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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

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WEDNESDAY MORNING

PLENARY TALK

Partial Differential Equations in Image Analysis: Continuous Modeling, Discrete Processing

WM SS-1: Nonlinear Signal Processing for Communications

Organizer: T. Adali

Chair: T. Adali, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, U.S.A

Nonlinear Signal Processing for Adaptive Equalisation and Multi -User Detection (Invited Lecture)

Channel Equalization For Coded Signals In Hostile Environments

A Combined LMS -SOM Algorithm for time -varying non -linear channel equalization

Non -Linear Equalizers that Estimate Error Rates During Reception

On the Nonlinearity of Linear Prediction

A Likelihood Framework for nonlinear Signal Processing with Finite normal Mixtures

Analysis of a Nonlinear Equalizer Based on High -Order Statistics

Bit Error Rate Optimization of DS -CDMA Receivers

Constrained Pulse Shape Synthesis for Digital Communications

WM S-2: Shape Analysis and Recognition

Chair: J.M. Chassery, TIMC-IMAG, France

Sequential Local Transform Algorithms for Gray - Level Distance Transforms

Hiererchical Skeleton Extraction based on a Deformable Particle System

Shape representation for object correspondence based on sub -graph matching and Fourier descriptors

Rapid location of convex objects in digital images

Boundary Tracking in 3D Binary Images to Produce Rhombic Faces for A Docecahedral Model

Efficient Curvature -based Shape Representation for Similarity Retrieval

Model Acquisition and Matching in Tagged Object Recognition (TOR)

Form Identification and Skew Detection from Projections

The use of steerable filters for hand -written character recognition

Stereo -vision via connected -set operators

WM S-3: Time - Frequency Analysis

Chair: M. Bellanger, CNAM, France

Optimum oversampling in the rectangular Gabor scheme

Half -Quadratic Regularization of Time -Frequency AR Analysis for Recovery of Abrupt
Spectral Discontinuities and their Detection by a Recursive Siegel Metric based on
Information Geometry

Representation of Pseudoperiodic Signals by means of Pitch -Synchronous Frequency Warped Wavelet Transform

Algorithm for the Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Using Time -Frequency Distributions
with Adaptive Window Width

Tracking of spectral lines in an ARCAP time -frequency representation

Detection and tracking of multi -periodic signals

Sound Signature Analysis using Time -Frequency Signal Processing:
Application to Active Stall Avoidance in Axial Compressors

Extended Wavelet Transforms in Acoustic Diagnosis

Quantization Effects in Implementation of Distributions from the Cohen Class

Cross -Terms Free Forms of Some Quadratic and Higher Order Time -Frequency Representations

WM S-4a: Biomedical Signal Processing

Chair: W. Sandham, Univ. of Strathclyde, U.K.

A Nonlinear Dynamical Model for Compression and Detection of ECG Data

Analysis of Brain Electroencephalograms with the Instantaneous Maximum Entropy Method

Fast optimal beam determination for conformation radiotherapy treatment planning

Single Channel Analysis of Sleep EEG: An Adaptive Database Method

Blood glucose prediction for diabetes therapy using a recurrent artificial neural network

WM S-4b: Biomedical Image Processing

Chair: M. Unser, EPFL, Switzerland

4-D reconstruction of the left ventricle from a single cycle ultrasound acquisition

Ultrasonic Array Imaging Using CDMA Techniques

A Comparison of several interpolation methods in 3D x -ray cone beam reconstruction

Weighting Hyperparameters for 3D Bayesian estimation in Eddy Current Tomography

Enhancement of Mammographic Images for Detection of Microcalcifications

WM S-5a: Speech Analysis

Chair: P. Naylor, Imperial College, U.K.

Voice Source Parameters for Speaker Verification

A Nonlinear Algorithm for Epoch marking in Speech Signals Using Poincar_ Maps

A Geometric Algorithm for Voice Activity Detection in Nonstationary Gaussian Noise

Comparison of Some Time -Frequency Analysis Methods for Classification of Plosives

Speech Parameters Vector Based on Arithmetic Fourier Transform

WM S-5b: Speech and Audio Coding / Compression

Chair: U. Heute, Kiel Univ., Germany

CELP with Priority to Critical Segments

On the Combination of Redundant and Zero -Redundant Channel Error Detection
in CELP Speech -Coding

A new intraframe LSP interpolation technique for low bit rate speeh coding

Backward Adaptive Warped Lattice for Wideband Stereo Coding

An Algorithm for Wideband Audio Coding based on LMS / RLS Switched Predictors

WM P-6: Efficient Algorithms for Filter Design and Signal Reconstruction

Chair: K. Berberidis, Univ. of Patras, Greece

Novel Adaptive Algorithm Based on Least Mean p -Power Error Criterion
for Fourier Analysis in Additive Noise

The Summational Projection Alhgorithm for the Adaptive Volterra Filter

Convergence Analysis and Fast Algorithms of Volterra Adaptive Filters

Evolving Complex Adaptive IIR Structures

Fractionally -Spaced Equalization for Time -Varying Channels

Adaptive blind separation of convolved sources based on maximization
of the generalized instantaneous energy

Adaptive Blind Equalization for Asynchronous DS -CDMA Systems Based on RLS

Improved Neural Network Equalization by the use of Maximum Covariance Weight Initialization

Adaptive Nonlinear Filtering with the Support Vector Method

Adaptive Weighted Vector Median Filter Using a Gradient Algorithm

Smoothing of Noisy AR Signals Using an Adaptive Kalman Filter

Accurate LDA - spectra by resampling and ARMA - modeling

Sintrack Analysis. Application to Detection and Estimation of Flutter for Flexible Structures

WM P-7a: Image Filtering

Chair: C. Kotropoulos, Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

Nonlinear filtering of MR images using geometrically and statistically controlled diffusion

A novel Algorithm for Digital Image Processing Applications

Stable nonlinear filters with spatial prediction

From continuum model to a detailed discrete theory of median shifts

Fuzzy Colour Filtering Using Relative Entropy

Decomposition and Order Statistics in Filtering

A True order recursive algorithm for two -dimensional least squares error linear prediction and filtering

One -Dimensional Scale -Space Preserving Filters

Transfer Function Models for Continuous and Discrete Multidimensional Systems

WM P-7b: Image Restoration and Enhancement

Chair: S. Fotopoulos, Univ. of Patras, Greece

The Periodic Step Gradient Descent Algorithm - General Analysis and Application
to the Super Resolution Reconstruction Problem

Reconstruction of locally homogeneous images

Statistical Restoration of Images Using a Hybrid Bayesian Approach

A New Approach for Restoration of NMR Signals

Enhancing Handwritten Character Images thanks to a Re -Sampling Process Based
on Convex Hull Extraction

A Sequential Projections Based Postprocessor for Block -based Image Coding

Enhancement of Sketch Contours on Paintings Infrared Photographies: A Comparison

An Integrated system for Object Tracking and Progressive Coding Based on Statistical Morphology

An inverse Problem: Histogram Equalization