EUSIPCO 2009. 17th European Signal Processing Conference. August 25 - 28th, 2009. Glasgow, Scotland.

Friday, Aug 28

♦ 8:00 AM –   Registration opens

♦ 8:30 AM – 10:10 AM     Presentations

SS13:     Spectrum Management and Signal Coordination in DSL Networks
AE7:     Speech Enhancement 4
AP5:     Signal Processing Applications 2
TH8:     Detection and Estimation 2
IM8:     Image Sampling and Interpolation
AM5:     DOA Estimation

♦ 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM     Coffee Break

♦ 10:30 AM – 12:10 AM     Presentations

CO8:     Channel Modelling and Estimation
SP4:     Speech Analysis and Processing 1
SS14:     Signal Processing Techniques in Navigation Technology
IM9:     Image Coding
VM6:     H.264/AVC

♦ 12:10 PM –   1:00 PM     Plenary #7 Prof Roger Woods

♦ 1:00 PM –   2:20 PM     Lunch Break

♦ 2:20 PM – 2:50 PM     Posters

NN2:     Non-linear / Non-stationary Signals Processing
AP6:     Biomedical Signal Processing 2
SP5:     Speech Analysis and Processing 2
IM10:     Image Coding and Rendering
CO9:     Networks and MIMO Systems
TH9:     Estimation

♦ 2:50 PM –   4:30 PM     Presentations

IM11:     Image Denoising and Restoration
SS15:     Digital Filter Banks: Theory, Algorithms, and Novel Applications 2
SS16:     Efficient Implementation of Complex Algorithms
AE8:     Acoustic Signal Processing
NN3:     Sampling
TH10:     Adaptive Filtering and Optimisation 2

♦ 4:30 PM –   4:50 PM     Coffee Break

♦ 4:50 PM –   5:00 PM Conference Closes






Friday, Aug 28

8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

SS13: Spectrum Management and Signal Coordination in DSL Networks

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) , Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
8:30 An improved dual decomposition approach to DSL dynamic spectrum management
Paschalis Tsiaflakis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Ion Necoara (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Johan Suykens (KULeuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
9:10 DSM Performance on Practical DSL Systems Based on Estimated Crosstalk Channel Information
Eduardo Medeiros (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Neiva Lindqvist (Federal University of Pará, Sweden); Marcio Monteiro (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil); Harney Abrahim (UFPa, Brazil); Fredrik Lindqvist (LTH, Sweden); Boris Dortschy (Ericcson AB, Sweden); Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Para, Brazil)
9:30 Energy Efficient Power Back-Off Management for VDSL2 Transmission
Tomas Nordström (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria); Driton Statovci (The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria); Martin Wolkerstorfer (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria)
9:50 Performance evaluation of a sign-error-based iterative precoder for crosstalk cancelation in DSL systems
Jerome Louveaux (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium)



AE7: Speech Enhancement 4

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Ann Spriet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
8:30 Selective time-reversal block solution to the stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation problem
Dinh Quy Nguyen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Woon Seng Gan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Andy Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
8:50 A Stereo Echo Canceller with Simultaneous 2-Channel Input Slides for Fast Convergence and Good Sound Localization
Akihiko Sugiyama (NEC Corporation, Japan); Yuusuke Mizuno (Kanazawa University, Japan); Akihiro Hirano (Kanazawa University, Japan); Kenji Nakayama (Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
9:10 Assessing the acoustic feedback control performance of adaptive feedback cancellation in sound reinforcement systems
Toon van Waterschoot (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
9:30 Frequency-Domain Adaptive Multidelay Algorithm with Sparseness Control for Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Pradeep Loganathan (Imperial College, London., United Kingdom); Xiang Lin (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Andy Khong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
9:50 Gauss-Seidel Based Variable Step-Size Affine Projection Algorithms for Acoustic Echo Cancellation
Felix Albu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania); Constantin Paleologu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Jacob Benesty (INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Canada)



AP5: Signal Processing Applications 2

Room: Strathclyde Suite
8:30 Rayleigh wave ellipticity estimation from ambient seismic noise using single and multiple vector-sensor techniques
Manuel Hobiger (LGIT, CNRS, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France); Nicolas Le Bihan (GIPSA-Lab, CNRS, France); Cécile Cornou (LGIT, IRD: R157, CNRS, Université J. Fourier Grenoble, France); Pierre-Yves Bard (LGIT, LCPC, CNRS, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France)
8:50 Railway device diagnosis using sparse independent component analysis
Zohra Cherfi (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France); Etienne Côme (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France); Latifa Oukhellou (The French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), France); Patrice Aknin (Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur S´ecurit´e (INRETS), France)
9:10 A Wavelet-Based Pattern Recognition Algorithm to Classify Postural Transitionsin Humans
Anthony Fleury (EPFL, Switzerland); Norbert Noury (University of Lyon, France); Michel Vacher (CNRS, France)
9:30 RFI mitigation in the context of Pulsar coherent de-dispersion at Nancay radio astronomical Observatory
Dalal Ait allal (University of Orleans, France); Rodolphe Weber (University of Orleans, France); Gilles Theureau (Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, France); Ismaël Cognard (Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, France)
9:50 Cyclic Spatial Filtering in Radio Astronomy : Application to Lofar Data
Rym Feliachi (University of Orleans, France); Rodolphe Weber (University of Orleans, France); Albert Jan Boonstra (ASTRON, The Netherlands)



TH8: Detection and Estimation 2

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
8:30 Optimal Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance based nonlinear detector
Hari Vishnu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Anand G. v. (Indian Institute of Science, India); Premkumar A. B (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
8:50 Filtering in the Time-Frequency Domain for the Detection of Compact Objects
Diego Herranz (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, Spain); Jose Luis Sanz (University of Santander, Spain); Ercan Kuruoglu (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
9:10 Efficient Detection of Additive Watermarking in the DWT-Domain
Roland Kwitt (University of Salzburg, Austria); Peter Meerwald (University of Salzburg, Austria); Andreas Uhl (Salzburg University, Austria)
9:30 Accurate Geolocation in the Presence of Outliers using Linear Programming
Joseph Picard (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Anthony Weiss (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
9:50 Maximum likelihood range estimation for 3D-imaging based on pseudo-noise optical modulation
M'Hamed-Ali El Mechat (CSEM Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)



IM8: Image Sampling and Interpolation

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
8:30 Simplifying Gaussian Mixture Models Via Entropic Quantization
Frank Nielsen (Ecole Polytechnique, France); Vincent Garcia (Ecole Polytechnique, France); Richard Nock (Universite des Antilles, France)
8:50 Self-sampled Image Resolution Enhancement Using Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform
Turgay Celik (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Huseyin Kusetogullari (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
9:10 Variable Density Compressed Image Sampling
Zhongmin Wang (University of Delaware, USA); Gonzalo Arce (University of Delaware, USA); Jose Paredes (University of Los Andes, USA)
9:30 Image Interpolation using Optimized Color Transforms
Evgeny Gershikov (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
9:50 A Fast Method for Scaling Color Images
Jaana Parkkinen (Nokia Corporation, Finland)



AM5: DOA Estimation

Room: Green Room Chair: Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras, Greece)
8:30 DOA Estimation in the Presence of Modeling Errors, the Global Matched Filter Approach
Jean-Jacques Fuchs (irisa/université de Rennes, France)
8:50 Statistical Nonidentifiability of Close Emitters: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Breakdown
Yuri Abramovich (Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia); Ben Johnson (JORN Technical Director, Australia); Nicholas Spencer (Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd (ARI), Australia)
9:10 High Resolution Direction Finding : From Performance to Antenna Array Optimization - The mono-source case
Anne Ferreol (Thales Communications, France); Pascal Chevalier (Thales Communication, France)
9:30 DOA Estimation of Multiple Sparse Sources Using Three Widely-Spaced Sensors
Tarig Ballal (University College Dublin, Ireland); Chris Bleakley (University College Dublin, Ireland)
9:50 Empirical Mode Decomposition Based Denoising for High Resolution Direction of Arrival Estimation
Ozgur Gultekin (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Isin Erer (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)



10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

CO8: Channel Modelling and Estimation

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Mounir Ghogho (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
10:30 LOS/NLOS detection by the normalized RAYLEIGH-NESS test
Francesco Benedetto (University of Roma Tre, Italy); Gaetano Giunta (University of "Roma TRE", Italy); Luc Vandendorpe (University of Louvain, Belgium)
10:50 Characteristics of impulsive noise in electricity substations
Qingshan Shan (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Shahzad Bhatti (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Ian Glover (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Atkinson (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); I Portugues (Elimpus Ltd, United Kingdom); Phil Moore (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Richard Rutherford (Scottish Power, United Kingdom)
11:10 Performance of multi-user asynchronous chaos-based communication systems through m-distributed fading channel
Georges Kaddoum (IRIT/ENSEEIHT laboratory, France)
11:30 Validation of Minimum-Energy Band-Limited Prediction using Vehicular Channel Measurements
Thomas Zemen (ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, Austria); Sebastian Caban (TU Wien, Austria); Nicolai Czink (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
11:50 A New Channel Order Estimation Algorithm for FIR SIMO Channels
Serkan Karakutuk (Middle East Technical University, Turkey); T. Engin Tuncer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)



SP4: Speech Analysis and Processing 1

Room: Exhibition Hall
10:30 Eigenresiduals for Improved Parametric Speech Synthesis
Thomas Drugman (Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium); Geoffrey Wilfart (Acapela Group, Belgium); Thierry Dutoit (FPMS, Belgium)
10:50 The Effect of Microphone Directivity Patterns on Spatial Cues for Multichannel Reverberant Meeting Speech Analysis
Eva Cheng (University of Wollongong, Australia); Ian Burnett (RMIT University, Australia); Christian Ritz (University of Wollongong, Australia)
11:10 Non-stationary noise model compensation in voice activity detection
Mikko Myllymäki (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
11:30 Detection of Glottal Closing and Opening Instants using an Improved DYPSA Framework
Mark Thomas (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Jon Gudnason (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
11:50 Alternative Speech Communication based on Cued Speech
Panikos Heracleous (Gipsa-lab, France); Noureddine Aboutabit (Ecole des mines de Douai, France); Denis Beautemps (Gipsa-lab, France)



SS14: Signal Processing Techniques in Navigation Technology

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands)
10:30 Outage mitigation for GNSS/MEMS navigation using neural networks
Jean-Rémi De Boer (Université de Toulouse, France); Vincent Calmettes (Université de Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA, France); Bertrand Lesot (Thales Avionics, France)
10:50 Signal processing issues in indoor positioning by ultra wide band radio aided inertial navigation
John-Olof Nilsson (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Alessio De Angelis (University of Perugia, Italy); Isaac Skog (KTH EE, Sweden); Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy); Peter Handel (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
11:10 Differential Observables for Software GPS Interferometry
Benoit Muth (TU Delft - NLDA, The Netherlands); Patrick Oonincx (Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands); Christian Tiberius (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
11:50 N-Gene GNSS Software Receiver for Acqusition and Tracking Algorithm Validation
Andrea Molino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Mario Nicola (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Marco Pini (Isituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Maurizio Fantino (istituto superiore mario boella, Italy)



IM9: Image Coding

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: William Puech (University of Montpellier & LIRMM, France)
10:30 Psychovisual Rotation-Based DPTC Watermarking Scheme
Marc Chaumont (LIRMM (Laboratoire Informatique, Robotique, Microélectronique, Montpellier), France)
10:50 Seamless Joining of Tiles of Varying Resolutions for Online 3D Terrain Visualization by DWT Domain Smoothing
Khizar Hayat (LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France); Gilles Gesquiere (Aix Marseille University, France)
11:10 Wavelet-based Image Compression by Hierarchical Quantization Indexing
Hasan Ates (Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey); Engin Tamer (Isik University, Turkey)
11:30 Improved colour decorrelation for lossless colour image compression using the LAR codec
François Pasteau (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Clément Strauss (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Marie Babel (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Laurent Bedat (IETR / INSA Rennes, France)
11:50 Joint lossless coding and reversible data embedding in a multiresolution still image coder
Jean Motsch (IETR / Saint-Cyr, France); Marie Babel (IETR / INSA Rennes, France); Olivier Deforges (IETR / INSA Rennes, France)



VM6: H.264/AVC

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Marek Domañski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
10:30 Fast Protection of H.264/AVC by Selective Encryption of CABAC for I & P frames
Zafar Shahid (LIRMM, France); Marc Chaumont (LIRMM (Laboratoire Informatique, Robotique, Microélectronique, Montpellier), France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France)
10:50 Performance of Watermarking as an Error Detection Mechanism for Corrupted H.264/AVC Video Sequences
Eva Rodriguez Rodriguez (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Luca Superiori (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Olivia Nemethova (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
11:10 Error-resilient packet switched H.264 mobile video telephony with LT coding and reference picture selection
Muneeb Dawood (De Montfort University, United Kingdom); Raouf Hamzaoui (De Montfort University, United Kingdom); Shakeel Ahmad (De Montfort University, United Kingdom); Marwan Akaidi (De Montfort University UK, United Kingdom)
11:30 Improved Context-Adaptive Arithmetic Coding in H.264/AVC
Damian Karwowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Marek Domañski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
11:50 H.264 Video Traffic Modeling Via Hidden Markov Process
Stefania Colonnese (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy); Stefano Rinauro (Dip. INFOCOM, Università "La Sapienza'' di Roma, Italy); Lorenzo Rossi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Gaetano Scarano (Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, Italy)



2:20 PM - 2:50 PM

NN2: Non-linear / Non-stationary Signals Processing

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 1
On the parameters Estimation of The Generalized Gaussian Mixture Model
Ould Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed (ENIT, Tunisia); Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia)
Time Frequency Characterization for Electric Load Monitoring
Mabrouka El Guedri (Electricité de France, France); Guy D'Urso (Electricité de France, France); Gilles Fleury (Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, France); Christian Lajaunie (Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris, France)
Optimization of Weighting Factors for Multiple Window Time-Frequency Analysis
Maria Sandsten (Lund University, Sweden); Johan Sandberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Parametric reduction complexity of Volterra models using tensor decompositions
Favier Gérard (Université de Nice, France); Thomas Bouilloc (Cnrs/University of Nice, France)
Bayesian compressed sensing of a highly impulsive signal in heavy-tailed noise using a multivariate Cauchy prior
George Tzagkarakis (University of Crete, Greece); Panagiotis Tsakalides (FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece)
Optimal Wigner Cross-Spectrum estimation
Johan Sandberg (Lund University, Sweden); Maria Sandsten (Lund University, Sweden)
Time-Frequency Analysis Based on the Phase Rectified Signal Averaging Method
Meryem Jabloun (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland); Jean-Marc Vesin (EPFL, Switzerland); Jerome Van Zaen (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Estimation of stochastic rate constants and tracking of species in biochemical networks with second-order reactions
Petar Djuric (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA); Monica Bugallo (Stony Brook University, USA)
A new sampling method in particle filter
Qi Cheng (Université Paris-Sud 11, France); Pascal Bondon (LSS CNRS, France)



AP6: Biomedical Signal Processing 2

Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Ahmad Naghsh Nilchi (University of Isfahan, Iran)
Automatic removal of ocular artifacts from EEG data using adaptive filtering and Independent Component Analysis
Carlos Guerrero-Mosquera (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain); Angel Navia-Vázquez (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Estimation of Visual Evoked Potentials for Measurement of Optical Pathway Conduction
Mohd Zuki Yusoff (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia); Nidal Kamel (Technical University of Petronas, Malaysia)
Posterior Cramer Rao Lower Bounds for the Respiratory Model Parameter Estimation
Esra Saatci (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey); Aydin Akan (Istanbul University, Turkey)
From BOLD-fMRI signals to the prediction of subjective pain perception through a regularization algorithm
Marco Prato (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Stefania Favilla (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Patrizia Baraldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Carlo Porro (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Luca Zanni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
A point-event detection algorithm for the analysis of contrast bolus in fluoroscopic images of the coronary arteries
Alexandru Condurache (University of Luebeck, Germany); Alfred Mertins (Institute for Signal and Image Processing, University of Luebeck, Germany)
Contribution of auditory tasks to dyslexia screening
Guylaine Le Jan (LTSI, Université de Rennes1, France); Régine Le Bouquin-Jeannès (University of Rennes 1, France); Nathalie Costet (LTSI, Université Rennes1, France); Gérard Faucon (University of Rennes 1, France)
A new algorithm for instantaneous F0 speech extraction based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition
Gaston Schlotthauer (Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios, Argentina); Maria Torres (Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios, Argentina); Hugo Rufiner (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
New variant of Differential Evolution algorithm: application for neuroscientists
Laure Buhry (IMS, UMR CNRS 52 18, Université Bordeaux 1, France); Audrey Giremus (University of Bordeaux, UMR 5218, IMS, France); Eric Grivel (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Sylvain Saïghi (university of Bordeaux UMR 5218 IMS, France); Sylvie Renaud (IMS LAB, France)
Classification of User States with Physiological Signals: On-line Generic Features vs. Specialized Feature Sets
Florian Hönig (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Johannes Wagner (University of Augsburg, Germany); Anton Batliner (Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany); Elmar Nöth (Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany)
Content Based Clinical Depression Detection in Adolescents
Alex Lu-Shih Low (RMIT University, Australia); Margaret Lech (RMIT University, Australia); Namunu Maddage (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
A Comparative Study Of Four Novel Sleep Apnoea Episode Prediction Systems
Helen Robertson (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction using tissue deformation in echocardiographic imaging
Eyal Braiman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
Classification of Epileptic States Using Roo-MUSIC And MLPNN
Ahmad Naghsh Nilchi (University of Isfahan, Iran); Mostafa Aghashahi (University of Isfahan, Iran)
Scaled Gaussian Matched Filtering on Fluorescein Angiograms of the Retina
Tao Zhu (AT&T (ITO Intl.), United Kingdom)
Measures of Goodness of Fit to Convolution Model for Analysis of fMRI Data
Wakako Nakamura (Shimane University, Japan); Yujiro Inouye (Shimane University, Japan)



SP5: Speech Analysis and Processing 2

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 1 Chair: Julie Mauclair (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Flexible and efficient harmonic resynthesis by modulated sinusoids
Jonathan Teutenberg (University of Auckland, New Zealand); Catherine Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Analysis of a Parallel Lexical-tree-based Speech Decoder for Multi-core Processors
Naveen Parihar (Mississippi State University, USA); Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University, USA)
Evaluation of Pitch Estimation in Noisy Speech for application in Non-Intrusive Speech Quality Assessment
Dushyant Sharma (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
A new feature vector for HMM-based packet loss concealment
Lionel Koenig (Freescale Semiconductor, France); Régine Andre-Obrecht (Université Paul Sabatier, France); Corinne Mailhes (University of Toulouse, France); Serge Fabre (Freescale Semiconductor, France)
Speech Coding Based on Sparse Linear Prediction
Daniele Giacobello (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Manohar Murthi (University of Miami, USA); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Noise Robust Speech Coding at Very Low Bit Rates
Xiaoqiang Xiao (Penn State University, USA); Robert Nickel (Bucknell University, USA)
Experimental mappings and validation of the dependence on the language of objective speech quality scores in actual GSM network conditions
Faten Ben Ali (National Engineering School of Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia); Sonia Djaziri-Larbi (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia); Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia); Khaled Ridane (Orascom Tunisiana, Tunisia)
Exploring the Prosody of Floor Mechanisms in English Using the Fundamental Frequency Variation Spectrum
Kornel Laskowski (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Mattias Heldner (KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden); Jens Edlund (KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden)
A Method Utilizing Window Function Frequency Characteristics for Noise-Robust Spectral Pitch Estimation
Iman Haji Abolhassani (INRS-Énergie-Matériaux-Télécommunications, Canada); Douglas O'Shaughnessy (INRS-Énergie-Matériaux-Télécommunications, Canada); Sid-Ahmed Selouani (Université de Moncton, campus of Shippagan, Canada)
A Simple But Efficient Real-Time Voice Activity Detection Algorithm
Mohammad Moattar (Amirkabir university of technology, Tehran, Iran, Iran); M. Mehdi Homayounpour (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)



IM10: Image Coding and Rendering

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 2
Efficient 16x16 block size mode detection in H.264
Youngsub Jo (University of Hanyang, Korea); Wonkyun Kim (Hanyang University, Korea); Joohyeok Kim (Hanyang University, Korea); Jechang Jeong (Hanyang univ., Korea)
A high speed Bit Plane Coder for JPEG 2000 and it's FPGA implementation
Kishor Sarawadekar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Swapna Banerjee (Prof. Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),, India)
Still Image Coding Using a New Transform
Aldo Maalouf (University of Poitiers, France); Chaker Larabi (SIC, Université de Poitiers, France)
Ghost Detection and Removal in High Dynamic Range Images
Desire Sidibe (Université Jean Monet Saint-Etienne, France); William Puech (University of Montpellier, France); Olivier Strauss (Laboratory LIRMM, UMR CNRS 5506, University of Montpellier II, France)
Lifting Factorization based on Block Parallel System of M-channel Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks
Taizo Suzuki (Keio University, Japan); Masaaki Ikehara (Keio University, Japan)
On Distributed Arithmetic Codes and Syndrome Based Turbo Codes for Slepian-Wolf Coding of Non Uniform Sources
Velotiaray Toto-Zarasoa (IRISA, France); Enrico Magli (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Aline Roumy (INRIA Rennes, France); Gabriella Olmo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
An LMMSE-Based Merging Approach for Subpixel-based Downsampling
Lu Fang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Oscar Au (HKUST, Hong Kong); Xing Wen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Yi Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Weiran Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
A multiscale error diffusion algorithm for green noise digital halftoning
Yik Hing Fung (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Yuk Hee Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
On Efficient Quantization for Image Recompression
Ora Gendler (Technion, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)
Multiple Description Scalar Quantization with Successive Refinement
Muhammad Majid (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Charith Abhayaratne (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)



CO9: Networks and MIMO Systems

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 2 Chair: Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Interference Mitigation Based Signal Forwarding Strategy for Wireless Relay Networks
Muhammad Irfan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); R. Krishna (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Zhilan Xiong (Loughborough University, United Kingdom); Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Comparison of the Software Defined Radio Implementations of the K-best Sphere Detection
Janne Janhunen (University of Oulu, Finland); Olli Silvén (University of Oulu, Finland); Markku Juntti (University of Oulu, Finland)
Coding Assisted Blind MIMO Equalization and Decoding
Xu (burney) Zhao (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mike Davies (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Fixed-Complexity Regularized Vector Precoding for the Multiuser MIMO Downlink Channel
Maitane Barrenechea (Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Mikel Mendicute (University of Mondragon, Spain); Javier Del Ser (TECNALIA-Telecom, Spain)
On Decreasing the Complexity of Lattice-Reduction-Aided K-Best MIMO Detectors.
Sandra Roger (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Vicenc Almenar (Universidad Politecnica De Valencia, Spain); Antonio Vidal (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Spatial Reuse of the Radio Channel in CDMA-enabled, Ad-hoc, Wireless Sensor Networks
Louise Crockett (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Robert Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)
Practical Compress-and-Forward Cooperation for the Classical Relay Network
Jing Jiang (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Peter Grant (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Cooperative multiple access transmission using precoding vectors
Hamid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Vahid Meghdadi (University of Limoges, France); Jean Pierre Cances (University of Limoges, France)
Evaluation of MIMO Symbol Detectors for 3GPP LTE Terminals
Di Wu (Linkoping University, Sweden); Johan Eilert (Linkoping University, Sweden); Dake Liu (Linköping University, Sweden)
SEP of Cooperative Systems using Amplify and Forward or Decode and Forward relaying
Sami Amara (Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Tunisia, Tunisia); Hatem Boujemaa (Ecole Supérieure des Communications, Tunisia); Noureddine Hamdi (INSAT, Carthage University, Tunisia)
Robust Adaptive Modulation With Imperfect Channel Information
Huiqin Du (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Pei-Jung Chung (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Interference Alignment Limits for K-user Frequency-Flat MIMO Interference Channels
Francesco Negro (Eurecom, France); Shakti Shenoy (EURECOM, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France); Irfan Ghauri (Infineon Technologies France, France)
Design of Block-Based Linear MMSE Precoding and Equalisation for Broadband MIMO Relay Networks
Andrew Millar (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)



TH9: Estimation

Posters are on display all day. Presenters are asked to be available during the dedicated afternoon session to attend to their posters.
Room: Foyer 2 Chair: Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
An algebraic derivative-based approach for the zero-crossings estimation
Giuseppe Fedele (University of Calabria, Italy); Francesco Chiaravalloti (CNR-IRPI, Istituto di Ricerca per la Protezione Idrogeologica, Italy); Cédric Join (INRIA-ALIEN & CRAN (CNRS, UMR 7039), Nancy-Université, France)
On the MAP estimation in the context of elliptical distributions
Steeve Zozor (GIPSA-Lab, France); Christophe Vignat (Institut Gaspard Monge, France)
The Wiener filter for locally stationary stochastic processes is rarely locally stationary
Patrik Wahlberg (University of Newcastle, Australia); Peter Schreier (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Entropy and Kullback-Leibler divergence estimation based on Szegö's Theorem
David Ramírez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Pedro Crespo (CEIT and TECNUN (University of Navarra), Spain)
New insights on stochastic complexity
Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Seyed Alireza Razavi (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
A new Method for SNR-Estimation in Impulse Response Measurements
Aulis Telle (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
An Amplitude and Covariance Matrix Estimator for Signals in Colored Gaussian Noise
Jesper Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Mads Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Søren Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
A new robust estimation method for short-term load forecasting
Yacine Chakhchoukh (Paris sud XI, France)
A Noise Estimation Method Based on Improved VAD Used in Noise Spectral Suppression under Highly Non-Stationary Noise Environments
Kenji Nakayama (Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
L2-Density Estimation Under Constraints
Christian Musso (ONERA, France); Nadja Oudjane (ONERA, France)



2:50 PM - 4:30 PM

IM11: Image Denoising and Restoration

Room: Concert Hall Chair: Salah Bourennane (Ecole Centrale Marseille, France)
14:50 Staircasing Reduction Model Applied To Total Variation Based Image Reconstruction
Wei Su Hua (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, P.R. China)
15:10 One Colored Image Based 2.5d Human Face Reconstruction
Wai Lok Woo (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
15:30 Restoration of variable density film soundtracks
Abdelâali Hassaïne (Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, France); Decencière Etienne (Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, France); Bernard Besserer (University of La Rochelle, France)
15:50 Estimation of n-mode ranks of hyperspectral images for tensor denoising
Damien Letexier (Institut Fresnel, France); Salah Bourennane (Ecole Centrale Marseille, France)
16:10 Speckle Noise Reduction in SAR Imaging Using 2-D Lattice Filters Based Subband Decomposition
Gökhan Karasakal (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)



SS15: Digital Filter Banks: Theory, Algorithms, and Novel Applications 2

Room: Exhibition Hall Chair: Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum & Digital Signal Processing Group, Germany)
14:50 A Novel Approach to the Design of Oversampling Complex-Modulated Digital Filter Banks
Christian Stöcker (University of Bochum, Germany); Thomas Kurbiel (University of Bochum, Germany, Germany); Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany); Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum, Germany)
15:10 General Least-Squares Design of Allpass Transformed DFT Filter-Banks
Heinrich Loellmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Guido Dartmann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Peter Vary (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
15:30 Oversampling Complex-Modulated Digital Filter Bank Pairs Suitable For Extensive Subband-Signal Amplification
Thomas Kurbiel (University of Bochum, Germany, Germany); Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum, Germany); Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany)
15:50 Filter Banks for Hearing Aids applying Subband Amplification: A Comparison of different Specification and Design Approaches
Daniel Alfsmann (University of Bochum, Germany); Heinz Goeckler (University of Bochum, Germany); Thomas Kurbiel (University of Bochum, Germany, Germany)



SS16: Efficient Implementation of Complex Algorithms

Room: Strathclyde Suite Chair: John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
14:50 An Improved Sphere Decoding Scheme for MIMO Systems Using an Adaptive Statistical Threshold
Xiang Wu (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Andrew Wallace (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
15:10 Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo Computation for Varying-dimension Signal Analysis
Jing Ye (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); Andrew Wallace (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom); John Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
15:30 A SDR Platform for Mobile Wi-Fi/3G UMTS System on a Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture
Zong Wang (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Ahmet Erdogan (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Tughrul Arslan (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
15:50 Towards Hume SIMD Vectorisation
Abdallah Al Zain (Heriott Watt, United Kingdom)
16:10 Evolutionary Requirements for Next-Generation Dataflow-Based FPGA System Design
John McAllister (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom)



AE8: Acoustic Signal Processing

Room: Strathclyde Bar Chair: Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy)
14:50 Design Aspects for an Improved B-Format Microphone
Johann-Markus Batke (Deutsche Thomson OHG, Germany); Hans-Hermann Hake (Deutsche Thomson OHG, Germany)
15:10 A Sequential Monte Carlo Approach for Tracking of Overlapping Acoustic Sources
Alessio Brutti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy); Maurizio Omologo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy); Piergiorgio Svaizer (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - irst, Italy)
15:30 Sound Field Creation Based on Simultaneous Equations Method
Kensaku Fujii (University of Hyogo, Japan); Tadashi Ujino (Fujitsu Ten, Japan); Mitsuji Muneyasu (Kansai University, Japan)
15:50 A Method for Head Related Impulse Response Simplification.
Claire Masterson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Stephen Adams (Trintiy College Dublin, Ireland); Gavin Kearney (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Frank Boland (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
16:10 Regularized Adaptive Notch Filters for Acoustic Howling Suppression
Pepe Gil-Cacho (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,, Belgium); Toon van Waterschoot (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Søren Holdt Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)



NN3: Sampling

Room: Buchanan Suite Chair: Antonio Napolitano (Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
14:50 Aliasing Effects in Sampling Spectrally Correlated Processes
Antonio Napolitano (Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)
15:10 Randomized Sinc Interpolation of Nonuniform Samples
Shay Maymon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Alan Oppenheim (Masschusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
15:30 Signal-dependent techniques for non-stationary signal sampling and reconstruction
Modris Greitans (Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Latvia); Rolands Shavelis (Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Latvia)
15:50 On Spectral Estimation and Fourier Transform Approximation from Sampled Data
Hagai Kirshner (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Moshe Porat (Technion, Israel)



TH10: Adaptive Filtering and Optimisation 2

Room: Green Room Chair: Woon Seng Gan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
14:50 Analysis of a Set-Membership Affine Projection Algorithm in Nonstationary Environment
Paulo Diniz (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
15:10 Sparse Model Fitting in Nested Families: Bayesian Approach vs Penalized Likelihood
Laure Amate (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); Joao Rendas (Centre Nacional Recherche Scientifique, France)
15:30 Alternative Approach for Computing the Activation Factor of the PNLMS Algorithm
Francisco de Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Orlando Tobias (University of Blumenau, Brazil); Rui Seara (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Dennis Morgan (Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
15:50 Fast aggregation of Student mixture models
Antoine Pigeau (University of Nantes, France); Marc Gelgon (Nantes university, France); Ali El Attar (University of Nantes, France, France)
16:10 Blind Adaptive Equalizer for Broadband MIMO STBC Based on PDF Matching
Samir Bendoukha (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Adel Daas (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom); Stephan Weiss (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)



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