Technical
Program

Symposium at a Glance

10
July
Time
Room A
Room B
Room C
1400 - 1900
Registration
1900
Welcome Cocktail (Library Hall)
11
July
0800 - 0930
Registration
0930 - 1040
Opening Ceremony and Sponsors speeches (Room A)
1040 - 1120
Plenary talk: Professor Matthew Turk - University of California (Room A)
1120 - 1150
Coffee break (Library Hall)
1150 - 1310
1310 - 1450
Lunch
1450 - 1630
1630 - 1700
Coffee break
1700 - 1900
2000
12
July
1000 - 1040
Plenary talk: Professor Yoshikazu Miyanaga - Hokkaido University (Room A)
1040 - 1120
Plenary talk: Professor Binboga Siddik Yarman - Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa (Room A)
1120 - 1150
Coffee break (Library Hall)
1150 - 1310
1310 - 1500
Lunch
1500 - 1640
1640 - 1710
Coffee break
1710 - 1910
1930
Farewell Cocktail (Library Hall)
13
July
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ISSCS Final Program


Thursday
Room A
1040 - 11 20
Plenary talk: Professor Matthew Turk - University of California

 
Thursday
Room A
Signal Processing I
Chair: George E. Antoniou
1150 - 1210
2D Standard/Reverse Lattice Digital Filters
George E. Antoniou, Constantine A. Coutras
1210 - 1230
Sub-Resolution Multipath Mitigation in Radar Transponders by Range Compression and Adaptive Filtering
Filip Rosu, Andrei Anghel, Silviu Ciochina
1230 - 1250
Spectral Signature Ranking based on Lexicographic Ordering of Autocorrelation Function Values
Mihai Ivanovici, Radu-Mihai Coliban
1250 - 1310
Digital Crossover Filters Designed by Using B-Spline Functions
Lucian Stanciu, Valentin Stanciu, Radu Badea
Thursday
Room B
Integrated circuits
Chair: Ruxandra L. Costea
1150 - 1210
Mismatch and Consistency for Winner Take All in Weak Inversion
Ruxandra L. Costea, Corneliu A. Marinov
1210 - 1230
Sufficient Conditions for an Analog Maximum Rank Selector to Operate Fully in Weak Inversion
Ruxandra L. Costea, Corneliu A. Marinov
1230 - 1250
True Random Number Generator Using an Active Inductor Based Oscillator
Ioan-Alexandru Nica, Viorel-Stefan Savinescu, Liviu Goras
1250 - 1310
Volterra approach for an active inductor oscillator automatic amplitude control loop
Viorel-Stefan Savinescu, Ioan-Nica Alexandru, Liviu Goras
Thursday
Room C
Communications I
Chair: Daniela Coltuc
1150 - 1210
A Q-Learning based PSK Symbol Synchronizer
Gian Carlo Cardarilli, Luca Di Nunzio, Rocco Fazzolari, Daniele Giardino, Marco Matta, Marco Re, Francesca Silvestri, Sergio Spanň
1210 - 1230
Performance of DSTM MIMO Systems Using a Double Extension of the Weyl Group in Time-Varying Rayleigh Channel
Ibrahim Dawi, Gheorghe Zaharia, Jean-François Hélard, Ayman Khalil, Youssef Nasser
1230 - 1250
Merged Carrier and Timing Recovery Loops QPSK Demodulator based on Iterative Learning Control
Gian Carlo Cardarilli, Daniele Giardino, Luca Di Nunzio, Rocco Fazzolari, Marco Matta, Marco Re, Francesca Silvestri, Sergio Spanň
1250 - 1310
Performance Evaluation of TDL Channels for Downlink 5G MIMO Systems
Gordana-Raluca Barb, Marius Otesteanu, Georgeta Budura, Cornel Balint
Thursday
Room A
Signal Processing II
Chair: Alexandru Isar
1450 - 1510
Aliasing Error Upper Bounds in Case of Digital Signals Uniform Sampling
Alexandru Isar, Corina Nafornita, Dorina Isar

1510 - 1530

Estimate’s Statistics in the Performance Evaluation of Extended Object Tracker
Teodor Dehelean, Corina Nafornita, Alexandru Isar

1530 - 1550

Factorized Carry Lookahead Adders
P. Balasubramanian, D. L. Maskell

1550 - 1610

A Systolic Array Algorithm Based on Band Convolution Structure for an Efficient VLSI Implementation of the Odd-Time Generalized Discrete Hartley Transform
Doru Florin Chiper

1610 - 1630

A Low Complexity Algorithm for the VLSI Implementation of DST Based on Band-correlation Structures
Doru Florin Chiper, Laura-Teodora Cotorobai
Thursday
Room B
Circuit Theory

Chair: Victor Grigoraş

1450 - 1510
A numerical procedure to obtain the pseudo-polynomial characteristic equation of a commensurate time-delay system
L.Belhamel, L.Fortuna, M.G.Xibilia

1510 - 1530

Analog Additive Nonlinear System
Victor Grigoraş, Carmen Grigoraş

1530 - 1550

A mean test on the autocorrelation function of a chaotic signal aiming to support the statistical independence sampling distance
Corina Macovei, Alexandru Vaduva, Adriana Vlad, Marta Zamfir

1550 - 1610

Linear dynamic coupling in the synchronization of hyperchaotic systems
Loubna Belhamel, Arturo Buscarino, Luigi Fortuna, Maria Gabriella Xibilia

1610 - 1630

On the Effect of Cell Parameter Nonhomogeneities in an Analog Parallel Architecture
Liviu Goras, Paul Ungureanu
Thursday
Room C
Radio Frequency Circuits & Antennas I
Chair: Gheorghe Zaharia
1450 - 1510
Millimeter-Wave Propagation Measurements at 60 GHz in Indoor Environments
Marwan El Hajj, Gheorghe Zaharia, Ghais El Zein, Hanna Farhat, Sawsan Sadek

1510 - 1530

Loop probe calibration for radiation measurements from common mode currents
Andreea Constantin, Razvan D. Tamas

1530 - 1550

Influence of the Substrate and Cell Dimensions on the Radar Cross Section of Closed Loop Type Frequency Selective Surface Unit Cells
Adrian Androne, Razvan D. Tamas

1550 - 1610

Study of unintended emissions from LED monitors
Cristian Andriesei, Cristian Țurcă

1610 - 1630

Considerations on the Equivalent Electric Models of a UHF RFID Helical Antenna Yarn
Sofia Benouakta, Santasri Koley, Florin Hutu, Yvan Duroc
Thursday
Room A
Signal Processing III
Chair: Corneliu Rusu
1700 - 1720
Phase/frequency deconvolution of seismic signals
Alexander I. Kochegurov, Elena A. Kochegurova, Anatoly E. Kozlov, Alexander S. Mongolin
1720 - 1740
Intelligent Seizure Prediction System Based on  Spectral Entropy
Ana-Luiza Rusnac, Ovidiu Grigore
1740 - 1800
Directional Filter Banks Designed From Zero-Phase Low-Pass Filters
Radu Matei
1800 - 1820
Dimensionality Reduction for ECG Signals; Laplacian Eigenmaps and Locality Preserving Projections
Monica Fira, Liviu Goraş
1820 - 1840
Digital Filters with Small Transition Frequency Bands
Lucian Stanciu, Valentin Stanciu, Radu Badea
1840 - 1900
Input Magnitude Data Setting in Error-Reduction Algorithm for One-Dimensional Discrete Phase Retrieval Problem
Corneliu Rusu, Jaakko Astola
Thursday
Room B
Integrated circuits II
Chair: Gheorghe Brezeanu
1700 - 1720
Improved CMOS Analog Switch
Giorgiana-Catalina Ilie (Chiranu), Cristian Tudoran, Otilia Neagoe, Gheorghe Brezeanu
1720 - 1740
A Wafer Yield Fluctuation Analysis Model Utilizing Least-Squares Spectral Analysis
Christian Weber, Madjid Fathi, Armin Grünewald, Kai Hahn, Rainer Brück,  Ralf Montino, Roland Krumm
1740 - 1800
Single Ended Computational SRAM Bit-Cell
Shobhit Kareer, Leonard MacEachern, Voicu Groza, Jeongwon Park
1800 - 1820
Deep Learning Neural Architecture in Emotion Recognition for Romanian Language
M. D. Zbancioc, S. M. Feraru
1820 - 1840
On the Accuracy of a Time-Domain Identification Method for a DC-DC Buck Converter
Vasilica-Daniela Andries, Liviu Goras, Emilian David, Andi Buzo, Georg Pelz
Thursday
Room C
Radio Frequency Circuits & Antennas II
Chair: Florin Hutu
1700 - 1720
Fractal Based Frequency Selective Surface with Broadband Characteristics
Adrian-Petru Buta, Andrei-Marius Silaghi, Aldo De Sabata, Ladislau Matekovits
1720 - 1740
Comparative Analysis for Different Loop-Type Frequency Selective Unit Cells
Adrian Androne, Razvan D. Tamas
1740 - 1800
High Efficiency Rectifier for a Quasi-Passive Wa-keup Radio
Achille Fumtchum, Florin Hutu, Pierre Tsafack, Guillaume Villemaud, Emmanuel Tanyi
1800 - 1820
Investigations on Repeatibility of Radiated Emissions Testing for Frequencies below 30 MHz
Andrei - Marius Silaghi, Octavian Pacurar, Aldo De Sabata
Friday
Room A
1000 - 10 40
Plenary talk: Professor Yoshikazu Miyanaga - Hokkaido University
1040 - 1120
Plenary talk: Professor Binboga Siddik Yarman - Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa
Friday
Room A
Signal Processing IV
Chair: Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
1150 - 1210
How much are formants correlated and what that means?
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
1210 - 1230
Using local variance, Allan- and Hadamard variances in speech analysis – Pitch analysis
Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
1230 - 1250
Off-the-person ECG Biometrics Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Iulian B. Ciocoiu, Nicolae Cleju
1250 - 1310
Noisy Speech Emotion Recognition in Romanian Language
S. M. Feraru, M. D. Zbancioc
Friday
Room B
Image processing I
Chair: Dinu Coltuc
1150 - 1210
Gradient Based Prediction for High Fidelity Reversible Data Hiding with Pairwise Embedding
Ioan Catalin Dragoi, Dinu Coltuc
1210 - 1230
Imaging Solutions Applied in Solar Material Characterization Assessment
Vesna Zeljkovic, Christopher Druzgalski, Pedro Mayorga
1230 - 1250
A framework for privacy assurance in a public video surveillance system
V. A. Niță, V. Popa
1250 - 1310
On the Watermarking of Image Compressed Samples
Cristina Popa, Daniela Coltuc, Cristian Damian
Friday
Room C

Information theory

Chair: Majid Ahmadi
1150 - 1210
Bitcoin Security Reference Model: An Implementation Platform
Shervin Erfani, Majid Ahmadi
1210 - 1230
Proposal and Analysis of a New Image Encryption Algorithm
Luminița Scripcariu, Felix Diaconu, Petre-Daniel Mătăsaru, Florin Mocanu
1230 - 1250
RoLZ - The Reduced Offset LZ Data Compression Algorithm
Sabin Belu, Daniela Coltuc
1250 - 1310
Hardware Design of a (2,1,2) Binary Convolutional Encoder Circuit
Felix Diaconu, Luminița Scripcariu, Petre-Daniel Mătăsaru, Florin Mocanu
Friday
Room A
Signal Processing V
Chair: Iulian Ciocoiu
1500 - 1520
A Proportionate Affine Projection Algorithm for the Identification of Sparse Bilinear Forms
Laura-Maria Dogariu, Camelia Elisei-Iliescu, Constantin Paleologu, Jacob Benesty, Silviu Ciochina 
1520 - 1540
Joint Recovery of Sparse Signal Ensemble using Rank-Sparsity Decomposition
N. Mukund Sriram, S. Sathiya Narayanan, Anamitra Makur
1540 - 16 00
Fusion of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit and Least Squares Pursuit for Robust Sparse Recovery
Nicolae Cleju, Iulian Ciocoiu
1600 - 1620
Unified Feature Selection and Hyperparameter Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning based Regression
Elena-Diana Șandru, Emilian David
1620 - 1640
Analog Matrix Multiplier Dedicated to the Denavit Hartenberg Algorithm
Claudia Ana Morar, Marius Hăgan, Ioan Doroftei,  Ştefan Marinca
Friday
Room B
Image processing II
Chair: Laura Florea
1500 - 1520
Spontaneous Emotion Detection by Combined Learned and Fixed Descriptors
Andrei Racovițeanu, Corneliu Florea, Mihai Badea and Constantin Vertan
1520- 1540
Clustering Facial Expressions with Transductive Learning
Andra Mămularu, Laura Florea, Andrei Racovițeanu, Mihai Badea
1540- 1600
Facial Biometric Template Post-processing by Factorization
Ioan Buciu, Cristian Grava, Alexandru Gacsádi
1600- 1620
Novel Matching Method for Automatic Iris Recognition Using SIFT Features
Ioan Păvăloi, Cristina Diana Niţă, Luminiţa Camelia Lazăr
1620- 1640
A New Robust Pupil Detection Algorithm for Eye Tracking Based Human-Computer Interface
Petronela Bonteanu, Arcadie Cracan, Radu Gabriel Bozomitu, Gabriel Bonteanu
Friday
Room C
Communications II
Chair: Dimitrie C. Popescu
1500 - 1520
Empirical Characterization of Man-Made Impulsive Noise Using Open-Source Software Defined Radio Platforms
Dimitrie C. Popescu, John Musson, Otilia Popescu
1520- 1540
Markov Model for HF Spectrum Occupancy
Cornel Balint, Aldo De Sabata
1540- 1600
Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Using Three Secondary Users for Cognitive Radio
Călin Vlădeanu, Mahmood Jalal Ahmad Al Sammarraie, Alexandru Marţian
1600- 1620
Clock and data signals synchronization for an FPGA-based ASIC testing setup
Stefan Popa, Mihai Luchian, Mihai Ivanovici
1620- 1640
Evaluation of Errors Caused by Inaccurate Clock Synchronization in Time Difference of Arrival-Based Localization Systems
Dan Mototolea, Ioan Nicolaescu, Adelina Mîndroiu, Alexadru Vlăsceanu
Friday
Room A
Power electronics
Chair: Dorin O. Neacșu
1710 - 1730
Inductor Current State-space based Estimation within a Point-of-Load Buck Converter
Dorin O. Neacșu
1730 - 1750
A PSIM Model for Thermal Analysis of Gbit Flash Memory based PWM Inverters
Dorin O. Neacșu
1750 - 1810
Architectural and performance comparison among a base LLC resonant converter circuit model and two improved variants
Alexandru Ioan Rusu, Adriana Florescu
1810 - 1830
EMC Qualification Processes from standards to Test Report in Automotive Industry
Mihai Marian CenuÛă, Adrian Ioan Petrariu, Adrian Graur, Radu Fechet
1830 - 1850
OLED display control system
Aghion Cristian, Lucanu Mihai, Hagan Marius, Ursaru Ovidiu
1850 - 1910
A Reliability Comparison between Disrupting eGaN-FET and Cutting Edge Silicon MOSFET Devices in POL Buck Converters
Dan Butnicu
Friday
Room B
Image Processing III
Chair: Liviu Țigăeru
1710 - 1730
Automatic Fuzzy Contrast Enhancement of Weather Degraded Images
Liviu Țigăeru
1730 - 1750
Image Enhancement using Chaotic Maps and Bio-inspired Multi-objective Optimization
Silviu-Ioan Bejinariu, Hariton Costin, Florin Rotaru, Ramona Luca
1750 - 1810
Lossy compression of color images based on discrete Tchebichef transform
N. Kouadria, I. Mansri, S. Harize, N. Doghmane, K. Mechouek
1810 - 1830
Classification of Infrared Image Distortions using Contrast-based Features
Saad Merrouche, Dimitrije Bujaković, Milenko Andrić, Boban Bondžulić
1830 - 1850
Capsule-Net for Urdu Digits Recognition
Talha Iqbal, Hazrat Ali, Muhammad Muneeb Saad
1850 - 1910
Anisotropic Diffusion-based Enhancement of Old Historical Photos related to Romanian Centenary
Tudor Barbu
Friday
Room C
Communications III
Chair: Ion Bogdan
1710 - 1730
Radio Link Design for CubeSat-to-Ground Station Communications Using An Experimental License
Anthony G. Cappiello, Dimitrie C. Popescu, Jason S. Harris, Otilia Popescu
1730 - 1750
A Study On The Actual And Upcoming Drone Communication Systems
Dan Mototolea
1750 - 1810
Redundancy Based V2V Communication Platform for Vehicle Platooning
Adrian Abunei, Ciprian R. Comșa, Constantin F. Caruntu, Ion Bogdan
1810 - 1830
Combined Energy Efficient Algorithms for Extending the Lifetime of Dynamic Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
Adriana Sîrbu, Iolanda-Elena Alecsandrescu, Ion Bogdan
1830 - 1850
On the QoS for Satellite IP networks: a Follow-Up
Petre-Daniel Matasaru, Luminita Scripcariu,  Felix Diaconu