Regular Session Program

 

Sunday 28 December
o 11:15 - 13:15

SMA: ADC - I
Session Chair : Prof M.Sawan, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal. Canada
Co - Chair : Prof. Ayman Kayssi. AUB, Lebanon




1. Design of an 8-bit 300MSPS CMOS A/D Converter with an
Improved T/H Circuit and Dynamic Latch.
MINKYU SONG,Korea - Sangkyu Kim.

2. A 4-bit, 500 MHz Current-Mode FLASH Analog-to-Digital
Converter.
Hassan Aboushady , France - J. Bonan, and M.M. Louerat.

3. A Digital Background Calibration Technique For
Pipelined ADC Using Redundant Stages.
Jaeki Yoo, USA - Edward Lee , Swartzlander, E.E.Jr.

4. Software Linearization Of D/A Converters.
Ayman Kayssi ,Lebanon - Michel Azarian, Niels Knudsen.

5. Robust Test Set For Flash A/D Converter.
HASSANEIN AMER, Egypt - ALY E. SALAMA.



SMB: High Performance VLSI -I
Session Chair : Prof. Ali Ezat, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co - Chair: Prof. Hazem Hassan. AAST, Egypt



1. Multiple Path IEEE Floating-Point Multiply Accumulate.
Hesham Ali, Egypt - Peter-Michael Seidel.

2. Hardware Implementation of the RC4 Stream Cipher.
Paraskevas Kitsos, Greece - G. Kostopoulos, and O.
Koufopavlou., Greece

3. Concurrent Interleaving For Parallel Turbo Decoding.
Yuping Zhang, United States - Keshab K. Parhi.,

3. ASIC Implementation of Efficient Line Spectral.
Ravi Ramachandran, United States - Fre David L. Reynolds and Linda
M. Head.

4. Architectural Exploration of Low-Power CORDIC Engine
using Transaction-Level Models.
Winnie Cheng, United States - P.Wu, L.Mastroleon, M.Hakansson.

5. A Novel Low-Latency Viterbi Decoder Core.
Mohamed Khairy, Egypt - Ahmed Shebaita, Ali Ezzat Salam.


SMC: RF, PLL's & Synthesizers
Session Chair : Prof. Said EL Khami, Alex. Univ., Egypt
Co- Chair: Prof. Mourad El Gamal. Mc Gill Univ., Canada




1. A CMOS Frequency Synthesizer for Multi-Standard
Wireless Devices.
Jad Atallah, Lebanon - Mohammed Ismail.

2. An Agile SD fractional-N PLL Frequency Synthesizer for
2.5G GSM applications.
Mohamed El sheikh, Egypt - Khaled Sharaf, Hisham Haddara,
Hani F. Ragai, Mohamed I. Marzouk.

3. A CMOS Frequency Synthesizer Covering the Lower and
Upper Bands of 5GHz WLANs.
Mourad El-Gamal, Canada - Alexandre Marsolais, and Mohamad
Sawan.

4. Design of A PLL based frequency synthesizer For
Multi-standard transceivers.
Hamed Elsimary, Egypt - H.A.Shawkey and A.E.Salama.

5. A Frequency Synthesizer Architecture Using Frequency
Difference Detection.
Steffen Albrecht, Sweden - Yasuaki Sumi, Mohammed Ismail, and
Hannu Tenhunen.

6. A Dual-Band SiGe BiCMOS Offset PLL for EGSM 900 MHz
and DCS 1800 MHz Cellular Transmitters.
Hany Elhak, Egypt - Ahmed Helmy, Waleed F. Aboueldahab,
Tamer A. Abdelrheem, Ahmed Saad and Amr Hafez.


SMD: Image Compression
Chair person: Prof. Samir Shaheen, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co - Chair : Dr. Said Belkasim. GSU. USA



1. A HYBRID DWT-SVD IMAGE-CODING SYSTEM (HDWTSVD).
Humberto Ochoa, United States - K. R. Rao.

2. Adaptive Fractal Image Compression using Wavelet
Sub-tree Coefficients.
Said El-Khamy, Egypt - Nadder A. Hamdy, Hazem Shatila.

3. Zigzag Line Discrete Cosine Transform for blocking
artifact removal.
Saeid Belkasim, United States - Gordana Derado.

4. Improved Image Compression Using Fractal Block Coding.
Reza Hashemian, United States - Satyendra Marivada.

5. A Real Time Compression Approach for Aerial and Remote
Sensing Images.
Emad. Osman, Egypt - Ahmed Gohar, Hala Bayoumy.

6. Color Image Compression Using Combined VQ Algorithms..
Hazem Al-Otum, Jordan




SME: Fuzzy systems & Soft-Computing Applications
Session Chair: Prof. Majid Ahmadi ,University of Windsor,Canada
Co - Chair : Prof. Ahmed Bahnasawi, Cairo Univ. , Egypt



1. Information and knowledge sharing in a distributed
system: application to environmental monitoring system.
Vincenzo Di Lecce, Italy - V. Piuri.

2. Comparing Hybrid Versus Single Stragey Intelligent
Systems In Signal Pattern Classification.
Roshdy Youssif, United States - Carla. N. Purdy.

3. The Controller Design used in Lorenz Synchronization
Chaotic System for Secure Communication based in LMI
Fuzzy Control System..
Nobuo Oki, Brazil - Patricia E. Domingues , Edson Righeto ,
Marcelo M. C. Teixeira.

4. Goal Seeking With Obstacle Avoidance Behavior For Mobile
Robots.
Bahram Kimiaghalam, United States - Bandi Bharat Kumar Reddy, Abdollah
Homaifar, Albert C. Esterline, Bijan Sayyarrodsari,
Numan S. Dugan.

5. Emergent System Depending on New Model of Non-Uniform
Cellular Automata.
Eiichiro Tazaki, Japan - Yasser Hassan.

6. A fuzzy rule-based management system for lifts.
Iman Morsy, Egypt - Amr El zawawy.



o 11:15 - 13:15

SMF: (SS2) Advanced Networking Hardware Design
Chair: Taskin Kocak, University of Central Florida


1. "On Networking Multithreaded Processor Design: Hardware
Thread Prioritization", Andreas Doering and Maria Gabrani,
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

2. "Design and Implementation of IMA, ML/MC PPP and other 3G
Radio Access
Network protocol processing on a multi-threaded
multi-processor architecture", Muthu Venkatachalam, Raj
Yavatkar, Robert Roden, T.J. O'Dwyer, Intel Corporation, USA

3. "Control Path in a Data-Flow Protocol Processor", Ulf
Nordqvist and Dake Liu, Linkoping University, Sweden,

4."An architecture for chip-to-chip communications on
network line cards", Jacob Engel and Taskin Kocak,
University of Central Florida, USA,


SMG: MEMS & Sensor Systems
Session Chair : Prof. Mona Zaghloul, George Washington Univ.,USA
Co - Chair : Dr. Amal zaki , ERI , Egypt



1. MEMS Phased Arrays – A Review and Status. (invited
paper)
Amir I. Zaghloul, United States

2. ZnO Based SAW Delay Line Sensor:Fabrication and
Characteristics. (invited paper)
Farid Hassani, United States - Shahrokh Ahmadi,Can E.Korman and Mona
Zaghloul.

3. Design of Si-Based Micromachined Slot Antenna.
Marwa Mohamed, Egypt -
H.Ghali,H.F.Ragaie,H.Haddara,P.Pons,K.Grenier,and
R.Plana.

4. Design of Piezoelectric Cantilever Microphone and Its
MEMS-Acoustical Circuit for Hearing Aid Devices.
Sherif Saleh , Egypt - Hamed Elsimary , Amal Z. Mohamed ,
Hesham F. Hamed.

5. Microsensors and Microactuators:Operation,Theory and
Robotics Applications.
Tarek EL-Fouly, Canada - E.F.El-Saadany.

6. InP-Based MEMS for Integrative Optical Microsystems.
R. Ghodssi - M.W. Pruessner, D. Kelly, M. Datta.



SMH: Control System Design
Chair person: Prof. Ahmed Bahgat, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co - Chair: Dr Hassan Khalil. MSU. USA



1. Nonlinear Control of Permanent Magnet Stepper Motors
Using Conditional Integrators.
Hassan Khalil, United States - Sridhar Seshagiri.

2. Petri-Net Controller Synthesis using Matlab/Statflow
Tools.
ahmed Ibraheem*, Egypt - M. Said Abdel Moteleb, Ahmed G.
Bahgat.

3. Robust Estimation-Based Design for Uncertain Plants.
Ashraf Zaher, Egypt - Mohamed Zohdy , Fayez Areed , and
Kamel Soliman.

4. Position Control of Sun Tracking System.
Alaa El-Deen Khalil, Egypt - M. El -Singaby.

5. High Angle Of Attack Maneuvering Via Intelligent
Approaches.
mohamed atalla, Egypt - Ahmed Elsakaan,Ahmed Bahnasawi.

6. Optimal Position Control for Robot Manipulators.
Fernando Reyes Cortés, Mexico - Feb e Barb osa.

7. An Overview of Fuzzy Logic in Power and Control
Systems.
Ahmed Gad, Canada - M. Farooq.



o 15:30 - 17:30

SAA: Analog Circuits - I
Chair Person: Prof. El Sayed A. El badawy, Theba Integrated Academy,Egypt
Co - Chair: Prof. Moustafa Hussien. AAST. Egypt



1. SpectreHDL Model of a Photodetector Cell for
Electrical Simulation and its Application in a WTA
Based Light Spot Center Location Circuit.
Pablo Aguirre, Uruguay -
Alberto Yْfera, Adoraciَn Rueda.

2. Automatic Adjustment of the Output Impedance of a
Balanced Transconductor Using a Charged Capacitor.
Antonio de Queiroz, Brazil.

3. A Wide-Swing Cascode Transimpedance Preamplifier For
Optical Receiver.
Yanjie Wang, Canada - Rabin Raut.

4. On The Performance of Transimpedance Amplifier.
Mohyee Mikhemar, Egypt - Khaled W Sharaf, Hani F. Ragaie.

5. Single-chip Eye Tracker using Smart CIS Pixels.
Dongsoo Kim, Korea - Seunghyun Lim and Gunhee Han.



SAB: Circuit Techniques
Session Chair: Prof. George Gielen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Co - Chair: Prof. Valeriu Beiu. WSU. USA



1. Threshold Logic Implementations: The Early Days.
Valeriu Beiu, United States

2. A High Performance, Hybrid Wave-Pipelined Linear
Feedback Shift Register With Skew Tolerant Clocks.
Jabulani Nyathi, United States - José G. Delgado-Frias, and Jeff
Lowe.

3. A Novel Ultra-Low-Energy Bulk Dynamic Threshold PMOS
Scheme.
Walid Elgharbawy (Student), United States - Magdy Bayoumi.

4. A novel technique to generate fine resolution.
H. Hamed, Egypt - A.E.Salama & M.Zaghloul.

5. Static Timing Analysis with Rigorous Exploitation.
Andreas Wortmann, Germany - Sven Simon, Matthias Mueller.

6. Low Power Encoding for Coupled On-Chip Buses.
Maged Ghoneima, United States - Yehea Ismail.



SAC: RF Front ends & Architectures
Session Chair: Prof. Amir Zagloul, Virginia State  Univ. USA
Co - Chair: Dr. Raed Shubair. Etisalat College of Eng. Sharjah. UAE.



1. System Level WLAN Receiver Design.
Ahmed Emira, United States - A.Valdes-Garcia, and E.
Sanchez-Sinencio.

2. A Concurrent L1 and L2-band GPS Receiver Using an
Integrated Low-IF and Weaver Architecture.
Ying-Che Chung, Taiwan - Robert Y.J. Tsen, Chih-Wei Chen,
Oscal T.-C. Chen.

3. A 6-7GHz CMOS Receiver Frontend with a Wide Frequency
Tuning Range.
Koon Hung Lee, Canada - Mourad N. El-Gamal.

4. A Direct Conversion CMOS RF Front-End for IEEE 802.
Ho-Kwon Yoon, United States - Mohammed Ismail.

5. A Multi-Band RF Front-End Receiver for Bluetooth,
WCDMA, and GPS Applications.
Ying-Che Chung, Taiwan - Chih-Wei Chen,Oscal T.-C. Chen and
Robert Y.J. Tse.

6. Performance Evaluation Of The LMS Adaptive Beamforming
Algorithm Used in Smart Antenna Systems.
Raed Shubair, United Arab Emirates - E. M. Al-Ardi and M. E. Al-Mualla.



SAD: Video Compression
Session Chair: Prof. K.R.Rao, U. of Texas at Arlington, USA
Co - Chair: Dr. Farzin Ahmadianpour. Concordia Univ. Calgary. Canada



1. Error resilient video coding using hierarchical grid
interpolation method for H.264.
Seung Hwan Kim, Korea

2. A New Fuzzy Overlapped Motion Compensation Scheme.
Farzin Ahmadianpour, Canada - M. Omair Ahmad.

3. A New Approach to Reduce the Blocking Effects in Video
Compression.
Farzin Ahmadianpour, Canada - M. Omair Ahmad.

4. An Effective Lossless Compression Algorithm 3D-DPIWT
for Medical Image Sequence.
Jian Zhang, China - GAO Xin-bo, JI Hong-bing.

5. A Novel Hierarchical Search Motion Estimation
Algorithm.
Songtao Huang, Canada - Majid Ahmadi ,William.C.Miller.

6. Prediction of MPEG-Coded Video Source Traffic Using
Recurrent Neural Networks.
Amir Atiya, Egypt - Aninda Bhattacharya, Alexander G.
Parlos, Amir F..



SAE: FPGA I
Session Chair: Prof. Abbes Amira, Queen's University,Belfast
Co - Chair: Dr Hamed El Semary. ERI, Egypt.



1. Reconfigurable Crypto-Processor Design of Encryption
Algorithms Operation Modes :Methods and FPGA
Integration.
Athanasios Priftis, Greece - N.Sklavos and O.Koufopavlou.

2. A Methodology for the Design of Configurable Computing
Machines for Software Radio Handsets.
Omar HAMMAMI, France - K.Ghali and I.Hermann.

3. Network on Chip Using a Reconfigurable Platform.
Jean David, Canada - Li Ping Sun,El Mostapha Aboulhamid.

4. Design And Development Of A Demonstration Platform
Dedicated To Turbo Codes.
Christophe JEGO, France.

5. Novel Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Processing Element
Architecture.
Aki Happonen, Finland - Erwin Hemming,Markku Juntti.

6. A Reconfigurable Arithmetic Logic Unit for Elliptic
Curve Cryptosystems over GF(2 m ).
Mathias Schmalisch, Germany - Dirk Timmermann.

7. Efficient Systolic Array for Singular Value and
Eigenvalue Decomposition.
Aziz Ahmedsaid, United Kingdom - A.Amira and A.Bouridane.



SAF: Protocols, Algorithms & Mechanisms
Session Chair: Prof.  Dr. Hussein Shaheen , Ain Shams Univ., Egypt
Co - Chair : Prof. Osama Ismael. AAST.,Egypt



1. ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol.
Tamer Elsayed, United States - Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef,
Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode.

2. The Serving-CSCF Assignment Algorithm in Wireless IP
Multimedia Networks.
Sang-chul Oh, Korea - Chan-yong Lee and Yeon-seung Shin.

3. Improved Access to Multiple Internet Mirror Servers in
Parallel.
Yousry Abdel-Hamid, Canada - T. A. Gulliver.

4. Adaptive Indexed Gaussian-credit Probing Sequence for
Packet Classification in High Performance Computer
Communication Networks.
Mohamed Jayeh, Canada - K. Wu Fayez Gebali.

5. The Minimum Link Delay Algorithm – An Enhanced
Mechanism for Macroscopic Synchronization of Telecom
Network Nodes.
Hisham Abdel-Ghaffar, Egypt

6. IEEE 802.11 Wireless Protocol: User Performance Using
Discrete-Time Markov Chains
Fayez Gebali.

 

 

 

SAG: Optical Devices

Session Chair: Prof. M.B. Saleh, AAST, Egypt

Co - Chair: Dr. Eman Ashour. NTI, Egypt.

  

1. The Optical and DC Characteristics of

InGaP/AlGaAs/GaAs CompositeEmitter Heterojunction

Phototransistors.

Wen-Shiung Lour, Taiwan -  SHIH-WEI TAN, WEI-TIEN CHEN,

MIN-YUAN CHU, MENG-KAI HSU, AN-HUNG LIN,TIEN-SHENG LIN.


 

2. Erbium Doped-Fiber Amplifier Dynamics: Effect of Pump

Power and Number of Channels.

Tarik Olian, Egypt -  Ehab I. Sabry, Moustafa H. Aly.

 

3. Effect of Both Shot and Beat Noises on the Performance

of a 2-D optical CDMA Correlation Receiver.

Ashraf Elmeligy, Egypt -  Mootaz S. El-Sowehy, Hossam M. H.

Shalaby, and El-Sayed A. El-Badawy.

 

4. The First Version of the Optical Programmable

Array/Analogic Computer (POAC) Template Library.

Ahmed Ayoub, HungarySzabolcs Tُkés.

 

5. Semiconductor Laser Distortion Improvement for High

Performance Analog Optical Transmission.

Leonard MacEachern, Canada -  Samy Ghoniemy, Samy Mahmoud.

 

6. A Viable Optical Header Processor for Photonic Packet

Switching.

Ahmed Nouh, Canada -  Hussein Mouftah.

 

 

 

SAH: Biometrics

Session Chair: Prof. Hoda S. Abd Atty . Zohdy. Oakland Univ. USA

Co - Chair: Prof. Mohamed S. El Sherif. ERI, Egypt

  

 

1. Free style hand geometry verification system.

Ahmed Badawi, Egypt -  Mohamed S. Kamel.

 

2. Fingerprint Recognition Based On Spectral Feature

Extraction.

Rami Zewail, Egypt -  A. Seif, M. Saeb and N. Hamdy.

 

3. IRIS Identification Using LOG-GABOR Filtering.

Ahmed EL Safi, Egypt- R.Zewail, M.Saeb and N.Hamdy.

 

4. Iris Recognition using DWT and ANN.

maha sharkas,Egypt -  Onsy A. Aleem.

 

5. Based Human Detection In Natural and Complex Scenes.

 fatma bayoumi, Egypt -  M. Fouad, M. S. Shaheen.

 

 

 

                  Monday 29 December

 

                  o 09:45 - 11:45

MM1A: Current-Amplifiers - I

Session Chair: Prof. Ahmed Soliman, Cairo Univ., Egypt

Co - Chair: Dr. Hesham Hamed. NTI. Cairo, Egypt


 

1. High-Performace CMOS Current Follower.

Salvatore Pennisi, Italy

 

2. Design of a CMOS high frequency current conveyor based

switched-capacitor filter with low power consumption.

Alexander Korotkov, Russia -  D.V.Morozov, H.Hauer,

R.Unbehauen.

 

3. New Realizations of CMOS Current Controlled Conveyors

with Variable Current Gain and Negative Input

Resistance.

Saad Al-Shahrani, Saudi Arabia -  Munir K. Al-Absi.

 

4. Differential Voltage Current Conveyor and Fully

Differential Current Conveyor in CMOS Technology For

Low Voltage Analog Circuits Applications.

Hesham Hamed ,Egypt -  Ashraf A. M. Khalaf.

 

5. On The New Design Of CMOS Current Feedback Amplifiers.

Md. Ataur Sarkar, Canada -  Brent J. Maundy and Stephan. J.

Gift.

 

6. Low Voltage High Accuracy Current Copier Cell.

Fathi Farag, Egypt.

 

MM1B: CAD for VLSI - I

Session Chair: Prof. Wael Fekri, Ain Shams Univ., Egypt

Co - Chair: Prof. Yasser Hanafi. AAST. Egypt

  

 

1. Multiple SimpleScalar processors, with

introspection,under SystemC.

François-R Boyer, Canada -  Liping Yang†, El Mostapha

Aboulhamid, Luc Charest†,and Gabriela Nicolescu.

 

2. A New Method For Two-Level Logic Minimization.

Jay Sivagnaname, -  Hanan Ahmed Hosni Mahmoud.

 

3. Yield Optimization Via Trust Region And Quadratic

Interpolation Algorithm.

AZZA RABIE, Egypt -  A. S. O. HASSAN, H. L. ABDEL-MALEK.

 

4. A New Method Proposed for the Simlification of the

Logic Functions.

salih günes, , TurkeySeral قahan and قirzat Kahramanl‎.

 

5. CAD for Dual-Vth CMOS Circuits.

Mohab Anis, Canada

 

6. Simultaneous Topology Optimization And Delay-Cost

Minimization Of High Performance Nets Under Obstacles

Constraint.

haydar Saaied, Canada -  Dhamin Al-Khalil, Asim Al-khalili,

Brigget Jaumard.

 

7. Generating Random Benchmark Circuits Floorplanning.

Jeske A., Poland

 

MM1C: Electromagnetic Modeling

Chair Person: Prof. Esmat Abd El Fattah, ERI, Egypt

Co - Chair: Dr. Leonardo Sandrolini. Univ. of Bologna. Italy

  

 

1. Automated Network Synthesis Utilizing MAPLE.

Ehab El-Saadany, Canada -  S.S. Mohamed, M.M.A. Salama and R.

Mansour.

 

2. A new MATLAB-based accurate dispersion model for the

effective dielectric constant of an unshielded

suspended micro-strip.

Raghuvir Tomar, Canada -  Yahia Antar,Prakash Bhartia.

 

3. Backscattering Enhancement of Partially Convex Targets

of Large Sizes in Continuous Random Media for

E-Polarization Wave.

Hosam El-Ocla, Canada -  Mitsuo Tateiba.

 

4. Field Theory Analysis of Five Port Annular Microstrip

Junction.

Deena Salem, Egypt -  W. Omer, A. Mohra and E. Hashish.

 

5. Genetic Algorithm Design of Compressed Log Periodic

Dipole Array.

mohab mangoud, Egypt -  Mohamed A. Aboul-Dahab , Amira I.

Zaki and Said E. El-Khamy.

 

6. Lumped-Circuit Models of PCB Lands in Switching

Converters.

Sandrolini L., Italy -  A. Massarini, U. Reggiani.

 

 

 

                  o 09:45 - 11:45

MM1D: DSP for Communications

Session Chair: Prof Emad Elhuseiny, Cairo Univ., Egypt

Co - Chair: Prof. Fayez Wanis. Mansoura Univ. Egypt       

  

 

1. A Real-Time Multi-Channel ITU-T G.729/A Vocoder

application on the TMS320 C6201 DSP.

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, United States -  James Foote.

 

2. Reduced-State MAP Turbo Equalization by Means of Soft

Interference Cancellation.

Fabian Vogelbruch, Germany -  Sven Haar.

 

3. Optimal Design for Channel Equalization via the

Filterbank Approach.

Ehab Badran, Egypt -  Guoxiang Gu.

 

4. Optimal Channel Equalization for Timevarying Channels

with Nonstationary Noises.

Ehab Badran, Egypt -  Guoxiang Gu.

 

5. Performance of Multi-Band Voice Coding Standards for

Generalized-Fading Wireless Channels.

Mohamed Nasr, Egypt.

 

6. TT&C Transponder for small satellites.

Matar Matar, Egypt -  V. Piskorzh, V. Volokhov, M. Davydov.

 

7. Modified Sign LMS with Exponential Tracking.

Mansour Aldajani, Saudi Arabia.

 

 

 

MM1E: Medical Imaging

Session Chair: Prof. Ahmed Darwish, Cairo Univ., Egypt

Co - Chair: Prof. Ahmed Badawi.  Cairo Univ. , Egypt

  

 

1. CCII Based Analog Circuit for the Edge Detection of

MRI Images..

PINAR CIVICIOGLU, Turkey -  Mustafa Alci.

 

2. Path Planning for 3D-Ultrasound Guided Needle Biopsy

System.

Ahmed Badawi, Egypt -  Mohamed M. El-Mahdy.

 

3. Compressing Sets of Similar Medical Images Using

Multilevel Centroid Technique.

Yasser El-Sonbaty, Egypt -  Meer Hamza and George Basily.

 

4. DCT Based Features for the Detection of

Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms.

Ahmed Seddik -  Samia Mashaly.

 

5. Mass Segmentation in Digital Mammogram.

Alaa Elsayad, Egypt.

 

6. 3D compresed image.

manal awad, Egypt -  messiery,Essam.

 

MM1F:Security and Cryptographic Hardware Implementations (SS3- A)

 Session Chair: Nicolas Sklavos
 

 1. Introduction to Special Session, "Security and

 Cryptographic Hardware Implementations", N. Sklavos, .

 2. "Fast DDP-Based Ciphers: From Hardware to Software", N.D.

 Goots, N.A. Moldovyan, P.A. Moldovyanu and D.H.

Summerville,.

 3. "A Formal Analysis of Symmetric Encryption and Keyed Hash

 Function", A. Bhery, S. Hagihara, N. Yonezaki.

 4. "Montgomery Modular Multiplier Architectures and Hardware

 Implementations or RSA Cryptosystem", A.P. Fournaris and O.

 Koufopavlou,

 5. "A Parallel Algorithm for Computing Simultaneous

 Inversions with Application to Elliptic Curve Scalar

 Multiplication", P. Sarkar, P. K. Mishra, and R. Barua.

 6. "Embedded End-to-End Wireless Security with ECDH Key

 Exchange", S. Kumar, M. Girimondo, A. Weimerskirch, C. Paar,

 A. Patel, and A. S. Wander.

  

MM1G: Innovative Technology

 Session Chair: Prof. Mohamed Abu El Dahab, AAST, Egypt

 Co- Chair: Prof. Meer Hamza. AAST.Egypt

  

 

1. Review of Recent Full Adders Implemented in

Single-Electron Technology.

Valeriu Beiu, United States -  Mawahib Sulieman.

 

2. Simulation Of Error Patterns In Binary Symmetric

Channel Using MS–Excel Spreadsheet.

Salil Sanyal, India -  M.ROY,&R.NANDI SM IEEE.

 

3. Optimization of the Fuel Economy of a Hybrid Electric

Vehicle.

selim awad, United States -  Joseph Supina.

 

4. Sensing Molten Metal Velocioty Patterns In Aluminum

Reduction Cells.

AMR ADLY, Egypt -  A.A.Huzayyin and S.E.Abu-Shady.

 

5. A Low Cost Device For Deducing B-H Curves Of Magnetic

Materials.

AMR ADLY, Egypt -  M.M.ABD-EL-AZIZ,AND H.H.ZEINELDIN.

 

 

MM1H: Analysis & Evaluation of Drive Systems

Session Chair: Prof. Mohamed Farooq, Royal Military College,Canada

Co - Chair: Prof. Hassan Abdel haleem. Alexandria Univ. Egypt

  

 

1. Neural Network Control Schemes For Induction Motor

Drive Systems.

Hasan Yousef, Egypt -  A. F. Abbas, M. M. El-Genaidy.

 

2. Starting Of Three- Phase Reluctance Motor Fed From A

Single Phase Supply Using Chopper Drive.

Essam Ali, Egypt -  Farid N. Abdelbar.

 

3. A Study of the Dynamic Behaviour of Switched

Reluctance Motor Drive.

Ismael El-Samahy, Canada -  M.I.Marei, E.F.El-Saadany.

 

4. 2D-Finite Element Model of Reluctance Synchronous

Machine For Power Factor Calculation.

Mahmood Hosseini Aliabadi, Iran -  M.Mirsalim.

 

5. A new simple method to measure the flux-linkage

characteristic of switched reluctance motor.

guo wei, China -  Zhan Qionghua.

 

 

 

                  o 12:00 - 14:00

MM2A: ADC SD

Session Chair: Prof. Jitkasame Ngarmnil, Mahanakorn U.Techn. Of Thailand.

 Co - Chair: Prof. El Said Mostafa Saad. Helwan Univ., Egypt

 

 

1. Sigma Delta ADC design using Verilog-A.

Fabrizio Mannozzi, Italy -  F. Tinfena, L. Fanucci.

 

2. A Novel Continuous-Time sigma delta Modulator with a

Successive Approximation Multibit Quantizer.

Lourans Samid, Germany -  Yianoss Manoli.

 

3. A 5TH ORDER sigma delta MODULATOR FOR GSM/WCDMA

DUAL-STANDARD WIRELESS RECEIVERS.

Ling Zhang, United States -  Bahar Jalali Frahani, Mohammed Ismail.

 

4. A Third-Order Sigma-Delta Modulator for Dual-Mode

Receivers.

ANA RUSU, Sweden -  Hannu Tenhunen.

 

MM2B: Arithmetic Circuits

Session Chair: Prof. Thanos Stratious University of Patras,Greece

Co - Chair: Prof. Vasily Moshnyaga. Fukuoka Univ.,  Japan

  

 

1. A Low-Error and Area-Time Efficient Fixed-Width Booth

Multiplier.

Min-An Song, Taiwan -  Lan-Da Van, Ting-Chun Huang, and Sy-Yen

Kuo.

 

2. FPGA Implementation Of Radix 2 Division With

Over-Redundant Quotient Selection.

attif ibrahem, Egypt -  Hamed Elsimary, Aly E. Salama.

 

3. Reducing Energy Of Digital Multiplier By Adjusting

Voltage Supply To Multiplicand Variation.

Vasily Moshnyaga ,  Japan -  Tomoyuki Yamanaka.

 

4. Design of Residue Generators using Threshold Logic.

Jose Quintana, Spain -  Maria J. Avedillo, and Hector Pe.

 

A Fixed-Point Implementation of Matrix Inversion Using

Cholesky Decomposition.

Burian Adrian, Finland -  Jarmo Takala, and Mikko Ylinen.

 

 

 

MM2C: Channel Estimation & Algorithms

Session Chair: Prof. Mourad El-Gamal McGill University,Canada

Co - chair: Dr. Manuel Roveri. Univ. of Milan. Italy

  

 

1. Successive Interference Cancellation for DS-CDMA

Systems with Transmit Diversity.

Wei Li, Canada -  T. Aaron Gulliver.

 

2.  A Low Complexity Algorithm And Architecture Design For

Channel Estimation In Turbo Codes.

Cheng-Hung Lin, Taiwan -  Tsung-Han Tsai and Shin-Yo Lin.

 

3. Equalizer Training in IEEE 802.11b Standard.

Mohammed Nafie, Egypt -  Mohamed Khairy, Khaled Shawky.

 

4. Pulsed OFDM Enhancement to Emerging IEEE 802.15.3a

Standard.

Ebrahim Saberinia, United States -  Ahmed H. Tewfik.

 

5. Blind Adaptive Beamforming for MC-CDMA Receiver at

Base Station in Fading Channels..

NATTAPON PHEWPONG, Thailand -  Somchai Jitapunkul.

 

6. A Simulation Environment for Concatenated and Turbo

Codes Analysis and Optimization.

Manuel Roveri, Italy -  V. Piuri M. Roveri.

 

7. A New Channel Estimation Technique for any CDMA-Based

Communications System.

Mohamed Madkour, Egypt -  Nermin A. Mohamed.

 

 

 

                  o 12:00 - 14:00

MM2D: DSP Architectures & Algorithms

Session Chair: Prof. Hany Selim , Assiut Univ., Egypt

Co - chair: Prof. Chi-Wah Kok. Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

  

 

1. A VLSI Architecture for Finite Ridgelet Transform

(FRIT).

Choudhury Rahman, Canada -  Wael Badawy.

 

2. Hardware Analysis of Decoding Algorithms for AGC.

Lirida Naviner, France -  Zouhair Belkoura.

 

3. Twiddle Factor Reduction Method For FFT Implementation

On DSP.

Yiyan Tang, United States -  Lie Qian, Yuke Wang, and Jin-Gyun Chung.

 

4. Comparison Of A DSP And FPGA Implementation For A

Wavelet-Based Denosising Algorithm.

Matteo Montani, Italy -  L. De Marchi, A. Marcianesi, and N.

Speciale.

 

5. Architecture Design and VLSI Implementation for

JPEG2000.

Yu-Nan Pan, Taiwan -  Tsung-Han Tsai, Lian-Tsung Tsai.

 

6. High Throughput Rate EBCOT Architecture for JPEG2000.

Jen-Shiun Chiang, Taiwan -  Chun-Hau Chang, Yu-Sen Lin, and

Chang-Yuo Hsieh.

 

7. State-Space Approach for Nonseparable 2-D FIR Filter

Bank Completion.

Chi-Wah Kok, Hong Kong SAR

 

 

 

MM2E: (SS1) Methods of Biomedical Computing

Chair: Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Organizer: Pro. Hoda Zohdy
 

 1. "Bimolecular Computing Paradigms" C. Purdy, H. Abdel Aty

 Zohdy, and R. Ewing, University of Cincinnati.

 2. "Biologically Based Signal Processing", R. Ewing, H.

 Abdel Aty Zohdy, Oakland University.

 3. "Exploring the Biocomputing Frontier", H. Abdel Aty

 Zohdy, Oakland university, USA-R. Ewing, Lem Liou, J. P.

 Moncrief, F. Schuemeyer.

 4. "Mircoarrays for Biocomputing", R. Krishnan, and C.

Purdy.

 5. "System Architecture Towards Protein Logic", H. Abdel Aty

 Zohdy, R. Ewing, Lem Liou, J. P. Moncrief, F. Schuemeyer,

 and P. Wierzibicki.

 

 

MM2F: Security & Cryptographic Implementation (SS3- B)

 Session Chair: Nicolas Sklavos , university of Patrs,

Greece.
 

 1. "Performance Evaluation of Three Encryption/ Decryption

 Algorithms", N.A. Kofahi, T.A. Somani and K.A. Zamil.

  

 2. "A Time and area efficient Hardware implementation of the

 MISTY1 Block Cipher", P. Kitsos and O. Koufopavlou.

 3. "Hardware Implementation of a Novel Inversion Algorithm",

 M. Naseer, and E. Savas.

 4. "Parallel Architectures for Elliptic Curve

 Crypto-Processors over Binary Extension Fields", A. Antola,

 G. Bertoni, L. Breveglieri and P. Maistri.

  

 5. "Parallel FPGA Implementation of RSA with Residue Number

 Systems - Can side-channels threats be avoided?", M. Ciet,

 M. Neve, E. Peeters and J.-J. Quisquater.

 

 

MM2G: Semiconductor Devices Modelling

Session Chair: Prof. Hany Fekri, Ain Shams Univ., Egypt

Co - Chair: M. Ismail El Banna. Alexandria Univ. Egypt.  

 

 

1. On the Behavior Modeling of RF CMOS Power Amplifiers.

Lukusa Kabulepa, Germany -  M. Glesner.

 

2. A Proposed Information Model for Device Simulation

based on Semiconductor Wafer Representation.

Mohamed El_banna, Egypt -  S. Yousry.

 

3. A Large-Signal Neural Network Model for the Dual Gate

MESFET.

Mohammad Abdeen, Canada -  J. Bennett and M.C.E. Yagoub.

 

4. On the multiple negative differential resistance of

InP/InGaAs superlattice-emitter resonant tunneling

bipolar transistor.

Jung Tsai, Taiwan -  King-Poul Zhu, Ying-Cheng Chu, and

Shao-Yen Chiu.

 

5. Investigation of multiple negative differential

resistance based on an InGaP/GaAs/InGaAs

heterojunction bipolar transistor.

Jung Tsai, Taiwan -  King-Poul Zhu, Ying-Cheng Chu, and

Shao-Yen Chiu.

 

 

 

MM2H: Medical Signal Processing

Session Chair: Prof. M. Elmessery Cairo Univ. Egypt

Co - Chair: Prof. James Jungho Pak. Korea Univ. Anam-Dong, Korea 

  

 

1. An ultrasonic method to measure effective temperature

in the vicinity of laser-induced optical breakdown.

Marwa Zohdy, Taiwan

 

2. Interactive Software Tool For Needle EMG Signal

Analysis.

Armando Malanda, Spain

E. Elcano, O. Miranda, I. Rodrيguez, J. Navallas,L.

 

3. An approach for the high speed Monte Carlo simulation

with FPGA –toward a whole cell simulation–.

Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Japan -  Ryuzo Azuma, Tomoyuki Yamamoto.

 

4. Design and Implementation of a Digital Ambulatory ECG

Recorder Based on Flash MultimediaCard Memory.

Tacim Deniz, Turkey -  Atilla Yilmaz.

 

5. Implemantation Of Thin Conductive Layers In Inverse

Problem Of Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Jarmila Dedkova, Czech Republic -  Libor Dedek.

 

6. Analysis Of Forward Problem For Elliptic Geometry In

EIT By Using Analytical And Finite Element Methods.

Kurtulus Akdogan, Turkey Atila Y‎lmaz Birsen Saka.

 

7. The Enhanced Precision And Reliability Of DNA Chip For

Detecting Genetic Disease Using Electrochemical

Method.

James Pak, Korea -  Yeon Hwa Kwak, Jihong Kim, Taehun Lee,

Sunhee Lim.

 

 

 

                  o 16:00 - 17:50

MAA: Analog Signal processing

Session Chair: Prof. Sherif Michael, Naval Postgraduate Institute, USA

Co - Chair: Dr Mahbub Rahman Gani. King's College. London, UK

  

 

1. Continuous time reconfigurable biquad structures based

on CCII.

Beatriz Monge Sanz, Spain C. Ferrer Gracia, P.A. Martيnez M.


2. High Dynamic Range Preconditioning Circuit with Noise

Cancellation for Fully Differential, Class AB

Log-Domain Filters.

Thomas Halvorsrod, Norway -  Werner Luzi.

 

3. Design of H-infinity Correction Filters for Cascaded

Sigma Delta Modulators.

Mahbub Gani, United Kingdom

 

4. Integrated CMOS ASK Demodulator Dedicated to

Implantable Electronic Devices.

ABDELOUAHAB DJEMOUAI DJEMOUAI, Canada -  Mohamad Sawan.

 

5. Distortion Analysis Using Signal Flow Graphs And

Volterra Series.

Mohamed Youssef, Canada -  E. Chong, and K. Phang.

 

6. Analog Architecture for DCT and DST.

Ashis Mal, India -  Arindam Basu and Anindya SUndar D.

 

 

 

MAB: DSP Circuits & Systems

Session Chair: Prof. Maher said Ahmed, U. of Windsor, Canada

Co - Chair: Prof. Kuo-Hsing Cheng. TKU. Taipei. Taiwan, China


1. Variable-way Set Associative Cache Design fro Embedded

System Applications.

Magdy Bayoumi, United States -  Ramy E. Aly, Bharat R. Nallamilli.

 

2. A Method To Estimate Locality In The Output Of A Cache

Level.

Juha Alakarhu, Finland -  Jarkko Niittylahti.

 

3. EEPROM Cell : Design Optimization Methodology.

Jean-Michel Portal, France -  B. Delsuc, R. Bouchakour,

P.Boivin, F.Taillet, D.Née.

 

4. A Novel SIMD DSP Architecture for Software Defined

Radio.

Andreas Burg, Switzerland M. Schoenes, S. Eberli, D. Perels, S. Hنne,
N. Fel.

 

5. Design Of Low-Power Content Addressable Memory Cell.

Kuo-Hsing Cheng, Taiwan -  Chia-Hung Wei.

 

6. A High-Speed/Low-Power Architecture For 1-D Discrete

Biorthogonal Wavelet Transform.

Isa Uzun, United Kingdom -  A. Amira and A. Bouridane.

 

 

 

MAC: RF Transmitters & Power Amplifiers

Session Chair: Prof. Hassan EL Kamshoushi, Alexandria Univ.,Egypt

Co - Chair: Prof. Fatma El Hefnawy. ERI , Egypt

  

 

1. A 435-MHz 24-dBm Class AB Power Amplifier in 0.5-µm

Standard CMOS.

Numan Dogan, United States -  Ahmet Tekin, Douglas Huang, Ertan

Zencir, John Cothern, Mohammed Ketel, and Abdollah

Homaifar.

 

2. A 1.25V Direct-Conversion CMOS Transmitter Front-End

For 900MHz ZIGBEE Applications.

Moon-Su Yang, Korea -  Seung-Min Oh, Trung-Kien Nguyen, and

Sang-Gug Lee.

 

3. A Fully Integrated Dual Band GSM/DCS Direct Conversion

Transmitter.

Waleed Aboueldahab, Egypt -  Hany Y. Elhak ,Khaled M. Sharaf.

 

4. DSP Based Technique for Power Efficiency Improvement

in Low-IF 5 GHz WLAN Transmitter.

Mohamed HELAOUI, Canada -  S. Boumaiza, A. Ghazel, and F. M.

Ghannouchi.

 

5. DUAL BAND CMOS POWER AMPLIFIER FOR WLAN APPLICATIONS.

Jia-Liang Chen, Taiwan -  Christina F. Jou, Kuo-Hua Cheng,

Chia-Min Lin.

 

 

 

                  o 16:00 - 17:50

 

MAD: Speaker Identification

Session Chair: Prof. Onsi Abd El Aleem, Alexandria Univ.,Egypt

Co - Chair: Dr. Waleed Fakhr. AAST, Egypt.

  

 

1. Speaker Identification Based on Discriminative Vector

Quantization1.

Guangyu Zhou, United States -  Wasfy B. Mikhael.

 

2. An Affine Transform for Speaker Recognition

Enhancement under Mismatched Coding Conditions.

Mohamed Fakhr, Egypt -  Ahmed AbdelSalam, Nadder Hamdy.

 

3. Dimensionality Reduction for Text-Independent Speaker

Identification Using Gaussian Mixture Models.

Mohamed El Gamal, Egypt -  M. F. Abu El-Yazeed.

 

4. Measuring Effect of Language on Speaker Identification

Using Bhattacharyya Distance.

Kamyar Souri, Iran

 

5. A Modified Group Vector Quantization Algorithm For

Speaker Identification.

mohammed el_henawy, Egypt -  M. F. Abu El-Yazeed,Nemat S.

Abdel Kader.

 

 

 

MAE: Circuit Theory & Modeling

 Session Chair: Prof. Abd El Haleem Shousha, Cairo Univ.,Egypt

 Co - Chair: Dr Omar Ramahi. Univ. of Maryland. USA

  

 

1. Simultaneous Switching Noise Mitigation in High Speed

Printed Circuit Boards Using Cascaded High-Impedance

Surfaces.

Omar Ramahi, United States -  Shahrooz Shahparnia.

 

2. Resistive Power in CMOS Circuits.

 Magdy El-Moursy, United States -  Eby G. Friedman.

 

3. Optimum Wire Shaping of an RLC Interconnect.

Magdy El-Moursy -  Eby G. Friedman.

4.
Two-Level Forwarding Pointers-Based Cache Scheme for
Location Management in PCS Networks.
salah ramadan, Egypt - Ahmed El Sherbini, Mohamed Zaki,
Mahmoud Marie.

5. Technology Portable Analytical Model for DSM CMOS.
Adnan Kabbani, Canada - D. Al-Khalili, and A. J. Al-Khalili.

6. The Sensitivities Of Time Domain Performance Measures
For Gradient Based Circuit Optimization.
abdel-karim hassan, Egypt - H. L. ABDEL-MALEK AND A. A.
ELGAMMAL.



MAF: Network Security
Session Chair: Prof. Mahmoud El Hadidi,Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co - Chair: Prof. Narsingh Deo. Univ. of Central Florida.USA



1. Modelling The Cyber Worm Containment: with
Cops-and-Robbers Game on a Graph.
Narsingh Deo, United States.

2. Hard Problems in Modern Public-Key Cryptosystem.
Saeed Ul Haq, Canada - S. I. Erfani.

3. A New DDP-Based Cipher CIKS-128h:Architecture , Design
and VLSI Implementation Optimization of Encryption and
Hashing up to 1.4 Gbps.
Nicolas Sklavos, Greece - N. A. Moldovyan, and O.
Koufopavlou.

4. Host-Router cooperation to eliminate group member
rekeying for secure multicasting.
Yaser Mohamed, Japan - A. Kara.

5. Genetic Algorithm Cryptanalysis of the Basic
Substitution-Permutation Network..
Ayman AlBassal, Egypt - Abdel-Moneim A. Wahdaan.

6. A Hybrid Hiding Encryption Algorithm (HHEA) For Data
Communication Security.
Mahmoud Shaar, Egypt - Magdy Saeb, Usama Badawi.



 

o 16:00 - 17:50

MAG: Water marking & Data Hiding
Session Chair : Prof. Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo Univ., Egypt
Co - Chair: Prof. Magdy Saeb. AAST. Egypt


1. Comparison Between the Cosine and Hartley Based
Naturalness Preserving Transforms for Image
Watermarking and Data Hiding.
Ayman Ahmed, United States - Dwight D. Day.

2. Using Identical Values for Encryption of Data.
PINAR CIVICIOGLU, Turkey - Mustafa ALCI.

3. An Adaptive Image Watermarking Scheme for Color Images
Using S-CIELAB.
Amira Saleh, Egypt - M. I. Khalil, and A. M. Wahdan.

4. 3D DFT-based Video Watermarking Using Perceptual
Models.
Lee Young-Yoon, Korea - Han Seung Jung, Sang-Uk Lee.

5. A Testbed for Evaluating Security and Robustness of
Steganography Techniques.
Tariq Al Hawi, United Arab Emirates - Mahmoud Al Qutayri & Hassan Barada.

6. A New Criterion Based On Bped For Evaluating
Information Hiding Performance.
Xiaohui Ba, China - Xingang You, Lan Hu.

7. A Block-Based Wavelet Watermarking Technique For
Copyright Protection And Authentication.
Said El-Khamy, Egypt - Mona I. Lotfy and Rowayda A. Sad.



MAH: Power Electronics Systems
Session Chair: Prof. Mohamed El Sharkawi, Washington State Univ., USA
Co-Chair : Prof. Aziza Zaki. ERI, Egypt



1. Multi-Micro-controller–Based Implementation of 3-Phase
Inverters on Industrial Scale.
Ahmed Alaa Mahfouz, Egypt.

2. Three phase ac/dc voltage source converter with
variable structure control method..
Ehab Bayoumi, Egypt.

3. Analysis Of Sub-Optimum Operation Of Class E
Amplifier.
Tadashi Suetsugu, Japan - M. K. Kazimierczuk.

4. Power Factor Improvement of Single-Phase AC Voltage
Controller Employing Extinction Angle Control
Technique.
Nabil Ahmed, Egypt - Emad H. El-Zohri.

5. A New Direct Power Control of Single Phase PWM BooST
CONVERTER.
Mohamed Azab, Egypt.

6. Power Factor Estimation of Reluctance Synchronous
Machine Using Artificial Neural Network Machine Using
Artificial Neural Network.
Mahmood Aliabadi, Iran - M.Mirsalim.

7. Micro-controller–Based Low Cost Accurate Method for
measuring 3-dimensional Vector Quantities.
Ahmed Alaa Mahfouz, Egypt.

 



Tuesday 30 December
o 09:45 - 11:45

TM1A: Analog Filter Design - I
Session Chair: Prof. Prof. Ramachanran, U. of Concordia,Canada
Co - chair: Prof. Rushdy Abul Azaim. AAST.Egypt



1. NMOS transistors based Karsilayan & Schaumann gyrator
: ‘lowpass and bandpass filter applications’.
BARTHELEMY Hervé, France - W. Rahajandraibe.

2. Design of A New Log-domain Differentiator Based
Universal Analog Biquadratic filter.
DEBASHIS DUTTA, India - WA Serdijn, Swapna Banerjee, UP
Phadke.

3. Group Delay and Variation and Computional Complexity
Improvement in Linear Phase IIR Filters.
saranuwaj varasumanta, Thailand - Dolchai Sookcharoenphol Uthai
Sriteraviroj Assoc. Kanok Assoc., Kanok.

4. Low-Power CMOS Baseband Filter for Dual-Mode Direc.
Roshdy AbdelRassoul, Egypt - Ahmed Abdel Ghany Taha, Mohy n
Ahmed Abo El-soud.

5. Design of FGMOS Log-Domain Filters.
Alberto Garcia, Spain - E. Rodriguez_Villegas, Ayufera, A.
Rueda.

6. Synthesis of hybrid filter banks for A/D conversion
with implementation constraints -direct approach-.
Caroline Lelandais-Perrault, , France - Daniel Poulton and
Jacques Oksman.

7. 5mW, 64dB SNDR, 4th order Bandpass sigma delta
Modulator for 10.7MHz Digital IF.
Ahmed Noman, Egypt - Khaled Sharaf, Hani Ragai.



TM1B: High Performance VLSI -II
Session Chair: Prof Sadiq Sait, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Co - Chair: Prof. Myung Sunwoo. Ajou Univ. Suwon. Korea



1. Reliability Enhancement for High-Performance Circuits
in Deep Sub-micron Era.(invited paper)
Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, United States.

2. VLSI Implementation of Joint Data Compression and
Digital Watermarking System in MPEG-2 Video Encoder.
Tsung Tsai, Egypt - Chih-Yen Wu.

3. VlSI Macro Cell For EDGE-Preserving Noise Smoothing
And Deblocking In Low-Power Video Communications.
sergio saponara, Italy - Luca Fanucci, Pierangelo Terreni.

4. Efficient ASIC Implementation of a Real-Time Depth
Mapping Stereo Vision System.
Frank Gurkaynak, Switzerland - Michael Kuhn, Stephan Moser, Oliver
Isler, Andreas Burg, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin,
and Wolfgang Fichtner.

5.