PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FA S-1: Signal Processing for Communications III
Chair: C. Cowan, Queens Univ., Belfast, U.K.
ABRLS Algorithm for Time Variant Channel Equalisation
Tetsuya Shimamura and Colin F.N. Cowan
The Use of Evolutionary Optimisation in Channel Equalisation
F. Sweeney, P. Power and C.F.N. Cowan
An Algorithm for Channel Equalization with Adaptive Tap Position Control
M.T. Arvind and P.G. Poonacha
A Constant Modulus Array for Real Signals
W. Pora, S. Lambotharan, J.A. Chambers and A.G. Constantinides
Blind Iterative Separation of CDMA Signals by Nonlinear Independent Component Analysis
Ari Hottinen
A bayesian method for GPS signals delay estimation
J. Soubielle, I. Fijalkow, P. Duvaut, J.Y. Delabbaye and A. Bibaut
Radio Frequency Interference Rejection in Radio Astronomy Receivers
Peter Fridman
Spatial -Temporal Processing with Restriction of Degrees of Freedom
for CDMA -Multiuser Detection
O. Munoz, J.A. Fernandez -Rubio
An Efficient Non Linear Receiver for High Density Optical Recording
L. Agarossi, S. Bellini, F. Bregoli and P. Migliorati
FA S-2a: Image Filtering
Chair: M. Gabbouj, Univ. of Tampere, Finland
Noise Reduction of Image Sequences as Preprocessing for MPEG2 Encoding
P.M.B van Roosmalen, A.C. Kokaram and J. Biemond
Variational Principles Applied to Image Filtering
Lorenzo Jose Tardon -Garcia, Javier Portillo -Garcia
Removal of mixed noise by adaptive Linear combination of weighted order statistics (LWOS)
filters based on local statistics
Akira Taguchi and Tadasuke Inoue
A New Operator for Image Processing Based on Lp -Filter Approximation
M. Tabiza and Ph. Bolon
Signal and Image Denoising in Transform Domain and Wavelet Shrinkage: A Comparative Study
Rusen Oktem, Leonid Yarovslavsky and Karen Egiazarian
FA S-2b: Watermarking
Chair: V. Cappelini, Univ. of Firenze, Italy
Generation of the Signature with the Structured Information of the Image
Hirotsugu Kinoshita and Masafumi Satoh
Self -similarity based image watermarking
Patrick Bas, Jean -Marc Chassery and Franck Davoine
Removing Spatial Spread Spectrum Watermarks by non -linear Filtering
Gerrit C. Langelaar, Reginald L. Lagendijk and Jan Biemond
Robust Image Watermarking in the Subband or Discrete Cosine Transform Domain
Dimitrios Tzovaras, Nikitas Karagiannis and Michael G. Strintzis
Non -Invertible Statistical Wavelet Watermarking
Gianluca Nicchiotti and Ennio Ottaviani
FA S-3: Image and Video Coding
Chair: M. Kunt, Swiss Fed. Inst. Techn., Switzerland
User Interaction in Content -Based Video Coding and Indexing
Paulo Correia and Fernando Pereira
An MPEG2 Compliant PSNR controller for a Constant High Quality Studio Environment
Enrico Frumento and Rosa Lancini
Adaptive Tree -Structured Lattice Vector Quantization for Video Coding
Vincent Ricordel and Moncef Gabbouj
Linear Combination of Face Views for Low Bit Rate Face Video Compression
Ioannis Koufakis and Bernard Buxton
Computational Graceful Degradation for Video Decoding
Marco Mattavelli and Sylvain Brunetton
Cost -Based Region Growing for Fractal Image Compression
Hannes Hartenstein and Dietmar Saupe
Context -based adaptive arithmetic coding for lossy plus lossless image compression
Guang Deng
High Compression of Chrominance Exploiting its Correlation with Luminance
Maciej Bartkowiak and Marek Domanski
Progressive Medical Image Compression Using a Diagnostic Quality Measure
on Regions -of -Interest
Alberto Signoroni and Riccardo Leonardi
Multidimensional companding for Lattice Vector Quantization
of Circularly Symmetric Densities
Stephan F. Simon and Werner Praefcke
FA S-4: Audio and Electroacoustics II
Chair: T. Ramstad, NUST, Norway
Stochastic gradient algorithms in active control
Alberto Gonzalez
Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Canceller using single adaptive filter per channel
Eun Sook Kim, Kyu Hwa Jeong, Won Cheol Lee and Dae Hee Youn
Modified Multidelay Adaptive Filter for Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Tonu Trump
Audio Subband Coding with Improved Representation of Transient Signal Segments
Jorg Kliewer and Alfred Mertins
Adaptive context based sequential prediction for lossless audio compression
Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu, Ioan Tabus and Jaakko Astola
Active Binaural Sound Localization
Greg Reid and Evangelos Milios
Recognition of Isolated Musical Patterns using Discrete Observation Hidden Markov Models
Aggelos Pikrakis, Sergios Theodoridis and Dimitris Kamarotos
Toward the automatic synthesis of nonlinear wave digital models for musical acoustics
Federico Pedersini, Augusto Sarti, Stefano Tubaro and Roberto Zattoni
Number Theoretical Means of Resolving a Mixture of Several Harmonic Sounds
Anssi Klapuri
FA S-5a: System Identification
Chair: J. McWhirter, DRA, U.K.
Identification of linear time -variant systems by spectral correlation measurements
Luciano Izzo and Antonio Napolitano
A Polynomial -Algebraic Method for Non -Stationary TARMA Signal Analysis
R. Ben Mrad, S.D. Fassois and J.A. Levitt
Performance analysis of some methods for identifying continuous -time autoregressive processes
Torsten Soderstrom and Magnus Mossberg
The bicepstral distance between random signals: a new tool for comparison
of arma models identification methods based on higher -order statistics
Jean -Luc Vuattoux and Eric Le Carpentier
Discrete Time Equivalents of Linear Systems Driven by White Noise
N. Martins and A.C. Rosa
FA S-5b: Higher Order Statistics
Chair: J. L. Lacoume, CEPHAG, France
An HOS based Statistical Test for Multiplicative Noise Detection
Martial Coulon and Jean -Yves Tourneret
Bussgang Test: A Powerful Non -Gaussianity Test
Caetano Giunta, Giovanni Jacovitti and Gaetano Scarano
Nonlinear Constrained Optimization Using Lagrangian Approach for Blind Source Separation
Benoit Stoll and Eric Moreau
Non -Minimum Phase AR Identification Using Blind Deconvolution Methods
Gaetano Scarano and Giampiero Panci
Modulation Classification Based on a Maximum -Likelihood Receiver
in the Cyclic -Hos Domain
Pierre Marchand, Christophe Le Martret and Jean -Louis Lacoume
Limitations of the ARMA w -Slice Method Using a Linear Combination
of Higher -Order Cumulants
Damjan Zazula and Jean -Luc Vuattoux
FA P-6: Applications
Chair: A. Stouraitis, Univ. of Patras, Greece
Localization Error Analysis of a Fast, Broadband Matched Field Method for a Single Hydrophone
Erland Sangfelt and Bernt Nilsson
Cascaded Scattering Functions for Sonar Signal Processing
Lora G. Weiss and Leon H. Sibul
A Fast Near -Field Bearing Estimation Via Spatial Exponential Kernel Distribution
S. -H. Chang, W. -W. Lin and W. -H. Fang
A system for Seismic Data Processing
Klaus Koster and Michael Spann
A Feature Extractor of Seismic Data Using Genetic Algorithms
A.V. Adamopoulos, S.D. Likothanassis and E.F. Georgopoulos
Classification Microstructure of Human Sleep Using EEG Modelling
Jose M. Allen Lima and Agostinho C. da Rosa
Wavelet based neural network architecture for ECG signal compression
Shubha Kadambe and Pramila Srinivasan
Process -adapted Biosignal Processing - an Approach of Wavelet Transformation
to Intracardial Leads
R. Poll, T. Rauwolf and E. Meisel
Wavelet -Entropy Applied to Brain Signal Analysis
O.A. Rosso, R. Quian Quiroga, S. Blanco, A. Figliola and E. Bas?ar
Denoising of ECG signals using Wavelet Shrinkage with time -frequency dependant treshold
Nikolay Nikolaev and Atanas Gotchev
Hidden Markov models compared to the wavelet transform for P -wave segmentation
in EGC signals
L. Clavier, J.M. Boucher and E. Polard
Hierarchical Neural Network System to Breasts Cancer Diagnosis
L.F. Mingo, J. Castellanos, V. Gimenez and A. Vilarrasa
An Instantaneous Frequency Dispersion Estimator for Detecting High Intensity Transient Signals
in Human Blood Flow
Emmanuel Roy, Silvio Montresor, Pierre Abraham and Marc Baudry
Detection of microcalcifications using non -linear filtering
Dirk Meersman, Paul Scheunders and Dirk Van Dyck
ECG compression using PCA with polynomial estimation of higher order coefficients
David Hamilton, William Sandham and Alberto Blanco
Complete Coding Scheme Using Optimal Time Domain ECG Compression Methods
Ranveig Nygaard and Dag Haugland
Segmentation with Predictive Error and Recursive Likelihood Ratio
Deviation methods in material characterization
S. Femmam and N.K.M. 'Sirdi
Adaptive Directional Order Filters and Mathematical Morphology
for Road Network Extraction on SAR Images
Jocelyn Chanussot, Imad Issa and Patrick Lambert
Fractal Estimation in a Given Frequency Range. Application to Smectite Images
R. Harba, M. Cintract, M. Zabat and H. Van Damme
Radio Frequency interferences suppression for ultra Wide Band radar (Withdrawn)
Bruno Juhel, Georges Vezzosi and Marc Le Goff
FA P-7: Image Analysis
Chair: C.S. Regazzoni, DIBE Univ. of Genova, Italy
Segmentation of Urban Areas in Spot images using MRF
F. Richard, F. Falzon, J. Zerubia, and G. Giraudon
A supervised Lloyd algorithm and segmentation of handwritten Japanese characters
Fujiki Morii
Image decomposition capabilities of the joint wavelet and radon transform
G. Olmo, L. Lo Presti and E. Magli
Segmentation of Boron Carbide Microscopic Images which present twins
Wanessa Nascimento Matta, Arnaldo de Albuquerque Arau'jo,
Marcos Carneiro de Andrade and Gilles Bertrand
Information Criteria for Histogram Thresholding Techniques
Pierre Courtellemont, Christian Olivier and Frederic Jouzel
CT image labeling using simulated annealing algorithm
Zoran Majcenic and Sven Loncaric
Image Segmentation by a Multiresolution Approach
Nacera Benamrane, Karima Kies and Jun Shen
Invariant Supervised Texture Recognition Using Multi -Channel Gabor Filters
Manfred Bresch
Supervised texture classification - Selection of moment lags
Vladimiros Antoniades and Asoke K. Nandi
Unsupervised texture segmentation using discrete wavelet frames
S. Liapis, N. Alvertos and G. Tziritas
Scale Invariant Texture Classification with Mathematical Morphology
Virginia L. Ballarin, Emilce G. Moler and Marcel Brun
An Identification method for Texture AR -2D Modelling Based on Auto -
and Partial Correlation Measures
Isabelle Claude and Andre Smolarz
Mean Depth -Width Ratio of Extrema as Textural Feature
for Automated Cell Proliferation Analysis
Corkidi Gabriel, Vega Leticia and Marquez Jorge
On the Initial Label Configuration of MRF
Guo dong Guo, Shan Yu and Song de Ma
Curvature Scale Space Based Image Corner Detection
Farzin Mokhtarian and Riku Suomela
Road boundaries detection using Color Saturation
Pierre Charbonnier, Philippe Nicolle, Yannick Guillard and Jean Charrier
Directional second order derivatives: application to edge and corner detection
S. Guillon and M. Donias
Linear feature detectors and their application to cereal inspection
E.R. Davies, D.R. Mason, M. Bateman, J. Chambers and C. Ridgway
A Probabilistic Framework for the Hough Transform and Least Squares Pose Estimation
Jorge S. Marques