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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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FRIDAY MORNING

PLENARY TALK

Audio -Visual Signal Processing for Mobile Communications

FM SS-1: Applications of Multirate Digital Signal Processing

Organizer: S. Mitra

Chair: S. Mitra, Univ. California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

N -th Band Filter Design

Fractional Rate Decimator and Interpolator Design

Subband Coding of Speech and Audio

Multiresolution Coding of Image and Video Signals

Acoustic Echo Control in Subbands - An Application of Multirate Systems

Transmultiplexers -Some new Applications

Discrete Wavelet Packet Based Multitone Modulation for Transmitting Complex Symbols

Oversampling A/D and D/A Converters

FM S-2: Signal Processing for Communications II

Chair: J. Chambers, Imperial College, U.K.

Permutation Spreading in Wavelet OFDM Systems

Performance analysis of a Wavelet -Based Generalized Sidelobe Cancellers

A Decorrelating Multiuser Receiver for DS/CDMA Systems Using TCM

Bearings -only Target Motion Analysis by estimation of densities

PLL Frequency Synthesizer System Utilizing Multi -Programmable Dividers

DSP -FLL for FSK Demodulation

Some improvements of a rotation invariant autoregressive method.
Application to the neural classification of noisy sonar images

A new approach to ECF design is proposed based on IRLS algorithm

FM SS-3: Simulation Based Computational Methods for Statistical Signal Processing

Organizer: C. Andrien, U. Cappe, A. Doucet

Co-Chairmen: C. Andrien, ENSEA/ETIS, A. Doucet, CEN Saclay, France

On a New Stochastic Version of the EM Algorithm

Variable Selection by a reversible jump MCMC approach

A comparison of sample based filters and the extended Kalman filter for the bearings -
only tracking problem

Some Examples of Inverse Problems in Geophysics

Bayesian Decomposition Trees with Application to Signal Denoising

MCMC Methods for Restoration of Nonlinearly Distorted Autoregressive Signals

Multidimensional Optimisation of Harmonic Signals

FM S-4a: Adaptive Systems II

Chair: P. Regalia, INT, France

Undermodeled Equalization: Extrema of the Godard/Shalvi -Weinstein Criterion

Blind Single -Channel Interference Rejection Using Godard's Criterion

Robust Second -Order Blind Equalization of Polyphase Channels

A Constant Modulus Approach to Multiple Access Interference Rejection

Constrained Normalized Adaptive Filters for CDMA Mobile Communications

FM SS-4b: Blind Source Separation

Organizer: A. Nandi

Chair: A. Nandi, Univ. of Strathclyde, U.K.

Direct exploitation of non -Gaussianity as a discriminant

Performance of Blind Discrete Source Separation

A Residual Bound for the Mixing Matrix in ICA

Generalization of a Maximum -Likelihood Approach to Blind Source Separation

De -noising of experimental signals from pyroelectric sensors by a source separation method

FM S-5: Motion / Compression

Chair: M. Orchard, Univ. of Princeton , U.S.A.

Hierarchical Mesh -based motion estimation using a differential approach
and application to video coding

Compact representation of motion parameters for object -based video coding

Object oriented coding using 3D motion estimation

Adaptive orthogonal filter bank trees for encoding of motion -compensated frame differences

Architectures for Vector -Tracing based Motion Estimation for MPEG2 type coding
for TV and HDTV

Vector Tracing Techniques for Motion Estimation Algorithms in Video Coding

A Background Memory Update Scheme for H.263 Video Codec

Connected operators for sprite creation and layered representation of image sequences

Low -bitrate Video coding with Third Order Geometric Transformations

FM P-6: System Identification and Parameter Estimation

Chair: A. Liavas, Univ. of Athens, Greece

Generalized Quadratic Minimization and a Signal processing application

Frish filtering of noisy signals

An Algebraic Approach to the Subset Selection Problem

Person Identification via the EEG Using Computational Geometry Algorithms

A Vector Quantization Schema for Non -Stationary Signal Distributions Based
on ML Estimation of Mixture Densities

Fourth -order cumulant -based algorithms for non -minimum phase MA system identification

Stochastic system identification for ATM netwrork traffic models: a time domain approach

Blind identification of sparse multipath channels using cyclostationary statistics

On the linearly constrained blind multichannel equalization

Evolutionary Multimodel Partitioning Filters for Multivariable Systems

Adaptive AR Model Identification Based on the FAEST Filters

Markovian approach to random fields nonlinear detection and estimation problems

Blind and Semi -Blind Maximum Likelihood Techniques
for Multiuser Multichannel identification

FM P-7: Image and Shape Analysis

Chair: G. Tsihritzis, Northeastern Univ. U.S.A.

A Robust Method for Reflections Analysis in Color Image Sequences

Locating text in color document images

Characterisation of circular objects based on the Hough Transform

How to detect dominant points on 3 -D curves

Curvature Variation of Projected Cross -Sections from Straight Uniform Generalized Cylinders

3 -D measurements using conoscopy and application to ophthalmology

Projection -Based Registration of Radiological Images

Lip Features for Speech and speaker Recognition

Precise Eye Detection from Image Sequences

A New Stereo Matching algorithm Based on Probabilistic Diffusion

An efficient balanced hierarchical data structure for multiversion accesses to spatio-temporal data

Vision Navigation of an Autonomous Vehicle by Fuzzy Reasoning

Measuring Tree -Ring Parameters using the Generalised Fisher Ratio