TABLE OF CONTENTS

SIP 2007

DIGITAL IMAGES AND PROCESSING

576-202: Saturation Enhancement of Blue Sky for

Increasing Preference of Natural Scenes

J.-Y. You, S.-J. Oh, H.-C. Do, andS.-I. Chien /

576-178: Watershed Segmentation with Boundary

Curvature Ratio based Merging Criterion

X. He, N.H.C. Yung, K.P. Chow, F.Y.L. Chin,

R.H.Y. Chung, K.Y.K. Wong, andK.S.H. Tsang 7

576-180: Watermarking Algorithm with Post-

Compression Capability for Digital Video Surveillance

C.-C. Wang and Y.-C. Lin 13

576-062: An Oblivious Image Watermarking Scheme

using Singular Value DecompositionS.S. Kumar, B.C. Mohan, and B.N. Chatter]i 19

576-050: Implementation ofVideo Player for

Embedded Systems

T.L. Yu 25

576-248: Demosaicing based on the Correlations

between Low-Resolution ImagesH.M. Oh andM.G. Kang 31

576-068: Geometrically Robust Image Watermarkingusing Star Patterns

J.R. Zhang and J.G. Rokne 37

576-069: Improved Scanning and Reconstruction of

Large Objects by Cone-Beam Industrial ComputedTomographyL. Zeng, X. Zou, J. Wang, P. Wang, and

P.R. Hunziker 46

FILTERS AND WAVELETS

576-101: Image Sequences Filtering using the

Adaptive Number of Frames

M. Saeidi 52

576-246: Modified Kalman Filtering for Image

Super-Resolution: Experimental Convergence Results

C.B. Newland, D.A. Gray, andD. Gibbins 58

576-130: Blind Image Restoration based on Complex

FilteringF. Kara and C. Vural 64

576-076: Analytical Design of Zero FrequencyNotch FIR Filters

P. Zahradnik and M. Vlcek 69

576-188: Mixed Local-Global Criterion for ImageDenoising in the Wavelet Domain

F. Garcia-Ugalde and B. Psenicka 73

576-024: A Level-Wavelet-Dependent Scheme for

Image Denoising Via Undecimated Wavelet

Transform

A.K. Ng, T.S. Koh, and C.H. Thng 79

576-118: Wavelet-based Moving Object Segmentation

using Background Registration Technique

T.H. Im, l.K. Earn, and Y.S. Kim 84

576-184: A Methodology for Deriving ObjectiveImage Comparison Metrics

M. V. he, P.D. Le, and B. Srinivasan 89

576-200: A Robust Information Hiding Methodologyin Wavelet Domain

M. Yang, M. Trifas, N. Bourbakis, and

C. Cushing 95

576-161: Error Propagation Analysis of Fast

Recursive Least Squares AlgorithmsM. Arezki, P. Meyrueis, A. Benallal, A. Guessoum,

and D. Berkani 101

576-119: Demosaicking using Inter-Channel

Correlation in Wavelet Domain

H.S. Kim, B.G. Jeong, S.S. Kim, and l.K. Eom 109

SPEECH PROCESSING AND ACOUSTICS

576-057: Speech Coding using the Matrix Pencil

DM. Haddad, T.K. Sarkar, andA.J. Noga 115

576-100: Comparison of Fixed and Variable Weight

Approaches for Viseme Classification

P. PateI and K. Ouazzane 119

576-109: Tracking a Varying Number of Sound

Sources using Particle FilteringA. Quinlan, M. Kawamoto, F. Asano, H. Asoh, and

K. Yamamoto 123

576-115: Direction of" Arrival Estimation

Improvement of Speech on a Two-MicrophoneArrayM.N. Bin MohdNor, T. Matsumura, tmdT. Onoye 129

576-242: Employing the Relative Phase ofOvertones

in Single Mixture Musical Source SeparationG. Velikic and M.F. Bocko 136

576-249: Narrowband CELP Hiding by Wideband

SpeechD. Guerchi and T. Rabie 142

576-247: Score Calibrating for Speaker Recognitionbased on Support Vector Machines and Gaussian

Mixture Models

M. Katz, M. Schajfoner, S.E. Kriiger, and

A. Wendemuth 146

576-212: Separation of Dominant Speech from

Simultaneous Talkers

P.S. Salhidevi, S. Aravindakshan, and R. Rajavel 152

576-194: Feature Space Reduction and Decorrelation

in a Large Number of Speech RecognitionExperiments

J. V. Psatka, L. Miiller, L. Smidl, and J. Psutka 158

576-215: A Novel Approach for SpeakerRecognition by Vowel Specking5. Nasir, I. Khokar, and M.N. Jafri 162

576-128: Parameter Estimation for Linear AM/FM

Sinusoids using Frequency Domain Demodulation

A. Rdbel 167

576-095: Acquisition of a State-Space Model for

One-Dimensional Active Noise Control

Z. Yang andD.L. Hicks 173

COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGING

576-235: Matting Through Variational InpaintingK. Ni, S. Thinivenkadam, and T. Chan 179

576-169: A Variational Segmentation Framework

using Active Contours and ThresholdingS. Dambreville, M. Niethammer, A. Yezzi, and

A. Tannenbaum 185

576-170: Instance-based Relevance Feedback usingCluster DensityG. Das and S. Ray 190

576-805: Straight-Line Track Reconstruction in 3D

Images using Adaptive Morphological HoughTransform

A.R. Gesualdi, J.M. Seixas, and

M.P. Albuquerque 196

576-185: Hierarchical Graph-based Media Content

Representation for Real Time Search in Large Scale

Multimedia Databases

N. Papadakis, N. Doulamis, andA. Doulamis 202

576-056: An Enhanced Technique for Image

Steganography using 2-Lcvels PVD

K. Jambi andS. Alnahdi 208

576-092: Reconstruction of Chinese Tablet

Calligraphy Characters

J. Dong, X.-j. Zhang, andZ.-j. Yang 214

576-088: Validation ofClassical and Blind Criteria

for Image Quality Evaluation

M. Haindl and S. Simberova 218

576-236: Occlusion Tracking using Logic Models

J.H. von Brecht, S.R. Thinivenkadam, and

T.F. Chan 224

576-099: Adaptive Large Scale Artifact Reduction

in Edge-based Image Super-ResolutionA. Wong and W. Bishop 230

VIDEO PROCESSING AND CODING

576-207: Global Motion Vector Estimation via

Elaborated Reichardt Parameter OptimizationE. Nakamura, C. Takahashi, and K. Sawada 236

576-197: Estimation of Essential Objects in the

Sports Ticker for Segmenting a Broadcasted

Baseball Video into all the Plate AppearancesK. Abe, K. Miyashita, H. Murakami,

T. Hayashi, and H. Tian 242

576-204: Unequal Error Protection of H.264/AVC

Video over Wireless using Hierarchical QAMY.C. Chang, S.W. Lee, andR. Komiya 248

576-214: A Fast Arbitrary-Ratio Downscaling

Algorithm for Video TranscodingW. Wen, Y. Liu, and H. Hu 254

576-232: Global Motion Compensation based

De-Interlacing using Adaptive Integral ProjectionY.D. Kim and M. G. Kang 259

576-243: Improved Super-Resolution Method byDense Motion Estimation using Overlapped Block

Matching

Y. Takehisa and K. Tanaka 265

576-091: Objective Video Quality Assessment

Method for Video Streams Spatially Distorted by

Coding and Packet Loss

J. Okamoto, K. Watanabe, and T. Kurita 277

576-198: An Efficient Packet Loss Recovery

Methodology for Video-over-IP

M. Yang, N. Bourbakis, Z. Chen, and

G. Francialll 277

576-192: FEC for Efficient Video Transmission

over CDMA

S, Patnaik and S. Behera 283

576-138: Illumination Flicker FrequencyClassification in Rolling Shutter Camera SystemsT. Tajbakhsh andR.-R. Grigat 288

576-105: Computation Reduction in Motion Search

using Early Zero-Block Detection

Y.J. Tsai, Y. Lin, andH.J. Hsieh 294

576-108: Requantization Transcoding for Reduced-

Complexity H.264/AVC Video Coding ApplicationsS. Notebaert, J. De Cock, P. Lambert, and

R. Vande Walk 299

576-112: Unstructured Data Analysis of StreamingVideo using Parallel, High-Throughput AlgorithmsH. Trease, T. Carlson, R. Moony, R. Farber, and

L. Trease 305

576-238: Mosaic-based Figure-Ground SegmentationAlong with Static Segmentation by Mean Shift

J. Sole, Y. Huang, andJ. Llach 311

576-025: A Fast Approach of Object Segmentationfor Video SequenceY.-C. Liaw, B.-S. Chin, J.Z.C. Lai, and T.-J. Huang ....317

SIGNAL PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS

576-107: Adaptive Beamforming using UniformCircular Arrays under Mutual CouplingEnvironments

J.-H. Lee andY.-L. Chen 321

576-079: A Scale Cross-Ambiguity Function for

Radar ApplicationsD.C. Smith and D.J. Nelson 327

576-070: Configuring a Real Time Radio Signal

Processor on an Embedded System using CompiledXML

T. Eggendorfer and G. Schwarz 333

576-065: ML-based Beamforming for Follower

Jamming Rejection in Slow FH/MFSK. SystemsF. Liu, H. Nguyen-Le, andC.C.Ko 339

576-001: The Control System ofGinned Cotton

Humidity based on Fuzzy Control

Y. Zhang, X. Geng, andJ. Zhao 345

576-205: Equalization with Amplitude Banded LMS

Adaptation for Stationary ChannelsT. Shimamura 349

576-074: A Wireless MIMO CPM System with

Incoherent Demodulation

O. Weikert and U. Zolzer 355

576-060: Long-Range Correlations in Pre- and

Post-Fire Satellite Spot-VGT NDVI Data

L. Telesca and R. Lasaponara 360

576-244: On the Roots of the 3x3, 5+, 5x, 13-ptand 5x5 2D Median Filters

A. Cordoba Arenas andA. Restrepo Palacios 364

IDENTIFICATION, DETECTION, ANDESTIMATION

576-182: Study on the Information EnhancingTechnology Applied to Fault Diagnosis of Armored

Vehicle Gearbox

Z.Yao andH.Pan 371

576-067: Parameters Estimation from 1-Bit

Dithered Quantized Data with Dependent Noise

O, Dabeer and E. Masiy 376

576-210: Scalable Parallel Collision Detection

Simulation

/. Grinberg and Y. Wiseman 380

576-233: Estimation of Orientation and Affine

Transformations of a 3-Dimensional ObjectR. Shallom, R. Hagege, andJ.M. Francos 386

576-117: Estimation of Edge Direction for Block

Error Concealment using Hypothesis TestingProblem

S.H. Hyun, S.S. Kim, I.K. Eom, and Y.S. Kim 391

576-081: Text Detection in Natural Scene Imageswith Feature Combination

Q. Ye, J. Jiao, J. Huang, andH. Yu 397

576-193: Rake Receiver for Downlink CDMA

Systems using Blind Channel Estimation TechniqueS. Patnaik andA. Upadhyay 403

576-090: Identification ofNonlinear SystemsDriven by Random Multisine SignalsC.-H. Tseng 407

576-245: Noise Reduction using an AdaptiveIteration based on Bayesian ModelS.-H. Lee 413

576-135: Noise Insensitive Demosaicing AlgorithmC. Kim, M. Kang, S. Cho, S. Oh, H. Park,

tmdM. Park 419

MEDICAL IMAGE AND PROCESSING

576-116: Gaussian Sum Approach with OptimalExperiment Design for Neural Network

P. Hering and M. Simandl 425

576-078: 3D Surface Texture Analysis for EarlyMalignant Melanoma DiagnosisY. Ding and L. Smith 431

576-127: Non-Rigid Mammogram Registrationusing Demons Algorithm: Preliminary Results

Y. Guo, W.-H. Cheng, and C.-C. Lu 437

576-241: Comparison of Heart Rate Estimators for

Doppler Radar Monitoring/. Mostafanezhad, W. Massagram, N. Hafner,N, Petrochilos, 0. Boric-Luhecke, A, Hosl-Madsen,

and V. Luhecke 443

576-012: Using Multiple Contoursets to RepresentStructures in 3D ImagesH. Wang, J.B. West, J.R. Dooley, B. Wang,I.-N. Chang, and Y. Sheng 448

576-123: Analysis of Medical Cellular Images with

an Original Image Fuzzy RGB-HSI SegmentationA. Douik and H.B. M'Hadheb 454

576-033: Fuzzy and Hybrid Prediction of Position

Signal in Synchrony© Respiratory Tracking SystemY. Sheng, S. Li, S. Sayeh, J. Wang, and H. Wang 459

576-131: Source Separation Applied to Heartbeat

Doppler Radar

N. Petrochilos, N. Hafner, A, Host-Madsen,

O. Boric-Lubecke, and V. Lubecke 465

576-051: Computationally Efficient Matching of

MicroRNA Shapes using Mutual SymmetryA. Kuijper and 1. Havukkala 477

576-040: Fuzzy C-Mcans Clustering with

Adjustable Feature Weighting Distribution for Brain

MRI Ventricles SegmentationK. Xiao, S.H. Ho, A. ella Hassanien, N. Van Du,

andQ. Salih 483

576-047: Empirical Analysis of Blood Plasma LIBS

Images using Different Nonlinear Diffusion

TechniquesR. Vincelette, C. Tameze, N. Melikechi, and

V. Zeljkovic 490

BIOMETRICS AND HUMAN IMAGING

576-227: Registration ofJoint Geometric and

Radiometric Image Deformation

S.Z. Kovalsky, R. Hagege, andJ.M, Francos 496

576-228: Automatic Detection and Classification of

Football PlayersJ.R. Gomez, J.E. Herrero-Jaraba, M. Montahes,

J. Martinez-del-Rincon, andC. Oiritc-Uruniiela 500

576-176: Eyebrow Recognition: A NewBiometric TechniqueY. Li and C. Fu 506

576-179: Contactless Palmprint Authentication

using Circular Gabor Filter and Approximated

String MatchingJ. Doublet, O. Lepetit, and M. Revemi 511

576-231: Decoupled Sequential Estimation of

Homeomorphic Deformations

R. Hagege andJ. M. Francos 517

576-239: Extraction of Moving Human Objectsfrom Their Background using Bi-Thrcsholding and

Boundary Evaluation

L. Wang, N.H.C. Yung, andX. He 522

OTHER PAPERS

576-071: 3C2B Difference Expansion based

Reversible Data Embedding and Its Applicationin Error Resilient JPEGD.-F. Shen andK.-L. Hsu 528

576-199: Genomic Nucleotide Signal Analysis of

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ComplexP.D. Cristea, D. Banica, and R. Tuduce 471

AUTHOR INDEX 533