ISSCS 2007
Program

Symposium at a Glance

11
July
Time
Room A
Room B
Room C
Room D
Room E
1200 - 2100

Registration

1600 - 1900
A tutorial on "MOS-miracle - A Behind-the-Scenes Look" (Room A)
Daniel Foty, Gilgamesh Associates, USA
1900
Welcome Cocktail (Library Room)
12
July
0800 - 0900
Registration
0900 - 0910
Opening Ceremony
0910 - 1050
Plenary talk: Ultra-Low-Power Sensor Networks in Nanometer CMOS (Room A)
Georges Gielen, ESAT-MICAS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
1050 - 1030
Plenary talk: Signal Processing Trends in Disease Diagnostics, Prevention and Management (Room A)
Ahmed Tewfik, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
1030 - 1110
Doctor Honoris Causa Festivity
1110 - 1140
Coffee break
1140 - 1340
1340 - 1500
Lunch
1500 - 1700

B2.2
VLSI Circuits and Systems
I

1700 - 1730
Coffee break
1730 - 1930
2000
Banquet
(Hotel Astoria Restaurant)
13
July
0900 - 0940
Plenary talk: Connexions: A New Information Technology for Education (Room A)
C. Sidney Burrus, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
0940 - 1020
Plenary talk: Human Activity Recognition - A Grand Challenge (Room A)
Jagadish K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
1020 - 1050
Plenary talk: Microcamera Embedded in a Wristwatch (Room A)
Michael Ansorge (1,2) and Joachim Grupp (3)
(1) Signal Processing Institute, Ecole Poytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
(2) Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
(3) The Swatch Group R&D Ltd, Division Asulab, Switzerland
1050 - 1110

Company presentation (Room A)

1110 - 1140
Coffee break
1140 - 1340
1340 - 1500
Lunch
1500 - 1700
1700 - 1730
Coffee break
1730 - 1930
1930
Cocktail (Library Room)
14
July
0800
TRIP (upon request)

Program

Thursday
Room A
0910 - 950
Plenary talk: Ultra-Low-Power Sensor Networks in Nanometer CMOS
Georges Gielen, ESAT-MICAS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
0950 - 1030
Plenary talk: Signal Processing Trends in Disease Diagnostics, Prevention and Management
Ahmed Tewfik, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
1030 - 1110
Doctor Honoris Causa Festivity
 
Thursday
Room A
A1. Special Session: "Software tools for digital photography"
Chair: Vasile Buzuloiu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1140 - 1200
A Study of the Influence of the PSF Accuracy on the Quality of Image Deblurring
M. Zamfir, A. Zamfir, V. Buzuloiu, A. Drimbarean
1200 - 1220
Framework for Performance Evaluation and Testing of Image Processing Algorithms
Alexandru Drimbarean, Adrian Capata, Florin Nanu, Arpad Zoldi
1220 - 1240
Next Generation Face Tracking Technology Using AAM Techniques
Peter Corcoran, Mircea C. Ionita, Ioana Bacivarov
1240 - 1300
Managing Digital Image Collections from Your TV-Set: A State-of-Art Review
Peter Corcoran, Frank Callaly, Petronel Bigioi
1300 - 1320
A Review of Face Recognition Techniques for In-Camera Applications
Claudia Iancu, Peter Corcoran, Gabriel Costache
 
Thursday
Room B
B1. Special Session: "Advanced Design Techniques for Wireless Communications" I
Chair: Ana Rusu, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
1140 - 1200
Design Strategy for Continous-Time Delta-Sigma Based on Power Consideration for 4G Radios
Yi Ke, Jan Craninckx, Georges Gielen,
1200 - 1220
A Fully-Integrated 580 µW ISM-Band Frequency Synthesizer for Implantable Medical Devices
Louis-Francois Tanguay, Mohamad Sawan
1220 - 1240
Delta-Sigma ADC Design Considerations for WiFi/WiMAX Receivers
Pukar Malla, Hasnain Lakdawala, Ravi Naiknaware, Soumyanath Krishnamurthy, Kevin Kornegay
1240 - 1300
A Direct Conversion WiMAX RF Receiver Front-End in CMOS Technology
Jad G. Atallah, Saul Rodriguez, L.-R. Zheng, M. Ismail
1300 - 1320
A Gm-C Continuous-Time Analog Filter for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless LANs
Tien-Yu Lo, Cheng-Sheng Kao, Chung-Chih Hung
 
Thursday
Room C
C1. Integrated Circuits I
Chair: Mihai Banu, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA
1140 - 1200
A System Approach to Integrated Power Amplifier Analysis and Design (Invited paper)
Mihai Banu, Vladimir Prodanov
1200 - 1220
The Design of LVDS Transmitter with Novel ESD Protection Circuit Using BiCMOS Technologies
Yong Seo Koo, Jo Woon Lee, Jae Hyun Lee, Kwang-Yeob Lee, Jae-Chang Kwak, Kui-Dong Kim
1220 - 1240
1-V Ultra-Low-Power CMOS LC VCO with Dynamic Body Biasing
Zheng Wang, Huseyin S. Savci, James Griggs, Numan S. Dogan
1240 - 1300
A Comparative Study of the Performance of the Flipped Voltage Follower Based Low-Voltage Current Mirrors
Costas Koliopoulos, Costas Psychalinos
1300 - 1320
A Novel Transconductor with High Linearity
Yaohui Kong, Huazhong Yang
1320 - 1340

Gain-Bandwidth Properties of  0.18mm Si-CMOS Transistor up to 10 GHz

B. Siddik  Yarman, Nicodimus Retdian, Shigetaga Takagi, Nobuo Fujii

 
Thursday
Room D
D1. Analog and Digital Signal Processing
Chair: Alexandre S. Korotkov, St. Petersburg, State Technical University, Russian Federation
1140 - 1200
Delta-Sigma ADC for Ternary Code System (Part I: Modulator Realization)
Alexander Korotkov, D. V. Morozov, M. M. Pilipko, Amitabha Sinha
1200 - 1220
Delta-Sigma ADC for Ternary Code System (Part II: Decimation Filter Realization)
Dmitriy Morozov, Alexander Korotkov, Amitabha Sinha
1220 - 1240
A Simple and Accurate Track-and-Hold Circuit Using Operational Transconductance Amplifier
Jong-Kug Seon, Kyung-Hoon Nam, Sung-Hee Kang, Kyu-Sung Bae, Jong-Bae Kim
1240 - 1300
Fully Differential Switched Capacitor Amplifier DC Common Mode Rejection vs. Capacitors Mismatch
Andrei Danchiv, Mircea Bodea, Claudius Dan
1300 - 1320
Low Power Consumption 8 MHz-Low-Pass CT Combined Technology ARC-filter
Gleb Slavskiy, Oleg. V. Dvornikov, Alexander D. Avrutin
   
Thursday
Room E
E1. Nonlinear Circuits
Chair: Florin Constantinescu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1140 - 1200
Non-Linear Design of a C-Band Power Amplifier Using EEHEMT Nonlinear Model
Jolly Dhar, S. K. Garg, R. K. Arora, S. S. Rana
1200 - 1220
Synchronization of a Chain of Nonlinear Oscillators: Application to Antenna Arrays
Florin Hutu, Sebastien Cauet, Patrick Coirault, Jean-Marie Paillot
1220 - 1240
High Frequency Implementation of Sprott’s Chaotic Oscillators Using Current-Feedback Op Amps
Banlue Srisuchinwong, Chun-Hung Liou
1240 - 1300
An Integratable Chaotic Oscillator with Current Amplifiers
Konstantine Giannakopoulos, George Souliotis, Nikos Fragoulis
1300 - 1320
On the Power Spectral Density of Chaotic Signals Generated by Skew Tent Maps
Daniela Mitie Kato, Marcio Eisencraft
 
Thursday
Room A
A2. Special Session: "Algorithms for 3D Time-Of-Flight Cameras" I
Chair: Vasile Buzuloiu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
Co-Chair: Erhardt Barth, "Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics" University of Luebeck, Germany
1500 - 1520
Geometric Invariants for Facial Feature Tracking with 3D TOF Cameras
Martin Haker, Martin Böhme, Thomas Martinetz, Erhardt Barth

1520 - 1540

Environmental Effects on Measurement Uncertainties of Time-of-Flight Cameras
Sigurjón Árni Guðmundsson, Henrik Aanæs, Rasmus Larsen

1540 - 1600

Movement Artefacts in Range Images of Time-of-Flight Cameras
Oliver Lottner, A. Sluiter, K. Hartmann, W Weihs

1600 - 1620

Data-Fusion of PMD-Based Distance-Information and High-Resolution RGB-Images
Marvin Lindner, Andreas Kolb, Klauss Hartmann

1620 - 1640

A Simulation Framework for Time-Of-Flight Sensors
Maik Keller, Jens Orthmann, Andreas Kolb, Valerij Peters
 
Thursday
Room B
B2.1 Special Session: "Advanced Design Techniques for Wireless Communications" II
Chair: Ana Rusu, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
1500 - 1520
ARCHER: An Automated RF-IC Rx Front-End Circuit Design Tool
Saul Rodriguez, Jad G. Atallah, L.-R. Zheng, M. Ismail

1520 - 1540

Design Challenges of Wireless Mobile Radios
Ana Rusu, Mohammed Ismail
 
1540 - 1600
Break
 
B2.2 VLSI Circuits and Systems
Chair: Ana Rusu, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden

1600 - 1620

Pipelined Architecture for High-Speed Implementation of Multilevel Lifting 2-D DWT Using 9/7 Filters
Basant K. Mohanty, Pramod Meher

1620 - 1640

Dual 500mA High-Side Power Distribution Switch for Portable USB Applications
Vladislav Nagy, Viera Stopjaková, Juraj Brenkuš, Martin Šimlaštík, Michal Konfal

1640 - 1700

An Investigation of Complex Triangle Elimination Problem of VLSI Floor Planning Employing Genetic Algorithmic Scheme
Ritesh Mishra, Bikash. Ch. Sahana, Sukes Maiti, Swapan K. Samaddar
   
Thursday
Room C
C2. Integrated Circuits II
Chair: Gheorghe Brezeanu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1500 - 1520
A Compact Model of Submicron Channel MOS Transistor Transconductance for Analog Circuit Simulation
Gheorghe Brezeanu, Andrei Sevcenco

1520 - 1540

A New Wide Input-Range FGMOS based Four Quadrant Multiplier with Electrical Error Correction
Balaji Ramasubramanian

1540 - 1600

On Symmetry Properties of Distributed Resistive Structures
Anton Manolescu, Anca M. Manolescu

1600 - 1620

Digital Circuit Design Using CMOS Transistor Model for Development in ASIC/SOC Technology
Saroj Kumar Satapathy

1620 - 1640

A Differential CMOS Automatic Gain Control Amplifier
Radu Gabriel Bozomitu, Vlad Cehan
1640 - 1700
SMAP: An Intelligent Mapping Tool for Network on Chip
Samira Saeidi, Ahmad Khademzadeh, Armin Mehran
 
Thursday
Room D
D2. Signal Processing I
Chair: John Håkon Husøy, University of Stavanger, Norway
1500 - 1520
Adaptive Filter Performance Analysis: A Unified Approach
John Håkon Husøy

1520 - 1540

Multiplierless Evolutionary Filter Design
Benoît Châtelain, François Gagnon

1540 - 1600

Generalized Normalized Gradient Descent Algorithm with Direct Update of the Step-Size Parameter
Constantin Paleologu, Călin Vlădeanu, Silviu Ciochină, Andrei Alexandru Enescu

1600 - 1620

A New Memory-Based Systolic Algorithm for DST with Low Hardware Complexity
Doru Florin Chiper

1620 - 1640

Efficient Systolization of Cyclic Convolutions Using Low-Complexity Rectangular Transform Algorithms
Pramod K. Meher
1640 - 1700
Novel Recursive Solution for Area-Time Efficient Systolization of Discrete Fourier Transform
Pramod K. Meher, J. C. Patra, A. P. Vinod
   
Thursday
Room E
E2. Special Session: "Digital Processing and Analysis of Medical X-Ray Images" I
Chair: Constantin Vertan, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1500 - 1520
A Quantitative Evaluation of the Hip Prosthesis Segmentation Quality in X-Ray Images
Alina Oprea, Constantin Vertan

1520 - 1540

Dynamic Range Enhancement in Digital Camera Acquisition of Prostheses Hip Xrays
Corneliu Florea, Constantin Vertan

1540 - 1600

Digitized X-ray Enhancement by Pixel Ordering
Laura Florea, Constantin Vertan

1600 - 1620

Investigation of Postmenopausal Alteration of Trabecular Structure on Calcaneus Radiographs Using Various Fractal Analysis Methods
Ion Stefan, Herbert F. Jelinek, Radu Badea, Andrei Prie

1620 - 1640

Radiology Database Images Retrieving
Ligia Chiorean, Aron Sipos, Mircea-Florin Vaida
 
Thursday
Room A
A3. Special Session: "Algorithms for 3D Time-Of-Flight Cameras" II
Chair: Vasile Buzuloiu, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
Co-Chair: Erhardt Barth, "Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics" University of Luebeck, Germany
1730 - 1750

Multiple Geodesic Distance Based Registration of Surfaces Applied to Facial Expressions
Rasmus Larsen, Brian Lading
1750 - 1810
Measurements with ToF Cameras and Their Necessary Corrections
Şerban Oprişescu, Dragoş Fãlie, Mihai Ciuc, Vasile Buzuloiu
1810 - 1830
Improving Face Detection with ToF Cameras
Dan Witzner Hansen, Rasmus Larsen, Fracois Lauze
1830 - 1850
Noise Specificities of the ToF Cameras
Dragoş Fãlie
 
Thursday
Room B
B3. VLSI Circuits and Systems
Chair: Pramod Meher, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
1730 - 1750
FPGA Implementation of Sigma-Delta Modulators in Fractional-N Frequency Synthesis
Hongyu Wang, Paul V. Brennan, Dai Jiang
1750 - 1810

Effective Strategy for Non-Adjacent Quantum Gates Transformation in Quantum Circuits
Shengchao Ding, Zhi Jin, Qing Yang
1810 - 1830
Minimum Communication Cost Approaches for Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA
Yung-Chuan Jiang
1830 - 1850
Performance Characteristics of Parallel and Pipelined Implementation of FIR Filters in FPGA Platform
Deepak Gangadharan, Pramod Kumar Meher, Andrzej Sluzek
1850 - 1910
Low Power 260k Color VGA TFT LCD One-Chip Driver IC
Bo-Sung Kim, Yong-Woon Lee, Won-Hyo Lee
1910 - 1930
FPGA Implementation of Gated Clock Based Globally Asynchronous Locally Synchronous Wrapper Circuits
Esmail Amini, Mehrdad Najibi, Zahra Jeddi, Hossein Pedram
   
Thursday
Room C
C3. Neural and Cellular Neural Networks
Chair: Radu Dogaru, "Politehnica" University Bucharest, Romania
1730 - 1750
A Cellular Neurofuzzy Network for Supporting Detection of Diabetic Symptoms in Retinal Images
Leonarda Carnimeo, Antonio Giaquinto
1750 - 1810
A Low Complexity Algorithm for Isolated Sound Recognition using Neural Networks
Radu Dogaru
1810 - 1830
Architecture and Algorithms for Syntetizable Neural Networks with On-Chip Learning
Alin Tisan, Stefan Oniga, Buchman Attila, Gavrincea Ciprian
1830 - 1850
CNN Processing Techniques for Multi-Robot Coordination
Ioan Gavriluţ , Virgil Tiponuţ, Alexandru Gacsádi, Cristian Grava
1850 - 1910
Clocking a WTA Network under Capacitive Coupling
Ruxandra Costea, Corneliu A. Marinov
1910 - 1930
On Pattern Formation in Inertial CNN’s
Liviu Goras, Iolanda Alecsandrescu, Paul Ungureanu
 
Thursday
Room D
D3. Signal Processing II
Chair: Alfred M. Bruckstein, Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel
1730 - 1750
On Over-Parameterized Model Based TV-Denoising (Invited paper)
Tal Nir, Alfred M. Bruckstein
1750 - 1810
Climatological Analysis: A Fast Non-Linear Signal Filtering Approach
Luiz Henrique Macêdo, Jacques Szczupak, Leontina Pinto, Eder Molina, Tercio Ambrizzi
1810 - 1830
Genomic Signals for the Study of Multiresistance Mutations in M. Tuberculosis
Paul Cristea, Rodica Tuduce, Dorina Bănica, Karin Rodewald
1830 - 1850
Design of Arbitrary Waveform Generator based on Direct Digital Synthesis Technique Using Code Composer Studio Platform
Shyam Sundar Prasad, S.K.Sanyal
1850 - 1910
Time-Frequency Methods for Multicomponents Signals
Marius Salagean, Ioan Nafornita
1910 - 1930
Estimation of Chirp Signals in Gaussian Noise by Kalman Filtering
János Gal, Andrei Campeanu, Ioan Nafornita
   
Thursday
Room E
E3. Special Session: "Digital Processing and Analysis of Medical X-Ray Images" II
Chair: Constantin Vertan, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1730 - 1750
Automatic Image Annotation Combining the Content and the Context of Medical Images
Filip Florea, Vasile Buzuloiu, Alexandrina Rogozan, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Stefan Darmoni
1750 - 1810
A Multi-Resolution Mean Field Annealing Algorithm for Motion Estimation in Medical CT Image Sequences
Cristian Grava, Vasile Buzuloiu, Bertrand Augereau, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne
 
Friday
Room A
0900 - 0940
Plenary talk: Connexions: A New Information Technology for Education
C. Sidney Burrus, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
0940 - 1020
Plenary talk: Human Activity Recognition - A Grand Challenge
Jagadish K. Aggarwal, University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.
1020 - 1050
Plenary talk: Microcamera Embedded in a Wristwatch
Michael Ansorge, Signal Processing Institute, Ecole Poytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
1050 - 1110
Company presentation
 
Friday
Room A
A4. Image Processing I
Chair: Ioannis Pitas, "Aristotle" University of Thessaloniki, Greece
1140 - 1200
A Lossy Compression Algorithm for Bayer Pattern Color Filter Array Data (Invited paper)
Andriy Bazhyna, Karen Egiazarian, Sanjit K. Mitra, Chin C. Koh
1200 - 1220
Object Simplification Using a Skeleton-Based Weight Function
Andras Hajdu, Charalambos Giamas, Ioannis Pitas
1220 - 1240
Metadata Description of Thermal Videos for Rescue Operations
Andras Hajdu, Charalambos Giamas, Nicholas Vretos,Ioannis Pitas
1240 - 1300
DCT Based Null Space Method for Face Recognition
Chuanqiang Zhao, Huiyuan Wang, Xiaojuan Wu
1300 - 1320
Fast and Efficient Extraction of Moving Objects
Mohammad Reza Javan, Seyed Mahdi Bouzari, Ahmad Salahi
1320 - 1340
An Efficient Object Segmentation Algorithm for Surveillance Systems
Mohammad Reza Javan, Seyed Mahdi Bouzari, Ahmad Salahi
 
Friday
Room B
B4. Circuits and Systems for Communications I
Chair: Alessandro Neri, "TRE" University of Rome, Italy
1140 - 1200
Time Hopping CSMA Persistent Systems with Physical Level Security Management (Invited paper)
Alessandro Neri, Daniele Blasi
1200 - 1220
Particle Filtering of the Number of Competing Stations to Support Combined Access Modes in IEEE 802.11 Networks (Invited paper)
Jang-Sub Kim, Qasim M. Chaudhari, Erchin Serpedin
1220 - 1240
Optimizing Resolution of Signals in a Low-IF Receiver
Satyam Dwivedi, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Navakanta Bhat
1240 - 1300
Simulation-Based Performance Analysis of Multicast Transmissions in an 802.11g WLAN
Sorin Cocorada, Iuliu Szekely
1300 - 1320
An Efficient Algorithm for Load Balancing
Seyed Mahdi Bouzari, Mohammad Reza Javan, Ahmad Salahi
1320 - 1340
Improved RSA Encryption Algorithm for Increased Security of Wireless Networks
Mircea Daniel Frunza, Luminiţa Scripcariu
   
Friday
Room C
C4. Medical Image Processing
Chair: Paul Cristea, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1140 - 1200
Electro Foot-Reflexology Stimulator
Felix A. Himmelstoss, Gerald A. Haas, Mario F. Strummer, Helmut L. Votzi
1200 - 1220
Movement and Postural Noncontact Bioinstrumental Sensor – A Genetic Alghorithm Based DSP Implementation
Dan Marius Dobrea, Adriana Sirbu
1220 - 1240
Applications of the Iterated Conditional Modes Algorithm for Motion Estimation in Medical Image Sequences
Cristian Grava, Alexandru Gacsádi, Cornelia Gordan, Adriana-Marcela Grava, Ioan Gavriluţ
1240 - 1300
Morphological Enhancement of Medical Images in a Logarithmic Image Environment
Eugen Zaharescu
1300 - 1320
Dynamic Adaptability of Image Processing Components in Medical Applications
Mircea Vaida, Valer Todica
 
Friday
Room D
D4. Signal Processing III
Chair: Dinu Coltuc, "Valahia" University of Targoviste, Romania
1140 - 1200
Improving Multimedia Techniques for Watermarking Color Images Using Cellular Automata
Monica Radulescu, Felicia Ionescu, Radu Dogaru
1200 - 1220
Robustness Evaluation of Perceptual Watermarks
Corina Nafornita
1220 - 1240
On Stereo Embedding by Reversible Watermarking
Dinu Coltuc
1240 - 1300
Image Denoising Using a Bishrink Filter with Reduced Sensitivity
Alexandru Isar, Sorin Moga, Dorina Isar
1300 - 1320
A New Implementation of the Hyperanalytic Wavelet Transform
Ioana Adam, Corina Nafornita, Jean-Marc Boucher, Alexandru Isar
1320 - 1340
B-spline and Wavelet Based Techniques for Iris Recognition
Simina Emerich, Anca Discant, Eugen Lupu, Sorina Demea
   
Friday
Room E
E4. Power Electronics I
Chair: Dorel Aiordachioaie, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania
1140 - 1200
Computer Experiments in System Identification Using a Prefiltering Bank
Mugur Alexiu, Dorel Aiordachioaie
1200 - 1220
Mathematical Model for Induction Machine Drives with Modified PWM
Dorin Neacsu
1220 - 1240
Optimal Adaptive Control of an Electrical Drive System
Corneliu Botan, Alexandru Onea, Florin Ostafi
1240 - 1300
Decoupling Control of an Induction Motor Drive Supplied by a Voltage Source Inverter
Corneliu Botan, Vasile Horga, Mihai Albu, Marcel Ratoi
1300 - 1320
About MathCAD Modeling of Power Transfer in Buck-Boost AC PWM Converter
Ecaterina Liliana Miron, Mihai Miron, Constantin Strimbu, C. G. Constantinescu, Marian Pearsica
1320 - 1340
Software Control for PWMA
Cristian Aghion, Ovidiu Ursaru, Mihai Lucanu, Laurentiu Dimitriu, Liliana Vornicu
   
Friday
Room A
A5. Image Processing II
Chair: Daniela Coltuc, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1500 - 1520
Image Enhancement in the Compressed Domain
Marco Amore, Sanjit K. Mitra, Marco Carli, Jon S. McElvain

1520 - 1540

Design of an Efficient Architecture for Enhancement of Stream Video Captured in Non-Uniform Lighting Conditions
Ming Z. Zhang, Ming-Jung Seow, Li Tao, Vijayan K. Asari

1540 - 1600

FISH Image Analysis Using a Modified Radial Basis Function Network
Ioannis Kasampalidis, Ioannis Pitas, Georgia Karayannopoulou, Ioannis Kostopoulos, Antonina Starita, Kleoniki Lyroudia

1600 - 1620

LabVIEW to CCS Link for Automating Digital Signal & Image Processing Applications
Evangelos Zigouris, Athanasios Kalantzopoulos, Evangelos Vassalos

1620 - 1640

Texture Classification by ICA
Daniela Coltuc, Thierry Fournel, Jean-Marie Becker
1640 - 1700
On the Feature Extraction Performances of Recursive Gabor-Type Filters in Texture Recognition Applications
Emilian David, Paul Ungureanu
 
Friday
Room B
B5. Circuits and Systems for Communications II
Chair: Alle-Jan van der Veen, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
1500 - 1520
Ionospheric Calibration for the LOFAR Radio Telescope (Invited paper)
S. van der Tol, A.J. van der Veen

1520 - 1540

A Practical Study of Finger Assignment Schemes in the Soft Handover Region with Multiple Base Stations (Invited paper)
Seyeong Choi, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Khalid A. Qaraqe, Hong-Chuan Yang

1540 - 1600

Low-Complexity Turbo-Equalization and Iterative Channel Estimation for TDMA Packet Systems
Adrian Florin Paun, Silviu Ciochina, Calin Vladeanu

1600 - 1620

Wireless Localization using Time Difference of Arrival in Narrow-Band Multipath Systems
Ciprian-Romeo Comsa, Jianghong Luo, Alexander Haimovich, Stuart Schwartz

1620 - 1640

Features of the Digital Block of a Hardware Simulator for MIMO Radio Channels
Sylvie Picol, Gheorghe Zaharia, Dominique Houzet, Ghaïs El Zein
1640 - 1700
Design of Balanced QPSK Space-Time Trellis Codes for Several Transmit Antennas
Thi Minh Hien Ngo, Gheorghe Zaharia, Stephane Bougeard, Jean Francois Helard
   
Friday
Room C
C5. Information Theory I
Chair: Adriana Vlad, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1500 - 1520
Generating Chaotic Sequences for Enciphering Purposes
Adriana Vlad, Adrian Luca

1520 - 1540

Performance Comparison of Punctured Turbo Codes and Multi Binary Turbo Codes
Maria Kovaci,  Horia Balta, Alexandre de Baynast, Miranda M. Nafornita

1540 - 1600

Transmission of Quantitative – Qualitative Information on Noisy Channels
Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu

1600 - 1620

Bounds on Codeword Lengths of Optimal Codes for Noiseless Channels
Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu

1620 - 1640

A New Information Theoretic Approach to Exon - Intron Classification
Serban Mereuta, Valeriu Munteanu
 
Friday
Room D
D5. Circuits and Systems
Chair: Mihai Iordache, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania
1500 - 1520
On the Approximate Analysis of One-Kind Source Networks with Multiple Complementary Spannig Tree Graphs
Georgi Nenov

1520 - 1540

On the Construction of Diagonal Lyapunov Functions for Linear Systems
Octavian Pastravanu, Mihaela-Hanako Matcovschi

1540 - 1600

Approximation of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems by Moment Matching
Mihai Iordache, Lucia Dumitriu

1600 - 1620

Aperture Couplings in Multilayer Filtering Structures
Nicolae Militaru, George Lojewski, Marian Gabriel Banciu

1620 - 1640

Efficiency of the Envelope Following Analyses
Alexandru Gabriel Gheorghe, Florin Constantinescu, Miruna Nitescu
1640 - 1700
LC-Ladder Filters Emulated by Circuits with Current Controlled Conveyors and Grounded Capacitors
Andrei Campeanu, János Gal
   
Friday
Room E
E5. Power Electronics II
Chair: Serban Birca-Galateanu, IUFM Nantes, France
1500 - 1520
Discontinuous Operation of the Boost Converter with Reduced Buffer Voltage Stress
Albert F. Rafetseder, Felix A. Himmelstoss

1520 - 1540

Increase of the Efficiency for a Solar Renewable Source Using a Soft Switched DC-DC Boost Converter
Nistor Daniel Trip, Adrian Schiop, Marin Tomse

1540 - 1600

Low Peak Current Class E² Resonant Full-Wave Low dv/dt DC-DC Converter
Serban Birca-Galateanu

1600 - 1620

An Analysis of Asymmetrical RNSIC Converter with Capacitors on the AC Side for High and Medium Power
Chiper Rodica, Dimitrie Alexa, Tecla Goras, I.V. Pletea, I.M.Pletea, A. Alexandrescu

1620 - 1640

Zero-Voltage and Zero-Current Switched Fuel-Cell Powered DC-to-DC Converter
Sung-Geun Song, Feel-soon Kang, Sung-Jun Park, Chea-Joo Moon, Gyoung-Jong Son
1640 - 1700
Rectifier with Near Sinusoidal Input Currents and High Performances
Dimitrie Alexa, T. Goras, I. V. Pletea, A. Petrichei, C. Nedelcu, A. Alexandrescu
 
Friday
Room A
A6. Image Processing III
Chair: Alexandru Isar, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania
1730 - 1750
Pixel-Level Fusion: A PDE-based Approach
Sorin Pop, Romulus Terebes, Monica Borda, Olivier Lavialle
1750 - 1810

On Model Selection for an Urban Area, by the AIC Criterion
Şerban Oprişescu, Monica Dumitrescu, Vasile Buzuloiu
1810 - 1830
Classification of Sharp-Edged Objects Using Morphology Toolbox
Eugen Zaharescu
1830 - 1850
Jointly Optimized Error-Feedback and Realization for Roundoff Noise Minimization in a Class of 2-D State-Space Digital Filters
Takao Hinamoto, Toru Oumi, Wu-Sheng Lu
1850 - 1910
Adaptable Area-Efficient Parallel Architecture for Grey and Color Image Convolvers
Deepak Gangadharan, Raveendranath Mahesh, Andrzej Sluzek
1910 - 1930
Simulation of a Digital Camera Pipeline
Toadere Florin
 
Friday
Room B
B6. Circuits and Systems for Communications III
Chair: Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1730 - 1750
Adaptive PN Code Acquisition in Multi-Path Spread Spectrum Communications Using FPGA
Bin Wei, MY. Sharif, TD. Binnie, AEA. Almaini
1750 - 1810

Equalization in Space-Frequency Coded Cooperative Communication System with Multiple Frequency Offsets
Feng Tian, Xiang-Gen Xia, P.C. Ching
1810 - 1830
Performance of RAKE Reception with Decision Aided Channel Estimation Using the UMTS P-CPICH
Mihnea Ionescu,  Simona Halunga, Octavian Fratu
1830 - 1850
A Family of Improved Nyquist Pulses
Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru
1850 - 1910
An Investigation of Spectral Properties of PPM Signals Used in UWB Systems
Tudor Durnea
1910 - 1930
An Investigation of the Improved Nyquist Pulses Families for OFDM Use
Alexandra Ligia Onofrei, Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru
   
Friday
Room C
C6. Information theory II
Chair: Valeriu Munteanu, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania
1730 - 1750
Increasing S Parameter of Interleavers
Lucian Trifina, Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu
1750 - 1810

A Method to Increase the Minimum Distance of Turbo Codes with Welch-Costas Interleaver
Lucian Trifina, Valeriu Munteanu, Daniela Tarniceriu
 
Friday
Room E
E6. Power Electronics III
Chair: Dorin Neacşu, Consultant ,Westford, USA
1730 - 1750
Analysis of the Trapezoidal Modulation for Current Source Inverters
Adrian Schiop, Daniel Trip
1750 - 1810

Microstepping Mode for Stepper Motor Control
Gheorghe Baluta
1810 - 1830
Estimation of Battery Parameters Based on Continuous-Time Model
Gheorghe Livint, Marcel Ratoi, Vasile Horga, Mihai Albu
1830 - 1850
PFC with Inductor Current Hysteretic Control and Voltage Fuzzy controller for the Output Voltage
Bogdan Stefan Mereuta, Mihai Lucanu, Rodica Chiper, Cristian Vasile Pavel
1850 - 1910
Bridgeless Power Factor Correction Converter Working at High Load Variations
Costel Petrea, Mihai Lucanu