Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)

Center for Research and Graduate Studies

Activities Report

January 1 - December 31, 2001

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. INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES PROGRAM

Company

Faculty - PI

Type of Support

Duration

Analog Devices

J.G. Proakis

Sponsoring member

9/1/01-8/31/02

Aware

D.H. Brooks

Supporting member

1/1/01-12/31/01

BBN Technologies

E.S. Manolakos

Grant

1/1/01-3/31/01

BBN Technologies

E.S. Manolakos

Grant

1/1/01-9/30/01

BBN Technologies

E.S. Manolakos

Grant

4/1/01-12/31/01

Linear Technologies

B.Shafai

Sponsoring member

9/1/01-8/31/02

Natural Microsystems

E.S. Manolakos

Supporting member

1/1/01-12/31/01


II. GRANTS AWARDED IN 2001

  1. Grant Title: "Investigation of Turbo Decoding Algorithms for Third Generation"
    Sponsored Investigator: John G. Proakis
    Duration: 9/1/01 to 8/31/02
    Agengy: Analog Devices

  2. Grant Title: "An Observer-based Approach to Failure Detection and Identification with Application to DC_DC Converter Systems"
    Sponsored Investigator: Bahram Safafai
    Duration: 9/1/01-8/31/02
    Agency: LTC Corporation

III. AWARDED THESIS DEGREES

PhD Thesis

  1. William. Scott Hoge PhD "An Adaptive Signal Processing Approach to Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging." (Co Advised Prof. D. Brooks and Prof. H. Lev-Ari)

  2. Gerald Larocque, PhD "Multi-Rate Adaptive Filters" (Advisor Prof. H Lev-Ari)

  3. Andrew Stone, PhD "DG2VHDL: Methods and Tools for the Synthesis of VLSI Array Achitectures from Abstract Algorithmic Descriptions." (Advisor Prof. E. Manolakos)

Engineering Thesis

  1. Jim Fuerstnau, Eng,, "A Method of Speech Enhancement Based on Across-Frequency Envelope Correlation." (Co-Advised: Prof. S. Buus and Prof. D. Brooks).

MS Thesis

  1. Gabriel Eirea M.Sc., "Implementation of Implemented a Novel Sensorless Control Sensorless Control Agorithm," (Advisor: G. Tadmor)

  2. Keith Eisenhauer M.Sc., "Control of Periodic N Developed a Control Loads on a PMSM Algorithm to Address Load Harmonics," (Advisor: G. Tadmor)

  3. Michael Epstein M.S., "Estimating the Basilar-N* Membrane I/O Function by Tone-burst Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions" (Advisor: Prof. S Buus)

  4. Tao He M.S., "A Low-Frequency All-Digital Phase-Locked Loop Implementation in an FPGA," (Advisor: M. Leeser)

  5. Raha Zandifar M.S., "Super-Resolution Multi-Static Target Location," (Advisor: Prof. H. Lev-Ari)

  6. Natalya Kitaryeva M.S., "K-Means Clustering for Color Image Processing on a Reconfigurable Hardware Boarrd," (Advisor: M. Leeser)

IV. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Chapters

    1. R.S. MacLeod and Brooks, D., "Validation Approaches for Electrocardiographic Inverse Problems", in Advances in Computational Biomedicine, Volume 3: Inverse Problems in Electrocardiology, ed. by P. Johnstone, WIT Press, Jan. 2001


    2. Buus, S., Obeling, L., and Florentine, M., "Can Basilar-membrane Compression Characteristics be Determined from Distortion-product Otoacoustic-emission Input-output Functions in Humans?," in Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function, ed. by D. J. Breebaart, A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs, R. Schoonhoven, Maastricht, Netherlands, Shaker, 2001, pp. 373-381.

    3. Buus, S., and Florentine, M., "Modifications to the Power Function for Loudness," in Fechner Day 2001, ed. by E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, and T. Lachmann, Berlin, Pabst, 2001, pp. 236-241.

    4. Epstein, M., Florentine, M., and Buus, S.,"Measuring Loudness of Long and Short Tones Using Magnitude Estimation," in Fechner Day 2001, ed. by E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, and T. Lachmann, Berlin, Pabst, 2001, pp. 231-235.

    5. Florentine, M., Epstein, M., and Buus, S.,"Loudness Functions for Long and Short Tones." in Fechner Day 2001, ed. by E. Sommerfeld, R. Kompass, and T. Lachmann, Berlin, Pabst, 2001, pp. 361-366.

Journal Publications

    1. D.A. Boas, Brooks D., E.L. Miller, C.A. DiMarzio, M. Kilmer, R.J. Gaudette, and Q. Zhang, ``Imaging the Body with Diffuse Optical Tomography," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 18:6, pp. 57-75.
    2. Florentine, M., Marvit, P., and Buus, S., "A Maximum-likelihood yes-no Procedure for Gap Detection: The Effects of Track Length," Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, Vol. 12, 2001, pp. 373-381.
    3. Müsch, H., and Buus, S., "Using Statistical Decision Theory to Predict Speech Intelligibility. I. Model Structure," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 109, 2001, pp. 2896-2909.
    4. Müsch, H., and Buus, S., "Using Statistical Decision Theory to Predict Speech Intelligibility. II. Measurement and Prediction of Consonant-discrimination Performance," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 109, 2001, pp. 2910-2920.
    5. Buus, S., and Florentine, M., "Growth of Loudness in Listeners with Cochlear Hearing Losses: Recruitment Reconsidered," Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Vol. 3, 2001, pp. 120-139.
    6. S. Chiricescu, Leeser, M., and M. Vai, "Design and Analysis of a Dynamically Reconfigurable Three-Dimensional FPGA," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Special Issue on Reconfigurable and Adaptive VLSI Systems. Vol 9 No 1, February 2001, pp. 186-196.
    7. Leeser, M., and V. Ohm, "Accurate Power Estimation for Sequential CMOS Circuits using Graph-based Methods," VLSI Design, An International Journal of Custom-Chip Design, Simulation and Testing, Special Issue on Low-Power Design. Vol 12 No 2, 2002, pp. 187-203.
    8. Agirman, I., Stankovic, A.M., Tadmor, G. and Lev-Ari, H., "Adaptive Torque Ripple Minimization in Switched Reluctance Motors,'' IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 48, pp. 664-672, June 2001.
    9. Hoge, W.S., Miller, E.L., Lev-Ari, H., Brooks, D., Karl, W.C. and Panych, L.P., "An Efficient Region-of-Interest Acquisition Method for Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imagin," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 10, pp. 1118-1128, July 2001.
    10. J.Fridman and Manolakos, E., "Distributed Memory Parallel Architecture based on Modular Linear Arrays for the Computation of 2-D Separable Transforms", Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, Kluwer Academic Publ., (special issue on Parallel VLSI Architectures for Image and Video Processing), Vol. 28(3), 2001, pp. 187-203.
    11. Tadmor, G., and Agirman, I., Stankovic, A.M. and Lev-Ari, H., ,"Adaptive Torque Ripple Minimization in Switched Reluctance Motors," IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics 48 (2001), pp. 664 - 672.

Conference Publications

    1. Hammer P, Brooks D., Triedman J. "Entrainment Response in a Model of Reentrant Tachycardia," Computers in Cardiol 2001; Sept. 2001, Amsterdam, Holland. 28: 229-32.
    2. Fitzgerald TN, Rhee EK, Brooks D., Triedman JK. "Estimation of Cardiac Conduction Velocities Using Small Data Sets," Computers in Cardiol 2001; Sept. 2001, Amsterdam, Holland, 28:13-16.
    3. E. Laciar, R. Jané, Brooks D., "A New Alignment Method Based on the Wavelet Multi-Scale Cross-Correlation for Noisy High Resolution ECG Records," Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2001, Istanbul, CD-ROM, paper 923. ISBN: 0-7803-7213-1 (no page numbers available).
    4. R.S. MacLeod, B. Yilmaz, B. Taccardi, B.B. Punske, Y. Serinagaoglu, Brooks D., "Direct and Iverse Methods for Cardiac Mapping using Multielectrode Catheter Measurements." J. Biomed. Tech., 46(suppl 2): 207--209, 2001, also presented at 3rd Int. Symp. On Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging, Vienna Austria, Sept. 2001.
    5. W.S. Hoge, E.L. Miller, Brooks D., Lev-Ari, H. and L.P. Panych, "Doubly Adaptive Estimation of Dynamic MRI Sequences," Proceedings of the ISMRM Minimum MR Data Acquistion Methods Workshop (Marco Island, FL)}, Oct. 2001, pp. 98-101.
    6. Florentine, M., and Buus, S.. "Cochlear Hearing Loss Reduces the Dynamic Range for Loudness: Implications for Hearing Aiids," Proceedings of the 17th International Congress on Acoustics, IV, 2001, pp. 5B.16.02.
    7. M. Estlick, Leeser, M., J. Theiler, J. J. Szymanski, "Algorithmic Transformations in the Implementation of K-means Clustering on Reconfigurable Hardware," Ninth ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA2001), February 2001, pp. 103-110.
    8. Leeser, M., P. Belanovic, M. Estlick, M. Gokhale, J. Szymanski, J. Theiler, "Applying Reconfigurable Hardware to the Analysis of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery," Immaging Spectrometry VII, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4480, August 2001, pp. 100-107.
    9. L. A. Smith King, H. Quinn, Leeser, M., D. Galatopoullos, E. Manolakos, "Runtime Execution of Reconfigurable Hardware in a Java Environment," , International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2001), September 2001, pp. 380-385.
    10. Manolakos, E., D. Galatopoullos, A. Funk, "JavaPorts: An Environment for the Rapid Prototyping of Heterogeneous Network-centric Distributed Processing Applications" in the Proceedings of the Fifth High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop (HPEC-01), 2001, pp. 149-151.
    11. Manolakos, E., A. Stone, "DG2VHDL: A Suite of Tools for Synthesizing VLSI Array Architectures" in the Proceedings of the Fifth High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop (HPEC-01), 2001, pp. 87-90.
    12. L. A. King, H. Quinn, M. Leeser, D. Galatopoullos, Manolakos, E.,"Runtime Execution of Reconfigurable Hardware in a Java Environment" in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD-01) , 2001, pp. 380-385.
    13. Shafai, B., Pi C-T, Bas O., Nork S., and Linder S. P., "A General Purpose Observer Architecture with Application to Failure Detection and Isolation," Proceedings of 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, Virginia, pp.1133-1139, 2001.
    14. Bas O. and Shafai, B., "A Systematic Approach to Robustly Reject Persistent Disturbances in Target Tracking Applications," Proceedings of 2001 American Control Conference, Arlington, Virginia, pp. 3588-3594, 2001.
    15. Tadmor, G., S. W. McNight, W. Cole, M. Ruane and E. C. Everbach, ¨ Teaching Computing to Engineering Freshmen Through High Tech Tools & Toys Laboratory," 2001 ASEE Conf.
    16. Tadmor, G., A. Banaszuk, "Observer Based Control of Vortex Motion in a Recirculation Region," IFAC - NOLCOS 2001
    17. Tadmor, G., "Dynamic Phasor Models in Bilinear Dissipative Systems," 2001 IEEE CDC.

V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dana Brooks Member IEEE

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

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 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 Computer Design

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari Senior Member IEEE

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. Gilead Tadmor Senior Member IEEE

Conference Organization

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

Prof. Hanoch Lev-Ari Member of SIAM.

Prof. Elias Manolakos ECE Tenure and Promotion Committee

Prof. Elias Manolakos COE Computer Advisory Committee: ECE representative

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 Member of Control System and Signal Processing Societies

Editorial Work

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: International Symposium on Microarchitecture

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. 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: Computer and Electrical Engineering

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: IFAC Journal of Automatica

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: Journals and Conferences including CDC and ACC

Prof. Bahram Shafai Reviewer: NSF

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

Patents/Awards

Prof. Elias Manolakos, "Soft-computing Algorithms for DNA base sequence identification", provisional patent application filed in November 2001, (with PhD student Sameh El Difrawy).