EUSIPCO 2009. 17th European Signal Processing Conference. August 25 - 28th, 2009. Glasgow, Scotland.

Thursday, Aug 27

♦ 8:00 AM –   Registration opens

♦ 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM     Presentations

SS8:     Digital Filter Banks: Theory, Algorithms, and Novel Applications 1
SS9:     Optimisation and Inverse Problems
IM5:     Image Registration
AE4:     Audio Coding
TH6:     Frequency Estimation
DI2:     Implementation of Signal Processing Systems 2

♦ 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM     Coffee Break

♦ 10:30 AM – 12:10 AM     Presentations

SS10:     Heavy Computation for Cellular Wireless System Design
AE5:     Speech Enhancement 2
VM4:     Content-Based Multimedia Processing
NN1:     Signal Separation
AM4:     Array and Multichannel Signal Processing 2

♦ 12:10 PM –   1:00 PM     Plenary #5 Dr Ken Stewart

♦ 1:00 PM –   2:20 PM     Lunch Break

♦ 2:20 PM –   3:00 PM     Plenary #6 Prof Josef Kittler

♦ 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM     Posters

CO6:     Signal Processing for Communications
TH7:     Adaptive Filtering and Optimisation 1
SP3:     Speech Recognition 3
IM6:     Image Segmentation and Understanding
AP4:     Signal Processing Applications 1
VM5:     Video Coding and Encryption

♦ 3:30 PM –   3:50 PM     Coffee Break

♦ 3:50 PM –   5:30 PM     Presentations

SS11:     Signal Processing Techniques in Radio Localization and Positioning
AE6:     Speech Enhancement 3
CO7:     Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sharing
IM7:     Biomedical Image Processing
SS12:     Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorisations: Statistical Methods and Applications


♦ 7:30 PM –   11:30 PM Conference Banquet in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum






Thursday, Aug 27

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

SS8: Digital Filter Banks: Theory, Algorithms, and Novel Applications 1

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum & Digital Signal Processing Group, Germany)
8:30 Similarities and Differences among Filtered Multitone Modulation Realizations and Orthogonal Filter Bank Design
Nicola Moret (Università di Udine, Italy); Andrea Tonello (University of Udine, Italy)
8:50 Filter Bank Based Multi-Mode Multiple Access Scheme for Wireless Uplink
Tero Ihalainen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Ari Viholainen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tobias Hidalgo Stitz (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Markku Renfors (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Maurice Bellanger (CNAM, France)
9:10 Prototype filter design for filter bank based multicarrier transmission
Ari Viholainen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tero Ihalainen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tobias Hidalgo Stitz (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Markku Renfors (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Maurice Bellanger (CNAM, France)
9:30 A centered DFT-based discrete fractional Fourier transform and its application to chirp signal parameter estimation
Ahmet Serbes (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey); Lutfiye Durak (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
9:50 Improved Correlation of Generalized Discrete Fourier Transform with Nonlinear Phase for OFDM and CDMA Communications
Ali Akansu (NJIT, USA); Handan Agirman-Tosun (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)



SS9: Optimisation and Inverse Problems

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Jérôme Idier (IRCCyN, France) , Caroline Chaux (Univ Paris-Est, France)
8:30 A proximal method for inverse problems in image processing.
Pierre Weiss (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong); Laure Blanc-Feraud (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)
8:50 A Majorize-Minimize line search algorithm for barrier function optimization
Emilie Chouzenoux (IRCCyN, France); Saïd Moussaoui (IRCCyN, France); Jérôme Idier (IRCCyN, France)
9:10 Gradient Projection Approaches for Optimization Problems in Image Deblurring and Denoising
Silvia Bonettini (University of Ferrara, Italy); Federico Benvenuto (Università di Genova, Italy); Riccardo Zanella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Luca Zanni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Mario Bertero (Università di Genova, Italy)
9:30 Multifrequency absolute phase estimation via graph cuts
José Bioucas Dias (I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon / I.T. Lisbon, Portugal); Gonçalo Valadão (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
9:50 Hybrid regularization for data restoration in the presence of Poisson noise
Nelly Pustelnik (Univ Paris-Est, France); Caroline Chaux (Univ Paris-Est, France); Jean-Christophe Pesquet (University Paris-Est, France)



IM5: Image Registration

Room: Strathclyde Suite
8:30 A general framework for diffusion tensor warping
Emma Muñoz Moreno (University of Valladolid, Spain); Ruben Cardenes (University of Valladolid, Spain); Marcos Martin-Fernandez (University of Valladolid, Spain)
8:50 Optimal image alignment with random measurements
Effrosyni Kokiopoulou (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Switzerland); Daniel Kressner (Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH, Switzerland); Pascal Frossard (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland)
9:10 Copula based Divergence Measures and their use in Image Registration
Tariq Durrani (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Xuexing Zeng (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
9:30 Image Matching between Visually Protected Images with One-time Key Based Phase Scrambling
Izumi Ito (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan); Hitoshi Kiya (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
9:50 Comparison of different metods for atlas construction
Hrvoje Kalinić (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Sven Lončarić (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Maja Čikeš (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Davor Miličić (University of Zagreb, Croatia); Bart Bijnens (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Spain)



AE4: Audio Coding

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Jean-Marc Valin (Octasic Semiconductor & Xiph.Org Foundation, Canada)
8:30 Pattern Extraction In Sparse Representations With Application to Audio Coding
Ramin Pichevar (Communications Research Centre, Canada); Hossein Najaf-Zadeh (Communications Research Centre, Canada)
8:50 A Full-Bandwidth Audio Codec with Low Complexity and Very Low Delay
Jean-Marc Valin (Octasic Semiconductor, Canada); Timothy Terriberry (Xiph.Org Foundation, USA); Gregory Maxwell (Xiph.Org Foundation, USA)
9:10 Joint Pre-Echo Control and Frame Erasure Concealment for VoIP Audio Codecs
Bernd Geiser (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
9:30 MDCT-based Coder for Highly Adaptive Speech and Audio Coding
Guillaume Fuchs (Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits, Germany); Markus Multrus (Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits, Germany); Max Neuendorf (Fraunhofer Institute of Integrated Circuits, Germany); Ralf Geiger (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany)
9:50 Reducing the search complexity for low bit rate vector quantization based on shells of Golay codes
Adriana Vasilache (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Septimia Sarbu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Ioan Tabus (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)



TH6: Frequency Estimation

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Malcolm MacLeod (QinetiQ, United Kingdom)
8:30 Computationally Efficient Online Phase-based Frequency Estimation of a Single Tone
Naveed Butt (Lund University, Sweden); Andreas Jakobsson (Lund University, Sweden); Magnus Mossberg (Karlstads Universitet, Sweden)
8:50 Accurate Normalized Frequency Estimation by the Three-Point Interpolated DFT Method with Rectangular Window
Daniel Belega (University of Timisoara, Romania); Dominique Dallet (IMS Laboratory - University Bordeaux, France)
9:10 Joint Fundamental Frequency and Order Estimation using Optimal Filtering
Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Andreas Jakobsson (Lund University, Sweden); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
9:30 Prefiltered Pisarenko Frequency Estimator for Multiple Real-Valued Sinusoids
Asmi Rim (SUPCOM- Tunis, Tunisia); Roberto López Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain); Hichem Besbes (Ecole Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com TUNISIA, Tunisia); Sofiane Cherif (Sup'Com, Tunisia)
9:50 Singing voice detection in monophonic and polyphonic contexts
Helene Lachambre (Universite de Toulouse, France); Régine Andre-Obrecht (Université Paul Sabatier, France); Julien Pinquier (Universite Paul Sabatier - IRIT, France)



DI2: Implementation of Signal Processing Systems 2

Room: Green Room
8:30 Constrainst on the SIMD Vectorization of Radix-2 and Mixed-Radix FFTs
Peter Westermann (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany); Hartmut Schröder (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
8:50 Coarse Angle Rotation Mode CORDIC Based Single Processing Element QR-RLS Processor
Qiang Gao (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Louise Crockett (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
9:10 Experiments on designing low power decimation filter for multistandard receiver on heterogeneous targets
Nadia Khouja (CIRTA'COM Laboratory Sup'Com Tunis, Tunisia); Bertrand Le Gal (University of Bordeaux, France); Khaled Grati (Ecole Superieur de Comm. Sup'Com Tunis, Tunisia); Adel Ghazel (SUPCOM, Tunisia)
9:30 Automated Multimode System Design For High Performance DSP Applications
Bertrand Le Gal (University of Bordeaux, France); Emmanuel Casseau (IRISA Laboratory, France)
9:50 A Programmable Accelerator for Next Generation Wireless Communications
Karim Mohammed (UCLA, USA); Babak Daneshrad (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)



10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

SS10: Heavy Computation for Cellular Wireless System Design

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
10:30 Simulating the Long Term Evolution Physical Layer
Christian Mehlführer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Martin Wrulich (TU Wien, Austria); Josep Colom Ikuno (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Dagmar Bosanska (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
10:50 Efficient Fixed-Point Implementation of Linear Equalization for Cooperative MIMO Systems
Matthias Mehlhose (Technical University Berlin, Germany); Stefan Schiffermüller (Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut), Germany)
11:10 A Distributed Simulation Engine For Cooperative Multi-User MIMO Enhanced Wireless Communications
Qipeng Cai (University of Hannover, Germany); Zhao Zhao (University of Hannover, Germany); Hanwen Cao (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany); Andreas Wilzeck (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Thomas Kaiser (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany)
11:30 A Unified Feedback Scheme for Distributed Interference Management in Cellular Systems: Benefits and Challenges for Real-Time Implementation
Lars Thiele (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Thomas Wirth (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institut, Germany); Thomas Haustein (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany); Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) Berlin, Germany); Egon Schulz (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany); Wolfgang Zirwas (Nokia siemens Networks GmbH&CoKG, Germany)
11:50 Determining Backhaul Bandwidth Requirements of Network MIMO
Howard Huang (Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Dragan Samardzija (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)



AE5: Speech Enhancement 2

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Nikolay Gaubitch (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
10:30 Speech denoising based on a greedy adaptive dictionary algorithm
Maria Jafari (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Plumbley (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
10:50 Acoustic system equalization using channel shortening techniques for speech dereverberation
Wancheng Zhang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Andy Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
11:10 Fast Algorithm for Conditional Separation and Dereverberation
Takuya Yoshioka (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT Corporation, Japan); Masato Miyoshi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
11:30 Marginalization of static observation parameters in a Rao-Blackwellized particle filter with application to blind speech dereverberation
Christine Evers (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); James Hopgood (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
11:50 Enhanced Wiener Post-Processing Based on Partial Projection Back of the Blind Signal Separation Noise Estimate
Jani Even (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)



VM4: Content-Based Multimedia Processing

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: André Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
10:30 Parsimonious variational-Bayes mixture aggregation with a Poisson prior
Pierrick Bruneau (Nantes University, France); Marc Gelgon (Nantes university, France); Fabien Picarougne (Nantes University, France)
10:50 A Construction of Compact MFCC-type Features Using Short-Time Statistics for Applications in Audio Segmentation
Dirk von Zeddelmann (FGAN, Germany); Frank Kurth (FGAN, Germany)
11:10 A tempo-insensitive representation of rhythmic patterns
Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
11:30 Scale and Shape adaptive Mean Shift Object Tracking in Video Sequences
Katharina Quast (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); André Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
11:50 Real-time understanding of 3D video on an embedded system
Olivier Steiger (ABB Switzerland Inc., Switzerland); Stephan Weiss (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Judith Felder (Deloitte Consulting GmbH, Switzerland)



NN1: Signal Separation

Room: Strathclyde Bar
10:30 A Comparison of Independent Component and Independent Subspace Analysis Algorithms
Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic); Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic)
10:50 An approach to under-determined speech separation based on a non-linear mixture of beamformers
Mohammad Dmour (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
11:10 A new EM algorithm for underdetermined convoltive blind source separation
Zaher El Chami (Orange Labs, France); Dinh-Tuan Pham (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France); Christine Servière (GIPSA-lab INPG-CNRS, France); Alexandre Guerin (Orange Labs, France)
11:30 Closed-form optimized composite-order estimator for blind separation of instantaneous linear mixtures
Shafayat Abrar (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Asoke Nandi (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
11:50 Simplified Formulation of a Depermutation Criterion in Convolutive Blind Source Separation
Radoslaw Mazur (University of Luebeck, Germany); Alfred Mertins (Institute for Signal and Image Processing, University of Luebeck, Germany)



AM4: Array and Multichannel Signal Processing 2

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)
10:30 Investigation of Parameter Effects and Truncated Multistatic Data Matrix in Decomposition of Time Reversal Operator Method
Dinh Quy Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xuexin Yap (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Woon Seng Gan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Yong Kim Chong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
10:50 Sequential Estimation of the Range and the Bearing using the zero-forcing MUSIC approach
Mohammed El korso (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes (L2S), France); Guillaume Bouleux (Saint Etienne University, France); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR8506, France)
11:10 Robust Impulsive Sound Source Localization by means of an Energy Detector for Temporal Alignment and Pre-classification
Timo Machmer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Jorge Moragues (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Alexej Swerdlow (University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Luis Vergara (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Jorge Gosálbez-Castillo (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Kristian Kroschel (Fraunhofer Institut fuer Informations- und Datenverarbeitung, Germany)
11:30 Blind source separation based on acoustic pressure distribution and normalized relative phase using dodecahedral microphone array
Motoki Ogasawara (Nagoya University, Japan); Takanori Nishino (Nagoya University, Japan); Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University, Japan)
11:50 A Real-Time Talker Localization Implementation Using Multi-PHAT and Particle Filter
Antti Löytynoja (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Pasi Pertilä (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)



3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

CO6: Signal Processing for Communications

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Andrea Tonello (University of Udine, Italy)
The Maximum Squared Correlation, Total Asymptotic Efficiency, and Sum Capacity of Minimum Total-Squared-Correlation Quaternary Signature Sets
Ming Li (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Stella N. Batalama (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Dimitris Pados (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); John Matyjas (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
A New Criterion for Determining the Efficiency of CDMA Codes
Amir Minayi Jalil (University of Limoges, France); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France)
M-ary Mutually Orthogonal Complementary Gold Codes
João Pereira (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal); Henrique Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Soft LDPC decoding in nonlinear channels with Gaussian processes for classification
Pablo Martínez-Olmos (Universisty of Seville, Spain); Juan José Murillo-Fuentes (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain); Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton University, USA)
On Predictive Coding for Erasure Channels Using a Kalman Framework
Thomas Arildsen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Manohar Murthi (University of Miami, USA); Søren Andersen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Distributed Space-Time MSK Trellis Codes For Amplify & Forward Relaying
Ali Demiroğlu (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Ibrahim Altunbas (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Turkey); Mehmet Celebi (ITU, Turkey)
Genetic Algorithm based Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Wireless OFDM Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic
Nan Zhou (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Yi Huang (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
A Comparison of some Bottleneck-Link Detection Methods for Network Tomography
Nick Johnson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Steve McLaughlin (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Francisco Garcia (Agilent, United Kingdom)
Tomlinson Harashima Precoding for SC-FDMA
Mohamed Noune (Bristol University, United Kingdom); Andrew Nix (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
New Approach to Bit Loading and Power Minimization Using Mercury/Waterfilling
Milos Jakovljevic (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Santiago Zazo (Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain); Jose Pena (Telefonica I+D, Spain)
Time-Frequency Parameterization of Doubly Dispersive Channels
Ziyang Ju (University of Kassel, Germany); Thomas Hunziker (University of Kassel, Germany); Dirk Dahlhaus (University of Kassel, Germany)
Impulsive noise modelling and prediction of its impact on the performance of WLAN receiver
Shahzad Bhatti (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Qingshan Shan (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)
OFDM Channel Estimation based on Adaptive Thresholding for Sparse Signal Detection
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Arash Amini (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Farokh Marvasti (Sharif university of technology, Iran)
Spectrum Sensing in Multichannel Communication Systems Using Randomized Sampling Schemes
Bashar Ahmad (University of Westminster, United Kingdom); Andrzej Tarczynski (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)



TH7: Adaptive Filtering and Optimisation 1

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Tilo Strutz (Hochschule fuer Telekommunikation, Germany)
Robust identification and prediction using Wilcoxon norm and Particle Swarm Optimization
Babita Majhi (ECE, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Ganapati Panda (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Dual H∞ Vs Dual Kalman Filters For M-AR Parameter Estimation From Noisy Observations
Ali Jamoos (Al-Quds University, Palestine); Eric Grivel (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Nidal Shakarneh (Al-Quds University, Palestine); Hanna Abdel Nour (Al-Quds University, Palestine)
Sequential Maximum Gradient Optimization for Support Vector Detection
Mireille Tohme (FORENAP, France); Regis Lengelle (University of Technology of Troyes, France)
Adaptive Cluster-Based Outlier Detection
Tilo Strutz (Hochschule fuer Telekommunikation, Germany)
A Stochastic Model for the Deficient Length Pseudo Affine Projection Adaptive Algorithm
Sergio Almeida (Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil); Marcio Costa (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Jose Carlos Moreira Bermudez (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Steady state nalysis of an output signal based combination of two NLMS adaptive filters
Tõnu Trump (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Fully Adaptive LMS/NLMS Interpolated Volterra Filters with Removed Boundary Effect
Eduardo Batista (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Orlando Tobias (University of Blumenau, Brazil); Rui Seara (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Stochastic Analysis of the Transform Domain LMS Algorithm for a Non-Stationary Environment
Javier Kolodziej (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Orlando Tobias (University of Blumenau, Brazil); Rui Seara (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Block-based Multichannel Transform-Domain Adaptive Filtering
Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Herbert Buchner (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Karim Helwani (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)
Modified Filtered-Reference/Filtered-Error LMS Algorithm: Algorithm and Stochastic Model
Juan López (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Orlando Tobias (University of Blumenau, Brazil); Rui Seara (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Multi-Input Multi-Output Fast QR Decomposition Algorithm for Active Noise Control
Mobien Shoaib (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Stefan Werner (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); José Apolinário Jr. (IME, Brazil); Saleh Alshebeili (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)



SP3: Speech Recognition 3

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Armin Sehr (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Exploiting phonetic and phonological similarities as a first step for robust speech recognition
Julie Mauclair (University College Dublin, Ireland); Daniel Aioanei (University College Dublin, Ireland); Julie Berndsen (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Using sparse representations for exemplar based continuous digit recognition
Jort Gemmeke (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands); Louis ten Bosch (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands); Lou Boves (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands); Bert Cranen (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
A Hierarchical Broad-Class Classification to Enhance Phoneme Recognition
Carla Lopes (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Fernando Perdigão (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
Custom-Designed SVM Kernels For Improved Robustness Of Phoneme Classification
Jibran Yousafzai (King's College London, United Kingdom); Zoran Cvetkovic (King's College London, United Kingdom); Peter Sollich (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Improvment of Language Identification Performance by Aggregated Phone Recognizer
Seyyed Abbas Hosseini Amereii (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); M. Mehdi Homayounpour (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Combining confusion networks with probabilisitc phone matching for open-vocabulary keyword spotting in spontaneous speech signal
Shan Jin (Technical University of Berlin, Germany); Thomas Sikora (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Adaptation of a speech recognizer for singing voice
Annamaria Mesaros (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)



IM6: Image Segmentation and Understanding

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 2
A new Bayesian approach to textured image segmentation: Turbo segmentation
Frederic Lehmann (Telecom SudParis, France)
Learning Dirichlet Kernel Histogram Functions for Pattern Recognition
Koichi Niijima (Kyushu University, Japan)
Microscopic Texture Components Classification for Image Segmentation
Eva Hostalkova (Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Czech Republic); Ales Prochazka (Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Czech Republic); Martina Mudrova (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic); Alena Michalcova (Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Czech Republic)
A Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model of Linear Prediction Error for Colour Texture Segmentation
Imtnan-Ul-Haque Qazi (University of Poitiers, France); Fatima Ghazi (Université Ibn Tofail, Morocco); Olivier Alata (Université de Poitiers, France); Jean-christophe Burie (University of La Rochelle, France); Christine Fernandez-Maloigne (University of Poitiers, France)
Edge Detection and Skeletonization Using Quantized Localized Phase
Nikolay Skarbnik (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Chen Sagiv (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yehoshua Zeevi (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, Israel)
Unsupervised Multiscale Change Detection in Multitemporal Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Turgay Celik (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
A Bag-of-features Approach based on Hue-SIFT Descriptor for Nude Detection
Ana Lopes (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Sandra Avila (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Anderson Peixoto (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Rodrigo Oliveira (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil); Arnaldo Araujo (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Multivariate Statistical Classification Of 3D Bone Microarchitecture using Morphological and Mechanical Features
Rachid Jennane (University of Orleans, France); Gabriel Aufort (Université d'Orléans, France); Hugo Lheritier (MAPMO, France); Claude-Laurent Benhamou (Equipe INSERM U658 Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans, France)
Automatic Labelling of Coronary Arteries
Akin Akinyemi (Institute for System Level Integration, United Kingdom); Colin Roberts (Open University, United Kingdom)
Tumor Segmentation by Active Conyours in 3D CT Wavelet Enhanced Image Data
Ioana Plajer (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania); Detlef Richter (University of Applied Sciences of Wiesbaden, Germany)



AP4: Signal Processing Applications 1

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 2 Chair: David Crawford (Epson Scotland Design Centre, United Kingdom)
Blind Deconvolution of Music Signals Using Higher Order Statistics
Izzet Ozcelik (University of Kent, United Kingdom)
A Comparative Study of the Impulsive Noise Reduction Algorithms in Ultrasonic B-scans
Ramón Miralles-Ricós (Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Spain); Raquel Molina-Minguez (iTEAM, Spain)
A fuzzy proposal for reliability estimation in DT-MRI fiber tracking algorithms
Luis San Jose Revuelta (University of Valladolid, Spain)
Stochastic Transfer Function in Bayesian Inference For Combustion Indicator Estimation
Emmanuel Nguyen (IFP, France); Jerome Antoni (University of Technology of Compiegne, France)
Data Processing and Pattern Recognition in High-throughput Capillary Electrophoresis
Gerardo Ceballos (University of Los Andes, Venezuela); Jose Paredes (University of Los Andes, USA); Luis Hernandez (University of Los Andes, Venezuela)
Application of The Signal Processing Technology In The Detection of Red Palm Weevil
Walid Hussein (University of Hohenheim, Germany); Mohamed Hussein (University of Hohenheim, Germany); Thomas Becker (University of Hohenheim, Germany)
Rolling Element Bearing Fault Diagnosis in Rotating Machines of Oil Extraction Rigs
Eduardo Mendel (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil); Thomas Rauber (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil); Flávio Varejão (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil); Rodrigo Batista (Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. PETROBRAS, Brazil)
Influence of luminance on colour bleeding artefacts in colour image compression
Amal Punchihewa (Massey University, New Zealand); Ann De Silva (Massey University, New Zealand)
An automatic speaker recognition system for intelligence applications
Enrico Marchetto (University of Padova, Italy); Federico Avanzini (University of Padova, Italy); Federico Flego (RT - Radio Trevisan Elettronica Ind.le S.p.A., Italy)
Emotions Recognition by Speech and Facial Expressions Analysis
Simina Emerich (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania); Eugen Lupu (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania); Anca Apatean (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
A Noise Cancellation Method in Sound and Electromagnetic Environment of Power State Variables
Akira Ikuta (Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Japan)



VM5: Video Coding and Encryption

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 2 Chair: Béatrice Pesquet (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France)
A Genetic Frame Fusion Algorithm for Side Information Enhancement in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding
Charles Yaacoub (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Joumana Farah (Holy-Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
A Solution to the Watermark Detection Problem Based on Bayesian Estimation and EM Algorithm
Akio Miyazaki (Kyushu Sangyou University, Japan)
Considering the Reconstruction Loop for Watermarking of Intra and Inter Frames of H.264/AVC
Zafar Shahid (LIRMM, France); Peter Meuel (LIRMM, France); Marc Chaumont (LIRMM (Laboratoire Informatique, Robotique, Microélectronique, Montpellier), France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France)
Combined Fragile Watermark and Digital Signature for H.264/AVC VIDEO Authentification
Karima Ait saadi (Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, Algeria); Ahmed Bouridane (Queen's University, United Kingdom); Abdelrazek Guessoum (3Université Saad Dahlab,, Algeria)
Fast Inter Mode Decision Algorithm Based On Macroblock and Motion Feature Analysis For H.264/AVC Video Coding
Yiqing Huang (Waseda University, Japan); Qin Liu (Waseda University, Japan); Takeshi Ikenaga (Waseda University, Japan)
Rate-Distortion Optimized Multi-Stage Rate Control Algorithm for H.264/AVC Video Coding
Shuijiong Wu (Waseda University, Japan); Yiqing Huang (Waseda University, Japan); Qin Liu (Waseda University, Japan); Takeshi Ikenaga (Waseda University, Japan)
A Novel Frame Skipping Method in Transcoder, with Motion Information, Buffer Fullness and Scene Change Consideration
Sourya Bhattacharyya (ST Microelectronics, India); Emiliano Piccinelli (STMicroelectronics, Italy)
Scene Change Adaptation for Scalable Video Coding
Tea Anselmo (STMicroelectronics, Italy); Daniele Alfonso (STMicroelectronics, Italy)
A Distributed Video Coding Approach for Multiple Description Video Transmission over Lossy Channels
Simone Milani (University of Padova, Italy); Giancarlo Calvagno (University of Padova, Italy)
A Generalized continued Fraction-Based Asynchronous stream cipher for image protection
Atef Masmoudi (IPEIS, Tunisia); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France); Mohamed Salim Bouhlel (U.R:Sciences and Tchnologie of Image and Telecommunication(SETIT), Tunisia)
A Lossless Re-encoding Scheme for MPEG-1 Video
Ichiro Matsuda (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Kei Wakabayashi (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Yu Ikeda (Science University of Tokyo, Japan); Susumu Itoh (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)



3:50 PM - 5:30 PM

SS11: Signal Processing Techniques in Radio Localization and Positioning

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy) , Erik Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
15:50 Indoor Sensor Node Positioning Using UWB Range Measurements
Mohammad Reza Gholami (Chalmers University, Sweden); Erik Ström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Rydström (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
16:30 Direct state determination of multiple sources with intermittent emission
Marc Oispuu (FGAN-FKIE Dept. SDF, Germany)
16:50 On the Performance of Mobile Terminal Tracking in Urban GSM Networks using Particle Filters
Carsten Fritsche (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
17:10 Direct Position Estimation Approach Outperforms Conventional Two-Step Positioning
Pau Closas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Carles Fernández Prades (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Juan Fernandez-Rubio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)



AE6: Speech Enhancement 3

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Andy Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
15:50 A Statistical Framework for Artificial Bandwidth Extension Exploiting Speech Waveform and Phonetic Transcription
Patrick Bauer (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany); Tim Fingscheidt (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
16:10 Near End Listening Enhancement Optimized with Respect to Speech Intelligibility Index
Bastian Sauert (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
16:30 A Simple Correlation-Based Model of Intelligibility for Nonlinear Speech Enhancement and Separation
Jesper Boldt (Oticon A/S, Denmark); Daniel Ellis (Columbia University, USA)
16:50 Analyzing rate-constrained beamforming schemes in wireless binaural hearing aids
Sriram Srinivasan (Philips Research, The Netherlands); Albertus den Brinker (Philips Research, The Netherlands)
17:10 Objective evaluation of feedback reduction techniques in hearing aids
Ann Spriet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Jan Wouters (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)



CO7: Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sharing

Room: Strathclyde Suite
15:50 New Adaptive Bit and Power Loading Polices for Generalized Multicarrier Transmission
Adrian Kliks (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Hanna Bogucka (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
16:10 DVB-T Candidate Power Detector for Cognitive Radio
Miguel Angel Rojas (CTTC, Spain); Ana Perez-Neira (UPC, Spain); Miguel Angel Lagunas (Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia, Spain)
16:30 Spectral monitoring and parameter estimation for ZP-OFDM signals
Vincent Le Nir (K. U. Leuven, Belgium); Toon van Waterschoot (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Jonathan Duplicy (Agilent, Belgium)
16:50 In-Newtork Cooperative Spectrum Sensing
Mehmet Yildiz (Cornell University, USA); Tuncer Aysal (Cornell University, USA); Kenneth Barner (Univesity of Delaware, USA)
17:10 Optimal Spectrum Balancing in Multi-User SIMO xDSL Networks
Jan Vangorp (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)



IM7: Biomedical Image Processing

Room: Strathclyde Bar
15:50 A technique for blood detection in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy images
Barbara Penna (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Tammam Tillo (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, P.R. China); Marco Grangetto (Universita' di Torino, Italy); Enrico Magli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Gabriella Olmo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
16:10 A fully automated scheme for breast density estimation and asymmetry detection of mammograms
Stylianos Tzikopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Xaris Georgiou (University of Athens, Greece); Michael Mavroforakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece); Sergios Theodoridis (University of Athens, Greece)
16:30 Per-pixel Background Estimation in video microscopy using frame grouping and wavelet based image fusion
Chi Cui (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
16:50 Delaunay triangulation based image enhancement for echocardiography images
Vijayalakshmi Ahanathapillai (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); John Soraghan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Piotr Sonecki (Western Infirmary Glasgow, NHS, United Kingdom)
17:10 Chan-Vese based method to segment mouse brain MRI images: application to cerebral malformation analysis in trisomy 21
Ahmad Almhdie (University d'Orléans, France); Patricia Lopes-Pereira (CNRS, Orléans, France); Sandra Même (CNRS, Orléans, France); Caroline Colombier (CNRS, Orléans, France); Véronique Brault (CNRS, Orléans, France); Frédéric Szeremeta (CNRS, Orléans, France); Bich-Thuy Doan (CNRS, Orléans, France); Roger Lédée (University of Orléans, France); Rachid Harba (University of Orleans, France); Yann Hérault (CNRS, Orléans, France); Jean-Claude Belœil (CNRS, Orléans, France); Christophe Léger (University of Orleans, France)



SS12: Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorisations: Statistical Methods and Applications

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Cédric Févotte (CNRS LTCI; TELECOM ParisTech, France) , Ali Taylan Cemgil (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
15:50 Nonnegative matrix factorisations as probabilistic inference in composite models
Cédric Févotte (CNRS LTCI; TELECOM ParisTech, France); Ali Taylan Cemgil (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
16:10 Probabilistic non-negative tensor factorization using Markov chain Monte Carlo
Mikkel Schmidt (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Shakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
16:30 Tuning Pruning in Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Morten Mørup (Tech Univ Denmark, Denmark); Lars Kai Hansen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
16:50 Continuous non-negative matrix factorization for time-dependent data
Lars Omlor (University of Tübingen, Germany); Jean-Jacques Slotine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
17:10 Spectral Covariance in Prior Distributions of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Based Speech Separation
Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
17:30 Complexity reduction by convex cone detection for unmixing hyperspectral images of bacterial biosensors
Charles Soussen (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France); Sebastian Miron (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France); Fabrice Caland (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France); David Brie (Université Henri Poincaré, France); Patrick Billard (LIMOS, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I, France); Christian Mustin (LIMOS, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I, France)



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