EUSIPCO 2009 - Tuesday 25th August

11:20 A single-carrier quasi-orthogonal transmission scheme for asynchronous cooperative relay networks: Matthew Hayes (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Malcolm MacLeod (QinetiQ, United Kingdom)
11:40 The Energy Efficiency Of The Ergodic Fading Relay Channel: Jesús Gómez Vilardebó (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Ana Perez-Neira (UPC, Spain)
12:00 A New Cooperative Techique for Wireless Communications with Improved Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff: Christos Tsinos (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)
12:20 Diversity Order for the Amplify-and-Forward Multiple-Relay Channel with Randomized Distributed Space-Time Coding: David Gregoratti (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Xavier Mestre (CTTC, Spain)
12:40 Rate-optimized power allocation for OFDM transmission with multiple DF/regenerative relays and individual power constraints: Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium); Jerome Louveaux (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Abdellatif Zaidi (Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, UCL, Belgium); Onur Oguz (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

AE1: Audio and Music Signal Processing 1

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)

11:20 Music genre classification via sparse representations of auditory temporal modulations: Ioannis Panagakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Constantine Kotropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Gonzalo Arce (University of Delaware, USA)
11:40 Efficient, High-Quality Time-Scaling of Audio Signals: Markus Schlosser (Thomson, Germany)
12:00 Polyphonic transcription based on temporal evolution of spectral similarity of Gaussian mixture models: Francisco Canadas-Quesada (University of Jaen, Spain); Pedro Vera Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Nicolas Ruiz Reyes (University of Jaen, Spain); Julio Carabias-Orti (University of Jaen, Spain)
12:20 Main Instrument Separation from Stereophonic Audio Signals using a Source/Filter Model: Jean-Louis Durrieu (Institut Télécom; Télécom ParisTech; CNRS LTCI, France); Alexey Ozerov (TELECOM-Paristech / CNRS - LTCI, France); Cédric Févotte (CNRS LTCI; TELECOM ParisTech, France); Gaël Richard (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Bertrand David (ENST Paris, France)
12:40 Comparison of different strategies for a SVM-based audio segmentation: Mathieu Ramona (RTL, France); Gaël Richard (TELECOM ParisTech, France)

IM1: Theoretical Aspects of Image Processing

Room: Strathclyde Suite

11:20 Grouplet-Based Color Image Super-Resolution: Aldo Maalouf (University of Poitiers, France); Chaker Larabi (SIC, Université de Poitiers, France)
11:40 Inter-k-space motion based strategy for super-resolution in MRI: Krzysztof Malczewski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
12:00 Rank transformation and Manifold Learning for Multivariate Mathematical Morphology: Olivier Lezoray (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France); Christophe Charrier (Universite de Caen Basse-Normandie, France); Abderrahim Elmoataz (University of Caen, France)
12:20 Optimal SURE Parameters for Sigmoidal Wavelet Shrinkage: Abdourrahmane Atto (TELECOM Bretagne, France); Dominique Pastor (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, France); Grégoire Mercier (TELECOM Bretagne, France)
12:40 The dynamics of image processing viewed as damped elastic deformation: Vadim Ratner (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yehoshua Zeevi (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department, Israel)

TH1: Compressive Sampling

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Vladimir Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) , Lina Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

11:20 Sparse signal recovery with side information: Vladimir Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Lina Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Samuel Cheng (University of Oklahoma, USA)
11:40 Semi-Parametric Compression of Piecewise Smooth Functions: Varit Chaisinthop (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Pier-Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College, United Kingdom)
12:00 Non-convex priors in Bayesian Compressed Sensing: Sevket Derin Babacan (Northwestern University, USA); Luis Mancera (University of Granada, Spain); Rafael Molina (Universidad de Granada, Spain); Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern University, USA)
12:20 Derivative compressive sampling with application to phase unwrapping: Oleg Michailovich (University of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1, Canada); Mahdi Hosseini (University of Waterloo, Canada)
12:40 Compressive Matched Subspace Detection: Jose Paredes (University of Los Andes, USA); Zhongmin Wang (University of Delaware, USA); Gonzalo Arce (University of Delaware, USA); Brian Sadler (Army Research Laboratory, USA)

TH2: Localisation and Tracking

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Pei-Jung Chung (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

11:20 Sensor Localization using Generalized Belief Propagation in Network with Loops: Vladimir Savic (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Santiago Zazo (Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain)
11:40 ML_Based Sensor Network Localization And Tracking: Batch and Time-Recursive Approaches: Pinar Oguz Ekim (ISR-Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); Joao Gomes (ISR - Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal); João Xavier (I.S.T. - Technical U. Lisbon / I.S.R. Lisbon, Portugal); Paulo Oliveira (IST, Portugal)
12:00 Tight GNSS/INS Integration as a Constrained Least-Squares problem: David Bernal (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain); Pau Closas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Eduard Calvo (UPC, Spain); Juan Fernandez-Rubio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
12:20 Posterior Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Mobile Tracking in Mixed LOS/NLOS Conditions: Chen Liang (Southeast University, P.R. China); WU Lenan (Southeast University, P.R. China); Robert Piche (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
12:40 Exploiting Geometric Translations in TLS Based Robot Localization From Landmark Bearings: Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia)

AP1: Biometrics

Room: Green Room Chair: Andrzej Drygajlo (EPFL, Switzerland)

11:20 Extracting biometric binary strings with minimal area under the FRR curve for the Hamming distance classifier: Chun Chen (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Raymond Veldhuis (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
11:40 Multi Library Wavelet Neural Networks for 3D face recognition using 3D facial shape representation: Wael Ben Soltana (REsearch Group on Intelligent Machines (REGIM), Tunisia); Bellil Wajdi (University of Sfax Tunisia, Tunisia); Chokri Ben amar (University of Sfax, National Engineering School of Sfax Tunisia, Tunisia); Adel Alimi (University of Sfax, National Engineering School of Sfax Tunisia, Tunisia)
12:00 Local feature extraction methods for facial expression recognition: Seyed Mehdi Lajevardi (RMIT University, Australia); Zahir Hussain (RMIT University, Australia)
12:20 Q-stack Aging Model for Face Verification: Andrzej Drygajlo (EPFL, Switzerland); Weifeng Li (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland)
12:40 Making better biometric decisions with quality and cohort information : A case study in fingerprint verification: Norman Poh (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

AE2: Speech Enhancement 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: Woon Seng Gan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Subband Beamformer Combined with Time-frequency ICA for Extraction of Target Source under Reverberant Environments: Masahito Togami (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan); Yohei Kawaguchi (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan); Hiroaki Kokubo (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan); Yasunari Obuchi (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
Mitigating Uncorrelated Periodic Disturbance in Narrowband Active Noise Control Systems: Muhammad Akhtar (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Wataru Mitsuhashi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
A high performance low complexity noise suppression algorithm: Robert Hegner (University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil, Switzerland); Hans-Dieter Lang (University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil, Switzerland); Guido Schuster (University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland in Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Comparative study of new blind source separation structures for two-channel acoustic noise cancellation: Mohamed Djendi (ENSSAT,, France); Pascal Scalart (ENSSAT, University of Rennes 1, France); André Gilloire (Orange-Labs, France)
A single channel speech enhancement technique using psychoacoustic principles: Francois Xavier Nsabimana (Helmut Schmidt University, Germany); Vignesh Subbaraman (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Udo Zölzer (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany)
Blind estimation of a feature-domain reverberation model in non-diffuse environments with variance adjustment: Jimi Wen (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Armin Sehr (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
EMD-based Noise Estimation and Tracking (ENET) with application to speech enhancement: Navin Chatlani (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); John Soraghan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
A Sound Quality Customization System Using Paired Comparison: Shinpei Shimizu (Kansai University, Japan); Yoshinobu Kajikawa (Kansai University, Japan)
A Weighted Approach for Integrated Active Noise Control and Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids: Romain Serizel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Jan Wouters (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
An Experimental Study of the Robustness of Multichannel Inverse Filtering Systems to Near-Common Zeros: Wancheng Zhang (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Optimal Spectral Smoothing in\\Short-Time Spectral Attenuation (STSA) Algorithms: Results of Objective Measures and Listening Tests: Matthias Brandt (University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg, Germany); Joerg Bitzer (University of Applied Science Oldenburg, Germany)
An efficient low-complexity algorithm for crosstalk-resistant adaptive noise canceller: Ludovick Lepauloux (Orange Labs, France); Pascal Scalart (ENSSAT, University of Rennes 1, France); Claude Marro (France Télécom R&D, France)
Adaptive MMSE Speech Spectral Amplitude Estimator under Signal Presence Uncertainty: Behdad Dashtbozorg (Yazd University, Iran); Hamid Reza Abutalebi (Yazd University, Iran)
Blind Channel Identification in Speech Using the Long-Term Average Speech Spectrum: Nikolay Gaubitch (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Mike Brookes (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Single-channel speech separation using a sparse periodic decomposition: Makoto Nakashizuka (Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Japan)
Speech enhancement using auditory spectral attenuation: Novlene Zoghlami (Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia); Zied Lachiri (INSAT, Tunisia); Noureddine Ellouze (ENIT, Tunisia)
MTF-based power envelope restoration in noisy reverberant environments: Unoki Masashi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

CO1: Equalisation, Detection, and Synchronisation

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: Hichem Besbes (Ecole Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com TUNISIA, Tunisia)

Frequency Domain Equalization for OFDM Systems With Insufficient Guard Interval Using Null Subcarriers: Yin-Ray Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Carrson Fung (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan); Kainam Thomas Wong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Adaptive Analytical Simplified Constant Modulus Algorithm: A BSS algorithm for MIMO systems with time-varying environments: Steredenn Daumont (IPSIS Company, France); Daniel Le Guennec (IETR/Supélec-Campus de Rennes, France)
PAPR Reduction in Blind MIMO OFDM Systems Based on Independent Component Analysis: Jingbo Gao (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Asoke Nandi (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
A Concurrent Blind Receiver for STBC over Doubly Dispersive Channels: Samir Bendoukha (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Waleed Al-Hanafy (Strathclyde University, United Kingdom); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Multi-Criteria Quadratic Programming Based Low complexity Nonlinear Channel Equalisation: Mohamed Musbah (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Xu Zhu (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Approximate Full Diversity Linear Equalizers for Doubly Selective Channels: Shakti Shenoy (EURECOM, France); Irfan Ghauri (Infineon Technologies France, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France)
A New Strategy for the Blind MMSE Equalization: Khaled Abusakem (University of Reading, United Kingdom); Yu Gong (University of Reading, United Kingdom); Chunbo Luo (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Efficient Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Ordering using QR Decomposition: Waleed Al-Hanafy (Strathclyde University, United Kingdom); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Superimposed Or Time-Multiplexed Training: A Performance Comparison: Abla Kammoun (Telecom-ParisTech (ENST), France); Karim Abed-Meraim (Dept TSI, Télécom Paris, France); Sofiene Affes (INRS-EMT, Canada)
Interference Mitigation Using Widely Linear Arrays: Adilson Chinatto (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil); Cynthia Junqueira (Institute of Aeronautics And Space, Brazil); João Romano (DSPCom-Unicamp: Digital Signal Processing for Comm. Lab., State University of Campinas, Campinas, Br, Brazil)
Blind Estimation of Timing and Carrier Frequency Offsets in OFDM Systems: Leïla Atallah (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France); Benoit Geller (UEI Lab, ENSTA ParisTech, France); Pascal Larzabal (ENS-Cachan, PARIS, France)
SNR Optimized Residual Frequency Offset Compensation for WiMAX with Throughput Evaluation: Qi Wang (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Christian Mehlführer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
A Novel Fine Frequency Synchronization Technique for OFDM Wireless Systems: Jamil Ahmad (Catena Radio Design, The Netherlands)
Blind Time-Period Synchronization for LDPC Convolutionally Coded Transmission: Cedomir Stefanovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia); Dejan Vukobratovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Dragana Bajic (University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (defunct)); Lina Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Vladimir Stankovic (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
A blind iterative carrier frequency offset estimator based on a Kalman approach for an interleaved OFDMA uplink system: Hector Poveda (University of Bordeaux 1, France); Guillaume Ferré (University of Bordeaux, France); Eric Grivel (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Pedro Ramos (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

IM2: Image Processing Theory and Applications

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

BV-G Color-Image Decomposition with Its Application to Image Processing of a Digital Color Camera: Takahiro Saito (Kanagawa University, Japan); Daisuke Yamada (Kanagawa University, Japan); Takashi Komatsu (Kanagawa University, Japan)
Adaptive Riesz Basis Decomposition for Image Search: Licia Capodiferro (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Marco Carli (University of Roma TRE, Italy); Luca Costantini (University of ROMA TRE, Italy); Alessandro Neri (University of ROMA TRE, Italy); Veronica Palma (University of ROMA TRE, Italy)
Reduction of l2-Sensitivity for Three-Dimensional Separable-Denominator Digital Filters: Takao Hinamoto (Department of Artificial Complex Systems Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan); Osamu Tanaka (Hiroshima University, Japan); Masayoshi Nakamoto (Hiroshima University, Japan); Wu-Sheng Lu (University of Victoria, Canada)
Multi-Directional Detection of Scratches in Digitized Images: Edoardo Ardizzone (University of Palermo, Italy); Haris Dindo (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy); Giuseppe Mazzola (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy); Mario Scriminaci (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy); Monica Vitali (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy)
The Percentage Occupancy Hit or Miss Transform: Paul Murray (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Stephen Marshall (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Eric Bullinger (University of Liege, Belgium)
Hyperspectral Channel Reduction for Local Anomaly Detection: Oleg Kuybeda (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); David Malah (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Meir Barzohar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Reliable colorization algorithm for image and videos: Dae-Young Hyun (Seoul National University, Korea); Jun-Hee Heu (Seoul National University, Korea); Chang-Su Kim (University of Korea, Korea); Sang Uk Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Non-linear Dark Current Fixed Pattern Noise Compensation for Variable Frame Rate Moving Picture Cameras: Michael Schöberl (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Cihan Senel (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Siegfried Foessel (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); Hans Bloss (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany); André Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Auto Gain Control Based on LUT from Scene Luminance Curve in Mobile Phone Camera: Tae-Hyoung Lee (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Wang-Jun Kyung (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Cheol-Hee Lee (Andong National University, Korea); Hee-Chan Park (Samsung Electronics, Korea); Yeong-Ho Ha (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
Blind Image Watermarking Based on Sample Rotation with Optimal Detector: Sayed Mohammad Ebrahim Sahraeian (Texas A&M University, USA); Mohammad Ali Akhaee (EE Dept of Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Iran); Farokh Marvasti (Sharif university of technology, Iran)
A Modified Edge Directed Interpolation for Images: Wing-Shan Tam (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Chi-Wah Kok (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Wan-Chi Siu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
A new simulation method for time-derivative CNNs: Nergis Tural Polat (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey); Vedat Tavsanoglu (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
SVM-Based Obstacle Classification in Visible and Infrared Images: Anca Apatean (Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania); Alexandrina Rogozan (National Institute of Applied Sciences, France); Abdelaziz Bensrhair (National Institute of Applied Sciences, France)
A minutiae level fusion for afis systems: Rima Belguechi (LCSI Laboratory, Algeria); Christophe Rosenberger (GREYC laboratory, France)
A segmentation free approach for indexing digitized Syriac manuscripts: Petra Bilane (INSA de Lyon, France); Stephane Bres (INSA de Lyon, France); Khalil Challita (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon); Hubert Emptoz (INSA de Lyon, France)

TH3: Algorithms, Transforms, and Filter Design

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: Bogdan Dumitrescu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

design of perfect-reconstruction nonuniform filter banks with linear-phase property: Li Li (Xidian University, P.R. China); Xie Xuemei (Xidian University, P.R. China)
Design of digital IIR integrator using radial basis function interpolation method: Chien-Cheng Tseng (Kaoshiung first Univeristy of Science and technology, Taiwan); Su-Ling Lee (Chung-Jung Christian University, Taiwan)
Block Discrete-time Schwarz Form of Multivariable Rational Interpolation and Positivity by Linear Matrix Inequality: Yohei Kuroiwa (Royal Institute of Techonology, Sweden)
A Comparative Study Of Some Greedy Pursuit Algorithms for Sparse Approximation: Gagan Rath (IRISA-INRIA, France, France)
Multiscale kernel smoothing using a lifting scheme: Maarten Jansen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium); Christophe Damerval (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Generalizing the Jacket Transform by Sub Orthogonality Extension: Soo-Chang Pei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Jian-Jiun Ding (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Positive Partial Realization of Multivariate Time Series: Yohei Kuroiwa (Royal Institute of Techonology, Sweden)
Generalized Fixed Polarity Helix Transforms over GF(4): Cheng Fu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Bogdan Falkowski (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Two Classes of Fixed Polarity Linearly Independent Arithmetic Transforms for Quaternary Functions: Cicilia Lozano (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Bogdan Falkowski (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Tadeusz Luba (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
Closed-form design of variable fractional delay filter using discrete Fourier transform: Chien-Cheng Tseng (Kaoshiung first Univeristy of Science and technology, Taiwan); Su-Ling Lee (Chung-Jung Christian University, Taiwan)
Convex combination of affine projection algorithms: Miguel Ferrer (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); María De Diego (Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Gema Piñero (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Combining advanced sinusoidal and waveform matching models for parametric audio/speech coding: Alexey Petrovsky (Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus); Elias Azarov (Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus); Alexander Petrovsky (Bialystok Technical University, Poland)
Properties, Digital Implementation, Applications, and Self Image Phenomena of the Gyrator Transform: Soo-Chang Pei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Jian-Jiun Ding (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Implementation of Matrix Factorization based on Minimizing Quasi-absolute Distance for Electromagnetic Global Signal Elimination: 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)

3:50 PM - 5:30 PM

CO2: MIMO Systems

Room: Concert Hall

15:50 Diversity Techniques for Analog Combining Schemes: Design and Performance Evaluation: Victor Elvira (University of Cantabria, Spain); Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain)
16:10 A Low-Complexity Iterative MIMO Sphere Decoding Algorithm: Mansour Rachid (University of California Los Angeles, USA); Babak Daneshrad (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
16:30 Iterative Suppression of Co-Channel Interference: Muhammad Danish Nisar (Technical University Munich, TUM, Germany); Hans Nottensteiner (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany); Wolfgang Utschick (Technische Universität München, Germany)
16:50 Tap and Transmit Antenna Correlation Based Precoding For MIMO-OFDM Systems: Yann Lebrun (IMEC / KULeuven, Belgium); Christian Hofbauer (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Valery Ramon (Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center, Belgium); Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium); Mario Huemer (Klagenfurt University, Austria); François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Rudy Lauwereins (IMEC, Leuven, Belgium)
17:10 A Probabilistic Constraint Approach for Robust Transmit Beamforming with Imperfect Channel Information: Pei-Jung Chung (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Huiqin Du (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Jacek Gondzio (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

SP1: Speech Recognition 1

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

15:50 Robust Phoneme Classification: Exploiting The Adaptability of Acoustic Waveform Models: Matthew Ager (King's College London, United Kingdom); Zoran Cvetkovic (King's College London, United Kingdom); Peter Sollich (King's College London, United Kingdom)
16:10 Robust automatic speech recognition using acoustic model adaptation prior to missing feature reconstruction: Ulpu Remes (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Kalle Palomäki (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Mikko Kurimo (HUT, Finland)
16:30 Adapting HMMs of Distant-Talking ASR Systems Using Feature-Domain Reverberation Models: Armin Sehr (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Markus Gardill (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Walter Kellermann (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
16:50 Filler Models for Automatic Speech Recognition Created from Hidden Markov Models using the K-Means Algorithm: Matthew Dunnachie (Institute for System Level Integration, United Kingdom); Paul Shields (Epson Scotland Design Centre, United Kingdom); David Crawford (Epson Scotland Design Centre, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
17:10 Evaluation of Modulation Frequency Features for Speaker Verification and Identification: Maria Markaki (University of Crete, Greece); Yannis Stylianou (University of Crete, Greece)

VM1: Image and Video Processing

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: Jean-Luc Dugelay (Institut EURECOM, France)

15:50 Hybrid-1D macroblock prediction for video compression: Jean-Marc Thiesse (Orange Labs, France); Joël Jung (France Telecom R&D, France); Marc Antonini (I3S-CNRS-University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
16:10 Fusion schemes for multiview distributed video coding: Thomas Maugey (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Wided Miled (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Marco Cagnazzo (TELECOM ParisTech, France); Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France)
16:30 The polar edge coherence: a quasi blind metric for video quality assessment: Vittorio Baroncini (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Licia Capodiferro (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Elio Di Claudio (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Giovanni Jacovitti (INFOCOM Dpt. University of Rome, Italy)
16:50 Inter-Sequence Error Concealment for Diversity Reception of Digital TV Sequences: Tobias Tröger (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Henning Heiber (Audi AG, Germany); Andreas Schmitt (Audi AG, Germany); André Kaup (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
17:10 Concept learning for image and video retrieval: The inverse random under sampling approach: Muhammad Tahir (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Josef Kittler (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Fei Yan (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Krystian Mikolajczyk (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

SS2: Tensor Tools in Signal Processing

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France)

15:50 Approximate Tensor Diagonalization by Invertible Transforms: Mikael Sorensen (University of Nice, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France); Sylvie Icart (I3S-CNRS, France); Luc Deneire (University of Nice, France)
16:10 Subtracting a best rank-1 approximation does not necessarily decrease tensor rank: Alwin Stegeman (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France)
16:30 An Efficient Jacobi-Type Algorithm for Blind Equalization of Paraunitary Channels: Mikael Sorensen (University of Nice, France); Lieven De Lathauwer (K.U.Leuven, Belgium); Luc Deneire (University of Nice, France)
16:50 Canonical decomposition of even order Hermitian positive semi-definite arrays: Ahmad Karfoul (INSERM, U642, Rennes, F-35000, France); Laurent Albera (INSERM, U642, Rennes, F-35000, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France)
17:10 Low multilinear rank tensor approximation via semidefinite programming: Carmeliza Navasca (Clarkson University, USA); Lieven De Lathauwer (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
17:30 Symmetric Tensor Decomposition: Jerome Brachat (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France); Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France); Bernard Mourrain (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France); Elias Tsigaridas (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)

SS3: Embedded DSP Implementation with Applications

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: John Soraghan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

15:50 Overview of Embedded DSP Design: Iain Hunter (Texas Instruments, United Kingdom)
16:10 A Novel Lane Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Digital Interpolation: Yifei Wang (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Naim Dahnoun (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Alin Achim (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
16:30 Precise Motion Descriptors Extraction from Stereoscopic Footage using DaVinci DM6446: Muhammad Asif (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); John Soraghan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
16:50 Optimized Visualization of Stereo Images on an OMAP Platform with Integrated Parallax Barrier Auto-Stereoscopic Display: Atanas Boev (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Mihail Georgiev (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Atanas Gotchev (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Karen Egiazarian (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
17:10 OMAP 3 Based Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering Teaching: Kunal Mankodiya (University of Luebeck, Germany); Simon Vogt (University of Luebeck, Germany); Ulrich Hofmann (University of Luebeck, Germany)