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The Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology

San Diego, California, USA September 14-17,1997

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Volume II DSP Technology Designing the Third Generation LAN Switches Robert C. Brand, Acacia Networks, USA FFT-Based Parallel Systems for Array Processing with Low Latency: Sub-40ns 4K Butterfly FFT Chwen-Jye Ju, Sharp Microelectronics Technology, Inc., USA

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Low Power DSPs: The Next Measure of Performance Wai Lee, Gene Frantz, Brock Barton, Paul Landman, Texas Instrument Inc., USA

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FPGAs in DSP A PLD-Based Solution for Cable Modem 1076 Doug Ridge, Stephen Farson, David Trainor, Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd., Northern Ireland, Dave Greenfield, Altera Corporation, USA DSP Processor Core for FLEX 10K Architecture Martin Langhammer, Altera Corporation, Canada

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High Performance Adaptive Filters for Programmable Logic Martin Langhammer, Altera Corporation, Canada

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Techniques and Tools for FPGA-Based DSP Design Roman Iwanczuk, Tony Williams, Xilinx, Inc, USA

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Geophysical Explicit Form Localizing of Unknown Source of Seismic Vibrations Vlastimir D. Pavlovic, Zoran Velickovic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia

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Geophysical Data Analysis with Matched Morlet CWT Federico Filippini De Juan, Gabriella Olmo, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico , Italy

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HLL Tools Approaching Peak Performance with Compiled Code on a VLIW DSP Alan Ward, Alan Davis, Eric J. Stotzer, Reid E. Tatge, Texas Instruments, USA

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Image Analysis A Simple and Fast Matching Algorithm for Image Recognition-Based on Orientation Run Length Coding Xiangjun Wang, Shenghua Ye, Tianjin University, China

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Adaptive Digital Filters for Image Processing and Restoration 1120 Vladimir I. Ponomaryov, Alexey B. Pogrebniak, Victor M. Velasco Herrera, Instituto Politcnico Nacional ESIME, Mexico An Improved Technique for Automated Image Histogram Thresholding Mahesh Godavarti, Jeffrey J. Rodriguez, DSP Software Engineering, USA

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Automatic Damage Detection for Railroad Tracks by the Analysis of Video Images 1130 A. Kummert, I. Khandogin, University of Wuppertal, Germany; D. Maiwald, STN ATLAS Elektronik GmbH, Germany Extracting Buried Pipes from 3D Image Data of Subsurface Radar Ayachika Kitazaki, Sophia University, Japan; Akira Kawanaka, Sophia University, Japan; Hideki Hayakawa, Osaka Gas Co., Ltd., Japan

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Image Analysis Algorithms for Automatic Determination of Antibiotic Content Margarido Machado, Instituto de Tecnologias de Informacao, Portugal

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Image Representation Recovery and Analysis Using Principle Component Analysis 1145 N.A. Ziyad, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA; Mohamed Chouikha, E.T. Gilmore, Kevin Tuggle, Howard University, USA

Lossless Image Compression Over Lossy Packet Networks Merriam, Pamela Cosman, A.L. Kellner, University of California, USA

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Modeling for Generating Scenery Of Mountain and Sea Shengping Jiang, Hiroshima City University, Japan

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Texture Segmentation Using Pyramidal Fuzzy Competitive Learning Algorithm Donyun Kim, Dongsub Cho, Ewha Womans University, Korea

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Use of A'SCAPE and Fusion Algorithms for the Detection of Concealed Weapons 1165 Mohamed Adel Slamani, Stiefvater Consultants Inc., USA; Pramod Varshney, Syracuse University, USA; Mark Alford, Rome Laboratory/OCSM, USA Wavelets In Fingerprint Image Enhancement I. Emiroglu M. B. Akhan, University of Hertfordshire, England

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Image Coding A Median Prediction Search Algorithm on Block Motion Estimation for Video Coding Linjun Luo, Cairong Zou, Zhenya He, Southeast University, China

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A Practical Piecewise Polynomials Approximation Based on Compactly Supported Biorthonormal Expansions 1179Kazuki Katagishi, R & D Laboratories, KDD Co. Ltd., Japan; Lee Seng Luan, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Kazuo Toraichi, Masao Yanyu, University of Tsukuba, Singapore Adaptive Hierarchical Motion Estimation Using the Characteristics of Local Images Jin-Tae Kim, Hanseo University, Korea; Dong-Wook Kim, ChungNam Sanup University, Korea; Jung-Soo Choi, Chung-Ang University, Korea

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An Implementation of Fractal Algorithm Compressing a TGA (Targa) File with WinNT 3.51 .... 1188 Guoliang Zeng, Buck Lem, Arizona State University East, USA An Overall Control Strategy for a High Quality Very Low Bitrate Image Sequence Coding System Kevin Martins Ferreira, INESC, Portugal Analog Two-Dimensional Discrete Cosine Transform LSI for Image Compression Based on Multirate Sampling Yoshiaki Tadokoro, Manabu Tsunoda, Shoji Kawahito, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; Noriaki Kudo, Hachinoche National College of Technology, Japan

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Comparison of Post Processing Algorithms for Transform Encoded Video Sequences 1203 Mohammad Shahid, Premisys Communications Inc., USA; Mohamed El-Sharkawy, Purdue University, USA; Mehmet Ozkan, Thomson Consumer Electronics, USA Image Compression by Texture Modeling of Wavelet Coefficients 1208 Hoon-Sung Kwak, Jeong-Ho Park, Byung-Ha Hwang, Jae-Ho Choi, Chonbuk National University, Korea Implementation of a Two-Stage Block Matching Algorithm Using Integral Projections on TMS320C80 DSP Board Sung Bum Pan, Rae-Hong Park, Young Soo Sohn, Sogang University , Korea Non-Recusive Weighted Finitive Automata Image Compression Hamed Parsiani, William Navas, Puerto Rico

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Secure Image Coding Scheme Using Wavelet Transform for Still Images Naohisa Shibuya, Naohisa Komatsu, Waseda University, Japan

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Trellis Vector Residual Quantization Giovanni Motta, Brandeis University, USA; Bruno Carpentieri, Universita' di Salerno, Italy

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Two-Dimensional Hierarchical Quantizing and Coding for Wavelet Image Compression 1233 Irina E. Bocharova, Victor Kolesnik, Boris D. Kudryashov, Andrey Malkov, Felix Taubin, State Academy on Airspace Instrumentation, Russia VLSI-Architecture of a Time-Recursive 2-D Shape-Adaptive DCT Processor for Generic Coding of Video Thuyen Le, Mangred Glesner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

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Image Understanding A Two-Dimensional Image Pattern Center-Finding Algorithm Joseph M. Scanlan, Tasc, USA

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An O.C.R. for V.L.P.'s (Vehicle License Plates) 1248 Fernando Martin Rodriguez, Xulio Fernandez Hermida, Jose Luis Fernandez Lijo, Fidel Pita Sande, Miguel Perez Inlesias, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Spain Anti-Convolution Distortion Digital Signal Processing Algorithm Joseph Cai, Symbol Technologies, Inc., USA

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Unsupervised and Automated Image Classification of CCD Images Petri Mahonen, VTT Electronics, Finland; P. Hakala, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, England

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Industrial Applications A DSP-Based System for an Iterative Voltage and Current Line Conditioner Carlos de Mora, F. Yeves, S. Martinez, Francisco Mur, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Spain

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A DSP-Controlled Relay for Medium Three Phase System 1268 Gheorghe Tucu, Rudolph Zimand, Liviu Nicolescu, Lucian Petrisor, The Research Institute For Control Engineering, Romania An Automatic Visual Inspection System of the Quality of Painting of Metal Film Mini Resistors Joao Sanches, Moises S. Piedade, INESC, Portugal Analysis of Water Wave Propagation by Short-time Fourier Transform Technique Ben T. Nohara, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan

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Bergeron Approached Electric Power System Transients Analysis and its Parallel Processing of Using Multi-DSP 1286 Azusa Iwata, Koichi Nakamura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Mototaka Stone, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan; S.C. Verma, Hideki Fujita, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan Compact PCI - The Industrial DSP Platform of the Future Roland Puscher, Perimos GmbH, Germany, Cornelius Kellerhoff, Germany

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Development of Digital Control of Generator 1296 Kentarou Kawabata, Mototaka Sone, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan; Hirokazu Takahashi, Nippon Koei Co., Inc., Japan

Discrimination of the Road Condition from the Road Monitoring Image 1301 Muneo Yamada, Isao Horiba, Noboru Sugie, Meijo University, Japan; Koji Ueda, Nagoy Electric Works Co, Ltd., Japan DSP-Based Fuzzy Logic Control for a Servomotor Heng-Ming Tai, Phil Shih, Kaveh Ashenayi, University of Tulsa, USA

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Estimating Oscillation of Synchronous Generators Using Recurrent Neural Networks 1311 Koichi Nakamura, Yutaka Ohta, Takashi Masubara, Nogoya Institute of Technology, Japan; Mototaka Sone, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan; S.C. Verma, Hideki Fujita, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan Extracting of Line Features for Automatic Inspection of Vehicle Doors KiHong Kim, YunKoo Chung, HyunBin Kim, Systems Engineering Research Institute, Korea

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Flaw and Hitch Detecting of Bearings Based on High Order Spectra Gu Caikang, Zhang Shujing, Shangai Tiedao University, China

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Monitoring of Surface Quality in Milling Using Fusion Techniques 1326 Manoochehr Kelarestaghi, Menad Sidahined, Heudiasyc Compiegne University of Technology, France Multi-DSP Parallel Image Processing for Vision Application Jose Hiroki Saito, Sandra Abib, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil Performance Improvements of an X Gama Rays Computerized Minitomagraphy Scanners Dedicated to Agriculture Using the TMS320C40 Paulo Cruvinel, EMBRAPA-CNPDIA, Brazil

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Real-Time Transformer Fault Diagnostics Using Supersonic Sensors and Wavelet Transforms . 1341 Hemchandra M. Shertukde, Hisham Alnajjar, Uday A. Prabhune, Sutha Sambanther, University of Hartford, USA Simulation of an Active Vibration Control System for Aerospace Application Khanh Ly, GEC-Marconi Aerospace Inc., USA

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Single-Axis Adaptive Control of a Five-Axis Magnetic Bearing Using a Fixed-Point DSP 1351 Bill Rogers, United Technologies Research Center, USA; Louis F. Godbout, University of Hartford, USA

Instrumentation and Testing Study of Time-Frequency Methods for Multilayer Structures Characterization Dominique Dallet, L. Bechou, Y. Ousten, Universite Bordeaux, France

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Multimedia A Multimedia HeadEnd Platform Under PCI Environments Dong-Bum Jung, Yeong-Weon Hwang, Jun-Kyun Choi, ETRI, Korea

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Available Instruction-Level Parallelism in Multimedia Applications Mabo Ito, Hani Bagnordi, University of British Columbia, Canada

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High Performance JPEG Cores 1371 Doug Ridge, Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd., Northern Ireland; Yi Hu, David Trainor, Stephen Farson, Integrated Silicon Gardens, Northern Ireland

High Speed Video Deinterlacing with a Programmable TriMedia VLIW Core Bram Riemens, R.J. Schutten, K.A. Vissers, Philips Research Labs, The Netherlands

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Multi-Channel Data Communications on Fixed-Point DSP Architectures Stuart Harker, Arda Erol, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc., Canada

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Single-Chip DSP Implementation of an H.324 Audio Sub-Section Scott Andrew, Signal Processing Associates P/L, Australia

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Multiprocessor Architectures 3D Graphics Acceleration on A Multiprocessor Architecture I. Emiroglu M. B. Akhan, Tolga Bayik, Eduardo Bahari, University of Hertfordshire, England

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A Highly Scaleable Multiprocessor Architecture Based on the ADI SHARC DSP Joseph Sgro, Alacron, Inc., USA

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A Large Parallel DSP System and its Programming Environment F. Mayer-Lindenberg, Technical University of Hamburg-Harbug, Germany

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A Multiprocessor Architecture for Correlation Trackers Khoa Nguyen, Zygo Corporation, USA

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A New Architecture for C6x High Performance Multiprocessing Edward Young, Loughborough Sound Images pic, England

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A NUMA Architecture for DSP Using the PowerPC Richard Jaenicke, SKY Computers Inc., USA

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A Selection Method of the Arbiter Type on the Shared Memory Network 1421 Tomoya Uchiike, Masashi Yoshida, Nobukazu Iijima, Mototaka Sone, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan Automatic Programming of Multiprocessor DSP Systems J.P. Berneim, Xavier Bernard, Castor Technologies S.A., France

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Design and Test of a Multi-Processor DSP Multichip Module Glenn M. Romano, Analog Devices, USA

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Predictive Control System of Electric Power System by Super Real-Time Computation with Multi-DSP System 1434 Hideaki Matsumoto, Mototaka Sone, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan; Hideki Fujita, Chubu Electric Power Inc., Japan; Koichi Nakamura, Nogoya Institute of Technology, Japan Supporting Wide-Band Digital ESM (Electronic Support Measures) by Multirate Filterbanks Implemented in FPGAs Hans Christian Lonstad, Norway Using Statecharts for Hardware/Software Codesign of Multi-DSP Applications Christian Steger, Graz University of Technology, Austria

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Native Signal Processing Using Software Modems to Reduce System Cost in DSP Applications David Walsh, Advanced RISC Machines Ltd., England

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Neural Networks A Non-Linear PID Controller for Pneumatic Cylinder Using Neural Networks Toshiharu Matsukuma, Yoshihisa Ishida, Atsushi Fujiwara, Meiji University, Japan

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ANN-Based Parameter Estimation with Minimum Variance Andrzej Materka, Michal Strzelecki, Technical University of Lodz, Poland

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Hardware Implementation of an RBF Neural Network: Architecture and Design Methodology . 1465 Mourad Aberbour, Habib Mehrez, Universite Paris VI, France Modeling Frog Eighth Nerve Responses Using Wavelet Analysis and Neural Networks Michael J. Anderson, Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, Rutgers University, USA

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Neural Bioadaptive Control System for Aircrafts Dorian Aur, George Culea, Radioelectronic Research Center, Romania

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Neural Network Punctured Convolutional Code Decoder Kirk Mason, Janak Sodha, University of the West Indies (UWI), Barbados

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Neural Network Shape Coded Modulation Janak Sodha, University of the West Indies, Barbados

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The Implementation of Neural Networks Using Limited Arithmetic Precision Robert Slaviero, Signal Processing Associates Pty Ltd, Australia

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Parallel Processing A Software Bus Locking Mechanism for a C4x-Based VXIbus System Gord Wait, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc., Canada Application of a Massively Parallel DSP System Architecture to Perform Wavefront Reconstruction for a 941 Channel Adaptive Optics System Robert J. Eager, Boeing, USA

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Dynamic Load Balancing of Visibility Calculations on a Multi-DSP-System Robert Hranitzky, University of Technology, Germany

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On-line Scheduling of Tasks in Multi-DSP Systems Bernhard Rinner, Diethard Kaufman, Technical University Graz, Germany

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Scheduling Algorithm with Communication Time Using CPM 1514 Kuzunori Suwa, Hideaki Matsumoto, Mototaka Sone, Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan; Hideki Fujita, S.C. Verma, Chubu Electric Power Inc., Japan; Koichi Nakamura, Nogoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Radar A Map Estimate of Optimal Data Association for Multi-Target Tracking Yang Weon Lee, Min Ku Kang, Hong Jeong, Hyun-Sik Na, Honam University, Korea

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Complexity Analysis of Permutation Test Versus Rank Test for Nonparametric Radar Detection .. 1523 Francisco Alvarez Vaquero, Jose L. Sanz-Gonzalez, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Spain Digital Generation and Processing of Wide-Bandwidth Radar Signals Stephen Rejto, Jeffrey McHarg, Eric Willman, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

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Image Processing Applications on Civil Airports 95 GHz Surface Movement Radar 1532 Fausto Marti, Gaspare Galati, University of Rome TorVergata, Italy; Mauro Ferri, Oerlikon-Contraves, Italy The Space-Time Processing of Radar Signals on a Clutter Background with the Scanning Rate Anatoly D. Pluzhnikov, E.N. Pribludova, State Technical University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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Radio/Satcom/NAV A DSP Sub-System for use in Satellite Communications Carrier Monitoring John Lillington, Libra Design Associates, England A Reconfigurable VME Spread-Spectrum LPI (Low Probability of Intercept) Datalink Receiver/Transmitter Implemented via Reconfigurable DSP Hardware James M. Simkins, J. Wright, Raytheon Aircraft/Montek, USA

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Blind Adaptive MUD with Silence Listening Luca Simone Ronga, E. Del Re, International Computer Science Institute, USA

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Design and Implementation of DSP Digital Beamforming Receiver Glenn E. Prescott, Srikanth Gurupu, University of Kansas, USA

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Implementation of the Navigation Parameter Extraction from the Aerial Image -•*• Sequence on TMS320C80 DSP Board 1562 Sung Bum Pan, J.H. Park, K.D Hwang, Rae-Hong Park, R.C. Kim, S.U. Lee, I.C. Kim, Sogang University, Korea Real-Time DSP-Based Carrier Recovery with Unknown Doppler Shift Phillip L. De Leon, New Mexico State University, USA

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Solutions for DSP Communications Systems Design Problems in an RF Distorted Environment Carter Smith, Hewlett Packard, USA

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The Simulated Performance of a Power-Of-Two Transversal Equalizer in a 34Mbit/s QPSK Digital Radio Experiencing Rummler Fading Brindsley Archer, Peralex Electronic Development, South Africa TMS320C62xx Applications Min Wang, Texas Instruments, USA

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Rapid Prototyping Autocode Generation for Use in a Rapid Prototyping Environment Chris A. Jensen, Thomas Derryberry, Texas Instruments, USA

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Porting GRAPE to the TMS320C80 Wim Baetens, Marleen Ade, Rudy Lauwereins, University of Leuven, Belgium

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Prototyping of a Cellular System Transcoder Frank Carpenter, Patrick Jackson, David Lauson, Nortel, USA

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Prototyping of Military Radio Systems Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays and DSP Microprocessors Glenn E. Prescott, Steve Tyler, University of Kansas, USA

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Robotics Application of a Parameter Disturbing Algorithm of Feedback Neural Networks to Manipulator Control Ying Tan, Zhenya Tan, Southeast University, China Design and Application of Surface Mount Technology Satnam Singh Dhawan, Punjab Wireless Systems Limited, India

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Specialized Applications A Digital Local Orbit Feedback System for the ELETTRA Synchrotron Radiation Source A. Galimberti, Daniele Bulfone, M. Lonza, C. Scafuri, Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy

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Design and Development of a Wavefront Reconstructor Sam Monaco, Gary Olson, Hughes Danbury Optical System, Inc., USA

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DPLL Design and Realization on a DSP Teresa M. Almeida, Moises S. Piedade, IST/INESC, Portugal

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Fast Neural Decision System Based on DSPs and Parallel Processing 1629 Jose Manuel Seixas, L. P. Caloba, A.R. Anjos, R. Linhares, A.C.H. Dantas, COPPE/EE/UFRJ, Brazil Performance Evaluation of the One Receiving Point Locating Method for Moving Object Tracking Kazuhiro Koshi, Yoshiaki Tadokoro, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

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Speech Analysis and Coding A Multi-Lingual, Speaker-Independent, Continuous-Speech Recognizer on TMS320C5x Fixed-Point DSP Yu-Hung Kao, Wally Anderson, Hong-Swee Lim, Texas Instruments, USA ASIC Implementation of a High-Quality Speech Coding Algorithm at 16 kbps Cheung-Fat Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Implementation of the Floating-Point ITU-T G.723.1 Speech Coding Algorithm on a 24-bit Fixed-Point DSP Cole Erskine, Jianxin Liu, Mark Gloudemans, Steve Ammon, Analogical Systems, USA

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Performance Evaluation and Improvement of Speech Coder Under Channel Error Environment . 1653 Byung-Sik Yoon, Won-Myoung Lee, Song-In Choi, ETRI, Signal Processing Section, Korea Performance Evaluation of an Echo Canceller Combined with a Speech Coder Byung-Sik Yoon, Won-Myoung Lee, Song-In Choi, ETRI, Signal Processing Section, Korea

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Performance Testing of IS-641 Implementation on Floating Point DSP (TMS320C3x) Shvetal Patel, Nina Kowalski, Shrirang Jangi, Kumar Swaminathan, Hughes Network Systems, USA

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Voicing Decision and Pitch Estimation Using Third-Order Statistics Elias Nemer, Rafik Goubran, Nortel, Canada

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Speech Programming A Cochlea Filter Bank for Speech Analysis Elaine Tsiang, Monowave Corporation, USA

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A Speech Coding Algorithm Optimized for High Quality Digital Speech Storage Applications and Single Chip Implementation Mark Gloudemans, Jianxin Liu, Analogical Systems, USA How Close Are We to the Network Quality 4KBit/s Codec? Milan Jelinek, Ridha Matmti, Jean-Pierre Adoul, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

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Implementation of G.723.1 Dual Rate Speech Codec for Multimedia Communications on Motorola DSP56002 and Motorola DSP563xx Processors 1689 B. Sahoo, Sachin Ghanekar, Bhasker Bhupalam, G. Varadarajan, K. Binjuraj, Motorola India Electronics Limited, India Multirate Subband Techniques for Speech Enhancement Sen M. Kuo, Ming Dai, Northern Illinois University, USA

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Real-Time Implementation of G.723.1 Speech Coder Using TI TMS320C51 DSP Chip 1699 X.D. Gan, T. Chen, L.V.D. Berghe, E. Tedja, K.E. Kuah, Si See Mong, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore Real-Time Implementation of the TETRA Speech Codec by Using the TMS320C541 Enrique A. Mateo, Javier M. Julvez, Enrique Masgrau, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

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Robust Speech Coding Based on Pole-Zero Representations and Trellis Coded Quantization Khosro Darroudi, Andreas Spanias, Telecommunications Research Center, USA

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SLAM vl.O for Windows: A Simple PC-Based Tool for Segmentation and Labeling Piero Cosi, Centra de Fonetico, Italy

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The Improved LPC Vocoder at 2.4 Kbps Low Bit Rate and its Real-time Implementation on DSP .1719 Huang-Lin Yang, Hwai-Tsu Chang, Hsi-Wen Nein, Chin-Teng Lin, Shu-Wu Lo, Computer and Communication Research Laboratories, Taiwan Two Channel Spectral Subtraction and Adaptive Post-Filtering for Noise Reduction and Dereverberation Pascal Scalart, France Telecom, France; Jozue Vieira Filho, UNESP, Brazil

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Speech Understanding and Restoration A New Approach to Robust Speech Recognition Using Fuzzy Matrix Quantization Based on a Robust LSP Saf Asghar, Lin Cong, Advanced Micro Devices, USA

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An Acoustic Isolated Speech Recognition Approach Using the KLT and VQ 1739 A. Herrera, M. Martinez, O. Sanchez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; V.R. Algazi, University of California, Davis, USA Approach for the Automatic Segmentation of Mandarin Speech Signals Ming-Tzaw Lin, Ching-Kuen Lee, Tatung Institute of Technology, Taiwan

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Context Representation Used in Speech Recognition 1747 Carlos Rivera, Jesus Savage, Fernando Lepe, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; Mark Billinghurst, Alistair Holden, University of Washington, USA

Identification of Transfer Function of Vocal Tract Using Genetic Algorithm Masahide Yoneyama, Kouichi Komori, Toyo University, Japan; Shogo Nakamura, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Performance Comparison of Adaptive Wiener Filtering and Kalman Filtering Techniques for Speech Enhancement M. Tahernezhadi, S. Chimay, Northern Illinois University, USA

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Pitch Estimation of Noisy Speech by a Recursive Type of Linear Prediction Munehiro Namba, Hiroyuki Kamata, Yoshihisa Ishida, Meiji University, Japan

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Studying Pharyngeal and Emphatic Sound in Arabic Speech Recognition Problems YousefA. Alotaibi, USA

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Transportation A Comparative Analysis of Spectral Estimation Techniques in Automotive Knock Detection, and a Proposed Algorithm for Mass Production Use Robert Kaster, Germany

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PETRI Project: Parallel Environment for a Real-Time Traffic Management and Information System Fernando de la Huerta, UITESA, Grupo IBERDROLA, Spain

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Study of Radar Waveforms Coded by Pseudorandom Sequences: Automotive Collision Avoidance Application M. Zaizouni, Atika Menhaj, N. Godard, J.M. Rouvaen, I.E.M.N, France

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The Application of Neural Networks for Engine Knock Detection in a Real-World Environment 1785 Stefan Ortmann, Matthias Rychetsky, Manfred Glesner, Riccardo Groppo, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

VLSI Architectures A Fast Sort Systolic Architecture for VLSI Median Filters Graham King, Z. Hu, Southampton Institute, England

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Architecture for the in Place Access Memory Discrete Cosine Transform Manuel Sanchez, Juan Lopez, Oscar Plata, Emilio L. Zapata, University of Malaga, Spain

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CDMA Rake Receiver Synthesis Using SPW/Visual Architect Murali Krishnan, Alta Business Unit of Cadence, USA

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Innovative Use of VHDL in the VLSI Implementation of an AIM/B-ISBN Switch Hemchandra M. Shertukde, Sutha Sambanther, University of Hartford, USA

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PLD Based FFTs 1810 Doug Ridge, Yi Hu, Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd., Northern Ireland; T J Ding, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; Dave Greenfield, Altera Corporation, USA VLSI Architecture for Non-Sequential Inversion Over GF (2m) Based on the Euclidean Algorithm Wolfram Drescher, Kay Bachman, Gerhard Fettweis, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

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Wavelets A Centroidal Technique for Stabilizing Wavelet Coefficients in Transients Binish Desai, Martin Dowling, Liberty Technologies, USA

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A Wavelet-Based Deblocking Algorithm for JPEG Images Maddalena Di Giura, Rinaldo Poluzzi, SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics, Italy; Chiara Bancale, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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Application of Wavelet Transforms to Reduce Vibration Noise for On-the-Move FTIR Spectrometers C. David Wang, AIL Systems Inc., USA

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Computational Algorithms for Daubechies' Least-Asymmetric, Symmetric, and Most-Symmetric Wavelets Carl Taswell, WavBox ToolSmiths, USA

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Efficient Multiple Access MC-COMA Channel Coding Using Wavelets 1839 Jae-Ho Choi, H.S. Kwak, Chonbuk National University, Korea; Bong-Tae Kim, ETRI, Korea; Won-Koo Kim, University of Pittsburgh, Noise Reduction Technique For EEG Signal Using Period-Synchronous Wavelet Transform M. Tahernezhadi, T. Liu, Northern Illinois University, USA

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Storage Model Properties with Varying fBm Input Based on Wavelet Estimation Method Jaka Sembiring, Waseda University, Japan

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Use of Quasi-Newton Methods and Delta Learning Rule for Adaptive Wavelets in Speech Signal Representations Jatinder Bedi, Chang-Gyoon Lim, Wayne State University, USA

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1996 Papers Flip Shape Code Mohan C. Baro, Dr. Janak Sodha, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

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Genetic Algorithms and Radar Code Design T. Bucciarelli, A. Marone, M. Minorenti, R. Parisi, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy

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Non-Destructive Evaluation of Cheese Moisture 1867 Miguel A. Rodrigues, Luis Vergara, Momon Miralles, Juan Morales, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain Punctured Forced State Unequal Error Protection (UEP) Rudolph Brissett, Dr. Janak Sodha, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

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Ultrasonic Detection of Microcracks on Ceramic Material 1876 Miguel A. Rodrigues, Luis Vergara, Momon Miralles, Juan Morales, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain