{"title":"Robust digital image watermarking method against RST attacks","authors":"Lian Cai, S. Du","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458508","url":null,"abstract":"Based on Radon transform and 2-D Fourier transform, this paper presents a novel digital image-watermarking scheme that is invariant to geometrical attacks like rotation, scaling and translation (RST). The watermark is embedded into the middle frequency band obtained by taking Radon transform of a circular area selected from the original unmarked image, and then extracting 2-D Fourier magnitude of this Radon transformed image. The original unmarked image is not required to extract the watermark. Furthermore, to prevent the watermarked image from degrading due to inverse Radon transform, the final watermarked image is the addition of the original image and the watermark signal obtained by inverse Radon transform. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme is robust to RST attacks.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115224299","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":"Neuro-fuzzy estimator of speech quality","authors":"G. Chen, V. Parsa","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458528","url":null,"abstract":"A speech quality estimator based on neuro-fuzzy techniques is presented in this paper. The proposed estimator employed a first-order Sugeno type fuzzy inference system (FIS) to estimate speech quality only using the output signal of a system under test. The features utilized by the proposed estimator were derived from the perceptual spectral density of input speech. The premise and consequent parameters of the FIS were constructed by an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and tuned by the back-propagation and least squares algorithms. The performance of the proposed estimator was demonstrated using speech codec and pathological voice data sets.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123299003","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":"Interactions between the autonomic and central nervous system during the first slow-sleep cycle","authors":"Y. Sriveni, R. Grebe, F. Wallois","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458503","url":null,"abstract":"To characterise the different sleep states and look for the spatial and frequential changes in the different regions of the brain during the awake-slow sleep transition and the interactions between the cardiac activity and respiration and also to study the relationship between the left and right cerebral hemispheres during sleep by cross correlation of the momentary band power time series' of EEG, heart-rate variability (HRV) and respiration signals for the different frequency bands for each sleep state and their moments by linear regression analysis. Subdivision of alpha frequency band into two (i.e., alpha 1 and alpha2). Transition from one state to another-linear regression analysis. parasympathetic-sympathetic balance during the wake-sleep cycle: seen from the mean normalised cardiac activity.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128819117","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":"Harmonic wavelet transform signal decomposition and modified group delay for improved Wigner-Ville distribution","authors":"S. Narasimhan, B. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458417","url":null,"abstract":"A new approach for the Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD) based on signal decomposition by harmonic wavelet transform (SDHWT) and the modified magnitude group delay function (MMGD) has been proposed. The SDHWT directly provides subband signals and the WVD of these components are concatenated to get the overall WVD without using antialias and image rejection filtering. The SDHWT and the MMGD remove the existence of crossterms (CT) and the ripple effect due to truncation of the WVD kernel without applying any window, respectively. Since there is no time and frequency smoothing, the proposed method has a better performance in terms of both time and frequency resolution and desirable properties of a time-frequency representation (TFR) than the pseudo WVD (PWVD). Further, it has a relatively better noise immunity compared to that of PWVD. In the WVD, for signal decomposition, the use of SDHWT, compared to that of a filter bank, provides almost similar results but has a significant (72%) computational advantage.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129020374","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":"Reliable and robust transmission and storage of medical images with patient information","authors":"Usha R. Acharya, P. Bhat, M. S. Kumar, C. M. Lim","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458363","url":null,"abstract":"A new method for compact storage and transmission of medical images with concealed patient information in noisy environment is evinced. Digital watermarking is the technique adapted here for interleaving patient information with medical images. The patient information, which comprises of text data and signal graph, is encrypted to prevent unauthorized access of data. The latest encryption algorithm (Rijndael) is used for encrypting the text information. Signal graphs (ECG, EEG EMG etc.) are compressed using DPCM technique. To enhance the robustness of the embedded information, the patient information is coded by error correcting codes (ECC) such as (7,4) Hamming, Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Reed Solomon (RS) codes .The noisy scenario is simulated by adding salt and pepper (S&P) noise to the embedded image. For different signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the image, bit error rate (BER) and number of character altered (NOCA) for text data and percentage distortion (PDIST) for the signal graph are evaluated. The performance comparison based on the above parameters is conducted for three types of ECC. It is elicited that coded systems can perform better than the uncoded systems.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127581062","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 two-channel perfect reconstruction filter bank with specified LPF magnitude frequency response","authors":"L.W. Wilkinson, A. Bopardikar, R. Rao","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458366","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of designing a perfect reconstruction filter bank with a specification on the magnitude response of the prototype low pass filter. It is shown that adopting a particular ITR form for the squared magnitude frequency response of the low pass filter allows one to generate a PRFB. A method for matching this form to a desired magnitude frequency response is developed. An example is provided to illustrate the approach.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126296573","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}
A. Pandharipande, M. Kountouris, Ho Yang, Hyoung-Woon Park
{"title":"Subcarrier allocation schemes for multiuser OFDM systems","authors":"A. Pandharipande, M. Kountouris, Ho Yang, Hyoung-Woon Park","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458518","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the problem of subcarrier allocation to multiple users in a downlink OFDM access system. We study allocation schemes that provide varying degrees of tradeoff between (i) achieving throughput fairness among users, (ii) meeting tolerable latency requirements specified by the user applications, and (iii) achieving higher system capacity. The performance of the subcarrier allocation schemes is evaluated through simulation results.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125111150","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":"Performance analysis of digital phase locked loops with statistical filters for carrier synchronisation","authors":"S. Kandeepan, S. Reisenfield","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458380","url":null,"abstract":"The study of digital phase locked loops (DPLL) for carrier recovery exists for the past several years. A typical DPLL consists of a phase detector (PD), a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO), and a linear loop filter. Here we look into the design and analysis of DPLLs with statistical filters. In particular, we consider the median type of statistical filters incorporated within the loop. In this paper, the properties of the median type filters are first explored and followed by the design and performance analysis of the DPLL incorporating the median filter. Median filters in general have the tendency of rejecting statistical outliers and improving the jitter performance of the system. We consider two types of PD models for the analysis of the loop, first, the linear PD model, and second, the four quadrant arctan PD model. Probability density functions (pdf) are derived for the error signals within the loop by opening the loop assuming steady state conditions.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132584642","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 method of frame synchronization and frequency offset estimation in OFDM system","authors":"C. Nanda Kishore, V. Reddy","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458359","url":null,"abstract":"In an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system, symbol synchronization and frequency offset estimation are very crucial for maintaining the orthogonality of the sub-carriers. Among the several recently proposed methods for frame/symbol synchronization, the technique suggested in T. M. Schmidl et. al. (1997) is robust to channel phase and frequency offset. The timing metric proposed in T. M. Schmidl et. al. (1997) reaches a plateau which, in the presence of noise and frequency-selective channel, can give rise to some ambiguity in the start of the frame. In this paper, for the same preamble as in T. M. Schmidl et. al. (1997), we propose a new timing metric, and considering an ideal scenario we show that it yields a sharp peak at the correct symbol boundary. We then analyze the metric and evaluate its mean at the symbol boundary and in its neighborhood for the case of AWGN and frequency-selective channels. The mean values predicted by the analysis are close to those obtained from simulations. Since the derivation of variance expression is tedious, we used simulations to evaluate this at the corresponding time instants. From the results of mean and standard deviation, it is clear that the proposed metric yields sharp peak at the symbol boundary.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133358094","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":"Ant colony optimization based model for network zero-configuration","authors":"S. Ring, V. Munirajan, E. Cole","doi":"10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SPCOM.2004.1458494","url":null,"abstract":"Today's networks are becoming increasingly dynamic in their configuration and less dependent on centralized services. Naturally these networks rely on common TCP/IP protocols such as DNS, DHCP, MADCAP and LDAP, which in turn require an administrative staff which may not be feasible always. For increasingly popular ad-hoc and small home networks, the technical knowledge of end-users is open limited and administrative skill can be lacking. In a world where networks are beginning to connect not only computer users of varying technical skill but also a huge variety of personal digital devices the end-user can't always be expected to have the time, desire, or knowledge to configure their network. Thus automatic network configuration has become an inevitable facility to have and more so on distributed networks. The Zero-Configuration Committee on the IETF has addressed this issue and issued various standards. In this paper we work for achieving many of the functionalities of Zero-Configuration for large scale networks, using Ant Colony Optimization techniques. Ant Colony Optimization achieves large scale control of distributed entities (where centralized supports are scarce) using simple cooperating and coordinating entities. Simulations were run to demonstrate Ant Colony Optimization based algorithms for achieving zero-configuration.","PeriodicalId":424981,"journal":{"name":"2004 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, 2004. SPCOM '04.","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133482033","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}