8.00 – 9.00

Welcome Address

9.00 – 10.30

Plenary Talk On the Roots of Digital Signal Processing - 1770 to 1970 Andreas Antoniou - Professor Emeritus University of Victoria

10.30 – 10.40

Coffee Break

10.40 – 12.00

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SM.A4

12.00-13.30

Conference Lunch

13.30-15. 30

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SA.A4

15.30–15.40

Coffee Break

15.40-17.00

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Tutorial I

8.30-9.30

Plenary talk on Offshoring - Economic, Social, and Technical Implications

Dr. Ahmed N. Tantawy, Technical Director
IBM Middle East & North Africa

9.30-9.45

Coffee Break

9.45-11.45

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SuM.A2

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SuM.A4

11.45-13.30

Conference Lunch

13.30-15.30

Tutorial II

SuA.A2

SuA.A3

SuA.A4

15.30-15.40

Coffee Break

15.40-17.00

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SuA.B3

SuA.B4

8.30-10.30

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MM.A4

10.30-10.40

Coffee Break

10.40-12.00

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MM.B4

12.00-13.30

Conference Lunch

13.30-15.30

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MA.A4

15.30-15.40

Coffee Break

15:40-17:40

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8.30-10.30

Tutorial III

TM.A2

TM.B3-SS-3

10.30-10.40

10.40-12.00

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TM.A4

Multi-object Tracking Based on Region Corresponding and Improved Color-Histogram,  Huiyuan Wang, Ying Fang, Shuang Mao, Xiaojuan Wu

01-05

A Framework for Implicit Surfaces Reconstruction form Large Clouds of Points,

 Ashraf Hussein, Amr Abdel-Aziz

06-11

A Leaf Recognition Algorithm for Plant Classification Using Probabilistic Neural Network, Stephen Wu, Forrest Bao, Eric Xu, Yu-Xuan Wang, Yi-Fan Chang, Qiao-Liang Xiang

12-17

Security and privacy protection for automated video surveillance, Nadia Baaziz, Nathalie Lolo, Oscar Padilla, Felix Petngang

18-23

Enhanced Pixel-Based Video Frame interpolation Algorithms, Belgacem Ben Youssef and Jim Bizzocchi

24-29

A Novel Approach for Image Compression using Matching Pursuit Signal Approximation and Simulated Annealing, Ahmed M. Amin, Samir Shaheen and Amir Atiya

30-35

Kernel-based 2DPCA for Face Recognition, Nhat Vo Dinh Minh, Lee SungYoung

36-40

Relative Iris Codes, Somying Thainimit, Peeranat Thoonsangngam, Vuttipong Areekul

41-46

Automatic Synthesis of Realistic Facial Expressions, Jeong Ho Lee, Jong Min Lee, Hyung Jin Kim, Young Shik Moon

47-52

Face Recognition using Multiresolution PCA, Alaa Eleyan, Hasan Demirel

53-56

A High-Speed, High-Radix, Processor Array Architecture for Real-Time Elliptic Curve Cryptography Over GF(2^m), Mohamed Fayed, Mohamed El-Kharashi, Fayez Gebali

57-62

Detecting Digital Image Forgeries Through Weighted Local Entropy, Chi Zhang, Hongbin Zhang

63-68

AES-128 Implementation on a Virtex-4 FPGA, James Wiebe

69-74

Key-Joined Block Ciphers with Input-Output Pseudorandom Shuffling Applied to Remotely Keyed Authenticated Encryption, Yassin Hasan

75-80

Sonar Localization Using Ubiquitous Sensor Network for Water Pollution Monitoring Fish Robots,  Daejung Shin, Seung You Na, Jin Young Kim, Seong-Joon Baek

81-86

Subtract on Negative Add on Positive (SNAP) Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks, Michalis P. Michaelides, Christos G. Panayiotou

87-92

Selectively Weighted Multicast Scheduling Designs For Input-Queued Switches, Mohammed Shoaib

93-98

A Middleware Based Network Hot Swapping Solution for SCA Compliant Radio, Md. Kamrul  Hasan Lenin Mehedy, Salahuddin Muhammad Salim Zabir, Sungyoung Lee,

And Sang-chul Oh

99-104

VANET-DSRC Protocol for Reliable Broadcasting of Life Safety Messages,  Yassin Hasan, Mostafa Taha

105-110

Path selection Diversity for Packet delivery in Wireless Single-Hope Networks, Yahya Al-Harthi

111-116

An Image Normalization Technique based on Geometric Properties of Image Feature Points , Mohamed Yasein, Pan Agathoklis

117-122

An Improved Motion Adaptive De-interlacing Method Using Variable Block-Size Motion Detection,  Elham Shahinfard, Maher Sid-Ahmed, Majid Ahmadi

123-129

Efficient Synthesis of Arbitrary Viewpoint Images Using 3-D Geometric Model and Mesh-Based Specular Reflection Tracing,  Kenichiro Nishitani, Gota Sugimura, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Koichi Fukuda, Akira Kawanaka

130-135

COMPARING OPTICAL-FLOW BASED METHODS, Soroor Behbahani, Saeed Asadi, Meghdad Ashtiyani, Keivan Magholi

136-140

Side Information Generation Using Extra Information for Distributed Video Coding,  Gueesang Lee, Toan Nguyen, Han Jin Cho, June Young Chang

141-146

Spectral Feature Analysis for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, S.S. Mohamed and M.M.A. Salama

147-153

FPGA Implementation of a Configurable Complex Blind Adaptive Equalizer, Esam Abdel-Raheem, Kevin Banovic, Mohammed Khalid

154-157

FPGA Implementation of an Efficient 3D-WT Temporal Decomposition Algorithm for Video Compression Using the Transposed Form FIR Filter structure, Samar Ismail, Ali Salama, Mohamed Abu-ElYazeed

158-163

A Unified Framework for Mapping Multidimensional Separable DSP Transforms onto parallel VLSI Structures, Ayman Elnaggar, Mokhtar Aboelaze

164-169

Super-imposed Mode S signals: Single antenna projection algorithm and processing architecture, Emilio Piracci, Nicolas Petrochilos, Gaspare  Galati

170-174

Recognizing and Investigating Spoken Arabic Alphabet, Yousef Alotaibi

175-179

Drowsy Driver Assistant System, Maha  Elsabrouty, Ahmed El Sayed, Abdelfattah Fawky, Sherif Khalil

180-184

A B_SPLINE BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION AND WATERMARKING TECHNIQUE,  Mamdouh Fahmy, Gamal Raheem, Usama Mohammed, Omar Fahmy

185-188

Increased Robustness and Security of Digital Watermarking Using DS-CDMA , Muhammad Samee, Jürgen Jürgen

189-193

A GEOMETRIC ATTACK RESISTANT IMAGE WATERMARKING SCHEME BASED ON INVARIANT CENTROIDS, Elijah  Mwangi

194-197

A Robust High Capacity Watermarking based on DCT and Spread Spectrum,  Nasrollah Moghaddam Charkari, Mohammad Ali Zare Chahooki

198-201

A Robust Audio Watermarking Scheme Using Mean Quantization in the Wavelet Transform Domain, Nima Khademi Kalantari, Seyed Mohammad Ahadi, Amir Kashi

202-205

Performance of a Hybrid DCT - DT CWT Digital Watermarking against Geometric and Signal Processing Attacks , Faryal Awan, S. Marshall, J.J. Soraghan, M.N. Arbab

206-211

Optimum Energy-Delay Tradeoffs for Distributed Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Fadel  Digham

212-217

An Energy Saving Scheme for Long Range and High Data Rate Wireless Sensor Networks, Li-Hsieh Lin, Wen-An Tsou, Long-Sheng Fan, Wen-Shen Wuen, Kuei-Ann Wen

218-223

Opportunistic Power Allocation Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks, Javier  Matamoros, Carles Antón-Haro

224-228

Joint Source-Channel Wyner-Ziv Coding in Wireless Video Sensor Networks, Charles Yaacoub , Joumana  Farah, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu

229-232

Placement of multiple mobile base stations in wireless sensor networks,  Waleed Alsalih, Selim Akl, Hossam Hassanein

233-237

Prediction-based Proactive cluster target tracking protocol for binary sensor network,  Jing Teng, Hichem Snoussi, Cédric Richard

238-243

Advanced Motion Estimation Techniques for VC-1, Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Michael Tammen, Maher Rizkalla

244-249

A Radon Transform and PCA Hybrid for High Performance Face Recognition,  Adnan Acan, Laika Karsili

250-255

Invariant Range Image Multi – Pose Face Recognition Using Fuzzy Ant Algorithm And Membership Matching Score, Supawee  Makdee, Chom Kimpan, Seri Pansang

256-260

Face Recognition Using Combination of Wavelet Packets, PCA and LDA,  Strahil Sokolov, Ognian Boumbarov, Georgi Gluhchev

261-266

B-spline based Super-Resolution Construction of Textured Images, Gamal Fahmy

267-272

Noise Characteristics of Higher Order Predictive Interpolation for Sub-pixel Registration,  Andrew Gilman , Donald Bailey, Stephen Marsland

273-278

Image Super-resolution under Spatially Structured Noise,  Atsunori Kanemura, Shin-ichi Maeda, Shin Ishii

279-284

Lifting Wavelet Coding with Modified Permutation for 2-D Structured Geometry of Polygonal Mesh,  Shuji Watanabe, Akira Kawanaka

285-288

PIRS: Pseudo Inversion Based Recovery of Speech Signals, Hossein Ajorloo, Abolfazl Lakdashti,  Mohammad-Taghi Manzuri-Shalmani

289-294

Robust Speaker Diarization in a Multi-Speaker Environment Using Autocorrelation-based Noise Subtraction,  Seyed Mohammad Ahadi, Massoud Mirrezaie,  Amir Kashi

295-300

Using Phoneme Segmentation in Conjunction with Missing Feature Approaches for Noise Robust Speech Recognition,  Arash Mohammadi, Farshad Almasganj, Aboozar Taherkhani, Farnoosh Naderkhani

301-305

Iterative Channel Estimation Techniques for Uplink MC-CDMA Systems,  Hakan Dogan,  Erdal Panayirci, Hakan  Ali Cirpan

306-310

Non-linear Transceiver Design for Broadcast Channels with Statistical Channel State Information,  Michael Botros Shenouda, Timothy Davidson

311-316

The Effect of Imperfect Channel Estimation on the Performance of Layered Space Time Receivers, Hiba  Abdallah, Ibrahim Ghaleb, Sobhi Abou Chahine

317-321

Robust Channel Feedback for collaborative Uplink Beamforming,  Amr El-keyi, Benoit Champagne

322-326

A New Sequential Block Partial Update Normalized Least Mean M-Estimate Algorithm and Its Convergence Performance Analysis, S. C. Chan, Y. Zhou, and K. L. Ho

327-332

Blind Detection of DS-SS Signals over Fading Channels Using Negentropy or Kurtosis without any prior Knowledge,  Siavash Ghavami, Bahman Abolhassani

333-337

Extending Mixture Random Pruning to Nonpolynomial Contrast Functions in FastICA , Giuliano Grossi, Sabrina Gaito

338-342

Subspace Hebbian learning and maximum likelihood ICA based algorithms for blind adaptive multiuser detectors,  Hooman Alikhanian, Bahman Abolhassani

343-347

Multimodal Image Fusion in Presence of Noise Using Sparse Coding of ICA Coefficients,  Dejan Drajic, Nedeljko Cvejic

348-351

Squared Euclidean Distance Based Convolutive Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Multiplicative Learning Rules for Audio Pattern Separation, Wenwu Wang

352-357

Efficient Hierarchical-PCA Dimension Reduction for Hyper-spectral Imagery, Abhishek Agarwal, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Hesham El-Askary,  Jacqueline Le-Moigne

358-361

Solving Classification Problems Using Supervised Self-Organizing Map , Aicha Benmecheta,  Abdeljallil Lansari

362-365

A Novel Approach To A High Capacity Data Hiding In Digital Images , Nasrollah Moghaddam Charkari, Mohammad Ali Zare Chahooki, Mehrdad Radmanesh

366-370

Hierarchical Semi-Fragile Colour Image Authentication Using Weighted Finite Automata , Hussein Nawito, Sherif Nour EL Din, Waleed Fakher, Mansour Moniri

371-374

Tamper Detection with Self-Correction Hybrid Spatial-DCT Domains Image Authentication Technique,  Yassin Hasan, Ammar Hassan

375-380

Increasing Payload of Echo Hiding Scheme Using Dual Backward and Forward Delay Kernels , Ahmad Delforouzi and Mohammad Pooyan

381-384

A Novel Data Hiding Technique for Speech Signals with High Robustness,  Mohamed Waleed Fakhr

385-390

Transmitting Encrypted Data by Wavelet Transform and Neural Network, Meghdad  Ashtiyani, Soroor Behbahani, Saeed Asadi, Parmida Moradi Birgani

391-395

Initial Contour for Ultrasound Carotid Artery Snakes , Mahmoud El-Sakka, Sherif Moursi

396-401

Automatic Localization of Cephalometric Landmarks, Shohreh Kasaei, Hadis Mohseni

402-407

A genetic algorithm to compress electrocardiograms using parameterized wavelets, Rosanna Silveira, Cristiano Agulhari, Ivanil Bonatti, Pedro Peres

408-413

An Efficient Hybrid Wavelet-ICA algorithm for Analyzing Simulated fMRI Data in Noisy Environment,  A. Boroomand, A.Ahmadian, M. A. Oghabian, and J. Alirezaie,

414-419

Breath Analysis of Respiratory Flow using Tracheal Sounds, Saiful Huq, Azadeh Yadollahi, Zahra Moussavi

420-424

EMD and PCA for the Prediction of Sleep Apnoea: A Comparative Study , Helen Robertson, John John, Chris Idzikowski, Bernard Conway

425-430

Adaptive Space-Time Coding and its Implementation in MIMO Antenna Systems, Mohamed Ahmed, Jason Lee

431-436

Blind source separation with order recovery for MIMO system and an Alamouti or Tarokh space-time block coding scheme , Steredenn  Daumont, Daniel Le  Guennec

437-442

Efficient CORDIC Based Equalizer For STTD Encoded MIMO CDMA Systems, Benjamin  Heyne, Juergen, Goetze

443-448

Robust Transmit Beamforming for Collaborative MIMO-OFDM Systems,  Byong-Ok Kwun, Amr El-Keyi, Benoit Champagne

449-454

GMRES Interference Canceler for doubly iterative MIMO system with a Large Number of Antennas , Abdaoui Abderrazek , Berbineau Marion,  Snoussi Hichem

455-459

Analysis of a Distributed Coded Cooperation Scheme for Multi-Relay Channels, Ali  Ghrayeb, Mohamed Elfituri, Walaa Hamouda

460-465

A Blind CM Receiver for STBC over Channels with Inter-Symbol Interference,  Samir Bendoukha, Stephan Weiss

466-469

A new class of interlaced complementary codes based on components with unity peak sidelobes, Adly Fam, Indranil Sarkar

470-475

S-curve Theoretical Analysis of a Classical and a Hierarchical Phase Detector for QAM Constellations,  Adel  Metref, Daniel Le  Guennec , Jacques  Palicot

476-480

Cell Migration Analysis using a Statistical Level-Set Segmentation on a Wavelet-Based Structure Tensor Feature Space , Asaad F. Said, and Lina J. Karam

481-486

Comparative Evaluation of Carrier Frequency Offset Tracking Schemes for WiMAX OFDM Systems, Javier González-Bayón, Carlos Carreras Vaquer, Angel Fernández-Herrero

487-492

Distribution of a Stochastic Control Algorithm Applied to Gas Storage Valuation, Stephane Vialle, Constantinos   Makassikis, Xavier Warin

493-498

Fuzzy Design of A Video–on–Demand Network,  Arash Abad Pour, Attahiru Alfa, Jeff  Diamond

499-504

Routing Optimization using Genetic Algorithm in Ad Hoc Networks , Mustafa AlGhazal, Ayman  El-Sayed, Hamedy  Kelash

505-511

Using End-to-End Data to Infer Sensor Network Topology,  Tao Zhao, Dong Cai, Jun Li

512-516

Bus Transactions in Microprocessor-based Systems using the Second-order Extended Physical Addressing,  Mountassar  Maamoun

517-520

Hierarchical Organizations of Sensors for Decentralized Parameter Estimation,  Javier Matamoros, Carles Antón-Haro

521-526

Closed frequent itemsets mining and structuring association rules based on Q-analysis, Boulmakoul Azedine, Idri Abdelfatah, Marghoubi Rabia

527-532

A Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm for Asymmetric FIR Filters,  Andreas Antoniou, Sabbir  Ahmad

533-538

Mapping Distributed Object-Oriented Software to Architecture with Limited Number of Processors,  Reda Ammar, Safwat Hamad, Tahany Fergany, Sayed Solit

539-544

A Preemptive Min-min Heuristic for Dynamically Mapping Meta-tasks on a Distributed Heterogeneous Environment,  Reda Ammar, Amal Khalifa, Tahany Fergany, Mohamed Khalifa

545-550

Blind Adaptive Constant Modulus RAKE receiver for downlink CDMA,  Suprava Patnaik, Anamika Upadhyay

551-555

Evaluating Adaptive Prediction Filters for Efficient Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks , Michael Sessinghaus, Holger Karl

556-561

An Affine Projection Algorithm with an Adaptive Step-Size Equation,  Khaled Mayyas

562-565

Computationally Efficient Mismatched Filters Based on Sidelobe Inversion,  Indranil Sarkar, Adly Fam, Thomas Poonnen

566-571

Frequency estimation of multi-sinusoidal signal by multiple integrals , Giuseppe Fedele, Alessandro Bonaventura, Loredana Coluccio

572-577

Autocorrelation Based Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimator in AWGN Channels , Ju-Ya Chen, Yao-Pseng Huang

578-582

Robust Detection Technique for Removing Random-Valued Impulse Noise,  Ali Awad, Hong Man

583-589