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3-6 September 2002Pierre Baudis Convention Center

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Oral session: Subspace Detection and EstimationChaired by Jean-Francois Cardoso, ENST, Paris, France 11.631A unified framework for fast extraction of principal and minor componentsOuyang Shan, Ching EC. I L 6 3 3

Quaternion subspace method for vector-sensor wave separationLe Bihan Nicolas, Mars Jerome 11.637

Robust Subspace Tracking Based Blind Channel Identification In Impulsive Noise EnvironmentWen Yu, Chan S.C.. Ho K.L. «- 6 4 1

Subspace detectors for multichannel signalsOlmos Salvador, Martinez Juan Pablo, Sornmo Leif 11.645

Robust non-Gaussian Matched Subspace DetectorsDesai Mukund, Mangoubi Rami 11.649

Oral session: Industrial ApplicationsChaired by Nadine Martin, LIS - ENSIEG, Grenoble, France III.lNonstationary Methods and application to Noisy Ultrasound DopplerKouame Denis, Girault Jean-Marc, Chemla Jean-Paul, Remenieras Jean-Pierre, Lethiecq Marc III.3

Application of the overcomplete wavelet transform for underwater transitory signal characterizationloana Cornel, Freza-Boin Krystel, Quinquis Andre IH.7

Blind detection of an elliptically polarized wave in three-component seismic measurementNagano Koji III.l 1

Investigation of Digital TV-Terrestrial Signal for Radar ApplicationSaini Rajesh, Cherniakov Mike III.15

A New Matrix Method for Pulse Train IdentificationShahhsoeini Hadi Shahriar, NaseriAH, Naderi Madjid III. 19

Special session: Multi-Carrier / OFDM (1/2)Chaired by Ananthram Swami, Army research lab, Washington DC, USA SergioBarbarossa, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy 111.23

MMSE Estimation of Time-Varying Channels for DVB-T Systems with Strong Co-Channel InterferenceSchafliuber Dieter, Matz Gerald, Hlawatsch Franz, Loubaton Philippe 111.25

On blind frequency-offset synchronization for OFDM communicationsGhogho Mounir 111.29

Optimum signaling for MIMO-OFDM systems with interferenceYe Sigen, Blum Rick S 111.33

On the maximum common rate in multiple access channelsBarbarossa Sergio, Scutari Gesualdo 111.37

Layered Space-Time OFDM with High-Performance and High-RateXin Yan, Giannakis Georgios 111.41

Special session: JPEG 2000 (1/2)Chaired by Catherine Lambert-Nebout, CNES Toulouse and Didier Nicholson, ThalesCommunications, Gennevilliers, France 111.45

JPEG2000 : present and future of the new standardOnno Patrice, Lambert-Nebout Catherine, Nicholson Didier 111.47

VLSI Design and Implementation of 2-D Inverse Discrete Wavelet TransformMcCanny Paul, McCanny John, Masud Shahid 111.51

Real Time Implementation of JPEG2000Le Barz Cedric, Elmostadi Rachid, Nicholson Didier 111.55

Scan-based Quality Control for JPEG2000 using R-D ModelsParisot Christophe, Antonini Marc, Barlaud Michel III.59

Poster session: Multimedia Data Protection / Speech Analysis and RecognitionChaired by Regine Andre-Obrecht, IRIT, Toulouse, France 111.63

Analysis of Nasals and Nasalized Vowels Based on Branched Tube ModelsSchnell Karl, LacroixArild 111.65

Audio prewhitening based on polynomial filtering for optimal watermark detectionCvejic Nedeljko, Seppanen Tapio 111.69

Fast Channel and Noise Compensation in the Spectral DomainCerisara Christophe, Fohr Dominique 111.73

Two-level phoneme recognition based on successive use of monophone and diphone modelsSomervuo Panu III.77

Wavelet decomposition of voiced speech and mathematical morphology analysis for glottal closure instantsdetection.Ben Slimane Rahmouni Amel, Bouzid Aicha, Ellouze Noureddine III.81

Speaker Verification using Phoneme-Adapted Gaussian Mixture ModelsGutman Dan, Bistritz Yuval 111.85

A method for embedding binary data into JPEG2000 bit streams based on the layer structureAndo Katsutoshi, Kobayashi Hiroyuki, Kiya Hitoshi III.89

Protection of 3-D object usage through texture watermarkingDugelay Jean-Luc, Garcia Emmanuel 111.93

Application of the Neural Networks for Text-to-Phoneme MappingBilcu Eniko Beatrice, Salmela Petri, Suontausta Janne, Saarinen Jukka 111.97

Secure, blind image watermarking technique for copyright protection

Alturki Faisal, Mersereau Russell III. 101

Moving sound image representation methodMatsumoto Mitsuo, Yamanaka Susumu, Toyama Mikio, Nomura Hiroaki III. 105

Detection of focal points in speech prosodyValbonesi Lucia, Ansari Rashid, McNeill David, Quek Francis, Duncan Susan, McCullough Karl-Eric . . .III. 109

Voice Conversion: Adaptation of Relative Local Speech Rate by MPEG-4 HVXCLeuteltLutz, Heute Ulrich III.l 13

Recovering of Packet Loss for Distributed Speech RecognitionMayorga Pedro, Lamy Richard, Besacier Laurent III. 117

A Novel Voiced / Unvoiced / Silence Classification Scheme for Offline Speech CodingHoelper Carsten, Frankort Astrid, Erdmann Christoph, Vary Peter III. 121

On the relevance of bandwith extension for speaker identificationFaiindez-Zanuy Marcos, Nilsson Mattias, Kleijn Bastiaan III. 125

Recognition of Isolated Musical Patterns using Context Dependent Dynamic Time WarpingPikrakis Aggelos, Theodoridis Sergios, Kamarotos Dimitris III. 129

Oral session: Frequency EstimationChaired by J.F. Bohme, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany III.133Increasing accuracy of frequency estimation by decimationNiedzwiecki Maciej, Klaput Tomasz, Kaczmarek Piotr III. 135

Snr enhancement of damped exponential signals in noiseDjermoune El-hadi, Tomczak Marc III. 139

Optimizing Correlation Based Frequency EstimatorsVolcker Bjorn, Handel Peter III. 143

Subband decomposition and frequency warping for spectral estimationBonacci David, Michel Patrice, Mailhes Corinne III.147

Spectral Modes Estimation using Whittle-type Criterion, Applications to stellar speckle interferometry.Cavalim Yoann, Ferrari Andrea, Lanteri Henri III. 151

Oral session: Biomedical ProcessingChaired by Sylvie Roques, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, FranceIII.155

Propagation model choice for rapid SAR measurementMerckel Olivier, Fleury Gilles, Bolomey Jean-Charles III. 157

Characterization of auditory evoked potentials recorded in radiofrequency fields

Maby Emmanuel, Chaillou Stephane, Marquis Patrick, Le Bouquin-Jeannes Regine III. 161

Pareto Analysis for Gene Filtering in Microarray ExperimentsFleury Gilles, Hero Alfred, Yoshida Shigeo, Carter Todd, Barlow Carollee, Swaroop Anand III. 165

A stochastic sinusoidal model with application to speech and EEG-sleep spindle signalsLabarre David, Grivel Eric, Berthoumieu Yannick, Najim Mohamed III. 169

Special session: Multi-Carrier / OFDM (2/2)Chaired by Ananthram Swami, Army research lab, Washington DC, USA SergioBarbarossa, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy III.l73

linear precoders for ofdm wireless communications with mmse equalization: facts and resultsDebbah Merouane, Loubaton Philippe, De Courville Marc III. 175

Fine Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDM Signals in Frequency Selective ChannelsMarti Pere, Sala Josep III. 179

Exploiting the Cyclic Prefix for Beamforming in OFDM ReceiversBartolome Diego, Perez-Neira Ana I. III. 183

Performance of single-user and multi-user constant-energy bit loading in Hiperlan channelsGarcia-Armada Ana, Cioffi John M. III. 187

Special session: JPEG 2000 (2/2)Chaired by Catherine Lambert-Nebout, CNES Toulouse and Didier Nicholson, ThalesCommunications, Gennevilliers, France III.191

Psychovisual evaluation of the effect of color spaces and color quantification in JPEG2000 image compres-sionLarabi Mohamed-Chaker, Fernandez-Maloigne Christine, Richard Noel III. 193

Progressive coding in JPEG2000 - Improving content recognition performance using ROIs and importancemapsNguyen Anthony, Chandran Vinod, Sridharan Sridha, Prandolini Robert III. 197

Optimal Caching Mechanism for JPEG 2000 CommunicationsIregui Marcela, Chevalier Philippe, Macq Benoit III.201

Progressive Quality JPEG2000 Image Transmission over Noisy ChannelPoulliat Charly, Vila Pierre, Pirez Didier, Fijalkow Inbar IH.205

Plenary session: Plenary 4 III.209

Nonlinear Speech SynthesisMcLaughlin Stephen 111.211

Oral session: Beamforming and Spatial FilteringChaired by Olivier Besson, ENSICA, Toulouse, France III.219Multi-Stage Reduced-Rank Adaptive Filter With Flexible StructureBurykh Serguei, Abed Meraim Karim 111.221

An LCMV-Based Approach for Downlink Beamforming in FDD Systems in Presence of Angular SpreadZanatta Filho Danilo, Cavalcante Charles C, Romano Joao, Resende Leonardo III.225

A constant power algorithm for partial-band interference rejection in frequency-hopping communicationsystemsKamiya Yukihiro, Besson Olivier III.229

Optimal Steering of a Negative Beamformer for Speech EnhancementGomez-Vilda Pedro, Alvarez-Marquina Agustin, Martinez-OlallaRafael, Nieto-Lluis Victor, Rodellar-BiargeVictoria 111.233

Design of Far-Field Broadband Beamformers Using EigenfiltersDoclo Simon, Moonen Marc III.237

Poster session: Image Representation and TransformationChaired by Giovanni Sicuranza, University of Trieste III.241Statistically optimal control of a blending-type filter with its application to old film restorationSaito Takahiro, Yashiro Kentarou, Satsumabayashi Jun, Komatsu Takashi HI.243

Hypercomplex operators and vector correlationMoxey CE, Ell Todd, Sangwine Stephen III.247

Image Dynamic Range Enhancement in the Context of Logarithmic ModelsVasile Patrascu, Vasile Buzuloiu 111.251

Circle Fitting by Iterative InversionTwo Marius, Rusu Cornelia, Kuosmanen Pauli, Delp Edward III.255

Vector Directional Order-statistics for Impulse DetectionLukac Rastislav III.259

Edge Detection using Steerable Filters and CNNOzmen Atilla, Tufan Akman Emir III.263

Anisotropic Wavelet Thresholding For Bayesian Image DenoisingJacovitti Giovanni, Neri Alessandro III.267

An exact discrete backprojection operatorVerbert Pierre, Guidon Jean-Pierre III.271

Reversible Conversion between Interlaced and Progressive Scan Formats and Its Efficient ImplementationKikuchi Hisakazu, Muramatsu Shogo, Ishida Takuma, Kuge Tetsuro III.275

Regularized Restoration of Color-Quantized ImagesChan Yuk-Hee, Fung Tik-Hing III.279

Application to Multispectral Images of a Blind Identification System For Blur, Additive, Multiplicative

and Impulse NoisesCarton-Vandecandelaere Marie-Paule, Vozel Benoit, Klaine Luc, Chehdi Kacem 111.283

Modelling and assessment of signal-dependent noise for image de-noisingAlparone Luciano, Argenti Fabrizio, Torricelli Gionatan III.287

A New Two-Dimensional Fast Adaptive Filter Based on the Chandrasekhar AlgorithmSayadi Mounir, Fnaiech Farhat, Mahlouthi Ahmed, Chaari Abdelkader, Najim Mohamed III.291

Oral session: Speech Enhancement and Noise ReductionChaired by Olivier Cappe, ENST Paris, France III.295

Analysis of background noise reduction techniques for robust speech codingVirette David, Scalart Pascal, Lamblin Claude 111.297

QRD-based optimal filtering for acoustic noise reductionRombouts Geert, Moonen Marc III.301

Adaptive Kalman Filtering for Speech Signal Recovery in Colored NoiseGabrea Marcel III.305

Enhancing quality of CELP coded speech via wideband extension by using voicing GMM interpolationand HNM re-synthesisDar Ghulam Raza, Chan Cheung Fat III.309

Blind speech enhancement using generalized eigenvalue decompositionAsano Futoshi, Asoh Hideki III.313

Oral session: Channel Estimation and EqualizationChaired by Daniel Roviras, ENSEEIHT-TeSA, Toulouse, France III.317

Performance analysis of a List-type equalizer over estimated MIMO frequency selective channelsSellami Noura, Fijalkow Inbar, Perreau Sylvie III.319

Space-Time Correlation of MIMO Flat Rayleigh Fading ChannelsSafar Zoltan, Liu K.J.Ray III.323

Behavior and corrections of constant modulus equalization with a DC offsetTouzni Azzedine, Endres Tom, Fu Haosong, Casas Raul III.327

A blind particle filtering detector for joint channel estimation, tracking and data detection over flat fad-ing channelsHuang Yufei, Djuric Petar III.331

A multi-slot method to estimate fast-varying channels in TD-CDMA systemsSpagnolini Umberto, Nicoli Monica, Simeone Osvaldo III.335

Special session: Content based Audio and Video Indexing (1/2)Chaired by Regine Andre-Obrecht and Philippe Joly, IRIT Toulouse, FranceIII.339Automatic Processing of Broadcast Audio in Multiple LanguagesLamel Lori, Gauvain Jean-Luc III.341

A method for extraction of audio-visual leitmotif in movies by cross media analysisBenois-Pineau Jenny, Desainte-Catherine Myriam, Louis Nicolas III.345

Modelling of visual features by Markov chains for sport content characterizationLeonardi Riccardo, Migliorati Pierangelo, Prandini Maria III.349

Image Similarity For Automatic Video SummarizationYahiaoui Itheri, Merialdo Bernard, Huet Benoit III.353

A framework for the retrieval of multiple regions using Binary Partition Trees and low level descriptorsGarrido Luis, Salembier Philippe III.357

Poster session: ApplicationsChaired by Francis Castanie, ENSEEIHT-TeSA, Toulouse, France III.361Determination of P phase arrival in low-amplitude seismic signals from coal-mines with waveletsWyzgolik Roman III.363

Component Separation in Astronomical Images Using Independent Factor AnalysisKuruoglu Ercan Engin, Bedini Luigi, Paratore Maria Teresa, Salerno Emanuele, Tonazzini Anna . III.367

Time-spectral technique for esophageal voice regenerationGarcia Begona, Vicente Javier, Aramendi Elisabete III.371

Eye diagram reconstruction using asynchronous imperfect sampling, application to BER estimation forfiber-optic communication systemsMoustakides George, Cerou Frederic, Audouin Olivier, Noirie Ludovic III.375

Correlation Integral Analysis of radar sea clutterMcLaughlin Stephen, Unsworth Charles, Cowper Mark, Mulgrew Bernard III.379

Application of blind signal separation to WDM optical transmission monitoringFeng Yumang, Zarzoso Vicente, Nandi Asoke III.383

DPCM compression of SAR raw dataMagli Enrico, Olmo Gabriella III.387

Using stochastic complexity for ECG signal analysisAldea Rafael, Giurcaneanu Ciprian Doru III.391

Two joint estimation decision methods for pollutant source monitoring : a comparisonDelmaire Gilles, Lherbier Regis, Carlier Erick III.395

Steps towards the development of an automatic classifier for astronomical imagesThiebaut Carole, Boer Michel, Bringer Mathieu III.399

fractal dimension and power-law behavior reproducibility and correlation in chronic heart failure patients

Accardo Agostino, D'addio Gianni, Maestri Roberto, Vitale Dario, Furgi Giorgio, Rengo Fabio .. III.403

Bisprectral Analysis of Heart Rate VariabilitySaliu Sokol, Birand Ahmet, Kuadiberdieva Gulmira III.407

High Performance Receiver for RFI Mitigation in Radio Astronomy : Apllication at decameter wavelengthsWeber Rodolphe, Clerc Vincent, Denis Laurent, Rosolen Carlo III.411

blind source separation : application to microorganism raman spectraHuez Regis, Perrin Eric, Sockalingum Ganesh, Manfait Michel 111.415

A simple signal detection method for great earthquake prediction by observation of seismic electromag-netic wave radiationsYasukawa Hiroshi, Niwa Shinji, Hata Masayasu, Takumi Ichi 111.419

Time-frequency analysis of high-frequency activity for seizure detection and tracking in neonateHassanpour Hamid, Mesbah Mostefa, Boashash Boualem III.423

Mixture Densities Formulation of a Spectrogram Segmentation TaskHory Cyril, Martin Nadine III.427

Oral session: Spectral EstimationChaired by Jean-Louis Lacoume, LIS - ENSIEG, grenoble, France III.431

Myriad filter based form of the DFTDjurovic Igor, Stankovic Ljubisa, Boehme Johann III.433

Asymptotically minimum variance second-order estimation of frequencies for mixed spectra time seriesDelmas Jean-Pierre, Meurisse Yann III.437

Instantaneous Frequency Estimation of Frequency Modulated Signals in the Presence of Multiplicative andAdditive Noise: Application to Mobile Communication SystemsAzemi Ghasem, Senadji Bouchra, Boashash Boualem 111.441

A novel frequency estimator and its comparative performances for short record lenghtsSo H.C., IpS.K. 111.445

Extension of Whittle likelihood to transient signal parameters estimation. Application to stellar speckleinterferometry.Ferrari Andrea, Cavallin Yoann III.449

Special session: Content based Audio and Video Indexing (2/2)Chaired by Regine Andre-Obrecht and Philippe Joly, IRIT Toulouse, FranceIII.453

Construction of a Formal Multimedia BenchmarkMarchand-Maillet Stephane III.455

A Speech/Music Discriminator using RMS and Zero-crossingsPanagiotakis Costas, Tziritas Georgios III.459

Image compression for indexing based on the encoding cost mapSimitopoulos Dimitrios, Tzovaras Dimitrios, Strintzis Michael III.463

Automatic Video Structuring for Multimedia MessagingTreetasanatavorn Siripong, Rauschenbach Uwe, HeuerJorg, Kaup Andre III.467

Color Texture Recognition and Indexing by Fuzzy Color Spatial DistributionsVertan Constantin, Stoica Adrian, Fernandez-Maloigne Christine 111.471

Oral session: Segmentation and VisionChaired by Jean-Marc Chassery, LIS - ENSIEG, Grenoble, France III.475Unsupervised Segmentation of Textured Satellite and Aerial Images with Bayesian MethodsWilson Simon, Zerubia Josiane III.477

Segmentation of natural images using scale-space representations: a linear and a non-linear approachDivorra Escoda Oscar, Petrovic Ana, Vandergheynst Pierre 111.481

The epipolar constraint in geometric algebra and the self-calibration problemSarti Augusto, Defferara Claudio, Negroni Fabio, Tubaro Stefano III.485

Volume Simplification and Segmentation by 3D Connected OperatorsSignoroni Alberto, Leonardi Riccardo III.489

Fast Marching and Traveltime Images: 8-Neighbourhood ApproachDargent Regis, Lavialle Olivier, Orsoni Bruno, Baylou Pierre, Melchior Pierre III.493

Oral session: CDMAChaired by Marco Luise, University of Pisa, Italy III.497

Rake Receiver Analytical Study for Td-Cdma Downlink EvaluationAmmari Saloua, Wautier Armelle III.499

MC-CDMA with Prolate Spheroidal Functions-based Orthogonal CodesRaos Ivana, Zazo Santiago, Pdez-Borrallo Jose-Manuel III.503

A higher-order-statistics based blind interference cancellator for asynchronous DS/CDMA systemsGuainazzo Marco, Peluffo Marta, Sacchi Claudio, Regazzoni Carlo III.507

Space-time decorrelating RAKE receiver in multipath CDMA channelFung C. Y, Chan S.C., Tse K.W. 111.511

Interference Suppression in WCDMA Downlink by Symbol-Level Channel EqualizationHooli Kari, Juntti Markku III.515

Special session: Non linear Speech ProcessingChaired by Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, University of Mataro, Spain IIL519

nonlinear speech processing with oscillatory neural networks for speaker segregationRouat Jean, Pichevar Ramin 111.521

Future work in cost action 277 on nonlinear speech processingChollet Gerard, Faiindez-Zanuy Marcos, Kleijn Bastiaan, Kubin Gernot, McLaughlin Stephen, Petek BojanIII.525

SVM-based lost packets concealment for ASR applications over IPPeldez-Moreno Carmen, Gallardo-Antolin Ascension, Parrado-Herndndez Einilio, Diaz-de-Maria FernandoIII.529

Nonlinear Prediction Based on Score FunctionJordi Sole- i -Casals, Enric Monte-Moreno III.533

N-dimensional nonlinear prediction with MLPFaundez-Zanuy Marcos III.537

Oral session: Object RecognitionChaired by Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova, Italy 111.541

Shape distance for rotation estimation and rotational symmetry detection in gray-level imagesDerrode Stephane, Ghorbel Faouzi III.543

Structure Sensitive Sampling of Noisy Fractal PatternsKamejima Kohji III.547

Enhancement of ARG Object Recognition MethodAhmadyfard Alireza, Kittler Josef 111.551

Cast Shadow Recognition in Color ImagesSalvador Elena, Ebrahimi Touradj 111.555

Eigenedginess vs. eigenhill, eigenface and eigenedgeRamesh S, Palanivel S, Das Sukhendu, Yegnanarayana B III.559

Special session: Low-Power Algorithms / Architectures for Image and VideoChaired by by Michael Ansorge, university of Neuchatel, Switzerland and GiovanniRamponi, university of Trieste, Italy III.563

Design and implementation of a high-quality, low-power deinterlacer circuitTenze Livio, Marsi Stefano, Carrato Sergio III.565

VLSI design for low-power data-adaptive motion estimationFanucci Luca, Saponara Sergio III.569

A Pipelined Systolic Architecture for the Hardware Oriented Region Based Motion Estimation AlgorithmFermo Andrea, Sicuranza Giovanni, Pahor Vojko III.573

A Low-Power VLSI Architecture for Face Verification Using Elastic Graph MatchingNagel Jean-Luc, Stadelmann Patrick, Ansorge Michael, Pellandini Fausto III.577

A Multiscale Morphological Coprocessor For Low-Power Face AuthenticationStadelmann Patrick, Nagel Jean-Luc, Ansorge Michael, Pellandini Fausto III.581

Oral session: Language and Speech RecognitionChaired by Lori Lamel, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, Paris, France III.585A Hybrid HMM/Autoregressive Time-Delay Neural Network Automatic Speech Recognition SystemSelouaniSid-Ahmed, O'Shaughnessy Douglas III.587

Merging Segmental, Rhythmic and Fundamental Frequency Features for Automatic Language Identifica-tionRouas Jean-Luc, Farinas Jerome, Pellegrino Francois III.591

Time sequence information within a Gaussian mixture modelStapert Robert, Mason John III.595

Continuous Speech Recognition Using Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian NetworksDeviren Murat, Daoudi Khalid III.599

Posteriors correction using feedback synthesis loop in robust ASRGlotin Herve III.603