidi (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)
Speech to facial animation conversion for deaf customers: Gyorgy Takacs (Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary); Attila Tihanyi (Péter Pà¡zmà¡ny Catholic University, Hungary); Tamás Bardi (Péter Pà¡zmà¡ny Catholic University, Hungary); Gergely Feldhoffer (Péter Pà¡zmà¡ny Catholic University, Hungary); Bálint Srancsik (Péter Pà¡zmà¡ny Catholic University, Hungary)
Comparing Confidence-Guided and Adaptive Dynamic Pruning Techniques for Speech Recognition: Tibor Fabian (Volt Delta International, Germany); Günther Ruske (Technische Universität München, Germany, Germany)
ICANDO: Intellectual Computer AssistaNt for Disabled Operators: Alexey Karpov (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia); Andrey Ronzhin (Speech Informatics Group of SPIIRAS, Russia)
Analysis of Disfluent Repetitions in Spontaneous Speech Recognition: Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar (University of Southern California, USA); Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California, USA)
Weighted Nonlinear Prediction Based on Volterra Series for Speech Analysis: Karl Schnell (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany); Arild Lacroix (University Frankfurt, Germany)
Speech/Music Discrimination for radio broadcasts using a hybrid HMM-Bayesian Network architecture: Aggelos Pikrakis (University of Athens, Greece); Theodoros Giannakopoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Sergios Theodoridis (University of Athenes, Greece)
Classification of Speech Under Stress Using Features Selected by Genetic Algorithms: Salvatore Casale (University of Catania, Italy); Alessandra Russo (Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy); Salvatore Serrano (University of Catania, Italy)
Mutual information eigenlips for audio-visual speech recognition: Ivana Arsic (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Jean-Philippe Thiran (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)
Emotion Audio-Visual Text-to-Speech: Mohamed Abou Zliekha (Damascus University, Information Technology Faculty, Syria); Samer Al Moubayed (Damascus University, Information Technology Faculty, Saudi Arabia); Oumayma Al Dakkak (HIAST (Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology), Syria); Nada Ghneim (HIAST (Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia)
Evaluation of Implicit Broad Phonemic Segmentation of Speech Signals using Pitchmarks: Iosif Mporas (University of Patras, Greece); Panagiotis Zervas (University of Patras, Greece)
Novel Auditory Motivated Subband Temporal Envelope Based Fundamental Frequency Estimation Algorithm: Seelamantula Sekhar (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Sridhar Pilli (Dept. of Electrical Comm. Engg, Indian Institute of Science, Algeria); Lakshmikanth C (Indian Institute of Science, India); Thippur Venkat Sreenivas (Indian Institute of Science, India)
First-Order Markov Property of the Auditory Spiking Neuron Model Response: Alexei Ivanov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia); Alexander Petrovsky (Bialystok Technical University, Poland)
Unsupervised Speaker Indexing Using One-Class Support Vector Machines: Belkacem Fergani (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumedienne, Algeria); Manuel Davy (Lille, France); Amrane Houacine (USTHB, Algeria)

Poster: Wavelet Applications in Speech and Image - 7 papers

Analysis of Multicomponent Speech-like Signals by Continuous Wavelet Transform-based Technique: Pradip Sircar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Keshava Prasad (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Bandra Harshavardhan (Indian institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
DCT-based image compression using wavelet-based algorithm with efficient deblocking filter: Wen-Chien Yan (Department of Information Management, Chung Chou Institution of Technology, Taiwan); Yen-Yu Chen (ChengChou Institute of Technology, Taiwan)
Wavelet method of speech segmentation: Bartosz Ziolko (University of York, United Kingdom); Suresh Manandhar (University of York, United Kingdom); Richard Wilson (University of York, United Kingdom); Mariusz Ziolko (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
The Mexican Hat Wavelet Family. Application to the study of non-Gaussianity in cosmic microwave backgound maps: Francisco Argüeso (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Reconstruction of hidden images using wavelet transform and an entropy-maximization algorithm: Naoto Nakamura (Kyushu University, Japan); Shigeru Takano (Kyushu University, Japan); Yoshihiro Okada (Kyushu University, Japan); Koichi Niijima (Kyushu University, Japan)
Wavelets on the Sphere. Application to the detection problem: Jose Luis Sanz (University of Santander, Spain); Diego Herranz (IFCA, Santander, Spain, Spain); Marcos López-Caniego (IFCA, Santander, Spain, Spain); Francisco Argüeso (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Singularity detection of electroglottogram signal by multiscale product method: Aïcha Bouzid (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia)

Poster: Biomedical Signal Processing - 7 papers

Evaluation of a blind method for the estimation of Hurst's exponent in time series: Federico Esposti (Politecnico di Milano University, Italy); Maria Gabriella Signorini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Speckle Reduction in Echocardiographic Images: Nadia Souag (University of Algiers, Algeria)
Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels using a Novel Clustering Algorithm: Sameh Salem (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Nancy Salem (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Asoke Nandi (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
A quick low cost method for syncope prediction: Mathieu Feuilloy (ESEO, France); Daniel Schang (ESEO, France); Pascal Nicolas (University of Angers, France)
A new shape-dependant skeletonization method. Application to porous media: Gabriel Aufort (Université d'Orléans, France); Rachid Jennane (University of Orleans, France); Rachid Harba (University of Orleans, France); Claude-Laurent Benhamou (Equipe INSERM U658 Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans, France)
New Markov Random Field Model based on Nakagami Distribution for modeling ultrasound RF envelope: Bouhlel Nizar (Université Tunis El Manar, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia); Sylvie Sevestre-Ghalila (Université René Descartes, MAP5, France)
Neural Network Based Arrhythmia Classification Using Heart Rate Variability Signal: Babak Mohammadzadeh-Asl (University of Tehran, Iran); Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan (University of Tehran, Iran); Pedram Ataee (University of Tehran, Iran)

Thu.6.2: Radar Signal Processing - 5 papers

Impact of ballistic target model uncertainty on IMM-UKF and IMM-EKF tracking accuracies: Sandro Immediata (SELEX-SI, Italy); Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy); Luca Timmoneri (SELEX-SI, Italy)
Knowledge-Based Recursive Least Squares Techniques for Heterogeneous Clutter Suppression: Antonio De Maio (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Italy); Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy); Goffredo Foglia (Elettronica S.P.A., Italy)
Radar Detection and Classification of Jamming Signals: Maria Greco (University of Pisa, Italy); Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy); Alfonso Farina (SELEX-SI, Italy); Valentina Ravenni (GEM Elettronica S.r.l, Italy)
Joint Sequential Detection and Trajectory Estimation with Radar Applications: Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino, Italy); Emanuele Grossi (Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italy); Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Italy)
Adaptive radar detection without secondary data: exploiting a diversity idea: Francesco Bandiera (Universita di Lecce, Italy); Mohammed Jahangir (QinetiQ, United Kingdom); Giuseppe Ricci (University of Lecce, Italy); Roberta Verrienti (Università di Lecce, Italy)

Thu.4.2: Speech recognition and understanding II - 5 papers

Warped-Twice Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Spectral Estimation: Matthias Wölfel (Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany)
Hough Transform Based Masking in Feature Extraction for Noisy Speech Recognition: Eric Choi (National ICT Australia, Australia)
Crosslingual Adaptation of Semi-Continuous HMMs using Maximum Likelihood and Maximum a Posteriori Convex Regression: Frank Diehl (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Asunción Moreno (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Enric Monte (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Speaker Recognition Using Channel Factors Feature Compensation: Daniele Colibro (Loquendo, Italy); Claudio Vair (Loquendo, Italy); Fabio Castaldo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Emenuele Dalmasso (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Pietro Laface (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
N-Best Parallel Maximum Likelihood Beamformers for Robust Speech Recognition: Luca Brayda (Institut Eurecom, France); Christian Wellekens (Institut Eurecom, France); Maurizio Omologo (ITC-irst (Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), Italy)

Thu.3.2: Video Coding - 5 papers

Shot Detection Method For Low Bit-Rate H.264 Video Coding: Jorge Sastre Martínez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Pau Usach Molina (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain); Alejandro Moya Molina (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Valery Naranjo Ornedo (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Joaquín M. López Muñoz (Telefà³nica I+D, Spain)
A New Algorithm for Reducing the Requantization Loss in Video Transcoding: Jens Bialkowski (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Marcus Barkowsky (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); André Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Model-based bit allocation between wavelet subbands and motion information in MCWT video coders: Marie Andrée Agostini (I3S - CNRS - UNSA, France); Marc Antonini (I3S-CNRS, France); Michel Barlaud (I3S - CNRS - UNSA, France)
Lossless Video Coding Using Multi-Frame MC and 3D Bi-Prediction Optimized for Each Frame: Hiroki Maeda (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Akira Minezawa (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Ichiro Matsuda (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Susumu Itoh (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Feedback Channel in Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding: Myths and Realities: Catarina Brites (IST - IT, Portugal); Joao Ascenso (ISEL - IT, Portugal); Fernando Pereira (IST-TUL, Portugal)

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Plenary: Signal Processing between research and exploitation

3:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Thu.2.3: Image Classification - 5 papers

Clustering and color preview of polarization-encoded images: Ainouz Samia (LOUIS PASTEUR UNIVERSITY, France); Jihad Zallat (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Antonello de Martino (LPICM - Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Image Classification Using Labelled and Unlabelled Data: Irena Koprinska (University of Sydney, Australia); Da Deng (University of Otago, New Zealand); Felix Feger (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Feature Classification Based on Local Information: Ling Shao (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands); Ihor Kirenko (Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands); Ping Li (Philips, The Netherlands)
Two Dimensional (2D) Subspace Classifiers for Image Recognition: Hakan Cevikalp (Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey); Hasan Serhan Yavuz (Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey); Atalay Barkana (Anadolu University, Turkey)
Mathematical morphology applied to the segmentation and classification of galaxies in multispectral images: Erchan Aptoula (Louis Pasteur University, France); Sébastien Lefèvre (Louis Pasteur University, France); Christophe Collet (Louis Pasteur University, France)

Thu.5.3: Multiple Access and Multiuser Detection - 5 papers

Multi-Tier Cooperative Broadcasting with Hierarchical Modulations: Tairan Wang (University of Minnesota, USA); Alfonso Cano (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota,, USA); F. Javier Ramos (Rey Juan Carlos University, SPAIN, Algeria)
Adaptive Joint Detection for a Random Permutation-based Multiple-Access System: Martial Coulon (INP-Enseeiht / IRIT-TéSA, France); Daniel Roviras (ENSEEIHT, France)
Joint Spectrum Management and Constrained Partial Crosstalk Cancellation in a Multi-User xDSL Environment: Jan Vangorp (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Jan Verlinden (Alcatel-Bell, Belgium)
Blind MMSE-based receivers for Rate and Data Detection in Variable-Rate CDMA Systems: Stefano Buzzi (University of Cassino, Italy); Stefania Sardellitti (University of Cassino, Italy)
A Content Aware Scheduling Scheme for Video Streaming to Multiple Users Over Wireless Networks: Peshala Pahalawatta (Northwestern University, USA); Randall Berry (Northwestern University, USA); Thrasyvoulos Pappas (Northwestern University, USA); Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern University, USA)

Thu.1.3: Genomic Signal Processing I (Invited special session) - 5 papers

Dependence Model and Network for Biomarker Identification and Cancer Classification: Peng Qiu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA); Z. Jane Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada); K.J. Ray Liu (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, USA)
A Differential Biclustering Algorithm for Comparative Analysis of Gene Expression: Alain Tchagang (University of Minnesota, USA); Ahmed Tewfik (Prof. University of Minnesota, USA); Amy Skubitz (University of Minnesota, USA); Keith Skubitz (University of Minnesota, USA)
Choosing the design parameters for protein lysate arrays: Andrea Hategan (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Ioan Tabus (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Spectral Analysis of DNA Sequences by Entropy Minimization: Lorenzo Galleani (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Roberto Garello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
A Sequential Monte Carlo Method for Motif Discovery: Kuo-Ching Liang (Columbia University, ? ); Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA); Dimitris Anastassiou (Columbia University, USA)

Poster: VoIP and Multimedia - 9 papers

A Voicing Decision Driven Forward Error Correction Scheme For Voice Over IP Applications: Dawn Black (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Adaptive playout scheduling for multi-stream voice over IP networks: Chun-Feng Wu (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Ie-Ten Lin (national chiao -tung university, Taiwan); Wen-Whei Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Streaming over the Internet with a scalable parametric audio coder: Juan Carlos Cuevas Martínez (University of Jaén, Spain); Pedro Vera Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Nicolas Ruiz Reyes (University of Jaen, Spain)
Video Transmission over UMTS Networks using UDP/IP: Sébastien Brangoulo (GET/ENST - Paris, France); Nicolas Tizon (GET-ENST / Paris, France); Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
A High Performance, Low Latency, Low Power Audio Processing System For Wideband Speech Over Wireless Links: Etienne Cornu (AMI Semiconductor, Canada); Alain Dufaux (AMI Semiconductor, Switzerland); David Hermann (AMI Semiconductor Canada, Canada)
Error Sensitivity of JPEG2000 codestream for efficient data protection on unreliable network: Thomas Holl (CRAN-UMR 7039, Nancy-Universit, CNRS, France); Vincent Lecuire (CRAN CNRS UMR 7039 - University Henri Poincare of Nancy, France); Jean-Marie Moureaux (Universit Henri Poincar, Nancy 1, France)
A study of synchronous convergence in mu-law PNLMS for voice over IP: Laura Mintandjian (Nortel, France); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
User-Centric Evolution of Multimedia Content Description: Anastasios D. Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
An Adaptable Emotionally Rich Pervasive Computing System: Nikolaos Doulamis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Poster: Nonlinear Signal Processing - 4 papers

A greedy algorithm for optimizing the kernel alignment and the performance of kernel machines: Jean-Baptiste Pothin (Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France); Cedric Richard (UT Troyes, France)
Identifying non-linear fractional chirps using unsupervised hilbert approach: Arnaud Jarrot (ENSIETA - E3I2 laboratory, France); Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands); Cornel Ioana (ENSIETA - E3I2 laboratory, France); Andre Quinquis (ENSIETA, France)
Correlated Discrete Disturbers Cancelation in Data Communication Systems: David Schwingshackl (Infineon Technologies, Austria); Dietmar Straeussnigg (Infineon Technologies, Austria)
Supervised Compression of Multivariate Time Series Data: Victor Eruhimov (Intel, Russia); Vladimir Martyanov (Intel, Russia); Eugene Tuv (Intel, USA); Peter Raulefs (Intel, USA)

Poster: Spectral Analysis - 13 papers

Automatic Identification of Bird Calls using Spectral Ensemble Average Voiceprints: Hemant Tyagi (IIT Madras, India); Rajesh Hegde (UCSD, USA); Hema Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Anil Prabhakar (IIT Madras, India)
Spectral Analysis of a Signal Driven Sampling Scheme: Mian Saeed (Laboratory TIMA, France); Laurent Fesquet (TIMA, France)
Performance of root-MUSIC algorithm using Real-World Arrays: Fabio Belloni (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Andreas Richter (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Visa Koivunen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Frequency Estimation Based On Adjacent DFT bins: Michael Betser (France Telecom R&D, France); Patrice Collen (France Telecom R&D, France); Gael Richard (ENST Paris, France)
On the Equivalence of Phase-Based Methods for the Estimation of Instantaneous Frequency: Sylvain Marchand (LaBRI, University of Bordeaux 1, France); Mathieu Lagrange (University of Bordeaux 1, France)
Matched Time-frequency Representations and Warping Operator for Modal Filtering: Grégoire Le Touzé (Laboratory of Images and Signals, France); Jerome Mars (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France); Jean-Louis Lacoume (Laboratory of Images and Signals, France)
Improvements in HMM Based Spectral Frequency Line Estimation: Tuncay Gunes (Florida Atlantic University, USA); Nurgun Erdol (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Analysis of multi-component non-stationary signals using Fourier-Bessel transform and Wigner distribution: Ram Bilas Pachori (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Pradip Sircar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
Formant Estimation of Speech Signals using Subspace-based Spectral Analysis: Sotiris Karabetsos (Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece); Pirros Tsiakoulis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece); Evita Fotinea (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece); Ioannis Dologlou (ILSP, Greece)
Root Spectral Estimation for Location based on TOA: Luis Blanco (UPC, Spain); Jordi Serra (UPC, Spain); Montse Najar (UPC, Spain)
Phase Noise Mitigation in the Autocorrelation Estimates With Data Windowing: The Case of Two Close Sinusoids: Mustafa Altinkaya (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey); Emin Anarim (Bogazici University, Turkey); Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Estimation of the spectral exponent of 1/f process corrupted by white noise: Suleyman Baykut (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Melike Erol (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Tayfun Akgül (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
A spectral identity card: Corinne Mailhes (ENSEEIHT - IRIT - Tésa, France); Nadine Martin (LIS, INP Grenoble, France); Kheira Sahli (LIS, INP Grenoble, France); Gerard Lejeune (LIS, INP Grenoble, France)

Poster: Synchronization and Channel Equalization - 12 papers

Nonlinear Equalization Structure For High-Speed ADSL In Ideal And Non Ideal Conditions: François Nougarou (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada); Daniel Massicotte (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada); Messaoud Ahmed-Ouameur (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada)
Blind feedforward symbol timing estimation with PSK signals: Tilde Fusco (University of Naples, Italy); Mario Tanda (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Digital Modulation Classification in Flat-Fading Channels: Anchalee Puengnim (INP-ENSEEIHT, France); Nathalie Thomas (INP-ENSEEIHT, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France)
Semi-blind Bussgang Equalization Algorithm: Stefania Colonnese (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy); Gianpiero Panci (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy); Gaetano Scarano (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy)
A Novel Channel Estimator for a Superposition-based Cooperative System: Yu Gong (Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Zhiguo Ding (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Colin Cowan (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom)
Effect of Noise on Blind Adaptive Multichannel Identification Algorithms: Robustness Issue: Md. Hasan (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Channel estimation in the presence of multipath Doppler by means of pseudo-noise sequences: Olivier Rabaste (ENST Bretagne, France); Thierry Chonavel (ENST Bretagne, France)
Implementation of a Blind Adaptive Decision Feedback Equalizer: Goulven Eynard (ENST Bretagne, France); Christophe Laot (GET/ENST Bretagne, France)
A Nonlinear Channel Equalization Using an Algebraic Approach and The Affine Projection Algorithm: Arfa Hichem (Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Tunis, Tunisia); EL Asmi Sadok (SUPCOM, Tunisia); Safya Belghith (SYSCOM Laboratory/ ENIT, Tunisia)
Adaptive Equalizer Based on a Power-of-Two-Quantized-LMF algorithm: Musa Otaru (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Azzedine Zerguine (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Lahouari Cheded (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Asrar Sheikh (King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)
Mitigation of Narrowband Interference Using Adaptive Equalizers: Arun Batra (University of California at San Diego, USA); James Zeidler (Univ. of California, San Diego, USA); A. A. (Louis) Beex (University of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA)
Hypothesis-Feedback Equalization For Multicode Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum Underwater Communications: Jianguo Huang (Coll. Of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, XiÂ¯an 710072, China, P.R. China); Jing Han (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Xiaohong Shen (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)

Thu.6.3: Radar and Remote Sensing - 5 papers

Diagonal loaded array interpolation methods for multibaseline cross-track SAR interferometry: Matteo Pardini (University of Pisa, Italy); Fabrizio Lombardini (Univ. of Pisa, Italy); Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy)
New SAR Processor Based on a Subspace Detector: Rémi Durand (SONDRA - Supelec, France); Guillaume Ginolhac (GEA- Univeristé Paris X, France); Philippe Forster (GEA, Université Paris X, France); Laetitia Thirion (SONDRA, France)
Estimation of Ocean Wave Heights from Temporal Sequences of X-Band Marine Radar Images: Jose Nieto-Borge (Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain); Pilar Jarabo (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Francisco Lopez (University of Alcalà¡, Spain)
An Evolutionary Approach for 3D Superresolution Imagery: Felix Totir (ENSIETA, France); Emanuel Radoi (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs d'Etudes et Techniques d'Armement, France); Andre Quinquis (ENSIETA, France); Stefan Demeter (Military Technical Academy, Romania)
A Modified Conjugate Gradient algorithm for low sample support in STAP radar: Hocine Belkacemi (LSS-CNRS/SUPELEC, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, France); marc lesturgie (Office National d'àtudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France)

Thu.4.3: Speech Enhancement I - 5 papers

An Extended Normalized Multichannel FLMS Algorithm for Blind Channel Identification: Rehan Ahmad (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Andy Khong (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Md. Hasan (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Generalized sidelobe canceller based acoustic feedback cancellation: Geert Rombouts (KULeuven, Belgium); Ann Spriet (KULeuven/ESAT-SCD, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Minima Controlled Noise Estimation for KLT-based Speech Enhancement: Adam Borowicz (Bialystok Technical University, Poland); Alexander Petrovsky (Bialystok Technical University, Poland)
Optimum Post-Filter Estimation for Noise Reduction in Multichannel Speech Processing: Stamatis Leukimmiatis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece); Petros Maragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
A general optimization procedure for spectral speech enhancement methods: Jan Erkelens (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Jesper Jensen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Richard Heusdens (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Thu.3.3: Independent Component Analysis - 5 papers

Extraction of Cognitive Activity Related Waveforms from Functional Near Infrared Signals: Ceyhun Akgül (Bogazici University and ENST-Paris, Turkey); Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey); Ata Akin (Bogazici University, Turkey)
How fast is FastICA?: Vicente Zarzoso (Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, Laboratoire I3S, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, France); Mariem Kallel (ENIT, Tunisia)
Blind signal separation by combining two ICA algorithms: HOS-based EFICA and time structure-based WASOBI: Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic); Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic); Eran Doron (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); German Gomez-Herrero (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Risk-averting cost function for independent component analysis in signals with multiplicative noise: David Blanco (University of Granada, Spain); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Diego Pablo Ruiz Padillo (Dpto Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Spain); M.c. Carrion (Dpto Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Spain)
Extraction of Local Features From Image Sequences Using Spatio-Temporal Independent Component Analysis: Victor Chen (US Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

Coffee-break Th2

5:10 PM - 6:30 PM

Thu.2.4: Machine Learning - 4 papers

Grassmann clustering: Peter Gruber (University of Regensburg, Germany); Fabian Theis (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Quality assessment of a supervised multilabel classification rule with performance constraints: Edith Grall (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Pierre Beauseroy (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Bounsiar Abdenour (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France)
Improving Content-based Image Retrieval by Modelling the Search Process: a Bayesian Approach: Simon Wilson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Incorporating prior information into Support Vector Machines in the form of ellipsoidal knowledge sets: Jean-Baptiste Pothin (Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT), France); Cedric Richard (UT Troyes, France)

Thu.5.4: HW and SW architectures for multimedia streaming Systems (Special session) - 4 papers

Current and future trends in embedded VLIW microprocessors applied to multimedia and signal processing: Giuseppe Desoli (STMicroelectronics, Switzerland); Thierry Strudel (STMicroelectronics, France); Jean-Philippe Cousin (STMicroelectronics, France); Kaushik Saha (STMicroelectronics, India, India)
Hardware co-processor for real-time and high quality H.264/AVC video coding: Maurizio Martina (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Guido Masera (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Luca Fanucci (University of Pisa, Italy); Sergio Saponara (University of Pisa, Italy)
Performance Optimization for Multimedia Transmission in Wireless Home Networks: Diego Melpignano (STMicroelectronics, Italy); Gabriella Convertino (STMicroelectronics, Italy); Andrea Vitali (STM, Italy); Juan Carlos De Martin (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Paolo Bucciol (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Antonio Servetti (Dipartimento di Automatica ed Informatica - Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Design of Application Specific Instruction-set Processor for Image and Video Filtering: Sergio Saponara (University of Pisa, Italy); Luca Fanucci (University of Pisa, Italy); Stefano Marsi (University of Trieste, Italy); Giovanni Ramponi (University of Trieste, Italy); Martin Witte (University of Aachen, Germany); David Kammler (University of Aachen, Germany)

Thu.1.4: Genomic signal processing II (Invited special session) - 3 papers

Probabilistic Data Integration and Visualization for Understanding Transcriptional Regulation: Arvind Rao (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Alfred Hero (University of Michigan, USA); David States (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); James Douglas Engel (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Large-scale analysis of the human genome: from DNA sequence analysis to the modeling of replication in higher eukaryotes: Alain Arneodo (CNRS-Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon, France); Yves D'Aubenton-Carafa (CGM-CNRS, France); Benjamin Audit (ENS-Lyon, France); Edward Brodie of Brodie (ENS-Lyon, France); Samuel Nicolay (ENS-lyon, France); Philipppe St-Jean (ENS-Lyon, France); Claude Thermes (CGM-CNRS, France); Marie Touchon (CGM-CNRS, France); Cedric Vaillant (genopole, Evry, France)
An Equivalent Markov Model for Gillespie's Stochastic Simulation Algorithm for biochemical systems: Ronit Bustin (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Hagit Messer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Thu.6.4: Biomedical imaging I - 4 papers

Modeling ultrasound images with the generalized K model: Torbjørn Eltoft (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Motor Imagery Based Brain Computer Interface with Subject Adapted Time-Frequency Tiling: Nuri Ince (University of Minnesota, USA); Ahmed Tewfik (Prof. University of Minnesota, USA); Sami Arica (Cukurova University, Turkey)
A robust thresholding method with applications to brain MR image segmentation: Ahmet Ekin (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands); Radu Jasinschi (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
A new implementation of the ICP algorithm for 3D surface registration using a comprehensive look up matrix: Ahmad Almhdie (University of Orléans, France); Christophe Léger (Université d'Orléans, France); Mohamed Deriche (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Roger Lédée (University of Orléans, France)

Thu.4.4: Speech Enhancement II - 4 papers

Continuous tracheoesophageal speech repair: Arantza del Pozo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Steve Young (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
A Numerical Approach for Estimating Optimal Gain Functions in Single-Channel DFT based Speech Enhancement: Jesper Jensen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Richard Heusdens (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Kalman Filter With Linear Predictor And Harmonic Noise Models For Noisy Speech Enhancement: Qin yan (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Saeed Vaseghi (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Esfandiar Zavarehei (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Ben Milner (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)
Two-stage blind identification of SIMO systems with common zeros: Xiang Lin (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Nikolay Gaubitch (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Thu.3.4: Source coding - 4 papers

A Practical Algorithm for Distributed Source Coding Based on Continuous-Valued Syndromes: Lorenzo Cappellari (University of Padova, Italy); Gian Antonio Mian (University of Padova, Italy)
Lifting-Based Paraunitary Filterbanks for Lossy/Lossless Image Coding: Taizo Suzuki (Keio University, Japan); Yuichi Tanaka (Keio University, Japan); Masaaki Ikehara (Keio University, Japan)
Image Coding with Rational Spatial Scalability: Gregoire Pau (GET - Telecom Paris, France); Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
Joint Data Hiding-Source Coding of Still Images: Cagatay Dikici (INSA de Lyon, France); Khalid Idrissi (INSA de Lyon, France); Atilla Baskurt (INSA de Lyon, France)

Friday, Sep 8

8:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Fri.2.1: Biomedical imaging II - 7 papers

Locally Regularized Snakes through Smoothing B-Spline Filtering: Jérôme Velut (CREATIS, CNRS UMR 5515, Inserm U 630, France); Hugues Benoit-Cattin (CREATIS, CNRS UMR 5515, Inserm U 630, France); Christophe Odet (CREATIS, CNRS UMR 5515, Inserm U 630, France)
Normalization of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Points by Means of Atlas Registration: Dominique Zosso (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Quentin Noirhomme (Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory TELE, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Marco Davare (University of Louvain, Belgium); Benoit Macq (Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Etienne Olivier (Neurophysiology Unit NEFY, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Jean-Philippe Thiran (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland); Mathieu De Craene (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Segmentation of Echocardiographic Images Based On Statistical Modelling Of The Radio-Frequency Signal: Olivier Bernard (Creatis, France); Jan D'hooge (Cardiac Imageing Research, Belgium); Denis Friboulet (CREATIS, France)
Feature-based Brain Mid-Sagittal Plane Detection by RANSAC: Ahmet Ekin (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands)
Segmentation of remodelling regions in bone micro-CT images: influence of denoising: Zsolt Peter (CREATIS - ESRF, France); Sabine Rolland (ESRF, France); Francoise Peyrin (CREATIS - ESRF, France)
Compensation of MRI T1-weighted spin-echo images for radio-frequency inhomogeneities: Guylaine Collewet (Cemagref, France); Jérôme Idier (IRCCyN, France)
3D Detection And Measurement Of Facial Swellings: Anna Paviotti (University of Padova, Italy); Nicola Brusco (University of Padova, Italy); Guido Cortelazzo (, ? )

Fri.5.1: Time-Frequency Analysis - 7 papers

Multitaper time-frequency reassignment: Jun Xiao (ENS Lyon, France); Patrick Flandrin (CNRS-ENS, France)
Covariance-Based Frequency Reassignment for Detection of Non-Stationary Sinusoids: Miroslav Zivanovic (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain); Javier Frances (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain)
Motion Estimation by the Pseudo-Wigner Ville Distribution and the Hough Transform: Noemí Carranza (Instituto de Óptica (CSIC), Spain); Filip Sroubek (Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Spain); Gabriel Cristobal (Instituto de Optica (CSIC), Spain)
Kernel-based estimators for the Kirkwood-Rihaczek time-frequency spectrum: Heidi Hindberg (University of Tromso, Norway); Yngve Birkelund (Tromso University College, Norway); Tor Oigard (University of Tromso, Norway); Alfred Hanssen (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Detection of anomalous events in biomedical signals by Wigner analysis and instant-wise Rényi entropy: Salvador Gabarda (Instituto de Optica (CSIC), Spain); Gabriel Cristobal (Instituto de Optica (CSIC), Spain); Juan Martinez-Alajarin (Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain); Ramon Ruiz (Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain)
Nonstationary Signals Analysis by TEAGER-HUANG TRANSFORM (THT): Jean Christophe Cexus (IRENav Ecole Navale, France); Abdel-Ouahab Boudraa (IRENav Ecole Navale, France)
A Wigner-Ville, time-frequency approach to TNT detection in nuclear quadrupole resonance experiments.: Sven Aerts (Free University of Brussels, Belgium); Dirk Aerts (Free University Brussels, Belgium); Franklin Schroeck (Denver University, USA); Jürgen Sachs (TU Ilmenau, Germany)

Fri.1.1: NEWCOM (Special session) - 7 papers

Signal Processing Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks: H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)
Code-aided Frequency Ambiguity Resolution and Channel Estimation for MIMO OFDM systems: Frederik Simoens (Ghent University, Belgium); Marc Moeneclaey (Ghent University, Belgium)
Space-Time Block Coding for Noncoherently Detected CPFSK: Fabrizio Pancaldi (University of Modena - Dept. of Information Eng., Italy); Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
On the Error Exponent of the Wideband Relay Channel: Qiang Li (Texas A&M University, USA); Costas Georghiades (Texas A&M Univeristy, USA)
New Results in Iterative Frequency-Domain Decision-Feedback Equalization: Frédérique Sainte-Agathe (Supélec, Thales Communication, France); Hikmet Sari (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (SUPELEC), France)
Network Planning for Multi-radio Cognitive Wireless Networks: Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA)

Fri.6.1: Efficient SP Algorithms and Architectures - 7 papers

A Computationally Efficient High-Quality Cordic Based DCT: Benjamin Heyne (University of Dortmund, Germany); Chi-Chia Sun (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); Juergen Goetze (University of Dortmund, Germany); Shanq-Jang Ruan (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
An adaptive embedded architecture for real-time image velocimetry algorithms: Alain Aubert (LTSI, Université Jean Monnet, France); Nathalie Bochard (LTSI, Université Jean Monnet, France); Virginie Fresse (Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France)
Using RTOS in the AAA methodology automatic executive generation: Ghislain Roquier (IETR/INSA de Rennes, France); Mickael Raulet (IETR, France); Jean-François Nezan (IETR, France); Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France)
Efficient Implementation of Undecimated Directional Filter Banks: Truong Nguyen (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Soontorn Oraintara (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
A Bit-serial Architecture for H.264/AVC Interframe Ddecoding: Pawel Garstecki (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Tomasz Zernicki (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Adam Luczak (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)
Reconfigurable Architecture of AVC/H.264 Integer Transform: Adam Luczak (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland); Marta Stêpniewska (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)
A Fixed-Point Smoothing Algorithm in Discrete-Time Systems with Correlated Signal and Noise: R.m. Fernández-Alcalá (University of Jaén, Spain); J. Navarro-Moreno (University of Jaén, Spain); J.c. Ruiz-Molina (University of Jaén, Spain); Antonia Oya (University of Jaén, Spain)

Fri.4.1: Adaptive Filtering - 7 papers

Improved LMS-type adaptive filtering algorithms using a new maximum eigenvalue bound estimation scheme: Yi Zhou (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Shing-Chow Chan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); K. l. Ho (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Self-optimizing adaptive notch filters -- comparison of three optimization strategies: Maciej Niedzwiecki (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Piotr Kaczmarek (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Generalized adaptive notch filters with frequency debiasing: Maciej Niedzwiecki (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland); Adam Sobocinski (Gdansk University of Technology, Algeria)
Robust adaptive filters using Student-t distribution: Guang Deng (La Trobe University, Australia)
A new variable forgetting factor QR-based recursive least M-estimate algorithm for robust adaptive filtering in impulsive noise environment: Yi Zhou (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Shing-Chow Chan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); K. l. Ho (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
The Conjugate Gradient Partitioned Block Frequency-Domain Adaptive Filter for Multichannel Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Lino García (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Soledad Torres-Guijarro (Universidad de Vigo, Spain); Jon Beracoechea (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Adaptive Subband Notch Filter for RFI Cancellation in Low Interference to Signal Ratio: Asmi Rim (SUPCOM- Tunis, Tunisia); Sofian Cherif (SupCom, Tunisia); Hichem Besbes (Ecole Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com TUNISIA, Tunisia); Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia)

Fri.3.1: Multi-user MIMO Communications (Special session) - 7 papers

Linear receiver interfaces for multiuser MIMO communications: Alessandro Nordio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Giorgio Taricco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Multiuser detection using random-set theory: Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain); Marco Lops (University of Cassino, Italy)
Subcarrier Allocation in a Multiuser MIMO Channel Using Linear Programming: Ari Hottinen (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Tiina Heikkinen (MTT Economic Research, Finland)
Efficient Vector Perturbation in Multi-Antenna Multi-User Systems Based on Approximate Integer Relations: Dominik Seethaler (Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Gerald Matz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Iterative Transceiver Optimization for Linear Multiuser MIMO Channels with Per-User MMSE Requirements: Martin Schubert (Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications MCI, Germany); Shuying Shi (Fraunhofer German-Sino Lab for Mobile Communications MCI, Germany); Holger Boche (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications HHI, Germany)
Transmit Correlation-Aided Opportunistic Beamforming and Scheduling: Marios Kountouris (France Telecom R&D, France); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Lars Pittman (Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology, Norway)
A reduced complexity MIMO Broadcast scheme: a way between opportunistic and dirty paper implementation: Nizar Zorba (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Ana I. Perez-Neira (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break F1

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Fri.2.2: Hardware-Related Issues in Signal Processing - 5 papers

The Rapid Prototyping experiences of image processing algorithms on FPGA: Vincent Brost (University of Burgundy, France)
Fast Integer Arithmetic Wavelet Transform Properties and Application in FPGA/DSP System: Wojciech Polchlopek (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Wojciech Maj (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland); Wojciech Padee (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Automatic DSP cache memory management and fast prototyping for multiprocessor image applications: Fabrice Urban (Thomson R&D, France); Mickael Raulet (IETR, France); Jean-François Nezan (IETR, France); Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France)
CDTA-Based Quadrature Oscillator Design: Atilla Uygur (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Hakan Kuntman (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Vlsi Design of a High-Speed CMOS Image Sensor with in-situ 2D Programmable Processing: Jerome Dubois (LE2I - Universite de Bourgogne, France); Dominique Ginhac (Universite de Bourgogne, France); Michel Paindavoine (Université de Bourgogne, France)

Fri.5.2: Pattern Recognition I - 5 papers

Anisotropy characterization of non stationnary grey level textures: Gerald Lemineur (University of Orleans, France); Rachid Harba (University of Orleans, France); Rachid Jennane (University of Orleans, France)
Study of the performance of different alignment methods in pattern recognition: Roberto Gil (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Manuel Rosa (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Raúl Vicen (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Francisco Lopez (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Manuel Utrilla (University of Alcalà¡, Spain)
Audiovisual Speech Enhancement Experiments for Mouth Segmentation Evaluation: Pierre Gacon (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France); Pierre-Yves Coulon (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France); Gérard Bailly (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France)
A framework for histogram-induced 3D descriptors: Ceyhun Akgül (Bogazici University and ENST-Paris, Turkey); Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey); Yücel Yemez (Koc University, Turkey); Francis Schmitt (ENST/TSI, France)
Print-to-Edge Registration Application for Banknotes: Volker Lohweg (Univ. Applied Sciences Lippe and Hoexter, Germany); Thomas Tuerke (KBA-Bielefeld, Germany); Harald Willeke (KBA-Bielefeld, Germany)

Fri.1.2: Digital Signal Processing for UWB Applications I (Invited special session) - 5 papers


Narrowband interference mitigation for a transmitted reference ultra-wideband receiver: Quang Hieu Dang (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Alle Jan van der Veen (Delft University, The Netherlands)
UWB Receiver Design for low Resolution Quantization: Stefan Franz (University of Southern California, USA); Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
Narrowband Interference Suppression in Transmitted Reference UWB Receivers Using Sub-Band Notch Filters: Marco Pausini (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Gerard Janssen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Reduced-complexity Multiple Symbol Differential Detection for UWB Communications: Vincenzo Lottici (University of Pisa, Italy); Zhi Tian (Michigan Technological University, USA)

Finger Selection for UWB Rake Receivers: Sinan Gezici (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA); Mung Chiang (Princeton University, USA); Hisashi Kobayashi (Princeton University, USA); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)

Poster: Digital Filters Design and Analysis - 18 papers

WLS Quasi-Equiripple Design of Variable Fractional Delay FIR Filters: Jie-Cherng Liu (Tatung University, Taiwan)
Gram pair parameterization of multivariate sum-of-squares trigonometric polynomials: Bogdan Dumitrescu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Finite Wordlength Implementation for Recursive Digital Filters with Error Feedback: Masayoshi Nakamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan); Takao Hinamoto (Department of Artificial Complex Systems Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan); Masaki Oku (Hiroshima University, Japan); Tsuyoshi Yoshiya (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Roundoff Noise Analysis of Signals Represented Using Signed Power-of-Two Terms: Ya Jun Yu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yong Ching Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Lower Limit Cycle Bounds for Narrow Transition Band Digital Filters: Jose Oses-del Campo (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain); Manuel Blanco-Velasco (University of Alcala, Spain); Fernando Cruz-Roldán (Universidad de Alcalà¡, Spain)
Strategies of adaptive nonlinear noise cancelling Volterra-Wiener filter structure selection: Pawel Biernacki (University of Technology Wroclaw, Poland)
Lattice factorization and design of Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks with any Length yielding linear phase: Zhiming Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Anamitra Makur (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
A Streamlined Approach to Adaptive Filters: John Håkon Husøy (University of Stavanger, Norway)
About Ordering Sequences in Minimum-Phase Sequences: Corneliu Rusu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jaakko Astola (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
A Simplified FTF-Type Algorithm for Adaptive Filtering: Ahmed Benallal (Dammam college of Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Optimal Design of FIR Filter with SP2 Coefficients based on Semi-Infinite Linear Programming Method: Rika Ito (Toho University, Japan); Ryuichi Hirabayashi (Mejiro University, Japan)
On Families of 2^N-dimensional Hypercomplex Algebras Suitable for Digital Signal Processing: Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany)
Optimization of FIR Filters Synthesized Using the Generalized One-Stage Frequency-Response Masking Approach: Murat Kapar (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Cercis Özgür Solmaz (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Ahmet Kayran (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Optimal Linear Filtering with Piecewise-Constant Memory: Anatoli Torokhti (University of South Australia, Australia); Phil Howlett (University of South Australia, Australia)
Design of M-channel Perfect Reconstruction Filterbanks with IIR-FIR Hybrid Building Blocks: Shunsuke Iwamura (Keio University, Japan); Taizo Suzuki (Keio University, Japan); Yuichi Tanaka (Keio University, Japan); Masaaki Ikehara (Keio University, Japan)
On Aliasing Effects in the Contourlet Filter Bank: Truong Nguyen (University of Texas at Arlington, USA); Soontorn Oraintara (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Designing linear-phase digital differentiators A novel approach: Ewa Hermanowicz (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Design of IIR Notch Filters With Maximally Flat or Equripple Magnitude Characteristics: Alfonso Fernandez-Vazquez (INAOE, Mexico); Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek (INAOE, Mexico)

Poster: Channel Coding and Decoding - 5 papers

Convergence analysis of the MAP turbo detector: New representation and convergence to the AWGN case: Noura Sellami (Institut Supérieur de l'Electronique et des Communications de Sfax, Tunisia); Aline Roumy (IRISA-INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France); Inbar Fijalkow (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding using Constellation Shaping: Boon Kien Khoo (School of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom); Stephane Le Goff (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom); Bayan Sharif (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom); Charalampos Tsimenidis (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
Predistorter Design Employing Parallel Piecewise Linear Structure and Inverse Coordinate Mapping for Broadband Communications: Mei Yen Cheong (Helsinki Univ. of Technology, ? ); Stefan Werner (Helsinki University of Tehcnology, Finland); Timo Laakso (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Juan Cousseau (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina); Jose Figueroa (Universidad del Sur, Argentina)

Design of MMSE filterbank precoder and equalizer for MIMO frequency selective channels: Vijaya Krishna Ananthapadmanabha (Indian Institute of Science, India); Kvs Hari (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Poster: Radar Detection and Estimation - 9 papers

Statistical method based on simultaneous diagonalisation for polsar images analysis: Salim Chitroub (Electronics and Computer Science Faculty, USTHB, Algeria)
Optimum Permutation and Rank Detectors under K-Distributed Clutter in Radar Applications: José Sanz-González (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Francisco Álvarez-Vaquero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); J.e. Gonzalez (Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain)
A performance comparison of two time diversity systems using CMLD-CFAR detection for partially correlated chi-square targets and multiple target situations: Toufik Laroussi (Université de Constantine, Algeria); Mourad Barkat (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Performance evaluation of k out of n detector: Yaser Norouzi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Maria Greco (University of Pisa, Italy); Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Detection Performance for the GMF Applied to the STAP Data: Sébastien Maria (University of Rennes 1, IRISA, France); Jean-Jacques Fuchs (irisa/université de Rennes, France)
Stepped frequency waveform design with application to smr radar: Silvia Bruscoli (University of Pisa, Italy); Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa, Italy); Marco Martorella (University of Pisa, Italy); Marcello Bernabò (Galileo Avionica, Italy)
A Frequency Selection Method for HF-OTH Skywave Radar Systems: Amerigo Capria (University of Pisa, Italy); Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa, Italy); Rocco Soleti (University of Pisa, Italy); Enzo Dalle Mese (University of Pisa (Italy), Algeria)
A Neural Network Approach to Improve Radar Detector Robustness: Pilar Jarabo (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Manuel Rosa (University of Alcalà¡, Spain); Jose Nieto-Borge (Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Spain); Francisco Lopez (University of Alcalà¡, Spain)
Neural Network for Polarimetric Radar Target Classification: Rocco Soleti (University of Pisa, Italy); Leonardo Cantini (University of Pisa, Italy); Fabrizio Berizzi (University of Pisa, Italy); Amerigo Capria (University of Pisa, Italy); David Calugi (Galileo Avionica S.p.A., Italy)

Poster: Microphone Array Processing - 5 papers

An adaptive microphone array for optimum beamforming and noise reduction: Gerhard Doblinger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
DOA estimation method for an arbitrary triangular microphone arrangement: Amin Karbasi (EPFL, Switzerland); Akihiko Sugiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan)
A new adaptation mode controller for adaptive microphone arrays based on nested and symmetric leaky blocking matrices: Thanh Phong Hua (Université de Rennes 1, France); Akihiko Sugiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan); Régine Le Bouquin-Jeannès (University of Rennes 1, France); Gérard Faucon (University of Rennes 1, France)
Determination of the Number of Wideband Acoustical Sources in a Reverberant Environment: Angela Quinlan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Frank Boland (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Jean-Pierre Barbot (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France); Pascal Larzabal (SATIE ENS-Cachan, France)
Accuracy of Gauss-Laguerre Polar Monopulse Receiver: Elio Di claudio (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Giovanni Jacovitti (INFOCOM Dpt. University of Rome, Italy); Alberto Laurenti (Faculty of Engineering, University Campus Bio-medico, Italy)

Fri.6.2: Motion Estimation and Compensation - 5 papers

Model-Based Robust Variatinal Method for Motion De-blurring: Takahiro Saito (Kanagawa University, Japan); Taishi Sano (Kanagawa University, Japan); Takashi Komatsu (Kanagawa University, Japan)
A Spatio-Temporal Competing Scheme for the Rate-Distortion Optimized Selection and Coding Of Motion Vectors: Guillaume Laroche (France Telecom R&D, France); Joël Jung (France Telecom R&D, France); Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
Block Matching-Based Motion Compensation with Arbitrary Accuracy Using Adaptive Interpolation Filters: Ichiro Matsuda (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Kazuharu Yanagihara (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Shinichi Nagashima (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Susumu Itoh (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Reduced Computation using Adaptive Search Window Size for H.264 Multi-frame Motion Estimation: Ji Liangming (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Wan-Chi Siu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Estimation of motion blur point spread function from differently exposed image frames: Marius Tico (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Markku Vehvilainen (Nokia Research Center, Finland)

Fri.4.2: Principal Components Analysis - 5 papers

Bayesian estimation of the number of principal components: Abd-krim Seghouane (National ICT Australia, Australia)
Unequal Error Protection of PCA-Coded Face Images for Transmission over Mobile Channels: Aykut Hocanin (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey); Hasan Demirel (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey); Sabina Hosic (Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus)
Separability of convolutive mixtures based on wiener filtering and mutual information criterion: Moussa Akil (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France); Christine Servière (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France)
Blind Identification of MIMO-OSTBC Channels Combining Second and Higher Order Statistics: Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Jesus Perez (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Robustness of Phoneme Classification in Different Representation Spaces: Lena Khoo (King's College London, United Kingdom); Zoran Cvetkovic (King's College London, United Kingdom); Peter Sollich (King's College London, United Kingdom)

Fri.3.2: Multi-user MIMO Communications II (Special session) - 5 papers

Transmit and Receive Antenna Subset Selection for MIMO SC-FDE in Frequency Selective Channels: Andreas Wilzeck (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Patrick Pan (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Thomas Kaiser (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Non-Linear Precoding for MIMO Multi-User Downlink Transmissions with different QoS requirements: Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa, Italy); Michele Morelli (University of Pisa, Italy)
Levenberg-Marquardt Computation of the Block Factor Model for Blind Multi-user Access in Wireless Communications: Dimitri Nion (ETIS Laboratory, UMR 8051 (CNRS, ENSEA, UCP), France); Lieven de Lathauwer (E.E. Dept. (ESAT) - SCD-SISTA, Belgium)
A Dynamic Antenna Scheduling Strategy for Multi-User MIMO Communications: Mirette Sadek (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Alireza Tarighat (University of California. Los Angeles (UCLA), USA); Ali Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Linear Detectors for multi-user MIMO systems with correlated spatial diversity: Laura Cottatellucci (University of South Australia, Australia); Ralf Mueller (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Merouane Debbah (Institut Eurecom, France)

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Plenary: Signal Processing Across the Layers in Wireless Networks

3:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Fri.2.3: Features Extraction - 5 papers

Towards Multiple-Orientation Based Tensor Invariants for Object Tracking: Nicolaj Stache (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Thomas Stehle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Matthias Mühlich (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Til Aach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Bayesian High Priority Region Growing for Change Detection: Ilias Grinias (University of Crete, Greece); Georgios Tziritas (University of Crete, Greece)
Rotation Invariant Object Recognition Using Edge-Profile Clusters: Ryan Anderson (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Nick Kingsbury (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Julien Fauqueur (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Contour detection by surround inhibition in the Circular Harmonic Functions domain: Giuseppe Papari (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Patrizio Campisi (University of ROMA TRE, Italy); Nicolai Petkov (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Alessandro Neri (Università degli Studi "Roma TRE", Italy)
A mutual information approach to contour based object tracking: Evangelos Loutas (University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece)

Fri.5.3: Human Face Synthesis and Detection - 5 papers

Face verification with a MLP and BCH output codes: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy (Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro, Spain)
Illumination-Invariant Face Identification Using Edge-Based Feature Vectors in Pseudo-2D Hidden Markov Models: Yasufumi Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Tadashi Shibata (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
On Combining Evidence For Reliability Estimation In Face Verification: Krzysztof Kryszczuk (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Andrzej Drygajlo (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Multi-View Face Detection and Pose Estimation Employing Edge-Based Feature Vectors: Daisuke Moriya (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Yasufumi Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Tadashi Shibata (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Masakazu Yagi (Osaka University, Japan); Kenji Takada (Osaka University, Japan)
A comparison of data representation types, features types and fusion techniques for 3D face biometry: Helin Dutagaci (Bogazici University, Turkey); Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey); Yücel Yemez (Koc University, Turkey)

Fri.1.3: Digital Signal Processing for UWB Applications II (Invited special session) - 4 papers

Reduced Memory Modeling and Equalization of Second order FIR Volterra Channels in Non-coherent UWB Systems: Jac Romme (IMST GmbH, Germany); Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Multi-Target Estimation of Heart and Respiration Rates Using Ultra Wideband Sensors: Natalia Rivera (Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University, USA)
Analysis of Threshold-Based TOA Estimators in UWB Channels: Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy); Chia-Chin Chong (NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, USA); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
How to Efficiently Detect Different Data-Rate Communications in Multiuser Short-Range Impulse Radio UWB Systems: Simone Morosi (University of Firenze, Italy, Italy); Tiziano Bianchi (University of Florence, Italy)

Poster: Signal Detection and Estimation - 10 papers

Adaptive Threshold Nonlinear Correlation Algorithm for Robust Filtering in Impulsive Noise Environments: Shin'ichi Koike (Consultant, Japan)
Joint segmentation of multivariate Poissonian time series. Application to Burst and Transient Source Experiments: Nicolas Dobigeon (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France); Jeffrey D. Scargle (Space Science Division, NASA, USA)
On Interval Estimation for the Number of Signals: Pinyuen Chen (Syracuse University, USA)
An Improved Iterative Method to Compensate for 1-D Signal Interpolation Distortion of Each Kind: Ali Akhaee (EE Dept of Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Iran)
On Detection of a Real Sinusoid with Short Data Record: Hing Cheung So (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chin Tao Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Kit Wing Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Parameter estimation of multicomponent quadratic FM signals using computationally efficient Radon-CPF transform: Pu Wang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Jianyu Yang (School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)
Common Pole Estimation with an Orthogonal Vector Method: Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France); Guillaume Bouleux (LSS, France); Karim Abed-Meraim (Dept TSI, Télécom Paris, France)
A Low-cost and Robust Multimodal Wireless Network with Adaptive Estimator and GLRT detector: Jianjun Chen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark); John Aasted Sorensen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Zoltan Safar (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Kåre Kristoffersen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
A robust estimator for polynomial phase signals in non gaussian noise using parallel unscented kalman filters: Mounir Djeddi (Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes, France); Messaoud Benidir (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systmes, France)
Comparison of Different Approaches For Robust Identification Of a Lightly Damped Flexible Beam: Allahyar Montazeri (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Hadi Esmaeilsabzali (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Javad Poshtan (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran); Mohammad-Reza Jahed-Motlagh (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran)

Poster: Speech and Audio Coding - 5 papers

Conditional split lattice vector quantization for spectral encoding of audio signals: Adriana Vasilache (Nokia Research Center, Finland)
An Optimal Path Coding System for DAWG Lexicon-HMM: Alain Lifchitz (LIP6 - CNRS, Paris, France); Frederic Maire (Faculty of Information Technology, Brisbane, Australia); Dominique Revuz (Institut Gaspard Monge, Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Low-Complexity Wideband LSF Quantization by Predictive KLT Coding and Generalized Gaussian Modeling: Marie Oger (France Télécom R&D, France); Stéphane Ragot (France Télécom R&D, France); Marc Antonini (I3S-CNRS, France)
Stereo and multichannel audio coding with room response compensation for improved coding transparency: Maciej Bartkowiak (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Objective and Subjective Evaluation MPEG Layer III Perceived Quality: Giancarlo Vercellesi (University of Milan, Italy); Andrea Vitali (STM, Italy); Martino Zerbini (University of Milan, Italy)

Poster: MIMO Systems - 8 papers

A Universal Interpretation of Receive Diversity Gain in MIMO Systems over Flat Channels: Shuichi Ohno (Hiroshima University, Japan); Kok Ann Donny Teo (Hiroshima university, Japan)
Iterative multiuser detection performance evaluation on a satellite multibeam coverage: Jean-Pierre Millerioux (TeSA-ENST, France); Marie-laure Boucheret (ENST, France); Caroline Bazile (CNES, France); Alain Ducasse (Alcatel Space, France)
Maximum likelihood sequence estimation based on periodic time-varying trellis for LPTVMA systems: Bogdan Cristea (National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France); Daniel Roviras (National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France); Benoit Escrig (National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France)
Eigenspace Adaptive Filtering for Efficient Pre-Equalization of Acoustic MIMO Systems: Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Herbert Buchner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Rudolf Rabenstein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Blind recovery of MIMO QAM signals : a criterion with its convergence analysis: Aissa Ikhlef (Supelec Campus de Rennes, SCEE Team, France); Daniel Le guennec (IETR/Supélec-Campus de Rennes, France)
Bidirectional MIMO equalizer design: Davide Mattera (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy); Francesco Palmieri (Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy); Gianluca D'Angelo (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
SMC Algorithms for Approximate-MAP Equalization of MIMO Channels with Polynomial Complexity: Manuel Vazquez (Universidade da Coruña, Spain); Joaquín Míguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Iterative Equalization For Severe Time Dispersive MIMO Channels: Sajid Ahmed (The Institute of ECIT Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Colin Cowan (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)

Poster: Motion Analysis - 6 papers

Automatic Human Motion Analysis and Action Recognition in Athletics Videos: Costas Panagiotakis (University of Crete, Greece); Ilias Grinias (University of Crete, Greece); Georgios Tziritas (University of Crete, Greece)
Motion Estimation Using Hypercomplex Correlation in the Wavelet Domain: Vasileios Argyriou (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Theo Vlachos (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Camera motion classification based on transferable belief model: Mickael Guironnet (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France); Denis Pellerin (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France); Michele Rombaut (Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, France)
Tracking System Using Camshift and Feature Points: Ali Ganoun (University of Orleans, France); Ould-Driss Nouar (Orleans University, France); Raphael Canals (Orleans University, France)
Rate-distortion performance of dual-layer motion compensation employing different mesh densities: Andy Yu (University of Warwick, United Kingdom); Heechan Park (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, United Kingdom); Graham Martin (UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, United Kingdom)
Robust Scene Cut Detection by Supervised Learning: Guillermo Camara Chavez (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)

Fri.6.3: Pattern recognition II - 5 papers

Two-Dimensional Sampling and Representation of Folded Surfaces Embedded in Higher Dimensional Manifolds: Emil Saucan (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Eli Appleboim (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, Iceland); Yehoshua Zeevi (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, Israel)
A Markov Random Field Based Skin Detection Approach: Kamal Chenaoua (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Ahmed Bouridane (Queen's University, United Kingdom)
High-Quality Image Interpolation Based on Multiplicative Skeleton-Texture Separation: Takahiro Saito (Kanagawa University, Japan); Yuki Ishii (Kanagawa University, Japan); Yousuke Nakagawa (Kanagawa University, Japan); Takashi Komatsu (Kanagawa University, Japan)
Dense Deformation Field Estimation for Atlas Registration using the Active Contour Framework: Valérie Duay (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Meritxell Bach (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Xavier Bresson (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Jean-Philippe Thiran (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)
Facial Expression Synthesis Through Facial Expressions Statistical Analysis: Stelios Krinidis (Technological Institute of Kavala, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Fri.4.3: Speech Processing - 5 papers

Speech style conversion based on the statistics of vowel spectrograms and nonlinear frequency mapping: Toru Takahashi (Wakayama University, Japan); Hideki Banno (Meijo University, Japan); Toshio Irino (Wakayama University, Japan); Hideki Kawahara (Wakayama University, Japan)
Robust Decomposition of Inverse Filter of Channel and Prediction Error Filter of Speech Signal for Dereverberation: Takuya Yoshioka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Takafumi Hikichi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Masato Miyoshi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Hiroshi Okuno (Kyoto University, Japan)
A Path-Based Layered Architecture using HMM for Automatic Speech Recognition: Marta Casar (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain); José Fonollosa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain); Albino Nogueiras (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Fast sequential floating forward selection applied to emotional speech features estimated on DES and SUSAS data collections: Dimitrios Ververidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Constantine Kotropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Prosody Modeling for an Embedded TTS System Implementation: Dragos Burileanu ("Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania); Cristian Negrescu ("Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania)

Fri.3.3: Image Coding - 5 papers

Multiple description coding based on phase scrambling with adjustable spread range: Toshiyuki Uto (Ehime University, Japan); Kenji Ohue (Ehime University, Japan)
Near-lossless distributed coding of hyperspectral images using a statistical model for probability estimation: Marco Grangetto (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Enrico Magli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Gabriella Olmo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
The RWHT+P for an improved lossless multiresolution coding: Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Marie Babel (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Jean Motsch (IETR / Saint-Cyr, France)
Scan-Based Compression of 3D Mesh Sequences With Geometry Compensation: Yasmine Boulfani (I3S-CNRS-UNSA, France); Marc Antonini (I3S-CNRS, France)
An analytical Gamma mixture based rate-distortion model for lattice vector quantization: Ludovic Guillemot (Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, France)

Technical Program updated July, 10th 2006

Full Technical Program with Abstracts of Papers

Tuesday, Sep 5

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Opening Session and General Chairman Foreword: Life without Signal Processing

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Tue.2.1: Image Segmentation - 6 papers

Tue.5.1: Distributed signal processing in sensor networks (Invited special session) - 6 papers

Tue.1.1: OFDM and Multicarrier Systems - 6 papers

Tue.6.1: Filter Bank Design and Analysis - 6 papers

Tue.4.1: Beamforming - 6 papers

Tue.3.1: Reverberant Environment and Human Audition - 6 papers

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break T1

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Tue.2.2: Filter Design and Analysis - 5 papers

Tue.5.2: Channel Estimation - 5 papers

Tue.1.2: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds I (Special session) - 5 papers

Poster: Feature extraction in image and video - 10 papers

Poster: Image Restoration and Enhancement - 12 papers

Poster: Signal Processing Education - 3 papers

Poster: Speech Enhancement - 9 papers

Tue.6.2: Transforms analysis and implementation - 5 papers

Tue.4.2 - Speech and Audio Source Separation - 5 papers

Tue.3.2: Signal Synthesis and Reconstruction - 5 paper

1:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Lunch

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Plenary: Distributed signal processing for sensor networks

3:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Tue.2.3: Wavelet Image Processing - 5 papers

Tue.5.3: Signal Detection - 5 papers

Tue.1.3: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds II (Special session) - 5 papers

Poster: BSS and ICA - 16

Poster: Multicarrier and OFDM Systems - 10

Poster: EEG Signal Analysis - 5

Poster : Cryptography, Watermarking, and Steganography - 10 papers

Tue.6.3: Signal Representation and Filter Analysis - 5 papers

Tue.4.3: Bayesian Methods for Inverse Problems in Image and Signal Processing I (Special session) - 5 papers

Tue.3.3: Signal Processing for Music - 5 papers

4:50 PM - 5:10 PM

Coffee-break T2

5:10 PM - 6:30 PM

Tue.2.4: Bioinformatics - 4 papers

Tue.5.4: Spread Spectrum, CDMA, and MC-CDMA - 4 papers

Tue.1.4: Color Image Processing (Invited special session) - 4 papers

Tue.6.4: Deconvolution Methods - 4 papers

Tue.4.4: Bayesian Methods for Inverse Problems in Image and Signal Processing II (Special session) - 4 papers

Tue.3.4: Speech Recognition - 4 papers

Wednesday, Sep 6

8:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Wed.2.1: Image and Video Quality Evaluation (Invited special session) - 7 papers

Wed.2.1: Transceiver Processing for Fast Time-Varying Channels (Invited special session) - 7 papers

Wed.1.1: Cultural Heritage (Invited special session) - 7 papers

Wed.6.1: Parameter Estimation - 7 papers

Wed.4.1: Speech Analysis and Synthesis - 7 papers

Wed.3.1: Advances in Monte Carlo methods for target tracking (Special session) - 7 papers

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break W1

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Wed.2.2: Wireless Sensors Networks - 5 papers

Wed.5.2: Video Analysis and Understanding - 5 papers

Wed.1.2: Image restoration and denoising - 5 papers

Poster: Hardware and Implementation - 9

Poster: Video and Image Coding - 19 papers

Poster: Source Localization - 6 papers

Wed.6.2: Radar Detection - 5 papers

Wed.4.2: Equalization I - 5 papers

Wed.3.2: Channel Coding and Decoding - 5 papers

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Plenary: Signal Processing in Maternal-Fetal Medicine

3:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Wed.2.3: Biomedical Signal Processing - 5 papers

Wed.5.3: Image Compression - 5 papers

Wed.1.3: MIMO Channel Modelling, Emulation and Sounding I (Special session) - 5 papers

Poster: Audio Processing and Enhancement - 18 papers

Poster: Sensor Array Processing - 10 papers

Poster: Detection of Digital Data Signals - 5 papers

Poster: Signal Processing Applications in Engineering - 8 papers

Wed.6.3: Sonar signal processing - 5 papers

Technical Program updated July, 10^th 2006