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Technical Program updated July, 10^th 2006

Full Technical Program with Abstracts of Papers

Day	Time	Auditorium	Adua 2	Sala Verde	Sala Onice	Adua 3	Room 4	Poster Area
Tue	08:00 AM-09:00 AM	Opening Session and General Chairman Foreword: Life without Signal Processing
	09:00 AM-11:00 AM	Tue.1.1: OFDM and Multicarrier Systems	Tue.2.1: Image Segmentation	Tue.3.1: Reverberant Environment and Human Audition	Tue.4.1: Beamforming	Tue.5.1: Distributed signal processing in sensor networks (Invited special session)	Tue.6.1: Filter Bank Design and Analysis
	11:00 AM-11:20 AM	Coffee-break T1
	11:20 AM-01:00 PM	Tue.1.2: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds I (Special session)	Tue.2.2: Filter Design and Analysis	Tue.3.2: Signal Synthesis and Reconstruction	Tue.4.2 - Speech and Audio Source Separation	Tue.5.2: Channel Estimation	Tue.6.2: Transforms analysis and implementation	Poster: Feature extraction in image and video , Poster: Image Restoration and Enhancement , Poster: Speech Enhancement , Poster: Signal Processing Education
	01:00 PM-02:10 PM	Lunch
	02:10 PM-03:10 PM	Plenary: Distributed signal processing for sensor networks
	03:10 PM-04:50 PM	Tue.1.3: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds II (Special session)	Tue.2.3: Wavelet Image Processing	Tue.3.3: Signal Processing for Music	Tue.4.3: Bayesian Methods for Inverse Problems in Image and Signal Processing I (Special session)	Tue.5.3: Signal Detection	Tue.6.3: Signal Representation and Filter Analysis	Poster: EEG Signal Analysis , Poster: Multicarrier and OFDM Systems, Poster: BSS and ICA , Poster : Cryptography, Watermarking, and Steganography
	04:50 PM-05:10 PM	Coffee-break T2
	05:10 PM-06:30 PM	Tue.1.4: Color Image Processing (Invited special session)	Tue.2.4: Bioinformatics	Tue.3.4: Speech Recognition	Tue.4.4: Bayesian Methods for Inverse Problems in Image and Signal Processing II (Special session)	Tue.5.4: Spread Spectrum, CDMA, and MC-CDMA	Tue.6.4: Deconvolution Methods
Wed	08:40 AM-11:00 AM	Wed.1.1: Cultural Heritage (Invited special session)	Wed.2.1: Image and Video Quality Evaluation (Invited special session)	Wed.3.1: Advances in Monte Carlo methods for target tracking (Special session)	Wed.4.1: Speech Analysis and Synthesis	Wed.2.1: Transceiver Processing for Fast Time-Varying Channels (Invited special session)	Wed.6.1: Parameter Estimation
	11:00 AM-11:20 AM	Coffee-break W1
	11:20 AM-01:00 PM	Wed.1.2: Image restoration and denoising	Wed.2.2: Wireless Sensors Networks	Wed.3.2: Channel Coding and Decoding	Wed.4.2: Equalization I	Wed.5.2: Video Analysis and Understanding	Wed.6.2: Radar Detection	Poster: Hardware and Implementation , Poster: Video and Image Coding , Poster: Source Localization
	02:10 PM-03:10 PM	Plenary: Signal Processing in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
	03:10 PM-04:50 PM	Wed.1.3: MIMO Channel Modelling, Emulation and Sounding I (Special session)	Wed.2.3: Biomedical Signal Processing	Wed.3.3: Synchronization and Parameter Estimation	Wed.4.3: Equalization II	Wed.5.3: Image Compression	Wed.6.3: Sonar signal processing	Poster: Detection of Digital Data Signals , Poster: Audio Processing and Enhancement , Poster: Signal Processing Applications in Engineering , Poster: Sensor Array Processing
	04:50 PM-05:10 PM	Coffee-break W2
	05:10 PM-06:30 PM	Wed.1.4: MIMO Channel Modelling, Emulation and Sounding II (Special session)	Wed.2.4: Image Understanding	Wed.3.4: Audio Watermarking	Wed.4.4: Speech coding	Wed.5.4: Undetermined Sparse Audio Source Separation (Special session)	Wed.6.4: TOA and DOA Estimation
	06:30 PM-07:30 PM	EURASIP General Assembly - Talk by Ezio Biglieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, "Living with Uncertainty: How Learning Statistics Makes Us Live Better"
Thu	08:40 AM-10:40 AM	Thu.1.1: MUSCLE: Recognizing Humans and Human Behaviour in Video (Invited special session)	Thu.2.1: MIMO Transmission Techniques (Special session)	Thu.3.1: Blind Source Separation	Thu.4.1: Speech Recognition and Understanding I	Thu.5.1: Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Communication Systems (Special session)	Thu.6.1: Signal Processing in Radar Imaging (Special session)
	11:00 AM-11:20 AM	Coffee-break Th1
	11:20 AM-01:00 PM	Thu.1.2: Source Localization	Thu.2.2: Computationally Efficient Algorithms	Thu.3.2: Video Coding	Thu.4.2: Speech recognition and understanding II	Thu.5.2: Wavelet Transform for Image Processing and Artificial Vision	Thu.6.2: Radar Signal Processing	Poster: Speech and Speaker Recognition and Analysis , Poster: CDMA Systems and Signals , Poster: Wavelet Applications in Speech and Image , Poster: Biomedical Signal Processing
	02:10 PM-03:10 PM	Plenary: Signal Processing between research and exploitation
	03:10 PM-04:50 PM	Thu.1.3: Genomic Signal Processing I (Invited special session)	Thu.2.3: Image Classification	Thu.3.3: Independent Component Analysis	Thu.4.3: Speech Enhancement I	Thu.5.3: Multiple Access and Multiuser Detection	Thu.6.3: Radar and Remote Sensing	Poster: VoIP and Multimedia , Poster: Nonlinear Signal Processing , Poster: Synchronization and Channel Equalization , Poster: Spectral Analysis
	04:50 PM-05:10 PM	Coffee-break Th2
	05:10 PM-06:30 PM	Thu.1.4: Genomic signal processing II (Invited special session)	Thu.2.4: Machine Learning	Thu.3.4: Source coding	Thu.4.4: Speech Enhancement II	Thu.5.4: HW and SW architectures for multimedia streaming Systems (Special session)	Thu.6.4: Biomedical imaging I
Fri	08:40 AM-11:00 AM	Fri.1.1: NEWCOM (Special session)	Fri.2.1: Biomedical imaging II	Fri.3.1: Multi-user MIMO Communications (Special session)	Fri.4.1: Adaptive Filtering	Fri.5.1: Time-Frequency Analysis	Fri.6.1: Efficient SP Algorithms and Architectures
	11:00 AM-11:20 AM	Coffee-break F1
	11:20 AM-01:00 PM	Fri.1.2: Digital Signal Processing for UWB Applications I (Invited special session)	Fri.2.2: Hardware-Related Issues in Signal Processing	Fri.3.2: Multi-user MIMO Communications II (Special session)	Fri.4.2: Principal Components Analysis	Fri.5.2: Pattern Recognition I	Fri.6.2: Motion Estimation and Compensation	Poster: Microphone Array Processing , Poster: Digital Filters Design and Analysis , Poster: Channel Coding and Decoding , Poster: Radar Detection and Estimation
	02:10 PM-03:10 PM	Plenary: Signal Processing Across the Layers in Wireless Networks
	03:10 PM-04:50 PM	Fri.1.3: Digital Signal Processing for UWB Applications II (Invited special session)	Fri.2.3: Features Extraction	Fri.3.3: Image Coding	Fri.4.3: Speech Processing	Fri.5.3: Human Face Synthesis and Detection	Fri.6.3: Pattern recognition II	Poster: Signal Detection and Estimation , Poster: Speech and Audio Coding , Poster: MIMO Systems , Poster: Motion Analysis

Tuesday, Sep 5

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Opening Session and General Chairman Foreword: Life without Signal Processing

Room: Auditorium

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Tue.2.1: Image Segmentation - 6 papers

Room: Adua 2
Chair: Paulo Correia (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)

Image segmentation with a class-adaptive spatially constrained mixture model: Christophoros Nikou (https://florafox-kdr.ru/); Nikolaos Galatsanos (University of Ioannina, Greece); Aristidis Likas (University of Ioannina, Greece); Konstantinos Blekas (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Supervised evaluation of synthetic and real contour segmentation results: Helene Laurent (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France); Sebastien Chabrier (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France); Christophe Rosenberger (ENSI de Bourges - Université d'Orléans, France); Yu-Jin Zhang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
Enhanced Spatial-Range Mean Shift Color Image Segmentation by Using Convergence Frequency and Position: Nuan Song (Chalmers university of technology, Sweden); Irene Y.H. Gu (Chalmers university of technology, Sweden); ZhongPing Cao (Chalmers university of technology, Sweden); Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Multi-scale Image Segmentation in a Hierarchy of Partitions: Olivier Lezoray (University of Caen, France); Cyril Meurie (University of Caen, France); Philippe Belhomme (University of Caen, France); Abderrahim Elmoataz (University of Caen, France)
Identification of image structure by the mean shift procedure for hierarchical MRF-based image segmentation: Raffaele Gaetano (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy); Giovanni Poggi (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy); Giuseppe Scarpa (Università "Federico II" di Napoli, Italy)
Color Image Segmentation In RGB Using Vector Angle And Absolute Difference Measures: Sanmati Kamath (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Joel Jackson (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Tue.5.1: Distributed signal processing in sensor networks (Invited special session) - 6 papers

Room: Adua 3
Chair: Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome La Sapienza", Italy), Ananthram Swami (Army Research Lab., USA)

Hypothesis Testing Over a Random Access Channel in Wireless Sensor Networks: Elvis Bottega (University of Padova, Italy); Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Michele Zorzi (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Hiroyuki Yomo (CTIF, Aalborg University, Denmark); Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Reducing Power Consumption in a Sensor Network by Information Feedback: Mikalai Kisialiou (University of Minnesota, USA); Zhi-Quan Luo (University of Minnesota, USA)
Distributed Estimation with Dependent Observations in Wireless Sensor Networks: Sung-Hyun Son (Princeton University, USA); Sanjeev Kulkarni (Princeton University, USA); Stuart Schwartz (Princeton University, USA)
Distributed Estimation with Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks: Ioannis Schizas (University of Minnesota, USA); Alejandro Ribeiro (University of Minnesota, USA); Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota,, USA)
Distributed Detection and Estimation in Decentralized Sensor Networks: An Overview: Sergio Barbarossa (University of Rome, Italy); Gesualdo Scutari (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy); Ananthram Swami (Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Spatio-Temporal Sampling and Distributed Compression of the Sound Field: Thibaut Ajdler (EPFL, Switzerland); Robert Konsbruck (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland); Olivier Roy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Luciano Sbaiz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland); Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland); Martin Vetterli (EPFL, Switzerland)

Tue.1.1: OFDM and Multicarrier Systems - 6 papers

Room: Auditorium
Chair: Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

Balanced allocation strategy in multi-user OFDM with Channel State Information at the transmitter: Antonio Cipriano (ENST, France); Philippe Ciblat (ENST, France); Sophie Gault (Motorola Labs, France); Walid Hachem (Supélec, France)
Group-wise Blind OFDM ML Detection for Complexity Reduction: Tsung-Hui Chang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Wing-Kin Ma (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); Chong-Yung Chi (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Joint Compensation of OFDM Transmitter and Receiver IQ Imbalance in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset: Deepaknath Tandur (Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
First arrival detection based on channel estimation for positioning in wireless OFDM systems: Ali Aassie-Ali (University of Magdeburg, Germany); Van Duc Nguyen (International University Bremen, Germany); Kyandoghere Kyamakya (Department of Informatics Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Austria); Abbas S. Omar (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Frequency-Domain IQ-Imbalance and Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation for OFDM over Doubly Selective Channels: Imad Barhumi (KULeuven-ESAT/SCD, Belgium); Marc Moonen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Analysis of Vector Quantizers Using Transformed Codebook with Application to Feedback-Based Multiple Antenna Systems: Jun Zheng (University of California at San Diego, USA); Bhaskar Rao (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Tue.6.1: Filter Bank Design and Analysis - 6 papers

Room: Room 4
Chair: Elio Di claudio (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)

Fast windowing technique for designing discrete wavelet multitone transceivers exploiting spline functions: Fernando Cruz-Roldán (Universidad de Alcalà¡, Spain); Manuel Blanco-Velasco (University of Alcala, Spain); Pilar Martín-Martín (Universidad de Alcalà¡, Spain); Tapio Saramaki (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Oversampled complex-modulated causal IIR filter banks for flexible frequency-band reallocation networks: Linnea Rosenbaum (Linkoping University, Sweden); Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden); Per Lowenborg (Linkoping University, Sweden)
Basis orthonormalization procedure impacts of the basic quadratic non-uniform spline space on the scaling and wavelet functions: Anissa Zergainoh (LSS, Supelec, France); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
Quaternionic Approach to the One-Regular Eight-Band Linear Phase Paraunitary Filter Banks: Marek Parfieniuk (Bialystok Technical University, Poland); Alexander Petrovsky (Bialystok Technical University, Poland)
The Design of Low-Delay Nonuniform Pseudo QMF Banks: Ying Deng (University of Utah, USA); V. John Mathews (University of Utah, USA); Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (Univ of Utah, USA)
Theory and Lattice Structures for Oversampled Linear Phase Paraunitary Filter Banks with Arbitrary Filter Length: Zhiming Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Anamitra Makur (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Tue.4.1: Beamforming - 6 papers

Room: Sala Onice
Chair: Andreas Jakobsson (Karlstad University, Sweden)

On the Efficient Implementation and Time-Updating of the Linearly Constrained Minimum Variance Beamformer: Andreas Jakobsson (Karlstad University, Sweden); Stephen Alty (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Generalization and Analysis of the Conventional Beamformer for Localization of Spatially Distributed Sources: Mikael Coldrey (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Mats Viberg (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Multichannel fast QR-decomposition RLS algorithms with explicit weight extraction: Mobien Shoaib (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Stefan Werner (Helsinki University of Tehcnology, Finland); José Apolinário Jr. (IME, Brazil); Timo Laakso (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
Downlink beamforming under EIRP constraint in WLAN OFDM systems: Alex Kuzminskiy (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom)
Interference Suppression in Multiuser Downlink MIMO Beamforming using an iterative optimization approach: Vimal Sharma (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Sangarapillai Lambotharan (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
Wiener solution for OFDM pre and post-FFT beamforming: Daniele Borio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Laura Camoriano (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Letizia Lo Presti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Tue.3.1: Reverberant Environment and Human Audition - 6 papers

Room: Sala Verde
Chair: Giovanni Sicuranza (University of Trieste, Italy)

An evaluation measure for reverberant speech using tail decay modelling: Jimi Wen (Imperial College London, United Kingdom); Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Audio Masking and Time-Frequency Analysis: Bernard Mulgrew (Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Blind Estimation of Reverberation Time in Occupied Rooms: Yonggang Zhang (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Jonathon Chambers (Cardiff University Wales, United Kingdom); Francis Li (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom); Paul Kendrick (University of Salford, United Kingdom); Trevor Cox (University of Salford, United Kingdom)
Analysis of a Multichannel Filtered-X Partial-Error Affine Projection Algorithm: Alberto Carini (University of Urbino, Italy); Giovanni Sicuranza (University of Trieste, Italy)
On Robust Inverse Filter Design for Room Transfer Function Fluctuations: Takafumi Hikichi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan); Marc Delcroix (Hokkaido University, Japan); Masato Miyoshi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Adaptive Quadratic-Metric Parallel Subgradient Projection Algorithm and its Application to Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Masahiro Yukawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Isao Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Coffee-break T1

Room: Auditorium

11:20 AM - 1:00 PM

Tue.2.2: Filter Design and Analysis - 5 papers

Room: Adua 2
Chair: Wolfgang Mecklenbraeuker (TU Wien, Austria)

The Design of Multi-Dimensional Complex-Valued FIR Digital Filters by Projections Onto Convex Sets: Wail Mousa (University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Des McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Said Boussakta (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
On the Time Invariance of Linear Systems: Valentina Cellini (University of Padova, Italy); Gianfranco Cariolaro (University of Padova, Italy); Francesco De Pellegrini (Universita` di Padova, Italy)
Variable Digital Filter Design with Least Square Criterion subject to Peak Gain Constraints: Hai Huyen Dam (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Australia); Antonio Cantoni (University of Western Australia, Australia); Kok Teo (Curtin University of Technology, Australia); Sven Nordholm (Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Australia)
Parametric Higher-Order Shelving Filters: Martin Holters (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany); Udo Zölzer (Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany)
Reconstruction of M-Periodic Nonuniformly Sampled Signals Using Multivariate Polynomial Impulse Response Time-Varying FIR Filters: Hakan Johansson (University of Linkoping, Sweden); Per Lowenborg (Linkoping University, Sweden); Kameswaran Vengattaramane (Linkoping University, Sweden)

Tue.5.2: Channel Estimation - 5 papers

Room: Adua 3
Chair: Antonio Napolitano (Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Italy)

Joint MIMO Channel Tracking and Symbol Decoding for Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes: Balasingam Balakumar (McMaster University, Canada); Shahram Shahbazpanahi (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Kiruba Kirubarajan (McMaster University, Canada)
Wavelet domain channel estimation for Multiband OFDM UWB communications: Sajad Sadough (Ecole Natonale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France); Emmanuel Jaffrot (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France); Pierre Duhamel (LSS SUPELEC, France)
Blind subspace-based channel identification for quasi-synchronous MC-CDMA systems employing improper data symbols: Giacinto Gelli (University of Napoli - Federico II, Italy); Francesco Verde (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
LOW COMPLEXITY MIMO CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR FEXT PRECOMPENSATION IN VECTORED xDSL SYSTEMS: Pawel Turcza (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
A Low Complexity Iterative Channel Estimation and Equalisation Scheme for (Data-Dependent) Superimposed Training: Syed Moosvi (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Des McLernon (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Enrique Alameda-Hernandez (The University of Leeds, United Kingdom); Aldo Orozco-Lugo (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico); M. Mauricio Lara (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico)

Tue.1.2: MIMO: Prototyping, VLSI and Testbeds I (Special session) - 5 papers

Room: Auditorium
Chair: Steffen Paul (Infineon AG, Germany), Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)

System Level Design Considerations for HSUPA User Equipment: Moritz Harteneck (Aeroflex Inc, United Kingdom)
IEEE 802.11n MIMO-Prototyping with Dirty RF Using the Hardware-in-the-Loop Approach: Matthias Stege (Signalion GmbH, Germany); Tim Hentschel (Signalion GmbH, Germany); Michael Löhning (Signalion GmbH, Germany); Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany); Marcus Windisch (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Real-Time Implementation of a Sphere Decoder-Based MIMO Wireless System: Mikel Mendicute (University of Mondragon, Spain); Luis Barbero (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Gorka Landaburu (University of Mondragon, Spain); John. S Thompson (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Jon Altuna (University of Mondragon, Spain); Vicente Atxa (University of Mondragon, Spain)
Real-Time Experiments on Channel Adaptive Transmission in the Multi-User Up-link at very high Data Rates using MIMO-OFDM: Thomas Haustein (Heinrich Hertz Institut Berlin, Germany); Andreas Forck (HHI, Germany); Holger Gäbler (FhG-HHI, Germany); Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) Berlin, Germany); Stefan Schiffermueller (FhG-HHI, Germany)
An 8x8 RLS based MIMO detection ASIC for broadband MIMO-OFDM wireless transmissions: Jingming Wang (Marvell Semiconductor, USA); Babak Daneshrad (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Poster: Feature extraction in image and video - 10 papers

Room: Poster Area
Chair: Sevket Gumustekin (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)

Morphological Image Processing for Echo Detection on Ultrasonic Signals: An application to foreign bodies detection in the alimentary industry: Ramón Miralles-Ricós (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Maria Jover-Andreu (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Ignacio Bosch-Roig (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Impact of noise on the polarimetric imaging based shape recovery of transparent objects: Romain Roux (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Jihad Zallat (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Alex Lallement (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France); Ernest Hirsch (Ecole supérieure de physique de Strasbourg, France)
Short Reference Image Quality Rating Based on Angular Edge Coherence: Licia Capodiferro (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy); Elio Di claudio (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Giovanni Jacovitti (INFOCOM Dpt. University of Rome, Italy)
Objetive Video Quality Metrics: A Performance Analysis: Jose Luis Martinez Martinez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain); Pedro Cuenca (Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain); Francisco Delicado (University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain)
Application of advanced image processing techniques to automatic Kikuchi lines detection: Rafal Fraczek (AGH, University of Science and Technology, Poland); Tomasz Zielinski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
Interactive Detection of 3D Models of Building's Roofings for the Estimation of the Solar Energy Potential: Sergio Brofferio (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy); Mariaelena Gaetani (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy); Daniele Passoni (Politecnico Di Milano, Algeria); Massimo Spertino (CNR-IEIIT, Italy)
Points of interest extraction using pairwise clustering and spatial features: Dimitrios Besiris (University of Patras, Greece); Nikolaos Laskaris (Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Aristotle Univ, Greece); Evagellos Zigouris (University of Patras, Greece); George Economou (University of Patras, Greece); Spiros Fotopoulos (University University of Patras, Greece)
A blind image super-resolution algorithm for pure translational motion: Fatih Kara (TUBITAK-UEKAE, Turkey); Cabir Vural (Sakarya University, Turkey)
Automatic Matching of Aerial Images with Map Data using Dynamic Programming: Metin Kahraman (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey); Sevket Gumustekin (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey)
A novel eye-detection algorithm utilizing edge-related geometrical information: Stylianos Asteriadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Greece); Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Andras Hajdu (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Greece); Ioannis Pitas (ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, Greece)

Poster: Image Restoration and Enhancement - 12 papers

Room: Poster Area
Chair: Stephen Marshall (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

Image Sharpening by Coupled Nonlinear-Diffusion on the Chromaticity-Brightness color Representation: Takahiro Saito (Kanagawa University, Japan); Reina Nosaka (Kanagawa University, Japan); Takashi Komatsu (Kanagawa University, Japan)
Stereo-Polarimetric Measurement of pair of Mueller images for Three Dimensional Partial Reconstruction: Jawad Elsayed Ahmad (University Louis Pasteur, France); Yoshitate Takakura (Université Louis pasteur-Strasbourg, France)
Improving Quality of Autofluorescence Images Using Non-rigid Image Registration: Libor Kubecka (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Jiri Jan (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Radim Kolar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Radovan Jirik (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
An Iterative Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Image Sequences using a Bayesian Approach and Affine Block-Based Registration: Vorapoj Patanavijit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Automated Removal of Overshoot Artefact from Images: Naomi Harte (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Anil Kokaram (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Resolution Enhancement of Digital Images Based on Interpolation with Biasing: Yasuaki Okamoto (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan); Akira Taguchi (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Fuzzy Metrics and Peer Groups for Impulsive Noise Reduction In Color Images: Samuel Morillas (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Adaptive-3D-Wiener for hyperspectral image restoration: influence on detection strategy: Jean-Michel Gaucel (Institut Fresnel, France); Mireille Guillaume (Institut Fresnel, France); Salah Bourennane (Institut Fresnel, France)
Grain Noise Reduction using the Human Visual System characteristics: Valery Naranjo Ornedo (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Soledad Gómez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Antonio Albiol (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Jose M. Mossi (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Restoration of astrophysical images - The case of Poisson Gamma data: Celine Theys (Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Henri Lanteri (Universit de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Image Interpolation Using an Adaptive Invertible Approach: Olivier Crave (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France); Gemma Piella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France)
Color Histogram Equalization using Probability Smoothing: Nikoletta Bassiou (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece); Constantine Kotropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Poster: Signal Processing Education - 3 papers

Room: Poster Area
Chair: Marek Domañski (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)

Teaching Signal Processing Applications With joPAS: Java To Octave Bridge: Javier Vicente (University of Deusto, Spain); Begonya Garcia (University of Deusto, Spain); Amaia Mendez (University of Deusto, Spain); Ibon Ruiz (University of Deusto, Spain); Oscar Lage (University of Deusto, Spain)
E-Learning on Multimedia: Marek Domañski (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)
A Simulink and Texas Instruments C6713 based Digital Signal Processing Laboratory: Sharon Gannot (Bar-Ilan University, Israel); Vadim Avrin (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Poster: Speech Enhancement - 9 papers

Room: Poster Area
Chair: John Mathews (The University of Utah, USA)

Speech Enhancement with Kalman Filtering the Short-Time DFT Trajectories of Noise and Speech: Esfandiar Zavarehei (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Saeed Vaseghi (Brunel University, United Kingdom); Qin yan (Brunel University, United Kingdom)
Predictive deconvolution and kurtosis maximization for speech dereverberation: David Fee (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Colin Cowan (The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Stefan Bilbao (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Izzet Ozcelik (Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom)
A Novel Voiced Speech Enhancement Approach Based on Modulated Periodic Signal Extraction: Mahdi Triki (CNRS - Eurecom Institute, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom Institute, France)
Parametric Approach for Speech Denoising Using Multitapers: Werayuth Charoenruengkit (IBM, USA)
Subband Particle Filtering for Speech Enhancement: Ying Deng (University of Utah, USA); V. John Mathews (University of Utah, USA)
A Harsh Noise Assessment Measure for Speech Enhancement: Kohei Yamashita (Saitama University, Japan); Tetsuya Shimamura (Saitama University, Japan)
Computation of common acoustical poles in subbands by means of a clustering technique: Pedro Zuccarello (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); Alberto Gonzalez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain); Juan Domingo (Universitat de Valencia, Spain); Guillermo Ayala (Universitat de Valencia, Spain)
Spectral Peaks Enhancement For Extracting Robust Speech Features: Babak Nasersharif (Iran university of science and technology, Iran); Ahmad Akbari (Iran university of science and technology, Iran); M. Mehdi Homayounpour (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Measurement of the Effects of Nonlinearities on the Network-Based Linear Acoustic Echo Cancellation: Ted Wada (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Rafid Sukkar (Tellabs, Inc., USA)

Tue.6.2: Transforms analysis and implementation - 5 papers

Room: Room 4
Chair: Ljubisa Stankovic (University of Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro)

Relations between Gabor Transforms and Fractional Fourier Transforms and Their Applications for Signal Processing: Soo-Chang Pei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Jian-Jiun Ding (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Efficient Computation Of The Discrete Pascal Transform: Athanassios Skodras (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
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Technical Program updated July, 10th 2006