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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

WA S-1: Architecture II

Chair: K. Pekmetzi, NTUA, Greece

Rapid Design of Discrete Transform Cores

Low Power Implementation of Discrete Wavelet Transform

Efficient Implementation of the Row -Column 8x8 IDCT on VLIW Architectures

Relaxed Look -Ahead Technique for Pipelined Implemantation of Adaptive
Multiple -antenna CDMA Mobile Receivers

A Scheme for the VLSI Implementation of FIR Digital Filters with Reduced Latency

Efficient Bit -Level Design of an On -Board Digital TV Demultiplexer

A Distributed Adaptive Block Matching Algorithm: DIS -ABMA

Prediction of Decoding Time for MPEG -4 Video

Real time image rotation using B -spline interpolation on FPGA's board

Fully -Digital Highly -Modular Architecture of a Hamming -like Neural Network

WA S-2: Motion

Chair: G. Tziritas, Univ. of Crete, Greece

A Fast Two Stage Translational and Warping Motion Compensation Scheme

A fast full search block matching algorithm using subblocks

A New Technique for Motion Estimation and Compensation of the Wavelet Detail Images

New closed -form solutions to image flow equations for ego -motion applications
considering variations of the focal distance

Motion segmentation and tracking using a seeded region growing method

Motion estimation based on affine moment invariants

A Pseudo 3D Motion Estimator for Moving Object Estimation in Noisy Video Sequences

An Object -Based Hierarchical Motion compensation Technique Using the Greedy Method

Video Object Manipulation based on Mosaic Representation for post -production applications

Tracking Markers for Human Motion Analysis

WA SS-3: Acoustic Echo and Noise Control

Organizer: E. Hansler

Chair: E. Hansler, Tech. Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany

Acoustic Echo and noise Control - A Long Lasting Challenge (Invited Lecture)

Speech Quality Evaluation of Hands -Free Telephones During Double Talk:
New Evaluation Methodologies

Combined systems for noise reduction and echo cancellation

Combined Residual Echo and noise Reduction: A Novel Psychoacoustically
Motivated Algorithm

Speech Enhancement for Mobile Telephony Based on Non -uniformly Spaced Frequency Resolution

An Acoustic Echo Canceller with Compensation of Nonlinearities

On the use of new adaptive subband structures in acoustic echo cancellation

Steady - State Solutions of the Extended LMS Algorithm for Stereophonic Acoustic Echo
Cancellation with Leakage or Signal Conditioning

DSP Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Stereo Echo Canceler with Pre -Processing

Yann Joncour, Akihiko Sugiyama and Akihiro Hirano

WA S-4a: Statistical Signal Processing

Chair: T. Soderstrom, Uppsala Univ., Sweden

A General Maximum Likelihood Classifier for Modulation Classification

Approximation of a -Stable Probability Densities Using Finite Gaussian Mixtures

Wavelet Thresholding for a Wide Class of noise Distributions

Information Criteria Based Edge Detection

Estimating the Predictability and the Linearity of a Process by Kernels

WA S-4b: Parameter Estimation

Chair: G. Moustakides, Univ. of Patras, Greece

Multi -user Channel Estimation Exploiting Pulse Shaping Information

A Subspace Fitting -like Method for Almost Low Rank Models

MAP Based Schemes for Detection of Abrupt Changes for Fading Channels

Separate Temporal and Spatial Parametric Channel Estimation

Parameter estimation in partitioned nonlinear stochastic models

Source Localization in Shallow Water in The Presence of Sensor Depth Uncertainty

WA S-5a: Image Enhancement

Chair: G. Sicuranza, Univ. of Trieste, Italy

Reconstructing Missing Regions in Colour Images Using Multichannel Median Models

Unsharp Masking -Based Approach for Color Image Processing

The role of Gamma correction in colour image processing

Quality limits in color printing with more than three primary colors

Image Halftoning Using Optimized Dot Diffusion

WA SS-5b: Image Quality Evaluation

Organizer: P. Cosman

Chair: P. Cosman, Univ. of California San Diego, U.S.A.

A Technique for Image Quality Assessment based on a Human Visual System Model

Subjective Measure of Edge degradation for Vector Quantized Color Images

Towards a Visual Quality Metric for Digital Video

Psychovisual measurement and Distortion Metrics for Image Sequences

Monitoring the Quality of MPEG Coded Video

A Human Vision System Model for Objective Image Fidelity
and Target Detectability Measurements

WA P-6: 3 - D Imaging

Chair: N. Alvertos, Agricultural Univ. of Athens

Modeling 3D Textured Objects by Fusion of multiple Views

Scene Analysis Using Fusion of Range and Color Data

Tracking Camera Calibration in Multi -Camera Sequences through Automatic Feature
Detection and Matching

Range Image Registration for Free -Form Surfaces Using Curvature Information as Invariance

Visualisation of Videoconference Image Sequences Using VRML 2.0

Object Segmentation in 3D Images Based on Alpha -Trimmed Mean
Radial Basis Function Network

Classification of Archaeological Fragments Using a Description Language

On the Application of Light field Reconstruction for Statistical Object Recognition

Virtual Environment Generation by CAD -Based Methodology for Underwater Vehicle Navigation

Combining Intensity and Stereo Data to Improve Satellite Urban Scenes Modeling

WA P-7a: Applications and Architectures

Chair: J.A. Bangham, Univ. of East Anglia, U.K.

A new FPGA architecture for image processing: CYCLOP

Multi - FPGA Processor for gray -scale Morphology

Radon Transform for Internal Wave Detection and Orientation

Application of Momentary fourier Transform to the SPECAN SAR Processing

Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry Using Ground Slope Vector to Phase Unwrapping

WA P-7b: Speech Processing

Chair: G. Kubin, TU Wien, Austria

Automatic pitch marking for speech transformations via TD -PSOLA

The method of pitch frequency detection on the base of tuning to its harmonics

Acoustic Measure of Noise Energy in Vocal Folds Operated Patients

Analysis of Pitch -Synchronous Modulation Effects by using Analytic Filters

Perceptual Evidence for FO Variability Constraints of Phrase -Initial Accents in Greek

The Impact of relative average duration of vowels in Greek on the perception
of a constant synthetic speech rate

Text -to -Speech Synthesis in Slovenian Language

Comparison of Two Different Text -to -speech Alignment systems: Speech Synthesis
based VS. Hybrid HMM/ANN

A Fuzzy Approach to Text -to -Speech Synthesis

A method to choose an appropriate concatenating position
for automatically generated synthesis unites

A high performance vowel spotting system based on a multi -stage architecture

On a Time -varying Complex Speech Analysis

Autocorrelation Analysis of Speech Signals Using the Number Theoretic Transforms
over the Direct Sums of Finite Fields

Speech Analysis and Synthesis Using Instantaneous Amplitudes

Spectral Estimation of Voiced Speech with Regressive Linear Prediction

The performance of a Novel Pre -processor for the Learning Vector Quantisation Classifier

Low Delay Phone Recognition

Design of a Command Interface with a Dynamic Grammar Speech Recognition Engine

ADPCM with Nonlinear Prediction

Non -Linear Processing in Cochlear Space Sub -Bands using Artificial Neural Networks
for Multi -Microphone Adaptive Speech Enhancement