EUSIPCO 2009 - Friday 28th August

8:30 An improved dual decomposition approach to DSL dynamic spectrum management: Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Ion Necoara (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Johan Suykens (KULeuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
9:10 DSM Performance on Practical DSL Systems Based on Estimated Crosstalk Channel Information: Eduardo Medeiros (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Neiva Lindqvist (Federal University of Pará, Sweden); Marcio Monteiro (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Harney Abrahim (UFPa, Brazil); Fredrik Lindqvist (LTH, Sweden); Boris Dortschy (Ericcson AB, Sweden); Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil)
9:30 Energy Efficient Power Back-Off Management for VDSL2 Transmission: Tomas Nordström (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria); Driton Statovci (The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria); Martin Wolkerstorfer (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria)
9:50 Performance evaluation of a sign-error-based iterative precoder for crosstalk cancelation in DSL systems: Jerome Louveaux (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium)

AE7: Speech Enhancement 4

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Ann Spriet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

8:30 Selective time-reversal block solution to the stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation problem: Dinh Quy Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Woon Seng Gan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Andy Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
8:50 A Stereo Echo Canceller with Simultaneous 2-Channel Input Slides for Fast Convergence and Good Sound Localization: Akihiko Sugiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan); Yuusuke Mizuno (Kanazawa University, Japan); Akihiro Hirano (Kanazawa University, Japan); Kenji Nakayama (Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
9:10 Assessing the acoustic feedback control performance of adaptive feedback cancellation in sound reinforcement systems: Toon van Waterschoot (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
9:30 Frequency-Domain Adaptive Multidelay Algorithm with Sparseness Control for Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Pradeep Loganathan (Imperial College, London., United Kingdom); Xiang Lin (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Andy Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
9:50 Gauss-Seidel Based Variable Step-Size Affine Projection Algorithms for Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Felix Albu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania); Constantin Paleologu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Jacob Benesty (INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Canada)

AP5: Signal Processing Applications 2

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: Bob Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom), Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

8:30 Rayleigh wave ellipticity estimation from ambient seismic noise using single and multiple vector-sensor techniques: Manuel Hobiger (LGIT, CNRS, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France); Nicolas Le Bihan (GIPSA-Lab, CNRS, France); Cécile Cornou (LGIT, IRD: R157, CNRS, Université J. Fourier Grenoble, France); Pierre-Yves Bard (LGIT, LCPC, CNRS, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France)
8:50 Railway device diagnosis using sparse independent component analysis: Zohra Cherfi (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France); Etienne Côme (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France); Latifa Oukhellou (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France); Patrice Aknin (Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur S´ecurit´e (INRETS), France)
9:10 A Wavelet-Based Pattern Recognition Algorithm to Classify Postural Transitionsin Humans: Anthony Fleury (EPFL, Switzerland); Norbert Noury (University of Lyon, France); Michel Vacher (CNRS, France)
9:30 RFI mitigation in the context of Pulsar coherent de-dispersion at Nancay radio astronomical Observatory: Dalal Ait allal (University of Orleans, France); Rodolphe Weber (University of Orleans, France); Gilles Theureau (Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, France); Ismaël Cognard (Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, France)
9:50 Cyclic Spatial Filtering in Radio Astronomy : Application to Lofar Data: Rym Feliachi (University of Orleans, France); Rodolphe Weber (University of Orleans, France); Albert Jan Boonstra (ASTRON, The Netherlands)

TH8: Detection and Estimation 2

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

8:30 Optimal Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance based nonlinear detector: Hari Vishnu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Anand G. v. (Indian Institute of Science, India); Premkumar A. B (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
8:50 Filtering in the Time-Frequency Domain for the Detection of Compact Objects: Diego Herranz (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, Spain); Jose Luis Sanz (University of Santander, Spain); Ercan Kuruoglu (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
9:10 Efficient Detection of Additive Watermarking in the DWT-Domain: Roland Kwitt (University of Salzburg, Austria); Peter Meerwald (University of Salzburg, Austria); Andreas Uhl (Salzburg University, Austria)
9:30 Accurate Geolocation in the Presence of Outliers using Linear Programming: Joseph Picard (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Anthony Weiss (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
9:50 Maximum likelihood range estimation for 3D-imaging based on pseudo-noise optical modulation: M'Hamed-Ali El Mechat (CSEM Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

IM8: Image Sampling and Interpolation

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)

8:30 Simplifying Gaussian Mixture Models Via Entropic Quantization: Frank Nielsen (Ecole Polytechnique, France); Vincent Garcia (Ecole Polytechnique, France); Richard Nock (Universite des Antilles, France)
8:50 Self-sampled Image Resolution Enhancement Using Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform: Turgay Celik (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Huseyin Kusetogullari (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
9:10 Variable Density Compressed Image Sampling: Zhongmin Wang (University of Delaware, USA); Gonzalo Arce (University of Delaware, USA); Jose Paredes (University of Los Andes, USA)
9:30 Image Interpolation using Optimized Color Transforms: Evgeny Gershikov (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
9:50 A Fast Method for Scaling Color Images: Jaana Parkkinen (Nokia Corporation, Finland)

AM5: DOA Estimation

Room: Green Room Chair: Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)

8:30 DOA Estimation in the Presence of Modeling Errors, the Global Matched Filter Approach: Jean-Jacques Fuchs (irisa/université de Rennes, France)
8:50 Statistical Nonidentifiability of Close Emitters: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Breakdown: Yuri Abramovich (Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia); Ben Johnson (JORN Technical Director, Australia); Nicholas Spencer (Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd (ARI), Australia)
9:10 High Resolution Direction Finding : From Performance to Antenna Array Optimization - The mono-source case: Anne Ferreol (Thales Communications, France); Pascal Chevalier (Thales Communication, France)
9:30 DOA Estimation of Multiple Sparse Sources Using Three Widely-Spaced Sensors: Tarig Ballal (University College Dublin, Ireland); Chris Bleakley (University College Dublin, Ireland)
9:50 Empirical Mode Decomposition Based Denoising for High Resolution Direction of Arrival Estimation: Ozgur Gultekin (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Isin Erer (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

CO8: Channel Modelling and Estimation

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

10:30 LOS/NLOS detection by the normalized RAYLEIGH-NESS test: Francesco Benedetto (University of Roma Tre, Italy); Gaetano Giunta (University of "Roma TRE", Italy); Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium)
10:50 A New Channel Order Estimation Algorithm for FIR SIMO Channels: Serkan Karakutuk (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); T. Engin Tuncer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
11:10 Performance of multi-user asynchronous chaos-based communication systems through m-distributed fading channel: Georges Kaddoum (IRIT/ENSEEIHT laboratory, France)
11:30 Validation of Minimum-Energy Band-Limited Prediction using Vehicular Channel Measurements: Thomas Zemen (ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria); Sebastian Caban (TU Wien, Austria); Nicolai Czink (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
11:50 Characteristics of impulsive noise in electricity substations: Qingshan Shan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Shahzad Bhatti (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Ian Glover (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Atkinson (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); I Portugues (Elimpus Ltd, United Kingdom); Phil Moore (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Richard Rutherford (Scottish Power, United Kingdom)

SP4: Speech Analysis and Processing 1

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

10:30 Eigenresiduals for Improved Parametric Speech Synthesis: Thomas Drugman (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium); Geoffrey Wilfart (Acapela Group, Belgium); Thierry Dutoit (FPMS, Belgium)
10:50 The Effect of Microphone Directivity Patterns on Spatial Cues for Multichannel Reverberant Meeting Speech Analysis: Eva Cheng (University of Wollongong, Australia); Ian Burnett (RMIT University, Australia); Christian Ritz (University of Wollongong, Australia)
11:10 Non-stationary noise model compensation in voice activity detection: Mikko Myllymäki (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
11:30 Detection of Glottal Closing and Opening Instants using an Improved DYPSA Framework: Mark Thomas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Jon Gudnason (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
11:50 Alternative Speech Communication based on Cued Speech: Panikos Heracleous (Gipsa-lab, France); Noureddine Aboutabit (Ecole des mines de Douai, France); Denis Beautemps (Gipsa-lab, France)

SS14: Signal Processing Techniques in Navigation Technology

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands)

10:30 Outage mitigation for GNSS/MEMS navigation using neural networks: Jean-Rémi De Boer (Université de Toulouse, France); Vincent Calmettes (Université de Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France); Bertrand Lesot (Thales Avionics, France)
10:50 Signal processing issues in indoor positioning by ultra wide band radio aided inertial navigation: John-Olof Nilsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Alessio De Angelis (University of Perugia, Italy); Isaac Skog (KTH EE, Sweden); Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy); Peter Handel (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11:10 Differential Observables for Software GPS Interferometry: Benoit Muth (TU Delft - NLDA, The Netherlands); Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands); Christian Tiberius (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
11:50 N-Gene GNSS Software Receiver for Acqusition and Tracking Algorithm Validation: Andrea Molino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Mario Nicola (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Marco Pini (Isituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Maurizio Fantino (istituto superiore mario boella, Italy)

IM9: Image Coding

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: William Puech (University of Montpellier & LIRMM, France)

10:30 Psychovisual Rotation-Based DPTC Watermarking Scheme: Marc Chaumont (LIRMM (Laboratoire Informatique, Robotique, Microélectronique, Montpellier), France)
10:50 Seamless Joining of Tiles of Varying Resolutions for Online 3D Terrain Visualization by DWT Domain Smoothing: Khizar Hayat (LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France); Gilles Gesquiere (Aix Marseille University, France)
11:10 Wavelet-based Image Compression by Hierarchical Quantization Indexing: Hasan Ates (Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey); Engin Tamer (Isik University, Turkey)
11:30 Improved colour decorrelation for lossless colour image compression using the LAR codec: François Pasteau (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Clément Strauss (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Marie Babel (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Laurent Bedat (IETR / INSA Rennes, France)
11:50 Joint lossless coding and reversible data embedding in a multiresolution still image coder: Jean Motsch (IETR / Saint-Cyr, France); Marie Babel (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France)

VM6: H.264/AVC

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Marek Domañski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

10:30 Fast Protection of H.264/AVC by Selective Encryption of CABAC for I & P frames: Zafar Shahid (LIRMM, France); Marc Chaumont (LIRMM (Laboratoire Informatique, Robotique, Microélectronique, Montpellier), France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France)
10:50 Performance of Watermarking as an Error Detection Mechanism for Corrupted H.264/AVC Video Sequences: Eva Rodriguez Rodriguez (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Luca Superiori (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Olivia Nemethova (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
11:10 Error-resilient packet switched H.264 mobile video telephony with LT coding and reference picture selection: Muneeb Dawood (De Montfort University, United Kingdom); Raouf Hamzaoui (De Montfort University, United Kingdom); Shakeel Ahmad (De Montfort University, United Kingdom); Marwan Akaidi (De Montfort University UK, United Kingdom)
11:30 Improved Context-Adaptive Arithmetic Coding in H.264/AVC: Damian Karwowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Marek Domañski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
11:50 H.264 Video Traffic Modeling Via Hidden Markov Process: Stefania Colonnese (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy); Stefano Rinauro (Dip. INFOCOM, Università "La Sapienza'' di Roma, Italy); Lorenzo Rossi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Gaetano Scarano (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy)

2:20 PM - 2:50 PM

NN2: Non-linear / Non-stationary Signals Processing

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available duringthe dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.

Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Patrick Flandrin (CNRS-ENS, FR)

On the parameters Estimation of The Generalized Gaussian Mixture Model: Ould Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed (ENIT, Tunisia); Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia)
Time Frequency Characterization for Electric Load Monitoring: Mabrouka El Guedri (Electricité de France, France); Guy D'Urso (Electricité de France, France); Gilles Fleury (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France); Christian Lajaunie (Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris, France)
Optimization of Weighting Factors for Multiple Window Time-Frequency Analysis: Maria Sandsten (Lund University, Sweden); Johan Sandberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Parametric reduction complexity of Volterra models using tensor decompositions: Favier Gérard (Université de Nice, France); Thomas Bouilloc (Cnrs/University of Nice, France)
Bayesian compressed sensing of a highly impulsive signal in heavy-tailed noise using a multivariate Cauchy prior: George Tzagkarakis (University of Crete, Greece); Panagiotis Tsakalides (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece)
Optimal Wigner Cross-Spectrum estimation: Johan Sandberg (Lund University, Sweden); Maria Sandsten (Lund University, Sweden)
Time-Frequency Analysis Based on the Phase Rectified Signal Averaging Method: Meryem Jabloun (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland); Jean-Marc Vesin (EPFL, Switzerland); Jerome Van Zaen (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Estimation of stochastic rate constants and tracking of species in biochemical networks with second-order reactions: Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA); Monica Bugallo (Stony Brook University, USA)
A new sampling method in particle filter: Qi Cheng (Université Paris-Sud 11, France); Pascal Bondon (LSS CNRS, France)

AP6: Biomedical Signal Processing 2

Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Ahmad Naghsh Nilchi (University of Isfahan, Iran)

Automatic removal of ocular artifacts from EEG data using adaptive filtering and Independent Component Analysis: Carlos Guerrero-Mosquera (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Angel Navia-Vázquez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Estimation of Visual Evoked Potentials for Measurement of Optical Pathway Conduction: Mohd Zuki Yusoff (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia); Nidal Kamel (Technical University of Petronas, Malaysia)
Posterior Cramer Rao Lower Bounds for the Respiratory Model Parameter Estimation: Esra Saatci (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey); Aydin Akan (Istanbul University, Turkey)
From BOLD-fMRI signals to the prediction of subjective pain perception through a regularization algorithm: Marco Prato (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Stefania Favilla (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Patrizia Baraldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Carlo Porro (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Luca Zanni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
A point-event detection algorithm for the analysis of contrast bolus in fluoroscopic images of the coronary arteries: Alexandru Condurache (University of Luebeck, Germany); Alfred Mertins (Institute for Signal and Image Processing, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Contribution of auditory tasks to dyslexia screening: Guylaine Le Jan (LTSI, Université de Rennes1, France); Régine Le Bouquin-Jeannès (University of Rennes 1, France); Nathalie Costet (LTSI, Université Rennes1, France); Gérard Faucon (University of Rennes 1, France)
A new algorithm for instantaneous F0 speech extraction based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition: Gaston Schlotthauer (Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios, Argentina); Maria Torres (Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios, Argentina); Hugo Rufiner (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
New variant of Differential Evolution algorithm: application for neuroscientists: Laure Buhry (IMS, UMR CNRS 52 18, Université Bordeaux 1, France); Audrey Giremus (University of Bordeaux, UMR 5218, IMS, France); Eric Grivel (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Sylvain Saïghi (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Sylvie Renaud (IMS LAB, France)
Classification of User States with Physiological Signals: On-line Generic Features vs. Specialized Feature Sets: Florian Hönig (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Johannes Wagner (University of Augsburg, Germany); Anton Batliner (Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany); Elmar Nöth (Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany)
Content Based Clinical Depression Detection in Adolescents: Alex Lu-Shih Low (RMIT University, Australia); Margaret Lech (RMIT University, Australia); Namunu Maddage (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
A Comparative Study Of Four Novel Sleep Apnoea Episode Prediction Systems: Helen Robertson (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction using tissue deformation in echocardiographic imaging: Eyal Braiman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
Classification of Epileptic States Using Roo-MUSIC And MLPNN: Ahmad Naghsh Nilchi (University of Isfahan, Iran); Mostafa Aghashahi (University of Isfahan, Iran)
Scaled Gaussian Matched Filtering on Fluorescein Angiograms of the Retina: Tao Zhu (AT&T (ITO Intl.), United Kingdom)
Measures of Goodness of Fit to Convolution Model for Analysis of fMRI Data: Wakako Nakamura (Shimane University, Japan); Yujiro Inouye (Shimane University, Japan)

SP5: Speech Analysis and Processing 2

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available duringthe dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.

Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Julie Mauclair (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Flexible and efficient harmonic resynthesis by modulated sinusoids: Jonathan Teutenberg (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Catherine Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Analysis of a Parallel Lexical-tree-based Speech Decoder for Multi-core Processors: Naveen Parihar (Mississippi State University, USA); Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University, USA)
Evaluation of Pitch Estimation in Noisy Speech for application in Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Assessment: Dushyant Sharma (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
A new feature vector for HMM-based packet loss concealment: Lionel Koenig (Freescale Semiconductor, France); Régine Andre-Obrecht (Université Paul Sabatier, France); Corinne Mailhes (University of Toulouse, France); Serge Fabre (Freescale Semiconductor, France)
Speech Coding Based on Sparse Linear Prediction: Daniele Giacobello (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Manohar Murthi (University of Miami, USA); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Noise Robust Speech Coding at Very Low Bit Rates: Xiaoqiang Xiao (Penn State University, USA); Robert Nickel (Bucknell University, USA)
Experimental mappings and validation of the dependence on the language of objective speech quality scores in actual GSM network conditions: Faten Ben Ali (National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia); Sonia Djaziri-Larbi (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia); Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia); Khaled Ridane (Orascom Tunisiana, Tunisia)
Exploring the Prosody of Floor Mechanisms in English Using the Fundamental Frequency Variation Spectrum: Kornel Laskowski (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Mattias Heldner (KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden); Jens Edlund (KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden)
A Method Utilizing Window Function Frequency Characteristics for Noise-Robust Spectral Pitch Estimation: Iman Haji Abolhassani (INRS-Énergie-Matériaux-Télécommunications, Canada); Douglas O'Shaughnessy (INRS-Énergie-Matériaux-Télécommunications, Canada); Sid-Ahmed Selouani (Université de Moncton, campus of Shippagan, Canada)
A Simple But Efficient Real-Time Voice Activity Detection Algorithm: Mohammad Moattar (Amirkabir university of technology, Tehran, Iran, Iran); M. Mehdi Homayounpour (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)

IM10: Image Coding and Rendering

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available duringthe dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.

Room: Foyer 2 Chair: Chadi Khirallah (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Efficient 16x16 block size mode detection in H.264: Youngsub Jo (University of Hanyang, Korea); Wonkyun Kim (Hanyang University, Korea); Joohyeok Kim (Hanyang University, Korea); Jechang Jeong (Hanyang univ., Korea)
A high speed Bit Plane Coder for JPEG 2000 and it's FPGA implementation: Kishor Sarawadekar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Swapna Banerjee (Prof. Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),, India)
Still Image Coding Using a New Transform: Aldo Maalouf (University of Poitiers, France); Chaker Larabi (SIC, Université de Poitiers, France)
Ghost Detection and Removal in High Dynamic Range Images: Desire Sidibe (Université Jean Monet Saint-Etienne, France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France); Olivier Strauss (Laboratory LIRMM, UMR CNRS 5506, University of Montpellier II, France)
Lifting Factorization based on Block Parallel System of M-channel Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks: Taizo Suzuki (Keio University, Japan); Masaaki Ikehara (Keio University, Japan)
On Distributed Arithmetic Codes and Syndrome Based Turbo Codes for Slepian-Wolf Coding of Non Uniform Sources: Velotiaray Toto-Zarasoa (IRISA, France); Enrico Magli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Aline Roumy (INRIA Rennes, France); Gabriella Olmo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
An LMMSE-Based Merging Approach for Subpixel-based Downsampling: Lu Fang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Oscar Au (HKUST, Hong Kong); Xing Wen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yi Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Weiran Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
A multiscale error diffusion algorithm for green noise digital halftoning: Yik Hing Fung (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Yuk Hee Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
On Efficient Quantization for Image Recompression: Ora Gendler (Technion, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
Multiple Description Scalar Quantization with Successive Refinement: Muhammad Majid (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Charith Abhayaratne (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

CO9: Networks and MIMO Systems

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available duringthe dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.

Room: Foyer 2 Chair: Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)

Interference Mitigation Based Signal Forwarding Strategy for Wireless Relay Networks: Muhammad Irfan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); R. Krishna (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Zhilan Xiong (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Comparison of the Software Defined Radio Implementations of the K-best Sphere Detection: Janne Janhunen (University of Oulu, Finland); Olli Silvén (University of Oulu, Finland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)
Coding Assisted Blind MIMO Equalization and Decoding: Xu (burney) Zhao (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Fixed-Complexity Regularized Vector Precoding for the Multiuser MIMO Downlink Channel: Maitane Barrenechea (Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mikel Mendicute (University of Mondragon, Spain); Javier Del Ser (TECNALIA-Telecom, Spain)
On Decreasing the Complexity of Lattice-Reduction-Aided K-Best MIMO Detectors.: Sandra Roger (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Vicenc Almenar (Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Spain); Antonio Vidal (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Spatial Reuse of the Radio Channel in CDMA-enabled, Ad-hoc, Wireless Sensor Networks: Louise Crockett (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Practical Compress-and-Forward Cooperation for the Classical Relay Network: Jing Jiang (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Peter Grant (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Cooperative multiple access transmission using precoding vectors: Hamid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Jean Pierre Cances (University of Limoges, France)
Evaluation of MIMO Symbol Detectors for 3GPP LTE Terminals: Di Wu (Linkoping University, Sweden); Johan Eilert (Linkoping University, Sweden); Dake Liu (Linköping University, Sweden)
SEP of Cooperative Systems using Amplify and Forward or Decode and Forward relaying: Sami Amara (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia); Hatem Boujemaa (Ecole Supérieure des Communications, Tunisia); Noureddine Hamdi (INSAT, Carthage University, Tunisia)
Robust Adaptive Modulation With Imperfect Channel Information: Huiqin Du (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Pei-Jung Chung (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Interference Alignment Limits for K-user Frequency-Flat MIMO Interference Channels: Francesco Negro (Eurecom, France); Shakti Shenoy (EURECOM, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France); Irfan Ghauri (Infineon Technologies France, France)
Design of Block-Based Linear MMSE Precoding and Equalisation for Broadband MIMO Relay Networks: Andrew Millar (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

TH9: Estimation

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available duringthe dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.

Room: Foyer 2 Chair: Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

An algebraic derivative-based approach for the zero-crossings estimation: Giuseppe Fedele (University of Calabria, Italy); Francesco Chiaravalloti (CNR-IRPI, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Italy); Cédric Join (INRIA-ALIEN & CRAN (CNRS, UMR 7039), Nancy-Université, France)
On the MAP estimation in the context of elliptical distributions: Steeve Zozor (GIPSA-Lab, France); Christophe Vignat (Institut Gaspard Monge, France)
The Wiener filter for locally stationary stochastic processes is rarely locally stationary: Patrik Wahlberg (University of Newcastle, Australia); Peter Schreier (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Entropy and Kullback-Leibler divergence estimation based on Szegö's Theorem: David Ramírez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Pedro Crespo (CEIT and TECNUN (University of Navarra), Spain)
New insights on stochastic complexity: Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Seyed Alireza Razavi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
A new Method for SNR-Estimation in Impulse Response Measurements: Aulis Telle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
An Amplitude and Covariance Matrix Estimator for Signals in Colored Gaussian Noise: Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
A new robust estimation method for short-term load forecasting: Yacine Chakhchoukh (Paris sud XI, France)
A Noise Estimation Method Based on Improved VAD Used in Noise Spectral Suppression under Highly Non-Stationary Noise Environments: Kenji Nakayama (Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
L2-Density Estimation Under Constraints: Christian Musso (ONERA, France); Nadja Oudjane (ONERA, France)

2:50 PM - 4:30 PM

IM11: Image Denoising and Restoration

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Salah Bourennane (Ecole Centrale Marseille, France)

14:50 Staircasing Reduction Model Applied To Total Variation Based Image Reconstruction: Wei Su Hua (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.R. China)
15:10 One Colored Image Based 2.5d Human Face Reconstruction: Wai Lok Woo (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
15:30 Restoration of variable density film soundtracks: Abdelâali Hassaïne (Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, France); Decencière Etienne (Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, France); Bernard Besserer (University of La Rochelle, France)
15:50 Estimation of n-mode ranks of hyperspectral images for tensor denoising: Damien Letexier (Institut Fresnel, France); Salah Bourennane (Ecole Centrale Marseille, France)
16:10 Speckle Noise Reduction in SAR Imaging Using 2-D Lattice Filters Based Subband Decomposition: Gökhan Karasakal (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

SS15: Digital Filter Banks: Theory, Algorithms, and Novel Applications 2

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum & Digital Signal Processing Group, Germany)

14:50 A Novel Approach to the Design of Oversampling Complex-Modulated Digital Filter Banks: Christian Stöcker (University of Bochum, Germany); Thomas Kurbiel (University of Bochum, Germany, Germany); Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany); Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum, Germany)
15:10 General Least-Squares Design of Allpass Transformed DFT Filter-Banks: Heinrich Loellmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Guido Dartmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
15:30 Oversampling Complex-Modulated Digital Filter Bank Pairs Suitable For Extensive Subband-Signal Amplification: Thomas Kurbiel (University of Bochum, Germany, Germany); Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum, Germany); Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany)
15:50 Filter Banks for Hearing Aids applying Subband Amplification: A Comparison of different Specification and Design Approaches: Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany); Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum, Germany); Thomas Kurbiel (University of Bochum, Germany, Germany)

SS16: Efficient Implementation of Complex Algorithms

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

14:50 An Improved Sphere Decoding Scheme for MIMO Systems Using an Adaptive Statistical Threshold: Xiang Wu (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Andrew Wallace (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
15:10 Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo Computation for Varying-dimension Signal Analysis: Jing Ye (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); Andrew Wallace (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
15:30 A SDR Platform for Mobile Wi-Fi/3G UMTS System on a Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture: Zong Wang (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Ahmet Erdogan (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Tughrul Arslan (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
15:50 Towards Hume SIMD Vectorisation: Abdallah Al Zain (Heriott Watt, United Kingdom)
16:10 Evolutionary Requirements for Next-Generation Dataflow-Based FPGA System Design: John McAllister (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)

AE8: Acoustic Signal Processing

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy)

14:50 Design Aspects for an Improved B-Format Microphone: Johann-Markus Batke (Deutsche Thomson OHG, Germany); Hans-Hermann Hake (Deutsche Thomson OHG, Germany)
15:10 A Sequential Monte Carlo Approach for Tracking of Overlapping Acoustic Sources: Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy); Piergiorgio Svaizer (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy)
15:30 Sound Field Creation Based on Simultaneous Equations Method: Kensaku Fujii (University of Hyogo, Japan); Tadashi Ujino (Fujitsu Ten, Japan); Mitsuji Muneyasu (Kansai University, Japan)
15:50 A Method for Head Related Impulse Response Simplification.: Claire Masterson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Stephen Adams (Trintiy College Dublin, Ireland); Gavin Kearney (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Frank Boland (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
16:10 Regularized Adaptive Notch Filters for Acoustic Howling Suppression: Pepe Gil-Cacho (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,, Belgium); Toon van Waterschoot (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

NN3: Sampling

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Antonio Napolitano (Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)

14:50 Aliasing Effects in Sampling Spectrally Correlated Processes: Antonio Napolitano (Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
15:10 Randomized Sinc Interpolation of Nonuniform Samples: Shay Maymon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Alan Oppenheim (Masschusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
15:30 Signal-dependent techniques for non-stationary signal sampling and reconstruction: Modris Greitans (Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Latvia); Rolands Shavelis (Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Latvia)
15:50 On Spectral Estimation and Fourier Transform Approximation from Sampled Data: Hagai Kirshner (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)

TH10: Adaptive Filtering and Optimisation 2

Room: Green Room Chair: Woon Seng Gan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

14:50 Analysis of a Set-Membership Affine Projection Algorithm in Nonstationary Environment: Paulo Diniz (UniversidadeFederal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
15:10 Sparse Model Fitting in Nested Families: Bayesian Approach vs Penalized Likelihood: Laure Amate (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); Joao Rendas (Centre Nacional Recherche Scientifique, France)
15:30 Alternative Approach for Computing the Activation Factor of the PNLMS Algorithm: Francisco de Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Orlando Tobias (University of Blumenau, Brazil); Rui Seara (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Dennis Morgan (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
15:50 Fast aggregation of Student mixture models: Antoine Pigeau (University of Nantes, France); Marc Gelgon (Nantes university, France); Ali El Attar (University of Nantes, France, France)
16:10 Blind Adaptive Equalizer for Broadband MIMO STBC Based on PDF Matching: Samir Bendoukha (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Adel Daas (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)