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Plenaries...............................................................................................................................................................40
TueAmPS1 Iso Sali OPENING CEREMONY AND PLENARY SESSION Chair: Jaakko Astola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland ......................................................................40
MOBILE INFORMATION SOCIETY AND DSP ............................................................................................. ...40
WedAmPSI Iso Sali Multimedia Security Chair: M. Gabbouj Tampere University of Technology, Finland...........................................................................40
MULTIMEDIA SECURITY: DOES SIGNAL PROCESSING HAVE A PLACE IN SECURING THE DIGITAL WORLD? ...............................................................................................................................................................40
ThuAmPS1 Iso Sali Speech Processing Chair: P. Haavisto Nokia Research Center, Finland...............................................................................................41
REPRESENTING SPEECH...................................................................................................................................41
FriAmPS1 Iso Sali A Perfect Fit Chair: I. Hartimo Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ..............................................................................42
SPLINES: A PERFECT FIT FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING.................................................................................42
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TueAmOR1 Hall A SOURCE SEPARATION Chair: P. Comon, I3S Laboratory, France...............................................................................................................43
BLIND SEPARATION OF INSTANTANEOUS MIXTURE OF SOURCES VIA THE GAUSSIAN MUTUAL INFORMATION CRITERION..............................................................................................................................43
DIFFERENTIAL SOURCE SEPARATION: CONCEPT AND APPLICATION TO A CRITERION BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL NORMALIZED KURTOSIS ....................................................................................................43
A NEW DIRECTION FINDING METHOD WITH UNKNOWN SENSOR GAIN AND PHASE......................44
SOLUTION OF HIGH-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR SEPARATION PROBLEMS...............................................44
OPTIMIZATION OF A SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS BLIND SEPARATION ALGORITHM FOR GAUSSIAN SIGNALS ..........................................................................................................................................44
FAST AND ROBUST DEFLATIONARY SEPARATION OF COMPLEX VALUED SIGNALS .....................45
BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION APPLICATION TO SMART EDDY CURRENTS SENSOR FOR METAL TAG RECOGNITION............................................................................................................................................45
ANALYTICAL BLIND DISCRETE SOURCE SEPARATION...........................................................................45
TueAmOR2 Room 200 Biomedical Signal Processing Chair: J. Malmivuo Tampere University of Technology, Finland ..........................................................................46
MODELLING SLEEP WITH GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL BASED ON EYE MOVEMENTS AND DELTA-ACTIVITY...............................................................................................................................................46
DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION OF EPILEPTIC BRAIN ACTIVITY USING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR DIPOLE SOURCE ANALYSIS ..............................................................................46
SIGNAL FIDELITY REQUIREMENTS IN DETERMINING MEASURES OF CARDIAC FUNCTION - ADVANCING TO MULTI-CHANNEL IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY .......................................................47
ANALYSIS OF VOCAL DISORDERS IN A FEATURE SPACE .......................................................................47
ECG SIGNAL DENOISING USING WAVELET DOMAIN WIENER FILTERING .........................................48
COMPARISON OF FUZZY REASONING AND AUTOASSOCIATIVE MLP IN SLEEP SPINDLE DETECTION..........................................................................................................................................................48
ANALYSIS OF SINGING DURING EPILEPTIC SEIZURES BASED ON PARTIAL COHERENCE .............48
MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A SMALL NEURON.......................................................................................49
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TueAmSS1 Small Audiotorium 3rd Generation Mobile Communications Chair: M. Latva-aho Oulu University, Finland .......................................................................................................50
INVESTIGATION OF MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE WITHIN UTRA-TDD ...................................50
PERFORMANCE OF MULTIUSER DETECTION IN TD-CDMA UPLINK .....................................................50
MMSE ADAPTIVE RECEIVER FOR UTRA TDD .............................................................................................51
KALMAN-FILTER BASED CHIP ESTIMATOR FOR WCDMA DOWNLINK DETECTION ........................51
SINR MAXIMIZING EQUALIZER RECEIVER FOR DS-CDMA .....................................................................51
BIT-INTERLEAVED TURBO-CODED MODULATIONS FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ..................52
IDENTIFICATION OF NONLINEAR SATELLITE MOBILE CHANNELS USING VOLTERRA FILTERS..52
THE POWER SPECTRUM OF A GENERALIZATION OF FULL-RESPONSE CPM ......................................52
TueAmSS2 Studio Color Image Processing Chair: S. Sangwine The University of Reading, UK ................................................................................................53
ADAPTIVE FILTERS FOR COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING: A SURVEY .......................................................53
ENHANCEMENT OF MULTICHANNEL SIGNALS BY HISTOGRAM MODIFICATION ............................53
COLOUR-SENSITIVE EDGE DETECTION USING HYPERCOMPLEX FILTERS.........................................54
A HISTOGRAM BASED MULTICHANNEL FILTER .......................................................................................54
COLOR IMAGE WAVELET COMPRESSION USING VECTOR MORPHOLOGY ........................................54
OBJECTIVE METRIC FOR COLOUR IMAGE COMPARISON........................................................................55
A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR DATA HIDING IN COLOR PALETTED IMAGES ..........................................55
FANN-BASED SUBSAMPLING OF COLOR VIDEO SEQUENCES................................................................55
TueAmSS3 Hall B Multimedia Indexing, Browsing and Retrieval Chair: S. Panchanathan Arizona State University, USA .........................................................................................56
AN INDEXING AND BROWSING SYSTEM FOR HOME VIDEO...................................................................56
MULTIPLE MEDIA CUES FOR MPEG-7 ...........................................................................................................56
CONTENT-BASED DESCRIPTION OF IMAGES FOR RETRIEVAL IN LARGE DATABASES: MUVIS....57
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CONTENT-BASED ACCESS TO MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL LIBRARIES ...........................................57
SEMANTIC VIDEO INDEXING USING MPEG MOTION VECTORS.............................................................57
A NEW ALGORITHM FOR SHOT BOUNDARY DETECTION .......................................................................58
PERFORMANCE-OPTIMIZED FEATURE ORDERING IN CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL .......58
TueAmPO1 Exhibition Hall Speech Analysis and Enhancement Chair: P. Alku Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ...................................................................................59
SPEECH SIGNAL RECOVERY IN WHITE NOISE USING AN ADAPTIVE KALMAN FILTER..................59
DETECTING RELEVANT ACOUSTIC EVENTS FOR PILOTING IMPROVEMENT OF INTELLIGIBILITY................................................................................................................................................................................59
ALL-POLE SPECTRAL MODELLING OF VOICED SPEECH WITH A HIGHLY COMPRESSED SET OF PARAMETERS......................................................................................................................................................59
SINGLE-CHANNEL NOISE REDUCTION WITH PITCH-ADAPTIVE POST-FILTERING ...........................60
SPEECH ENHANCEMENT BASED ON NOISE ADAPTIVE NONLINEAR MICROPHONE ARRAY .........60
A TWO-SENSOR VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION AND SPEECH ENHANCEMENT BASED ON COHERENCE WITH ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENT OF LOW FREQUENCIES USING PITCH INFORMATION ....................................................................................................................................................60
A NEW APPROACH TO DEREVERBERATION AND NOISE REDUCTION WITH MICROPHONE ARRAYS................................................................................................................................................................61
SPEECH ENHANCEMENT THROUGH BINAURAL NEGATIVE FILTERING .............................................61
A POSSIBILITY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF DIFFERENT SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEMS.....................62
FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SEPARATION OF CONVOLVED NON-STATIONARY SIGNALS WITH ADAPTIVE NON-CAUSAL FIR FILTERS .........................................................................................................62
A MULTIRESOLUTION APPROACH TO CLOSED GLOTTIS INTERVAL DETERMINATION .................62
TueAmPO2 Exhibition Hall Image Filtering, Restoration and Enhancement Chair: J. Biemond Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands .......................................................................63
WAVELET TRANSFORM-BASED NOISE REDUCTION SCHEMES TO IMPROVE THE NOISE SENSITIVITY OF THE NAS-RIF ALGORITHM FOR BLIND IMAGE DECONVOLUTION.........................63
A NEW APPROACH WITH IFS FOR IMAGE RESTORATION .......................................................................63
DIRECTIONAL DIFFERENCE-BASED IMPULSE DETECTOR AND MEDIAN FILTER .............................63
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SCATTER COMPENSATION IN DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY..........................................................................64
A NEW METHOD OF THE ENHANCEMENT OF GEL ELECTROPHORESIS IMAGES ..............................64
A NOVEL TEMPORAL CONCEALMENT APPROACH USING A MESH-BASED MOTION COMPENSATION SCHEME................................................................................................................................65
BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF DEGRADATIONS USING ASCENDANT HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION................................................................................................................................................65
ADAPTIVE MORPHOLOGY APPLIED TO GRAY LEVEL OBJECT TRANSFORMATION ........................65
ADAPTIVE DIRECTIONAL MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS.....................................................................66
A VERY EFFICIENT ALGORITHM FOR CORRECTION OF SKEWED DOCUMENTS ...............................66
TueAmPO3 Exhibition Hall Architectures and Implementations Chair: L. Wanhammar Linköping University, Sweden...........................................................................................67
NEUROMATRIX(R) NM6403 DSP WITH VECTOR/MATRIX ENGINE.........................................................67
SCALABLE DSP REALIZATION OF WAVELET TRANSFORM IN IMAGE CODING ................................67
SCALABLE DSP IMPLEMENTATION OF DCT-BASED MOTION ESTIMATION ALGORITHM ..............68
AN EFFICIENT RNS ARCHITECTURE FOR THE COMPUTATION OF DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS ON PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES ..........................................................................................68
DESIGN AND EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF NARROW-BAND SINGLE FILTER FREQUENCY MASKING FIR FILTERS .....................................................................................................................................68
SYSTOLIZING THE ADAPTIVE DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZER USING A SYMBOLIC STATE SPACE FORMULATION......................................................................................................................................69
BRIDGING NETWORK TRAFFIC BETWEEN WIRELESS AND WIRED LANS IN WINDOWS NT...........69
A SYSTOLIC SERIAL SQUARER OF CONTINUOUS OPERATION ..............................................................69
VERIFYING EXTERNAL DATA MEMORY INTERFACE FOR H.263 VIDEO DSP WITH MEMORY SIMULATOR.........................................................................................................................................................70
PIPELINED ARCHITECTURE FOR INVERSE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM......................................70
ANALOG ADAPTIVE MEDIAN FILTERS.........................................................................................................70
EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF FIR FILTERS USING BIT-LEVEL OPTIMIZED CARRY-SAVE ADDITIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................71
A REAL-TIME MONO-CHIP TRACKING ACTIVE IR TARGETS ..................................................................71
SYSTOLIC IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STEEPEST DESCENT ALGORITHM AND ITS PERFORMANCE IN CDMA RECEIVERS ........................................................................................................................................71
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TuePmOR1 Hall B Image Filtering, Restoration and Enhancement Chair: G. Sicuranza University of Trieste, Italy.......................................................................................................72
IMAGE SHARPENING USING PERMUTATION WEIGHTED MEDIANS .....................................................72
A TUNABLE FUZZY FILTER BASED ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PIXELS...........................................72
SIGNAL AND IMAGE ENHANCEMENT BY A GENERALIZED FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD ADAPTIVE DIFFUSION PROCESS ....................................................................................................................72
NON LINEAR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT IN THE SPACE SCALE DOMAIN ................................................73
AN IMPLEMENTATION FOR SWITCHING MEDIAN FILTERS BASED ON COUNTER PROPAGATION NETWORKS..........................................................................................................................................................73
IMPROVING MPEG-4 CODING PERFORMANCE BY JOINTLY OPTIMIZING BOTH COMPRESSION AND BLOCKING EFFECT ELIMINATION .......................................................................................................74
SELF-AVOIDING RANDOM WALK APPROACH TO IMAGE ENHANCEMENT ........................................74
REJECTION OF SCRATCHES FROM VIDEO BY USE OF FILTERS WITH PREDICTION ERROR PROCESSING........................................................................................................................................................74
A NEW LINEAR MODEL FOR IMAGE REPRESENTATION FOR USE WITH KALMAN FILTER RESTORATION ....................................................................................................................................................75
TuePmOR2 Hall A Signal Interpretation Chair: R. Tourki Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Monastir, Tunisia ...................................................................76
RECOGNITION OF ACOUSTIC NOISE MIXTURES BY COMBINED BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN PROCESSING........................................................................................................................................................76
MDL BASED DIGITAL SIGNAL SEGMENTATION ........................................................................................76
DEFINITION OF INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY ON REAL SIGNALS.....................................................76
EMG-BASED SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR INTEPRETING ARM GESTURES.............................77
TuePmSS1 Studio Use of Optimization in Filter Design and Related Applications Chair: A. Antoniou University of Victoria, Canada.................................................................................................78
DESIGN OF DIGITAL FILTERS AND FILTER BANKS BY OPTIMIZATION: A STATE OF THE ART REVIEW ................................................................................................................................................................78
DESIGN OF DIGITAL FILTERS AND FILTER BANKS BY OPTIMIZATION: APPLICATIONS.................78
OPTIMAL IIR FILTERS WITH VARIABLE DELAY ........................................................................................79
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OPTIMAL FILTERS FOR RANGE-TIME SIDELOBE SUPPRESSION............................................................79
EFFICIENT DESIGN OF WAVEFORMS FOR ROBUST PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION USING MEAN SQUARE ERROR CRITERIA..................................................................................................................79
A GENERAL-PURPOSE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR DESIGNING TWO-CHANNEL FIR FILTER BANKS ..................................................................................................................................................................80
OPTIMAL DESIGN OF TWO-CHANNEL BIORTHOGONAL FILTER BANKS.............................................80
TuePmSS2 Room 200 Perspectives on Nonlinear Filter Design Chair: E. Dougherty Texas A&M University, USA .................................................................................................81
NONLINEAR ORDER STATISTIC FILTER DESIGN: METHODOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES...............81
DESIGN OF STATISTICALLY OPTIMAL MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATORS..............................................81
DESIGN OF MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS .............................................82
OPTIMAL PREDICTIVE DESIGN OF BOOLEAN AND ORDER STATISTICS BASED FILTERS...............82
USING MODELS OF THE HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM IN THE DESIGN OF STACK FILTERS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF COLOR IMAGES.............................................................................................................82
PARAMETRIC DESIGN OF NONLINEAR OPTIMAL FILTERS .....................................................................83
NONLINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING FILTERS: A UNIFICATION APPROACH..........................................83
TuePmSS3 Small Audiotorium Intelligent Processing for Communication Terminals Chair: J. Tasic, M. Ansorge and Carlos Bousono-Calzon Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Univ. of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Univ. Carlos III, Spain .........................................................................................................................84
ON HOW STORAGE AT HOME WILL CHANGE HOW WE WATCH TELEVISION....................................84
EFFICIENT IMAGE-INTENSIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING PERSONALISED USER REQUIREMENTS .................................................................................................................................................84
ADAPTIVE COMBINATION OF LMS AND LOGISTIC-LINEAR EQUALIZERS TO IMPROVE THE SPEED-PERFORMANCE COMPROMISE..........................................................................................................85
LAYERED AGENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR PERSONALIZED RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION FROM INTERNET ................................................................................................................................................85
JOINT SOURCE-CHANNEL DECODING WITH ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS ..............................................85
CARRIER PHASE ESTIMATION SUITED TO TURBO-CODE BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM......86
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VIDEO OBJECT EXTRACTION AND SHAPE CODING USING B-SPLINES ................................................86
INFLUENCE OF GSM SPEECH CODING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER RECOGNITION.....................................................................................................................................................87
TuePmPO1 Exhibition Hall Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification Chair: O. Viikki Nokia Research Center, Finland ..................................................................................................88
A MODEL FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION SUBJECTED TO PARTIAL AND TEMPORAL CORRUPTION WITH UNKNOWN, TIME-VARYING NOISE STATISTICS.............................................................................88
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEVERAL PARAMETERIZATIONS FOR SPEAKER RECOGNITION .....88
MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI LINEAR REGRESSION FOR SPEAKER ADAPTATION WITH THE PRIOR OF MEAN ..............................................................................................................................................................88
FEATURE CONCATENATION FOR SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION...............................................................89
A COMPUTATIONALLY SCALABLE SPEAKER RECOGNITION SYSTEM................................................89
MARKOV RANDOM FIELD LINEAR REGRESSION ......................................................................................89
A COMPETITION-BASED MEASUREMENT FOR HMM SPEAKER VERIFICATION.................................90
HIGH ORDER STATISTICS FOR ROBUST SPEECH/NON-SPEECH DETECTION ......................................90
INTRODUCTION OF A RELIABILITY MEASURE IN MISSING DATA APPROACH FOR ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION.....................................................................................................................................90
MAP-BASED CONTEXT DEPENDENT TONE RECOGNITION METHOD OF CHINESE SPEECH............91
TuePmPO2 Exhibition Hall Multirate Filtering Chair: M. Gelgon Nokia Research Center, Finland ................................................................................................92
LOW DELAY QMF BANK DESIGN USING INITIAL FILTER APPROACH..................................................92
SOME BENEFITS OF ALIASING IN TIME SERIES ANALYSIS.....................................................................92
IMPULSE RESPONSE APPROXIMATION FOR ARBITRARY SAMPLING RATE CONVERSION ............92
ARE NONUNIFORM PRINCIPAL COMPONENT FILTER BANKS OPTIMAL?............................................93
TIME-VARYING RECURSIVE FILTERS FOR DECIMATION AND INTERPOLATION..............................93
SENSITIVITY PROPERTIES OF A NOVEL CLASS OF IIR DECIMATION FILTERS FOR LOFARGRAM ANALYSIS IN PASSIVE SONAR SYSTEMS.............................................................................................. .......93
FAST FOURIER-WEYL TRANSFORM ..............................................................................................................94
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TuePmPO3 Exhibition Hall Biomedical Image Processing Chair: A. Värri Tampere University of Technology, Finland .................................................................................95
ANALYSIS AND OPTIMISATION OF 3D RECONSTRUCTION METHOD OF THE AORTA FROM A TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES SEQUENCE.............................................................................................................95
THE NEW APPROACH TO THE MICROSCOPE IMAGE CLASSIFICATION OF BRAIN AMYLOIDOSIS DISEASES BY FILTERING PROCESS OF AMYLOID PLAQUE.....................................................................95
AUTOMATED DETECTION OF PROSTATE CANCER NUCLEI....................................................................95
DISCRETIZED RADON TRANSFORM AND ITS SPECTRAL PROPERTIES ................................................96
WAVELET AND HMM ASSOCIATION FOR ECG SEGMENTATION...........................................................96
FAST IMPLEMENTATION OF POLYNOMIAL-BASED INTERPOLATORS FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGE ROTATION AND SCALING................................................................................................................................96
DIAGNOSTIC COMPRESSION OF BIOMEDICAL VOLUMES.......................................................................97
SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES USING A MIXTURE MODEL AND MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING ...........................................................................................................................................................97
CORTICAL SULCI DETECTION AND TRACKING .........................................................................................97
TuePmPO4 Exhibition Hall Modulation and Detection Chair: P. Handel Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden........................................................................................98
STOCHASTIC PROCESS SHIFT KEYING: A NOVEL MODULATION METHOD FOR SECURE DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS...........................................................................................................................................98
AN EQUAL GAIN COMBINING DPSK MC-CDMA SYSTEM FOR FAST FADING MOBILE DOWNLINK CHANNELS...........................................................................................................................................................98
SUPPRESSION OF NARROW FREQUENCY BANDS IN MULTICARRIER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS.98
ON DIGITAL ESTIMATION OF THE INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY BEYOND THE FOLDING FREQUENCY ........................................................................................................................................................99
SELECTIVE PARTIAL PARALLEL INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR PERSONAL CDMA COMMUNICATIONS...........................................................................................................................................99
PERFORMANCE OF CODED MULTISTAGE DETECTION IN CORRELATED RAYLEIGH CHANNELS 99
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TuePmPO5 Exhibition Hall Pattern Recognition Chair: B. Macq Universite Catolique de Louvain, Belgium ..................................................................................100
SUPPORT VECTOR METHOD FOR MINUTIAE DETECTION IN FINGERPRINT IMAGES.....................100
A POST-CLASSIFICATION SCHEME FOR AN OCR SYSTEM FOR THE NOTATION OF THE ORTHODOX HELLENIC BYZANTINE MUSIC..............................................................................................100
IMPROVING GENERALIZATION ABILITY OF HMM/NNS BASED CLASSIFIERS ..................................100
CLASSIFICATION OF MFSK MODULATED SIGNALS USING THE MEAN OF COMPLEX ENVELOPE..............................................................................................................................................................................101
ACCELEROMETER VIBRATION ANALYSIS IN FINDING OUT VELOCITIES OF PEN INPUT DEVICE..............................................................................................................................................................................101
EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF MATCHING PURSUIT USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM IN THE CONTINUOUS SPACE.......................................................................................................................................102
A NEW ALGORITHM TO DESIGN OPTIMAL HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS ...........................................102
TuePmOR3 Hall A Blind Methods in Communications Chair: R. Tourki Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Monastir, Tunisia .................................................................103
UNIFIED FORMULATION OF CLOSED-FORM ESTIMATORS FOR BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION IN COMPLEX INSTANTANEOUS LINEAR MIXTURES....................................................................................103
BLIND MIMO SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION BASED ON CROSS-POLYSPECTRA.....................................103
PRE-COMBINING ADVANCED BLIND MULTIUSER DETECTOR FOR TIME AND FREQUENCY SELECTIVE WIRELESS CHANNEL ................................................................................................................104
AN ALGEBRAIC ICA ALGORITHM FOR 3 SOURCES AND 2 SENSORS ..................................................104
ARE BLIND EQUALIZERS ASSUMING WHITE DATA APPLICABLE TO BLOCK ENCODED SEQUENCES? .....................................................................................................................................................104
WedAmSS1 Hall B Blind Methods in Communications Chair: A.-J. van der Veen Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands .........................................................105
BLIND SEPARATION OF CONVOLVED MIXTURES FOR CDMA SYSTEMS ..........................................105
A SEMIBLIND APPROACH TO OPTIMUM MULTIUSER DETECTION .....................................................105
CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND DEMODULATION OF ASYNCHRONOUS CDMA SIGNALS IN FREQUENCY-SELECTION FADING CHANNELS.........................................................................................106
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BLIND MULTIUSER DETECTORS FOR DUAL RATE DS-CDMA SYSTEMS OVER FREQUENCY SELECTIVE CHANNELS ..................................................................................................................................106
CRAMER-RAO BOUND FOR BLIND CHANNEL ESTIMATION IN MULTI-CARRIER CDMA SYSTEMS..............................................................................................................................................................................106
PER TONE BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION FOR A DMT-DS-CDMA SYSTEM..........................................107
AN INFORMATION THEORETIC APPROACH TO BLIND MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION....................................................................................................................................................107
BLIND SINGLE-USER ARRAY RECEIVER FOR MAI CANCELLATION IN MULTIPATH FADING CDMA CHANNELS............................................................................................................................................107
WedAmSS2 Small Audiotorium Video Compression: Current and Future Trends Chair: L. Torres and E. Delp UPC, Spain and Purdue University, USA .............................................................109
NEW TRENDS IN IMAGE AND VIDEO COMPRESSION .............................................................................109
IS THERE ANY FUTURE IN IMAGE COMPRESSION RESEARCH? ...........................................................109
VISUAL DATA REPRESENTATION: RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS....109
COMPRESSION FOR RECOGNITION AND CONTENT-BASED RETRIEVAL...........................................110
MVC: ADVANCED LOW BIT RATE CODEC FOR MOBILE MULTIMEDIA..............................................110
A STUDY OF JPEG 2000 STILL IMAGE CODING VERSUS OTHER STANDARDS ..................................110
IMPROVING IMAGE COMPRESSION - IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT ? ......................................................111
WedAmSS3 Studio Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian Adaptive Signal Processing Chair: C. Cowan The Queen's University of Belfast, UK......................................................................................112
ADAPTIVE VOLTERRA PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING A ZERO TOLERANCE OPTIMISATION FORMULATION.................................................................................................................................................112
SEA CLUTTER & CHAOS: IMPROVED SURROGATE-DATA TESTS ........................................................112
BLIND SEPARATION OF COMPLEX-VALUED SIGNALS BY REAL-VALUED IN-PHASE AND QUADRATURE ROTATIONS...........................................................................................................................113
STABILITY CONDITIONS FOR ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS WITH NON-QUADRATIC ERROR CRITERIA............................................................................................................................................................113
A NEW APPROACH TO STATIONARY COST FUNCTION ADAPTATION ...............................................113
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A MODIFIED VITERBI ALGORITHM FOR NON-GAUSSIAN INTERFERENCE SCENARIOS ................114
STATISTICAL SIGNAL AND ARRAY PROCESSING NONLINEAR PROCESSING OF NONGAUSSIAN AND NONCOHERENT SIGNALS IN THE PRESENCE OF COLORED NOISE ...........................................114
FAST LEAST MEAN M-ESTIMATE ALGORITHMS FOR ROBUST ADAPTIVE FILTERING IN IMPULSE NOISE ..................................................................................................................................................................115
WedAmSS4 Hall A Soft Computing Methods Chair: J. Lampinen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.........................................................................116
BAYESIAN TECHNIQUES FOR NEURAL NETWORKS - REVIEW AND CASE STUDIES ......................116
A LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION ALGORITHM FOR PROBABILISTIC MODELS ....................116
AN IRWLS PROCEDURE FOR SVR.................................................................................................................117
A HARDWARE-FRIENDLY SOFT-COMPUTING ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE RECOGNITION...............117
PATTERN RECOGNITION WITH NOVEL SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE LEARNING METHOD ........117
A HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL FOR METRIC AND EVENT-BASED DATA ..............................................118
SCALE-BASED CLUSTERING WITH LATENT VARIABLES ......................................................................118
SIGNAL PROCESSING AND SONIFICATION OF SEISMIC ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN ELF BAND...................................................................................................................................................................119
WedAmOR1 Room 200 Speech Production, Perception and Synthesis Chair: M. Sams Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ...............................................................................120
REDUCTION OF MUSICAL NOISE GENERATED BY SPECTRAL SUBTRACTION BY COMBINING WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORM AND WIENER FILTERING .................................................................120
PHYSICALLY BASED FACIAL MODEL.........................................................................................................120
REALIZATION OF A VOWEL-PLOSIVE-VOWEL TRANSITION BY A TUBE MODEL ...........................120
PITCH SYNCHRONOUS RESIDUAL EXCITED SPEECH RECONSTRUCTION ON THE MFCC .............121
A COMPLETE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM FOR THE SLOVENIAN LANGUAGE ..................................121
PARAMETERIZED VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND ITS EVALUATION............................................121
DEVELOPMENT OF A RULE-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM FOR THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE USING A MELP VOCODER ..............................................................................................................................122
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ROBUST RECURSIVE AR SPEECH ANALYSIS BASED ON QUADRATIC CLASSIFIER WITH SLIDING TRAINING DATA SET AND A HEURISTIC DECISION THRESHOLD .......................................................122
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WedAmPO1 Exhibition Hall Higher Order Statistics Chair: R. Pearson ETH Zuerich, Switzerland........................................................................................................123
BLIND FOCUSING WIDE-BAND ARRAY PROCESSING.............................................................................123
A CRITERION FOR DERIVING THE SUB/SUPER GAUSSIANITY OF SOURCE SIGNALS FROM THEIR MIXTURES..........................................................................................................................................................123
MATERIAL CLASSIFICATION BY HOS ANALYSIS OF ULTRASONIC SIGNALS ..................................123
BISPECTRAL ESTIMATION: A MULTITAPER APPROACH........................................................................124
WAVELET-POLYSPECTRA: PRINCIPLES AND PROPERTIES ...................................................................124
NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE DIFFERENTIAL SOURCE SEPARATION PROBLEM ...........................................................................................................................................................124
LOWER ORDER STATISTICS: A NEW APPROACH FOR PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS DEFINED ON R+ ................................................................................................................................................124
MULTITIME-FREQUENCY CLASSIFIERS FOR NOISY MODULATIONS .................................................125
WedAmPO2 Exhibition Hall Speech Coding Chair: I. Tabus Tampere University of Technology, Finland ...............................................................................126
NONLINEAR PREDICTIVE MODELS COMPUTATION IN ADPCM SCHEMES........................................126
MULTIPATH TREE-STRUCTURED VECTOR QUANTIZERS......................................................................126
THE SIGNAL QUANTIZATION USING NON-LINEAR ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION FUNCTIONS......126
SOFT-DECISION DECODING OF BINARY BLOCK CODES IN CELP SPEECH CODING........................127
PREDICTIVE LSF COMPUTATION..................................................................................................... ............127
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN LD-CELP CODEC.....................................................................127
WedAmPO3 Exhibition Hall Adaptive Signal Processing Chair: L. Yaroslavski Tel Aviv University, Israel ..................................................................................................128
A FAST CONVERGING AND STABLE ADAPTIVE FILTERING ALGORITHM FOR STEREOPHONIC ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION...............................................................................................................128
IMPROVING PERFORMANCES OF COMPLEMENTARY PAIR LMS ALGORITHM................................128
ADAPTIVE SINGLE-TONE FREQUENCY ESTIMATION BASED ON AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL.....128
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CONTROLING QOS AT THE APPLICATION LEVEL FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS.............................................................129
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM FOR MINOR COMPONENT ANALYSIS..............................................................................................................................................................................129
COMPARISON OF CDMA SPATIO-TEMPORAL RECEIVERS STRUCTURES FOR MULTI-RATE APPLICATIONS..................................................................................................................................................129
STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS FOR MULTICHANNEL BLIND SEPARATION AND DECONVOLUTION ........................................................................................................130
ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF ADAPTIVE PREDICTIVE SCHEME FOR TRACKING RANDOMLY TIME-VARYING CHANNELS .....................................................................................................................................130
SELF-ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION STRATEGIES FOR ARMA MODEL IDENTIFICATION .........................130
SIMPLIFIED RLS ALGORITHM FOR ADAPTIVE IFIR FILTERING ...........................................................131
WedAmPO4 Exhibition Hall Image Analysis Chair: S. Marshall University of Strathclyde, UK..................................................................................................132
THE VIPER ALGORITHM: A NEW APPROACH FOR DETECTION USING 2-D ADAPTIVE SAMPLING..............................................................................................................................................................................132
FONT CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION IN DOCUMENT IMAGES ..................................................132
A HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM BASED ON HEPTA-TREE......................................132
DETECTING AND GROUPING WORDS IN TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS BY MEANS OF PERCEPTUAL CONCEPTS..........................................................................................................................................................133
A CONTOUR MATCHING APPROACH FOR ACCURATE NOAA-AVHRR IMAGE NAVIGATION .......133
BIAS INTRODUCED BY MEAN ORIENTATION ESTIMATION METHODS .............................................133
SEGMENTATION OF COLOR IMAGES USING A HIERARCHICAL FUZZY REGION MERGING TECHNIQUE .......................................................................................................................................................134
ROTATION INVARIANT TEXTURE ANALYSIS : A COMPARATIVE STUDY.........................................134
VIRTUAL REALITY TOOL FOR VISUALISING RGB COLOUR SPACE USING VRML...........................134
2-D WOLD DECOMPOSITION: NEW PARAMETER ESTIMATION APPROACH TO EVANESCENT FIELD SPECTRAL SUPPORTS .........................................................................................................................135
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METRICS FOR OBJECT-BASED VIDEO SEGMENTATION................135
ORIENTATION ESTIMATION: CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES AND A NEW NON-DIFFERENTIAL APPROACH.........................................................................................................................................................135
ESTIMATION OF VIDEO OBJECT'S RELEVANCE .......................................................................................136
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CLASSIFICATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHAPES BASED ON MOMENT INVARIANTS ................136
FACE DETECTION FROM COMPLEX SCENES IN COLOR IMAGES.........................................................136
WedPmOR1 Small Audiotorium Image and Video Coding Chair: M. Kunt Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland ...........................................................137
TREE-STRUCTURED METHOD FOR IMPROVED LUT INVERSE HALFTONING ...................................137
PACKET LOSS RESISILENT H.263+ COMPLIANT VIDEO CODING .........................................................137
H.263 PICTURE HEADER RECOVERY IN H.324 VIDEOPHONE ................................................................138
NONLINEAR BANK FILTERS ADAPTED FOR PROGRESSIVE AND EXACT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ..........................................................................................................................................138
VARIABLE TO FIXED ENTROPY CODERS: WHY AND HOW? (AND THEIR APPLICATION TO H.263) .......138
IMAGE COMPRESSION USING DERIVATIVE INFORMATION WITH DISTANCE TRANSFORMS......139
SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALABILITY USING MODIFIED MPEG-2 PREDICTIVE VIDEO CODING .......139
BIT RATE AND LOCAL QUALITY CONTROL USING RATE/DISTORSION CRITERION FOR ON-BOARD SATELLITE IMAGES COMPRESSION .............................................................................................139
SCHEDULING STRATEGIES FOR 2D WAVELET CODING IMPLEMENTATIONS..................................140
WedPmOR2 Hall A Adaptive Filtering Chair: M. Najim ENSERB, France........................................................................................................................141
FAST ALGORITHMS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF RAPIDLY FADING CHANNELS .................................141
CROSS CORRELATION P-VECTOR INFLUENCE ON LMS CONVERGENCE...........................................141
THE OPTIMUM ERROR NONLINEARITY IN LMS ADAPTATION WITH AN INDEPENDENT AND IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED INPUT............................................................................................................142
TRACKING PERFORMANCE OF MOMENTUM LMS ALGORITHM FOR A CHIRPED SINUSOIDAL SIGNAL ...............................................................................................................................................................142
FAST RLS ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS OF QUADRATIC VOLTERRA ADF ..............................................142
NOVEL IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUE OF RLS ALGORITHM FOR IMPROVING THROUGHPUT OF ADAPTIVE FILTERS .........................................................................................................................................143
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN ADAPTIVE FILTER STRUCTURE EMPLOYING WAVELETS AND SPARSE SUBFILTERS.......................................................................................................................................143
DOES WHITE INPUT GIVE BETTER CONVERGENCE SPEED IN ADAPTIVE FILTERING?..................143
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ADAPTIVE GENERAL PARAMETER EXTENSION TO FIR PREDICTORS ...............................................144
WedPmOR3 Room 200 Time-Frequency Analysis Chair: H. Sakai Kyoto University, Japan................................................................................................................145
ELIMINATION OF INTERFERENCE TERMS OF THE DISCRETE WIGNER DISTRIBUTION USING NONLINEAR FILTERING .................................................................................................................................145
CHIP SIGNAL ANALYSIS BY USING ADAPTIVE SHORT-TIME FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM..............................................................................................................................................................................145
BIORTHOGONAL FILTER BANKS WITH NEARLY OPTIMAL TIME-FREQUENCY LOCALIZATION 146
USING ARCAP TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS FOR DECISION..............................................146
WedPmSS1 Hall B Signal Processing for Multimedia Surveillance Systems Chair: I. Pitas University of Thessaloniki, Greece .................................................................................................147
ADAPTIVE CHANGE DETECTION APPROACH FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN OUTDOOR SCENES UNDER VARIABLE SPEED ILLUMINATION CHANGES ............................................................................147
SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE SURVEILLANCE AND VIDEO COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS..............................................................................................................147
AUTOMATIC SOUND DETECTION AND RECOGNITION FOR NOISY ENVIRONMENT ......................148
DIGITAL WATERMARKING FOR THE AUTHENTICATION OF AVS DATA ...........................................148
ROBUST AND ILLUMINATION INVARIANT CHANGE DETECTION BASED ON LINEAR DEPENDENCE FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATION .................................................................................148
EVALUATION OF VIDEO SEGMENTATION METHODS FOR SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS .......149
REAL-TIME ROBUST DETECTION OF MOVING OBJECTS IN CLUTTERED SCENES ..........................149
A 3D MODEL BASED VISUAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.........................................................................150
WedPmSS2 Studio Recent Developments in Transforms and Filterbanks Chair: K. Egiazarian Tampere University of Technology, Finland ......................................................................151
CHIP SIGNAL ANALYSIS BY USING ADAPTIVE SHORT-TIME FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM..............................................................................................................................................................................151
DECOMPOSITION OF 2D HYPERCOMPLEX FOURIER TRANSFORMS INTO PAIRS OF COMPLEX FOURIER TRANSFORMS .................................................................................................................................151
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DFT, DCT, MDCT, DST AND SIGNAL FOURIER SPECTRUM ANALYSIS................................................152
SIGNAL TRANSFORMS FOR THE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF SIGNALS .........................152
NEW ORTHOGONAL EXTENSION METHODS FOR TREE-STRUCTURED FILTER BANKS.................152
ON FAST HADAMARD TRANSFORMS OF WILLIAMSON TYPE..............................................................153
DESIGN OF FILTER BANKS FOR DATA FUSION BY SPECTRUM SUBSTITUTION ..............................153
TRANSFORM-BASED DENOISING AND ENHANCEMENT IN MEDICAL X-RAY IMAGING ...............154
A TRANSFORMATION DOMAIN DESCRIPTION FOR NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS .......................................................................................................................................................154
WedPmPO1 Exhibition Hall DSP Applications Chair: S. Ovaska Helsinki University of Technology, Finland .............................................................................155
MODELING RADAR DATA WITH TIME SERIES MODELS ........................................................................155
THE APPLICATION OF THE ROBUST DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM TO UNDERWATER SOUND ................................................................................................................................................................155
MINIMAL GEODESICS BUNDLES BY ACTIVE CONTOURS : RADAR APPLICATION FOR COMPUTATION OF MOST THREATHENING TRAJECTORIES AREAS & CORRIDORS........................156
A SIMULATION MODEL FOR IMPROVING A NON-LINEAR SENSOR RESPONSE USING LINEAR SOURCE SEPARATION ....................................................................................................................................156
SEPARATION AND FUSION OF OVERLAPPING UNDERWATER SOUND STREAMS...........................156
EVOLUTIONARY SPECTRAL BASED CLASSIFICATION OF MACHINE VIBRATIONS........................157
THE USE OF STOCHASTIC MATCHED FILTER IN ACTIVE SONAR........................................................157
ML ESTIMATION OF SSR SIGNALS, IDENTIFIABILITY, AND CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS.....................157
BLIND ANGLE AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION IN PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF MOVING TARGETS USING A SINGLE SAR SENSOR......................................................................................................................158
ON EXTENDED SOURCE LOCALIZATION IN MULTIBASELINE AND MULTIFREQUENCY SAR INTERFEROMETRY ..........................................................................................................................................158
WedPmPO2 Exhibition Hall Image and Video Coding Chair: E. Delp Purdue University, USA .................................................................................................................159
EFFICIENT ENCODING AND RECONSTRUCTION OF REGIONS OF INTEREST IN JPEG2000.............159
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AN ONLINE IMAGE COMPRESSION ALGORITHM USING SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION AND ADAPTIVE VECTOR QUANTIZATION ..........................................................................................................159
ADAPTIVE PREDICTOR COMBINATION FOR LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING...........................................159
COMPRESSION OF IMAGE OVERHEAD BY HIERARCHICAL ENUMERATIVE CODING ....................160
SELECTION OF OPTIMAL WAVELET PACKET TRANSFORMS FOR OBJECT-BASED CODING ........160
FORTE-VLC: A FORWARD TRACING SELF-ERROR CORRECTION VARIABLE LENGTH CODE FOR IMAGE CODING IN WIRELESS APPLICATION............................................................................................160
VIDEO SCALABILITY RATE CONTROL METHOD BY DYNAMIC CONTROLLING OF BITS ALLOCATION RATIO .......................................................................................................................................161
A NEW VERTEX CODING SCHEME USING THE CENTER OF THE GRAVITY CENTER OF A TRIANGLE..........................................................................................................................................................161
3D OBJECT DATABASE : MULTI-VIEWPOINT IMAGE CODING \& VIEW SYNTHESIS.......................161
SIMPLIFICATION OF IMAGE PARTITIONS FOR REGION-BASED IMAGE CODING.............................162
THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRANSFORM CODING OF PARTITIONED VIDEO SEQUENCES WITH MATCHING PURSUITS.....................................................................................................................................162
A LIST DIRECTED APPROACH TO FRACTAL IMAGE CODING IN THE WAVELET TRANSFORM DOMAIN .............................................................................................................................................................162
LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF NATURAL IMAGES USING REGRESSIVE ANALYSIS .........................163
REPRESENTATION OF REGIONS FOR ACCURATE MOTION COMPENSATION...................................163
IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA COMPRESSION S/W ON A SPACE QUALIFIED DSP BOARD ..............163
UNIFIED IMAGE/BITSTREAM ANALYSIS FOR THE ROBUST DECODING OF COMPRESSED VIDEO SEQUENCES FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS...................................................................................................163
ANCIENT DOCUMENT COMPRESSION AND ARCHIVING VIA PAGE DECOMPOSITION...................164
QUALITY ORIENTED JPEG CODING FOR COLOR STILL PICTURE ........................................................164
DESIGN OF A MINIMUM-RATE PREDICTOR AND ITS APPLICATION TO LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING..............................................................................................................................................................................164
VIDEO CODING WITH QUAD-TREES AND ADAPTIVE VECTOR QUANTIZATION..............................165
HIGH-COMPRESSION OF CHROMINANCE DATA BY USE OF SEGMENTATION OF LUMINANCE ..165
A LOW-COMPLEXITY VIDEO CODER BASED ON THE DISCRETE WALSH HADAMARD TRANSFORM......................................................................................................................................................165
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WedPmOR4 Room 200 Spectral Analysis Chair: H. Sakai Kyoto University, Japan................................................................................................................167
ON THE EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CAPON SPECTRAL ESTIMATOR ............................167
TIME-FREQUENCY SPACE CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON STATISTICAL CRITERIONS .............167
FAST ARMA MODELLING OF POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTIONS............................................168
AN EXACT PARAMETRIC EQUIVALENT OF THE PERIODOGRAM ........................................................168
A DATA-ADAPTIVE REGULARIZATION METHOD FOR LINE SPECTRUM ESTIMATION ..................168
ThuAmOR1 Room 200 Parameter Estimation Chair: P. Stoica Uppsala University, Sweden .........................................................................................................169
SEQUENTIAL ESTIMATION OF PROBABILITY OF EVENTS ....................................................................169
CLOSED-LOOP IDENTIFICATION VIA TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACHES.................169
AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR CHAOTIC SIGNAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION ....................................170
NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS FOR SUBSPACE BASED FREQUENCY ESTIMATION.......................170
A CUMULANT BASED ALGORITHM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF INPUT OUTPUT QUADRATIC SYSTEMS............................................................................................................................................................170
ON THE APPLICATION OF MINIMUM PHASE SPACE VOLUME PARAMETER ESTIMATION ...........171
FREQUENCY ESTIMATION OF RADAR/SONAR SIGNALS AGAINST CORRELATED NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE ..................................................................................................................................................................171
SMALL SAMPLE STATISTICS OF THE YULE-WALKER METHOD FOR AUTOREGRESSIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION.............................................................................................................................172
ThuAmOR2 Hall A Speech Recognition Chair: B. Kleijn Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden .......................................................................................173
LOW BIT RATE SPEECH COMPRESSION FOR PLAYBACK IN SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS ..173
NONLINEAR SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION INTO FUNCTIONAL SERIES FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION: A NEW APPROACH...............................................................................................................................................173
SPEAKER INDEPENDENT SPEECH RECOGNITION WITH ROBUST OUT-OF-VOCABULARY REJECTION.........................................................................................................................................................173
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ROBUST CONNECTED DIGIT RECOGNITION IN A CAR NOISE ENVIRONMENT ................................174
SPEECH RECOGNITION COMPLEXITY REDUCTION USING DECIMATION OF CEPSTRAL TIME TRAJECTORIES .................................................................................................................................................174
A PHONETIC VOCODER FOR FINNISH .........................................................................................................175
SERBIAN SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM FOR BUS TRAVEL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ................175
FUSING LENGTH AND VOICING INFORMATION, AND HMM DECISION USING A BAYESIAN CAUSAL TREE AGAINST INSUFFICIENT TRAINING DATA.....................................................................176
ThuAmSS1 Small Audiotorium Speech Coding Chair: P. Haavisto Nokia Research Center, Finland.............................................................................................177
STANDARDISATION OF THE ADAPTIVE MULTI-RATE CODEC .............................................................177
ADAPTIVE WINDOW EXCITATION CODING IN LOW-BIT-RATE CELP CODERS ................................177
COMBINING PARAMETRIC AND WAVEFORM-MATCHING CODERS FOR LOW BIT-RATE SPEECH CODING ..............................................................................................................................................................178
A 2.4/1.2KB/S SPEECH CODER WITH NOISE PRE-PROCESSOR................................................................178
A HARMONIC+NOISE CODER WITH IMPROVED TRANSIENT SPEECH PERFORMANCE..................179
A SUBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE STUDY OF A SINUSOIDAL SPEECH CODING MODEL....................179
FRACTAL PREDICTION IN WAVEFORM CODING OF SPEECH SIGNALS..............................................180
ThuAmSS2 Studio Color Image Processing Chair: C. Christopoulos Ericsson Radio Systems AB, Sweden .............................................................................181
COLOR IMAGE RESTORATION USING COMPOUND GAUSS-MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS...............181
MULTICHANNEL IMAGE PROCESSING USING FUZZY VECTOR MEDIAN-RATIONAL HYBRID FILTERS ..............................................................................................................................................................181
NEW MULTISPECTRAL EDGE DETECTION METHODS BASED ON ROUGHNESS AND DIFFERENTIAL PREWITT................................................................................................................................181
USING COLOUR FEATURES TO BLOCK DUBIOUS IMAGES....................................................................182
ENHANCEMENT AND REGISTRATION OF MULTICHANNEL IMAGES BASED ON VECTOR ORDER FILTER ................................................................................................................................................................182
COLOR TRANSFORMATIONS FOR LOSSLESS IMAGE COMPRESSION .................................................182
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FAST K-NN CLASSIFICATION WITH AN OPTIMAL K-DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION ALGORITHM..............................................................................................................................................................................183
THE COLOUR IN THE UPCOMING MPEG-7 STANDARD...........................................................................183
ThuAmSS3 Hall B Multimedia Indexing, Browsing and Retrieval Chair: M. Gabbouj Tampere University of Technology, Finland.........................................................................184
VIDEO CLASSIFICATION BASED ON HMM USING TEXT AND FACES .................................................184
INDEXING SPATIAL CONTENT OF STILL TEXTURE IN MPEG-4 ............................................................184
AN EFFECTIVE IMAGE REPRESENTATION FOR VISUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ....................185
CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING FUZZY VISUAL REPRESENTATION..........................185
A FRAMEWORK FOR ORDINAL-BASED IMAGE CORRESPONDENCE...................................................185
COLOR FRAGMENTATION-WEIGHTED HISTOGRAM FOR SKETCH BASED IMAGE QUERIES .......186
COLOR-BASED RETRIEVAL OF FACIAL IMAGES .....................................................................................186
ThuAmPO1 Exhibition Hall Array Signal Processing Chair: B. Champagne McGill University, Canada ................................................................................................187
MINIMAX ROBUST M-BEAMFORMING FOR MOVING SOURCES AND IMPULSE NOISE ENVIRONMENT.................................................................................................................................................187
STRUCTURED SPATIAL INTERFERENCE REJECTION COMBINING ......................................................187
ROBUST SPEAKER LOCALIZATION USING A MICROPHONE ARRAY ..................................................187
ROBUST PHASE SHIFT ESTIMATION IN NOISE FOR MICROPHONE ARRAYS WITH VIRTUAL SENSORS ............................................................................................................................................................188
ARRAY CALIBRATION IN THE PRESENCE OF UNKNOWN SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS AND MUTUAL COUPLING........................................................................................................................................188
DETECTION-ESTIMATION OF MORE UNCORRELATED GAUSSIAN SOURCES THAN SENSORS USING PARTIALLY AUGMENTABLE SPARSE ANTENNA ARRAYS.......................................................188
DOWNLINK SPACE-TIME PROCESSING FOR FDD SYSTEMS..................................................................189
MULTI-SOURCE LOCALIZATION IN REVERBERANT ENVIRONMENTS...............................................189
ROBUST AND CONSTRAINED DOWNLINK BEAMFORMING..................................................................189
A DECONVOLUTION METHOD FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DISTRIBUTED SOURCES VIA LINEAR PREDICTION.......................................................................................................................................190
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USING PHASE CONJUGATION FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION: DESIGN GUIDELINES ......................................................................................................................................................190
OPTIMUM SELF-REFERENCE SPATIAL DIVERSITY PROCESSING FOR FDSS AND FH COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................190
ThuAmPO2 Exhibition Hall Motion Estimation and Video Compression Chair: T. Ebrahimi Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland ....................................................192
ADAPTIVE MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGER BASED ON FPGAS .................................................................192
ROTATIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS IN DIGITAL IMAGE SEQUENCES................192
REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF H.263 VIDEO ENCODER ON TMS320C6201 FIXED POINT DSP 192
AN ACTIVE MESH BASED TRACKER FOR FEATURE CORRESPONDENCES........................................193
ROBUST MOTION ESTIMATION USING SPATIAL GABOR FILTERS ......................................................193
JOINT SOURCE AND CHANNEL RATE ALLOCATION FOR VIDEO TRANSMISSION OVER ERASURE CHANNELS.........................................................................................................................................................193
MOTION FIELD ESTIMATION BY COMBINED VECTOR RATIONAL AND BILINEAR INTERPOLATION FOR MPEG-2 ERROR CONCEALMENT .........................................................................194
VELOCITY ESTIMATION AND MOVING OBJECT'S DETECTION BY USING WAVELET TRANSFORM AND PARALLEL KALMAN FILTER ...............................................................................................................194
IMPROVED COLOR CODING FOR SCALABLE 3D WAVELET VIDEO COMPRESSION........................195
A DATA FUSION METHOD FOR IMPROVED MOTION ESTIMATION .....................................................195
MULTI-RESOLUTION MESH-BASED MOTION ESTIMATION USING A ``BACKWARD IN FORWARD'' TRACKING METHOD .......................................................................................................................................195
ThuAmPO3 Exhibition Hall DSP for Communications Chair: M. Renfors Tampere University of Technology, Finland ..........................................................................196
AN ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR CLOSED-LOOP TAD IN FDD MODE.........................................................196
DIGITAL FILTER DESIGN FOR I/Q IMBALANCE COMPENSATION ........................................................196
ADAPTIVE TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR TRAFFIC PREDICTION OF VBR MPEG-2 VIDEO SOURCES............................................................................................................................................................196
ADAPTIVE CHANNEL EQUALIZATION USING CLASSIFICATION TREES............................................197
MULTIUSER DETECTION IN MULTIPATH NON-GAUSSIAN CHANNELS..............................................197
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HIGH PERFORMANCE ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR PSK FREQUENCY RECOVERY ...................197
DIGITAL DOWN CONVERSION IN SOFTWARE RADIO TERMINALS .....................................................198
ON-LINE EVALUATION OF EQUALIZER PERFORMANCE BASED ON HIGH-ORDER STATISTICS..198
MAJORITY SELECTION AND BLOCK-BASED SELECTION DIVERSITY RECEPTION METHODS FOR 8K DVB-T IN A MOBILE ENVIRONMENT.....................................................................................................198
A RECURSIVE ALGORITHM FOR MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD TREND ESTIMATION IN EXPONENTIAL NOISE AND ITS APPLICATION TO IP TELEPHONY ...................................................................................199
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL FILTERS DRIVEN NON/GAUSSIAN NON/WHITE NOISES................................................................................................................................................................199
COMPLEX DIGITAL OSCILLATOR WITH ABSOLUTE PERIODICITY .....................................................199
WAST3G: A COMPREHENSIVE WCDMA SIMULATION TOOL FOR THIRD-GENERATION MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS.........................................................................................................................................199
TEAGER-KAISER OPERATOR BASED FILTERING .....................................................................................200
ThuPmSS1 Small Audiotorium Blind Methods in Communications Chair: A.-J. van der Veen Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands .........................................................201
LOW COST ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM FOR BLIND CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION AND SYMBOL ESTIMATION......................................................................................................................................................201
A FAST ALGORITHM FOR CONDITIONAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF SIMO/MIMO FIR SYSTEMS..............................................................................................................................201
ON AR EQUALIZATION WITH THE CONSTANT MODULUS CRITERION ..............................................202
GLOBALLY CONVERGENT ALGORITHMS FOR BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION .................................202
A "UNIMODAL" BLIND EQUALIZATION CRITERION ...............................................................................202
IDENTIFIABILITY CONDITIONS FOR DETERMINISTIC BLIND BEAMFORMING IN THE PRESENCE OF INCOHERENT MULTIPATH WITH SMALL DELAY SPREAD ..............................................................203
BLIND EQUALIZATION OF SPARSE CHANNELS USING ANTENNAS DIVERSITY..............................203
ON BLIND FRACTIONALLY-SPACED EQUALIZATION USING ANALYTICAL CONSTANT MODULUS..............................................................................................................................................................................204
ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS OF BLIND CYCLIC CORRELATION BASED SYMBOL RATE ESTIMATION..............................................................................................................................................................................204
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ThuPmOR1 Hall A Statistical Signal Processing and DOA Chair: J. Joutsensalo Tampere University of Technology, Finland......................................................................205
WIDE-BAND SIGNAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION BASED ON HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS...........205
A DESIGN METHOD FOR SMALL SENSOR ARRAYS IN ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION ...........205
RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF SPATIAL SPECTRUM BY A VIRTUALLY EXPANDED ARRAY .206
DETECTION OF THE SOURCE NUMBER BY THE GERSCHGORIN DISKS .............................................206
A NOVEL APPROACH TO ARRAY STEERING VECTOR ESTIMATE IMPROVEMENT .........................206
COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT DOA ESTIMATION OF A SCATTERED SOURCE ............................207
A NEW APPROACH FOR TRACKING MOBILES WITH LOCAL SCATTERING MODELING.................207
USING LINEAR AND NONLINEAR DECOMPOSITIONS IN STATE- SPACE FOR CALCULATING MINIMAL DIMENSION EMBEDDING OF CHAOTIC ATTRACTOR ..........................................................208
GENERALIZED ALMOST-CYCLOSTATIONARY SIGNALS ON MULTIPATH DOPPLER CHANNELS 208
ThuPmOR2 Room 200 Channel Estimation Chair: V. Koivunen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.........................................................................209
JOINT CARRIER PHASE AND FREQUENCY OFFSET TRACKING IN OFDM SYSTEMS .......................209
CO-CHANNEL INTERFERENCE REJECTION USING CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES AND FUZZY INFERENCE ........................................................................................................................................................209
INTERFERENCE-RESISTANT LPTV-MMSE EQUALIZATION ...................................................................209
OPTIMAL TRAINING SEQUENCES FOR TDMA SYSTEMS........................................................................210
TWO-DIMENSIONAL PILOT-SYMBOL-AIDED FREQUENCY OFFSET TRACKING IN ORTHOGONAL MULTICARRIER WIRELESS SYSTEMS.........................................................................................................210
MONTE CARLO SAMPLING METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND DETECTION OVER A RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNEL......................................................................................................210
NEURAL SEQUENCE DETECTOR FOR DIGITAL EQUALIZATION..........................................................211
PERFORMANCE STUDY OF DD ML PHASE ESTIMATORS FOR DS-CDMA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS............................................................................................................................................................211
EFFECT OF INTERLEAVING ON A GILBERT CHANNEL...........................................................................211
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ThuPmSS2 Hall B Multimedia Watermarking Chair: S. Suthaharan Tennesee State University, USA .........................................................................................212
DIGITAL WATERMARKING OF VISUAL DATA: STATE OF THE ART AND NEW TRENDS................212
OPTIMAL DETECTION OF MULTIPLICATIVE WATERMARKS................................................................212
A FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMAL ADAPTIVE DCT WATERMARKS..........................................................212
A ROBUST DIGITAL WATERMARK PROCEDURE FOR STILL IMAGES USING DCT PHASE MODULATION...................................................................................................................................................213
WATERMARKING USING COMPLEX WAVELETS WITH RESISTANCE TO GEOMETRIC DISTORTION..............................................................................................................................................................................213
A REGION-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR CHAOTIC IMAGE WATERMARKING..........................................213
PUBLIC KEY WATERMARKING BY EIGENVECTORS OF LINEAR TRANSFORMS..............................214
ACHIEVING IMPERCEPTIBILITY IN ALL-PASS WATERMARKING OF SPEECH SIGNALS ................214
ThuPmSS3 Studio Efficient Algorithms for Hardware Implementation Chair: A. Willson University of California Los Angeles, USA ..............................................................................215
DESIGN OF DIGITAL FILTERS WITH LOW POWER CONSUMPTION......................................................215
ON HIGH-SPEED RECURSIVE DIGITAL FILTERS.......................................................................................215
VHDL-BASED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF AREA AND POWER EFFICIENT FILTER ARCHITECTURES..............................................................................................................................................................................215
JOINT MODULE SELECTION AND RETIMING WITH CARRY-SAVE REPRESENTAITON...................216
ON STRUCTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ALGORITHMS FOR CARRIER AND SYMBOL SYNCHRONIZATION IN SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS...........................................................................216
ALGORITHMIC NOISE-TOLERANCE FOR LOW-POWER SIGNAL PROCESSING IN THE DEEP SUBMICRON ERA .............................................................................................................................................217
H.263 VIDEO ENCODER IMPLEMENTATION ON A SCALABLE DSP SYSTEM .....................................217
FAST IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LMS ALGORITHM...............................................................................217
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ThuPmPO1 Exhibition Hall Wavelets and Filterbanks Chair: U. Laine Helsinki University of Technology, Finland................................................................................218
REAL-TIME LINEAR TIME-FREQUENCY TRANSFORM............................................................................218
A REALIZATION OF WAVELET FILTER BANK WITH ADAPTIVE FILTER PARAMETERS.................218
A WAVELET-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR IMAGE REFINEMENT................................................................218
DESIGN OF CAUSAL STABLE IIR FILTER BANKS WITH POWERS-OF-TWO COEFFICIENTS ...........219
MULTIPLIER-LESS LOW-DELAY FIR AND IIR WAVELET FILTER BANKS WITH SOPOT COEFFICIENTS ..................................................................................................................................................219
COEFFICIENT QUANTIZATION IN PERFECT-RECONSTRUCTION COSINE-MODULATED FILTER BANKS ................................................................................................................................................................219
PLANAR SHAPE REPRESENTATION BASED ON MULTIWAVELETS .....................................................220
FILTER DESIGN FOR ADAPTIVE LIFTING SCHEMES................................................................................220
2-D DIAMOND/QUADRANT FIR DIGITAL FILTER BANKS WITH SHARP RESPONSES.......................220
INTEGER-MODULATED FILTER BANKS PROVIDING PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION........................221
DEGENERATE EIGENVALUES - A METHOD TO DESIGN ADAPTIVE DISCRETE TIME WAVELETS221
COMPARISON OF OFDM AND WPM FOR FOURTH GENERATION BROADBAND WLAN ..................221
ON BLOCK-RECURSIVE LOGARITHMIC FILTERBANKS..........................................................................222
A LINE SPECTRUM APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN OF OPTIMUM COMPACTION FIR FILTERS .......222
ThuPmPO2 Exhibition Hall Parameter Estimation Chair: A. Abdul Salam American University of Sharjah, UAE ............................................................................223
ROBUST ESTIMATION OF AN AR MULTI-CHANNEL MODEL BY $T$-DISTRIBUTION ASSUMPTION..............................................................................................................................................................................223
MEASURING RADAR STATISTICS BY USING KALMAN FILTER............................................................223
AN AUGMENTED ITERATIVE METHOD FOR LARGE LINEAR TOEPLITZ SYSTEMS .........................223
ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY OF SINUSOIDAL FREQUENCIES ESTIMATED BY SECOND-ORDER ALGORITHMS FOR MIXED SPECTRA TIME SERIES..................................................................................224
SUPERVISED FREQUENCY CHANGE DETECTION USING MCMC METHODS......................................224
ESTIMATION AND SMOOTHING OF INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY OF NOISY NARROW BAND SIGNALS .............................................................................................................................................................224
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FREQUENCY ESTIMATION BY 1-BIT QUANTIZATION AND TABLE LOOK-UP PROCESSING..........225
AMBIGUITIES IN STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING............................................................................225
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF A PARAMETRIC MODEL FOR PHOTOMETRIC SIGNALS.....................225
MAP AND LS ESTIMATION OF ABRUPT CHANGES IN MULTIPLICATIVE OF ADDITIVE NOISE USING DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING...............................................................................................................226
ORDER SELECTION OF 2-D AR MODEL USING A LATTICE REPRESENTATION AND INFORMATION CRITERIA FOR TEXTURE ANALYSIS ...........................................................................................................226
CHOOSING PRIORS FOR AN IMPORTANT CLASS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING PROBLEMS.................226
TIME-DELAY ESTIMATION OF THE LINE-OF-SIGHT SIGNAL IN A MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENT .227
ThuPmPO3 Exhibition Hall Acoustic, Echo and Noise Control Chair: A. Carini Telit Mobile Terminals S.p.a, Italy ...................................228
COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS FOR STEREOPHONIC ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION ...............................................................................................................................................228
FREQUENCY DOMAIN ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM WITHOUT SECONDARY PATH MODEL..............................................................................................................................................................................228
GSAEC - ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION EMBEDDED INTO THE GENERALIZED SIDELOBE CANCELLER ......................................................................................................................................................228
STEP-SIZE CONTROL FOR ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLERS APPLYING AN RBF NETWORK...........229
IMPROVED NOISE REDUCTION FOR HANDS-FREE CAR PHONES UTILIZING INFORMATION ON VEHICLE AND ENGINE SPEEDS ....................................................................................................................229
FREQUENCY SELECTIVE STEP-SIZE CONTROL FOR ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION ...............229
A KALMAN FILTER APPROACH TO ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL..............................................................230
FLEXIBLE COCHLEAR SYSTEM BASED ON DIGITAL MODEL OF COCHLEA: STRUCTURE, ALGORITHMS AND TESTING.........................................................................................................................230
RLS-ADAPTED POLYNOMIAL FOR NONLINEAR ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLING............................230
SPARSE-BEFAP: A FAST IMPLEMENTATION OF FAST AFFINE PROJECTION AVOIDING EXPLICIT REGULARISATION ...........................................................................................................................................231
A NONLINEAR ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLER FOR HANDS-FREE TELEPHONY ...............................231
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FriAmOR1 Studio Filter Design Chair: I. Hartimo Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ..................................................................................232
SIMPLE DESIGN OF FRACTIONAL DELAY ALLPASS FILTERS...............................................................232
AN FIR DIGITAL FILTER USING ONE-HOT CODED RESIDUE REPRESENTATION..............................232
BAYESIAN SWITCHING ALGORITHM FOR THE OPTIMAL INCREASING BINARY FILTER..............233
HOMOGENEOUS NONLINEAR DIGITAL FILTERS .....................................................................................233
A CLASS OF TWO-CHANNEL IIR/FIR FILTER BANKS...............................................................................233
LINEAR PHASE FIR FILTER DESIGN FOR MULTIRATE SYSTEMS BASED ON FAST CONVOLUTION..............................................................................................................................................................................234
DESIGN OF GRAY-SCALE NONLINEAR FILTERS VIA MULTIRESOLUTION APERTURES ................234
EFFECT OF ZEROS ON IIR FILTERS WITH SYMMETRIC IMPULSE RESPONSE....................................234
FILTER CATEGORIES PRESERVING DESIRABLE SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS..................................234
FriAmOR2 Hall B Wavelets and Filterbanks Chair: T. Saramäki Tampere University of Technology, Finland ........................................................................236
ORDER SELECTION FOR THE MULTIRATE BURG ALGORITHM............................................................236
DESIGN OF BIORTHOGONAL MULTI-BAND FIR FILTER BANKS GIVEN SEVERAL OF THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS FILTERS..........................................................................................................236
ON LOSSY IMAGE COMPRESSION USING ADAPTIVE WAVELET FILTERS.........................................236
POLYNOMIAL METHODS FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FILTER BANKS' DESIGN ...............................237
CLASSIFICATION OF VOICELESS PLOSIVES USING WAVELET PACKET BASED APPROACHES ...237
IMPULSE NOISE REDUCTION BASED ON LIFTING WAVELET TRANSFORM......................................237
MULTIRESOLUTION BASED IMAGE ADAPTIVE WATERMARKING SCHEME ....................................238
HIGHLY EFFICIENT FAST ARCHITECTURES FOR DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS BASED ON THEIR FLOWGRAPH REPRESENTATION.....................................................................................................238
ON THE CONVERGENCE OF MULTIWAVELET THRESHOLDING ..........................................................239
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FriAmOR3 Hall A Watermarking Chair: V. Cappellini Università di Firenze, Italy ...................................................................................................240
CONTENT ADAPTIVE WATERMARKING BASED ON A STOCHASTIC MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGE MODELING.........................................................................................................................................................240
IMAGE AUTHENTIFICATION AND TAMPER PROOFING USING MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY..............................................................................................................................................................................240
A SUBBAND DCT APPROACH TO IMAGE WATERMARKING..................................................................241
USING PERMUTATIONS TO HIDE INFORMATION.....................................................................................241
A ROBUST FRAME-BASED TECHNIQUE FOR VIDEO WATERMARKING..............................................241
LOSSLESS MULTIRESOLUTION TRASNFORM FOR AUTHENTICATING WATERMARKING ............242
SELF-SIMILAR RING SHAPED WATERMARK EMBEDDING IN 2-D DFT DOMAIN..............................242
CAPACITY OF DIGITAL WATERMARKS SUBJECTED TO AN OPTIMAL COLLUSION ATTACK ......242
TRIANGULAR MESHES: A SOLUTION TO RESIST TO GEOMETRIC DISTORSIONS BASED WATERMARK-REMOVAL SOFTWARES ......................................................................................................243
FriAmSS1 Small Audiotorium Splines in Signal Processing Chair: M. Unser Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland .........................................................244
SPLINE INTERPOLATION IN MEDICAL IMAGING: COMPARISON WITH OTHER CONVOLUTION-BASED APPROACHES ......................................................................................................................................244
NON-UNIFORM TO UNIFORM GRID CONVERSION USING LEAST-SQUARES SPLINES ....................244
HIERARCHICAL CODING OF 3-D SURFACES USING BOX SPLINES ......................................................244
ON THE OPTIMALITY OF SPLINES FOR EXPRESSING THE HAND-WRITING PROCESS ....................245
A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR MULTISCALE IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS USING B-SPLINE APPROACHE ......................................................................................................................................................245
ANALYSIS OF FMRI DATA USING SPLINE WAVELETS............................................................................245
FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES, SPLINES AND TOMOGRAPHY .................................................................246
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FriAmOR4 Room 200 Signal Reconstruction Chair: E. Coyle Motorolla, USA .............................................................................................................................247
NEW ALGORITHMS FOR BAND-LIMITED INTERPOLATION AND EXTRAPOLATION: A SYNTHETIC VIEW ...................................................................................................................................................................247
IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATIC DIGITAL COMPENSATION IN IQ MODULATORS ...................247
SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE MAGNITUDE OR PHASE OF A GENERALISED WAVELET TRANSFORM......................................................................................................................................................248
QUANTIZATION NOISE COMPENSATION BY ANALYSIS FILTER BANK OPTIMISATION ................248
FriAmPO1 Exhibition Hall Audio Compression and Electroacoustics Chair: C. Martins INESC/ENIDH, Portugal.........................................................................................................249
TIME-VARYING AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELING OF AUDIO AND SPEECH SIGNALS .......................249
A DOUBLE-THRESHOLD-BASED APPROACH TO IMPULSIVE NOISE DETECTION IN AUDIO SIGNALS .............................................................................................................................................................249
CROSSTALK ROBUST STRUCTURES BASED ON SUB-BAND NOISE ESTIMATION............................249
A NEW CONVOLUTIVE BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION ALGORITHM BASED ON SECOND ORDER STATISTICS USING A SIMPLIFIED MIXING MODEL .................................................................................250
LOW DELAY AUDIO CODER USING ADAPTIVE VECTOR QUANTIZATION ........................................250
A NEW PERCEPTUAL ENTROPY-BASED METHOD TO ACHIEVE A SIGNAL ADAPTED WAVELET TREE IN A LOW BIT RATE PERCEPTUAL AUDIO CODER........................................................................251
WAVELET SHRINKAGE DENOISING APPLIED TO REAL AUDIO SIGNALS UNDER PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION ....................................................................................................................................................251
SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF LSF QUANTIZATION IN CONVENTIONAL AND WARPED LP BASED AUDIO CODING.................................................................................................................................................251
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS IN THE DESIGN OF PERIODICITY ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS....................................................................................................................................................252
FriAmPO2 Exhibition Hall Image and M-D Signal Processing Chair: S. Boussakta University of Teesside, UK ....................................................................................................253
REAL-TIME RECONSTRUCTION OF 2D SIGNALS WITH MISSING OBSERVATIONS ..........................253
INVERSE SCATTERING VIA LINEAR AND NONLINEAR TOMOGRAPHY - A REVIEW ......................253
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BAYESIAN SPATIO-TEMPORAL MOTION DETECTION UNDER VARYING ILLUMINATION............253
3-D VECTOR RADIX ALGORITHM FOR THE 3-D DISCRETE HARTLEY TRANSFORM .......................254
ACCURATE SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION FROM APPARENT CONTOURS.........................................254
MULTI-RESOLUTION 3D RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH TEXTURE MATCHING...............................254
EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL FILTERING AND LINEAR PREDICTION ....254
DETECTION OF BIDIMENSIONAL SHAPES UNDER GLOBAL DEFORMATIONS .................................255
AUTOMATIC SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION OF RIGID 3-D OBJECTS FROM MULTIPLE CALIBRATED IMAGES...............................................................................................................................................................255
HYBRID METHOD FOR STILL IMAGE CODING..........................................................................................255
A ROBUST IMAGE VECTOR QUANTIZATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM WITH AN EMBEDDED DEGRADATION CONTROL MECHANISM....................................................................................................256
A NOVEL APPROACH FOR AUTOMATIC AIRCRAFT DETECTION.........................................................256
FriAmPO3 Exhibition Hall Multimedia System Designs and Applications Chair: C. Regazzoni University of Genova, Italy ...................................................................................................257
ARCHITECTURES FOR ARITHMETIC CODING IN IMAGE COMPRESSION...........................................257
LOW BIT-RATE CODEC BASED ON LAR METHOD FOR VIDEO SURVEILLANCE VIA INTERNET ..257
SELECTION OF NATURAL SCALE IN DISCRETE WAVELET DOMAIN USING EIGENVALUES ........257
HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION FROM COMPRESSED VIDEO SEQUENCES..............................................................................................................................................................................258
A FUZZY SYSTEM FOR EMOTION CLASSIFICATION BASED ON THE MPEG-4 FACIAL DEFINITION PARAMETER SET..............................................................................................................................................258
CONTOUR-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION USING WAVELET-TRANSFORM......................................258
LOW BIT-RATE VIDEO CODING USING SPACE-FREQUENCY ADAPTIVE WAVELET TRANSFORM..............................................................................................................................................................................259
FLEXIBLE SOFTWARE DECODING OF DIGITAL VIDEO...........................................................................259
THE VISUAL GOODNESS EVALUATION OF COLOR-BASED RETRIEVAL PROCESSES.....................260
EVALUATING CENTRALIZED AND DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURES FOR VISUAL SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS...................................................................................................................260
VEHICLE EXTRACTION BASED ON FOCUS OF ATTENTION, MULTI FEATURE SEGMENTATION AND TRACKING................................................................................................................................................260
REGIONAL WATERMARKING IN SPATIAL DOMAIN................................................................................261
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TERRAIN FEATURE CLASSIFICATION IN SAR IMAGERY .......................................................................261
ILLUMINATION INVARIANT OBJECT RECOGNITION USING THE MNS METHOD.............................261
INDEXING SPOKEN AUDIO BY LSA AND SOMS........................................................................................262
FriAmOR5 Room 200 Image Quality Measures Chair: E. Coyle Motorolla, USA .............................................................................................................................263
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF IMAGE QUALITY MEASURES ...................................................................263
A PERCEPTUAL PSNR BASED ON THE UTILIZATION OF A LINEAR MODEL OF HVS, MOTION VECTORS AND DFT-3D ...................................................................................................................................263
AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR OBJECTIVE AUDIO AND VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN DIGITAL TELEVISION APPLICATIONS .........................................................................................................................264
OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF SEGMENTATION MASKS IN VIDEO SEQUENCES...............................264
BLOCKWISE DISTORTION MEASURE FOR LOSSY COMPRESSION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES264
FriPmSS1 Hall A DSP for Virtual Acoustics Chair: M. Karjalainen Helsinki University of Technology, Finland ....................................................................266
VIRTUAL ACOUSTICS - APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY TRENDS................................................266
SPATIAL PROCESSING OF SOUND IN MPEG-4 VIRTUAL WORLDS.......................................................266
EFFICIENT HRTF SYNTHESIS USING AN INTERAURAL TRANSFER FUNCTION MODEL.................266
TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELS WITH NONLINEAR EXCITATIONS FOR DIGITAL SOUND SYNTHESIS ........................................................................................................................................................267
SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR A VIRTUAL ROOM ...........................................................................267
EFFICIENT PHYSICS-BASED SOUND SYNTHESIS OF THE PIANO USING DSP METHODS................268
MODELING AND MODIFICATION OF VIOLIN BODY MODES FOR SOUND SYNTHESIS ...................268
A DIGITAL FILTERING APPROACH TO OBTAIN A MORE ACOUSTIC TIMBRE FOR AN ELECTRIC GUITAR...............................................................................................................................................................268
IMPLEMENTATION OF A GENERAL-PURPOSE AURALIZER ON A FLOATING-POINT SIGNAL PROCESSOR .......................................................................................................................................................269
COMPUTATIONAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HRTFS ...........................................................................269
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FriPmSS2 Room 200 Positioning and Navigation Chair: J. Syrjärinne Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland ............................................................................................270
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS..................270
RAPID ZERO-KNOWLEDGE GPS SIGNAL ACQUISITION .........................................................................270
BAYESIAN APPROACH TO SATELLITE SELECTION.................................................................................271
ON RELATIVE POSITIONING..........................................................................................................................271
PEDESTRIAN WALKING DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS USING HAND HELD GPS RECEIVER..........271
TERMINAL POSITIONING IN WCDMA .........................................................................................................272
WLAN EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED HUMAN TRACKING....................................................................272
A POSITION AWARE INFORMATION APPLIANCE.....................................................................................272
FriPmSS3 Studio Multimedia Systems: Integration and Implementation Chair: I. Defee Tampere University of Technology, Finland ................................................................................273
A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP ARCHITECTURE FOR FUTURE MOBILE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING.....................................................................................................273
A SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP FOR MULTIMEDIA STREAM PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATION..........273
HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IMPROVED WEP AND RC4 ENCRYPTION ALGORITHMS FOR WIRELESS TERMINALS ..........................................................................................................................274
A HARDWARE ORIENTED ANALYSIS OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS..................................................................................................................................................274
MULTITHREADING FOR VIDEO PROCESSING APPLICATIONS RUNNING ON PC WORKSTATIONS..............................................................................................................................................................................274
REUSEABLE INTERFACE IN MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE ENVIRONMENT ..........................................275
ADAPTIVE AND INTEGRATED VIDEO COMMUNICATION FOR WIRELESS ATM ..............................275
ADVANCED PROTOTYPE PLATFORM FOR A WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA LOCAL AREA NETWORK276
CONTENT DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT IN NETWORKED MPEG-4 SYSTEM................................276
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FriPmOR1 Small Audiotorium Signal Processing for Communications Chair: D. Slock Eurecom Institute, France ............................................................................................................277
SEMI-BLIND SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION AND INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION IN TDMA CELLULAR SYSTEMS.....................................................................................277
OPTIMIZING THE CAPACITY OF ORTHOGONAL AND BIORTHOGONAL DMT CHANNELS ............277
ADAPTIVE INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN CDMA SYSTEMS BY LCL-PTV FILTERING ..............278
IMPROVED AND UNIFIED APPROXIMATION FOR THE BER OF LINEAR BLOCK CODES.................278
RLS-BASED INITIALIZATION FOR PER TONE EQUALIZERS IN DMT-RECEIVERS.............................278
DESIGN OF FIR FILTERBANK TRANSCEIVERS WITH EFFECTIVE BAND SEPARATION...................279
SPECTRAL INTERPOLATION CODER FOR IMPULSE NOISE CANCELLATION OVER A BINARY SYMETRIC CHANNEL......................................................................................................................................279
CODEBOOK INDEX ASSIGNMENT BY AN APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF THE TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM.....................................................................................................................................280
JOINT SELF AND MULTIUSER INTERFERENCE REDUCTION FOR RELIABLE SYNCHRONIZATION OF DS-CDMA SYSTEMS OVER FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE FADING CHANNELS .................................280
FriPmOR2 Hall B Transforms and Filterbanks Chair: R. Creutzburg University of Applied Sciences, Brandenburg, Germany..................................................281
FAST N-D FOURIER-HEISENBERG TRANSFORMS.....................................................................................281
FACTORS INFLUENCING IMAGE CODING PERFORMANCE OF THE SHAPE-ADAPTIVE DCT .........281
DATA DECORRELATION BY WAVELET TRANSFORM.............................................................................281
WAVELET AND PYRAMID FILTERING OF SIGNAL-DEPENDENT NOISE .............................................282
JOINT DENOISING AND LOSSLESS/LOSSY COMPRESSION OF SAR IMAGES .....................................282
POWER-LAW TIME-SCALE CONTRAST FOR ABRUPT CHANGE DETECTION IN MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE ..................................................................................................................................................................282
TWO METHODS FOR NONPARAMETRIC SPECTRUM PEAK DISCRIMINATION .................................283
EVALUATION OF POTENTIALS FOR LOCAL TRANSFORM DOMAIN FILTERS WITH VARYING PARAMETERS....................................................................................................................................................283
CONTOUR RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATION ................................................283
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FriPmPO1 Exhibition Hall Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing Chair: O. Yli-Harja Tampere University of Technology, Finland........................................................................285
COLOUR IMAGE SKELETONISATION ..........................................................................................................285
FIBONACCI THRESHOLDING, SIGNAL REPRESENTATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS .......285
NONDETERMINISTIC KINETICS BASED FEATURE CLUSTERING FOR FRACTAL PATTERN CODING..............................................................................................................................................................................285
IDENTIFICATION AND ELIMINATION OF SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR DISTORTION OF LOUDSPEAKER SYSTEMS USING DIGITAL VOLTERRA FILTER............................................................286
ON THE THEORETICAL PROPERTIES OF LP MEAN COMPARATORS....................................................286
CAN STOCHASTIC RESONANCE BE USED IN DETECTION?....................................................................286
SIMPLIFIED VOLTERRA FILTERS FOR ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION IN GSM RECEIVERS...287
THE FIRST ABSOLUTE CENTRAL MOMENT IN IMAGE ANALYSIS.......................................................287
FUZZY ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PREDISTORTER FOR OFDM SYSTEMS.......................................................287
FAST COMPUTATION OF RANK ORDER STATISTICS ..............................................................................288
ODIF FOR L-FILTERS .......................................................................................................................................288
ANALYSIS OF OUTLIER INFLUENCE ON NONLINEAR FILTER OUTPUT FOR LINEARLY INCREASING/DECREASING SIGNALS WITH NOISE..................................................................................288
RELIABLE LEARNING USING POST CLASSES........................................................................................... .289
REDUCTION FACTORS IN FINITE AUTOMATA WITH APPLICATION TO NONLINEAR FILTERS ....289
A RATIONAL NX IMAGE INTERPOLATOR...................................................................................................289
A HYBRID TRANSFORM METHOD FOR IMAGE DENOISING ..................................................................289
FriPmPO2 Exhibition Hall Digital Signal Processing Chair: O. Simula Helsinki University of Technology, Finland .............................................................................290
THE DECOMPOSITION OF VECTOR FUNCTIONS IN VECTOR-MATRIX SERIES INTO STATE-SPACE OF NONLINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEM............................................................................................................290
GENERALIZED IIR POLYNOMIAL PREDICTIVE FILTERS........................................................................290
A WAVE THEORY OF LONG LMS ADAPTIVE FILTERS ............................................................................290
SIMULATED EVOLUTIONARY CODE GENERATION FOR HETEROGENEOUS MEMORY-REGISTER DSP-ARCHITECTURES.....................................................................................................................................291
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WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME ANALYSIS FOR DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS ..........................291
THE ENDOMORPHIC MODEL: AN APPROACH TO ADAPTIVE PREDICTION .......................................291
OPTIMAL POLE CONDITIONS FOR LAGUERRE MODELS THAT SATISFY SOME INTERPOLATION CONSTRAINTS, USING AN P-NORM, 1<P<INFINITY >...............................................................................292
TRACKING ANALYSIS OF A GRADIENT-BASED ADAPTIVE IIR NOTCH FILTER WITH CONSTRAINED POLES AND ZEROS..............................................................................................................292
FriPmPO3 Exhibition Hall Systems and Blind Identification Chair: R. Leonardi University of Brescia, Italy .....................................................................................................293
BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF SECOND ORDER HAMMERSTEIN SERIES ...............................................293
3D BLIND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING COMBINED NONLINEAR AND STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES.....................................................................................................................................................293
POLE PLACEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR A CLASS OF IIR BLIND EQUALIZERS ....................................293
BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF NONMINIMUM PHASE SYSTEMS USING THE MEAN DIFFERENTIAL CEPSTRUM.........................................................................................................................................................294
DIRECT BLIND MULTICHANNEL IDENTIFICATION .................................................................................294
BLIND EQUALIZATION BASED ON FOURTH-ORDER CUMULANTS .....................................................294
FriPmPO4 Exhibition Hall Filter Design and DSP Computation Chair: Ari Visa Tampere University of Technology, Finland ...............................................................................295
ANALYSIS OF PASSIVE PLANAR MICROSTRIP CIRCUITS USING THE ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE ...295
IMPLEMENTATION OF REAL-VALUED DISCRETE TRANSFORMS VIA ENCODING ALGEBRAIC INTEGERS...........................................................................................................................................................295
SMALL-SAMPLE ESTIMATION OF THE ERROR OF THE OPTIMAL BINARY FILTER .........................295
LEAST SQUARES FIR FILTER DESIGN USING FREQUENCY DOMAIN PIECEWISE POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATIONS...........................................................................................................................................296
FIXED-POINT DSP TIMING OF PULSES BASED ON A HIGH-PRECISION DIVISION TECHNIQUE ....296
NUMBER THEORETIC TRANSFORM MODULO K.2^N +1, A PRIME ........................................................296
DIGITAL CODING BY MEANS OF LINEAR PERIODIC TIME-VARYING FILTERS ................................297
PRIME FACTOR ALGORITHM OF DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM......................................................297
ROBUST DESIGN OF TRANSMIT PULSE SHAPE.........................................................................................297
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DIRECT DESIGN OF BANDPASS WAVE DIGITAL LADDER FILTERS ....................................................298
COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS FOR REALIZATION OF MULTIPLIERLESS ELLIPTIC IIR FILTERS..............................................................................................................................................................................298
A NEW APPROACH TO FINITE WORDLENGTH COEFFICIENT FIR DIGITAL FILTER DESIGN USING THE BRANCH AND BOUND TECHNIQUE ....................................................................................................298