{"title":"A study on two-sided linear prediction approach for land mine detection","authors":"T. Chan, H. So, K. C. Ho","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40698","url":null,"abstract":"Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a widely used tool for land mine detection. However, land mine detection still remains a difficult task because of the changing conditions and the strong reflection of the ground. In this paper, a generalized two-sided linear prediction model is used to estimate the background. By effectively removing the background components from the GPR signal, the residual energy is found to be more reliable to generate the test statistic for detection. Results based on real GPR data show that the proposed method is able to not only remove the ground bounce and background signal but also suppress the response from some clutter objects.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123488550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lattice-structured schur-type elimination of narrow-band background disturbances from acoustic signals of vehicles in motion","authors":"M. Gorski, J. Zarzycki","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40450","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the problem of detection of vehicles in motion, using emitted acoustic signals. Due to the presence of background disturbances, the registered real-life signals contain a mixture of a source signal (emitted by the vehicle), and a corrupting signal (narrow-band “background noise” of bandwidth similar to the original signal). A new method of the background noise elimination is proposed in this paper. The method is based on the lattice-structured Schur-type orthogonalization/parametrization algorithms in which the so-called backward estimation errors, computed for the incoming signal, constitute an orthonormal basis. The proposed solution employs the orthogonal joint-process estimation filter which decomposes the incoming signal using an orthonormal basis, derived exclusively for the background noise. The effectiveness of the method is discussed as well as the noise cancellation results, also using real-life signals, are presented.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121661550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some improvements of the linear subspace algorithm swede for time delay estimation","authors":"C. L. Bastard, V. Baltazart, Yide Wang","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40632","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, some improvements on the linear subspace algorithm SWEDE are proposed in order to adapt this algorithm to the estimation of the time delay from radar data in microwave range. At first, the radar pulse is taken into account in the algorithm. Then, the noise whitening technique in [2] is improved by a full block diagonalization of the noise covariance matrix. Finally, SWEDE is used in conjunction with ESPRIT to make the time delay estimation more efficient. Both algorithms are tested on simulated data to measure the layer thickness of materials for civil engineering applications.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121866021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modified DFT SBC-FDFMUX filter bank systems for flexible frequency reallocation","authors":"M. N. Abdulazim, Thomas Kurbiel, H. Göckler","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40216","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel digital MIMO filter bank technique for modern broadband multibeam communcations satellite systems, which efficiently exploit available bandwidth by providing different users with different bandwidths for different types of services. This necessitates a flexible and dynamic resource reallocation, where the assumed traffic is unsymmetrical, i.e. the number and bandwidths of incoming and outgoing FDM signals are unequal. This paper details the SISO SBC-FDFMUX filter bank based on critically sampling Modified DFT (MDFT) filter banks and extends it to critically sampling symmetrical MIMO MDFT SBC-FDFMUX systems. The paper concludes with simulation results showing the potential of this filter bank approach for flexible frequency reallocation.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123296252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Higher order statistics for laser-extinction measurements","authors":"B. Lacaze, M. Chabert","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40551","url":null,"abstract":"Recent laser technology provides accurate measures of the dynamics of fluids and embedded particles. For instance, the laser-extinction measurements (LEM) use a laser beam passing across the fluid and measure the residual laser light intensity at the fluid output. Some particle and fluid properties are estimated from these measurements such as concentration or velocity. However, the flow is submitted to fluctuations. The received intensity is more appropriately modeled by a random process. This paper first models the particle flow by a queueing process. The measured intensity statistics are derived according to this model. A particular case is the scintillation index which is independent of the emitted intensity. The proposed model allows to define higher order scintillation indices with the same property. Alternative estimates of the fluid and particle properties can be deduced from these quantities.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131442177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of even and ODD components of lowpass paraunitary 2-channel filters","authors":"M. Jiménez","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40417","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of obtaining real FIR paraunitary filters. In this work, we present an algorithm which designs the even and odd components of 2-channel FIR orthogonal lowpass filters. We show that any vector of length L may contain the even coefficients of an 2L-tap orthogonal filter (up to a factor); moreover, we explain how to compute the odd part of such filter. In the lowpass case, we give a sufficient condition on the vector in order to design lowpass paraunitary filters. To illustrate our method, some examples of lowpass 4-taps filters are designed.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128279034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A non-block based approach to the blind equalization of space-time block codes over frequency selective channels","authors":"S. Bendoukha, S. Weiss","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40310","url":null,"abstract":"Space-time block coding (STBC) and a number of derivative techniques have been developed to maximise the diversity gain of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel. For frequency selective fading - i.e. dispersive - MIMO channels, solutions in the literature are fewer, and are in their majority block based, such as MIMO OFDM or time-reversal STBC. In order to ultimately achieve better tracking behaviour, in this paper we focus on the development of a non-block-based method. We utilise a constant modulus criterion on the detected signals together with the orthogonality contraint of the transmitted STBC signals, whereby for the later we derive novel criterion and an adaptive optimisation scheme. We demonstrate the proposed system in simulations and compare it to the performance of a TRSTBC system.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130418647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global feature based female facial beauty decision system","authors":"H. İ. Türkmen, Zeyneb Kurt, M. Karsligil","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40602","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an automated female facial beauty decision system based on Support Vector Machine (SVM). First, we constructed manually two classes of female faces with respect to their facial beauty, by requesting personal opinions of people. As the second step, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and Kernel PCA(KPCA) were applied to each class for extracting principal features of beauty. Support Vector Machine (SVM) was used for judging whether a given face is beautiful or not. Since judging the beauty is subjective, the decision results of our system were evaluated by comparing the system generated decision results with the corresponding ones made by the persons. Based on this criteria, our results showed that KPCA with a success ratio of 89% outperformed PCA with a success ratio of 83%.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130386801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extended precision accumulation of floating-point data for digital signal generation and processing","authors":"A. Dabrowski, P. Pawlowski","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40535","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a novel approach to the realization of floating-point computations, which are typical of various digital signal processing tasks. The proposed idea, referred to as \"the two-accumulator concept\", overcomes the phenomenon of accuracy reduction of floating-point computations in case of a long series of additions of small numbers with relatively large intermediate results. This phenomenon is a substantial drawback of the classic floating-point arithmetic, particularly in signal processing applications.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121345579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A distributed video coder based on the H.264/AVC standard","authors":"S. Milani, G. Calvagno","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.40341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.40341","url":null,"abstract":"One of the latest innovations in the world of multimedia technologies is the application of Distributed Source Coding (DSC) theory to the robust transmission of video sequences. However, these DSC-based video encoders are usually characterized by a lower compression gain with respect to their hybrid counterparts. In this work, we investigate achieving H.264-like high compression efficiency with a DSC-based approach without constraints on encoding complexity. In this way, highly non-stationary video data are modelled through coarse low-cost Motion Estimation, and this allows us to obtain a good compression efficiency together with a certain robustness to channel errors and losses. Experimental results show that in presence of losses the presented algorithm permits a better quality with respect to H.264/AVC.","PeriodicalId":176384,"journal":{"name":"2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116442191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}