T1: Tutorial 1, Sergios Theodoridis: Adaptive Learning for Machine Learning and Signal Processing: An Efficient Unifying Framework for Classification and Regression Tasks

Oral Presentation

T2: Tutorial 2, Jörn Ostermann: Coding of Stereoscopic and 3-Dimensional Video

Oral Presentation

R: Redzur

Poster Presentation

IB: IceBreaker

OS: Opening Session

P1: Plenary Session 1, C. Richard Johnson, Jr.: Weave Match Hunting: An Application of Signal Processing to Painting Analysis

Oral Presentation

CB1: Coffee Break 1

IC: Image Classification

Oral Presentation
Improved Edge Detection for EWOC Depth Upscaling
Sebastian Schwarz (Nokia Technologies, Finland); Mårten Sjöström and Roger Olsson (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
JPEG Image Tampering Detection Using Blocking Artifacts
Dijana Tralic (University of Zagreb & Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Juraj Petrovic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia); Sonja Grgic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Text Detection in Video Images Using Adaptive Edge Detection and Stroke Width Verification
Haojin Yang and Bernhard Quehl (Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Technology GmbH, Germany); Harald Sack (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, Germany)
Recognition Impact of JPEG2000 Part 2 Wavelet Packet Subband Structures in Polar Iris Image Compression
Jutta Hämmerle-Uhl, Michael Karnutsch and Andreas Uhl (University of Salzburg, Austria)
A Vision Based Approach for Pakistan Sign Language Alphabets Recognition
Nabeel Sabir (University of Central Punjab, Pakistan); Adnan Shahzada (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Muhammad Amjad Iqbal and Syed Mohammad Ali (University of Central Punjab, Pakistan)

IPIN: Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation

Oral Presentation
Benefits From Cooperation in Simultaneous Anchor-less Tracking and Room Mapping Based on Impulse Radio - Ultra Wideband Devices
Mathieu des Noes (CEA -LETI Minatec, France); Benoit Denis (CEA-Leti Minatec, France)
Multipath-Assisted Single-Anchor Indoor Localization in an Office Environment
Paul Meissner (Infineon Technologies, Austria); Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Distributed Localization: A Comparison of Performance Limits
Stefano Severi (Magna Electronics, Germany); Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu (Constructor University, Germany); Davide Dardari (University of Bologna & CNIT, Italy)
Radio and IMU Based Indoor Positioning and Tracking
Anders Mannesson, Muhammad Atif Yaqoob, Fredrik Tufvesson and Bo Bernhardsson (Lund University, Sweden)
Infrastructureless Indoor Mapping Using a Mobile Antenna Array
Tobias Deißler (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Malgorzata Janson (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Rudolf Zetik (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Germany); Joern Thielecke (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Indoor Person Localization System Through RSSI Bluetooth Fingerprinting
Héctor José Pérez Iglesias (Universidade da Coruña, Spain); Valentin Barral and Carlos J Escudero (University of A Coruña, Spain)

MSP: Medical Signal Processing

Poster Presentation
Simple Low Level Laser Therapy Device Approach
Sorin Stanescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Paul Dan Cristea (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Romanian Academy, Romania)
Wavelet Denoising of Ultrasonic A-scans for Detection of Weak Signals
Jose Luis San Emeterio (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain); Miguel A. Rodriguez-Hernandez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Regression and Sparse Regression Methods for Viscosity Estimation of Acid Milk From It's SLS Features
Sara Sharifzadeh, Jacob Skytte, Otto Nielsen, Bjarne Ersbøll and Line Clemmensen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
A Novel Automatic Method for Vessel Tortuosity Evaluation
Farnoosh Ghadiri (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Mashhad & Machine Vision Lab. Computer Eng. Dept, Iran); Hamidreza Pourreza (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Mashhad, Iran); Touka Banaee (Medical Sciences University of Mashhad, Iran)

S1: Security Part1

Oral Presentation
Improved Method of Secret Key Generation Based on Variations in Wireless Channel
Abhijit Ambekar (Deloitte Germany, Germany); Nandish P. Kuruvatti (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, Germany); Hans D. Schotten (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Enhancing Detection of Digital Watermark Against Resampling Attacks by Analyzing Periodicity of Interpolation
Seung-Jin Ryu (National Security Research Institute, Korea (South)); Tae Woo Oh (Korea Advanced Institute of science and Technology, Korea (South)); Hae-Yeoun Lee (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea (South)); Dae-Jin Jung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (South)); Heung-Kyu Lee (KAIST, Korea (South))
Improvement of the Watermark Detector Perfomance Using Image Enhancement Filters
Ante Poljičak (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Croatia); Lidija Mandić (Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia); Maja Strgar Kurečić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Croatia)
Robust Multi-Modal Watermarking Using Visually Encrypted Watermark
Saurabh Maheshwari (Government Women Engineering College Ajmer & Student Member IEEE, India); Reena Gunjan (Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India); Vijay Laxmi (Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India); Manoj Singh Gaur (Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India)
High-Capacity Reversible Data Hiding by Maximum-Span Pixel Pairing on Ordered Dithered Halftone Images
Brian Lien, Yen-ming Lin and Kun-Ying Lee (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

LB1: Lunch Break

DAC: Distributed Algorithms in Communications

Oral Presentation
A Novel, Scalable and Distributed Software Architecture for Software-Defined Radio with Remote Interaction
Valentin Barral, Javier Rodas, José A. García-Naya and Carlos J Escudero (University of A Coruña, Spain)
A Solution for Optimizing Costs and Improving Diversity of RFID Readers
Javier Rodas, Valentin Barral and Carlos J Escudero (University of A Coruña, Spain); Robert Langwieser (TU Wien, Austria)
Distributed Primary User Identification From Imprecise Location Information
Pavle Belanovic (Swisscom, Switzerland); Sergio Valcarcel Macua (PROWLER.io, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Santiago Zazo (Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Spain)
Experimental Evaluation of MIMO Coded Modulation Systems: Concatenation with OSTBC or Spatial Multiplexing
Francisco J. Vazquez-Araujo and José A. García-Naya (University of A Coruña, Spain); Miguel González-López (Universidade da Coruña, Spain); Luis Castedo (University of A Coruña, Spain); Javier Garcia-Frias (University of Delaware, USA)
Iterative Timing for Wireless Sensor Networks
Jozef Kenyeres (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria); Martin Kenyeres (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia); Peter Farkaš (Slovak University of Technology & Pan-European University, Slovakia)

DSPC: DSP in Communications

Poster Presentation
Girth Analysis of Polynomial-based Time-Invariant LDPC Convolutional Codes
Hua Zhou (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China); Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Soft Channel Encoding; A Comparison of Algorithms for Soft Information Relaying
Mehdi M. Molu (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
A Comparison of Estimation Concepts Applied to Networked Control Systems
Yasir Irshad and Magnus Mossberg (Karlstad University, Sweden)
TDOA Localization in IR UWB Systems
Jelena Kaitovic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Miljko Erić (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia)
An Efficient State of Charge Prediction Model for Solar Harvesting WSN Platforms
Andrea Castagnetti (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Alain Pegatoquet (LEAT, France); Cécile Belleudy (CNRS-LEAT, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); Michel Auguin (LEAT, France)
An Algorithm for Highly Efficient Waterfilling with Guaranteed Convergence
Johannes Gonter and Norbert Goertz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Recursive Discrete FourierTransform Based SMT Receivers for Cognitive Radio Applications
Lajos Varga (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary); Zsolt Kollár (Budapest University of Technology and Ecomonics, Hungary); Peter Horvath (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

IPS: Image Processing for Surveillance

Oral Presentation
Rear Lights Vehicle Detection for Collision Avoidance
Evangelos Skodras, George Siogkas, Evagellos Dermatas and Nikolaos Fakotakis (University of Patras, Greece)
People Counting in Crowded Scenes Using Multiple Cameras
Fábio Dittrich (Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil); Alessandro Lameiras Koerich (ÉTS Montréal - University of Québec, Canada); Luiz E. S. Oliveira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
Optical Correlator Based Traffic Signs Recognition
Tomas Harasthy, Jan Turán and Lubos Ovseník (Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia); Kálmán Fazekas (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Moving Shadow Detection by Nonlinear Tone-Mapping
Elad Bullkich, Idan Ilan and Yair Moshe (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Yacov Hel-Or (Google Inc., Israel); Hagit Hel-Or (University of Haifa, Israel)
Orientation Difference Descriptor for Aerial Image Classification
Vladimir Risojević (University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Zdenka Babić (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

S2: Security Part2

Oral Presentation
Image Watermarking in Polar Harmonic Transforms Domain
Efstratios D Tsougenis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece); George A Papakostas (International Hellenic University, Greece); Dimitrios Koulouriotis and Vassilios D Tourassis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
CDMA Based Blind and Reversible Watermarking Scheme for Images in Wavelet Domain
Muhammad K Samee (University of the Punjab, Pakistan); Jürgen Götze (TU Dortmund University, Germany)
Producing Secure Pseudorandom Sequences with Combined Multiplicative Congruential Generators
Mieczyslaw Jessa and Michal Jaworski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
An Efficient Two Pass Lossless Invisible Watermarking Algorithm for Natural Images
Sunil Prasad Jaiswal (HKUST, Hong Kong); Gaurav Mittal (International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India); Vinit Jakhetiya (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong); Anil Tiwari (IIT Jodhpur, India)
Pascal Transform Based Self-Authentication of Color Images
Eleni E Varsaki (Hellenic Open University, Greece); Vassilis Fotopoulos (Hellenic Open University & Digital Systems & Media Computing Laboratory, Greece); Athanassios N. Skodras (University of Patras, Greece)

CB2: Coffee Break 2

DIA: DSP Implementation Aspects

Oral Presentation
Parallel Algorithms for Histogram-based Image Registration
Benjamin Guthier and Stephan Kopf (University of Mannheim, Germany); Matthias Wichtlhuber (DE-CIX, Germany); Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany)
A High Throughput Architecture for the H.264/AVC Cavlc Encoder
Marc Hoffman and Eric Balster (University of Dayton, USA); William Turri (University of Dayton Research Institute, USA)
Design of a Reconfigurable Parallel Convolver
Mohammad Reza Hashemi and Mohammad Eshghi (Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Randomized Hough Transform with Minimal Memory Requirements
Mariusz Kapruziak (The West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland)
Acceleration of Monte-Carlo Simulation-Based Quantization of DSP Systems
Enrique Sedano, Juan Antonio López and Carlos Carreras (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

EDSPT: Emerging DSP Topics

Poster Presentation
Local Object Detection and Recognition in Mobile Devices
Ana Lameira (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Rui M. Jesus (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal); Nuno Correia (Computer Science, Portugal)
Threshold Choice for Automatic Spindle Detection
Joao Costa (Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setubal - IPS, Portugal); Manuel Ortigueira (UNINOVA, Portugal); Arnaldo Batista (University Nova of Lisbon & Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Portugal); Teresa Paiva (Faculty of Medicine, Portugal)
Unveiling the Hand of a 19th Century Artist with Binary Image Classification and Bag-of-Features
Cristina Montagner (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Rui M. Jesus (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal); Nuno Correia (Computer Science, Portugal); Maria João Melo, Marcia Villarigues and Rita Macedo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal); Helena de Freitas (Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Portugal)
Gait Recognition for Mobile Devices Using Wavelet Transform and Support Vector Machines
Martin Hestbek (Technical University of Denmark & Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt, Denmark); Claudia Nickel and Christoph Busch (Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany)

HIATUS: Taking IA from the Interference Channel to Wireless Networks: Recent Results from the HIATUS Project

Oral Presentation
An Experimental Investigation of SIMO, MIMO, Interference-alignment (IA) and Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP)
Per Zetterberg (Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden); Nima N. Moghadam (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden)
Interference-Free Relay Transmission Without CSI-S for the MIMO Two-Hop Interference Channel
Namyoon Lee (Korea University, Korea (South)); Robert Heath (University of California, San Diego, USA)
On the Performance of Interference Alignment Under Weak Interference
George C. Alexandropoulos (University of Athens, Greece); Stylianos Papaharalabos (Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Greece); Constantinos B. Papadias (The American College of Greece, Greece)
Interference Alignment in Frequency - a Measurement Based Performance Analysis
Rasmus Brandt (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Henrik Asplund (Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden); Mats Bengtsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Single Antenna Interference Alignment for Finite Relay Networks
Haichuan Zhou and Dave Wilcox (Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mathini Sellathurai (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

MIA1: Medical Imaging and Analysis Part1

Oral Presentation
Classification Into Normal and Abnormal Breast Tissues Using NMF and SVM
Leonardo Mendes, Geraldo Braz, Anselmo de Paiva and Aristofanes Silva (Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil)
Lungprints: An Alternative View in Multiple-Stream Time-series Analysis of Bioimpedance Signals
Ali Zifan (City University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Panos Liatsis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Retinal Vessel Segmentation in Fluorescein Angiograms Using a Commitee of Local Experts
Rubiel Vargas-Cañas (City University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Panos Liatsis (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates)
Presenting Novel De-Nosing Techniques for Brain MRI
Gabriela Perez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - URJC, Spain); Aura Conci (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil); Ana Belén Moreno and Juan Hernandez-Tamames (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Enhancement of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms
Mario Mustra (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Croatia); Mislav Grgic (University of Zagreb & Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia); Kresimir Delac (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

EWT: Emerging Wireless Techniques

Oral Presentation
Performance Evaluation of LTE Advanced Downlink Channel Estimators
Michael Meidlinger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Qi Wang (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany)
Applicability Evaluation of Okumura, Ericsson 9999 and WINNER Propagation Models for Coverage Planning in 3.5 GHz WiMAX Systems
Pamela Njemčević and Narcis Behlilovic (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina); Elma Avdic (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Novel Genetic Algorithm for Computer-Aided Optimization of Multi-Femtocell Deployments
Mariano Molina-Garcia and Jaime Calle-Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Alfonso Fernández Durán (Alcatel-Lucent, Spain); José I. Alonso (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
"WindFi" - A Renewable Powered Base Station for Rural Broadband
Colin McGuire (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Malcolm Brew (Steepest Ascent Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Faisal Darbari (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Stephan Weiss and Robert Stewart (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Convex Optimization for Receive Antenna Selection in Multi-Polarized MIMO Transmissions
Aamir Habib (Institute of Space Technology, Pakistan); Bujar Krasniqi (University of Prishtina, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kosovo); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)

MIA2: Medical Imaging and Analysis Part2

Oral Presentation
Estimation of Marbling Score in Live Cattle Based on Dynamic Ultrasound Image Using a Neural Network
Osamu Fukuda (Saga University, Japan); Natsuko Nabeoka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan); Tsuneharu Miyajima (Saga Prefectural Livestock Experiment Station, Japan)
Non-rigid Eye Movement Tracking and Eye State Quantification
Masrullizam Mat Ibrahim (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia); John J Soraghan and Lykourgos Petropoulakis (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Color Approach of Melanoma Lesion Segmentation
Arlete T Beuren (UTFPR - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Parana, Brazil); Rodrigo Janasievicz Gomes Pinheiro (Professional Photograph, Brazil); Jacques Facon (PUCPR Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil)
Automatic Mass Detection in Mammograms Using Multiscale Spatial Weber Local Descriptor
Muhammad Hussain (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Naveed Khan (Center of Public Health, Queens University, Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

NP: Network Performance

Oral Presentation
Traffic Parameters Influences on Network Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Environment
Bojan Bakmaz (University of Belgrade & Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Serbia); Zoran Bojkovic and Miodrag Bakmaz (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Long Term Ahead Prediction Using Neural Networks
Filip Pilka and Milos Oravec (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)
Packet Losses of Multicast Over 802.11n Heterogeneous Wireless Local Area Network
Jean Marie Vella and Saviour Zammit (University of Malta, Malta)
Performance of Native and In-Depth Interleaving Used in DVB-H in Mobile Fading Channels
Ladislav Polak, Ondrej Huttl and Tomas Kratochvil (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
DASH-based Approach for Delivery of Automatic Video Summaries
Janne Vehkaperä, Onni Ojutkangas, Mikko Myllyniemi and Seppo Tomperi (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)
Bitstream-based Quality Metric for Packetized Transmission of H.264 Encoded Video
Miguel Chin (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal); Tomás Brandão (ISCTE-IUL / Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Maria Paula Queluz (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

P2: Plenary Session 2, Andreas Burg: From Marconi to Moore: Circuits and Systems for Communications - Still a Challenge?

Oral Presentation

CB3: Coffee Break 3

CSTSA: Challenges in Spatial and Temporal Scene Analysis

Oral Presentation
Classification of Gothic and Baroque Architectural Elements
Gayane Shalunts, Yll Haxhimusa and Robert Sablatnig (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Segmenting Multiple Range Images with Primitive Shapes
Irene Reisner-Kollmann (Vienna University of Technology & VRVis Research Center, Austria); Stefan Maierhofer (VRVis Research Center, Austria)
Initializing 3D Model-based Tracking of Dice
Fuensanta Torres, Walter Kropatsch and Nicole Artner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Motion Segmentation in Videos From Time of Flight Cameras
Sajid Ghuffar, Nicole Brosch, Norbert Pfeifer and Margrit Gelautz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Quality Analysis of Virtual Views on Stereoscopic Video Content
Mattias Eisenbarth (Emotion3D, Austria); Florian H. Seitner (Emotion3D & Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Margrit Gelautz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Using an Affective Human-Like Association Architecture for Life-Logs
Jana Machajdik and Lukas Kavicky (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Multiview Synthesis From Stereo Views
Geetha Ramachandran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria); Markus Rupp (TU Wien, Austria)

SPT: Signal Processing Theory

Oral Presentation
Prime Factor FFT for Modern Computers
Ryszard Stasiński (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Parameter Estimation for the Cauchy Distribution
Stefan Schuster (Voestalpine Stahl Gmbh & Institute for Communications and Information Engineering, Austria)
Signal Content Estimation Based on the Short-Term Time-Frequency Rényi Entropy of the S-method Time-Frequency Distribution
Nicoletta Saulig and Victor Sucic (University of Rijeka, Croatia); Srdjan Stanković and Irena Orović (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Montenegro); Boualem Boashash (University of Queensland, Australia)
CTFI: Adaptive Pattern Analysis of Internet Traffic Using Time Series Compressibility
Ushio Ozeki, Toshinori Watanabe and Hisashi Koga (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Comparative Analysis of Algorithms for Elimination of Exponentially Decaying DC Component
Osman Musa (Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany); Abdulah Aksamovic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Simplified Proportionate Affine Projection Algorithms
Felix Albu (Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania)
A Fast Compressive Sensing Based N-best Class Selector for Classification Applications
Armin Saeb (Islamic Azad University, Shahre Ray Branch, Iran); Farbod Razzazi (Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran)

VP: Video Processing

Oral Presentation
Reconstruction of Incomplete Decoded Videos for Use in Objective Quality Metrics
Iñigo Sedano (Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain); Maria Kihl (Lund University, Sweden); Kjell Brunnström (RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB & Mid Sweden University, Sweden); Andreas Aurelius (Lund University, Sweden)
A Probabilistic Intra Mode Decision in Distributed Video Coding
Xiem HoangVan (Vietnam National University & University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam); Jongbin Park and Byeungwoo Jeon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea (South))
Flexible Macroblock Ordering Based on Region of Interest for H.264/AVC Wireless Video Transmission
Jantana Panyavaraporn (Burapha University, Thailand); Rhandley Cajote (University of the Philippines, Philippines)
Improvements to TZ Search Motion Estimation Algorithm for Multiview Video Coding
Purnachand N (VIT-AP University, India); Luis Nero Alves (DETI, Universidade of Aveiro, Instituto de Telecomunicações & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Antonio Navarro (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Reducing the Number of Tested Modes for Inter Mode Decision in H.264/AVC and Accelerating with Multithreading
Po-Hung Yeh, Tsung-Hsi Weng and Chung-Ping Chung (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Improve H.264/AVC Lossless Coding by Coefficients Reordering
Zhouye Gu, Weisi Lin, Bu Sung Lee and Chiew Tong Lau (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

IP1: Industrial Presentation: Matthias Weilhammer from Agilent

New Challenges for UE Developers with Voice Transport over LTE

SV: 3D Video

Oral Presentation
New Coding Technology for 3D Video with Depth Maps as Proposed for Standardization Within MPEG
Marek Domanski, Tomasz Grajek and Damian Karwowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Jacek Konieczny (Poznań University of Technology, Poland); Maciej Kurc, Adam Łuczak, Robert Ratajczak, Jakub Siast and Olgierd Stankiewicz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Jakub Stankowski (Poznan University of Technology, Chair of Multimedia Telecommunications and Microelectronics, Poland); Krzysztof Wegner (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Vehicle Size Estimation From Stereoscopic Video
Robert Ratajczak, Marek Domanski and Krzysztof Wegner (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Player Extraction in Sports Video Sequences
Slawomir Mackowiak (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Jacek Konieczny (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)

IP2: Industrial Presentation: Martin Münchow from Rohde & Schwarz

Wireless Communications, MIMO networks in theory and practice

LB2: Lunch Break 2

PS3: Plenary Session 3, Fabio Ricciato: Traffic Monitoring for 3G Network Diagnostic: a Doctor's View

Oral Presentation

BIP: Biometric Image Processing

Poster Presentation
Logistic Regression Classifier for Palmprint Verification
Dimche Kostadinov (University of Geneva, Switzerland); Sofija Bogdanova (UKIM, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of)
Gender Recognition From Face Images with Local WLD Descriptor
Ihsan Ullah, Muhammad Hussain, Ghulam Muhammad and Hatim Aboalsamh (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); George Bebis (University of Nevada, USA)
Race Recognition From Face Images Using Weber Local Descriptor
Ghulam Muhammad, Muhammad Hussain and Fatimah Alenezy (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); George Bebis (University of Nevada, USA); Anwar Mirza and Hatim Aboalsamh (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Towards Automated Visual Identification of Primates Using Face Recognition
Alexander Loos and Martin Pfitzer (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Germany)
A Novel Palm Vein Recognition Approach Based on Enhanced Local Gabor Binary Patterns Histogram Sequence
Matthias Fischer (Junior Researcher, Austria); Marlies Temper (St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria); Simon Tjoa (St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria)
Reduced Complexity Automatic Face Recognition Algorithm Based on Local Binary Patterns
Olegs Nikisins and Modris Greitans (Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Latvia)

IVP: Image and Video Processing

Oral Presentation
Computer Image Quality Selection Between JPEG, JPEG 2000 and PDE Compression
Irena Galić (J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek & Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Croatia); Branka Zovko-Cihlar (FER, Hungary); Snjezana Rimac-Drlje (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek & Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia)
Simplified Structural Similarity Measure for Image Quality Evaluation
Emil Dumic (Sveučilište Sjever, Croatia); Iva Bacic and Sonja Grgic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Feature Coverage for Better Homography Estimation: An Application to Image Stitching
Erkan Bostanci (Ankara University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Nadia Kanwal (Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan); Adrian F. Clark (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Evaluation of Surface Roughness Standards Applying Haralick Parameters and Artificial Neural Networks
Marcelo Alves (INMETRO, Brazil); Esteban Clua (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil); Fabiana R Leta (Federal Fluminense University & Mechanical Engineering Department, Brazil)
A Robust Visual Servo Scheme for Underwater Pipeline Following
Chi-Cheng Cheng and Bo-Tung Jiang (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan)
Video Coding Using Adaptive Eigenspace
Fatma Ozar (Near East University, Turkey); Hasan Demirel (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey)

SaA1: Speech and Audio Part1

Oral Presentation
Musical Noise Suppression for Speech Enhancement Using Pre-Image Iterations
Christina Leitner (JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria); Franz Pernkopf (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Automatic Cymbal Classification Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
Sofia Cavaco and Hugo Almeida (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Tonality Detection Methods for Wheezes Recognition System
Marcin Wisniewski and Tomasz P. Zielinski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
Maximum Voiced Frequency Estimation for Voice Conversion Used in Text-To-Speech Systems
Amelia Ciobanu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania); Tudor Cătălin Zorilă (Politehnica University of Bucharest); Cristian Negrescu ("Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania); Dumitru Stanomir (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania)
From Binaural to Multimicrophone Blind Source Separation Using Fixed Beamforming with HRTFs
Mounira Maazaoui (Telecom ParisTech, France); Yves Grenier (LTCI, Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom ParisTech, France); Karim Abed-Meraim (University of Orleans & PRISME Lab., France)

STMIA1: Special Topics in Medical Image Analysis 1

Oral Presentation
Attenuation Reconstruction for 3D Ultrasound Computer Tomography
Robin Dapp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Hartmut Gemmeke and Nicole Ruiter (KIT, Germany)
Quantization on EEG Covariance Matrix Images During TOVA Attention Test for Depression Disorder Classification
Li-chi Ku (Tzu-Chi University, Taiwan); Tsu-Wang Shen (Tzu Chi University, Taiwan)
Dataset Exploration Tool for fMRI Group Analysis
Martin Gajdoš (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Michal Mikl (CEITEC MU, Masaryk University, Czech Republic); Radek Mareček (CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
Comparing fMRI Data Processing Methods with Respect to Possible Inaccuracy
Michal Mikl (CEITEC MU, Masaryk University, Czech Republic); Radek Mareček (CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); Radovan Přikryl (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Involvement of Region-Specific HRF in Classical Analysis of Event-Related fMRI Data
Marek Bartoň (Masaryk University & CEITEC MU, Czech Republic); Michal Mikl (CEITEC MU, Masaryk University, Czech Republic); Radek Mareček (CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); Martin Havlíček (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Analysis of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Via Markov Random Fields in Color Fundus Images
Jan Odstrcilik (Brno University of Technology & St. Anne Faculty Hospital Brno - ICRC, Czech Republic); Radim Kolar (Brno University of Technology & Department of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Republic); Jiří Jan, Jiri Gazarek, Zdenek Kuna and Martina Vodakova (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

CB4: Coffee Break 4

GSP: Genomic Signal Processing

Oral Presentation
Hydrophobicity and Charge Signals on Protein Surface
Octavian Arsene (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Dan Nicolau (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
An ANN - PCA Adaptive Forecasting Model
Dumitru Iulian Nastac (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Paul Dan Cristea (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Romanian Academy, Romania)
Nucleotide Genomic Signal Comparative Analysis of Genes Involved in Diabetes Type 2 for Various Taxons
Dragoș Teodorescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest & National Institute of Metrology Bucharest, Romania); Paul Dan Cristea (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Romanian Academy, Romania)
Training of Phase-Based Neurons
Bujor Păvăloiu (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania); Adrian I Vasile (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Biomedical Engineering Center, Romania); Paul Dan Cristea (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Romanian Academy, Romania)
Distances in Hominidae Family MTDNA From Nucleotide Genomic Signals
Paul Dan Cristea (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Romanian Academy, Romania); Rodica Tuduce (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

IE1: Image Enhancement Part1

Oral Presentation
Image De-noising Using Mean Pixel Algorithms Corrupted with Photocopier Noise
Sri Srujan Vallepalli (University of Michigan, USA); Madan M Rajendran (University of Michigan & John Deere & Company, USA)
Enhancement of Poor Resolution Text Images in the Weighted Sobolev Space
Sergey Buzykanov (Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, Russia)
Joint Multi-Frame Demosaicing and Super-Resolution with Artificial Neural Networks
Theodor Heinze (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Germany); Martin von Löwis (Hasso-Plattner Institute, Germany); Andreas Polze (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany)
Modification of the Landweber Method Based on the Conjugate Gradient Method to Restore Automotive Radar Images
Amin Hosseini, Fabian Diewald, Jens Klappstein and Juergen Dickmann (Daimler AG, Germany); Heiko Neumann (Ulm University, Germany)
Multi-Frame Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction Employing the Novel Estimator L1inv-norm
Antigoni Panagiotopoulou (University of Patras, Greece)

SaA2: Speech and Audio Part2

Oral Presentation
Spectro-Temporal Analysis of Speech for Spanish Phoneme Recognition
Sara Sharifzadeh (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark); Javier Serrano (Univesitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Denmark); Jordi Carrabina (Univesitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Voice Intensity Based Gender Classification by Using Simpson's Rule with SVM
Mansour Alsulaiman (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia); Zulfiqar Ali (Universiti Tecknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia); Ghulam Muhammad (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Duration Modelling in Voice Conversion Using Artificial Neural Networks
Srikanth Ronanki, B Bajibabu and Kishore Prahallad (IIIT Hyderabad, India)
A Reduced Complexity Adaptive Legendre Neural Network for Nonlinear Active Noise Control
Nithin Varghese George (IIT Gandhinagar, India); Ganapati Panda (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)

STMIA2: Special Topics in Medical Image Analysis 2

Poster Presentation
Analysis of the Influence of Multiple Scattering on the Reconstruction of Ultrasound Tomography Signals Using Synthetic Aperture Focussing Technique
Marcus Hardt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Nicole Ruiter and Hartmut Gemmeke (KIT, Germany)
Probability Map Based Localization of Optic Disk
Attila Budai (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg & International Max Planck Research School, Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies, Germany); Lenke Laurik (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary); Joachim Hornegger (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Gabor Somfai (Semmelweis University, Hungary); Georg Michelson (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Application of Morphological Operators for Optic Nerve Head Segmentation in Optical Coherence Tomography Images
Ioannis Moupagiatzis (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen - Nuremberg & Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Germany); Markus Mayer (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen - Nuremberg, Germany); Joachim Hornegger (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany); Ralf Tornow and Christian Mardin (Universitatsklinikum, Germany)
Analysis of Connections Between Simultaneous EEG and fMRI Data
René Labounek (Brno University of Technology & Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Czech Republic); Martin Lamoš (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Radek Mareček (CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic); Jiří Jan (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Analytic Ray Propagation in FEM Modelling of Ultrasonic Transmission Tomography
Dušan Hemzal (Masaryk University, Czech Republic); Radovan Jiřík (Brno University of Technology & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic); Jiří Jan (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Fast 3D Simulation for Ultrasound Transmission Tomography
Jan Fousek (Masaryk University & Faculty of Informatics, Czech Republic); Radovan Jiřík (Brno University of Technology & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic); Nicole Ruiter (KIT, Germany); Jiří Jan (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Analysis of Brain Connectivity in Simultaneous EEG/fMRI
Martin Lamoš (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Michal Mikl (CEITEC MU, Masaryk University, Czech Republic); Jiří Jan (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

IC: Image Coding

Oral Presentation
Adaptive Image Compression Using Sparse Dictionaries
Inbal Horev (Technion, Israel); Ori Bryt and Ron Rubinstein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Single Image Depth Estimation Using Local Gradient-Based Features
Dimche Kostadinov (University of Geneva, Switzerland); Zoran Ivanovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of)
A New Approach to Quad-Tree Analysis in EZW Algorithm
Deividas Kančelkis (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)

IE2: Image Enhancement Part2

Oral Presentation
Multifocus Image Fusion Based on the First Level of Empirical Mode Decomposition
Slavica Savić and Zdenka Babić (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
A Fast Iterative Blind Image Deconvolution Algorithm
Mamdouh Fahmy, Gamal Raheem and Usama Mohammed (Assiut University, Egypt); Omar Fahmy (Badr University & South Ural State University, Egypt)
A Technique for Canceling Impulse Noise in Images Based on Compressive Sensing
B. S. Adiga and M Girish Chandra (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Swanand Kadhe (IBM Research, USA)
Image Fusion Based on Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform and Phase Congruency
Mehran Yazdi and Elham Kordi Ghasrodashti (Shiraz University, Iran)
Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based De-interlacing
Ho-Taek Lee, Ick-hyun Choi and Byung Cheol Song (Inha University, Korea (South))

MP: Multimodal Processing

Oral Presentation
Introduction to Speech Synthesis Management Tools
Anna Kondelová (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia); Jan Tóth (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovakia); Matus Vasek (Bratislava University of Technology, Slovakia); Gregor Rozinaj (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)
Bio-Inspired Optimization of Acoustic Features for Generic Sound Recognition
Michal Chmulik (University od Žilina, Slovakia); Roman Jarina (University of Zilina, Slovakia)
Integration and Evaluation of an HMM-Based Text-To-Speech System to FIVE
Alexandre Maciel (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil); Edson Carvalho Filho (UFPE, Brazil)
Alternative Phonetic Class Definition in Linear Discriminant Analysis of Speech
Peter Viszlay (Technical University of Košice, Slovakia); Jozef Juhár and Matus Pleva (Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia)