Preface

This one-day workshop hosts presentations by faculty, students, and industry researchers in the areas of signal processing image processing and analysis and informatics. The purpose of the workshop is to disseminate new research results in several areas and help establish industry, university, and government and multi-university collaborations.

A total of 27 abstracts are presented into 5 different sessions. These sessions are the following: Sensors & Cognitive Systems I, and II, Models and Systems, and Biomedical Technology I, and II. The latter two sessions are organised in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, Project: IntraMEDnet-A Mediterranean Research and Higher Education Intranet in Medical and Biological Sciences (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/intramednet). EU Community Initiative Programme INTERREG III B ARCHIMED.

Also, a round table discussion on the topic of Industry DSP and Cyprus will be carried out.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the IEEE Cyprus Section for the sponsorship, and the

Wishing you a fruitful and joyful event, and looking forward in making this workshop a yearly event.

C. Pattichis, A. Spanias, T. Kasparis, and M. Pattichis

July 2008

Topics
 

digital signal and image processing
sensor data and signal analysis
biomedical signal and data analysis
wireless communications
real-time signal analysis
multimedia systems
signal processing and multimedia in education
sensor networks
speech, audio, and image processing
circuits for sensors and communications
 

Technical Program

TIME	SESSIONS
13:30	Welcome
13:45	Irene Moulitsas Cyprus Institute
	SESSION 1: Sensors & Cognitive Systems I Chair: Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University, USA
14:00	A micro-Doppler Sonar for Acoustic Scene Analysis in Sensor Networks Andreas G. Andreou Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
14:12	Multimodal Cognitive Spaces: Implicit User Monitoring Panayiotis Georgiou, University of Southern California
14:24	Processing of Correlated Signals During Human Attention Kleanthis C. Neokleous and Christos N. Schizas Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
14:36	Unsupervised classification for Brain-Computer Interfaces N. Nicolaou, and J. Georgiou Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
14:48	Automatic Age Progression: Methodologies and Performance Evaluation Andreas Lanitis Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology
	SESSION 2: Sensors & Cognitive Systems II Chair: Christos N. Schizas, University of Cyprus
15:00	User Verification System based on Multimodal biometric features A. Kounoudes*, N. Tsapatsoulis**, A. Antonakoudi*** and C. Pattichis**** * Dep. of Communication and Internet Technologies, Cyprus University of Technology ** Signal Generix Ltd *** Department of Computing and IT, Philips College **** University of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science, Nicosia, Cyprus
15:12	On the use of Rank-Order Coding in Speech Processing Alexandros Kyriakides+, Constantinos Pitris+, Julius Georgiou+, Bharatan Konnanath* and Andreas Spanias* +Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, *Department of Electrical Engineering, SenSIP Center and Industry Consortium, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
15:24	Signal Processing of Ion-Channel Currents with applications to Sensors Homin Kwon, Peter Knee, Andreas Spanias, Trevor Thornton, Stephen Goodnick, Stephen Phillips, Michael Gorryl Department of Electrical Engineering, SenSIP Center and Industry Consortium, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
15:36	3-D Reconstruction of Man-made Structures from LiDAR and Aerial Image Data Takis Kasparis and Nicholas Shorter School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Cyprus University of Technology
15:48	COFFEE BREAK
	SESSION 3: Models and Systems Chair: Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus
16:12	Nonlinear Fault Diagnosis of Dynamical Systems: An Adaptive Approximation Approach Marios Polycarpou Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
16:24	Dynamic Re- Routing for Congestion Control in Event- Based WSNs Charalambos Sergiou, Vasos Vassiliou, Andreas Pitsillides Networks Research Laboratory (NetRL) Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
16:36	Subtract Negative Add Positive (SNAP) Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks Michalis P. Michaelides and Christos G. Panayiotou Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
16:48	Probabilistic flooding scheme in VANETs Yiannos Mylonas, Andreas Pitsillides and Marios Lestas Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
17:00	Full-Wave Solution of Finite Arrays of Radiating Antennas using Domain Decomposition, Block Stationary Iteration Algorithms, and Singular Value Decomposition A.C. Polycarpou Department of Engineering, University of Nicosia
17:12	Towards an Embedded System Design for the Control of a Mobile Robot Charalambos D. Charalambous, and Andreas Lambis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
17:24	Dynamic Models for Cyprus Demography and Identification of Missing Data Tziortzis Ioannis, and Charalambos. D. Charalambous Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
	SESSION 4: Biomedical Technology I – Medical Imaging+ Chair: Efthyvoulos Kyriakou, Frederick University Styliani Petroudi, University of Cyprus
17:48	Tissue Segmentation for Breast Cancer Detection Styliani Petroudi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Cyprus
18:00	Accelerated MRI Image Processing Using GPUs Yiasemis Pantelis, Pedro Trancoso, Isabelle Chrysanthou-Baustert, and Yiorgos Chrysanthou Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
18:12	Nonlinear pulsing schemes for the detection of ultrasound contrast agents C. Mannarisa, M. A. Averkioua, M. Bruceb and J. Powersc a Dept. of Mech. Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus  bSuperSonic Imagine, France  cPhilips Medical Systems, USA
18:24	Robust Motion Estimation using Global Optimization Techniques: Application in Ultrasound Imaging Sergio Murillo and Marios S. Pattichis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of New Mexico, USA
18:36	M-mode state based identification in ultrasound videos of the common carotid artery C. Loizou1, C.S. Pattichis2 1 Intercollege, Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences, Limassol, Cyprus 2 University of Cyprus, Department of Computer Science, Nicosia, Cyprus
18:48	COFFEE BREAK
	SESSION 5: Biomedical Technology II – eHealth Systems+ Chair: Christos Loizou, Intercollege
19:00	Mobile And Robotised Tele-Echography: The MARTE Project S. Voskarides, C.S. Pattichis2, C. Novales3 1 Cyprus University of Technology 2 University of Cyprus 3 University of Orleans
19:12	Error Resilience Wireless Transmission of Medical Ultrasound Video Through Noisy Channels Using Segmentation A. Panayides1, M.S. Pattichis2, C. Loizou3 and C. S. Pattichis1 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Cyrus 2M.S.Pattichis is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, USA 3Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences, Intercollege, Cyprus
19:24	Telemedicine in the Intensive Care setting, using satellite communication facilities Theodoros Kyprianou1, George S. Panayi1 and Marios D. Dikaiakos2 1 Intensive Care Unit, Nicosia General Hospital 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
19:36	An m-health system for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias E. Kyriacou1,2, C. Pattichis1, M. Pattichis3, A. Jossif4, D. Vogiatzis1, L. Paraskeva1, A. Konstantinides1 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus 2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Frederick University, Cyprus 3 Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, USA
19:48	AM-FM Analysis of SEMG E. Hadjiprokopis1, P. Kaplanis2, M.S. Pattichis3 and C. S. Pattichis1 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Cyrus 2Department of Medical Physics, Nicosia General Hospital 3M.S.Pattichis is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, USA
	SESSION 6: Round Table Discussion
20:00	Industry DSP and Cyprus   Panelists: A. Andreou, A. Kounoudes, M. Polycarpou, A. Spanias
20:30	Closing
21:00	Dinner

⁺ The Biomedical Technology I and II Sessions are organized in collaboration with the University of Cyprus, Project: IntraMEDnet-A Mediterranean Research and Higher Education Intranet in Medical and Biological Sciences (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/intramednet). EU Community Initiative Programme INTERREG III B ARCHIMED.