International workshop on recent trends in signal processing

July 9 - 10, 2007
Organized by Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

July 9,

Ethnographical Museum, str. Memorandumului 21, Room Reduta

Welcome Remarks:
8:45 a.m.
 
Prof. dr. eng. Dr. H.C. mult. Radu Munteanu, Rector, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
 
Prof. Sanjit K. Mitra, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
   
Morning Session:
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Chair:
Prof. Vasile Buzuloiu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
 
“The Chimera of Optimality in Signal and Image Processing”
by Professor Alfred M. Bruckstein, Technion IIT, Haifa, Israel
 
“Wavelets: A New Tool in Signal Processing”
by Professor C. Sidney Burrus, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
   
Coffee Break:
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
   
 
“Signal Processing for Feature Extraction and Classification of Epileptogenic Brain Activity”
by Professor George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
 
“Securing the Physical Layer”
by Professor Alessandro Neri, University of Rome ‘TRE’, Rome, Italy
 
“Using Structure, Color and Texture for Content-based Image Retrieval”
Professor J. K. Aggarwal, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, U.S.A.
   
Lunch Break:
12:00 noon – 2:00 p.m
   
Afternoon Session:
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Chair:
Prof. Ioan Nafornita, University POLITEHNICA of Timisoara
 
“Power Amplifiers Internal Signal Requirements for Maximum Efficiency”
by Dr. Mihai Banu, MHI Consulting, Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A.
 
“Advances in Synchronization of Wireless Sensor Networks”
by Professor Erchin Serpedin, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
 
“Transmit-Reference Schemes for High-Speed Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Communication”
by Professor Alle-Jan van der Veen, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
   
Coffee Break:
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
   
 
“Efficient Image Decimation and Interpolation in Piecewise Polynomial Basis”
by Professor Karen Egiazarian , Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
 
“Data Hiding in the Fibonacci Domain”
by Dr. Marco Carli, University of Rome ‘TRE’, Rome, Italy


July 10,

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Str. Baritiu 26-28, Room 368

International School MSPAS 2007