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ICASSP 2007 is pleased to announce the following student authors as finalists in the Student Paper Contest. They are presented in no particular order, and grouped by topic.
The finalists will be presenting their papers at ICASSP 2007 and based on the quality of their presentations, winners of the contest will be announced during the conference.
Zhiming Xu, Nanyang Technological University
with Anamitra Makur, Nanyang Technological University
for the paper titled "ON THE ROBUSTNESS OF FILTER BANK FRAME TO QUANTIZATION AND ERASURES".
Jean-Baptiste Pothin, Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
with Cédric Richard, Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
for the paper titled "OPTIMAL FEATURE REPRESENTATION FOR KERNEL MACHINES USING KERNEL-TARGET ALIGNMENT CRITERION".
Nicolas Dobigeon, IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA
with Jean-Yves Tourneret, IRIT/ENSEEIHT/TéSA
for the paper titled "SPECTRAL UNMIXING OF HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING A HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN MODEL".
Muhammad Altaf, Imperial College London
with Temujin Gautama, NXP Software; Toshihisa Tanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; Danilo Mandic, Imperial College London
for the paper titled "ROTATION INVARIANT COMPLEX EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION".
Karl Werner, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
with Magnus Jansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Petre Stoica, Uppsala University
for the paper titled "KRONECKER STRUCTURED COVARIANCE MATRIX ESTIMATION".
Ming Chen, Chalmers University of Technology
with Mats Viberg, Chalmers University of Technology; Stefan Felter, Ericsson Research
for the paper titled "MODELS AND PREDICTIONS OF SCATTERED RADIO WAVES ON ROUGH SURFACES".
Tuncer Aysal, University of Delaware
with Kenneth Barner, University of Delaware
for the paper titled "ROBUST MERIDIAN FILTERING".
Jacek P. Dmochowski, Universite du Quebec
with Jacob Benesty, Universite du Quebec; Sofiene Affes, Universite du Quebec
for the paper titled "DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION USING EIGENANALYSIS OF THE PARAMETERIZED SPATIAL CORRELATION MATRIX".
Nancy Bertin, GET-Télécom Paris (ENST)
with Roland Badeau, GET-Télécom Paris (ENST); Gaël Richard, GET-Télécom Paris (ENST)
for the paper titled "BLIND SIGNAL DECOMPOSITIONS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION OF POLYPHONIC MUSIC: NMF AND K-SVD ON THE BENCHMARK".
Konrad Kowalczyk, Queen's University of Belfast
with Maarten van Walstijn, Queen's University of Belfast
for the paper titled "ON-LINE SIMULATION OF 2D RESONATORS WITH REDUCED DISPERSION ERROR USING COMPACT IMPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS".
Jan Scheuing, University of Stuttgart
with Bin Yang, University of Stuttgart
for the paper titled "EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF APPROXIMATELY CONSISTENT GRAPHS FOR ACOUSTIC MULTI-SOURCE LOCALIZATION".
Ari Abramson, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
with Israel Cohen, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
for the paper titled "ENHANCEMENT OF SPEECH SIGNALS UNDER MULTIPLE HYPOTHESES USING AN INDICATOR FOR TRANSIENT NOISE PRESENCE".
Michael Grimm, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
with Kristian Kroschel, Universität Karlsruhe (TH); Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California
for the paper titled "SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION FOR AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF SPONTANEOUS EMOTIONS IN SPEECH".
Zhi-Jie Yan, University of Science and Technology of China
with Frank K. Soong, Microsoft Research Asia; Ren-Hua Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
for the paper titled "WORD GRAPH BASED FEATURE ENHANCEMENT FOR NOISY SPEECH RECOGNITION".
Fei Sha, University of California, Berkeley
with Lawrence Saul, University of California, San Diego
for the paper titled "COMPARISON OF LARGE MARGIN TRAINING TO OTHER DISCRIMINATIVE METHODS FOR PHONETIC RECOGNITION BY HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS".
Catherine Breslin, Cambridge University
with Mark J. F. Gales, Cambridge University
for the paper titled "COMPLEMENTARY SYSTEM GENERATION USING DIRECTED DECISION TREES".
Benjamin Lecouteux, LIA - University of Avignon
with Georges Linarès, LIA - University of Avignon; Yannick Estève, LIUM - Université du Maine; Julie Mauclair, LIUM - Université du Maine
for the paper titled "SYSTEM COMBINATION BY DRIVEN DECODING".
Marc Ferras Font, LIMSI-CNRS
with Cheung Chi Leung, LIMSI-CNRS; Claude Barras, LIMSI-CNRS; Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI-CNRS
for the paper titled "CONSTRAINED MLLR FOR SPEAKER RECOGNITION".
Teruhisa Misu, Kyoto University
with Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
for the paper titled "SPEECH-BASED INTERACTIVE INFORMATION GUIDANCE SYSTEM USING QUESTION-ANSWERING TECHNIQUE".
Lan Dong, Princeton University
with Stuart C. Schwartz, Princeton University
for the paper titled "OBJECT TRACKING BY FINITE-STATE MARKOV PROCESS".
Ping Li, Eindhoven University of Technology
with Dirk Farin, Eindhoven University of Technology; Rene Klein Gunnewiek, Philips Research Eindhoven; Peter de With, Eindhoven University of Technology / LogicaCMG Netherlands B.V.
for the paper titled "CONTRAST-INVARIANT FEATURE POINT CORRESPONDENCE".
Florian Luisier, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
with Thierry Blu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
for the paper titled "IMAGE DENOISING BY POINTWISE THRESHOLDING OF THE UNDECIMATED WAVELET COEFFICIENTS: A GLOBAL SURE OPTIMUM".
Tuukka Toivonen, University of Oulu
with Loren Merritt, University of Washington; Ville Ojansivu, University of Oulu; Janne Heikkilä, University of Oulu
for the paper titled "A NEW ROTATION SEARCH FOR DEPENDENT RATE-DISTORTION OPTIMIZATION IN VIDEO CODING ".
Emilio Maggio, Queen Mary, University of London
with Elisa Piccardo, University of Genova; Carlo Regazzoni, University of Genova; Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London
for the paper titled "PARTICLE PHD FILTERING FOR MULTI-TARGET VISUAL TRACKING".
Sung Won Park, Carnegie Mellon University
with Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University
for the paper titled "BREAKING THE LIMITATION OF MANIFOLD ANALYSIS FOR SUPER-RESOLUTION OF FACIAL IMAGES".
Ramamurthy Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University
with Marios Savvides, Carnegie Mellon University
for the paper titled "ANALYZING FACIAL IMAGES USING EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION FOR ILLUMINATION ARTIFACT REMOVAL AND IMPROVED FACE RECOGNITION".
Mohammad K. Jubran, State University of New York at Buffalo
with Manu Bansal, State University of New York at Buffalo; Lisimachos P. Kondi, State University of New York at Buffalo
for the paper titled "TRANSMISSION OF SCALABLE H.264 CODED VIDEO OVER WIRELESS MIMO SYSTEMS WITH OPTIMAL BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION".
Hasib Siddiqui, Purdue University
with Charles Bouman, Purdue University
for the paper titled "TRAINING-BASED COLOR CORRECTION FOR CAMERA PHONE IMAGES".
M. Emre Sargin, Koc University
with Engin Erzin, Koc University; Yucel Yemez, Koc University; A. Murat Tekalp, Koc University; A. Tanju Erdem, Momentum AS; Cigdem Erdem, Momentum AS; Mehmet Ozkan, Momentum AS
for the paper titled "PROSODY-DRIVEN HEAD-GESTURE ANIMATION".
Eugene Weinstein, New York University
with Pedro Moreno, Google, Inc.
for the paper titled "MUSIC IDENTIFICATION WITH WEIGHTED FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS".
Zhishou Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research
with John Apostolopoulos, Hewlett Packard Laboratories; Qibin Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research; Susie Wee, Hewlett Packard Laboratories; Wai-Choong Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research
for the paper titled "RATE-DISTORTION-AUTHENTICATION OPTIMIZED STREAMING WITH MULTIPLE DEADLINES".
Zijian Tang, Delft University of Technology
with Geert Leus, Delft University of Technology
for the paper titled "RECEIVER DESIGN FOR SINGLE-CARRIER TRANSMISSION OVER TIME-VARYING CHANNELS".
Joakim Jalden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
with Luis G. Barbero, University of Edinburgh; Björn Ottersten, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); John S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh
for the paper titled "FULL DIVERSITY DETECTION IN MIMO SYSTEMS WITH A FIXED-COMPLEXITY SPHERE DECODER".
Aitor del Coso, CTTC
with Christian Ibars, CTTC
for the paper titled "ACHIEVABLE RATE FOR GAUSSIAN MULTIPLE RELAY CHANNELS WITH LINEAR RELAYING FUNCTIONS".
Johannes Maurer, Vienna University of Technology
with Gerald Matz, Vienna University of Technology; Dominik Seethaler, Vienna University of Technology
for the paper titled "LOW-COMPLEXITY AND FULL-DIVERSITY MIMO DETECTION BASED ON CONDITION NUMBER THRESHOLDING".
Michael Botros Shenouda, McMaster University
with Timothy N. Davidson, McMaster University
for the paper titled "A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING MIMO SYSTEMS WITH DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZATION OR TOMLINSON-HARASHIMA PRECODING".
Fengzhong Qu, University of Florida
with Liuqing Yang, University of Florida; Ananthram Swami, Army Research Laboratory
for the paper titled "BATTERY POWER EFFICIENCY OF PPM AND OOK IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS".
Antonio Garcia Marques, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
with Xin Wang, University of Minnesota; Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota
for the paper titled "MINIMIZING TRANSMIT-POWER FOR COHERENT COMMUNICATIONS IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS USING QUANTIZED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION".
Yao Xie, Stanford University
with Jian Li, University of Florida; Xiayu Zheng, University of Florida; James Ward, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
for the paper titled "OPTIMAL ARRAY PATTERN SYNTHESIS VIA MATRIX WEIGHTING".
Yngve Selén, Uppsala University
with Richard Abrahamsson, Uppsala University; Petre Stoica, Uppsala University
for the paper titled "AUTOMATIC ROBUST ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING VIA RIDGE REGRESSION".
Saunvit Pandya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
with Yingchen Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Chang Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Douglas L. Jones, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
for the paper titled "BIOMIMETIC IMAGING OF FLOW PHENOMENA".
Chun-Yang Chen, California Institute of Technology
with P. P. Vaidyanathan, California Institute of Technology
for the paper titled "A SUBSPACE METHOD FOR MIMO RADAR SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING".
Ilie I. Luican, University of Illinois at Chicago
with Hongwei Zhu, University of Illinois at Chicago; Florin Balasa, University of Illinois at Chicago
for the paper titled "COMPUTATION OF THE MINIMUM DATA STORAGE FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING".
Jun Ma, University of California, San Diego
with Alexander Vardy, University of California, San Diego; Zhongfeng Wang, Oregon State University; Qinqin Chen, Oregon State University
for the paper titled "FACTORIZATION ARCHITECTURE BY DIRECT ROOT COMPUTATION FOR ALGEBRAIC SOFT-DECISION DECODING OF REED-SOLOMON CODES".
Tanya Roosta, University of California, Berkeley
with Martin J. Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley; Shankar Sastry, University of California, Berkeley
for the paper titled "CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS OF REWEIGHTED SUM-PRODUCT ALGORITHMS".
Qiuhua Liu, Duke University
with Xuejun Liao, Duke University; Lawrence Carin, Duke University
for the paper titled "LEARNING CLASSIFIERS ON A PARTIALLY LABELED DATA MANIFOLD".
Michael Novey, University of Maryland Baltimore County
with Tulay Adali, University of Maryland Baltimore County
for the paper titled "COMPLEX FIXED-POINT ICA ALGORITHM FOR SEPARATION OF QAM SOURCES USING GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL".
Faheem Sheikh, Lahore University of Management Sciences
with Shahid Masud, Lahore University of Management Sciences
for the paper titled "EFFICIENT SAMPLE RATE CONVERSION FOR MULTI-STANDARD SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS".
Ahmed Ibrahim, University of Maryland, College Park
with K. J. Ray Liu, University of Maryland, College Park; Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC; Rod Waterhouse, Pharad, LLC
for the paper titled "A SUBSPACE SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE FOR CONCEALED WEAPONS DETECTION".
Sean O'Malley, University of Houston
with Stephane Carlier, Cardiovascular Research Foundation; Morteza Naghavi, Association for Eradication of Heart Attack; Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston
for the paper titled "IMAGE-BASED FRAME GATING OF IVUS PULLBACKS: A SURROGATE FOR ECG".
Roger Pique-Regi, University of Southern California
with En-Shuo Tsau, University of Southern California; Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California; Robert C. Seeger, University of Southern California; Shahab Asgharzadeh, University of Southern California
for the paper titled "WAVELET FOOTPRINTS AND SPARSE BAYESIAN LEARNING FOR DNA COPY NUMBER CHANGE ANALYSIS".
Thanh-Ha Le, CEA Leti
with Jessy Clédière, CEA Leti; Christine Servière, INPG; Jean-Louis Lacoume, INPG
for the paper titled "EFFICIENT SOLUTION FOR MISALIGNMENT OF SIGNAL IN SIDE CHANNEL ANALYSIS".
Anindya Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara
with Kaushal Solanki, University of California, Santa Barbara; Upamanyu Madhow, University of California, Santa Barbara; Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, University of California, Santa Barbara; Bangalore S. Manjunath, University of California, Santa Barbara
for the paper titled "SECURE STEGANOGRAPHY: STATISTICAL RESTORATION OF THE SECOND ORDER DEPENDENCIES FOR IMPROVED SECURITY".
Tanya Ignatenko, Eindhoven University of Technology
with Frans Willems, Eindhoven University of Technology
for the paper titled "ON PRIVACY IN SECURE BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS".