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TECHNICAL PROGRAM:

 

Synopsis

Saturday, December 15, 2007

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

SM.A1

SM.A2

SM.A3

SM.A4

12.00-13.30

Conference Lunch

13.30-15. 30

SA.A1

SA.A2

SA.A3

SA.A4

15.30–15.40

Coffee Break

15.40-17.00

SA.B1

SA.B2

SA.B3

Tutorial I

Sunday, December 16, 2007

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

SuM.A1

SuM.A2

SuM.A3

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

SuA.B1

SuA.B2

SuA.B3

SuA.B4

 

Monday, December 17, 2007

8.30-10.30

MM.A1

MM.A2

MM.A3

MM.A4

10.30-10.40

Coffee Break

10.40-12.00

MM.B1

MM.B2

MM.B3

MM.B4

12.00-13.30

Conference Lunch

13.30-15.30

MA.A1

MA.A2

MA.A3

MA.A4

15.30-15.40

Coffee Break

15:40-17:40

MA.B1

MA.B2

MA.B3

MA.B4

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

8.30-10.30

Tutorial III

TM.A2

TM.B3-SS-3

10.30-10.40

 

10.40-12.00

TM.A3

TM.A4

 

 


TECHNICAL PROGRAM: Schedule

 

Saturday, December 15, 2007

 

SM.A1 Image and Video Processing: II

Session Chair: Ashraf Hussein

 

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

 

SM.A2: Biometrics

Session Chair: Jeong Ho Lee

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

SM.A3: Security and Privacy in Mobile and Wireless Computing

Session Chair: Yassin Hasan

 

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

 

SM.A4 Networking: II

Session Chair: Mostafa Taha

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SA.A1 Image and Video Processing: I

Session Chair: Mohamed Waleed T. Fakhr

 

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

 

SA.A2 DSP Systems & Implementation Issues: I

Session Chair: Esam Abdel-Raheem

 

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

 

 

 

 

SA.A3 Watermarking

Session Chair: Mamdouh Fahmy

 

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

 

SA.A4 Sensor Networks

Session Chair: Hossam Hassanein

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

 

 

 

 

 

SA.B1 Image and Video Processing III

Session Chair: Mohamed El-Sharkawy

 

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

 

SA.B2 Image and Video Processing: VI

Session Chair: Gamal Fahmy

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

 

SA.B3 Speech Processing

Session Chair: Seyed Mohammad Ahadi

 

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

 


Sunday, December 16, 2007

 

SuA.A1 Signal Processing for Communications: I

Session Chair: Hakan  Ali Cirpan

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

 

 

SuM.A2: Machine learning for Signal Processing: I

Session Chair: Tarek El-Ghazawi

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

 

SuM.A3 Media Protection & Authentication

Session Chair: Mehrdad Radmanesh

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 TechniqueYassin 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

 

 

SuM.A4: Biomedical Signal Processing: I

Session Chair: Rosanna Silveira

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

 

 

 

SuA.A2 MIMO Communications Systems

Session Chair:  Mohamed Ahmed

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

SuA.A3 Signal Processing for Communications: II

Session Chair:  Javier Gonzalez Bayon

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

 

 

 

SuA.A4 Network System Architectures

Session Chair: Tarek Saadawi

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

 

SuA.B1: Data Mining in Communication and Information Technology: II

Session Chair: Andreas Antoniou

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

 

 

 

 

 

SuA.B2 Signal Processing Techniques: II

Session Chair: Khaled Mayyas

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

 

SuA.B3: Audio Processing

Session Chair: Guilin Ma

Monaural Separation of Dependent Audio Sources Based on a Generalized Wiener Filter , Guilin Ma, Finn T. Agerkvist, Jim Luther

590-595

Linearly Constrained Adaptive Echo Cancellation for Discrete Multitone Systems, Neda Ehtiati,  Benoit Champagne

596-601

Robust Transmission of Lossless Audio with Low Delay over IP Networks, Erik  Hellerud, U. Peter Svensson

602-606

Instrument Identification in Monophonic Music Using Spectral Information,  Mizuki Ihara, Shin-ichi Maeda, Shin Ishii

607-611

LSB-based Audio Steganography Method Based on Lifting Wavelet Transform, Mohammad Pooyan, Ahmad Delfroozi

612-615

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SuA.B4: Special Session

Session Chair: Priti P. Reg

Adaptive Enhancement of Historical Document Images , Priti P. Reg and N. Krishna Kishore

616-621

Secure Mobile Agent-based E-Negotiation for On-Line Trading,  Raja Al-Jaljouli and Jemal H. Abawajy

622-627

An authentication framework for e-health system,  Fahad , Jemal H. Abawajy   

628-633

Epistasy Search in Population-Based Gene Mapping Using Mutual Information, Mohammad Saraee, Hamidreza Nikoofar, Amir Manzour

634-638

Design of a 2D Mesh-Torus Router for Network on Chip, Yahia  Salah, Mohamed Atri, Rached Tourki

639-644

Implementation of Image Processing Technique in Real Time Vision System for Automatic Weeding Strategy, Mohd. Marzuki Mustafa, Aini Hussain, Kamarul Hawari Ghazali, Slamet Riyadi

645-648

Fourier Descriptor for Pedestrian Shape Recognition using Support Vector Machine, Nooritawati Md Tahir, Aini Hussain, Mohd Marzuki Mustafa, Salina Abdul Samad and Hafizah Husin

 

649-654

 

Monday, December 17, 2007

MM.A1 Networking: I

Session Chair: Adel Elmaghraby

Fluid Flow Model of HSTCP, Yang Xiaogang, Zhou Gang, Chen Peng, Shan Baosong

655-659

Use of Simulation and Random Matrix Theory to Identify the State of Network Traffic,  Viktoria Rojkova, Yehia, Khalil, Adel Elmaghraby, Mehmed Kantardzic

660-664

Performance Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 DCF , Khalid Khayyat, Fayez Gebali, Esam Abdel-Raheem

665-669

The Oil-Gas Prediction of Seismic Reservoir Based on Rough Set and PSO Algorithm,  Hongjie Liu, Boqin Feng,  Jianjie Wei, Wenjie Li

670-675

A Quantization Scheme for Lattice-Reduction-Aided MIMO Detection, Duc Nguyen, Fujino Tadashi, Nam Tran

676-680

 

 

 

 

 

MM.A2 Signal Processing for Communications: III

Session Chair: Ata Abbasi

Iterative Threshold Decoding of One Step Majority Logic Decodable block Codes, M. Lahmer, M. Belkasmi, F. Ayoub,

681-686

Design of New Minimum Decoding Complexity Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code for 8 Transmit Antennas,  Changhyeon Chae, Daewon  Choi, Taejin Jung

687-690

ERROR PROPAGATION IN NON-ITERATIVE EIT BLOCK METHOD,  Ata Abbasi,  Farhad Pashakhanlou, Bijan Vosoughi Vahdat

691-694

Power Loading Algorithms for SEC Diversity Schemes,  Mazen Hasna, Housam Halwani, Mohammed-Slim Alouini

695-700

An Improved Trickle-based Interference Cancellation Scheme for WCDMA Systems,  Ali Ghrayeb, Pooyan  Haghighat

701-706

Asymptotic analysis of large MIMO wire-tap channel via replica method,  Wang Huisong and G.H. Zeng

707-711

 

MM.A3: Localization, Tracking and Navigation

Session Chair: Amr Youssef

A Hierarchical Adaptive Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm,  Liu Jianshu, Li Renhou

712-716

Cluster Scheduling in Range Only Tracking,  Ozgur Ozfidan, Hakan Cirpan, Ulug Bayazit

717-722

A Novel BOC Correlation Function for Time Synchronization in Global Navigation Satellite Systems , Seokho Yoon, Sanghun Kim, Dahae Chong, Sun Yong Kim

723-727

Subspace-Based Method for Multiple-Target Localization Using MIMO Radars , Wei Xia, Zishu He, Yuyu Liao

728-733

Improvements of radar clutter classification in air traffic control environment,  Leonardo Bocchi, Laura Pierucci

734-738

A Directional Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks with Angle-of-Arrival Estimation , Amr Youssef

739-745

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MM.A4: Biomedical Signal Processing: II

Session Chair: Nicholas Sgouros

Automatic Self-Reconfiguring Microphones for Humanoid Dynamic Hearing Environments, Fakheredine Keyrouz

746-751

Performance analysis of VS-APA, QR-RLS and Approximated APA on Feedback Cancellation in Hearing Aids , Mohammad Nikjoo S., Aryan Salmanpour, Arash Saber Tehrani, Seyed Mohammad Amin Moghadas

752-756

DIRECT MDCT DOMAIN PSYCHOACOUSTIC MODELING, K.  Suresh, T V. Sreenivas

757-762

Bio-signal Characteristics Detection Utilizing Frequency Ordered Wavelet Packets, SINA ZAREI MAHMOODABADI JAVAD ALIREZAIE, PAUL BABYN

763-768

Use of the MPEG-4 ALS architecture and inter-channel prediction for Multi-channel ECG coding, Nicholas Sgouros, Ioannis Constantinou, George Loudos, Sophia  Kossida

769-774

 

 

MM.B1 Multimedia Communications & Signal Processing: II

Session Chair: Teng-Sheng Moh

Prediction-Based Prefetching for Remote Rendering Streaming in Mobile Virtual Environments,  Shaimaa Lazem, Marwa Elteir, Ayman Abdel-Hamid, Denis Gracanin

775-780

Effectively Finding the Right Keywords for the Target Audience, Teng-Sheng Moh, Dimas Dwihananto

781-786

Robust Speaker Recognition Using Both Vocal Source and Vocal Tract Features Estimated from Noisy Input Utterances, Ning Wang, P. C. Ching, N. H. Zheng and Tan Lee

787-792

Bio-Inspired Integrated Chips for Telecommunications S/W Defect Tracking, Hoda Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Mostafa Sherif, Adam Smiarowski, Brian Searing

793-799

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MM.B2 Image and Video Processing: I

Session Chair: Chang Sun

An Efficient Mode Decision Algorithm Based on Dynamic Grouping and Adaptive Adjustment for H.264/AVC , Bin Zhan, Baochun Hou, Reza Sotudeh

800-805

Analysis and Parallelization of H.264 decoder on Cell Broadband Engine Architecture,  Hyunki Baik, Kue-Hwan Sihn,  Yun-il Kim, Sehyun Bae, Najeong Han, Hyo Jung Song

806-810

An Efficient Context Modeling Algorithm for Motion Vectors in CABAC,  Chang Sun, Hong-Jun Wang, Hua Li, Tai-hoon Kim, Xin-Bo Yu

811-815

A Improved Fast Motion Block Matching for Wavelet Video Coding,  Dhaha Dia, Mohamed  ATRI, Rached TOURKI

816-821

Symmetry Based Multi-modality Registration of the Brain Imagery, Xin Liu, Celina Imielinska,  Andrew Francis Laine, Anthony D’Ambrosio

822-827

 

MM.B3 Image and Video Processing: V

Session Chair: Radu P. Matei

Fast Digital Image Colorization Technique, Przemyslaw  Lagodzinski, Bogdan Smolka

828-833

COLOR CLASSIFICATION IN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL COLOR SPACE, Alain Tremeau

834-839

Object retrieval approach with invariant features based on corner shapes,  Nishat Ahmad, Jongan Park, Gwangwon Kang, Jiyoung Kang, Junguk Beak

840-845

Two-Dimensional Filters Designed in Polar Coordinates, Radu P. Matei

846-851

Design of Gaussian Bandpass Two-Dimensional FIR Filters, Radu P. Matei

852-855

Object’s Shadow Removal with Removal Validation , Usman Sheikh, Muhammad As’ari, S.A.R. Abu-Bakar

856-860

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MM.B4: Data Mining in Communication and Information Technology: I

Session Chair: Randa El-Marakby

A multi-class classification with a probabilistic localized decoder,  Takashi Takenouchi, Shin Ishii

861-865

Estimating geodesic distances on locally linear patches, Deyu Meng, Zongben Xu, Nannan Gu,  Mingwei Dai

866-869

Towards Evaluation of Phonics Method for Teaching of Reading Using Artificial Neural Networks (A Cognitive Modeling Approach) , Hassan Mostafa, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Saleh Al-Saleem

870-877

DSS for Tendering Process: Integrating Statistical Single-Criteria Model with MCDM Models,  Fadhilah Ahmad, M Yazid M Saman, N Maizura Mohamad Noor, Aida Othman

878-883

Spatial Clustering of Wireless Sensor Network Nodes Based on Packet Loss, Ahmed Y. Tawfik and Randa El-Marakby

884-888

Monitoring of Oil Pollution by GIS and Remote-Sensing Case of West Algeria Harbours, Aicha Benmecheta1, Abdeljallil Lansari

889-894

 

 

 

MA.A1: Machine learning for Signal Processing: II

Session Chair: Mariane Petraglia

Novel Multiclass SVM-Based Binary Decision Tree Classifier, Hossam Osman

895-898

Frequency Domain FIR Filter Design Using Fuzzy Adaptive Simulated Annealing,  Mariane Petraglia, Antonio Petraglia, Hime Oliveira Jr.

899-903

Improving The Performance of A Recurrent Neural Network Convolutional Decoder, Klaus Hueske, Jürgen Götze, Edmund Coersmeier

904-908

Error Study of EIT Inverse Problem Solution Using Neural Networks,  Mohammad GhasemAzar, Bijan Vosoughi Vahdat

909-913

Speaker Accent Classification Using Distance Metric Learning Approach , Sameeh Ullah, Fakhri Karray

913-918

 

 

 

 

 

 

MA.A2: Information Coding

Session Chair: Rizwan Siddiqui

A statistical-mechanics approach to analyzing effect of imperfect channel state information on multiuser channel capacity , Wang Huisong and G.H. Zeng

919-923

Data Hiding with Image Decomposition Based on General Spectrum Pyramid, Mariofanna Milanova, Roumen Kountchev, Vladimir Todorov,  Roumiana Kountcheva

924-927

A 1.45Gb/s (576,288) LDPC Decoder for 802.16e standard,  Jui-Hui Hung, Sau-Gee Chen

928-934

A Systematic Optimized Comparison Algorithm for Fast LDPC Decoding,  Jui-Hui Hung, Sau-Gee Chen

935-939

A Modified Fast Vector Quantization Algorithm Based on Nearest Partition Set , Mohammed El-Henawy, M. Abu El-Yazeed, N. Abdel Kader, M. Tantawy

940-943

Multi Stage Vector Quantization for the Compression of Surface and Volumetric Point Cloud Data, Rizwan Siddiqui, Serkan Eroksuz, Isıl Celasun

944-950

 

 

MM.A3: Information Coding: II

Session Chair: Jacek Izydorczyk

A Class of Prior Distributions on Context Tree Models and an Efficient Algorithm of the Bayes Codes Assuming It ,  Toshiyasu Matsushima and Shigeich Hirasawa

951-954

Bounds on Minimal Energy Spent on Computations , Jacek Izydorczyk

955-960

Efficient Intra Mode Decision for AVS to H.264/AVC Transcoding,  Wang Minyue, Wu Qiang, Sun Guangmin

961-964

Wavelet Compression of Multiview video with Disparity-Compensated Lifting , Li Li, Zhengxin Hou, Chang Sun

965-968

Contructing Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes Using A Search Algorithm , Gabofetswe Malema

969-973

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MA.A4 Multimedia Communications & Signal Processing: I

Session Chair: Antoneta Popova

Interpolation with Sigmoid Functions for Spatial Error Concealment, Toan Nguyen Dinh, Nguyen Trung Kien and GueeSang Lee

974-978

Development System for Video and Audio Algorithms, Angel R. Kanchev, Antoaneta A. Popova

979-994

Combined Data Partitioning and FMO in Distortion Modeling for Video Trace Generation with Lossy Network Parameters, Araz Jahaniaval and Dalia Fayek

983-987

Adaptive Spatial Resolution Control Scheme for Mobile Video Applications, Yonghee Lee, Heejung Lee, Heonshik Shin

988-993

Adaptive Enhancement of Historical Document Images, N. Krishna Kishore Priti P. Rege

994-999

 

MA.B1 Information Retrieval & Distance Learning

Session Chair: Mariofanna Milanova

Information retrieval from a phoneme time series database,  Radhakrishnan Nagarajan, Anand  Nagarajan, M. Milanova

1000-1005

CAPTCHA for Blind People,  Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza, Sajad Shirali-Shahreza

1006-1009

A MLP-SOM Combination to Select Relevant Genes from High-dimensional DNA Microarray Data, Goutam  Chakrborty, Jagdish Patra, Basabi Chakraborty

1010-1015

Content-Based Video Coding for Distance Learning , Shohreh Kasaei, M. Bagheri, T. Lotfi, A.A. Darabi

1016-1021

iWDSS-Tender: Intelligent Web-based Decision Support System for Tender Evaluation,  Noor Maizura Mohamad Noor, Najwa Hanis Abdul Samat, Mohd Mohd Saman, Mohd Suzuri Hitam, M. Man

1022-1027

 

MA.B2- SS-2

Session Chair: Amin Fahmy Shoukry

Implementation of Distributed Application using RMI Java threads, Arabi E. Keshk

1028-1033

A New Motion-Texture Graph for Generating Real-time Realistic Human Motions, Amal Abdel-Karim Aboul-Hassan, Amin Fahmy Shoukry

1034-1039

Experiments On Sensitivity Of Template Matching For Lung Nodule Detection In Lowdose Ct Scans, Shireen Y. Elhabian, Hossam Abd EL Munim, Salwa Elshazly, AlyA Farag, and Mohamed Aboelghar

1040-1046

Graph Cut Based Segmentation Of Multimodal Images, Asem M. Ali, Aly A. Farag

1047-1052

 

 

MA.B3 Signal Processing Techniques: I

Session Chair: Cajetan Akujuobi

Sparseness Measures of Signals for Compressive Sampling , Cajetan Akujuobi, Olusegun Odejide, Gerald Fudge, Annamalai Annamalai

1053-1058

On the Convergence Analysis of the Normalized LMS and the Normalized Least Mean M-Estimate Algorithms , Shing Chow Chan, Yi Zhou

1059-1065

The Effect of Imperfect Channel Estimation on the Performance of Layered Space Time Receivers, H. S. Abdallah, I. A. Ghaleb and S. Abou Chahine,

1066-1070

Gaussian Mixture Model Based Switched Split Vector Quantization of LSF Parameters,  Saikat Chatterjee, T.V. Sreenivas

1071-1076

Detection of Signals in Nonstationary Random Noise via Stationarization of Data Incorporated with Kalman Filter , Hiroshi Ijima, Yukinori Yamashita, Akira Ohsumi

1077-1081

 

MA.B4 Communications and Information Technology

Session Chair: N C Debnath

Effect of Time Correlation of Sources at the Output of Time Based Burst Assembler in Optical Burst Switched Network, S Choudhury, S. Ponda, J Debnath and N C Debnath

1082-1087

Ensuring the Quality Testing of Web Using a New Methodology, Arabi Keshk, Amal Ibrahim

1088-1093

Types and Operation: Transformation Rules for the Semantic Integration of OCL and RSL, N. Debnath, A. Funes2, A. Dasso, D. Riesco, R. Uzal2, G. Montejano

1094-1099

OCL Expressions and their Context: Transformation Rules for the Semantic Integration of OCL and RSL, N. Debnath, A. Funes, A. Dasso, R. Uzal, G. Montejano, D. Riesco

1100-1104

 


Tuesday, December 18, 2007

 

TM.A2 DSP Systems & Implementation Issues: II

Session Chair: Hirak Patangia

 

Processing of High Voltage Signal Using A Small Signal Approach,  Hirak Patangia, Dennis Gregory

1105-1110

Out-of-Band Quantization Noise Suppression in Direct Digital-to-RF Transmitter Architechtures, Walid Ahmed

1111-1115

An Improved Watchdog Timer to Enhance Imaging System Reliability In The Presence Of Soft Errors,  Ashraf El-Attar and Gamal Fahmy

1116-1120

Contact Identification using Tactile Arrays,  Somrak Petchartee, Gareth Monkman

1121-1126

Handwritten Text Pre processing Algorithm Applying SUSAN Principle, Ivo Draganov , Antoaneta Popova

1127-1131

 

TM.A3 Special Session on Communications Systems

Session Chair: Xiaodong Wang,

 

Goodput optimized bit and power allocation for OFDM transmission with relaying , Rodolfo Duran, Jerome Louveaux, Luc Vandendorpe

1132-1137

Multipath Channel Tracking using Random Sets with application to OFDM Systems , Daniele Angelosante, Ezio Biglieri, Marco  Lops

1138-1142

Interleave-Division Multiplexing MIMO Scheme for Increasing , Xiaodong Wang, Kai Li

1143-1148

A High-Rate Full-Diversity 2x2 Space-Time Code with Simple Maximum Likelihood Decoding , Serdar Sezginer, Hikmet Sari

1149-1153

A Bayesian Multiuser Detector for MIMO-OFDM Systems Affected by Multipath Fading, Carrier Frequency Offset and Phase Noise, Filippo Zuccardi Merli and Giorgio Matteo Vitetta, Xiaodong Wang

1154-1159

Pilot-aided carrier synchronization using an approximate DCT-based phase noise model , Jabran Bhatti, Marc Moeneclaey

1160-1165

 

 

 

 

TM. A4 Biomedical Signal Processing: III

Session Chair: Vinh Thong Ta

 

Extraction of Fetal Electrocardiogram from Maternal Skin Electrodes using Affine Projection Algorithm (APA), Recursive Least Square (RLS), and QR-RLS Algorithms,  Aryan Salmanpour, Mohammad Nikjoo S., Arash Saber Tehrani, Seyed Mohammad Amin Moghadas

1166-1171

Automatic Analysis of TUNEL assay Microscopy Images, John  Kontaxakis, M. Sangriotis, R. Angelopoulou, K. Plastira, N. Sgouros, S. Manroudi

1172-1176

Graph Based Semi and Unsupervised Classification and Segmentation of Microscopic Images,  Vinh Thong Ta, Olivier Lezoray, Abderrahim Elmoataz

1177-1182

A concept of mathematical methods for the optimization of the post-processing of nuclear resonance spectra of the human skeletal musculature , Eike Hoff, L. Brechtel, G. Bärwolff, N. Natho, O. Pfeiffer, S. Jeschke

1183-1187

Nonlinear Signal Processing for Voice Disorder Detection by Using Modified GP Algorithm and Surrogate Data Analysis , Aboozar Taherkhani, Seyyed Salehi, A. Mohammadi, M.H. Moradi

1188-1193

OESOPHAGEAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT USING KALMAN FILTERS , Ibon Ruiz, Begoña Garcia, Amaia Méndez, Vanesa Villanueva

1194-1197

 

TM.B3-SS-3

Session Chair: Aly A. Farag

FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN FOR STUDIES OF AUTISM, Hossam Abd EL Munim, Aly A. Farag, and Manuel F. Casanova

1198-1203

A NEW SHAPE-BASED SEGMENTATION APPROACH FOR THE DCE-MRI KIDNEY IMAGES, Hossam Abd EL Munim, Aly A. Farag, Mohamed Abo El-Ghar, and Tarek El-Diasty

1204-1208

Gesture Recognition for Alphabets from Hand Motion Trajectory Using Hidden Markov Models, Mahmoud Elmezain, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Gerald Krell, Sherif El-Etriby, Bernd Michaelis

1209-1214

An efficient architecture of bitplane coding in VC-1 for real-time video processing, Yo-Han Lim, Seung-Sick Jun, Jung-Sun Kang

1215-1220

Multi-error Correction of Image Forming Systems Maintaining Colors, Gerald Krell, Ayoub Al-Hamadi and Bernd Michaelis

1221-1226