Technical program

Tuesday, June 28

11:00 - 12:00

Plenary session: Chair: Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse, France)

High Dimensional Signal Classification with Invariant Representations: Stephane Mallat (CMAP, France). Slides.

14:00 - 15:00

Plenary session: Chair: Petar M. Djuric (Stony Brook University, USA)

The Information Limit in Clutter: CRLB in the Presence of False Measurements and the ML-PDA Estimator: Yaakov Bar-Shalom (Univ. of Connecticut, USA). Slides.

15:30 - 17:30

Polarized Signal Processing: Chair: Sebastian Miron (Univ. Nancy, France)

Cramér-Rao Bound of the Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using a Spatially Spread Electromagnetic Vector-Sensor: Xin Yuan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
MUSIQUE: A Quaternion-Based Array Processing Technique for Surface Wave Polarization Analysis: Manuel Hobiger (BGR, Hannover, Germany); Cécile Cornou (LGIT, IRD: R157, CNRS, Université J. Fourier Grenoble, France); Pierre-Yves Bard (LGIT, LCPC, CNRS, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble, France); Nicolas Le Bihan (GIPSA-Lab, CNRS, France)
Angular Resolution Limit for Vector-Sensor Arrays: Detection and Information Theory Approaches: Dinh Thang VU (University Paris Sud XI, France); Mohammed El korso (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes (L2S), France); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France); Alexandre Renaux (Universite Paris 11, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR, France)
Weiss-Weinstein Bound and SNR Threshold Analysis for DOA Estimation with a COLD Array: Dinh Thang VU (University Paris Sud XI, France); Alexandre Renaux (Universite Paris 11, France); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR, France)
Sparse Modeling for Polarimetric Radar: Martin Hurtado (National University of La Plata, Argentina); Nicolas von Ellenreider (National University of La Plata, Argentina); Carlos H Muravchik (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina); Arye Nehorai (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Micro-crystal Orientations Estimation in Polarized Raman Microscopy Using an Acquisition Scheme with Multiple Diversities: Sebastian Miron (CRAN, Nancy Université, CNRS, France); David Brie (CRAN, Nancy Université, CNRS, France); Manuel Dossot (LCPME, France); Cédric Carteret (LCPME, France)

Statistical Signal Processing in Finance: Chair: Ilya Pollak (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA)

Sentiment Revealed in Social Media and Its Effect on the Stock Market: Hailang Chen (Purdue University, USA); Prabuddha De (Purdue University, USA); Yu Hu (Purdue University, USA); Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Purdue University, USA)
Smooth Isotonic Covariances: Dmitry Malioutov (DRW Trading, USA)
A Kalman Filter Based DSP Method for Prediction of Seasonal Financial Time Series with Application to Energy Spot Price Prediction: Peter Sherman (Iowa State University, USA)
Portfolio Selection Via Constrained Stochastic Gradients: Andrew J Bean (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Andrew C. Singer (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Estimation of Predictive Loss Distributions by Particle Filtering: Petar M. Djuric (Stony Brook University, USA); Douglas Johnston (Stony Brook University, USA)
On Basic Price Model and Volatility in Multiple Frequencies: Mustafa Torun (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Ali Akansu (NJIT, USA)
Nonparametric Bayesian Factor Analysis of Multiple Time Series: Priyadip Ray (Duke University, USA); Lawrence Carin (Duke University, USA)
Construction of an Interest Rate Model From Statistical Data: Yuri Balasanov (The University of Chicago, USA)

Adaptive Systems and Signal Processing I: Chair: Carlos Moreira Bermudez (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Stochastic Analysis of the LMS Algorithm for Non-Stationary White Gaussian Inputs: Neil J Bershad (University of California, Irvine, USA); Jose Carlos Moreira Bermudez (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Improved Triple Difference GPS Carrier Phase for RTK-GPS Positioning: Jean-Marie Codol (LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France); André Monin (Laas, cnrs, University of Toulouse, France)
A Variable Step-Size Phase Acquisition and Tracking Algorithm for Blind Phase Recovery in QAM Systems: Jenq-Tay Yuan (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan); Yao-Sheng Tong (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)
Robust Distributed Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Multi-Objective Optimization: Majdi Mansouri (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Faicel Hnaien (ICD/LOSI, University of Technology of Troyes, FRANCE, France); Hichem Snoussi (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Cedric Richard (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Adaptive Modulation and Power in Wireless Communication Systems with Delay Constraints: Jesus Perez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Jesus Ibañez (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Kalman Filtering Approximations in Triplet Markov Gaussian Switching Models: Noufel Abbassi (Telecom Sudparis, France); Wojciech Pieczynski (Institut Telecom; Telecom SudParis, France); Dalila Benboudjema (Université Cergy-Pontoise, France)
A Novel Reduced-Complexity Widely Linear QLMS Algorithm: Fernando Almeida (University of São Paulo, Brazil); Vitor H Nascimento (USP, Brazil)

Detection and Estimation Theory I: Chair: Jianguo Huang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P.R. China)

A Propagation Model Based on Stationary Random Delays: Patrice Michel (TeSA lab, France)
Fast Estimation of Hidden Markov Models Via Alpha-EM Algorithm: Yasuo Matsuyama (Waseda University, Japan); Ryunosuke Hayashi (Mathematical Systems Inc, Japan); Ryota Yokote (Waseda University, Japan)
Optimal Signaling and Detector Design for Power Constrained On-Off Keying Systems in Neyman-Pearson Framework: Berkan Dulek (Bilkent University, Turkey); Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Adaptive Matched Filter Detection Method on Underwater Small Aperture Array: Jing (College of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P.R. China); Jianguo Huang (College Of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P.R. China); Jiao Yameng (College of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, P.R. China); Qunfei Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)
Efficiency of Line Search Strategies in Interior Point Methods for Linearly Constrained Signal Restoration: Emilie Chouzenoux (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France); Saïd Moussaoui (IRCCyN, France); Jérôme Idier (IRCCyN, France)
Kernels for Reconstructing Nonideally Sampled Nonbandlimited Signals: Alvaro Guevara (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany); Rudolf Mester (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
Multilevel Minimax Hypothesis Testing: Kush Varshney (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA); Lav R. Varshney (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Bioinformatics, Genomic Signal Processing: Chair: Yufei Huang (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)

Regularized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Autofluorescence Removal in Fluorescence Optical Imaging: Anne-Sophie Montcuquet (CEA leti Grenoble, France); Lionel Herve (CEA-LETI, France); Fabrice Navarro (CEA-LETII, France); Jean Marc Dinten (CEA-LETI, France); Jérome Mars (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)
Grey Structure Activity Relationship Analysis of Phenolic Acid Phenethyl Esters on Human Breast Cancer: Ya-Ting Lee (Chien-Kuo Technology University, Taiwan)
Joint Bayesian Hierarchical Inversion-Classification and Application in Proteomics: Pascal Szacherski (CEA/LETI/DRT/STD/DTBS/LE2S, France); Jean-François Giovannelli (IMS, UMR CNRS 52 18, Université Bordeaux 1, France); Pierre Grangeat (CEA/LETI/DRT/STD/DTBS/LE2S, France)
Bacteria DNA Sequence Compression Using a Mixture of Finite-Context Models: Armando J Pinho (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Diogo Pratas (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Paulo Ferreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
A New Approach for Merging Gene Expression Datasets: Marie-Christine Roubaud (Université de Provence, France); Bruno Torrésani (Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille 1), France)
DNA Synthetic Sequences Generation Using Multiple Competing Markov Models: Diogo Pratas (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Carlos Bastos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Armando J Pinho (University of Aveiro, Portugal); António J. R: Neves (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Luís Matos (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Radial Gaussianization with Cluster-specific Bias Compensation: Shuai Huang (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Damianos Karakos (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Daguang Xu (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Array Processing, Radar and Sonar I: Chair: Jean Pierre Delmas (UMR CNRS 5157 - CITI Department, France)

Dual-Domain Adaptive Beamforming Based on Direction-Of-Arrival Information: Masahiro Yukawa (Niigata University, Japan); Isao Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Robust Capon Beamforming with Additional Linear Constraints: Samuel D. Somasundaram (Thales Underwater Systems, United Kingdom)
Multi-sensor Beamsteering Based on the Asymptotic Likelihood for Colored Signals: David Ramírez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Javier Vía (University of Cantabria, Spain); Ignacio Santamaria (University of Cantabria, Spain); Louis Scharf (Colorado State, USA)
Spectral Efficiency of Beamforming-Based Parameter Estimation in the Single Source Case: Houcem Gazzah (University of Sharjah, UAE); Jean Pierre Delmas (UMR CNRS 5157 - CITI Department, France)
IIR Adaptive Array: Spatial IIR Filtering with DOA Estimator: Koichi Ichige (Yokohama National University, Japan); Sho Iwazaki (Yokohama National University, Japan); Hiroyuki Arai (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Two-Dimensional Direction Estimation of Coherent Signals with Two Parallel Uniform Linear Arrays: Wang Guangmin (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Jingmin Xin (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Nanning Zheng (Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Akira Sano (Keio University, Japan)
Performance of Hybrid Wideband Doppler Sonars: Fares Abda (Pulxeon Research Institute, France); Smain Femmam (Polytechnic Engineers School Labs EPF, France)
Searching the Most Appropriate Mother Wavelets for Bayesian Denoising of SONAR Images in the Hyperanalytic Wavelet Domain: Corina Nafornita (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania); Dorina Isar (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania); Alexandru Isar (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)

Wednesday, June 29

8:30 - 9:30

Plenary session: Chair: Eric Moulines (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France)

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Speech and Signal Processing: Michael Jordan (Berkeley, USA). Slides.

10:00 - 12:00

Application of SSP in Mobile Terminal Localization: Chair: Kostas Papakonstantinou (Eurecom, France)

Experimental Multilevel NLOS Characterization for UWB Network Localization: Matteo Guerra (ENDIF, University of Ferrara, Italy); Andrea Conti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, WiLAB University of Bologna, Italy)
Adaptive Bayesian Network for Traffic Flow Prediction: Alessandra Pascale (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Monica Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Incremental Decode-forward Relaying Over Asymmetric Fading Channels: Outage Probability and Location-aided Relay Selection: Na Yi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Yi Ma (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
Theoretical Performances Assessment of Hybrid Localization Techniques: Mohamed Laaraiedh (University of Rennes 1, France); Nicolas Amiot (Université Rennes I, France); Stéphane Avrillon (Université de Rennes 1, France); Bernard Uguen (Université Rennes I, France)
Performance Bounds and Identifiability Conditions for Location Estimation in NLoS Dynamic Environments: Konstantinos Papakonstantinou (Elliptic Laboratories AS, Norway); Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France)
Particle Filtering for Indoor RFID Tag Tracking: Vladimir Savic (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain); Akshay Athalye (CEWIT, Stony Brook University, USA); Miodrag Bolic (University of Ottawa, Canada); Petar M. Djuric (Stony Brook University, USA)

Monte Carlo Methods: Chair: Olivier Cappé (LTCI, Telecom Paris Tech, CNRS, France)

Fast Computation of Smoothed Additive Functionals in General State-Space Models: Cyrille Dubarry (Institut Telecom, France); Sylvain Le Corff (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Clustering Using Sum-Of-Norms Regularization with Application to Particle Filter Output Computation: Fredrik Lindsten (Linköping University, Sweden); Henrik Ohlsson (Linköping University, Sweden); Lennart Ljung (Linköping University, Sweden)
A Comparative Study of Monte-Carlo Methods for Multitarget Tracking: François Septier (Institut TELECOM/TELECOM Lille1, France); Julien Cornebise (Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada); Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Yves Delignon (Institut TELECOM/TELECOM Lille1, France)
Improving Particle Approximations of the Joint Smoothing Distribution with Linear Computational Cost: Cyrille Dubarry (Institut Telecom, France); Randal Douc (Institut Telecom, France)
A Non Asymptotical Analysis of the Optimal SIR Algorithm Vs. the Fully Adapted Auxiliary Particle Filter: François Desbouvries (Telecom SudParis, France); Yohan Petetin (Telecom SudParis, France); Emmanuel Monfrini (Institut Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France)
A Particle Smoothing Implementation of the Fully-Adapted Auxiliary Particle Filter: An Alternative to Auxiliary Particle Filters: Yohan Petetin (Telecom SudParis, France); François Desbouvries (Telecom SudParis, France)
Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference in Composite Models with Space Alternating Data Augmentation: Cédric Févotte (CNRS LTCI; TELECOM ParisTech, France); Olivier Cappé (LTCI, Telecom Paris Tech, CNRS, France); Ali Taylan Cemgil (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Online Expectation Maximization Algorithm to Solve the SLAM Problem: Sylvain Le Corff (Telecom ParisTech, France); Gersende Fort (CNRS, France); Eric Moulines (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), France)

Sensor Networks: Chair: Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France)

SAL: Shadowing Assisted Localization: Benjamin R. Hamilton (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Xiaoli Ma (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Robert John Baxley (Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA)
Decentralized Recovery of Sparse Signals for Sensor Network Applications: Naveen Ramakrishnan (Robert Bosch LLC, Research and Technology Center North America, USA); Emre Ertin (The Ohio State University, USA); Randy Moses (The Ohio State University, USA)
Consensus-Based Distributed Unscented Particle Filter: Arash Mohammadi (York University, Canada); Amir Asif (York University, Canada)
Using Spectral Correlation for Non-Cooperative RSS-Based Positioning: Richard K. Martin (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA); Ryan Thomas (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA); Zhiqiang Wu (Wright State University, USA)
On the "Near-universal Proxy'' Argument for Theoretical Justification of Information-driven Sensor Management: Edson H Aoki (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Arunabha Bagchi (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Pranab Mandal (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Yvo Boers (Thales Nederland BV, The Netherlands)
Biasing Emitter Location Estimates Via False Location Injection: Lauren M. Huie (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA); Mark Fowler (Binghamton University, USA)
Probability Distribution of Steady-State Errors and Adaptation Over Networks: Xiaochuan Zhao (UCLA, USA); Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Assumed Density Filtering for Learning Gaussian Process Models: Naveen Ramakrishnan (Robert Bosch LLC, Research and Technology Center North America, USA); Emre Ertin (The Ohio State University, USA); Randy Moses (The Ohio State University, USA)

Learning Theory and Pattern Recognition I: Chair: Maya R Gupta (University of Washington, USA)

Least-Squares LDA Via Rank-One Updates with Concept Drift: Yi-Ren Yeh (Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan); Yu-Chiang Frank Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
On Provable Exact Low-Rank Recovery in Topic Models: Behrouz Behmardi (Oregon State University, USA); Raviv Raich (Oregon State University, USA)
Bayesian Transfer Learning for Noisy Channels: Nathan H Parrish (University of Washington, USA); Maya R Gupta (University of Washington, USA)
Robust Classification of Signal Estimates Given a Channel Model: Nathan H Parrish (University of Washington, USA); Maya R Gupta (University of Washington, USA); Hyrum Anderson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Multi-Class Least Squares Classification At Binary-Classification Complexity: Zineb Noumir (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Paul Honeine (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Cedric Richard (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Kernel-Based Autoregressive Modeling with a Pre-Image Technique: Maya Kallas (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Paul Honeine (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Cedric Richard (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France); Clovis Francis (Lebanese university, Lebanon); Hassan Amoud (Lebanese University, Lebanon)
Expected Kernel for Missing Features in Support Vector Machines: Hyrum Anderson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA); Maya R Gupta (University of Washington, USA)

System Identification and Calibration: Chair: Christian Jutten (GIPSA-Lab, France)

Error Correction Via Smoothed L0-norm Recovery: Saman Ashkiani (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Massoud Babaie-Zadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Christian Jutten (GIPSA-Lab, France)
Gradient Algorithm for Reference-based Cubic Contrast Function in a Deflation Scenario: Fadoua Brahim (ISITV, France); Rémi Dubroca (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, LSEET UMR, France); Christophe De Luigi (Université du Sud Toulon-Var, LSEET UMR, France); Eric Moreau (University of Sud Toulon Var, France)
Blind MIMO System Identification Using Constrained Factor Decomposition of Output Generating Function Derivatives: André L. F. de Almeida (Wireless Telecom Research Group - Federal University of Ceara, Brazil); Xavier Luciani (University of Nice Sophia-Atipolis, France); Alwin Stegeman (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Pierre Comon (CNRS, University of Nice, France)
A Gradient Based Method for Fully Constrained Least-Squares Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images: Jie Chen (Université de technologie de Troyes, France); Cedric Richard (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France); Henri Lanteri (Universit de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Celine Theys (Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France); Paul Honeine (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France)
A Composite Hypothesis Test for Active Weight Detection in Sparse System Identification: Sergio Almeida (Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil); Jose Carlos Moreira Bermudez (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse, France)
Sparse Multiresolution Modal Estimation: Souleymen Sahnoun (CRAN, Nancy-Universite, CNRS, France); El-Hadi Djermoune (CRAN, Nancy-Universite, CNRS, France); Charles Soussen (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France); David Brie (CRAN, Nancy Université, CNRS, France)

New Methods, Directions and Applications I: Chair: Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Using Wavelets for Fast Monte Carlo Simulation of Ising Systems with Distribution Matching: John Evans (University of Vermont, USA); Robert R Snapp (University of Vermont, USA); Gagan Mirchandani (University of Vermont, USA); Richard Foote (University of Vermont, USA)
Sparse Deconvolution: Comparison of Statistical and Deterministic Approaches: Sébastien Bourguignon (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d Azur, France); Charles Soussen (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France); Hervé Carfantan (Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP / CNRS, IRAP, France); Jérôme Idier (IRCCyN, France)
Separating Background and Foreground in Video Based on a Nonparametric Bayesian Model: Xinghao Ding (Xiamen University, P.R. China)
A Probabilistic Image Analysis Problem and Random Linear Equations: Paulo Ferreira (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Armando J Pinho (University of Aveiro, Portugal); Carlos Bastos (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
L_1 Regularized STAP Algorithm with a Generalized Sidelobe Canceler Architecture for Airborne Radar: Zhaocheng Yang (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom); Xiang Li (National University of Defense Technology, P.R. China)
Multi-sensor Phd by Space Partitioning: Computation of a True Reference Density Within the Phd Framework: Emmanuel Delande (LAGIS CNRS FRE 3303, France); Emmanuel Duflos (Ecole Centrale de Lille, France); Philippe Vanheeghe (Ecole Centrale de Lille, France); Dominique Heurguier (Thales Communications, France)
New Stopping Criteria for Iterative Blind Image Deblurring Based on Residual Whiteness Measures: Mariana S. C. Almeida (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Mario A. T. Figueiredo (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Soft Bayesian Pursuit Algorithm for Sparse Representations: Angélique Drémeau (Institut Langevin (LOA), ESPCI, France); Cédric Herzet (INRIA Rennes, France); Laurent Daudet (Université Paris Diderot, France)

14:00 - 15:00

Plenary session: Chair: Ali H. Sayed (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

A Copula based Framework for Distributed Inference: Pramod Varshney (Syracuse Univ., USA). Slides.

15:30 - 17:30

Signal Processing for Complex Systems: Chair: Joaquin Mìguez (Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain)

Efficient Nonlinear Data Assimilation for Oceanic Models of Intermediate Complexity: Peter Jan van Leeuwen (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
On the Optimization of Transportation Routes with Multiple Destinations in Random Networks: Cristina S. Maíz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Joaquin Miguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Evolution of Social Belief in Multiagent Systems: Petar M. Djuric (Stony Brook University, USA); Yunlong Wang (Stony Brook University, USA)
Exploring the Connectivity Structure in Metabolic Networks: Going Beyond Graphs Via Discrete Optimization: Francisco Planes (CEIT, Spain)
Bayesian Non-Negative Factor Analysis for Reconstructing Transcriptional Regulatory Network: Jia Meng (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Jianqiu Zhang (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Yidong Chen (UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA); Yufei Huang (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
A Greedy Perturbation Approach to Accelerating Consensus Algorithms and Reducing Its Power Consumption: César Asensio-Marco (Universidad de Valencia, Spain); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (Universidad de Valencia, Spain)

Communication Systems and Networks: Chair: Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France)

Blind Joint Interference Suppression and Power Allocation with Alternating Optimization for Cooperative DS-CDMA Networks: Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom)
Spectrum Sensing in Cooperative Cognitive Networks with Partial CSI: Ido Nevat (CSIRO, Australia)
Collaborative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Using Hard Decision Combining with Quality Information: Fiky Suratman (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
CRC-Assisted Error Correction in a Trellis Coded System with Bit Stuffing: Raoul Prévost (INP-ENSEEIHT/IRIT, France); Martial Coulon (University of Toulouse, France); David Bonacci (TeSA lab, France); Julia LeMaitre (CNES, France); Jean-Pierre Millerioux (CNES, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse, France)
Low-Complexity Constant Modulus Algorithms for Blind Beamforming Based on Symmetrically Distributed Arrays: Lei Zhang (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Richard Langley (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Speech Enhancement Using a Frame Adaptive Gain Function for Wiener Filtering: Luiz F. Silva (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil); Jose Carlos Moreira Bermudez (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Bayesian Blind FIR Channel Estimation Algorithms in SIMO Systems: Samir Omar (Eurecom, France); Dirk Slock (Eurecom, France); Oussama Bazzi (Lebanese University, Lebanon)

Multivariate Statistical Analysis: Chair: Philippe Loubaton (Université de Marne La Vallée, France)

Fundamental Finite-Sample Limit of Canonical Correlation Analysis Based Detection of Correlated High-Dimensional Signals in White Noise: Raj Rao Nadakuditi (University of Michigan, USA)
Multi-dimensional Signal Separation with Gaussian Processes: Antoine Liutkus (Institut Telecom, France); Roland Badeau (ENST, France); Gaël Richard (TELECOM ParisTech, France)
Robust Retrospective Multiple Change-point Estimation for Multivariate Data: Alexandre Lung-Yut-Fong (Institut Télécom / Télécom ParisTech, France); Céline Lévy-Leduc (CNRS LTCI TelecomParisTech, France); Olivier Cappé (LTCI, Telecom Paris Tech, CNRS, France)
Carrier Phase Integer Ambiguity Resolution with Inequality Constraints for GPS and Galileo: Patrick Henkel (Technische Universität München, Germany); Chen Zhu (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Nonlinear Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images Using a Generalized Bilinear Model: Abderrahim Halimi (University of Toulouse, France); Yoann Altmann (University of Toulouse, France); Nicolas Dobigeon (University of Toulouse, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse, France)
Generalized Canonical Correlation for Passive Multistatic Radar Detection: Konstanty S Bialkowski (The University of Queensland, Australia); Vaughan Clarkson (The University of Queensland, Australia); Stephen D Howard (DSTO, Australia)
Statistical Analysis of the Finite Sample Forward-Backward MVDR Beamformer: Lei Zhang (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Lei Yu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Array Processing, Radar and Sonar II: Chair: Vitor H Nascimento (USP, Brazil)

A Framework for Reduced Dimension Robust Capon Beamforming: Samuel D. Somasundaram (Thales Underwater Systems, United Kingdom)
Fast Near-field Acoustic Imaging with Separable Arrays: Flavio Ribeiro (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil); Vitor H Nascimento (USP, Brazil)
Direction Finding Algorithms for Time Reversal MIMO Radars: Foroohar Foroozan (York University, Canada); Amir Asif (York University, Canada); Yuanwei Jin (University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA); Jose Moura (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Robust Wideband Beamforming Based on Frequency Invariance Constraint with Norm-bounded Errors: Yong Zhao (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Detection Performance of MIMO Radars in Presence of K-distributed Clutter Using Multi-dimensional Saddle Point Approximation: Zahedeh Farshad (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Hamidreza AminDavar (Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Iran)
Robust Adaptive Beamforming Algorithms Using Low-Complexity Mismatch Estimation: Lukas Landau (University of York, United Kingdom); Rodrigo C. de Lamare (University of York, United Kingdom); Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
Joint Direction-of-Arrival and Order Estimation in Compressed Sensing Using Angles Between Subspaces: Mads G. Christensen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Jesper Kjær Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
GLRT-Based Framework for the Multidimensional Statistical Resolution Limit: Mohammed El korso (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes (L2S), France); Rémy Boyer (CNRS, Université Paris-Sud (UPS), Supelec, France); Alexandre Renaux (Universite Paris 11, France); Sylvie Marcos (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systems, Supélec, CNRS UMR, France)

Biosignal Processing and Medical Imaging I: Chair: Jérome Mars (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)

Probabilistic Model Definition for Physiological State Monitoring: Laure Amate (Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble, France); Florence Forbes (INRIA, France); Julie Fontecave-Jallon (UJF-Grenoble 1 / CNRS / TIMC-IMAG UMR 5525 / PRETA Team, France); Benoit Vettier (LIG, France); Catherine Garbay (LIG/CNRS, France)
Parameter Estimation for Hybrid Wavelet-Total Variation Regularization: Lotfi Chaari (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France); Jean-Christophe Pesquet (Univ. Paris-Est, France); Jean-Yves Tourneret (University of Toulouse, France); Philippe Ciuciu (LNAO, France)
A Tolerant Algorithm for Cardiac Pulses Characterization in Ballistocardiography Signals in a Non-Invasive System: Oscar Hernandez (ITESM Campus Queretaro, Mexico); Carlos Ramirez (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico); Julio Alejandro Villeda Maldonado (ITESM, Mexico)
Bayesian Variational Approximation for the Joint Detection Estimation of Brain Activity in fMRI: Lotfi Chaari (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France); Florence Forbes (INRIA, France); Philippe Ciuciu (LNAO, France); Thomas Vincent (LNAO, France); Michel Dojat (GIN, France)
Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for Estimating the Time Varying Delay of Surface EMG Signals: Meryem Jabloun (Université d'Orléans, France); Philippe Ravier (Université d'Orléans, France); Olivier Buttelli (Université d'Orléans, France)
Sparse Multichannel Source Separation Using Incoherent K-SVD Method: Vahid Abolghasemi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Saideh Ferdowsi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Saeid Sanei (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)

Information Forensics and Security: Chair: Rebecca Willett (Duke University, USA)

Image Protection Based on Visual Cryptography and Statistical Property: Young-Chang Hou (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Anomalous Subgraph Detection Via Sparse Principal Component Analysis: Navraj Singh (Stanford University, USA); Benjamin A. Miller (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Nadya Bliss (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Patrick Wolfe (Harvard University, USA)
One Class Support Vector Machines for Audio Abnormal Events Detection: Sébastien Lecomte (Université de Technologie de Troyes, France); Regis Lengelle (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Cedric Richard (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France); François Capman (Thales Communications, France)
Reliable Detection of Hidden Information Based on a Non-Linear Local Model: Rémi Cogranne (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Cathel Zitzmann (UTT, France); Lionel Fillatre (UTT, France); Igor Nikiforov (Université de Technologie de Troyes, UTT/STMR/LM2S, France); Florent Retraint (UTT, France); Philippe Cornu (ICD - LM2S - UTT UMR STMR CNRS, France)
Dynamic Relational Topic Model for Social Network Analysis with Noisy Links: Eric Wang (Duke University, USA); Jorge Silva (Duke University, USA); Rebecca Willett (Duke University, USA); Lawrence Carin (Duke University, USA)
Hypothesis Testing by Using Quantized Observations: Cathel Zitzmann (UTT, France); Rémi Cogranne (University of Technology of Troyes, France); Florent Retraint (UTT, France); Igor Nikiforov (Université de Technologie de Troyes, UTT/STMR/LM2S, France); Lionel Fillatre (UTT, France); Philippe Cornu (ICD - LM2S - UTT UMR STMR CNRS, France)
Local Gabor Directional Pattern Histogram Sequence (LGDPHS) for Age and Gender Classification: Atsushi Higashi (University of Ritsumeikan, Japan); Yohei Fukumizu (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)

Thursday, June 30

8:30 - 9:30

Plenary session: Chair: Alfred Hero III (University of Michigan, USA)

Social Learning in Adaptive Sensor Networks: Vikram Krishnamurthy (Univ. British Columbia, Ca)

10:00 - 12:00

Signal processing for Static and Dynamic Networks: Chairs: Patrick J. Wolfe (Harvard University, USA) and Nadya Bliss (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)

Matched Filtering for Subgraph Detection in Dynamic Networks: Benjamin A. Miller (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Michelle S Beard (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Nadya Bliss (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Attribute Fusion in a Latent Process Model for Time Series of Graphs: Carey Priebe (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Nam Lee (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Youngser Park (Johns Hopkins University, USA); Minh Tang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
A Shrinkage Approach to Tracking Dynamic Networks: Kevin S Xu (University of Michigan, USA); Mark Kliger (Medasense Biometrics Ltd., Israel); Alfred Hero III (University of Michigan, USA)
Learnability of Latent Position Network Models: David Choi (Harvard University, USA); Patrick J. Wolfe (Harvard University, USA)
Graph Relational Features for Speaker Recognition and Mining: Zahi Karam (MIT / MIT LL, USA); William Campbell (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Najim Dehak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Applying Classical Detection and Tracking Theory to Networks: James P Ferry (Metron, Inc., USA)

Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis I: Chair: Nadine Martin (GIPSA-lab, INPG-CNRS, France)

Subspace-based Frequency Estimation Utilizing Prior Information: Petter Wirfält (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Guillaume Bouleux (Saint Etienne University, France); Magnus Jansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Petre Stoica (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of FM Sources Based on Robust Spatial Time-Frequency Distribution Matrices: Waqas Sharif (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany); Yacine Chakhchoukh (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Time-frequency Dependent Voice Activity Detection Based on a Simple Threshold Test: Juergen Freudenberger (University of Applied Sciences Constance, Germany); Sebastian Stenzel (University of Applied Sciences Constance, Germany)
Parameter Estimation of Short-time Multi-component Signals Using Damped-amplitude & Polynomial-frequency Model: Zhongyang Li (Gipsa-lab, France); Nadine Martin (GIPSA-lab, INPG-CNRS, France); Michelle Vieira (Gipsa-lab, INPG-CNRS, France); Philippe Gueguen (ISTerre, Grenoble University/CNRS/LCPC, France)
Wavelet-Based Medical Infrared Image Noise Reduction Using Local Model for Signal and Noise: Rahele Kafieh (Isfahan University of Medicine, Iran); Hossein Rabbani (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)
Robust Estimation of the Memory Parameter of Gaussian Time Series Using Wavelets: Olaf Kouamo (TelecomParisTech, France); Céline Lévy-Leduc (CNRS LTCI TelecomParisTech, France); Eric Moulines (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), France)
MP Based Detection of Synchronized Motions Across the Instrumental Climate Record: Peter Carl (IAMARIS, Applied Marine and Limnic Studies, Germany)

Detection and Estimation Theory II: Chair: Aleksandar Dogandzic (Iowa State University, USA)

Nonnegative Signal Reconstruction From Compressive Samples Via a Difference Map ECME Algorithm: Kun Qiu (Iowa State University, USA); Aleksandar Dogandzic (Iowa State University, USA)
Online Maximum-Likelihood Estimation for Latent Factor Models: David Rohde (Telecom Paristech, France); Olivier Cappé (LTCI, Telecom Paris Tech, CNRS, France)
Robust Space-Time Parameters Estimation in Heavy Interference Environments: Nafiseh Shahbazi (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Hamidreza AminDavar (Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Iran)
Performance of an Optimal Receiver in the Presence of Alpha-Stable and Gaussian Noises: Hassan K. Khalil (USTL, Lille1, France); Clavier Laurent (IEMN, France); François Septier (Institut TELECOM/TELECOM Lille1, France); Laurence Marsalle (USTL, Lille1, France); Gwenaelle Castellan (USTL, Lille1, France)
Break Detection in Nonstationary Strongly Dependent Long Time Series: Li Song (CNRS UMR 8506, Université Paris-Sud, France); Pascal Bondon (LSS CNRS, France)
Stability Analysis and Fast Damped-Gauss-Newton Algorithm for INDSCAL Tensor Decomposition: Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic); Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic); Anh Huy Phan (RIKEN, Japan)
Fast Level Set Estimation From Projection Measurements: Kalyani Krishnamurthy (Duke University, USA); Waheed U. Bajwa (Duke University, USA); Rebecca Willett (Duke University, USA); Robert Calderbank (Princeton University, USA)

New Methods, Directions and Applications II: Chair: David Mary (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France)

Structuring of Large and Heterogeneous Texture Databases: Abdourrahmane M Atto (University of Bordeaux, France); Yannick Berthoumieu (IMS Laboratory - University Bordeaux, France)
Nonlinear Estimation Using Central Difference Information Filter: Guoliang Liu (University of Goettingen, Germany); Florentin Wörgötter (University of Goettingen, Germany); Irene Markelic (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Clustered Radio Interferometric Calibration: Sanaz Kazemi (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Sarod Yatawatta (Kapteyn Institute/ASTRON, The Netherlands); Saleem Zaroubi (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Evolutionary Techniques for the Synthesis of 2-D FIR Filters: Kamal Boudjelaba (University of Orléans, France); Chikouche Djamel (University of M'sila, Algeria); Frédéric Ros (University of Orléans, France)
A Gradient-Like Variational Bayesian Algorithm: Aurelia Fraysse (Université Paris Sud, France); Thomas Rodet (Université Paris Sud, France)
Compressive RF Sensing Using a Physical Source of Entropy: Daniel Rogers (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Radmil Elkis (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Sang (Peter) Chin (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA); Michael Wayne (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Entropic Priors for Hidden-Markov Model Classification: Domenico Ciuonzo (Seconda Università di Napoli - Facoltà di Ingegneria, Italy); Francesco A. N. Palmieri (Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy)
Blind Extraction of Sparse Components Based on L0-norm Minimization: Leonardo T Duarte (University of Campinas, Brazil); Ricardo Suyama (Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil); Romis Ribeiro Attux (State University of Campinas - Unicamp, Brazil); João Romano (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Christian Jutten (GIPSA-Lab, France)

Adaptive Systems and Signal Processing II: Chair: Andrew C. Singer (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)

Filtering of Stochastic Signal Sets: A New Piecewise Interpolation Technique: Anatoli Torokhti (University of South Australia, Australia)
Performance Analysis of Signed Correlation Algorithm with Recursive Estimation of Signed Data Covariance for Fast Convergent and Robust Adaptive Filters: Shin'ichi Koike (Consultant, Japan)
Efficient Reconstruction of Block-Sparse Signals: Joel Goodman (Naval Research Laboratory, USA); Keith Forsythe (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA); Benjamin A. Miller (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
GLRT-Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio with Rank Information: Xitao Gong (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Adrian Ispas (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Gerd H. Ascheid (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Novel Design of Oversampled GDFT Filter Banks for Application to Subband Based Blind Source Separation: Bo Peng (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Wei Liu (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom); Danilo Mandic (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)
On the Optimal Solutions of Beamformer Assisted Acoustic Echo Cancellers: Marcos H Maruo (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Jose Carlos Moreira Bermudez (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil); Leonardo Resende (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Learning Theory and Pattern Recognition II: Chair: Cédric Févotte (CNRS LTCI; TELECOM ParisTech, France);

Multivariate Dictionary Learning and Shift & 2D Rotation Invariant Sparse Coding: Quentin Barthélemy (Université de Grenoble, France); Anthony Larue (CEA, France); Aurélien Mayoue (CEA, France); David Mercier (CEA, France); Jérome Mars (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France)
On Nonhomogeneous Activity Estimation in Gamma Spectrometry Using Sparse Signal Representation: Thomas Trigano (Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel); Yann Sepulcre (Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel); Michael Roitman (Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel); Uriel Aferiat (Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel)
Sparse Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture of Experts: Iman Mossavat (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Oliver Amft (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
High Order Neural Network Based Solution for Approximating the Average Likelihood Ratio: David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalá, Spain); Maria -Pilar Jarabo-Amores (Alcala university, Spain); Jaime Martín de Nicolás-Presa (University of Alcala, Spain)
Shape Priors for MAP Segmentation of Alloy Micrographs Using Graph Cuts: Landis Huffman (MITRE Corp., USA); Jeff Simmons (AFRL, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, USA); Marc De Graef (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Ilya Pollak (Purdue University, USA)
Damped Gauss-Newton Algorithm for Nonnegative Tucker Decomposition: Anh Huy Phan (RIKEN, Japan); Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic); Andrzej S Cichocki (RIKEN BSI, Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Japan)
pyMEF - A Framework for Exponential Families in Python: Olivier Schwander (école Polytechnique, France); Frank Nielsen (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

14:00 - 16:00

Statistical Estimation in Large Digital Communication Systems: Chair: Jamal Najim (CNRS, France)

Performance of Statistical Inference Methods for the Energy Estimation of Multiple Sources: Romain Couillet (Supélec, France); Maxime Guillaud (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Asymptotic Analysis of a Consistent Subspace Estimator for Observations of Increasing Dimension: Xavier Mestre (CTTC, Spain); Pascal Vallet (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France); Philippe Loubaton (Université de Marne La Vallée, France); Walid Hachem (Telecom-paristech, France)
Detection Performance of Roy's Largest Root Test When the Noise Covariance Matrix is Arbitrary: Boaz Nadler (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel); Iain Johnstone (Stanford University, USA)
On the Consistency of the G-MUSIC DoA Estimator: Pascal Vallet (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France); Walid Hachem (Telecom-paristech, France); Philippe Loubaton (Université de Marne La Vallée, France); Xavier Mestre (CTTC, Spain); Jamal Najim (CNRS, France)
An Improved MUSIC Algorithm Based on Low Rank Perturbation of Large Random Matrices: Pascal Vallet (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France); Walid Hachem (Telecom-paristech, France); Philippe Loubaton (Université de Marne La Vallée, France); Xavier Mestre (CTTC, Spain); Jamal Najim (CNRS, France)
Network-MIMO Cellular Systems: Large-System Analysis and Low-Overhead Downlink Scheduling: Hoon Huh (University of Southern California, USA); Antonia Tulino (Universita di Napoli, Italy); Giuseppe Caire (University of Southern California, USA)

Adaptive Systems and Signal Processing III: Chair: Pascal Larzabal (ENS-Cachan, PARIS, France)

Overrelaxation of the Fast Iterative Shrinkage/Thresholding Algorithm for Fast Signal Recovery: Masao Yamagishi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Isao Yamada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Performance Analysis of Passive Localization Strategies: Direct One Step Approach Versus 2 Steps Approach: Jonathan Bosse (Thales group, France); Anne Ferreol (Thales Communications, France); Pascal Larzabal (ENS-Cachan, PARIS, France)
A Graphics Processing Method for Occlusion Reasoning in Monocular Tracking Using Nonparametric Belief Propagation: Landis Huffman (MITRE Corp., USA); Ilya Pollak (Purdue University, USA)
Blind Source Separation of Discrete Finite Alphabet Sources Using a Single Mixture: Mohammad Rostami (University of Waterloo, Canada); Massoud Babaie-Zadeh (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Samareh Samadi (GIPSA-LAB, Grenoble INP, France); Christian Jutten (GIPSA-Lab, France)
Adaptive Image Denoising by Rigorous BayesShrink Thresholding: SayedMasoud Hashemi Amroabadi (University of Toronto, Canada); Soosan Beheshti (Ryerson, Canada)
A Convex Combination of H2 and H-infinity Filters for Space-Time Adaptive Equalization: Fabiano de Sousa Chaves (Nokia Institute of Technology, Brazil); João Romano (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Mohamed Abbas-Turki (ENS-Cachan, France); Hisham Abou-Kandil (ENS-Cachan, France)
A Class of Suboptimum Methods for Space-Time Adaptive Processing Using Empirical Characteristic Function: Mahdi Parchami (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran); Hamidreza AminDavar (Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Iran); James A. Ritcey (University of Washington, USA)

Detection and Estimation Theory III: Chair: Abdelhak M Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)

Conditional Probability and Correlation Coefficient Estimators for a First Order Bernoulli Process: Peter Sherman (Iowa State University, USA)
Exploiting Multiple Shift-Invariances in Harmonic Retrieval: The Incomplete Data Case: Pouyan Parvazi (TU Darmstadt, Germany); Marius Pesavento (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Alex Gershman (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany)
Uniformly Reweighted Belief Propagation for Distributed Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: Federico Penna (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Vladimir Savic (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Composite Hypothesis Tests for Sparse Parameters: Silvia Paris (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); David Mary (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France); André Ferrari (University of Nice, France)
On Multidimensional Optimal Estimators: Linearity Conditions: Emrah Akyol (UCSB, USA); Kumar Viswanatha (UCSB, USA); Kenneth Rose (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Sequential Multiple Target Detection Using Particle Filters: Ángel F. García-Fernández (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Jesús Grajal (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Learning Theory and Pattern Recognition III: Chair: Paul Honeine (Université de Téchnologie de Troyes, France)

Estimation of Entropic Measures of Association: Paul Deignan (L-3 Communications, USA)
On the Use of Sparsity for Recovering Discrete Probability Distributions From Their Moments: Anna Cohen (Tel-Aviv University, Israel); Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Handling Uncertainties in SVM Classification: Emilie Niaf (INSERM U1032, France); Rémi Flamary (LITIS EA 4108, INSA-Universite de Rouen, France); Carole Lartizien (Creatis, France); Stephane Canu (INSA/Universite de Rouen, France)
Aircraft Classification with a Low Resolution Infrared Sensor: Florian Maire (ONERA, France); Eric Moulines (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), France); Randal Douc (Institut Telecom, France)
PAC-Bayesian Learning with Asymmetric Cost: Ashley J Llorens (JHU/APL, USA); I-Jeng Wang (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab., USA)
A Risk Bound for Ensemble Classification with a Reject Option: Kush Varshney (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Weighted k-NN Graphs for Rényi Entropy Estimation in High Dimensions: Kumar Sricharan (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Alfred Hero iii (University of Michigan, USA)

Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis II: Chair: Olivier Michel (INPG, France)

A Wavelet-Based Filtering Approach to Functional Bipartite Ranking: Stéphan Clémençon (Institut Télécom Télécom ParisTech CNRS LTCI, France); Marine Depecker (CEA, France)
Shift Variance, Cyclostationarity and Expected Shift Variance in Multirate LPSV Systems: Til Aach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany); Hartmut Fuehr (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Energy-Weighted Mean Shift Algorithm for Speech Source Separation: David Ayllón (University of Alcalá, Spain); Roberto Gil-Pita (University of Alcalá, Spain); Maria -Pilar Jarabo-Amores (Alcala university, Spain); Manuel Rosa (University of Alcalá, Spain)
On the Recurrence Plot Analysis Method Behaviour Under Scaling Transform: Florin-Marian Birleanu (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble INP, France); Cornel Ioana (INPG, France); Cedric Gervaise (ENSIETA, Brest, France); Jocelyn Chanussot (Grenoble Institute of Technology, France); Alexandru Serbanescu (Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania); Gheorghe Serban (University of Pitesti, Romania)
The Time-Frequency Poles of a Random System: Lorenzo Galleani (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Biosignal Processing and Medical Imaging II: Chair: Mirek Pawlak (University of Manitoba, Canada)

On Transferring Spatial Filters in a Brain Reading Scenario: Jan Hendrik Metzen (University of Bremen, Germany); Su Kyoung Kim (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Bremen, Germany); Timo Duchrow (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Bremen, Germany); Elsa Andrea Kirchner (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Bremen, Germany); Frank Kirchner (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Bremen, Germany)
A CANDECOMP/PARAFAC Approach to the Estimation of Environmental Pollutant Concentrations Using Biosensors: Fabrice Caland (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France); Sebastian Miron (CRAN, Nancy Université, CNRS, France); David Brie (CRAN, Nancy Université, CNRS, France); Christian Mustin (LIMOS, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I, France)
Statistical Assessment of Image Symmetries: Mirek Pawlak (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Bayesian Segmentation of Chest Tumors in PET Scans Using a Poisson-Gamma Mixture Model: Zacharie Irace (University of Toulouse - IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France); Marcelo Pereyra (University of Toulouse, France); Nicolas Dobigeon (University of Toulouse, France); Hadj Batatia (University of Toulouse - IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France)
FMRI Functional Connectivity Estimators Robust to Region Size Bias: Sophie Achard (GIPSA-lab, CNRS, France); Jean-François Coeurjolly (Grenoble University, France); Romain Marcillaud (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble-INP, France); Jonas Richiardi (EPFL, Switzerland)
Multivariate Approach for Brain Decomposable Connectivity Networks: Florent Chatelain (GIPSA-lab, Grenoble-INP, France); Sophie Achard (GIPSA-lab, CNRS, France); Olivier Michel (INPG, France); Cédric Gouy-Pailler (CEA, LIST, France)
Efficient Implementation of the EM Algorithm for Mammographic Image Texture Analysis with Multivariate Gaussian Mixtures: Nicolas Gallego (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia); David Fernández (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
Identification of Brain Regions Involved in Epilepsy Using Common Spatial Pattern: Samareh Samadi (GIPSA-LAB, Grenoble INP, France); Ladan Amini (GIPSA-LAB, Grenoble INP, France); Hamid Soltanin-Zadeh (University of Tehran, Iran); Christian Jutten (GIPSA-Lab, France)