08:45 - 09:00

Opening Remarks (Panorama)

Chair: Andreas Pitsillides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

AASP: Audio, Acoustic Signal Processing (Panorama)

Chair: Yousef A Alotaibi (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

Application of I-Vector in Speech and Music Classification
Hao Zhang, Xu-Kui Yang, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Wen-Lin Zhang, Jia Liu
A Speech Enhancement Algorithm Using Computational Auditory Scene Analysis with Spectral Subtraction
Cong Guo, Like Hui, Wei-Qiang Zhang and Jia Liu
Classical Arabic Phoneme Contextual Analysis Using HMM Classifiers
Yousef A Alotaibi, Ali H. Meftah, Sid-Ahmed Selouani
Improved Dialect Recognition for Colloquial Arabic Speakers
Rania R Ziedan, Michael Michael, Abdelwahab Alsammak, Mona Mursi, Adel S Elmaghraby

SPTM 1: Signal Processing Theory & Methods 1 (Megaron G)

Chair: Dr. Marios Lestas (Frederick University, Cyprus)

Frequency-Domain Characterization of Singular Spectrum Analysis Eigenvectors
Michel Leles, Adriano Cardoso, Mariana Moreira, Homero Guimarães, Cristiano M. Silva, Andreas Pitsillides
Performance Comparison of Subjective Assessment Methodologies for Light Field Displays
Subbareddy Darukumalli, Peter Kara, Attila Barsi, Maria G. Martini, Tibor Balogh, Ahmed Chehaibi
An Application of Using Embedded Underwater Computing Architectures
Reda Ammar
A Subspace-based Manifold Separation Technique for Array Calibration
Minqiu Chen, Xi Chen, Xing-peng Mao

Coffee Break

T1: Tutorial 1: Commercial Wireless Communication Microwave Links as a Virtual Sensor Network for Precipitation Mapping – A Real Life IoT application (Panorama)

Chair: Dr. Marios Lestas (Frederick University, Cyprus)

Dr. Hagit Messer, Dr. Jonatan Ostrometzky (School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University)

Lunch

BSMC 1: Bayesian/Sequential Monte Carlo Methods 1 (Panorama)

Chair: Paris Kaimakis (University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus)

Controlled Airspace Infringements and Warning System
Yousra Almathami, Reda Ammar
A Novel Computationally Efficient SMC-PHD Filter Using Particle-measurement Partition
Rui Sun, Lingling Zhao, Xiaohong Su
Soccer Player Tracking Using Particle Filters
Paris Kaimakis, Panagiotis Petsas
PCA-Kalman Based Load Forecasting of Electric Power Demand
Lucas D X Ribeiro, Jayme Milanezi, Jr., Joao Paulo Carvalho Lustosa da Costa, William F Giozza, Ricardo Kehrle Miranda, Marcos Vinicius Vieira da Silva

SPTM 2: Signal Processing Theory & Methods 2 (Megaron G)

Chair: Victor Parque (Waseda University, Japan)

Informed Split Gradient Non-negative Matrix Factorization Using Huber Cost Function for Source Apportionment
Robert Chreiky, Gilles Delmaire, Matthieu Puigt, Gilles Roussel, Antoine B. Abche
Asymptotically Optimal Search of Unknown Anomalies
Bar Hemo, Kobi Cohen, Qing Zhao
On k-Subset Sum Using Enumerative Encoding
Victor Parque, Tomoyuki Miyashita
Transport Services Within the IoT Ecosystem Using Localisation Parameters
Zacharenia Garofalaki, Dimitrios Kallergis, Georgios Katsikogiannis, Ioannis Ellinas, Christos Douligeris

Coffee Break

BSIP 1: Biological Signal and Image Processing 1 (Panorama)

Chair: Christos Photiou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Extracting Dispersion Information from Optical Coherence Tomography Images
Christos Photiou; Evgenia Bousi; Ioanna Zouvani; Costas Pitris
Unsupervised Phase Detection for Respiratory Sounds Using Improved Scale-Space Features
Feng Jin; Farook Sattar

SPCOMN 1: Signal Processing for Communications & Networks 1 (Megaron G)

Chair: Raed Mesleh (German Jordanian University, Jordan)

Relay Selection for Full-Duplex FSO Relays Over Turbulent Channels
Mohamed Abaza, Raed Mesleh, Ali Mansour, El-Hadi Aggoune
LOS Millimeter-Wave Communication with Quadrature Spatial Modulation
Raed Mesleh, Abdelhamid Younis
BER Performance of Superposed ACO-OFDM in Multi-Path Fading Channel
Tomoyuki Kozu, Kouji Ohuchi
On Blind Estimation with Reduced Complexity in CSS-OFDM Systems
Takahiro Kitazawa, Kouji Ohuchi

09:00 - 10:30

Keynote Speech (Panorama)

Keynote Speakers: Prof Danilo Mandic and Prof Anthony Constantinides

Title: Complexity Science for Ultrawearable Physiological Sensing

Chair: Dr. Christos Douligeris (Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece)

Coffee Break

T2: Tutorial 2: Multi-way Communication and Cooperation (Panorama)

Dr. Aydin Sezgin, Dr. Anas Chaaban (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, KAUST)
Chair: Vicky Papadopoulou Lesta (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)

Lunch

SA: Security Applications (Panorama)

Chair: Antonia Gogoglou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & SignalGeneriX, Greece)

An Identity and Access Management Approach for SOA
Georgios Katsikogiannis, Sarandis Mitropoulos, Christos Douligeris
Early Malicious Activity Discovery in Microblogs by Social Bridges Detection
Antonia Gogoglou, Zenonas Theodosiou, Anastasis Kounoudes, Athena Vakali, Yannis Manolopoulos
Combination of Multiple Detectors for Credit Card Fraud Detection
Addisson Salazar, Gonzalo Safont, Alberto Rodriguez, Luis Vergara
Phase Based Forgery Detection of JPEG anti Forensics
Gamal El-Din Fahmy, Rolf P. Wertz

SPCOMN 2: Signal Processing for Communications & Networks 2 (Megaron G)

Chair: Dr. Ioannis Kyriakides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

Blind Detection of Cyclostationary Features in the Context of Cognitive Radio
N'Guessan Jean-Marie Kadjo, Koffi-Clement Yao, Ali Mansour
Secure Performance Analysis of Satellite Communication Networks in Shadowed Rician Channel
Kefeng Guo, Bangning Zhang, Yuzhen Huang, Daoxing Guo
JADED-RIP: Joint Angle and Delay Estimator and Detector via Rotational Invariance Properties
Ahmad Bazzi, Dirk Slock, Lisa Meilhac

Coffee Break

BSIP 2: Biological Signal and Image Processing 2 (Panorama)

Chair: Riccardo Raheli (University of Parma, Italy)

Preprocessing in a Reaction-Diffusion Algorithm Designed for Image Edge Detection
Atsushi Nomura, Koichi Okada, Yoshiki Mizukami
Respiratory Rate Monitoring by Maximum Likelihood Video Processing
Davide Alinovi, Gianluigi Ferrari, Francesco Pisani, Riccardo Raheli
Designing an Optimal Digital Bandpass Filter for 3D USCT II
Michael Zapf, Rajat Chhabra
Detection of KANSEI Value Trends Using the Electroencephalogram During Watching Memorable TV Commercials
Mana Negishi, Yasue Mitsukura

BSMC 2/SPTM 3 : Bayesian/Sequential Monte Carlo Methods 2 & Signal Processing Theory & Methods 3 (Megaron G)

Chair: Kevin Struwe (University of Rostock, Germany)

Big Time-frequency Domain Data Mining for Underdetermined BSS Using Density Component Analysis
Li Chengjie, Lidong Zhu, Zhongqiang Luo
A Time Scale Modification with Large and Varying Scaling Factors
Kevin Struwe
Sparse Recovery Using an Iterative Variational Bayes Algorithm and Application to AoA Estimation
Ahmad Bazzi, Dirk Slock, Lisa Meilhac
Robust Generalized Low Rank Approximation of Matrices for Image Recognition
Haifa Nakouri, Mohamed M.T. Limam

09:00 - 10:30

T3: Tutorial 3: Memory-aided signal-processing in Wireless Communications: A paradigm shift in caching (Panorama)

Chair: Dr. Ioannis Kyriakides (University of Nicosia, Cyprus)

Prof. Petros Elia (Communication Systems Department, EURECOM)

Coffee Break

SPTM 4: Signal Processing Theory & Methods 4 (Megaron B)

Chair: Zhilbert Tafa (University of Belgrade, Montenegro)

Poster Session

Artificial Neural Networks in WSNs Design: Mobility Prediction for Barrier Coverage
Zhilbert Tafa
Advanced Mapping Techniques for Digital Signal Processors
Tomas Fryza
Automatic Classification of Ceramic Shards
Teddy Debroutelle
Learning to Communicate: Channel Auto-encoders, Domain Specific Regularizers, and Attention
Tim O'Shea, Kiran Karra, T. Charles Clancy  
A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter to Estimate the Time-Varying Noise Parameters in Non-Linear State-Space Models Using Alternative Stabilized Forgetting
Milan Papez
Mobix:A Software Proposal Based Authentication Service for Mobile Devices
Ali Alsaadi, Adel S Elmaghraby, Anup Kumar

T4: Tutorial 4: Recent trends in high resolution ultrasound imaging (Panorama)

Dr. Denis Kouame (University of Toulouse)
Chair: Vicky Papadopoulou Lesta (European University Cyprus, Cyprus)

Lunch

RSP: Radar Signal Processing (Panorama)

Chair: Qing Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

Dynamic Data Driven Image Reconstruction Using Multiple GPUs
Adeesha Wijayasiri, Tania Banerjee, Sanjay Ranka, Sartaj Sahni, Mark Schmalz
Bl-GESPAR:A Fast SAR Imaging Algorithm for Phase Noise Mitigation
Qing Zhang
An FPGA Architecture for Velocity Independent Backprojection in FMCW-based SAR Systems
Fabian Cholewa, Matthis Wielage, Peter Pirsch, Holger Blume
Off-grid Compressed Sensing for WiFi-based Passive Radar
Ji Wu, Yang Lu, Wei Dai

SPCOMN 3 : Signal Processing for Communications & Networks 3 (Megaron G)

Chair: Mohamad Khattar Awad (Kuwait University, Kuwait & Engineering, Canada)

Spectrum Sensing Enhancement Using Principal Component Analysis
Abbass Nasser, Ali Mansour, Koffi-Clement Yao, Hani Abdallah, Mohamad Chaitou, Hussein Charara
A Greedy Power-aware Routing Algorithm for Software-defined Networks
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Yousef Rafique, Sarah Alhadlaq, Dunya Hassoun, Asmaa Alabdulhadi, Sheikha Thani
Code-Aided Interference Suppression for Communication System with MSK Modulation
Yangyong Zhang,  Zhongtao Luo, Huan Zheng, Kui Ding, Ling Wang, Zi-Shu He
Performance Investigation on BCH Codec Implementations
Dejan Azinovic, Klaus Tittelbach-Helmrich, Zoran Stamenkovic

Coffee Break

IVMDSP 2 : Image, Video, and Multidimensional SP 2 (Panorama)

Chair: Huseyin Kusetogullari (Karlskrona, Sweden)

Multi-Frame Motion Compensation Using Extrapolated Frame by Optical Flow for Lossless Video Coding
Yusuke Kameda, Hiroyuki Kishi, Tomokazu Ishikawa, Ichiro Matsuda, Susumu Itoh
Handwriting Image Enhancement Using Local Learning Windowing, Gaussian Mixture Model and K-Means Clustering
Huseyin Kusetogullari, Hakan Grahn, Niklas Lavesson
Flexible Image Watermarking in JPEG Domain
Mehdi Fallahpour, David Megias

DISPS: Design & Implementation of SP Systems (Megaron B)

Chair: Zhilbert Tafa (University of Belgrade, Montenegro)

Poster Session

Novel Active PID Controller Employing VDTA
Dinesh Prasad, Mayank Srivastava, Laxya Singla, Farah Jabin, Ghania Fatima, Saif Ali Khan, Safa Tanzeem
Integrating Machine Learning in Embedded Sensor Systems for Internet-of-Things Applications
Jongmin Lee, Michael Stanley, Andreas Spanias, Cihan Tepedelenlioglu
An FPGA Design for the Two-Band Fast Discrete Hartley Transform
Lampros Pyrgas, Paris Kitsos, Athanassios N. Skodras

SPTM 5 : Signal Processing Theory & Methods 5 (Megaron G)

Chair: Zhilbert Tafa (University of Belgrade, Montenegro)

The Use of Adaptive Erblet Transform with Application to Ecological Data
Farook Sattar, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, Feng Jin
Data Mining Using Probabilistic Grammar
Aljoharah Algwaiz, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Reda Ammar
Categorizing Hardware Failure in Large Scale Cloud Computing Environment
Moataz Khalil, Walaa Sheta, Adel S Elmaghraby
Classifying Children with Reading Difficulties From Non-Impaired Readers Via Symbolic Dynamics and Complexity Analysis of MEG Resting-State Data
Stavros I Dimitriadis, Panagiotis Simos, Nikolaos Laskaris, Spiros Fotopoulos, Jack Fletcher, Andrew Papanicolaou