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

Wednesday 26th August

♦ 8:00 AM –   Registration opens

♦ 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM     Presentations

CO3:     Equalisation
SS4:     Signal Processing for Spatial Audio 1
IM3:     Object and Feature Detection
AM1:     Beamforming and Space-Time Processing
AP2:     Biomedical Signal Processing 1
TH4:     Matrix Polynomials and Multivariate Methods

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

♦ 10:30 AM – 12:10 AM     Presentations

CO4:     Networks and Relay Communications
SS5:     Signal Processing for Spatial Audio 2
IM4:     Multiview and 3D Image Processing
VM2:     Multimedia Applications
AP3:     Radar and Sonar

♦ 12:10 PM –   1:00 PM     Plenary #3 Prof Maurizio Omologo

♦ 1:00 PM –   2:20 PM     Lunch Break

♦ 2:20 PM –   3:00 PM     Plenary #4 Dr Chris Dick

♦ 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM     Posters

AM2:     Array and Multichannel Signal Processing 1
TH5:     Detection and Estimation 1
VM3:     Video and Multimedia Signal Processing
AE3:     Audio and Music Signal Processing 2
DI1:     Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems 1

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

♦ 3:50 PM –   5:30 PM     Presentations

SS6:     Color and Multispectral Image Acquisition and Processing of Artworks
SP2:     Speech Recongition 2
CO5:     Coding and Modulation
AM3:     Array Processing and Calibration
SS7:     Emerging Applications of Time-Frequency Signal Processing





Wednesday, Aug 26

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

CO3: Equalisation

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Paulo Diniz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
8:30 Blind channel shortening in ZP-OFDM systems with controlled TIR
Taoufik Ben Jabeur (Université Paris Descartes, France); Karim Abed-Meraim (Dept TSI, Télécom Paris, France); Hatem Boujemaa (Ecole Supérieure des Communications, Tunisia)
8:50 Maximization of Useful-to-Null Subcarrier Energy Ratio for Blind Multicarrier SIMO Channel Shortening
Hichem Besbes (Ecole Superieure de Communications de Tunis, Sup'Com TUNISIA, Tunisia); Roberto López Valcarce (Universidad de Vigo, Spain); Sofiane Cherif (Sup'Com, Tunisia); Emna Bensalem (Sup'com, Tunisia)
9:10 Minimum Redundancy Multicarrier and Single-Carrier systems based on Hartley Transforms
Wallace Martins (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil); Paulo Diniz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
9:30 Reduced-Rank Transform-Domain LMS Algorithm for Stabilizing Fractionally-Spaced Channel Equalizers
Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia); Mark Ho (University of South Australia, Australia)
9:50 Packet Combining for Multi-Layer Hybrid-ARQ over Frequency-Selective Fading Channels
Abdel-Nasser Assimi (ETIS, CNRS, ENSEA, Univ Cergy-Pontoise, France); Charly Poulliat (ETIS, CNRS, ENSEA, Univ Cergy-Pontoise, France); Inbar Fijalkow (ETIS, CNRS, ENSEA, Univ Cergy-Pontoise, France)



SS4: Signal Processing for Spatial Audio 1

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Rudolf Rabenstein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) , Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)
8:30 Direction Estimation Based on Sound Intensity Vectors
Sakari Tervo (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
8:50 Dynamic Time Warping for Acoustic Response Interpolation: Possibilities and Limitations
Gavin Kearney (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Claire Masterson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Stephen Adams (Trintiy College Dublin, Ireland); Frank Boland (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
9:10 Acoustic reconstruction of the geometry of an environment through acquisition of a controlled emission
Fabio Antonacci (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Dario Aprea (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Augusto Sarti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
9:30 Rendering walk-through auralisations using wave-based acoustical models
Alex Southern (University or York, United Kingdom); Jeremy Wells (University of York, United Kingdom); Damian Murphy (University of York, United Kingdom)
9:50 A Short Review of Signals and Systems for Spatial Audio 1
Paolo Annibale (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Rudolf Rabenstein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Peter Steffen (University of Erlangen, Germany)



IM3: Object and Feature Detection

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: Paulo Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
8:30 Tracking Multiple Objects Using Intensity-GVF Snakes
Jonas De Vylder (Ghent University, Belgium)
8:50 Inflection Point Model Under Phase Field Higher-Order Active Contours For Network Extraction From VHR Satellite Images
Aymen El Ghoul (INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Mediterranee, France); Ian Jermyn (INRIA, France); Josiane Zerubia (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)
9:10 Automatic Road Pavement Crack Detection using Boosting Classifiers
Pedro Rosa (Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal); Paulo Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
9:30 Automatic defect detection on road pavement using anisotropy measure
Sy Nguyen (University of Orleans, France)
9:50 Automatic Road Crack Segmentation Using Entropy and Image Dynamic Thresholding
Henrique Oliveira (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Paulo Correia (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)



AM1: Beamforming and Space-Time Processing

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: John McWhirter (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
8:30 Design of a Rectangular Frequency Invariant Beamformer with a Full Azimuth Angle Coverage
Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
8:50 Robust Beamforming with Combined Worst-Case Performance Optimization and Soft Constraints in a Multipath Environment
Lei Yu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Richard Langley (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
9:10 Performance analysis of the optimal widely linear MVDR beamformer
Pascal Chevalier (Thales Communication, France); Jean-Pierre Delmas (Telecom SudParis, France); Abdelkader Oukaci (Telecom SudParis, France)
9:30 Range recursive space-time adaptive processing (STAP) for MIMO airborne radar
Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR8506, France)
9:50 H∞ Filtering For Autoregressive Modelling Based Space-Time Adaptive Processing
Julien Petitjean (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Eric Grivel (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Patrick Roussilhe (Thales systèmes aéroportés, France)



AP2: Biomedical Signal Processing 1

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Gary Garcia Molina (Philips, The Netherlands)
8:30 Source Localization of Brain Rhythms by Empirical Mode Decomposition and Spatial Notch Filtering
Delaram Jarchi (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Vahid Abolghasemi (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Saeid Sanei (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
8:50 Modelling and Filtering Almost Periodic Signals by Time-Varying Fourier Series with Application to Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Ivo Trajkovic (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland); Christoph Reller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Martin Wolf (University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland)
9:10 A Robust Respiratory Phase Identification Scheme Based on A New Mixing Index
Feng Jin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Farook Sattar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Daniel Goh (National University Hospital, Singapore); Irene Louis (National University Hospital, Singapore)
9:30 An Enhanced Respiratory Rate Monitoring Method For Real Tracheal Sounds Recordings
Feng Jin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Farook Sattar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Daniel Goh (National University Hospital, Singapore); Irene Louis (National University Hospital, Singapore)
9:50 Detection of high frequency steady state visual evoked potentials for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Gary Garcia Molina (Philips, The Netherlands); David Ibanex (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands); Vojkan Mihajlovic (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands); Dimitri Chestakov (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands)



TH4: Matrix Polynomials and Multivariate Methods

Room: Green Room Chair: Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
8:30 Bounded Real Lemma for Multivariate Trigonometric Matrix Polynomials and FIR Filter Design Applications
Bogdan Dumitrescu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
8:50 Filteration of Multicomponent Seismic Wavefield Data using Frequency SVD
Wai Lok Woo (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
9:10 A Novel Algorithm for Calculating the Singular Value Decomposition of a Polynomial Matrix
Joanne Foster (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); John McWhirter (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
9:30 Non-iterative solution for PARAFAC with Toeplitz matrix factors
Alain Kibangou (GIPSA-Lab, CNRS, France); Favier Gérard (Université de Nice, France)
9:50 On the Design of GCF compensation Filter based on Minimax Optimization
Alfonso Fernandez-Vazquez (National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico); Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek (INAOE, Mexico)



10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

CO4: Networks and Relay Communications

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Jonathon Chambers (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
10:30 Joint Sensor Selection and Routing for Distributed Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Eduardo Portu-Repollés (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)
10:50 Maximum SINR-Based Beamforming for the MISO Interference Channel
Yann Lebrun (IMEC / KULeuven, Belgium); Jimmy Nsenga (CETIC, Belgium); Valery Ramon (Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center, Belgium); Andre Bourdoux (IMEC, Belgium); François Horlin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium); Rudy Lauwereins (IMEC, Leuven, Belgium)
11:10 Ergodic Capacity of Block-Fading Gaussian Broadcast and Multi-access Channels for Single-User-Selection and Constant-Power
Mohammad Shaqfeh (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar); Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
11:30 Adaptive-Rate Transmission Schemes for Two-hop Multiple Access Relay Networks
Sudharsan Ganesan (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom); Mathini Sellathurai (Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom)
11:50 Distributed adaptive node-specific MMSE signal estimation in sensor networks with a tree topology
Alexander Bertrand (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)



SS5: Signal Processing for Spatial Audio 2

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany) , Rudolf Rabenstein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
10:30 A Short Review of Signals and Systems for Spatial Audio 2
Paolo Annibale (University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Rudolf Rabenstein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Peter Steffen (University of Erlangen, Germany)
10:50 A Note on the Filtering Equalization in Large Multiactuator Panels
Basilio Pueo (University of Alicante, Spain); Jose Escolano-Carrasco (University of Jaen, Spain); Jose Javier Lopez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); German Ramos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
11:10 Rear ans Side Reproduction of Elevated Sources in Wave-Field Synthesis
Jose Javier Lopez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Maximo Cobos (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Basilio Pueo (University of Alicante, Spain)
11:30 3D soundfield reproduction using non-spherical loudspeaker arrays
Aastha Gupta (Australian National University, Australia); Thushara Abhayapala (Australian National University, Australia)
11:50 An Analytical Approach to 2.5D Sound Field Reproduction Employing Circular Distributions Of Non-Omnidirectional Loudspeakers
Jens Ahrens (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany); Sascha Spors (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)



IM4: Multiview and 3D Image Processing

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: Jean-Philippe Thiran (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)
10:30 Stereo Matching Using Adaptive Belief Propagation along Ambiguity Gradient
Sumit Srivastava (Seoul National University, Korea); Sang-Hwa Lee (Seoul National University, Korea); Nam-Ik Cho (Seoul National University, Korea); Sang Uk Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
10:50 Randomness-Based Integration of Multi-Viewpoint Imagery for as-is Roadway Model Generation
Kohji Kamejima (Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan)
11:10 Multimodal Speaker Localization from Omnidirectional Videos
Pascal Reuse (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland); Mihai Gurban (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland); Ivar Austvoll (University of Stavanger, Norway); Jean-Philippe Thiran (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland)
11:30 Impostor Detection using Facial Stereoscopic Images
Abdelaali Benaiss (Institute Eurecom, France); Usman Saeed (Institute Eurecom, France); Jean-Luc Dugelay (Institut EURECOM, France); Mohamed Jedra (Laboratoire Conception et Systèmes, Morocco)
11:50 Synthetic aperture signal processing for high resolution 3D image reconstruction in the THz-domain
Marijke Vandewal (Royal Military Academy, Belgium)



VM2: Multimedia Applications

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey)
10:30 Image and video retargeting using adaptive scaling function
Jin-Hwan Kim (Korea University, Korea); Jun-Seong Kim (Korea University, Korea); Chang-Su Kim (University of Korea, Korea)
10:50 Passive Forensic Method for Detecting Duplicated Regions Affected by Reflection, Rotation and Scaling
Sergio Bravo-Solorio (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom); Asoke Nandi (The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
11:10 Coding efficiency improvement for SVC broadcast in the context of the emerging DVB standardization
Heiko Schwarz (HHI, Germany); Patrick Ndjiki-Nya (HHI, Germany); Thomas Wiegand (HHI/FhG, Germany)
11:30 Video And Audio Based Detection of Filled Hesitation Pauses in Classroom Lectures
Vassilis Tsiaras (University of Crete, Greece); Costas Panagiotakis (University of Crete, Greece); Yannis Stylianou (University of Crete, Greece)
11:50 Automatic TV Logo Detection and Classification In Broadcast Videos
Nedret Ozay (Bogazici University, Turkey); Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey)



AP3: Radar and Sonar

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Fulvio Gini (University of Pisa, Italy)
10:30 Effects of frequency-dependent attenuation on the performance of time delay estimation techniques using Ground Penetrating Radar
Khaled Chahine (Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, France); Baltazart Vincent (Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées, France); Yide Wang (University of Nantes, Polytech'Nantes, France); Derobert Xavier (Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées, France); Cédric Lebastard (Laboratoire Régional des Ponts et Chaussées, France)
10:50 Multistatic Matched-Illumination Waveform Design for Detection and Identification of Indoor Targets behind Walls
Fauzia Ahmad (Villanova University, USA); Moeness Amin (Villanova University, USA)
11:10 Application of The MIMO Radar Technique for Lesion Classification in UWB Breast Cancer Detection
Yifan Chen (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom); Ian Craddock (University of Bristol, United Kingdom); Panagiotis Kosmas (King's College London, United Kingdom); Mohammad Ghavami (Kings College London, United Kingdom); Predrag Rapajic (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom)
11:30 Supervised Classification of Scatterers on SAR Imaging based on Incoherent polarimetric time-frequency signatures
Mickaël Duquenoy (University of Rennes 1, France); Jean-Philippe Ovarlez (ONERA, France); Laurent Ferro-Famil (University of Rennes 1, France); Eric Pottier (University of Rennes, France)
11:50 Acoustic Detection and Classification of Sound Sources using Temporal Multiple Energy Detector Features
Alexej Swerdlow (University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Jorge Moragues (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Timo Machmer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany); Arturo Serrano-Cartagena (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Luis Vergara (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Kristian Kroschel (Fraunhofer Institut fuer Informations- und Datenverarbeitung, Germany)



3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

AM2: Array and Multichannel Signal Processing 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: Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
A Least Squares Approach to the Design of Frequency Invariant Beamformers
Yong Zhao (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Richard Langley (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Designing Acoustic Vector Sensors for localisation of sound sources in air
Muawiyath Shujau (University of Wollongong, Australia); Christian Ritz (University of Wollongong, Australia); Ian Burnett (RMIT University, Australia)
Spectral Combining for Microphone Diversity Systems
Juergen Freudenberger (University of Applied Sciences Constance, Germany); Sebastian Stenzel (University of Applied Sciences Constance, Germany); Benjamin Venditti (University of Applied Sciences Constance, Germany)
High Fidelity Blind Source Separation of Speech Signals
Ajay Kattepur (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Joni Lie (Temasek Laboratories@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., Singapore); Farook Sattar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); C. m. See (DSO Laboratories, Singapore)
A robust time difference of arrival estimator in reverberant environments
Jae-Mo Yang (Yonsei University, Korea); Chang-Heon Lee (Yonsei University, Korea); Hong-Goo Kang (Yonsei University, Korea)
An Optimal Prior Knowledge-Based DOA Estimation Method
Guillaume Bouleux (Saint Etienne University, France); Petre Stoica (Uppsala University, Sweden); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France)
Closed-Form Automatically Paired 2-D Direction-of-Arrival Estimation with Arbitrary Arrays
Tansu Filik (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); T. Engin Tuncer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Direction-of-arrival estimation under noisy condition using four-line omni-directional microphones mounted on a robot head
Tetsuji Ogawa (Waseda University, Japan); Kosuke Hosoya (Waseda University, Japan); Kenzo Akagiri (Waseda University, Japan); Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
Constraint Adaptive Natural Gradient Algorithm (CANA) For Adaptive Array Processing
Ijteba-Ul-Hasnain Shah (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Tariq Durrani (Strathclyde University, United Kingdom)
Broadband GSC Beamformer with Spatial and Temporal Decorrelation
Choo-Leng Koh (EADS, Singapore); Soydan Redif (Near East University, Turkey)



TH5: Detection and Estimation 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
Robust Minimum Distance Neyman-Pearson Detection of a Weak Signalin Non-Gaussian Noise
Georgy Shevlyakov (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Vladimir Shin (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea); Kyungmin Lee (GIST, Korea)
First-order analysis of the mode and amplitude estimates of a damped sinusoid using Matrix Pencil
El-Hadi Djermoune (CRAN, Nancy-Universite, CNRS, France); Magalie Thomassin (IMS, Universite de Bordeaux, CNRS, France); Marc Tomczak (CRAN, Nancy-Universite, CNRS, France)
An IQML type algorithm for AR parameter estimation from noisy covariance sequences.
Prabhu Babu (Uppsala University, Sweden); Petre Stoica (Uppsala University, Sweden); Tom Marzetta (bell labs, USA)
Parameter Estimation for Polynomial Phase Signals With a Fast and Robust Algorithm
Olivier Fourt (Université Paris XI Orsay, France); Messaoud Benidir (University of Paris 11, France)
A subband algorithm for estimating the parameters of two-dimensional exponential signals
El-Hadi Djermoune (CRAN, Nancy-Universite, CNRS, France); David Brie (Université Henri Poincaré, France); Marc Tomczak (CRAN, Nancy-Universite, CNRS, France)
Cramer-Rao Bound For Time-Delay Estimation in the Frequency Domain
Jordi Serra (CTTC, Spain); Luis Blanco (CTTC, Spain); Montse Najar (UPC, Spain)
Generalized method of moments for blind near efficient carrier phase acquisition
Stefania Colonnese (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy); Stefano Rinauro (Dip. INFOCOM, Università "La Sapienza'' di Roma, Italy); Gaetano Scarano (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy)
An Efficient Monte Carlo Approach for Optimizing Communication Constrained Decentralized Estimation Networks
Murat Uney (Sabanci University, Turkey); Mujdat Cetin (Sabanci University, Turkey)
A Novel Data-Fusion-Based Improvement to Debiased CMKF Tracking
John Spitzmiller (SPARTA, Inc., USA); Reza Adhami (The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
New Accept/Reject Methods for Independent Sampling from Posterior Probability Distributions
Luca Martino (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Joaquin Miguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
RJMCMC sampler for single sensor source separation: an application to electric load monitoring
Mabrouka El Guedri (Electricité de France, France); Julien Bect (SUPELEC, France); Christian Lajaunie (Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris, France); Gilles Fleury (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France); Alexandre Girard (Electricité de France, France); Redouane Seraui (Electricité de Frane (Research an Development), France); Thomas Garcia (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France)
A local stationary long-memory model for internet traffic
Li Song (CNRS UMR 8506, Universit\'e Paris-Sud, France); Pascal Bondon (LSS CNRS, France)
Automatic Intensity Quantification of Fluorescence Targets from Microscope Images with Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Harri Pölönen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jussi Tohka (Tampere Univ. Tech, Finland); Ulla Ruotsalainen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)



VM3: Video and Multimedia Signal Processing

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: Olivier Steiger (ABB Switzerland Inc., Switzerland)
A Novel Scheme for Content Based Image Retrieval
SongHao Zhu (Shanghai Jiao tong University, P.R. China); Yuncai Liu (shanghai jiaotong university, P.R. China)
Scale-Robust Feature Extraction for Face Recognition
Zhifei Wang (Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhenjiang Miao (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Perceptual-based Playout Mechanisms for Multi-stream Voice Over IP Network
Chun-Feng Wu (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Yung-Le Chang (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan); Wen-Whei Chang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Comparison Experimental Research on Three Pre-processing Models of Online Hand Drawn Diagram
Yingmin Zhang (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China); Wu Liming (Guangdong University of Technology, P.R. China)
Improved Motion-Based Localized Super Resolution Technique Using Discrete Wavelet Transform for Low Resolution Video Enhancement
Hasan Demirel (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey); Gholamreza Anbarjafari (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey); Sara Izadpanahi (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey)
Subjective Evaluation of Single Frame Superresolution Algorithms
Bulent Sankur (Bogazici University, Turkey); Huseyin Ozdemir (Universtiy of Bogazici, Turkey)
Occlusion-Handling for Improved Particle Filtering-based Tracking.pdf
Raphael Canals (University of Orleans, France); Ali Ganoun (LIVIC: A Research Laboratory for Advanced Driving Assistance Systems, France); Rémy Leconge (PRISME Institut, France)
Graphic Based Temporal Attention Fusion
reede ren (Unversity of Glasgow, United Kingdom); Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Texture Classification Using Wavelet-Domain BDIP and BVLC Features
Nam Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Hyun Joo So (Kyungpook National University, Korea); Mi Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea)
A Portable System for Robust Acoustic Detection of Atypical Situations
Stavros Ntalampiras (University of Patras, Greece); Ilyas Potamitis (Techological Education Institute of Crete, Greece); Nikos Fakotakis (University of Patras, Greece)



AE3: Audio and Music Signal Processing 2

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: Hiroshi Saruwatari (Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Drum transcription from multichannel recordings with non-negative matrix factorization
David Alves (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jouni Paulus (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Jose Fonseca (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Time-Variant Harmonic Signal Modeling by Using Polynomial Approximation and Fully Automated Spectral Analysis
Miroslav Zivanovic (Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain); Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Additive and multiplicative Reestimation schemes for the sinusoid modeling of audio
Xue Wen (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom); Mark Sandler (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Spatial Audio Coding by Squeezing: Analysis and Application to Compressing Multiple Soundfields
Bin Cheng (University of Wollongong, Australia); Christian Ritz (University of Wollongong, Australia); Ian Burnett (RMIT University, Australia)
Creation of reference signals for subjective evaluation of coding techniques
Thierry Etame (France Télécom, France); Régine Le Bouquin-Jeannès (University of Rennes 1, France); Catherine Quinquis (France Telecom R&D, France); Gérard Faucon (University of Rennes 1, France); Laetitia GROS (France Telecom R&D, France)
Adaptive Structural Analysis Of Music Recordings
Aggelos Pikrakis (University of Piraeus, Greece); Sergios Theodoridis (University of Athens, Greece)
Audio encoding based on the Empirical Mode Decomposition
Kais Khaldi (National School of Engineers of Tunis, Tunisia); Abdel-Ouahab Boudraa (IRENav Ecole Navale, France); Turki Monia (National School of Engineers, Tunisia); Thierry Chonavel (Institut Télécom; Télécom Bretagne, France); Imen Samaali (University of Paris Descartes, Tunisia)
Temporal envelope correction for attack restoration in low bit-rate audio coding
Imen Samaali (University of Paris Descartes, Tunisia); Turki Monia (National School of Engineers, Tunisia); Gael Mahé (University, France)
Extending Nonnegative Matrix Factorization---a Discussion in the Context of Multiple Frequency Estimation of musical signals
Stanislaw Raczynski (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Nobutaka Ono (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Shigeki Sagayama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
An onset detection algorithm for query by Humming ( QBH ) applications using psychoacoustic knowledge
Balaji Thoshkahna (Indian institute of Science,Bangalore,India, India); Kalpathi Ramakrishnan (Indian Institue of Science, India)
Overlapped event-note separation based on partial amplitude and phase estimation for polyphonic music transcription
Julio Carabias-Orti (University of Jaen, Spain); Pedro Vera Candeas (University of Jaen, Spain); Nicolas Ruiz Reyes (University of Jaen, Spain); Francisco Canadas-Quesada (University of Jaen, Spain); Raul Mata-Campos (University of Jaen, Spain)



DI1: Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems 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
Merged Inverse Quantization and IDCT for Optimized Decoder Implementation
Jin Li (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Hardware Implementation of Distributed Speech Recognition System Front End
Ahmad Al Sallab (Cairo University, Egypt)
Polynomial Residue Number Ssystem GF(2m) Multiplier using Trinomials
Junfeng Chu (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Mohammed Benaissa (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Design Of A Pipelined R4SDF Processor
Nima Aghaee (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran); Mohammad Eshghi (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Self-tuning sub-sample delay estimator
Ewa Hermanowicz (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Decision Diagram based Computation of Linearly Independent Ternary Arithmetic Transform Spectra
Cicilia Lozano (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Bogdan Falkowski (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Tadeusz Luba (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
GALS Noc Architectures on FPGA Dedicated to Multispectral Image Applications
Linlin Zhang (University of Jean Monnet, France); Virginie Fresse (Université Jean Monnet, Saint Etienne, France); Anne-Claire Legrand (University of Jean Monnet, France); Mohammed Khalid (University of Windsor, Canada)
Architectural Exploration in Biomedical Hardware Design Using a Novel Behavioral Synthesis Methodology
George Economakos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
New L2-dynamic-range-scaling Constraints for Low Parametric Sensitivity Realizations
Thibault Hilaire (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Design of optimized fixed-point WCDMA receiver
Hai-Nam Nguyen (IRISA, France); Daniel Menard (IRISA, University of Rennes, France); Olivier Sentieys (IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France)
OFDM Transceiver for IEEE 802.20 Standards
Yousif Awad (Universty of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Non-Uniform Wordlength Delay Lines for FIR Filters
Gregour Bolton (University of Stathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Genetic Algorithm-aided Fixed-Point Design of E-UTRA PRACH Detector on Multi-Core DSP
Rongrong Qian (BUPT, P.R. China)



3:50 PM - 5:30 PM

SS6: Color and Multispectral Image Acquisition and Processing of Artworks

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Anna Pelagotti (National Council of Research of Italy & Art-Test snc, Italy)
15:50 Multi-thread real-time data processing for an image-based partially coherent light interferometry
Claudio Pernechele (National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy)
16:10 Multispectral Imaging for Analyzing Ancient Manuscripts
Martin Lettner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Robert Sablatnig (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
16:30 Multi-Spectral High-Resolution 3D-Acquisition for Rapid Archaeological Documentation and Analysis
Hubert Mara (IWR - University of Heidelberg, Germany); Bernd Breuckmann (Breuckmann GmbH, Germany); Claudia Lang-Auinger (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
16:50 Fresco restoration: digital image processing approach
Jan Blazek (Charles University, Czech Republic); Barbara Zitova (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic); Miroslav Benes (Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic); Janka Hradilova (Academic Laboratory of Materials Research of Paintings, Czech Republic)
17:10 Automated Multispectral Texture Mapping of 3D Models
Anna Pelagotti (National Council of Research of Italy, Italy); Andrea Del Mastio (University of Florence - Media Integration and Communication Center, Italy); Francesca Uccheddu (University of Florence, Italy); Fabio Remondino (B. Kessler Foundation (FBK), Italy)
17:30 Stylistic Analysis of Paintings using Complex Wavelets and Random Forest Learning Algorithm
Sina Jafarpour (Computer Science, Princeton University, USA); Gungor Polatkan (Princeton University, USA); Eugene Brevdo (Princeton University, USA); Shannon Hughes (University of Colorado, USA); Andrei Brasoveanu (Princeton University, USA); Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton University, USA)



SP2: Speech Recognition 2

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Jon Gudnason (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
15:50 Combining classifiers with diverse feature sets for robust speaker independent emotion recognition
Marko Lugger (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
16:10 Keyword Spotting with Duration Constrained HMMs
Marcel Vasilache (Nokia, Finland)
16:30 Extending Features for Automatic Speech Recognition by Means of Auditory Modelling
Gero Szepannek (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany); Tamas Harczos (Fraunhofer Institute of Digital Media Technology, Germany); Frank Klefenz (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany); Claus Weihs (Dortmund University of Technology, Germany)
16:50 A Methodology for Speaker-dependent acoustic features based on a simplified cortical response for speaker Verification
Guillermo Garcia (Communication Systems Group, Sweden)
17:10 Dynamic Selection of Magnitude and Phase based Acoustic Feature Streams for Speaker Verification
Padmanabhan Rajan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Rajesh Hegde (IIT Kanpur, India); Hema Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)



CO5: Coding and Modulation

Room: Strathclyde Suite
15:50 Polyphase Magnitude Modulation for Peak Power Control
Marco Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal); Francisco Cercas (ISCTE - Instituto Superior das Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Portugal); Vitor Silva (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal); Martin Tomlinson (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom)
16:10 Fully programmable layered LDPC decoder architecture
Christiane Beuschel (University of Ulm, Germany); Hans-Jörg Pfleiderer (University of Ulm, Germany)
16:30 Optimizing the search of finite-state joint source-channel codes based on arithmetic coding
Amadou Diallo (L2S - CNRS - SUPELEC è Univ Paris-Sud., France); Claudio Weidmann (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Michel Kieffer (L2S - CNRS - SUPELEC - Univ Paris-Sud, France)
16:50 On the Performance and Numerical Stability of Soft-Decision Reed-Solomon Decoding
Marcel Bimberg (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Emil Matus (Dresden University of Technology, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
17:10 Optimum GF(2^N) Encoders using Left-Circulate Function for PSK-TCM Schemes
Calin Vladeanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Safwan El Assad (École Polytechnique de l’Université de Nantes, France); Jean-Claude Carlach (France Telecom, France); Raymond Quere (XLIM, France); Ion Marghescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)



AM3: Array Processing and Calibration

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Jean-Jacques Fuchs (irisa/université de Rennes, France)
15:50 Modified Modulus Transformation for High Resolution Direction Finding
Chin Heng Lim (Temasek Laboratories@NTU, Singapore); Joni Lie (Temasek Laboratories@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., Singapore); C. m. See (DSO Laboratories, Singapore); Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
16:10 Interpolation-based Calibration for Near-Field source localization
Hongyang He (University of Nantes, France); Yide Wang (University of Nantes, Polytech'Nantes, France); Joseph Saillard (Laboratory IREENA, France)
16:30 On Optimal Sensor Placement for Time-Difference-of-Arrival Localization Utilizing Uncertainty Minimization
Kutluyil Dogancay (University of South Australia, Australia); Hatem Hmam (Defence Science & Technology Organisation, Australia)
16:50 Antenna Array Cramer-Rao Bound Design By Element Relocation
George Gera (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
17:10 Self-Calibration of Radio Astronomical Arrays with Non-Diagonal Noise Covariance Matrix
Stefan Wijnholds (ASTRON, The Netherlands); Alle Jan van der Veen (Delft University, The Netherlands)



SS7: Emerging Applications of Time-Frequency Signal Processing

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Luis Chaparro (University of Pittsburgh, USA) , Aydin Akan (Istanbul University, Turkey)
15:50 Quantitative Evaluation of Concentrated Time-Frequency Distributions
Imran Shafi (Centre for Advance Studies in Engineering (C@SE), Islamabad, Pakistan, Pakistan); Jamil Ahmad (Iqra University, H-9, Islamabad Campus, Islamabad Pakistan, Pakistan); Ismail Shah (Iqra University Islamabad Pakistan, Pakistan); Faisal Kashif (MIT USA, USA)
16:10 Time-Frequency Multiplexing for Time-encoded Signals from Brain-computer Interfaces
Seda Senay (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Luis Chaparro (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Mingui Sun (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Robert Sclabassi (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
16:30 A Time-Frequency Division Multiplexing Communications System with Hexagonal Lattice Structure
Seda Senay (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Luis Chaparro (University of Pittsburgh, USA); Lutfiye Durak (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
16:50 Channel Estimation for Fast-Varying MIMO-OFDM Systems
Erol Onen (Istanbul University, Turkey); Aydin Akan (Istanbul University, Turkey); Luis Chaparro (University of Pittsburgh, USA)


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