PRELEMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
ThA S-1a: Pattern Recognition
- Chair: S. Theodoridis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
A Vector Based Approximation of
KLT and its Application to Face Recognition
Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Vassilios
Alexopoulos and Stefanos Kollias
Recognition of Rotated and Scaled
Textures Using 2 -D AR Modeling
and the Fourier -Mellin Transform
C. Cariou, O. Alata, C. Rosenberger,
J. -M. Ogier and K. Chehdi
Point pattern matching using a
genetic algorithm and voronoi tessellation
Marius Tico and Corneliu Rusu
Knowledge Based Interpretation
of Aerial Images Using Multiple Sensors
R. Tonjes and C. -E. Liedtke
Automatic Generation of a VLSI
Parallel Architecture for QRS Detection
A. Koulouris, N. Koziris, T.
Andronikos, G. Papakonstantinou and P. Tsanakas
ThA S-1b: Nonlinear Techniques for Channel Equalization
- Chair: B. Mulgrew, Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.
A fuzzy logic filter for coherent
detection in Mobile Communication Receivers
A. Perez -Neira, M.A. Lagunas,
A. Jove and A. Artes
Viterbi Algorithm with Embedded
Channel Estimation Based on Fuzzy Inference
Lorenzo Favalli, Alessandro
Mecocci and Pietro Savazzi
Co -channel interference suppression
using a fuzzy filter
Sarat Kumar Patra and Bernard
Mulgrew
Blind Equalization of Nonlinear
Channels Using Hidden Markov Models
Kristina Georgoulakis and Sergios
Theodoridis
Symbol -by -Symbol Mobile Radio
Channel Equalization Using the K -NN Classifier
Pietro Savazzi, Lorenzo Favalli,
Eugenio Costamagna and Alessandro Mecocci
Reduced -complexity Decision Feedback
Equalizer for Nonlinear Channels
Francisco J. Gonzalez -Serrano,
Fernando Perez -Cruz and Antonio Artes -Rodriguez
ThA S-2: Blind Identification / Deconvolution
- Chair: O. Macchi, LSS / CNRS / ESE, France
Source separation without explicit
decorrelation
Odile Macchi and Eric Moreau
Blind separation of polarized
waves
J.L. Lacoume, F. Glangeaud
and J. Mars
Blind Multichannel Estimation
Exploiting the Finite Symbol Alphabet
Jaouhar Ayadi and Dirk T.M.
Slock
Robustness of the least -squares
and the subspace methods for blind channel
Identification/equalization with respect to channel undermodeling
Athanasios P. Liavas, Phillip
A. Regalia and Jean -Pierre Delmas
Identifiability Conditions for
Blind and Semi - Blind Multichannel Estimation
Elisabeth de Carvalho and Dirk
T.M. Slock
Blind and Informed Cyclic Array
Processing for Cyclostationary Signals
Pascal Chevalier and Alain
Maurice
A numerical algorithm for implementing
the single -stage maximization criterion
for multichannel blind deconvolution
Shuichi Ohno, Yujiro Inouye
and Kazuaki Tanebe
DFT Based Optimal Blind Channel
Identification
Claudio Becchetti, Giovanni
Jacovitti and Gaetano Scarano
Blind Identification of IIR Model
Based on Outpul Over -Sampling
Lianming Sun, Wataru Nisizawa,
Wenjiang Liu and Akira Sano
Blind Multichannel Equalization
with Controlled Delay
A. Touzni and I. Fijalkow
ThA S-3: Image Analysis
- Chair: L. Torres, UPC, Spain
A Disjoint set Algorithm for the
Watershed Transform
Arnold Meijster and Jos B.T.M.
Roerdink
Electrostatic formulation for
adaptive dilation
Olivier Lavialle and Pierre
Baylou
Textured Regions Extraction Using
matching pursuit Method
Takahide Kayanuma and Nozomu
Hamada
Hexagonal Wavelet Decomposition
for Texture Characterization
Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Srdan
Markovic and Miodrag Popovic
Optimized Wold -Like Decomposition
of 2D Random Fields
Patrizio Campisi, Giovanni
Iacovitti and Alessandro Neri
A New Algorithm CGA for Image
Labeling
Guo dong Guo, Shan Yu and Song
de Ma
Maximum Entropy Contouring and
Clustering for Fractal Attractors
with Application to Self -Similarity Coding of Complex Texture
Kohji Kamejima
Region Based Analysis of Video
Sequences with a General Merging Algorithm
Luis Garrido and Philippe Salembier
A Framework for Interactive Video
Sequence Segmentation Based on Multiple Features
R. Castagno and T. Ebrahimi
Curvature Estimation of Oriented
Patterns
M. Donias, P. Baylou and N.
Keskes
ThA SS-4: Multimedia Signal Processing
- Organizer: A. Venetsanopoulos
- Chair: A. Venetsanopoulos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
ARHON: A Multimedia Database Design
for Image Documents
K.V. Chandrinos, J. Immerker
and P.E. Trahanias
A Multimedia System for the Surveillance
of Unattended Railway Stations
Elena Stringa, Claudio Sacchi
and Carlo S. Regazzoni
Down -Sampling of Compressed Images
in the DCT Domain
A.N. Skodras and C.A. Christopoulos
Broadband Multimedia Systems Architecture
and Integration
Irek Defee
A Color Segmentation and Classification
Scheme for Facial Image and Video Retrieval
N. Herodotou, K.N. Plataniotis
and A.N. Venetsanopoulos
Algorithms for Compressed Video
Processing in Multimedia Applications
Francesca Dardi and Giovanni
L. Sicuranza
Detecting and Classifying Video
Shot Boundaries in MPEG Compressed Sequences
Irena Koprinska and Sergio
Carrato
Image Region Extraction for Content
-Based Image Retrieval
D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis
and A.N. Venetsanopoulos
ThA SS-5: Transform Methods in Signal Processing
- Organizer: J. Astola
- Chair: J. Astola, Univ. of Tampere, Finland
Wavelets, filterbanks, and the
Karhunen -Loeve transform
Michael Unser
Total variation based interpolation
F. Guichard and F. Malgouyres
Transform oriented technology
for quantitative analysis of fetal movements
in ultrasound image sequences
Leonid Yaroslavsky and Ben
-Zion Shaick
Discreete -time linear -phase
nearly orthogonal wavelet banks
Tapio Saramaki and Karen Egiazarian
Filtering in Consecutive Fractional
Fourier Transform Domains -- A Method to Synthesize
General Linear Systems for More Efficient Digital and Optical Implementations
M. Fatih Erden, Haldun M. Ozaktas
and M. Alper Kutay
Fast Fractional Fourier Transform
E.V. Labunets and V.G. Labunets
Solution of the super -resolution
problem through extrapolation of the orthogonal spectra
using multi -valued neural technique
Igor Aizenberg, Naum Aizenberg,
Jaakko Astola and Karen Egiazarian
New Fast Trigonometric Transforms
K. Egiazarian, V.G. Labunets,
E.V. Labunets and J. Astola
Fast Algebraic Convolution for
Prime Power Lengths
Reiner Creutzburg and Torsten
Minkwitz
ThA P-6a: Statistical and Array Signal Processing
- Chair: B. Picinbono, Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, France
On the issue of rank estimation
in subspace tracking: the NA -CSVD solution
Philippe A. Pango and Benoit
Champagne
The min -norm beamformer: a new
estimate of the propagation speed of waves in a car exhaust
Gema Pinero and Luis Vergara
Direction -of -Arrival Estimation
of Cyclostationary Coherent Signals in Array Processing
Jingmin Xin, Hiroyuki Tsuji,
Yoshihiro Hase and Akira Sano
A Downlink Adaptive Transmitting
Antenna Method for T/F/SDMA FDD Systems
Avoiding DOA Estimation
T. Aste, P. Forster, L. Fety
and S. Mayrargue
DOA Outlier Mitigation for Generalised
Spatial Smoothing
Yuri I. Abramovich and Nicholas
K. Spencer
Fast High Resolution Methods
S. Bourennane, M. Frikel and
A. Bendjama
Geometrical determination of ambiguities
in bearing estimation for sparse linear arrays
Anne Flieller, Pascal Larzabal
and Henri Clergeot
Sufficient conditions for the
unique localization of distributed sources (Withdrawn)
Shahrokh Valaee and Benoit
Champagne
Spatial and Temporal Processing
of Cyclostationary Signals in Array Antennas Based
on Linear Prediction Model
Ami Kanazawa, Hiroyuki Tsuj,
Jingmin Xin and Blagovest Shishkov
Improving Signal Subspace Estimation
and Source Number Detection in the Context
of Spatially Correlated Noises
P. Fabry, Ch. Serviere and
J.L. Lacoume
Blind Separation of Cyclostationary
Signals
Adriana Dapena, Daniel Iglesia
and Luis Castedo
Blind Seperation from ž
-contaminated mixtures
V. Koivunen, P. Pajunen, J.
Karhunen and E. Oja
ThA P-6b: Spectral Estimation and Signal Analysis
- Chair: H. Sakai, Kioto Univ., Japan
Efficient Stochastic Maximum A
Posteriori Estimation for Harmonic Signals
Christophe Andrieu and Arnaud
Doucet
A Fuzzy Reasoning Based Arma Order
Selection Method
Miki Haseyama and Hideo Kitajima
Spectral Methods for Stationary
Harmonizable Alpha -Stable Processes
G.A. Tsihrintzis, P. Tsakalides
and C.L. Nikias
Robust Bayesian Spectral Analysis
via MCMC Sampling
Arnaud Doucet and Christophe
Andrieu
Linear Prediction Modeling for
Signal Selective DOA Estimation Based on Higher -Order Statistics
Hiroyuki Tsuji, Jingmin Xin,
Yoshihiro Hase and Blagovest Shishkov
Wavelet -packet basis selection
for abrupt changes detection in multicomponent signals
Eric Hitti and Marie -Francoise
Lucas
Detection of cisoids in noise
Joakim Sorelius
High resolution nearly -ML estimation
of sinusoids in noise using a fast frequency domain approach
Malcolm D. Macleod
A Period Detector for Pseudo -Periodic
Signals
Bart F. Rice
Relationship between the Wigner
-Distribution and the Teager Energy
R. Hamila, F.A. Cheikh, J.
Vesma, J. Astola and M. Gabbouj
LPC and CCF Vocal Tract Models
in Speech Synthesis
Robert VŒch and Zdenek Smekal
Real Time Detectror for Cyclostationary
RFI in Radio Astronomy
Rodolphe Weber and Christian
Faye
ThA P-7: Filter Design and Subband Techniques
- Chair: A. Delopoulos, NTUA, Greece
Ladder Scheme for Perfect Reconstruction
Modulated Filter Banks
M. Gharbi, M. Colin, M. Gazalet
and F.X. Coudoux
Multistage Implementation of Optimal
Reconstruction in Noisy Filter Banks
Onoriu Bradenanu and Ulrich
Appel
Optimal Subband Analysis Filters
Compensating for Quantization and Additive Noise
Anastasios Doulamis, Nikolaos
Doulamis and Anastasios Delopoulos
Multidimensional Multirate Filter
Without Checkerboard Effects
Yasuhiro Harada, Shogo Muramatsu
and Hitoshi Kiya
Inter -Relationships between Different
structures for periodic systems
Desmond McLernon
A Design Approach to a Hierarchical
Structure Transversal Filter Using GA
S. Nakamura, T. Hoshi, S. Watanuki
and M. Yoneyma
Design of Primitive Operator Digital
Filters Using Genetic Algorithms
David W. Redmill and David
R. Bull
Design of Equiripple Minimum Phase
FIR -Filters
A. Groth and H.G. Gockler
Designing Low -Pass Digital Filters
with Fewer paremeters
Gang Li
Cluster Filter
Jari Ili -Hietanen, Konsta
Koppinen, Katriina Halonen
Least Squares Design of IIR Filters
with Arbitrary Magnitude and Phase Responses
and specified Stability Margin
Mathias C. Lang
Quadratic FIR - Filter Design
as a Generalized Eigenproblem
Jeffrey O. Coleman
On the Optimal Structure of 2
-D Digital Filters with L2 -Sensitivity Minimization
Gang Li
Design of FIR filters for images
based on properties of human vision
Naoyuki Aikawa and Masamitsu
Sato
Lattice Structure of Transparent
Layered Optical Systems
Yoshimi Monden and Hideki Hirayama
Complexity constraints - A way
toward simpler structuring systems
Pertti Koivisto and Pauli Kuosmanen
An Effective Algorithm for Filtering
and Observer Design
Salim Ibrir
Adaptive System Identification
using the Normalized Least Mean Fourth Algorithm
Azzedine Zerguine and Maamar
Bettayeb