Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2000

CDSP Professors: Dana H. Brooks, Søren Buus, Jill D. Crisman, Miriam E. Leeser, Hanoch Lev-Ari, Eric L. Miller, Elias S. Manolakos, John G. Proakis, Masoud Salehi, Bahram Shafai, Gilead Tadmor

  1. Industrial Affiliates Program

Company

Faculty - PI

Type of Support

Duration

Analog Devices

J.G. Proakis

Sponsoring member

7/1/00-6/30/01

Aware

D.H. Brooks

Supporting member

1/1/00-12/31/01

BBN Technologies

E.S. Manolakos

Grant

4/1/00-3/31/01

BBN Technologies

E.S. Manolakos

Grant

4/1/00-3/31/01

BBN Technologies

E.S. Manolakos

Grant

7/1/00-12/31/00

GTE Technologies

J.G. Proakis
I. Stavrakakis, and
M. Salehi

Grant

7/1/00-6/30/01

Improv Systems

M. Leeser

Sponsoring member

9/15/00-9/14/01

Linear Technologies

B.Shafai

Sponsoring member

9/1/00-8/31/01

The MITRE Corporation

E.S. Monolados

Supporting member

9/15/00-8/31/01

Natural Microsystems

E.S. Manolakos

Supporting member

1/1/00-12/31/00



GRANTS AWARDED IN 2000

  1. Grant Title: "Normal & Impaired Temporal Processing of Complex Sounds"
    Sponsored Investigator: Soren Buus, (PI) and Florentine, M. (Co-PI)

    Duration: 2/1/00 to 1/31/05
    Agency: NIH/NIDCD

  2. Grant Title: "Turbo Equalization for dispersive channels"

  3. S
    ponsored Investigator: Masoud Salehi
    Duration: 1/01/00-9/30/00
    Agency: NUWC

  4. Grant Title: "An Observer-based Approach to Failure Detection and Identification with Application to DC_DC Converter Systems"
    Sponsored Investigator: Bahram Safafai
    D
    uration: 9/1/00-8/31/01
    Agency: LTC Corporation

  5. Grant Title: Robust Analysis and Control of DC-DC Converters"

  6. Sponsored Investigator: Bahram Shafai
    Duration: 9/1/99-5/31/00
    Agency: LTC Corporation

 

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis

1.Hannes Musch, Phd, "Using statistical decision theory to predict speech intelligibility" (Advisor Prof. S. Buus).

2. Silviu Chiricescu, Phd, "Parametric Analysis of a Dynamically Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional FPGA" (Advisor Prof. M. Leeser).


3. Vali Uddin, PhD, "Reduce Order Loop Transfer Recovery (LTR) Controller." (Advisor Prof.B. Shafai).

4. Omur Bas, Phd, "Proportional-Integral Kalman Filter Design with Applications to Target Tracking." (Advisor Prof. B. Shafai).

5. Richard Gaudette, Phd, "Constrained Reconstruction Techniques for Diffuse Optical Tomography" (Advisor Prof. D. Brooks).

MS Thesis

1. Rosa Ciprian, M.S., "Robust Control Design for Various DC-DC Converters Using u synthesis. 2000 (Advisor Prof. B. Shafai)

2. Chih-Chieh Huang, MS, "Implementing Color Histogramming in Reconfigurable HW" 2000, (Advisor Prof. M. Leeser)

3. Heather Quinn, M.S., "Image Processing Designs in JHKL" 2000, (Advisor Prof. M. Leeser)

4. Salih Ergut, M.S., "Equiripple-Based Decorrelating Filter Banks," 2000, (Advisor Prof. H. Lev-Ari)

5. Carlos Pena, MS, "Interleaver Design for Turbo Codes" 2000 (Advisor Masoud Salehi)

II. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

MacLeod, R.S. and Brooks, D.H., "Validation approaches for electrocardiographic inverse problems", in Advances in Computational Biomedicine, Volume 3: Inverse Problems in Electrocardiology, ed. by P. Johnstone, 2000

Buus, S. "Loudness functions derived from measurements of temporal and spectral integration" in Auditory models and non-linear hearing aids ed. by A. N. Rasmussen, T. Poulsen, T. Andersen, and P. Osterhammel, GN ReSound, Tåstrup, Denmark, 1999, 135-188.

Buus, S. "On the growth of loudness near thresholds elevated by masking" in Contributions to Psychological Acoustics, ed. by A. Schick, M. Meis and C. Reckhardt, Oldenburg University, Germany, 2000, pp. 65-84

Florentine, M. and Buus, S., "Some Current Trends in Temperol Processing" in Recent Trends in Hearing Research, ed. by H. Fastl, S. Kuwono and A. Schick, Oldenburg University Press, Germany, 1996, pp. 161-192.

Journal Publications

    1. Kilmer, M., Miller, E., Boas, D., and Brooks, D., "A shape-based reconstruction technique for DPDW data," Optics Express, Vol. 7, 2000, pp. 481-491.

    2. Gaudette, R.J., Brooks..D.H., DiMarzio, C.A., Kilmer, M., Miller, E,M., Gaudette, T., Boas, D.A.,``A comparison study of linear reconstruction techniques for diffuse optical tomographic imaging of absorption coefficient'', Phys. Med. Bio., Vol. 45, 2000, pp. 1051-1070.
    3. Tzannes A.P., and Brooks, D.H., ``Point target detection in IR image
    4. sequences: a hypothesis testing approach based on target and clutter t emporal profile modeling,'' Optical Eng, 2000, pp. 2270-2278

    5. Oxenham, A.J., and Buus, S. "Level discrimination of sinusoids as a function of duration and level for fixed-level, roving-level and across-frequency conditions," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 107, 2000, pp. 1605-1614


    6. Hicks, S. and Buus, S. "Efficient across-frequency integration: Evidence from psychometric functions," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 107, 2000, pp. 3333-3342
    7. Florentine, M., Buus, S., and Geng, W. "Toward a clinical procedure for narrowband gap detection I: A psychophysical procedure," Audiology, Vol. 39, 2000, pp. 161-167.
    8. Pereira, M.S., Andrade, L., El-Difrawy, S., Karger B. and Manolakos, E.S., "Statistical learning formulation of the DNA base-calling problem and its solution using a Bayesian EM framework", Discrete Applied Mathematics (special series on Computational Biology), Elsevier Publ., vol. 104, 2000, pp. 229-258.
    9. Stone A. and Manolakos E.S., "DG2VHDL: A Tool to Facilitate the High Level Synthesis of Parallel Processing Array Architectures", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Vol. 24(1), 2000, pp. 99-120.
    10. Manolakos E.S and Stellakis H.M., "Systematic Synthesis of Parallel Architectures for the Computation of Higher Order Cumulants", Parallel Computing (special issue on Parallel Computing in Statistics, Finance and Optimization), Elsevier Publ., vol 26 (5), 2000, pp. 655-676.
    11. Manolakos E.S and Stellakis H.M., "Systematic Synthesis of Parallel Architectures for the Estimation of Higher Order Moments", Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, (special issue on Parallel Computing in Statistics), Vol. 15, 2000, pp. 77-111.
    12. Tadmor G., The standard problem in systems with a single input delay, IEEE Trans. Aut. Control 45 (2000), pp. 382 - 397.
    13. T.A. Sakharuk, B. Lehman, A. M. Stankovic and Tadmor G., Effects of finite switching frequency and delay on PWM controlled systems, IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems I, 47 (2000), pp. 555 - 567.
    14. V. Petrovic, R. Ortega, A. M. Stankovic and Tadmor G., Design and implementation of an adaptive controller for torque ripple minimization in PM synchronous motors, IEEE Trans. On Power Electronics, 15 (2000), pp. 871 - 880

    15. Yanbing Li and Leeser M., "HML: A Novel Hardware Description Language, and its Translation to VHDL," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, January 2000, pp. 1-8.
    16. Shantanu Tarafdar and Leeser M., "A Data-Centric Approach to High-Level Synthesis'', IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Vol 19 No 11, November 2000, pp. 1251-1267.
    17. Shafai, B., Wilson, B.H. and Chen, J. "Robust Stability of a Special Class of Polynomial Materials with Control Appliations," Computer and Electrical Engineering: An International Journal.

    18. H.R. Sadjadpour, .Salehi M, N.J.A. Sloane, and G. Nebe, "Interleaver design for short block length turbo codes", Proceedings of ICC2000, pp. 628-632, New Orleans, LA, June 2000.
    19. H.R. Sakjadpour, N.J.A. Sloane, G. Nebe, and Salehi M., "Interleaver design for turbo codes", Proceedings of ISIT2000, p. 453, Sorrento, Italy, June 2000.
    20. B.A. Bjerke, Proakis J.G., M.K. Lee and Z. Zvonar, "A Comparison of GSM Receivers for Fading Multipath Channels with Adjacent- and Co-channel Interference," Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 18, November 2000.

    21. Stankovic, A.M. and Lev-Ari, H., "Frequency-Domain Observations on Definitions of Reactive Power," IEEE Power Engineering Review, Vol. 20, pp. 46-48, June 2000.

    22. Lev-Ari, H., Stankovic, A.M. and Lin, S., "Application of Staggered Undersampling to Power Quality Monitoring," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, pp. 864-869, Apr. 2000.

Conference Publications

    1. Brooks, D.H., Gaudette, R.J., DiMarzio, C..A., Boas, D., and Miller, E,L., ``An Admissible Solution Approach for Diffuse Optical Tomography," Proc. Asilomar 2000 Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2000, pp. still unknown.
    2. Hoge, W.S., Miller, E.L., Lev-Ari, H., Brooks, D.H., Panych, L.P. and Karl, W.C., "Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging,'' Proc. IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 2000, p. 115
    3. Laciar, E,, Jané, R., and Brooks, D.H., ``Beat-to-Beat Analysis Of QRS Duration In Time And Wavelet Domains,'' Computers in Cardiology 2000, 2000, pp. still unknown.
    4. Rodríguez, Jané, R., and Brooks, D.H., ``Ventricular Tachycardia Risk Detection Using Wavelet Decomposition Of The Signal Averaged ECG,'' Computers in Cardiology 2000, 2000, pp. still unknown.
    5. Laciar, E,, Jané, R., and Brooks, D.H., ``Analysis of QRS-duration in chagasic patients with ventricular tachycardia in time and wavelet domains,'', International Congress on Electrocardiology, Milan, Italy, 2000, pp. still unknown .
    6. Brooks, D.H., MacLeod, R.S. and Srinidhi, K.G., ``The Use of Some Non-Traditional Contraints for Inverse Electrocardiograhpy via an Admissible Solution Approach,'' International Congress on Electrocardiology, Milan, Italy, 2000, pp. still unknown .
    7. Serinagaolgu, Y., Brooks, D.H., Lin, S.F., MacLeod, R.S., and Gaudette, R.J, ''Bayesian Detection of Recovery Times in Optical Maps'', 'International Congress on Electrocardiology, Milan, Italy, 2000, pp. still unknown .
    8. Serinagaolgu, Y. and Brooks, D.H., ``Bayesian Multiresolution MAP Estimation of Edge or Transition Point Location in Noisy Signals,'' Proc. ICASSP 2000}, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000
    9. Lev-Ari, H. and Devaney, A.J., "The Time-Reversal Technique Re-Interpreted: Subspace-Based Signal Processing for Multi-Static Target Location," IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 509-513, Cambridge, MA, March 2000.
    10. Stankovic, A.M. and Lev-Ari, H., "A Frequency-Domain Interpretation of Notions of Reactive Power," Proc. Nordic Workshop on Power and Industrial Electronics, pp. 283-287, June 2000.
    11. Hoge, W.S., Miller, E.L., Lev-Ari, H., Brooks, D.H., Panych, L.P. and Karl, W.C., "An Adaptive Image Estimation Framework for Low Order Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging," IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, p. 115, Hunt, TX, Oct. 2000.
    12. Ali M. Shankiti and Leeser M., "Implementing a RAKE Receiver for Wireless Communications on an FPGA-based Computer System," Eighth ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA2000), February 2000, pp. 145-151
    13. Leeser M., James Theiler, Michael Estlick and John J. Szymanski, "Design Tradeoffs in a Hardware Implementation of the K-Means Clustering Algorithm," First IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM2000), March 2000, pp. 520-524.
    14. James Theiler, Leeser M., Michael Estlick, and John J. Szymanski, "Design Issues for Hardware Implementation of an Algorithm for Segmenting Hyperspectral Imagery," Image Spectrometry VI, Proceedings of SPIE Vol 4132, July 2000, pp 99-106.
    15. Leeser M., J. Theiler, M. Estlick, N. Kitaryeva, J. Szymanski, "Effect of Data Truncation in an Implementation of Pixel Clustering on a Custom Computing Machine," Reconfigurable Technology for Computing and Applications II, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4212, November 2000, pp. 80-89.
    16. Stone A. and Manolakos E.S. , "Rapid Prototyping of Parallel Architectures using DG2VHDL :Recent Advancements", Proceedings of the IEEE Signal Processing Systems, Design and Implementation (SiPS-00), W. Lafayette LA, October 2000, pp. 653-662
    17. Stone A. and Manolakos E.S. , "Minimal complexity hierarchical loop representations of SFG processors for optimal high level synthesis", Proceedings of the International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP-00), July 2000, pp. 92-102.List published refereed conference proceedings.
    18. B.A. Bjerke and Proakis J.G., "Multiplechanel Antenna Diversity Combining Techniques for Fading Multipath Channels," Proceedings 2000 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton NJ, March 15-17, 2000.
    19. B.A. Bjerke, Proakis J.G., and Z. Zvonar, "Antenna Diversity Combining Schemes for WCDMA Systems in Fading Multipath Channels," Proc. Vehicular Tech. Conf., Boston, MA, September 25-28, 2000.
    20. B.A. Bjerke and Proakis J.G., "Multiple Transmit and Receive Antenna Diversity Techniques for Wireless Communications," Proc. AS-SPCC Conf., Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, October 1-4, 2000.
    21. Ciprian R., Shafai B. and Nork S., . "Robust Control Design for Various DC-DC Converters Using u Synthesis," Proceedings of the Third World Automation Congress, Maoui, Hawaii, ISIAC 079, pp. 1-6, 2000.

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prof. Soren Buus Director of Communications and Digital Signal Processing Center

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser, Senior Member of IEEE, since 1997.

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser, Senior Member, Society of Women Engineers, since 1996.

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser, Member of President's Council of Cornell Women.

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari, Senior Member IEEE

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Senior Member IEEE since 1996.

Prof Gilead Tadmor, Senior Member IEEE

Conference Organization

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser, Member of Program Committee for International Conference on Circuit Design 2000.

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser, Senior Member of Program Committee for IEEE Assoc. for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2000.

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser, Member of Program Committee for High-Performance Embedded Computing, 2000.

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Member of Technical Committee Program of the Conference on IEEE Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation (SiPS -00).

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Member of Technical Committee of the IEEE Application Specific Systems Architectures and Processors (ASAP-00)

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Member of Technical Committee Program of the 2000 Conference on IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-00).

Prof.Elias S. Manolakos, Member of IEEE Societies on Computer, Signal Processing, Circuits & Systems Communications.

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's International Committe on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISPSSS)

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Member of Advisory Board IEEE Signal Processing Society's International Committee on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP).

Prof. Eric L. Miller, Member Program Committe of the 2000 "Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications" which is part of the SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation.

Prof. Eric L. Miller, Associate Editor for the IEEE Trans. Image Processing.

Prof. Bahram Shafai, Session Chair "Constraint State Estimation," IEEE American Control Conference (ACC),

Prof. Bahram Shafai, Session Chair "Robust Control and Application" for World Automation (WAC).

Prof. Bahram Shafai, Session Chair for International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Congresses, .

Prof. Baham Shafai, Member of Program Committee for American Control Conference (ACC), .

Prof. Bahram Shafai, Member of Program Committee for Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), .

Prof. Bahram Shafai, Member of Control Systems & Signal Processing Societies.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor, Publicity Chair, International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, Cambridge, 2001.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor, Member, Graduate Education Committee.

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari, Member of SIAM.

Prof. John G. Proakis, Member of IEEE Societies on Information Theory, Communications, and Signal Processing.

Editorial work

Prof. Dana H. Brooks, Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2000.

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Associate Editor for the Computing in Science and Engineering, Since 1989.

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Associate Editor for the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, Since 1997.

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos, Guest Editor, Journal on VLSI Signal Processing, Special Issue: Advances in Design and Implementation of DSP Systems, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, vol. 24 (1.

Prof. Eric L. Miller, Associate Editor on Image Analysis, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing.

Prof. Bahram Shafai, Associate Editor of the Computer and Electrical Engineering: an International Journal.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor, Associate Editor, IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board.

Patents/Awards

Wise, D.L., Gresser, J.D., Trantolo, K.J. and Wnek, G.E., "Method of Making Biopolymer-Based Nonlinear", No.5,512,218 of April 30, 1996.