Thursday
Room A |
0910 - 950 |
Plenary talk: Signal and Information Processing for Computing Systems
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Dr Henrique (Rico) Malvar |
0950 - 1030 |
Plenary talk: "The Road to Self-Driving Cars !" (The view of a semiconductor supplier) |
Dr Jihad Haidar |
1030 - 1110 |
Plenary talk: High-Quality Video Communication over Wireless Systems |
Professor Yoshikazu Miyanaga |
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Integrated Circuits I |
Chairs: Majid Ahmadi
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1140 - 1200 |
Multi-range, Ultra-lower Power, -20 to 60oC CMOS Smart Temperature Sensor with ±0.1oC Accuracy (Invited Paper) |
Sanfeng Lu, Man-Kay Law, Pui-In Mak, Rui P. Martins |
1200 - 1220 |
An Automated Power Estimation and Optimization Methodology |
Shoaleh Hashemi Namin, Roberto Muscedere, Huapeng Wu, Majid Ahmadi |
1220 - 1240 |
True RMS-DC Converter Based on Differential Difference Current Conveyor |
Ozra Sharifipoor, Arash Ahmadi, Shahpour Alirezaee, Majid Ahmadi, Shervin Erfani |
1240 - 1300 |
Impact of Process and Temperature Variations on the Design of CMOS Colpitts Oscillators |
I.Y. Taha, M. Mirhassani |
1300 - 1320 |
76.8 MHz, 105 ppm Temperature Stable, 106 fs Jitter AlN-on-Si MEMS Oscillator for Cellular Applications |
Ali Kourani, Emad Hegazi, Yehea Ismail |
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Image Processing I |
Chair: Ioan Tabus
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1140 - 1200 |
A Novel Motion Compensation Approach for Highly-Manoeuvring Platform SAR Imagery (Invited Paper) |
Song Zhou, Lei Yang, Guoan Bi |
1200 - 1220 |
Distortion-based No-Reference quality metric for video transmission over IP |
Federica Battisti, Marco Carli, Yiwei Liu, Alessandro Neri, Pradip Paudyal |
1220 - 1240 |
Fast Support Vector Classifier for Automated Content-based Search in Video Surveillance |
Cătălin A. Mitrea, Ionut Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu, Radu Dogaru |
1240 - 1300 |
Evaluation of Color Transfer and Denoising Methods for Motion Blur Prevention |
Ciprian Ionaşcu, Corneliu Florea, Laura Florea |
1300 - 1320 |
Lossy-to-lossless progressive coding of depth-maps (Invited Paper) |
Ionut Schiopu, Ioan Tabus |
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Communications I |
Chair: Gheorghe Zaharia |
1140 - 1200 |
Superimposed effects of signature sequences and LDPC technique in faded CDMA multiuser systems |
Ioana I. Marcu, Carmen Voicu, Simona V. Halunga |
1200 - 1220 |
Comparative Analysis of Propagation Models Used in Making Coverage Predictions for TETRA Networks |
Valentin Grecu, Valerică Bîndar, Simona Halunga, Mircea Popescu |
1220 - 1240 |
Enhanced IRC-SIC Algorithm with Beamforming for MU-MIMO Systems |
Ammar Ali Sahrab, Ion Marghescu |
1240 - 1300 |
Parametric Estimation of UWB Signals with sub-Nyquist Sampling |
Ana-Maria Piştea, Ioan Nicolaescu, Emanuel Rădoi, Leontin Tuţă |
1300 - 1320 |
On the Acceptable Perturbation Level of CATV Distribution Amplifiers for Mobile DVB-T Reception |
Radu Arsinte, Eugen Lupu |
1320 - 1340 |
Performance of DSTM MIMO Systems in Continuously Changing Rayleigh Channel |
Hui Ji, Gheorghe Zaharia, Jean-François Hélard |
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Signal Processing I |
Chair: Corneliu Rusu
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1140 - 1200 |
Social signals and the ENR index – Noise of searches on SNs with keyword-based logic conditions (Invited Paper) |
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu |
1200 - 1220 |
Multi-Port NonLinearities in Wave Digital Structures |
Alberto Bernardini, Kurt J. Wernery, Augusto Sarti, Julius O. Smith III |
1220 - 1240 |
An Energetic Interpretation of Nonlinear Wave Digital Filter Lookup Table Error (Invited Paper) |
Kurt James Werner, Julius O. Smith III |
1240 - 1300 |
HMM-Based Error Correction Mechanism for Five-Key Chording Keyboards |
Adrian Tarniceriu, Bixio Rimoldi, Pierre Dillenbourg |
1300 - 1320 |
Signal approximation using GA guided wavelet decomposition |
Gabriel Oltean, Laura-Nicoleta Ivanciu, Botond Kirei |
1320 - 1340 |
The Extended One-Dimensional Discrete Phase Retrieval Problem |
Corneliu Rusu, Jaakko Astola |
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Integrated Circuits II |
Chair: Gheorghe Brezeanu
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1500 - 1520 |
Power Attacks on DAC Architectures: A Susceptibility Comparison |
Huijie Zhang, Mani Soma, Shulin Tian |
1520 - 1540 |
A 23ps Resolution Time-to-Digital Converter Implemented on Low-Cost FPGA Platform |
Mohamed Abbas, Kasem Khalil |
1540 - 1600 |
A Wide Range Adaptive Bandwidth PLL With Digital Calibration |
Umut Yilmazer, Caglar Yilmazer, Ali Toker |
1600 - 1620 |
Current-Reuse Transimpedance Amplifier with Active Inductor |
Diaa Abd-elrahman, Mohamed Atef, Mohamed Abbas, Mohamed Abdelgawad |
1620 - 1640 |
Fading Circuit for Linear/Exponential Current Variations in Boost Coverters for LED Driving |
Anca Vasilica, Gheorghe Pristavu, Vlad Anghel, Gheorghe Brezeanu |
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Image Processing II |
Chair: Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui
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1500 - 1520 |
Vascular Bifurcations and Crossovers Detection and Processing in Retinal Images |
Florin Rotaru, Silviu Ioan Bejinariu, Cristina Diana Niţă, Ramona Luca |
1520 - 1540 |
Content-based Iris Indexing and Retrieval Model using Spatial Access Methods |
Tudor Barbu, Mihaela Luca |
1540 - 1600 |
Simple Head Pose Estimation in Still Images |
Vasile Preda, Corneliu Florea, Andreea Sima, Laura Florea |
1600 - 1620 |
A New Technique for Improving Pupil Detection Algorithm |
Radu Gabriel Bozomitu, Vlad Cehan, Robert Gabriel Lupu, Cristian Rotariu, Constantin Barabaşa |
1620 - 1640 |
A Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Block Motion Estimation Using the Strategies of Diffusion Adaptation (Invited Paper) |
Manal K. Jalloul, Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui |
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Communications II |
Chair: Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru
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1500 - 1520 |
Sorting Methods Used in Parallel Turbo Decoding for LTE Systems |
Cristian Anghel, Cristian Stanciu, Constantin Paleologu |
1520 - 1540 |
Primary User Activity Prediction Using the Hidden Markov Model in Cognitive Radio Networks |
Ramiyar Heydari, Shahpour Alirezaee, Arash Ahmadi, Majid Ahmadi, Iman Mohammadsharifi |
1540 - 1600 |
Microcell Path Loss Estimation Using Log-Normal Model In GSM Cellular Network |
Mohammadreza Babalou, Shahpour Alirezaee, Alireza Soheili, Arash Ahmadi, Majid Ahmadi, Shervin Erfani |
1600 - 1620 |
Novel directive coupler with dual band behavior for GSM applications |
Iulia Andreea Mocanu |
1620 - 1640 |
Determining the Number of Different Cubic Permutation Polynomial Based Interleavers for Lengths in the LTE Standard |
Lucian Trifina, Daniela Tărniceriu, Mihaela Andrei |
1640 - 1700 |
Thorough Spectral Investigation of the β-α Pulse Shaping Filter |
N. D. Alexandru, F. Diaconu |
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Signal Processing II |
Chair: Silviu Ciochina
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1500 - 1520 |
IIR Filter Synthesis Based on Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm for Human Audiogram Emulation |
Ervin Szopos, Ioana Saracut, Calin Farcas, Marius Neag, Marina Topa |
1520 - 1540 |
Sparse signal recovery with additional L2 null space constraint |
Nicolae Cleju |
1540 - 1600 |
An Optimized NLMS Algorithm for Acoustic Echo Cancellation |
Silviu Ciochină, Constantin Paleologu, Jacob Benesty, Steven L. Grant |
1600 - 1620 |
New Insights on the Convergence Analysis of the Affine Projection Algorithm for System Identification |
Robert Alexandru Dobre, Valentin Adrian Nită, Silviu Ciochină, Constantin Paleologu |
1620 - 1640 |
Efficient FPGA Implementation of the DCD-RLS Algorithm for Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation |
Cristian Stanciu, Cristian Anghel, Lucian Stanciu |
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Power Electronics I |
Chair: Erchin Serpedin
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1730 - 1750 |
Testbench for Evaluations of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithms for Solar Energy Harvesting |
Botond Sandor Kirei, Gabriel Oltean, Marina Dana Topa |
1750 - 1810 |
A Control Scheme for Multilevel Inverter |
Adrian Schiop |
1810 - 1830 |
Virtual Analysis for Assessing the Battery Impact on Fuel Efficiency for Hybrid Electric Vehicles |
Mihai-Ovidiu Nicolaica, Daniela Tarniceriu |
1830 - 1850 |
PEV Charging in the Future Smart Grid (Invited Paper) |
Muhammad Ismail, Erchin Serpedin ,Khalid Qaraqe |
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Image Processing III |
Chair: Constantin Vertan
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1730 - 1750 |
The Results of the Investigation of the Boaventura and Gonzaga Integrated Performance Evaluation Method of Edge Detection Based on the two-dimensional Renewal Stream |
V. Geringer, D. Dubinin, A. Kochegurov, K. Reif |
1750 - 1810 |
Automatic Pap Smear Nuclei Detection Using Mean-Shift and Region Growing |
Serban Oprisescu, Tiberiu Rădulescu, Alina Sultana, Christoph Rasche, Mihai Ciuc |
1810 - 1830 |
An Emedded Software Development Package Platform for Cloud OCR |
Dan Marius Dobrea, Paul Bot |
1830 - 1850 |
On the performance of focus measures in infrared and near-infrared imagery |
Constantin Vertan, Corneliu Florea, Laura Florea, Silviu Bădoiu |
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Communications III |
Chair: Luigi Pomante
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1730 - 1750 |
Approaches for Environmental Monitoring Sensor Networks |
Maria Mitoi, Alexandru Vulpe, Razvan Craciunescu, George Suciu, Octavian Fratu |
1750 - 1810 |
Using Analytic Hierarchy Process to Improve The Decision Process of Routing Protocols |
Luminiţa Scripcariu, Liliana Vornicu-Albu |
1810 - 1830 |
A Study of Methods Used to Improve Encryption Algorithms Robustness |
Luminiţa Scripcariu |
1830 - 1850 |
Performance analysis of a lightweight localization algorithm for WSNs in a real scenario |
Antonio Falcone, Luigi Pomante, Claudia Rinaldi, Marco Santic |
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Signal Processing III |
Chair: Doru F. Chiper
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1730 - 1750 |
A Multiplierless Implementation of Cascade Integrator Comb Filter |
Nezam Saberi, Arash Ahmadi, Shahpour Alirezaee, Majid Ahmadi |
1750 - 1810 |
Grouped B-Spline Functions for the Design of Quadrature Mirror Filters |
Lucian Stanciu, Valentin Stanciu, Cristian Anghel |
1810 - 1830 |
A Hum Removal Algorithm Used for Audio Restoration Purposes |
Robert Al. Dobre, Valentin A. Niţă, Amelia Ciobanu, Cristian Negrescu, Dumitru Stanomir |
1830 - 1850 |
2D IIR Filters with Square-Shaped Frequency Response |
Radu Matei |
1850 - 1910 |
A Unified VLSI Architecture for Addition and Multiplication in GF( 2^m) |
C. Andronic, D.F. Chiper |
1910 - 1930 |
An Efficient Algorithm for a Memory-Based Systolic Array VLSI Implementation of Type IV DCT |
Doru Florin Chiper |
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Friday
Room A |
0900 - 940 |
Plenary talk: Recent Advances in CMOS Switched-Capacitor Circuits: Bio-Medical and RF Applications |
Professor David J. Allstot |
0940 - 1020 |
Plenary talk: Do Communication Engineers Need Circuit Theory? |
Professor Josef A. Nossek |
1020 - 1100 |
Plenary talk: Patents, Trade Secrets, Intellectual Property, and Such: What Engineers Need to Know |
Daniel Foty |
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Integrated Circuits III |
Chair: Cosmin Popa
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1130 - 1150 |
A CMOS current reference based on generating PTC currents |
Damian Imbrea |
1150 - 1210 |
A CMOS Standard-Process sensor |
Damian Imbrea |
1210 - 1230 |
Differential CMOS Current Controlled Current Scalor |
Stefan Savinescu, Liviu Goras |
1230 - 1250 |
CMOS Current-Mode Function Generator for Analog Signal Processing |
Cosmin Popa |
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Image Processing IV |
Chair: Alexandru Isar
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1130 - 1150 |
Modified Edge Detection for Segmentation |
Mohammed Baydoun, Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui |
1150 - 1210 |
Automatic Segmentation of Infantile Hemangiomas |
Alina Sultana, Marta Zamfir, Mihai Ciuc, Serban Oprisescu, Maria Popescu |
1210 - 1230 |
Preliminary Results on Sky Segmentation |
Corina Nafornita, Ciprian David, Alexandru Isar |
1230 - 1250 |
Images compressive sensing reconstruction by inpainting |
Cristina Stolojescu-Crişan, Alexandru Isar |
1250 - 1310 |
Automatic multi-threshold image segmentation using metaheuristic algorithms |
Silviu-Ioan Bejinariu, Hariton Costin, Florin Rotaru, Ramona Luca, Cristina Diana Niţă |
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Communications IV |
Chair: Ion Bogdan
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1130 - 1150 |
Towards Improving Performance of Galvanic Coupling Intra-Body Communication |
Meng Wang, JiaWen Li, Feng Wan, HuiJuan Huang |
1150 - 1210 |
Symmetric Lattice 45°, 90° and 180° Digital Phase Shifter at 3-6 GHz for LTE, WIFI, Radar Applications |
Ercan Atasoy, Farshad Piri, B.Siddik Yarman |
1210 - 1230 |
Metal Mountable Microstrip Patch UHF RFID Tag Antenna |
Adrian-Ioan Petrariu, Valentin Popa, Aurel Chirap |
1230 - 1250 |
Low Profile Flexible Metal Mountable UHF RFID Tag Antenna |
Adrian-Ioan Petrariu, Valentin Popa |
1250 - 1310 |
RSS improvement in VANETs by auxilliary transmission at 700 MHz |
Adrian Abunei, Ciprian-Romeo Comsa, Ion Bogdan |
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Signal Processing IV |
Chair: Zdenek Smekal
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1130 - 1150 |
Analysis of Phonation in Patients with Parkinson's Disease using Empirical Mode Decomposition (Invited Paper) |
Zdenek Smekal, Jiri Mekyska, Zoltan Galaz, Zdenek Mzourek, Irena Rektorovayz, Marcos Faundez-Zanuyx |
1150 - 1210 |
Incorporation of Time-Varying LP Cepstral Features in HMM-Based Isolated Word Speech Recognition |
Federico Ang, Hiroshi Tsutsui, and Yoshikazu Miyanaga |
1210 - 1230 |
Comparison of pitch detection algorithms for the Crazy Square project |
Claudia Rinaldi, Giacomo Gustavino, Marco Santic, Luigi Pomante, Marco Pennesey |
1230 - 1250 |
Speaker Diarization Experiments for Romanian Parliamentary Speech |
Eugen Lupu, Anca Apatean, Radu Arsinte |
1250 - 1310 |
Experimental Study in Development of Speech Corpus for Emotion Recognition with Data Validation |
Ioan Păvăloi, Elena Muscă |
1310 - 1330 |
Comparative Analysis between SROL - Romanian Database and Emo - German Database |
Silvia Monica Feraru, Marius Dan Zbancioc |
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Integrated Circuits IV |
Chair: Mitra Mirhassani
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1500 - 1520 |
A Low-Power Coarse-Fine Time-to-Digital Converter in 65nm CMOS |
Xue-Jiao Zhang, Ke-Ji Cui, Zhuo Zou, Li-Rong Zheng |
1520 - 1540 |
Comparator With Build-In Reference Voltage Generation And Split-Rom Encoder for a High-Speed Flash ADC |
Yong Chen, Pui-In Mak, Jiale Yang, Ruifeng Yue, Yan Wang |
1540 - 16 00 |
Design of a Digitally Tunable 5th Order GM-C Filter Using Linearized OTA in 90nm CMOS Technology |
Ata Sarrafinazhad, Ismail Kara, Faik Baskaya |
1600 - 1620 |
An Embedded Low-Overhead PLL-Based Countermeasure Against DPA Side Channel Attack |
Ali Attaran, M. Mirhassani |
1620 - 1640 |
Mixed-Signal Low-Noise Adder with Constant Power for Side-Channel Attack Immunity |
Ashley Novak, Mitra Mirhassani |
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Image Processing V |
Chair: Dinu Coltuc
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1500 - 1520 |
Diversification with Fisher Kernel Pseudo-Feedback |
Bogdan Boteanu, Ionut, Mironică, Bogdan Ionescu |
1520- 1540 |
Multiple Point Android Digital Image Authentication |
Emanuel Achimescu, Radu Ovidiu Preda, Nicolae Vizireanu, Ionut Pirnog |
1540- 1600 |
Noise evaluation in Hadamard spectroscopy |
Cristian Damian, Alexandru Crisan, Tiberius Vasile, Daniela Coltuc, Victor Damian |
1600- 1620 |
On Optimized Histogram Bin Shifting Reversible Watermarking for Color Images |
Iulian Udroiu, Dinu Coltuc |
1620- 1640 |
Alternate embedding method for difference expansion reversible watermarking |
Tudor Nedelcu, Dinu Coltuc |
1640- 1700 |
A Simple Four-Stages Reversible Watermarking Scheme |
Ioan-Catalin Dragoi, Dinu Coltuc |
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Radio Frequency |
Chair: Aldo De Sabata
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1500 - 1520 |
GaN HEMT Device Modeling Using X-Parameters with Emphasis on Complexity Reduction of Harmonic Load-Pull Measurement |
Yelin Wang , Troels S. Nielsen, Ole K. Jensen, Torben Larsen |
1520- 1540 |
Design of a High-efficiency GaN HEMT RF Power Amplifier |
Yelin Wang, Torben Larsen |
1540- 1600 |
Mathematical Modeling of Electromagnetic Transmission in Flat Heterogeneous Guided Systems |
I. Dmitrieva |
1600- 1620 |
RF MEMS Reference Oscillator Platform with ±0.5ppm Frequency Stability for Wireless Handsets |
Ali Kourani, Emad Hegazi, Yehea Ismail |
1620- 1640 |
Waveform and CMOS generator for a pulse designated for UWB European band 6-8.5 GHz |
Adrian Popa, Nicolae Dumitru Alexandru |
1640- 1700 |
Metamaterial Based Screening Box Working from DC up to the GHz Range |
Aldo De Sabata, Ladislau Matekovits, Andrei Silaghi |
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Signal Processing V |
Chair: Iulian Ciocoiu
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1500 - 1520 |
Dynamic of couplings between fetal heart rate and uterine contractions |
Alexandru Pasarica, Cristian Rotariu, Radu Gabriel Bozomitu, Oana Diana Eva |
1520- 1540 |
Rest-to-work transfer of spatial filters for a motor imagery based brain computer interface |
Oana Diana Eva, Alexandru Pasarica |
1540- 1600 |
A New Method for ECG Compression Evaluation |
Monica Fira, Liviu Goraş |
1600- 1620 |
ECG Biometrics Using Bag-of-Words Models |
Iulian B. Ciocoiu |
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Power Electronics II |
Chair: Adriana Sirbu
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1730 - 1750 |
On Teaching Microcontroller Course for Undergraduate Program of Study |
Septimiu Mischie |
1750- 1810 |
Static Frequency Converter with PWM Self – Control Inverter for an Induction Motor |
Dimitrie Alexa, Irinel Valentin Pletea, Alexandru Lazar, Tecla Castelia Goras |
1810- 1830 |
Rectifiers with Near Sinusoidal Input Currents -MATLAB/Simulink Model Case Studies |
Adriana Sîrbu, Dimitrie Alexa, Tecla Castelia Goraş |
1830- 1850 |
On the Transient Analysis of a DC-DC Buck Converter under Load Steps Scenarios |
Roxana-Daniela Amariutei, Vasilica-Daniela Andries, Liviu Goras, Monica Rafaila, Andi Buzo, Georg Pelz |
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Systems & Circuits Theory
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Chair: Victor Grigoras
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1730 - 1750 |
On Exact Circuit Analysis of Frequency Splitting and Bifurcation Phenomena in Wireless Power Transfer Systems |
Mihai Iordache, Lucian Mandache, Dragos Niculae, Lavinia Iordache (Bobaru) |
1750 - 1810 |
An Overview of Several Researches on Fuzzy Logic in Intelligent Systems |
Mihaela Luca (Costin), Ramona Luca, Silviu-Ioan Bejinariu, Adrian Ciobanu, Otilia Paduraru, Marius Zbancioc, Tudor Barbu |
1810 - 1830 |
A Review of Several Applications of FL in Modeling and in 1D/2D Signal Processing |
Vasile Apopei, Silviu-Ioan Bejinariu, Hariton Nicolae Costin, Doina Jitcă, Mihaela Luca (Costin), Cristina Diana Niţă |
1830 - 1850 |
Results on the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of a First Order Cell CNN |
Liviu Goras, Nicolae Patache, Paul Ungureanu |
1850 - 1910 |
Dynamic and Statistic Analysis of a Simple Chaotic Generator |
Victor Grigoraş, Carmen Grigoraş |
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