Program of the 25-th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux
Rolduc, Kerkrade, The Netherlands June 2-4, 2004
Organized by the Coding Theory and Cryptology Group
of the Technical University of Eindhoven
on behalf of the
Werkgemeenschap voor Informatie- en Communicatietheorie (WIC)
Co-sponsered by the IEEE Benelux Information Theory Chapter and the
Gauss foundation for the Prize for the best presentation of a young researcher
Wednesday, June 2
18.00-19.00 Registration
19.00-22.00 Get together party
Thursday, June 3
08.45-09.10 Registration
09.10 Opening
09.20-10.20 Channel decoding
Chase-like bounded-distance decoding with O(d^(2/3)) trials,
J.H. Weber*, M.P.C. Fossorier
Turbo-like soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon codes,
G. Van Meerbergen*, M. Moonen, H. De Man
To significantly reduce the computational load of UMTS turbo decoding,
A.P. Hekstra*, J. Dielissen
10.20-10.40 Coffee and tea break
10.40-11.40 Channel coding
On the selection of guided scrambling sequences that provide
guaranteed maximum run-length constraints,
A.J. van Wijngaarden*, K.A. Schouhamer Immink
Guaranteed scrambling
A.P. Hekstra, L. Tolhuizen*
On the size of a type of RLL codes,
K.A. Schouhamer Immink*, C. Kui
11.40-12.00 Coffee and tea break
12.00-13.00 Invited lecture
The footsteps of Shannon,
J.L. Massey
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Signal detection
A simple adaptive interference cancelation method for power line
reduction in electrocardiography,
S.M.M. Martens*, J.W.M. Bergmans, S.G. Oei
Fundamental limits of non-linear receivers in optical fibre systems,
A. Martinez*, F.M.J. Willems
Improved correlation receiver for frame synchronization,
A. Nowbakht*, J.W.M. Bergmans, S. Van Beneden, W.M.J. Coene,
M. Ciacci, A.H.J. Immink, J. Riani
15.00-15.40 Source coding & data compression
Occurence of patterns in random fields,
J.-R. Chazottes, F. Redig, E. Verbitskiy*
A comparative complexity study of fixed-to-variable length and
variable-to-fixed length source codes,
T. Tjalkens*
15.40-16.00 Coffee and tea break
16.00-17.20 Cryptography & Cryptanalysis
Covering radius of the (N-3)-rd order Reed-Muller code
in the set of resilient functions,
Y. Borissov, A. Braeken, S. Nikova*
On the security of certain DPA countermeasures,
M. Ciet, F. Sica*, J.-J. Quisquater
Information theoretic measures applied to power and electromagnetic traces
measured from an FPGA performing an elliptic curve point multiplication,
E. Dewitte*, B. De Moor, B. Preneel
On cheating immune secret sharing,
A. Braeken*, S. Nikova, V. Nikov
17.20-18.40 General Assembly of the WIC
19.00 Symposium diner
Friday, June 4
09.00-09.40 Shannon theory
Optimal strategies for hierarchical guessing problem,
A.R. Ghazaryan*, E.C. van der Meulen
Code constructions for multiple-access channels with side information
at the encoders,
P. Vanroose*
09.40-10.20 Biometrics
Two-stage face recognition incorporating individual-class
discrimination criteria,
F. Zuo*, P.H.N. de With
Figures of merit for biometric verification and a means for
dimension reduction,
R. Veldhuis*, A. Bazen
10.20-10.40 Coffee and tea break
10.40-12.20 Security
Wireless security design overview,
N. Aboudagga, D. Giry*, J.-J. Quisquater
Secrecy in mobile code,
K. Cartrysse*, J.C.A. van der Lubbe
Security aspects of DRM systems,
H.L. Jonker*, S. Mauw, J.H.S. Verschuren, A.T.S.C. Schoonen
Cryptographic approach to patient records privacy protection in
emergency situations,
K. Kapis*, J.C.A. van der Lubbe, K. Cartrysse
Security analysis of physical uncloneable functions,
P. Tuyls*, B. Skoric, T. Akkermans, W. Ophey, S. Stallinga
12.20-13.20 Lunch
13.20-14.40 Video compression & signal processing
On the computing analysis of arbitrary shape video coding in MPEG-4,
M. Pastrnak*, P.H.N. de With
Estimating physical camera parameters for 3DAV video coding,
D. Farin*, P.H.N. de With
Lossless and fine-granularity scalable near-lossless color image compression,
R.J. van der Vleuten*, S. Egner
Perceptual quality impact of geometric distortion in images,
I. Setyawan*, R.L. Lagendijk
14.40-15.00 Coffee and tea break
15.00-16.00 Transmission channels
Simple Doppler compensation for DVB-T,
S.A. Husen*, S. Baggen, M. Stassen, H.Y. Tsang
Designing optimal link scaling for routing with incomplete
information in packet switched networks,
J. Levendovszky, A. Molnár*, P. Boros, E.C. van der Meulen
CNN based multiuser detection and equalization in wireless
communication systems,
J. Levendovszky*, A. Oláh, D. Varga, E.C. van der Meulen
16.00-16.40 Recording channels
Equalizer based tilt estimation for two-dimensional optical storage,
M. Ciacci*, J. Riani, J.W.M. Bergmans, A.H.J. Immink
Minimum loop-delay adaption and timing recovery for two-dimensional
and optical storage,
S. Van Beneden*, J.W.M. Bergmans, J. Rianni, M. Ciacci, A. Nowbakht, A.H.J. Immink