XII. European Signal Processing Conference

EUSIPCO 2004

September 6-10, 2004Vienna, Austria

Proceedings

Volume II

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Table of Contents

Volume II

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Special Session WedPmSSl: Monte Carlo Methods for Signal ProcessingChair: Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, USA

MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING: RECENT ADVANCES 853Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, USA

FIXED-LAG SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO 861Doucet Arnaud, Cambridge University, United Kingdom; and Senecal Stephane, The Institute of Statistical Math-ematics, Japan

MONTE CARLO BAYESIAN FILTERING AND SMOOTHING FOR TVAR SIGNALS IN SYMMETRICALPHA-STABLE NOISE 865

Marco Lombardi, Universita degli studi di Firenze, Italia; and Simon Godsill, University of Cambridge, UK

NONLINEAR FILTERING APPROACHES FOR GPS/INS INTEGRATION 873Audrey G ire mus, Tesa, France; Arnaud Doucet, University of Cambridge, England; Anne-Christine Eschei; ENAC,France; and Tourneret Jean-Yves, Tesa, France

Special Session WedPmSS2: Robust Transmission of Multimedia ContentChair: Michel Kieffer, Universite Paris-Sud (Supelec), France

ON PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION WITH LOST CHANNEL DATA IN LAPPED PSEUDO-ORTHOGONALTRANSFORM 877Toshihisa Tanaka, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan; and Yukihiko Yamashita, Tokyo Institute of Technology,Japan

ERROR-RESILIENT TRANSMISSION OF WAVEFORM SIGNALS USING OVERCOMPLETEEXPANSIONS AND SOFT-INPUT SOURCE DECODING 881

Jorg Kliewer, University of Kiel, Germany; and Alfred Merlins, University of Oldenburg, Germany

ON THE DESIGN OF OVERSAMPLED FILTER BANKS FOR CHANNEL CODING 885Stephan Weiss, University of Southampton, UK

NEW RESULTS AND OPEN PROBLEMS IN REAL-NUMBER CODES 889Paulo Ferreira, Dorabella Santos and Vera Afreixo, leeta / Departamento de Electronica e Telecomunicacoes,Portugal

MULTIPLE DESCRIPTIONS SCALABLE VIDEO CODING 893Christophe Tillier, Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu, ENST, France; and Mihaela Van Der Schaar, Univ. of CaliforniaDavis, USA

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Session WedPmORl: Carrier and Phase RecoveryChair: Philippe Ciblat, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France

ML FREQUENCY OFFSET AND CARRIER PHASE ESTIMATION IN OFDM SYSTEMS WITHNONCIRCULAR TRANSMISSIONS 897Tilde Fusco and Mario Tanda, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy

CLUSTERED PILOT TONES FOR CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET COMPENSATION IN OFDMSYSTEMS 901Wei Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China; Xiang-Gen Xia, University ofDelaware, USA; and Pak-Chung Ching, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR of China

SYNCHRONIZATION OVER RAPIDLY TIME-VARYING MULTIPATH CHANNELS FOR CDMADOWNLINK RECEIVER IN TIME-DIVISION MODE 905

Eric Simon, Kosai Raoof and Laurent Ros, LIS, France

BLIND EQUALISATION AND CARRIER OFFSET COMPENSATION FOR BLUETOOTH SIGNALS 909Charles Tibenderana and Stephan Weiss, Communications Research Group, School of Electronics and ComputerScience, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

BLIND PHASE RECOVERY FOR QAM CONSTELLATIONS 913Gianpiero Panel, Dip. 1NFOCOM, Univ. "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy; Patrlzlo Campisi, Dip. Elettronica, Univ.Roma TRE, Italy; Stefania Colonnese and Gaetano Scarano, Dip. INFOCOM, Univ. "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy

Session WedPmOR2: Active Noise ControlChair: Jacob Benesty, Universite du Quebec

A ROBUST NARROWBAND ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ACCOMODATING FREQUENCYMISMATCH 917Yegui Xiao, Hiroshima Prefectural Women's University, Japan; Liying Ma and K. Khorasani, Concordia Univer-sity, Canada

MULTI-CHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE PERTURBATION METHOD WITHCORRELATION REMOVAL FILTER 921Takaharu Ninagawa, Yoshinobu Kajikawa and Yasuo Nomura, Kansai university, Japan

AN ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS COMPARISON FOR REAL MULTICHANNEL ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL 925Maria De Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, Miguel Ferrer and Gema Pinero, Audio and Multimedia Processing Group,Spain

EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFINE PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR ACTIVE NOISECONTROL APPLICATIONS 929

Miguel Ferrer, Maria De Diego, Alberto Gonzalez and Gema Pinero, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,. Audioand Communication Processing group, Spain

VARIABLE LEAKAGE FXLMS ALGORITHMS FOR NONLINEAR ACTIVE CONTROL APPLICATIONS.. 933Orlando Tobias and Rui Seara, LINSE - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

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Session WedPmOR3: Image SegmentationChair: Rudolf Mester, J.W.Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

OCCLUDING CONVEX IMAGE SEGMENTATION FOR E.COLI MICROSCOPY IMAGES 937Zoltan Kutalik, Moe Razaz, University of East Anglia, England; and Jozsef Baranyi, Institute of Food Research,England

GEODESIC DISTANCE AND MST BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION 941George Economou, Vassilios Pothos, University of Patras, Greece; and Apostolos lfantis. Technological Educa-tional Institute of Patras, Greece

MULTIVARIATE IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING LAPLACIAN EIGENMAPS 945loannis Tziakos, Nikolaos Laskaris and Spiros Fotopoulos, Universirty of Patras, Greece

SPATIAL OBJECT DETECTION IN JPEG BITSTREAMS 949Lei Zhou and Charles Creusere, New Mexico State University, USA

EVALUATING THE SEGMENTATION RESULT OF A GRAY-LEVEL IMAGE 953Sebastien Chabrier, Christophe Rosenberger, Helene Laurent, Bruno Emile and Pierre Marche, LVR, France

Session WedPmPOl: Design, Implementation, and Applications of DigitalFiltersChair: Chi-Wah Kok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

PIPELINE ARRAY IMPLEMENTATION OF FIR FILTERS 957Paraskevas Kalivas, Paul Bougas, Vassilis Vassilakis, Christos Meletis and Kiamal Pekmestzi, National TechnicalUniversity of Athens, Greece

ON DESIGNING A WIDEBAND FRACTIONAL DELAY FILTER USING THE FARROW APPROACH 961Ewa Hermanowicz, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

SVD-BASED THEOREM FOR DESIGNING VARIABLE DIGITAL FILTERS 965Tian-Bo Deng, Toho University, Japan

A SEMIDEFINITE PROGRAMMING (SDP) METHOD FOR DESIGNING L-BAND FREQUENCYRESPONSE MASKING (FRM) FILTERS FOR MULTIRATE APPLICATIONS 969

Hai Hua Chen and K. L. Ho, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, HongKong SAR of China

GENERALIZED CONVOLUTION CONCEPT BASED ON DCT 973Przemyslaw Korohoda, University of Science and Technology, Institute of Electronics, Poland; and AdamDabrowski, Poznan University of Technology, Institute of Control and System Eng., Poland

PEAK CONSTRAINED TWO DIMENSIONAL QUADRANTALLY SYMMETRIC EIGENFILTER DESIGNWITHOUT TRANSITION BAND SPECIFICATION 977ring-Man Law and Chi-Wah Kok, Dept. EEE, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HONG KONG

SYNTHESIS OF BIRECIPROCAL WAVE DIGITAL FILTERS WITH EQUIRIPPLE AMPLITUDE ANDPHASE 981

Mohamed Yaseen, University ofAssiut, Egypt, Egypt

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A POWERS-OF-TWO TERM ALLOCATION ALGORITHM FOR DESIGNING FIR FILTERS WITH CSDCOEFFICIENTS IN A MIN-MAX SENSE 987

Rika ho, Tokyo University of Science, Japan; Tetsuya Fujie, Kobe University of Commerce, Japan; Kenji Suyama,Tokyo DENKI University, Japan; and Ryuichi Hirabayashi, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

ANALYSIS OF LIMIT CYCLES BY MEANS OF AFFINE ARITHMETIC COMPUTER-AIDED TESTS 991Juan Antonio Lopez, Gabriel Caffarena, Carlos Carreras and Octavio Nieto-Taladriz, Dep. IngenieriaElectronica, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Session WedPmPO2: Speech Analysis and SynthesisChair: Gernot Kubin, Graz University of Technology

AUTOMATIC AND ACCUARTE PITCH MARKING OF SPEECH SIGNAL USING AN EXPERT SYSTEMBASED ON LOGICAL COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT ALGORITHMS OUTPUTS 995

Keyvan Ashouri and Mohammad Hassan Savoji, Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Shahid BeheshtiUniversity, Iran

BOUNDARY LAYER RESISTANCE IN TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS OF THE VOCAL TRACT 999Peter Birkholz and Dietmar Jackel, Institute for Computer Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany

DIRECT TIME DOMAIN FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY ESTIMATION OF SPEECH IN NOISYCONDITIONS 1003

Hynek Bo0il and Petr Polldk, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CzechRepublic

AUDIOVISUAL TEXT-TO-CUED SPEECH SYNTHESIS 1007Guillaume Gibert, Gerard Bailly, Frederic Elisei, Denis Beautemps, ICP, FRANCE; and Remi Brun, ATTITUDESTUDIO, FRANCE

SPEECH ANALYSIS WITH THE FAST CHIRP TRANSFORM 1011Marian Kepesi, Vienna Telecommunications Research Center, Austria; and Luis Weruaga, Austrian Academy ofSciences, Austria

A TIME-FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACH FOR PITCH-PEAK PICKING OF NOISY SPEECH 1015Celia Shahnaz, Md. Rokanuzzaman, Md. Adnan, Binaya Shrestha and Shaikh Fattah, BUET, BANGLADESH

PROSODY MODIFICATION AND FUJISAKFS MODEL: PRESERVING NATURAL SOUNDNESS 1019Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica - Universita di Napoli, Italy; Patrizia Falco, Di-partimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni - Universita di Napoli, Italy; Alessandra Budillon,Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'lnformazione - Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy; Davide Mattera, Diparti-mento di Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni - Universita di Napoli, Italy; and Francesco Palmieri,Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'lnformazione - Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy

ROBUST SPEAKER VERIFICATION WITH PRINCIPAL PITCH COMPONENTS 1023Robert Nickel, Sachin Oswal and Ananth Iyer, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

PHASE-MISMATCH-FREE AND DATA EFFICIENT APPROACH TO NATURAL SOUNDING HARMONICCONCATENATIVE SPEECH SYNTHESIS 1027

Zbynek Tychtl, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic

RELATIVE ENERGY AND INTELLIGIBILITY OF TRANSIENT SPEECH COMPONENTS 1031Sungyub Yoo, J. Robert Boston, John D. Durrant, Kristie Kovacyk, Stacey Karn, Susan Shaiman, Amro El-Jaroudiand Ching-Chung Li, Univ of Pittsburgh, USA

Special Session WedPmSS3: Content Understanding and Knowledge Mod-elling for MultimediaChair: Anastasios Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

IMAGE RETRIEVAL WITH RANDOM BUBBLES 1035Fabrizio Guerrini, Riccardo Leonard! and Pierangelo Migliorati, DEA - University of Brescia, Italy

MODELLING OF VISUAL FEATURE DERIVATION IN THE VIZIR FRAMEWORK 1039Horst Eidenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

IMAGE SEGMENTATION SEARCH ENGINE: ADVANCED ACCESS TO AN IMAGE ARCHIVE DATABASE 1043Sam H. Minelli and Andrea De Polo, Fratelli Alinari IDEA, Italy

AUDIO SPECTRUM PROJECTION BASED ON SEVERAL BASIS DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHMSAPPLIED TO GENERAL SOUND RECOGNITION AND AUDIO SEGMENTATION 1047Hyoung-Gook Kim and Thomas Sikora, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

M U L T I S C A L E N O N - L I N E A R V I D E O C O N T E N T D E C O M P O S I T I O N : ANALYSIS A N D EVALUATION . . . . 1051Anastasios Doulamis and Nikolaos Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Electrical andComputer Engineering, GREECE

Special Session WedPmSS4: Poissonian Models for Signal and Image Pro-cessingChair: Jean-Yves Tourneret, University of Toulouse, France

FAST, NEAR-OPTIMAL, MULTIRESOLUTION ESTIMATION OF POISSON SIGNALS AND IMAGES 1055Rebecca Willett and Robert Nowak, Rice University and University of Wisconsin, USA

TWO STATE MARKOV MODELLING AND DETECTION OF SINGLE ELECTRON SPIN SIGNALS 1059Alfred Hero, Michael Ting and Jeffrey Fessler, University of Michigan, USA

COINCIDENCE ANALYSIS OF POINT PROCESSES 1063Bernard Picinbono and Cherif Bendjaballah, CNRS-ESE-University Paris XI, France

MULT1VARIATE MIXED POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS 1067Andrea Ferrari, Astrophysique, university of Nice, France; Gerard Letac, LSP-UPS, university of Toulouse,France; and Jean-Yves Tourneret, ENSEElHT-IRIT-TeSA, university of Toulouse, France

INFLUENCE OF SPECKLE AND POISSON NOISE ON EXOPLANET DETECTION WITH ACORONAGRAPH 1071Claude Aime, UMR6525 LUAN - UNSA, France; and Remi Soummer, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA

Session WedPmOR4: Performance of Communication SystemsChair: Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.)

ADAPTIVE MODULATION IN MISO WIRELESS SYSTEMS WITH DISCRETE LOW-RATE POWERFEEDBACK I ( ) 7 5

Miquel Payaro and Miguel Angel Lagunas, Centre Tecnolbgic de Telecomunicacions de Calalunya, Spain

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GENERALIZED MULTIPACKET RECEPTION MODEL FOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS 1079Marc Realp, CTTC, Spain; and Ana I. Perez-Neira, UPC, Spain

CONTINUOUS PHASE MODULATIONS FOR FUTURE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS 1083Chaggara Ridha, Boucheret Marie-Laure, ENST/TeSA, France; Caroline Bazile, Bouisson Emmanuel, CNES,France; Ducasse Alain and Gayrard Jean-Didier, Alcatel Space, France

SIMPLIFIED BOUNDS FOR THE COMPLEMENTARY ERROR FUNCTION; APPLICATION TO THEPERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SIGNAL-PROCESSING SYSTEMS 1087

Natalia Ermolova and Sven-Gustav Haggman, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

ERROR ANALYSIS OF ULTRA-WIDEBAND HYBRID ANALOGUE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION 1091Heiko Kopmann and Heinz G. Gockler, Ruhr-Universitdt Bochum, Germany

Session WedPmOR5: Signal Processing ApplicationsChair: Billur Barshan, Bilkent University, Turkey

APPLICATION OF NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION TO FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY 1095Cyril Gobinet, Eric Perrin and Regis Huez, Laboratoire d'Automatique et de Microelectronique (LAM), Universitede Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FRANCE

SEM BLIND IDENTIFICATION OF ARMA MODELS. APPLICATION TO SEISMIC DATA 1099Benayad Nsiri, Thierry Chonavel and Jean-Marc Boucher, ENST Bretagne, France

NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF MATERIALS BY BICEPSTRUM ANALYSIS OF ULTRASONICSIGNALS 1103

Ramon Miralles, U.P.V. (E.T.S.I.T.), Spain; Jorge Gosalvez, U.P.V. (E.P.S.G.), Spain; Luis Vergara, U.P.V.(E.T.S.I.T.), Spain; Ignacio Bosch, U.P.V. (E.P.S.G.), Spain; Addison Salazar, U.P.V. (E.T.S.I.T.), Spain; and J.Vicente Fuente, AIDICO, Spain

SURFACE RECOGNITION BY PARAMETRIC MODELING OF INFRARED INTENSITY SIGNALS 1107Tayfun Aytac and Billur Barshan, Bilkent University, Turkey

STOCHASTIC SIMULATION AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF FIRST ORDER CHEMICALREACTIONS 1111

Katrien De Cock, Xueying Zhang, Monica F. Bugallo, Stony Brook University, Dept. of Electrical & ComputerEngineering, USA; and Petar Djuric, Stony Brook University, Dept., USA

Session WedPmOR6: Source Localization and TrackingChair: Mats Viberg, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN

DIRECT POSITION DETERMINATION (DPD) OF MULTIPLE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNALS 1115A Ion Amar and Anthony Weiss, Tel Aviv University, Israel

VOICE SEPARATION OF OVERLAPPING SPEECH USING TRACKING TECHNIQUES AND THE GATINGPROCESS 1119

Ilyas Potamitis, Panos Zervas and Nikos Fakotakis, WCL, Greece

REDUCING THE BIAS OF A BEARINGS-ONLY TLS TARGET LOCATION ESTIMATOR THROUGHGEOMETRY TRANSLATIONS 1123

Kutluyil Dogancay, University of South Australia, Australia

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A UNIFYING FRAMEWORK FOR ACOUSTIC LOCALIZATION 1127Stan Birchfield, Clemson University, USA

COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS AND ASYNCHRONOUS MEASUREMENTS IN DECENTRALIZEDKALMAN FILTERS 1131

Markus Schlosser and Kristian Kroschel, Universitdt Karlsruhe, Germany

Session WedPmPO3: Image AnalysisChair: Augusto Sarti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

PARAMETER SETTING THROUGH DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS FOR THE AUTOMATED DELINEATIONOF REGIONS OF INTEREST 1135

Redouane Khemmar, Alex Lallement and Ernest Hirsch, LSIIT (UMR-CNRS 7005), France

"PERSISTENCE OF EDGE-DETECTING PROPERTIES OF A CNN TO VARIATIONS OT THE CELLOUTPUT FUNCTIONS" 1139Oleg Kanakov and Vladimir Shalfeev, University ofNizhny Novgorod, Russia

A C O M P A R A T I V E S T U D Y O F S U P E R V I S E D EVALUATION C R I T E R I A FOR I M A G E S E G M E N T A T I O N . . . 1143Sebastien Chabrier, Helene Laurent, Bruno Emile, Christophe Rosenberger and Pierre Marche, LVR, France

A PHASE CODED DISK APPROACH TO THICK CURVILINIEAR LINE DETECTION 1147Simon Clode, Emanuel Zelniker, Peter Kootsookos and Vaughan Clarkson, University of Queensland, Australia

A ROBUST METHOD FOR CAMERA CALIBRATION AND 3-D RECONSTRUCTION FOR STEREOVISION SYSTEMS 1151

Lenildo Silva, Mariane Petraglia and Antonio Petraglia, PEE/COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil

A MULTISENSOR SYSTEM FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS 1155Andrea Turolla, Luca Marchesotti and Carlo Regazzoni, DIBE - University of Genoa, ITALY

Session WedPmPO4: Wavelet and Time-Frequency Signal ProcessingChair: Jerome LeBrun, CNRS/UNSA, France

POLYNOMIAL PHASE SIGNAL PROCESSING VIA WARPED HIGH-ORDER AMBIGUITY FUNCTION .. 1159Cornel loana, Cedric Cornu and Andre Quinquis, ENSIETA, FRANCE

CHARACTERIZATION OF A DISPERSIVE SYSTEM USING QUADRATIC TIME-FREQUENCYREPRESENTATIONS " 6 3

Bernard Jerome, Silvio Montresor, Thomas Jean-Hugh and Depollier Claude, LAUM UMR-CNRS 6613. France

THE SPECTRAL KURTOSIS OF NONSTATIONARY SIGNALS: FORMALISATION, SOME PROPERTIES,AND APPLICATION ' 1 6 7

Jerome Antoni, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France

SOUND DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION THROUGH TRANSIENT MODELS USING WAVELETCOEFFICIENT TREES ' I 7 1

Michel Vacher, Dan Istrate and Jean-Francois Serignat, CLIPS-IMAG, France

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WAVELET BASED ESTIMATOR FOR FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION: AN EXPERIMENTAL POINTOF VIEW 1175Gerard Jacquet, LTSI University Jean Monnet, FRANCE; and Rachid Harba, LESI University of Orleans,FRANCE

SAR IMAGING USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM 1179Mohamed Tria, ONERA, Universite Paris-Sud-ORSAY, France; Jean-Philippe Ovarlez, Luc Vignaud, Juan-CarlosCastelli, ONERA, France; and Messaoud Benidir, LSS, SUPELEC, France

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ATOMIC DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHMS 1183Omar Artemi Yeste-Ojeda, Gustavo Lopez-Risueiio arid Jesus Grajal, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

HILBERTPAIRS OF M-BAND ORTHONORMAL WAVELET BASES 1187Caroline Chaux, UMLV, France; Laurent Duval, IFP, France; and Jean-Christophe Pesquet, UMLV, France

GENERALIZED METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE STFT VIA LINEAR CANONICAL TRANSFORMS 1191Huseyin Emre Guven and Orhan Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey

ORTHOGONAL PROJECTIONS DERIVED FROM LOCALIZATION OPERATORS 1195Monika Dorfler and Hans G. Feichtinger, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria

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Plenary Lecture ThuAmPSl: Statistical Signal Processing for Gene Mi-croarrays

STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR GENE MICROARRAYS 1199Alfred Hero, Univ. of Michigan, USA

Special Session ThuAmSSl: Maximum Usage of the Twisted Pair CopperPlantChair: Werner Henkel, International University Bremen

WIDEBAND UTP CABLE MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING FOR MIMO SYSTEMS 1201Nedko Nedev, Stephen McLaughlin, Edinburgh University, UK; and John Cook, BTExact, UK

BAND PREFERENCE IN DYNAMIC SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT 1205John Cioffi, Mehdi Mohseni, Mark Brady, Stanford University, USA; and W. Rhee, Assia-Inc, USA

INSURING SPECTRAL COMPATIBILITY OF ITERATIVE WATER-FILLING 1209Radu Suciu, Etienne Van den Bogaert, Jan Verlinde and Tom Bostoen, Alcatel, Belgium

ADAPTIVE RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MULTIUSER FDD-DMT SYSTEMS 1213Driton Statovci and Tomas Nordstrom, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria

EXPLOITING THE COMMON-MODE SIGNAL IN XDSL 1217Thomas Magesacher, Per Odling, Per Ola Borjesson, Signal Processing Group, Dept. of Information Technology,Lund University, Sweden; and Tomas Nordstrom, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria

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Special Session ThuAmSS2: Biometric FusionChair: Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA

MULTIMODAL BIOMETRICS: AN OVERVIEW 1221Arun Ross, West Virginia University, USA; and Anil Jain, Michigan State University, USA

THREE DIMENSIONAL FACE AND FINGER BIOMETRICS 1225Kyong Chang, Damon Woodard, Patrick Flynn and Kevin Bowyer, University of Notre Dame, United States

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DATA FUSION STRATEGIES IN FACE VERIFICATION 1229Mohammad Sadeghi and Josef' Kittler, Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, UK

PERSON AUTHENTICATION BASED ON HAND SHAPE 1233Erdem Yoruk, Ender Konukoglu, Biilent Sankur, Bogazici University, Department of Electrical and ElectronicEngineering, Turkey; and Jerome Darbon, Ecole Polytechnique Industrielle des Technologies Appliquees, France

Session ThuAmORl: Filter Bank DesignChair: Joerg Kliewer, University of Southampton

QUATERNIONIC BUILDING BLOCK FOR PARAUNITARY FILTER BANKS 1237Marek Parfieniuk and Alexander Petrovsky, Bialystok Technical University, Poland

DESIGN OF PERFECT RECONSTRUCTION MODULATED FILTER BANKS WITH ARBITRARILY HIGHNUMBER OF SUBBANDS 1241

Didier Pinchon, Universite Paul Sabatier, France; Cyrille Siclet, IUT de Saint-Die, France; and Pierre Siohan,Frznce Telecom R&D, France

DESIGN OF TWO-CHANNEL CAUSAL STABLE IIR PR FILTER BANKS AND WAVELET BASES USINGCONSTRAINED MODEL REDUCTION 1245

K. M. Tsui, S. C. Chan and K. W. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

FILTER BANK DESIGN WITH GROUP DELAY APPROXIMATIONS 1249Dam Hai Huyen, Nordholm Sven, Cantoni Antonio and Dam Hai Quang, Western Australian TelecommunicationsResearch Institute, Australia

ON THE DESIGN OF LOW DELAY NEARLY-PR AND PR FIR COSINE MODULATED FILTER BANKSHAVING APPROXIMATE COSINE-ROLL TRANSITION BAND 1253

S. C. Chan and S. S. Tin, The University of Hong Kong, P. R. China

Session ThuAmOR2: Parameter, Spectrum, and Mode EstimationChair: Piet M. T. Broersen, Delft University, The Netherlands

MSE-RATIO REGRET ESTIMATION WITH BOUNDED DATA UNCERTAINTIES 1257Yonina Eldar, Technion, Israel

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE KUMARESAN-TUFTS AND MATRIX PENCIL METHODS INESTIMATING A DAMPED SINUSOID ! 261

El-Hadi Djermoune and Marc Tomczak, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy - CRAN UMR CNRS 7039.France

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A CAPON-LIKE SPATIAL SPECTRUM ESTIMATOR FOR CORRELATED SOURCES 1265Richard Abrahamsson, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden; Andreas Jakobsson,Department of Electrical Engineering, Karlstad University, Sweden; and Petre Stoica, Department of InformationTechnology, Uppsala University, Sweden

EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TIME-RECURSIVE CAPON AND APES SPECTRALESTIMATORS 1269

Stephen Alty, King's College London, UK; Andreas Jakobsson, Karlstad University, Sweden; and Erik Larsson,George Washington University, USA

NEW INSIGHTS ON SINTRACK, A REAL-TIME ALGORITHM FOR AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL-MODESIDENTIFICATION 1273

Matthieu Jeanneau, Airbus, France; Emilie Bastide, INP-ENSEEIHT, France; and Nathalie Raimbault, Airbus,France

Session ThuAmOR3: Music RecognitionChair: Sergios Theodoridis, University of Athens, Greece

A NEW APPROACH TO SPECTRAL PEAK CLASSIFICATION 1277Miroslav Zivanovic, UPNA, Ing. Electrica y Electronica, Spain; Axel Robel and Xavier Rodet, 1RCAM, Anal-yse/Synthese, France

CLASSIFICATION OF MUSICAL PATTERNS USING VARIABLE DURATION HIDDEN MARKOVMODELS 1281

Aggelos Pikrakis, Sergios Theodoridis and Dimitris Kamarotos, University of Athens, Greece

FUSION OF DESCRIPTORS FOR SPEECH / MUSIC CLASSIFICATION 1285Julie Mauclair, LIUM, FRANCE; andJulien Pinquier, IRIT, FRANCE

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT RECOGNITION ON SOLO PERFORMANCES 1289Slim Essid, Gael Richard and Bertrand David, GET - ENST (Telecom Paris), France

DECISION TIME HORIZON FOR MUSIC GENRE CLASSIFICATION USING SHORT TIME FEATURES .. 1293Peter Ahrendt, Anders Meng and Jan Larsen, I MM, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Session ThuAmPOl: Image Coding and Visual QualityChair: Dominique Barba, Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernetique de Nantes, France

WAVELET-BASED VIDEO CODEC USING HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM COEFFICIENTS FOR 3G MOBILES 1297Akbar Sheikh Akbari, University of Strathclyde, UK; Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh, Ednea Cocharan, Glasgow Caledo-nian University, UK; and John Soraghan, University of Strathclyde, UK

NO-REFERENCE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR JPEG/JPEG2000 CODING 1301Yuukou Horita, Shinji Arata and Tadakuni Murai, Toyama University, Japan

A LOSSLESS IMAGE CODING TECHNIQUE EXPLOITING SPECTRAL CORRELATION ON THE RGBSPACE 1305

Stefano Andriani, Giancarlo Calvagno and Gian Antonio Mian, Dept. of Information Engineering - University ofPadova, Italy

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A FAST SEARCH METHOD FOR VECTOR QUANTIZATION USING 2-PIXEL-MERGING SUM PYRAMIDIN RECURSIVE WAY 1309

Zhibin Pan, Koji Kotani and Tadahiro Ohmi, Tohoku University, Japan

ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PERCEPTUAL DECOMPOSITION AND SPATIAL POOLING TO THEPERFORMANCES OF FIDELITY METRICS 1313

Benedicte Fontaine and Abdelhakim Saadane, lRCCyN, France

OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY MEASURES BY PLANAR GLYPH REPRESENTATION 1317Constantin Vertan, Adrian Stoica, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania; Christine Fenumdez-Maloigne,University of Poitiers, France; andMihai Ciuc, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION IMAGE CODER USING CORRELATING TRANSFORMS 1321Gianmarco Romano, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy; Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Universita di Napoli, Italy; andFrancesco Palmieri, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy

ROBUST IMAGE TRANSMISSION USING OVERSAMPLED FILTERBANKS 1325Jui-Chiu Chiang, Michel Kieffer and Pierre Duhamel, LSS - CNRS - Supelec - Universite Paris-Sud. France

3D SCAN-BASED WAVELET TRANSFORM FOR MULTIRESOLUTION MESHES 1329Akram Elkefi, Marc Antonini, I3S CNRS-UNiversite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France; and Chokri Benamar, EcoleNationale d'Ingenieurs de Sfax, Tunisie

Session ThuAmPO2: Implementation Aspects in Signal ProcessingChair: Alan, Jr. Willson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

BOOSTING : FROM DATA TO HARDWARE USING AUTOMATIC IMPLEMENTATION TOOL 1333Johel Miteran, Ie2i, France; Jiri Matas, CMP, Czech Republic; Julien Dubois andElbey Bourennane, Le2i, frame

A NEW CONTENT BASED MEDIAN FILTER 1337Gerasimos Louverdis, Ioannis Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

ENABLING SMT FOR REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 1341Francisco Cazorla, DAC, UPC, Spain; Peter M.W. Knijnenburg, LICAS, The Netherlands; Rizos Sakellariou, U.Manchester, U.K.; Enrique Fernandez, U. Las Palmas de Gran Canada, Spain; Alex Ramirez, DAC, UPC, Spain:andMateo Valero, DAC. UPC, Spain

LOW-LATENCY AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY BIT SERIAL-SERIAL MULTIPLIERS 1345Paraskevas Kalivas, Kiamal Pekmestzi, Paul Bougas, Andreas Tsirikos and Kostas Gotsis, National TechnicalUniversity of Athens, Greece

AUTOMATIC SQNR DETERMINATION IN NON-LINEAR AND NON-RECURSIVE FIXED-POINTSYSTEMS 1349

Daniel Menard, Romuald Rocher, Pascal Scalart and Olivier Sentieys, ENSSAT, University of Raines, France

FIXED-POINT REFINEMENT OF OFDM-BASED ADAPTIVE EQUALIZERS: AN HEURISTIC APPROACH 1353Gabriel Caffarena, Angel Fernandez, Carlos Carreras and Octavio Nieto-Taladriz. Dep. Ingenien'a Electionica,Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

LOOP OPTIMIZATION WITH TRADEOFF BETWEEN CYCLE COUNT AND CODE SIZE FOR DSPAPPLICATIONS 1 3 5 7

Bogong Su, Dept. of Computer Science, The William Paterson University of New Jersey, US; Jian Wang, RafiRabipour, Wireless Speech and Data Processing, Nortel Networks, Canada; Erh-Wen Hu and Joseph Manzano,Dept. of Computer Science, The William Paterson University of New Jersey, US

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C-BASED HARDWARE DESIGN OF IMDCT ACCELERATOR FOR OGG VORBIS DECODER 1361Shinichi Maeta, Atsushi Kosaka, Osaka University, Japan; Akihisa Yamada, Sharp Corporation, Japan; TakaoOnoye, Osaka University, Japan; Tohru Chiba, Sharp Corporation, Japan; and Isao Shirakawa, Osaka University,Japan

ON INTERFACE DESIGN FOR DISTRIBUTED SIGNAL PROCESSING 1365Diaz Juan, Unuversity of Extremadura, spain

Special Session ThuAmSS3: Audio Signal Processing and Virtual Acoustics

Chair: Karlheinz Brandenburg, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Germany

WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS: FROM RESEARCH TO APPLICATIONS 1369Karlheinz Brandenburg, Sandra Brix and Thomas Sparer, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology,Germany

AURALIZATION OF ROOM ACOUSTICS BY WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS BASED ON ARRAYMEASUREMENTS OF IMPULSE RESPONSES 1377

Diemer De Vries and Edo Hulsebos, TU Delft, The Netherlands

ADAPTIVE LISTENING ROOM COMPENSATION FOR SPATIAL AUDIO SYSTEM 1381Sascha Spors, Herbert Buchner and Rudolf Rabenstein, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

WAVE-DOMAIN ADAPTIVE FILTERING FOR ACOUSTIC HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES BASED ONWAVEFIELD ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS 1385

Herbert Buchner, Sascha Spors, Wolfgang Herbordt and Walter Kellermann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,Germany

Special Session ThuAmSS4: Advances in Biometric Authentication andRecognitionChair: Massimo Tistarelli, DAP University of Sassari, Italy

FACE AUTHENTICATION AND NON-STANDARD IMAGE GEOMETRIES: ISSUES, RESULTS ANDPROSPECTS 1389

Massimo Tistarelli, DAP University of Sassari, Italy; Enrico Grosso, DEIR University of Sassari, Italy; and AndreaLagorio, DIST University ofGenova, Italy

PRIVACY PROTECTING BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW 1397Pirn Tuyls, Evgeny Verbitskiy, Jasper Goseling and Dee Denteneer, Philips Research, The Netherlands

ON GAIT AS A BIOMETRIC: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS 1401MarkS. Nixon and John N. Carter, University of Southampton, UK

TECHNOLOGY EVALUATIONS OF FINGERPRINT-BASED BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS 1405Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio and Davide Maltoni, University of Bologna, Italy

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Session ThuAmOR4: Decimation and InterpolationChair: Karen Egiazarian, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

ARBITRARY FACTORISATION OF DECIMATION RATIO FOR EFFICIENT MULTISTAGE REALISATION 1409Vesa Lehtinen, Djordje Babic and Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology. Institute of CommunicationsEngineering, Finland

SCALING OF MULTISTAGE INTERPOLATORS 1413Manias Olsson, Per Lowenborg and Hakan Johansson, Linkoping University, Sweden

HIGH-QUALITY CAUSAL INTERPOLATION FOR ONLINE UNIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING . 1417Thierry Blu, Philippe Thevenaz and Michael Unser, Swiss federal institute of technology, Switzerland

BAYER PATTERN BASED CFA ZOOMING / CFA INTERPOLATION FRAMEWORK 1421Rastislav Lukac, Karl Martin, Konstantinos Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Canada; Bogdan Smolka, SilesianUniversity of Technology, Poland; and Anastasios Venetsanopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada

EFFICIENT MULTISTAGE COMB-MODIFIED ROTATED SINC (RS) DECIMATOR 1425Gordana Jovanovic-Dolecek, INAOE, Mexico; and Sanjit Mitra, UCSB, USA

Session ThuAmOR5: Statistical Signal ModellingChair: Johann Boehme, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany

THE CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION OF THE K-DISTRIBUTED INTERFERENCE 1429D. Robert Iskander, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

THE MULTIVARIATE NORMAL INVERSE GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION: EM-ESTIMATION ANDANALYSIS OF SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR DATA 1433Tor Arne Oigard, Alfred Hanssen, University ofTroms0, Norway; and Roy Hansen, Norwegian Defence ResearchEstablishment, Norway

MULTISCALE BAYESIAN ESTIMATION IN PAIRWISE MARKOV TREES 1437Franqois Desbouvries and Jean Lecomte, Institut National des Telecommunications, France

MEAN-SQUARE CONSISTENCY OF STATISTICAL-FUNCTION ESTIMATORS FOR GENERALIZEDALMOST-CYCLOSTATIONARY PROCESSES 1441

Antonio Napolitano, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy

OPTIMAL MONOPULSE TRACKING OF SIGNAL SOURCE OF UNKNOWN AMPLITUDE 1445Eric Chaumette, thales naval frame, France; and Pascal Larzabal, SATIE/CNRS ENS cachan, France

Session ThuAmOR6: Speech Enhancement and Restoration IChair: Peter Vary, Aachen University, Germany

ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING IN SPEECH COMMUNICATION 1449Peter Vary, Aachen University, Germany

NOISE REDUCTION BY JOINT MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE AND PHASEESTIMATION WITH SUPER-GAUSSIAN SPEECH MODEL 1457Thomas Lotter and Peter Vary, Aachen University, Germany

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SPEECH ENHANCEMENT USING A-PRIORI INFORMATION WITH CLASSIFIED NOISE CODEBOOKS. 1461Sriram Srinivasan, Jonas Samuelsson and Bastiaan Kleijn, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden

LOSS RECOVERY THROUGH SPECTRAL INTERPOLATION FOR ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITIONOVER PACKET VOICE COMMUNICATIONS 1465

Amr Nour-Eldin, Hesham Tolba and Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT, Universite du Quebec, Canada

Session ThuAmPO3: Image and Video WatermarkingChair: Ioannis Pitas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

WAVELET DOMAIN WATERMARKING CAPACITY ANALYSIS 1469Fan Zhang and Hongbin Zhang, Computer institute, Beijing University of Technology, China

A SOLUTION TO THE BEST WAVELET FILTER BANK PROBLEM IN THE WAVELET-BASED IMAGEWATERMARKING 1473

Akio Miyazaki, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

SPREAD SPECTRUM WATERMARKING FOR REAL IMAGES: IS IT EVERYTHING SO HOPELESS? 1477Oleksiy Koval, Svyatoslav Voloshynovskiy, CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Fernando Perez-Gonzalez,Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Vigo, Spain; Frederic Deguillaume and ThierryPun, CUI, University of Geneva, Switzerland

A NEW CRYPTO-WATERMARKING METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGES SAFE TRANSFER 1481William Puech and Jose Rodrigues, LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, France

PERCEPTUAL MASKS IN THE WAVELET DOMAIN FOR COLOR IMAGE WATERMARKING 1485Elisa Sayrol and Elena Martinez, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

A NEW BLIND IMAGE-ADAPTIVE WATERMARKING SCHEME: THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTALRESULTS 1489

Irene Karybali and Kostas Berberidis, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras,Greece, Greece

A NEW APPROACH TO COLOR IMAGE SECRET SHARING 1493Rastislav Lukac, Konstantinos Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Canada; Bogdan Smolka, Silesian University ofTechnology, Poland; and Anastasios Venetsanopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada

HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A FINGERPRINTING ALGORITHM SUITED FOR DIGITALCINEMA 1497

Gael Rouvroy, UCL Crypto Group, Belgium; Frederic Lefebvre, Laboratoire de Telecommunications etteledetection, Belgium; Frangois-Xavier Standaert, UCL Crypto Group, Belgium; Benoit Macq, Laboratoire deTelecommunications et teledetection, Belgium; Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL Crypto Group, Belgium; andJean-Didier Legal, Laboratoire de Microelectronique, Belgium

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT MODES OF PERTURBATION FOR VIDEO WATERMARKINGBASED ON MOTION VECTORS 1501Yann Bodo, Nathalie Laurent, France Telecom R&D, FRANCE; and Jean-Luc Dugelay, EURECOM, FRANCE

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Session ThuAmPO4: FFT and DCT RealizationChair: Luca Fanucci, University of Pisa, Italy

FINITE WORD LENGTH ANALYSIS OF THE RADIX-22 FFT 1505He man Gonzalo Rey and Cecilia Galarza, Facultad de lngenieria - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

AN UPDATE ALGORITHM FOR FOURIER COEFFICIENTS 1509Erich Fuchs, Tobias Harming and Oliver Schwarz, FORWISS, University of Passau, Germany

A PURE CORDIC BASED FFT FOR RECONFIGURABLE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING 1513Benjamin Heyne and Jiirgen Gotze, University of Dortmund, Germany

INTEGER FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM - IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION 1517Krzysztof Duda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

A NOVEL AND FAST 1-BIT FFT SCHEME WITH TWO DITHER-QUANTIZED CHANNELS 1521Lahouari Cheded and Sohail Akhtar, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

MIXED-RADIX FFT FOR IMPROVING CACHE PERFORMANCE 1525Ryszard Stasinski and Jacek Potrymajlo, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

RADIX 2 AND SPLIT RADIX 2-4 ALGORITHMS IN FORMAL SYNTHESIS OF PARALLEL-PIPELINE FFTPROCESSORS 1529

Alexander Petrovsky, Bialystok Technical University, Poland; and Sergei Shkredov, Belarusian State University ofInformatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus

AN EFFICIENT FFT TWIDDLE FACTOR GENERATOR 1533Jen-Chuan Chih and Sau-Gee Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

I M P L E M E N T A T I O N O F T W O - D I M E N S I O N A L D I S C R E T E C O S I N E T R A N S F O R M A N D ITS I N V E R S E . . . 1537Jari Nikara, Rami Rosendahl, Konsta Punkka and Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Special Session ThuPmSSl: Information Transfer in Receivers for Con-catenated SystemsChair: Joachim Hagenauer, Munich University of Technology, Germany

THE EXIT CHART 1 5 4 1

Joachim Hagenauer, LNT, Munich University of Technology, Germany

THE USE OF EXIT CHARTS IN ITERATIVE SOURCE-CHANNEL DECODING 1549Norbert Gortz, LNT, Munich University of Technology, Germany, Germany; and Andrew Schaefcr, Munich Uni-

versity of Technology, Germany

DOPING OF REPEAT-ACCUMULATE CODES FOR DIRTY PAPER CODING 1553Stephan Ten Brink, Realtek, Irvine, CA, U.S.A.; and Uri Erez, EECS, MIT, U.S.A.

EXIT CHARTS FOR ITERATIVELY DECODED MULTILEVEL MODULATION 1557Frank Schreckenbach, LNT, Munich University of Technology, Germany, Germany; and Gerhard Bauch, DoCoMoCommunications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany

ANALYTICAL DERIVATION OF EXIT CHARTS FOR SIMPLE BLOCK CODES AND FOR LDPC CODESUSING INFORMATION COMBINING 1 5 6 1

Ingmar Land, Peter A. Holier, University of Kiel, Germany; and Johannes Huber, University of Erlangen-

Niirnberg, Germany

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Special Session ThuPmSS2: New Directions in Time-Frequency SignalProcessingChair: Patrick Flandrin, CNRS ENS Lyon, France

IMPLEMENTATIONS OF NON-SEPARABLE GABOR SCHEMES 1565Arno Van Leest, Philips Research, The Netherlands; and Martin Bastiaans, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,The Netherlands

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION EQUATIONS FOR ADAPTIVE QUADRATIC REPRESENTATIONS 1569Julien Gosme, Richard Cedric, LM2S lab, Troyes university of technology (UTT), France; and Paulo Goncalves,INRIA RhonesAlpes, M1ST1S, France

ROBUST TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS: DEFINITIONS AND REALIZATIONS 1573LJubisa Stankovic and Igor Djurovic, Electrical Engineering Department, Serbia & Montenegro

COMPLEX TIME-FREQUENCY AND DUAL-FREQUENCY SPECTRA OF HARMONIZABLE PROCESSES 1577Alfred Hanssen, Yngvar Larsen, University of Troms0, Norway; and Louis Scharf, Colorado State University, USA

DETRENDING AND DENOISING WITH EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITIONS 1581Patrick Flandrin, CNRS ENS Lyon, France; Paulo Gongalves, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France; and Gabriel Rilling,ENS Lyon, France

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