Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2002

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

I. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2002

Combined Active Commitments of Research Support for CDSP Members
Industrial Support Government Agencies Northeastern University
Internally-Funded		 Foundation
$605,122 $1,742,940 $21,000 $15,000
Total Support: $2,384,062

II. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis
  1. Lu Jiang, PhD "Algorithm Improvement & Experimental Validation" (Advisor Prof. G. Tadmor)

  2. Mauricio Martinez, PhD "Efficient Filter-Bank Adaptive Filtering" (Advisor Prof.H. Lev-Ari)

  3. Yesim Serinagaoglu, PhD "Application of Bayesian Methods to Electrocardiography Developed innovative uses of Bayesian metrics for inverse electrocardiography" (Advisor Prof. D. Brooks)

MS Thesis
  1. Pavle Belanovic, MS "Library of Parameterized Modules for Floating-Point" (Advisor: M. Leeser)

  2. Srdjan Coric, MS "Parallel-Beam Backprojection an FPGA Implementation Optimized for Medical Imaging" (Advisor: M. Leeser)

  3. Michael Estlick, "An FPGA Implementation of the K-Means Algorithm for Image Processing" (Advisor: M. Leeser)

  4. Lijun Li, "Image Coding and Transmission Using UEP RCPC Codes" (Advisor: M. Salehi)

  5. Hai Nguyen, MS "Specifying and Synthesizing an Ethernet Media Access Controller Receiver at the Behavioral Level with SystemC" (Advisor: M. Leeser)

  6. Amir Niroumand, MS "Interior Point Methods for Diffuse Optical Tomography " (Co-Advised:Prof. B Shafai and D. Brooks)

III. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters
  1. Buus, S. "Psychophysical Methods and Other Factors that Affect the Outcome of Psychoacoustic Measurements," in Genetics and the function of the auditory system, ed. by L. Tranebjærg, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, T. Andersen, and T. Poulsen, Tåstrup, Denmark, GN ReSound, 2002, pp. 183-225.

  2. Florentine, M., and Buus, S. "Evidence for Normal Loudness Growth Near Threshold in Cochlear Hearing Loss," in Genetics and the function of the auditory system, ed. by L. Tranebjærg, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, T. Andersen, and T. Poulsen, Tåstrup, Denmark, GN ReSound, 2002, pp. 411-426.

  3. Manolakos, E.S., "Neural Networks and Applications to Telecommunications", Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommuniations, John Wiley and Sons Publ., 2002, vol.3, pp. 1675-1683

  4. Jamshidi, M. Feddema, J., Proctor, F., Shafai, B., and Jamshidi, J., "Robotics,
    Manufacturing, Automation and Control"    , Edited Volume, TSI Press, 2002.

  5. Tadmor, G. and A. Banaszuk, "Observer Based Control of Vortex Motion in a Recirculation Zone," in Nonlinear Control Systems 2001, pp. 1315-1318, ed. by A.B. Kurzhanski & A.L. Fradkov, Elsevier Science Ltd, February 2002.

  6. Lev-Ari, H., "Digital Filters,'' in Encyclopedia of Telecommunications,
    J.G. Proakis (ed.), John Wiley, 2002, Vol. 2, pp. 686-702 (17 pages).

Journal Publications
    1. Hoge, W.S. and Miller, E.L.; Lev-Ari, H.; Brooks, D.H.; Panych, L.P., "A doubly adaptive approach to dynamic MRI sequence estimation", IEEE Trans. On Image Proc., 11:10, pp. 1168- 1178
    2. Tzannes, A.P. and Brooks, D.H., "Detecting Small Moving Objects Using Temporal Hypothesis Testing", IEEE Trans on AES, 38:2, April 2002, pp. 570-586
    3. Serinagaoglu,Y. , MacLeod,R.S., Yilmaz,B. and Brooks,D.H.``Multielectrode Venous Catheter Mapping as a High Quality Constraint for Electrocardiographic Inverse Solution,'' J. of Electrocardiology, vol. 35 (suppl. 1), no. 4, pp. 65-74, Oct. 2002.
    4. Scharf, B., Buus, S., and Nieder, B., "Loudness enhancement: Induced loudness reduction in disguise?," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 112, 2002, pp. 807-810.
    5. Stankovic, A.M. and Lev-Ari, H., "Randomized Modulation in Power Electronic Converters'' (invited paper), Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 90, May 2002, pp. 782-799 (18 pages).
    6. Hoge, W.S., Miller, E.L., Lev-Ari, H., Brooks, D.H. and Panych, L.P., "A Doubly Adaptive Approach to Dynamic MRI Sequence Estimation,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 11, Oct. 2002, pp. 1168-1178 (11pages).
    7. Marandian, M. R., Friedman, J., Zvonar, Z., and Salehi, M. "Performance Analysis of Sliding Window Turbo Decoding Algorithms for 3GPP FDD Mode", International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol.9, No.1, January 2002. pp. 39-54.
    8. Shafai, B., Wilson, B.H. and Chen, J. "Robust Stability of a Special Class of
      Polynomial Matrices with Control Applications,"       Computer and Electrical
      Engineering: An International Journal, Accepted for Publication in 2002.
    9. Tadmor, G. "Control of Systems with I/O Delay: A Review of Some Problem Oriented Methods," (with L. Mirkin), IMA J of Math. Control and Information 19 (2002), pp. 185-199.
    10. Tadmor, G. and T. Sakharuk, A. M. Stankovic and G. Eirea, "Modeling of PWM Inverter-Supplied AC Drives at Low Switching Frequency," , IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems I: Fundamental Theory 49 (2002), pp. 621 - 631
    11. Tadmor, G. " On Approximate Phasor Models in Dissipative, Bilinear Systems," IEEE Transaction on Circuits & Systems I: Fundamental Theory 49 (2002), pp. 1167 - 1179
    12. Tadmor, G. and A. Banaszuk,"Observer Based Cntrol of Vortex Motion in a Combuster Recirculation Region," submitted to IEEE Trans. Control Sys. Technology 10 (2002), 749 - 755.

Conference Publications

    1. Y. Serinagaoglu, Brooks,D.H. and R.S. MacLeod, ``Enhancing inverse electrocardiography with sparse noisy measurements of epicardial potentials,'' Paper for Int. Conf. on Bioelectromagnetism,
      2002 and Int. Journal of Biolecetromagnetism, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 89-90, July 2002.
    2. Y. Zhang, Brooks,D.H. and D.A. Boas, "A Multi-Resolution Admissible Solution Approach for Diffuse Optical Tomography", Internat. Symposium on Biomed. Imag., Wash DC, July 2002. Acceptance rate was about 60%.
    3. Y. Serinagaoglu, Brooks,D.H. and R.S. MacLeod, ``Including sparse noisy epicardial potential measurements into Bayesian inverse electrocardiography,'' invited paper in Int. Conf. of the EMBS-BMES, IEEE, Houston, TX, Oct. 2002.
    4. A. Pagès-Zamora, J. Vidal Manzano, Brooks,D. H. "Closed-Form Solution for Positioning based on Angle of Arrival Measurements", Proc. of 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), pp. 1522-1526, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-18 September, 2002.
    5. Marvit, P., Florentine, M., and Buus, S., "Procedures for Level Discrimination," Abstracts of the 25th Annual Mid-Winter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2002, pp. 178.
    6. Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Buus, S., "Using Cross-Modality Matching to Test the Equal-Loudness-Ratio Hypothesis: Loudness of Short and Long Tones," Abstracts of the 25th Annual Mid-Winter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2002, pp. 178.
    7. Nieder, B., Buus, S., Florentine, M., and Scharf, B., "How the Duration and Level of Intense Tones Affect the Loudness Reduction (recalibration) of Subsequent Weaker Ttones," Abstracts of the 25th Annual Mid-Winter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2002, pp. 194.

    8. Florentine, M. and Buus, S., "It's Not Your Father's Recruitment: A New View of Loudness Growth in Cochlear Hearing Loss," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002, Vol. 111, pp. 2353.

    9. Florentine, M. and Buus, S., "Cochlear Hearing Loss Reduces the Dynamic Range for Loudness: Implications for Hearing Aids," Proc. 2nd Int. Hearing Aid Res. Conf., 2002, pp. 17.

    10. Epstein, M., Buus, S., and Florentine, M., "Measuring Loudness of Short and Long Tones Using Magnitude Estimation," Proc. 2nd Int. Hearing Aid Res. Conf., 2002, pp. 46
    11. Manolakos, E. S., D. Galatopoullos and A.Funk "Component-based peer-to-peer distributed processing in heterogeneous networks using JavaPorts", in Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, 2002, pp. 234-237.
    12. L. Andrade, Manolakos, E.S. "Accurate Estimation of the Signal Baseline in DNA Chromatograms", in Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing XII, (NNSP-02), (special session in Bioinformatics), 2002, pp. 35-44.
    13. Manolakos, E. S., "Rapid Prototyping of Matlab/Java Distributed Applications using the JavaPorts components framework" in the Proceedings of the Sixth High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop (HPEC-02), 2002, pp. 102-104.
    14. S. El-Difrawy, Manolakos, E.S. "An Analytical Solution to the Mobility Shifts Correction problem for DNA chromatograms", Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2002, pp. CP2-05: 1-4.
    15. L. Andrade, Manolakos, E.S."Slyline Normalization of DNA Chromatograms by Regression", Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2002, pp. CP2-07: 1-4.
    16. Manolakos, E. S."Clustering methods for accurate DNA base-calling", in the Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2002, pp. 510-515, invited paper
    17. Yang, Y. and Lev-Ari, H., "Identification of Arbitrarily Time-Variant Systems,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, FL, May 2002, Vol. II, pp. 1741-1744 (4 pages).
    18. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., "Defining Reactive Power in Circuit Transients via Local Fourier Coefficients,'' Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2002, Vol. V, pp. 689-692 (4 pages).
    19. Lev-Ari, H. and Stankovic, A.M., "Statistical Analysis of Power Spectra of Signals Governed by Markov Chains'' (invited paper), Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2002, Vol. IV, pp. 560-563 (4 pages).
    20. Srdjan Coric, Leeser, M., Eric Miller, and Marc Trepaier, "Parallel-Beam Backprojection: an FPGA Implementation Optimized for Medical Imaging" Tenth {ACM} International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. February, 2002.
    21. Pavle Belanovic and Leeser, M., "A Library of Parameterized Floating Point Modules and Their Use". 12th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Application. September, 2002.
    22. Heather Quinn, Leeser, M., and Laurie Smith King, "Accelerating Image Processing Pipelines in a Hardware/Software Environment". Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices. September 2002.
    23. Pavle Belanovic and Leeser, L., "A Library of Parameterized Hardware Modules for Floating-Point Arithmetic and Its Use", Sixth Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing. September 2002.
    24. Heather Quinn, Leeser, M., and Laurie Smith King, "Implementing Image Processing Pipelines in a Hardware / Software Environment". Sixth Annual Workshop on High Performance Embedded Computing. September 2002.1.
    25. M. Aydinlik and Salehi, M., "Turbo Coded Modulation with Unequal Error Protection", Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 20-22, pp. 996-1000.
    26. M. Aydinlik and Salehi, M., "Turbo Coded Modulation for Hidden Markov Channels", Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 20-22, pp. 1013-1017.
    27. Bekir A. Dogrusoz and Salehi, M., "Channel Matched Quantization and Unequal Error Protection Using Turbo Codes ", Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 20-22, pp. 1002-1006.
    28. Mohammadreza Marandian Hagh and Salehi, M., "Modified Labeling for Iterative Decision Feedback Equalizer Using 8PSK Modulation", Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 20-22, pp. 913-918.
    29. M. Aydinlik and Salehi, M., "16-QAM Turbo Coded Modulation for the Gilbert-Eliott Channel Model", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International conference on Communications, New York, 28 April-2 May 2002, pp. 1393-1397.
    30. Shafai B., Pi C-T, Bas O., and Nork S., "Simultaneous Disturbance Attenuation
      and Fault Detection using Proportional Integral Observers,"       Proceedings of
      2001 American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, pp. 1643-1649, 2002.
    31. Shafai, B., Pi, C.T., and Nork, S. "Robust Fault Detection using Proportional
      Integral Observers,"       Proceedings of the 4th World Automation Congress
      (WAC), Orlando, Florida, ISIAC 039, pp. 1-6, 2002.
    32. Shafai, B., Pi, C.T., Nork, S., and Linder, S.P. "Proportional Integral Adaptive
      Observer for Parameter and Disturbance Estimation,"       Proceedings of the 41st
      IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 4694-
      4700, 2002.
    33. S. McKnight, Tadmor, G., R. Rodriguez-Solis, G. Saulnier and M. Ruane, Creating "High Tech Tools & Toys Lab" learning environment at four universities, Frontiers in Education Conference, Boston, Nov 6-9, 2002 (refereed; Paper S3E, 1.page)
    34. Tadmor, G., "Sensorless Control of a Non-Salient PMSM with locally Coupled Angle and Speed Estimates," 2002 ACC (refereed), pp. 1942 - 1947
    35. Tadmor, G., "A Full State Observer for Sensorless Control of a Salient PMSM," EPE-PEMC 2002 (refereed; .abstract book p. 408; full paper # T9-012 in CD proceedings, 12 pages)
    36. Tadmor, G., "Control of a Dual Drive to Attenuate Switching Frequency Ripple In A Large Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor," 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Sevilla, Spain, Nov. 5 to 8, 2002 (refereed; CD proceedings; paper # SF 000123; paper proceedings pp. 2045 - 2050)
    37. Tadmor, G., "A Space Vector Modulation For A Low Zero--Sequence Voltage Output," 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Sevilla, Spain, Nov. 5 to 8, 2002 (refereed; CD proceedings; paper # SF 000099; paper proceedings pp. 1255 -1260)
    38. Tadmor, G., "Feedback Control of a Rotating Vortex Pair," American Physics Soc., Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, November 2002 (refereed; Abstract book, p. 24)

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dana Brooks Member IEEE

Prof. Dana Brooks Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Prof. Soren Buus Member of Executive Committee, Greater Boston Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America

Prof. Soren Buus Elected Member of Technical committee for Physiological and Psychological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America

Prof. Soren Buus Member of ad hoc panel for review of grants for NIH/NIDCD

Prof. Soren Buus Member of evaluation committee for appointment of Professor in Audiology and Acoustics, Technical University of Denmark

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Senior Member of IEEE

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

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

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of the Association of Computing Machinery

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of ACM International Conference on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of High-Performance Embedded Computing

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Member of International Conference on Field Programmable Technology

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Visiting Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratories

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ar Senior Member IEEE

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari Member of SIAM

Prof. Elias Manolakos Senior Member of IEEE

Prof. Elias Manolakos Elected Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society's International Committee on DISPS

Prof. Elias Manolakos Member of the Advisory Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society's Int'l. Committee NNSP

Prof. John G. Proakis Fellow of IEEE

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

Prof. Bahram Shafai Associate Editor: IEEE Control System Society Conference Editorial Board

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Senior Member IEEE

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

Prof. Gilead Tadmor "Motion Control" Session Chairman, American Control Conference, Anchorage, AK, May 2002.

Prof. Gilead Tadmor International program committee, 2003 Int. Federation of Automatic Control Workshop on Time Delay Systems, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.

Conference Organizations

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

Prof. Elias Manolakos Session Organizer and Chair person IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing XII
"Signal Processing and Neural Networks for Bioinformatics"

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation (SiPS-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Application Specific Architectures and Processors (ASAP-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Int'l. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP-02)

Prof. Elias Manolakos Technical Program Committee Member of the 2002 Conferences: Sixth High Performance Embedded Systems Workshop (HPEC-02)

Prof. Masoud Salehi Member of the Telecommunication System Management Program planning and curriculum development Committee

Prof Masould Salehi Member of the National Science Foundation CAREER review panel

Prof Masould Salehi Member of the National Technological University EE Executive Committee

Prof. Bahram Shafai Program Committee Chair of ISIAC in WAC Congress

Prof. Bahram Shafai Member of Program Committees & Chairman of Sessions in IEEE Organized Conferences

Prof. Bahram Shafai Active Senior Member of Control System and Signal Processing Societies

Editorial Work

Prof. Dana Brooks Reviewer: IEEE Trans. on signal Proc, IEEE Trans. on Biomed Eng. Circulation, Med Bio Eng Comp

Prof. Soren Buus Member of the Editorial Board, Hearing Research

Prof. Soren Buus Reviewer: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Prof. Soren Buus Reviewer: International Audiology

Prof. Soren Buus Reviewer: Acta Acustica

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: Design Automation Conference

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computers

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer:Journal of Systems Architecture

Prof. Miriam E. Leeser Reviewer: VLSI Design

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: Computing in Science and Engineering

Prof. Elias Manolakos Associate Editor: Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systemss

Prof. Elias Manolakos Reviewer: Refereed IEEE Conferences

Prof. Elias Manolakos Reviewer: IEEE Transactions

Prof. Masoud Salehi Reviewer for many Journals and Conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, ICC, etc.

Prof. Bahram Shafai Associate Editor: Computer and Electrical Engineering: An International Journal

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: International Journal of Control

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for Computer and Electrical Engineering

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for several other Journals and Conferences including CDC, ACC, and WAC

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer for NSF

Prof. Gilead Tadmor Reviewer: Estimated 7 papers

Patents/Awards

Sadjadpour, H.R., Salehi, M., Sloane, N.J.A., Two-stage S-Random Interleaver US patent 6453442, September 17, 2002.