{"title":"Maximum likelihood pitch estimation using sinusoidal modeling","authors":"V. Mahadevan, C. Espy-Wilson","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739326","url":null,"abstract":"An algorithm for optimal estimation of pitch frequency using a maximum likelihood formulation is presented. The speech waveform is modeled using sinusoidal basis functions that are harmonically tied together to explicitly capture the periodic structure of voiced speech. The problem of pitch estimation is casted as a model selection problem and the Akaike Information Criterion is used to estimate the pitch.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114331648","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 variable step size Square Contour Algorithm based on a novel non-linear function of error signal","authors":"R. Mitra, Tarun Choubisa","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739332","url":null,"abstract":"The Square Contour Algorithm (SCA) solves the problem caused by possible diagonal solutions produced by the Multi-Modulus Algorithm (MMA). However, it suffers from convergence problem. In this paper, we propose a variable step size approach for improving the convergence of the SCA. Lower ISI floors are achieved by a step size controlled by a novel nonlinear function of the error signal, which assigns higher step sizes in initial phases of convergence and smaller step size in the later phases and using separate step sizes for in-phase and quadrature weights depending on the magnitude of real and imaginary errors.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114220809","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 new transform for signal representation utilizing DCT symmetries","authors":"R. Roy, R. Gopikakumari","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739386","url":null,"abstract":"Signal transforms are basic components of many signal processing applications. Simplification of transform kernels is advantageous in terms of computational requirements. Symmetries in kernels of existing transforms can be utilized to arrive at new transforms. This paper presents a new transform by using the symmetries of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT).","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129209748","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}
D. Laila, R. Sujith, S. M. Nair, C. Aanandan, K. Vasudevan, P. Mohanan
{"title":"Modified CPW fed monopole antenna with a radiation pattern suitable for mobile handset","authors":"D. Laila, R. Sujith, S. M. Nair, C. Aanandan, K. Vasudevan, P. Mohanan","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739340","url":null,"abstract":"The radiation pattern of a Coplanar Wave guide (CPW) fed printed monopole antenna is modified to that suitable for a mobile handset is presented and discussed. The printed metal stripes in the back side of the monopole modify the far field pattern ideal for mobile handset. The antenna offers a bandwidth of 200MHz when printed on a substrate of dielectric constant (εr) 4.4 and thickness 1.6mm with an overall dimension of 42×31.7mm2. Experimental and simulation studies of the antenna radiation characteristics are presented and discussed. A 20 dB reduction of radiated power in one quadrant of the radiation pattern offers a reduction of radiation towards the users head","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132065999","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 novel multistage classification and Wavelet based kernel generation for handwritten Marathi compound character recognition","authors":"S. Shelke, S. Apte","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739299","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel approach for recognition of unconstrained handwritten Marathi compound characters. The recognition is carried out using multistage feature extraction and classification scheme. The initial stages of feature extraction are based upon the structural features and the classification of the characters is done according to their parameters. The final stage of feature extraction employs generation of kernels using Wavelet transform. A single level Wavelet decomposition is used to generate the approximation coefficients. These coefficients are stored as kernels for matching. A modified wavelet based kernel generation method is also implemented. The recognition is done by template matching in both the cases. The results are analyzed using both the kernel generation techniques for varying resize factors. The recognition rate achieved from the proposed method is 95.89% and 96.00% for 16×16 and 32×32 resize factors respectively with wavelet based kernels and 96.41% and 97.94% for 16×16 and 32×32 resize factors respectively with modified wavelet based kernels.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123777129","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}
M. Nagabushanam, P. Cyril Prasanna Raj, S. Ramachandran
{"title":"Design and FPGA implementation of modified Distributive Arithmetic based DWT-IDWT processor for image compression","authors":"M. Nagabushanam, P. Cyril Prasanna Raj, S. Ramachandran","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739397","url":null,"abstract":"Image compression is one of the major image processing techniques that is widely used in medical, automotive, consumer and military applications. Discrete wavelet transforms is the most popular transformation technique adopted for image compression. Complexity of DWT is always high due to large number of arithmetic operations. In this work a modified Distributive Arithmetic based DWT architecture is proposed and is implemented on FPGA. The modified approach consumes area of 6% on Virtex-II pro FPGA and operates at 134 MHz. The modified DA-DWT architecture has a latency of 44 clock cycles and a throughput of 4 clock cycles. This design is twice faster than the reference design and is thus suitable for applications that require high speed image processing algorithms.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121967459","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":"Hardware implementation of Max-Log-MAP algorithm based on MacLaurin series for turbo decoder","authors":"R. Shrestha, R. Paily","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739373","url":null,"abstract":"After the initial interest caused by appearance of turbo-codes in 1993, special attention to the hardware implementation has led to many different modified algorithms for MAP decoders. The original MAP algorithm suffers from serious drawbacks in its hardware implementation. To overcome this disadvantage, Max-Log-MAP and Log-MAP algorithms have been proposed to reduce the complexity. Recently an improved Max-Log-MAP algorithm is proposed by Shahram et. al. based on MacLaurin series to further reduce the complexity. However there are no hardware implementation reported on this particular Max-Log-MAP algorithm based on MacLaurin series. In this paper, we have proposed hardware architecture for modified Max- Log-MAP algorithm using MacLaurin series. In addition, the performance of proposed architecture is improved by replacing all the multipliers with shifters and adders. This implementation is very useful for high data rate communication applications as the performance of this decoder in lossy ISI channel is very good. Finally the performance of proposed architecture is compared with hardware implementation of Max-Log-MAP SISO decoder.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115636647","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":"Heart-beat detection and ranging through a wall using ultra wide band radar","authors":"S. Shirodkar, P. Barua, D. Anuradha, R. Kuloor","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739391","url":null,"abstract":"Heart-beat detection has found many applications in military and bio-medical areas. Many of these applications focus on the use of impulse based ultra wide band (UWB) radars. This in-turn requires expensive hardware and consumes more power (for a given range) compared to stepped frequency continuous wave (SFCW) radars. However, the micro-Doppler characteristic of human body can be detected by SFCW radar at much lower sampling rates and power. It can help in distinguishing a living and a non-living target. In addition, SFCW radar can help separate Doppler signatures in down-range, thus enabling it to look for multiple human targets. UWB radars operate at a bandwidth higher than 0.5 GHz and have the benefit of high range resolution. This paper focuses on the experimentation of a technique to obtain the range and Doppler of a human body using UWB-SFCW radar and moving target indicator (MTI) filter, in the presence of an interfering wall.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129492316","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":"Downlink blind channel estimation for W-CDMA systems and performance analysis under various fading channel conditions","authors":"M. Sangeetha, V. Bhaskar","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739363","url":null,"abstract":"Wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) is a third generation (3G) mobile wireless technology that promises much higher data speeds for mobile and portable wireless devices than those which are commonly offered in today's market. In W-CDMA systems, while transmitting information over multipath channels, both intersymbol interference (ISI) as a result of interchip interference (ICI) and multiple access interference (MAI) cannot be easily eliminated. Although it is possible to design multiuser detectors that suppress MAI and ISI, these detectors often require explicit knowledge of at least the desired users' signature waveform. Torlak and Xu proposed a blind estimation algorithm for Asynchronous CDMA (A-CDMA) systems to estimate the multiple users' symbols [8]. In our work, we study a similar blind channel estimation scheme for downlink W-CDMA systems that provide estimates of the subchannels of multiple users by exploiting the structural information of the data output. In particular, we show that the subspace of the (data+noise) matrix contains sufficient information for unique determination of channels, and hence, the signature waveforms and signal constellation. Performance measures like bit error rate and root mean square error are plotted for various channel fading conditions.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129821287","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":"Adaptive local thresholding for detection of nuclei in diversity stained cytology images","authors":"Neerad Phansalkar, Sumit More, Ashish Sabale, Madhuri Joshi","doi":"10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSP.2011.5739305","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate cell nucleus segmentation is necessary for automated cytological image analysis. Thresholding is a crucial step in segmentation. The accuracy of segmentation depends on the accuracy of thresholding. In this paper we propose a new method for thresholding of photomicrographs of diversly stained cytology smears. To account for the different stains, we use different color spaces. A new local thresholding scheme is developed to solve the problem of nonuniform staining. Finally, the results obtained from the new method are compared with those of some of the existing thresholding methods, clearly showing the improvement achieved.","PeriodicalId":408736,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125486469","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}