Acknowledgements The 2009 IEEE I2MTC would like to acknowledge assistance and contributions of various organizations, committees and individuals who have made this Conference possible. First of all, we would like to acknowledge the main sponsors on the conference. This begins with the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, its President Alessandro Ferrero and the I2MTC Board of Directors chaired by Bob Rassa for their vision and trust enabling to bring the event to back to Asia after 15 year break. We would like to acknowledge the very important role of the IEEE Singapore Section – the Institute’s anchor body in the country. Our special thanks go to Singapore Polytechnic with its I2MTC local organizing team efficiently led by Lau Lee Yee – excellent job done! We would like to thank Serge Demidenko and Roberto Ottoboni, the Technical Program Chairs: their dedication and care was outstanding. They worked very hard to create an excellent technical program. We would like also to thank Kim Fowler for his efforts in arranging the extensive tutorial program. We are very pleased to acknowledge the patience, understanding and the most efficient job by Chris Dyer of Conference Catalysts, LLC, who is the I2MTC’s Conference Manager. He has been helpful, proactive, competent and available for assistance to resolve various conference related problems practically 24 hours a day seven days a week. Finally, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to all other colleagues and helpers at I2MTC 2009 (Technical and Organizing Committee members, reviewers, conference organizing staff, technical and clerical supporters, etc.) for all their dedication, hard work and time – without them it would not be possible to put together this event. Again, thank you all very much!! Vincenzo Piuri and Er Ming Hwa Conference General Chairs

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSONS The International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) continues its series of successful scientific and technical meetings with this 26th edition; covering all aspects of the theory and practice of metrology, measurement technology, instrumentation, and related applications. This year’s event is the second International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference to be held in Asia. The IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society is glad to formally acknowledge with this conference the importance of the region, its fast growing membership and vitality of professional activities. We all are truly glad to be back to Asia after 15 years, since the inaugural IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference was hosted by Japan in 1994. Singapore has been chosen as the venue for this year’s Conference. Located at one of the crossroads of the world, Singapore's strategic location and excellent facilities in South-East Asia has contributed to its success as a major centre for trade, communications and tourism. Rich in contrast and colour, Singapore is a harmonious blend of culture, cuisine, arts and architecture. Its skyline boasts of distinctive and exotic ethnic enclaves to efficient business centre, serene gardens to sleek skyscrapers, embodying the finest of both East and West. It is also the home of advanced research and modern technology. Singapore offers an ideal setting for stimulating discussions on new developments and results in research and engineering practice of instrumentation and measurement. It will now be up to all of us,, the organizers and delegates of IEEE I2MTC 2009, to enhance the dissemination of technical and scientific knowledge. In turn it will ultimately lead to achieving a better understanding of the needs, aspirations and beliefs associated with the technology in the modern post-industrial society. This will make the Conference an important catalyst of economic growth, leading to a more homogeneous social development as well as to a true and solid prosperity and peace. The conference is also an excellent place for meeting old and new colleagues and friends from all over the world in a friendly atmosphere of true collaboration and mutual respect. The organization of such a reputable and large conference as IEEE I2MTC 2009 has been a big-scale and complex task. Efforts from many people were required to promote the event, solicit and review the submissions, shape the technical program, organize the exhibits, prepare and edit the proceedings, arrange the logistics, and set up the social functions. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all and each of the contributors to the Conference organization. Our special thanks go to the main sponsors of IEEE I2MTC 2009: the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Singapore Polytechnic and IEEE Singapore section. The technical program of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference 2009 includes 351 papers from all over the world organized in 6 parallel tracks and 2 poster presentation sessions. This includes a number of special sessions organized by well-known scholars from the international industrial and academic communities. Quality homogeneity among all the sessions, including the special ones, has been guaranteed by thorough peer reviews performed by international experts. We would like to thank all the colleagues who contributed into initiating, reviewing and selecting papers for the conference program for their professionalism and dedicated work. We do hope that each and every delegate of the Conference will find the event professionally-enhancing and mind-stimulating. In addition,

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we believe that all delegates would have a fruitful time in interacting with like-minded people during this conference. Finally we hope that you will enjoy your time in multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Singapore – the forward-looking city that is continuously re-inventing itself. Welcome to the 2009 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference and welcome to Singapore! PPrrooff.. MMeenngg--HHwwaa EErr CCoonnffeerreeccee CChhaaiirr PPrrooff.. VViinncceennzzoo PPiiuurrii CCoonnffeerreennccee CCoo--CChhaaiirr PPrrooff.. SSeerrggee DDeemmiiddeennkkoo TTeecchhnniiccaall PPrrooggrraamm CChhaaiirr PPrrooff.. RRoobbeerrttoo OOttttoobboonnii TTeecchhnniiccaall PPrrooggrraamm CCoo--CChhaaiirr

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I²MTC 2009 Committee Conference Chair Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Conference Co-Chair Prof. Meng-Hwa Er, Senior Associate Provost, NTU, Singapore Technical Program Chair Prof. Serge Demidenko, Massey University, New Zealand Technical Program Co-Chair Prof. Roberto Ottoboni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Finance Chair Janet Liddiard, IEEE I&M Society, USA Local Arrangements Chair Lee-Yee Lau, Singapore Polytechnic Local Arrangements Co-Chair Sue Kingston, IEEE I&M Society, USA Educational Activities Chair Kim Fowler, IEEE I&M Magazine, USA Educational Activities Co-Chair Dr. Keck-Voon Ling, NTU, Singapore Registration Chair Chris Dyer, Conference Catalysts LLC, USA Publication Chair Gourab Sen Gupta, Singapore Polytechnic Publicity Chair Sudhir Jhajharia, Singapore Polytechnic Exhibits Chair Toh-Seng Tan, Singapore Polytechnic Industry Liaison Ock-Jin Chung, Singapore Polytechnic

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Officers

President, Alessandro Ferrero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Executive Vice-President, Kim Fowler, Coolstream, LLC, USA Vice-President Finance, Shreekanth Mandayam, Rowan University, USA Vice-President Conferences, M. Stephen Karlovic, EADS North America Defense, USA Vice-President Publications, Robert M. Goldberg, ITT Corporation, USA Vice-President Membership, Jorge F. Daher, Conatel S.A., Uruguay Vice-President Technical & Standards, Kang Lee, NIST, USA Treasurer, Frank Reyes, Retired, USA Senior Past-President, Robert C. Rassa, Raytheon, USA Junior Past-President, Stephen A. Dyer, Kansas State University, USA

I²MTC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Term of office: 2008-2009 Bob Rassa, Chairman, Raytheon, USA Kang Lee, NIST, USA Frank Reyes, Retired, USA Roman Morawski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Pasquale Daponte, University of Sannio, Italy Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy

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I²MTC 2009 Technical Program Committee

Rami Abielmona, University of Ottawa, Canada Rini Akmeliawati, Monash University, Malaysia Mihaela Albu, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania Cesare Alippi, Milan University of Technology, Italy Leopoldo Angrisani, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Konstantinos Athanassiadis, Alexander Technological and Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece Giovanni Betta, University of Cassino, Italy Wojtek Bock, University of Quebec at the Outaouais, Canada Ladislau Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA Georg Brasseur, Technical University of Graz, Austria Piet M.T. Broersen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands David Capson, McMaster University, Canada Paolo Carbone, University of Trento, Italy Marcantonio Catelani, University of Siena, Italy Chien-In Henry Chen, Wright State University, USA Moi Tin Chew, Monash University, New Zealand/Malaysia Patrick Chow, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Ana-Maria Cretu, University of Ottawa, Canada Vladimir Cretu, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania Loredana Cristaldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Gabriele D'Antona, Milan University of Technology, Italy Dominique Dallet, University Bordeaux, France Pasquale Daponte, University of Sannio, Italy Sunil R. Das, University of Ottawa, Canada Serge Demidenko, Massey University, New Zealand Vincenzo Di Lecce, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Helmut Dispert, University of Applied Sciences, Germany Branislav Djokic, National Research Council, Canada Tadeusz Dobrowiecki, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ruth A. Dyer, Kansas State University, USA Stephen A. Dyer, Kansas State University, USA Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada Halit Eren, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Slawomir Ertman, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Alessandro Ferrero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Peter Filipski, National Research Council, Canada Alessandra Flammini, Brescia University, Italy Kim Fowler, CoolStream, USA Anton Fuchs, Technical University of Graz, Austria Robert X. Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA George C. Giakos, University of Akron, USA Rafik Goubran, Carleton University, Canada Frans C.A. Groen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Voicu Z. Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada Wail Gueaieb, University of Ottawa, Canada Andrea Guerriero, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy T. Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria, Canada Kiran Gunnam, LSI Corporation, USA Gourab Sen Gupta, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Vladimir Haasz, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Loulin Huang, Massey University, New Zealand Boguslaw J. Jarosz, Carleton University of Ottawa, Canada Izzet Kale, University of Westminster, United Kingdom Olfa Kanoun, University of Kassel, Germany Joseph R. Kinard, NIST, USA Arun Kumar, on Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore Carmine Landi, Second University of Naples, Italy Theodore Laopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Kang Lee, NIST, USA Ramiro Liscano, National Research Council, Canada Peter X. Liu, Carleton University, Canada Fernando Lopez Peña, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

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Francisco Martín, University of Oviedo, Spain Gilles Mauris, University of Savoie, France Gerard C.M. Meijer, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Christopher Messom, Massey University, New Zealand/Malaysia Mart Min, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Devendra Misra, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Subhas C. Mukhopadhyay, Massey University, New Zealand Ioan Nafornita, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania Claudio Narduzzi, Università di Padova, Italy Jan Obrzut, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA Melanie Ooi, Monash University, Malaysia Roberto Ottoboni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ramon Pallas-Areny, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Nohpill Park, Oklahoma State University, USA Marco Parvis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pierre Payeur, University of Ottawa, Canada Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada Antonio Pietrosanto, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Rik Pintelon, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Ferdinanda Ponci, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecomunication, Portugal Radu-Emil Precup, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania Octavian Prostean, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania Yves Rolain, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Imre J. Rudas, Budapest Tech, Hungary John L. Schmalzel, NASA Stennis, USA Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Antonio Serra, IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Minfen Shen, Shantou University, China Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Pedro Silva Girao, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Tadeusz Skubis, Silesian University of Technology, Poland Barna Szabados, McMaster University, Canada Bernardo Tellini, University of Pisa, Italy Samir Trabelsi, U. S. Department of Agriculture, USA Wendy Van Moer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Thom E. Whalen, Communications Research Centre, Canada Tin Win, Monash University, Malaysia Jianping Yao, University of Ottawa, Canada Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma, USA Yan Zhai, North Carolina State University, USA

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2009 IEEE INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION _______________________________________

IMPROVING THE S.I. - SIMPLER IS BETTER

Dr. Bryan Kibble Independent Consultant

Hampton, United Kingdom Recipient of the IEEE Joseph F. Keithley Award in Instrumentation and Measurement 2009

“For pioneering experiments and techniques in the field of fundamental electrical metrology leading to the realization of SI units.” SYNOPSIS Our beautifully conceived International System of Units (S.I.) has undergone many changes since its inception, but always subject to the requirement that the measured value of any unchanging quantity such as a physical constant, shall remain unaltered. The uncertainty of these values has, however, decreased by a thousand times or more and the reproducibility and coherence of the S.I. must keep ahead. Some examples will illustrate that this is being achieved, perhaps surprisingly, by conceptually simpler methods - a philosophy which should be relevant to all kinds of measurement.

Bryan Kibble has reshaped the SI system through his determinations and definitions of the ampere, volt, ohm and kilogram. His principles have become the established methods for generations of metrologists who have followed him. Dr. Kibble measured the gyromagnetic ratio of the proton, which improved the realization of the SI definition of the ampere. This work was significant in uncovering a substantial error in the traditional realization of the ampere with current balances. Subsequently, his best-known work involved the development of what would become known as the “watt balance” and resulted in worldwide acceptance of the Josephson and von Klitzing constants to represent the conventional values of the volt and ohm. Prior to this, major industrialized nations had different representations for these units, presenting a trade barrier to the sale of electrical measuring instruments. Watt balances are now playing a role in redefining the kilogram. Dr. Kibble is currently an independent consultant residing in Hampton, U.K.

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I²MTC 2009 TUTORIALS

The IEEE I²MTC 2009 will have a full day of tutorial presentations on Monday, May 4, 2009. It will continue the thrust by the I&M Society to provide quality tutorials for conference attendees and society members to serve their continuing education needs. These tutorials run for 90 minutes. We encourage individuals and companies to participate by sharing engineering and scientific fundamentals with attendees. Commercial companies may use their products as part of their tutorials; these will be technical sessions, however, and not sales seminars. The tutorials will be held in the convention center. The tutorials will run between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. with time off for lunch and coffee breaks. The coffee breaks are included in your registration fee (but not the lunch).

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Exhibitors

Aemulus Corporation Berhad www.aemulus.com Brilliant Instruments Inc www.b-i-inc.com Charm Faith Autosystem, Co., Ltd www.swp.com.cn Futron Electronics Pte Ltd www.futron.com.sg LeCroy Singapore Pte Ltd www.lecroy.com Tektronix Southeast Asia Pte Ltd www.tektronix.com

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Master Schedule

The following rooms are located in the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre. Please note that registration will be located in the prefucioton area outside meeting room 307. The reception and dinner will be held at the Singapore zoo, transportation will be provided. You will find a floor lay out in your conference materials.

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Sunday, May 3 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Registration Room: Prefunction Monday, May 4 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM Registration Outside Meeting Room 307 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Meeting Rooms 301, 302, and 303 Tutorial 1 - Haptics Technologies: Theory and Applications Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) Tutorial 2 - Fiber Optic Sensors Pawel Niewczas (University of Srathclyde, Scotland) Tutorial 3 - 3D Scanners: State of the Art Vincenzo Piuri (University of Milan, Italy) Stefano Ferrari (University of Milan, Italy) Francesco Bellocchio (University of Milan, Italy) 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Meeting Rooms 301, 302, and 303 Tutorial 4 - Distributed Measurement Systems for Industry and Education Pasquale Daponte (University of Sannio, Italy) Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy) Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy) Tutorial 5 - Tips and Tricks in using Guard Output SK Cheong (Keithley Instruments, USA) Tutorial 6 - Sensors and the 1451 Standard Kang Lee (NIST, USA) 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Meeting Rooms 301, 302, and 303 Tutorial 7 - Microwave and Millimeter Wave Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT&E) – Principles, Methods and Applications Reza Zoughi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Tutorial 8 - Enviromental Sensing and Measurements, Part 1 Miguel Pereira (Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal – Portugal) Cindy Harnett (University of Louisville, USA) Michael Gard (Ditchwtich, USA) Tutorial 9 - ADC Architechtures, Selection and Test Kim Fowler (CoolStream, USA) 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 3:30 PM –5:00 PM Meeting Rooms 301, 302, and 303

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Tutorial 10 - Sensors and Homeland Security Mel Siegel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Tutorial 11 - Measurement Uncertainty Alessandro Ferrero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Tutorial 12 - Enviromental Sensing and Measurements, Part 2; and ommercializing Products: Bringing Your Bright Ideas to Market Miguel Pereira (Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal – Portugal) Cindy Harnett (University of Louisville, USA) Michael Gard (Ditchwtich, USA) Tuesday, May 5 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Room: Prefunction 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Plenary Opening Session Meeting Room 304 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 2B1: Capacitive Sensors – I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Massey University, New Zealand) 10:30 Novel Switched-Capacitor Dual Slope Capacitance to

Digital Converter for Differential Capacitive Sensors Boby George (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Jagadeesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

10:55 Experimental Study On Cylindrical Capacitance Sensor

Xu Wenfeng (Beihang University, P.R. China) Lijun Xu (Beihang University, P.R. China) Xingbin Liu (Daqing Logging & Testing Services Company, P. R. China) Jinhai Hu (Daqing Logging & Testing Services Company, P. R. China)

11:20 A low-cost microcontroller-based interface circuit for

capacitive sensors insensitive to shunting conductance effects Ferran Reverter (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Òscar Casas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

11:45 A Combined Inductive-Capacitive Proximity Sensor and Its Application to Seat Occupancy Sensing Boby George (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Hubert Zangl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Thomas Bretterklieber (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

2B2: Image Processing I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Melanie Ooi (Monash University, Malaysia) 10:00 Geometric Method for Bubble Volume Computing Based

on High-speed Hongyi Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Feng Dong (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

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10:45 Object Shape and Reflectance Property Measurement Using Multiple Illumination Scanner Hiroyuki Ukida (The University of Tokushima, Japan) Yoshio Tanimoto (Kibikogen Rehabilitation Center, Japan) Tetsuya Sano (System Enterprise Co., Ltd, Japan) Hideki Yamamoto (Okayama University, Japan)

11:00 Partial Occlusion Detection of Object Boundary

Jianhua Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Youfu Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Shengyong Chen (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China) Qiu Guan (Zhejiang University of Technology, P.R. China)

Ke Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China) 11:15 A fully automatic real time system for the

characterization of automotive headlamps Alessandro Bevilacqua (University of Bologna, Italy) Alessandro Gherardi (University of Bologna, Italy) Ludovico Carozza (University of Bologna, Italy)

2B3: Distributed Measurements I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) 10:30 Reputation-based Sensing Reliability Assurance in

Wireless Sensor Networks Xue Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Liang Ding (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Sheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

10:55 Optimal Mobile Agent Routing with Fusion Cost in

Wireless Sensor Network Zhiliang Tu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yi Shen (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

11:20 A design approach for digital controllers using

reconfigurable network-based measurements Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Ferdinanda Ponci (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Anton Smith (University of South Carolina, USA) Rong Liu (University of South Carolina, USA)

11:45 A Real-Time Non-Intrusive Tool for Traffic Analysis

Giada Giorgi (University of Padova, Italy) Claudio Narduzzi (University of Padova, Italy) Marco Vantini (University of Padova, Italy) Stefano Dindo (University of Padova, Italy)

2B4: Mechanical Measurements I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology, Austria) 10:30 Oil-Water Two-Phase Flow Measurement with a V-Cone

Meter in a Horizontal Pipe Chao Tan (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Feng Dong (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Fusheng Zhang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Wei Li (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

10:55 A Tool for Quality Controls in Industrial Process

Massimo Lazzaroni (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

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11:20 An X-Ray Computed Tomography Technique for the Measurement of Packing Density in Granular Particles Michael Bloom (Rowan University, USA) Michael Russell (Rowan University, USA) Aliaksei Kustau (Rowan University, USA) Shreekanth Mandayam (Rowan University, USA) Beena Sukumaran (Rowan University, USA)

11:45 A Low-Invasive System for Local Temperature Mapping

in Large Freeze Dryers Simone Corbellini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Marco Parvis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alberto Vallan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

2B5: Electrical and Power Measurements I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Branislav Djokic (National Research Council of Canada, Canada) 10:30 Large Bandwidth Compensation of Current

Transformers Daniele Gallo (Second University of Naples, Italy) Carmine Landi (Second University of Naples, Italy) Mario Luiso (Second University of Naples, Italy)

10:55 Experimental comparison of MV voltage transducers for power quality applications Nicola Locci (University of Cagliari, Italy) Carlo Muscas (University of Cagliari, Italy) Sara Sulis (University of Cagliari, Italy)

11:20 Hall Effect Current Transducer Characterization under Nonsinusoidal Conditions Antonio Cataliotti (Università di Palermo, Italy) Dario Di Cara (Università di Palermo, Italy) Salvatore Nuccio (Università di Palermo, Italy) Alexander Emanuel (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

11:45 Using Confidence Factor to Improve Reliability of Wide Frequency Range Impedance Measurement. Application to H.F. Transformer Characterization Abdelhadi Besri (G2elab, France) Herve Chazal (G2elab, France) Jean-Pierre Keradec (G2elab, France) Xavier Margueron (L2EP, France)

2B6: Mathematical Modeling I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 10:30 Best Linear Approximation: Revisited

Wendy Van Moer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Yves Rolain (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

10:55 Estimating the parameters of a Rice distribution: a Bayesian approach Lieve Lauwers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Kurt Barbé (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Wendy Van Moer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

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11:20 Flowrate Measurement of Air-Water Two-Phase Flow Using an Electrical Resistance Tomography Sensor and a Venturi meter Zhenzhen Meng (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Zhiyao Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Baoliang Wang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Haifeng Ji (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Haiqing Li (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

11:45 Identification of Weakly Nonlinear Systems Based on

Support Vector Machines Anna Marconato (University of Trento, Italy) Andrea Boni (University of Trento, Italy) Dario Petri (University of Trento, Italy) Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Room: Concourse 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Session 1 Room: Concourse The quality engineering in designing a mobile measurement station

Bogdan Dziadak (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Andrzej Michalski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

Parameters Selection in the Cross-Correlation Based Velocimetry Using Electrostatic Sensors

Wenbiao Zhang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Chao Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Liang Li (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Tao Zhang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Jiaqing Shao (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Wuliang Yin (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Wavelet Based Soft Threshold Denoising in Vortex Flowmeter

Yuncheng Du (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Huaxiang Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Hongrui Shi (Donghua University, P.R. China) Hongyan Liu (Donghua University, P. R. China)

Automated Multidimensional Characterization of Power Amplifier for Design and Production

Charles Nader (Center for RF Measurement Technology, University of Gävle, Sweden) Hibah Altahir (University of Gävle, Sweden) Olav Andersen (Ericsson AB, Sweden) Niclas Björsell (University of Gävle, Sweden) Edith Condo (University of Gävle, Sweden) Niclas Keskitalo (Ericsson AB, Sweden) Hector De la Rosa (Freescale Semiconductor Nordic AB, Sweden)

Evaluation of Mismatch Uncertainty in Microwave Power Sensor Calibration Using Monte-Carlo Method

Thomas Wu (A*STAR, Singapore) S. Chua (A*STAR, Singapore)

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Tag Antenna Analysis for RFID Geetam Tomar (Vikrant Institute of Technology and Management, India) Ravi Pratap Kushwah (R.G.P.V.(M.P.), India) Vivek Kushwah (Amity School of Egineering & Technology, India)

Measurement of Wavelength-Modulation Frequency Response in a Self-Mixing Interferometer

Michele Norgia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Alessandro Pesatori (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Mara Tanelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Marco Lovera (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Automated Vision System for Fire Onset Detection

Alessandro Pesatori (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Michele Norgia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Cesare Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

The Experimental Research Of Vortex Flowmeter In Vertical Upward Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow

Hongjun Sun (Tianjin University,China, P.R. China) Chao Huo (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Huaxiang Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

An Implantable Electronic System for in-vivo Stability Evaluation of Prosthesis in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty

Shiying Hao (University of Bath, United Kingdom) John Taylor (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Anthony Miles (University of Bath, United Kingdom) Christopher Bowen (University of Bath, United Kingdom)

The Effect Of Cryogenic Environment On Sensitivity Of Piezoelectric Pressure Transducers

Zhijie Zhang (North University of China, P.R. China) Narrow-band surge protector for medium-wave Digital transmitter with comprehensive monitoring system

Kazuaki Wakai (Daiichi Institute of Tchnology, Japan) Design of Highly Safe Driving Control System for Rear-End Collision Avoidance

Takeshi Kasuga (Fukushima Natuonal College of Technology, Japan) Satoshi Yakubo (Fukushima Natuonal College of Technology, Japan)

CMOS Analog Front-End Circuits for Silicon Condenser Microphones

Cheng-Ta Chiang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan) Wen-Chieh Chou (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan) Yu-Chun Hsu (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)

An Innovative Method for TDR Measurement of Static Electrical Conductivity in Granular Materials

Giuseppe Cannazza (University of Salento, Italy) Andrea Cataldo (University of Salento, Italy) Egidio De Benedetto (University of Salento, Italy) Emanuele Piuzzi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

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A Test-Bed Designed to Utilize Zhu’s General Sampling Theorem to Characterize Power Amplifiers

Olav Andersen (Ericsson AB, Sweden) Niclas Björsell (University of Gävle, Sweden) Niclas Keskitalo (Ericsson AB, Sweden)

The importance of testing road lighting plants: a simple system for their assessment

Pietro Fiorentin (University of Padova, Italy) Alessandro Scroccaro (University of Padova, Italy)

A New Resistor Network Based Forward Model for Electrical Impedance Tomography Sensors

Jun Gu (Soochow University, P.R. China) W. Yin (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Yannian Rui (Soochow University, P.R. China) Chao Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Huaxiang Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

Exploiting Nonlinearity In a Coupled-Core Fluxgate Magnetometer

Adi R. Bulsara (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) V. In (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) A. Kho (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) J. Neff (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) G. Anderson (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) C. Obra (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) P. Longhini (Space and Naval Warfare Center, USA) Salvatore Baglio (University of Catania, Italy)

B. Ando (University of Catania, Italy) Estimation of the Temperature of Heat Sources by Digital Photography and Image Processing

Anagha Panditrao (College of Engineering Pune University, India) Priti Rege (College of Engineering Pune University, India)

A multi level priority Clustering NN based approach for solving Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing Problem

Mehdi Haghighi (Ferdowsi University of mashad, Iran) M. Hadi Zahedi (Student, Iran) Modjtaba Rouhani (Islamic Azad University, Iran)

Development of A Novel Virtual Coordinate Measuring Machine

Yang Hu (Brunel University, United Kingdom) Qingping Yang (Brunel University, United Kingdom) Peng Wei (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

A Fast Method of On-line Coal Identification in a Drop-tube Furnace

Rui Kan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Hongjian Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Hongliang Zhou (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Tianyang Chi (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

Evaluation Model of Region Traffic Safety Based on Principal Component Analysis

Qiangwei Li (Zhejiang Police College, P.R. China) A ground monitoring system based on TDR tests

Armando Carravetta (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Mauro D'Arco (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Nicola Pasquino (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

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The Stray Capacitance on Precision of High-voltage Measurement Chunting Yang (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Canada) Mingwei Wu (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, P.R. China) Caiwei Jian (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, P.R. China) Jing Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)

Interface circuit for an ultra low power gas sensor

Michele Cicioni (University of Perugia, Italy) Lucia Bissi (University of Perugia, Italy) Pisana Placidi (University of Perugia, Italy) Arian Shehu (University of Perugia, Italy) Andrea Scorzoni (University of Perugia, Italy) Enrico Cozzani (CNR-IMM Bologna, Italy) Ivan Elmi (CNR-IMM Bologna, Italy) Stefano Zampolli (CNR-IMM Bologna, Italy) Gian Carlo Cardinali (CNR-IMM Bologna, Italy)

NN-based measurements for driving pattern classification

Vincenzo Di Lecce (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Marco Calabrese (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy)

Influence of Current Measurement Errors On Parallel-Connected UPS Inverters

Ivan Müller (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil) Yeddo Blauth (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil) Carlos Pereira (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil) Gerson Gabiatti (CP Eletronica S.A., Brazil) Guilherme Bonan (CP Eletronica S.A., Brazil)

Researches on a new Dry Calibration of Electromagnetic Flowmeter Based on Unit Element

Sun XiangDong (Shanghai University, P.R. China) Microwave Permittivity and Permeability Properties and Microwave Reflections of Micro/Nano Ferrite Powders

M. N. Afsar (University, USA) A. Sharma (University, USA) Mahmut Obol (University, USA)

Remote Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis System Using LabVIEW Software

Phang Yoke Yin (Multimedia University, Malaysia) Mahendra Chilukuri (Multimedia University, Malaysia)

Subcutaneos Fat Tissue Thickness Measurement Based Ultrasound

Carlos Magno Cursino (Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil) Rodrigo Galvão (Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - PB, Brazil) João Bosco Silva (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil) Enilson José Costa (Federal Center of Technological Education of Pernambuco, Brazil) Fernando Guimarães (Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil) Sebastian Catunda (Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil) Elyson Carvalho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

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An Online Defects Inspection System for Satin Glass based on Machine Vision

Francesco Adamo (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Filippo Attivissimo (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Attilio Di Nisio (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Mario Savino (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy)

Optimum testing of control software for engine management systems

Ivan Arsie (University of Salerno, Italy) Antonio Pietrosanto (University of Salerno, Italy) Paolo Sommella (University of Salerno, Italy) Giovanni Betta (University of Cassino, Italy) Domenico Capriglione (University of Cassino, Italy)

Reducing Power Consumption in Pseudo-ZigBee Sensor Networks

Evangelos Antonopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Konstantinos Kosmatopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Theodore Laopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Effects of Uncertainties in the Characterization of Multi-Mode Fiber Excitation Conditions

Massimo Olivero (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Guido Perrone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alberto Vallan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

High-speed and Precise Measurement for Ultrasonic Liquid Flow Metering Based on a Single FPGA

Yang Bo (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Cao Li (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Luo Yupin (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

A Multi-electrode Measurement System for Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Materials Monitoring

Marco Faifer (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Roberto Ottoboni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sergio Toscani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Liberato Ferrara (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Roberto Felicetti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Microwave Complex Permittivity Measurement of Biological Medium for Stem Cell Culture

Vu Tran (Tufts University, USA) Mohammed Afsar (Tufts University, USA) Toi Vo (International University-Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

A Management of Highway Emergency Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication

Eun Ki Kim (Hanbat University, Korea) Hwibum Cho (Oklahoma State University, USA) Noh-Jin Park (Oklahoma City University, USA) Zachary Patitz (Oklahoma State University, USA) Hanbyeog Cho (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea) Minsu Choi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Nohpill Park (Oklahoma State University, USA)

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FFT- Based Spectral Response for Smaller Pipeline Leak Detection

Aime' Lay-Ekuakille (University of Salento, Italy) Amerigo Trotta (University of Salento, Italy) Giuseppe Vendramin (University of Salento, Italy)

FBG-based Dynamic Strain Sensors Demodulated by Self-Mixing Interferometry: Improving Strain Measurement Resolution

Maha Suleiman (Université de Toulouse, France) Han-Cheng Seat (Université de Toulouse, France) Thierry Bosch (Université de Toulouse, France)

2C1: Sensors and Transducers I 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Kim Fowler (CoolStream, USA) 1:30 Nanostructured Copper(II) oxide thin film for alcohol

sensing Mitesh Parmar (Indian Institute of Science, India) Nikhil Gokhale (Indian Institute of Science, India) Konandur Rajanna (Indian Institute of Science, India)

1:55 Optimised Design of Intrusive Electrostatic Sensors for

the Velocity Measurement of Pneumatically Conveyed Particles Jan Krabicka (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

2:20 Improving explosive detection using fiber-optic sensing

technology Jianjun Ma (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) Wojtek Bock (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada) Xianzhe Li (Carleton University) Huy Nguyen (Carleton University) Zhi Yuan Wang (Carleton University) Boguslaw Jarosz (Carleton University)

2:45 A new interface for resistive chemical sensors with low

measuring time Alessandro Depari (University of Brescia, Italy) Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) Daniele Marioli (University of Brescia, Italy) Emiliano Sisinni (University of Brescia, Italy) Andrea De Marcellis (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Giuseppe Ferri (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Vincenzo Stornelli (University of L'Aquila, Italy)

2C2: Image Processing II 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Annamaria Varkonyi-Koczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) 1:30 A multispectral imaging device for monitoring of colour

in art works Pietro Fiorentin (University of Padova, Italy) Elena Pedrotti (University of Padova, Italy) Alessandro Scroccaro (University of Padova, Italy)

1:55 Improved Fuzzy Logic Supported HDR Colored

Information Enhancement Annamária Várkonyi-Kóczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

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2:20 Level Set Tracking with Fusion of Color and Dynamical Shape Priors Xue Zhou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Weiming Hu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China) Hongbing Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Jianxiao Zou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

2:45 A Region Entropy Based Objective Evaluation Method

for Image Segmentation Jiasheng Hao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Yi Shen (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Hongbing Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Jianxiao Zou (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

2C3: Distributed Measurements II 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Mel Siegel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 1:30 A Mobile-Agent-Based Middleware for Wireless Sensor

Networks Data Fusion Li Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Xijuan Shu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

1:55 A Flexible Linear Control Algorithm for Wireless Sensor

Network Synchronization Daniele Fontanelli (University of Trento, Italy) David Macii (University of Trento, Italy) Dario Petri (University of Trento, Italy)

2:20 Localization of nonlinear loads in electric systems

through Harmonic Source Estimation Gabriele D'Antona (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Carlo Muscas (University of Cagliari, Italy) Sara Sulis (University of Cagliari, Italy)

2:45 Embedding Synchronization Features in Power Quality

Measurement Nodes Antonio Pietrosanto (University of Salerno, Italy) Vincenzo Paciello (University of Salerno, Italy) Luigi Ferrigno (University of Cassino, Italy)

2C4: Calibration I 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Alessandro Ferrero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 1:30 Advanced Automated Calibration Technique for

Universal Sensors and Transducers Interface IC Sergey Yurish (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)

1:55 A Calibrator for Heterogeneous Acquisition Systems -

Application to a Photovoltaic-Plant Alessio Carullo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Simone Corbellini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alessia Luoni (Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alessandra Neri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

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2:20 Wireless sensor network for calibration and deployment of low-cost fluid flow-rate sensors Cindy Harnett (University of Louisville, USA) Nick Blumenthal (University of Louisville, USA) Kristy Hopf (Eastern Kentucky University, USA) James Fox (University of Kentucky, USA) Sruti Pulugurtha (University of Kentucky, USA)

2:45 Calibration Techniques and Uncertainties of Angle

Measurements in Hellenic Institute of Metrology C. Bandis (Hellenic Institute of Metrology, Greece) I. N. Kouroupas (Hellenic Institute of Metrology, Greece) Konstantinos Athanassiadis (Alexander Technological and Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)

2C5: Electrical and Power Measurements II 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Branislav Djokic (National Research Council of Canada, Canada) 1:30 Metrological Characterization of Algorithms adopted for

Voltage Dip Measurement Daniele Gallo (Second University of Naples, Italy) Carmine Landi (Second University of Naples, Italy) Mario Luiso (Second University of Naples, Italy)

1:55 An enhanced approach based on IEEE 1459 for the

detection of disturbing loads in distorted and unbalanced three-phase power systems Antonio Cataliotti (Università di Palermo, Italy) Valentina Cosentino (Università di Palermo, Italy)

2:20 Critical Parameters for Mutual Inductance between

Rogowski Coil and Primary Conductor Giancarlo Becherini (Accademia Navale, Italy) Sebastiano Di Fraia (Accademia Navale, Italy) Mirko Marracci (University of Pisa, Italy) Bernardo Tellini (University of Pisa, Italy) Carmine Zappacosta (University of Pisa, Italy) Guillermo Robles (University Carlos III, Spain)

2:45 Calibration of Rogowski Coils at Frequencies up to 10

kHz Using Digital Sampling Branislav Djokić (National Research Council of Canada, Canada)

2C6: Special Session 5 – I 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Marco Parvis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) 1:30 A Fast Algorithm for Medical Image Segmentation Based

on Improved Incremental Variational Level Set Yi Shen (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Chunhui Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jiasheng Hao (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

1:55 FEA Computations of Temperature Pattern in Interstitial

Thermal Therapy of Brain Tumours: the Case of Ultrasound Applicators Boguslaw Jarosz (Carleton University, Canada)

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2:20 Indoor Monitoring of Respiratory Distress Triggering Factors Using a Wireless Sensing Network and a Smart Phone Octavian Postolache (Institute of Telecomunication - IST, Portugal) Pedro Silva Girão (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) M. Dias Pereira (LabIM, Escola Superior de Tecnologia /IPS, Portugal) G. Ferraria (LabIM, Escola Superior de Tecnologia /IPS, Portugal) N. Barroso (LabIM, Escola Superior de Tecnologia /IPS, Portugal) Gabriela Postolache (Universidade Atlântica, Portugal)

2:45 Real-Time, Non-Invasive Measurement of Medical

Aerosol Charge and Size Distribution: Signal processing strategy, system modelling and optimization Lu Zhang (University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom) Janusz Kulon (University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom)

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 2D1: Special Session 2 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy) 3:30 Direct Simulation of Material Permittivities by using an

Eigen-Susceptibility Formulation of the Vector Variational Approach Alexander Gaebler (TU-Darmstadt, Germany) Felix Goelden (TU-Darmstadt, Germany) Stefan Mueller (TU-Darmstadt, Germany) Andreas Penirschke (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Rolf Jakoby (TU-Darmstadt, Germany)

3:55 Thermal Stress on Silver Conductive Adhesive Solder

Joints: Performance Evaluation of Medical Ultrasound Array Transducer Marcantonio Catelani (University of Florence, Italy) Valeria Scarano (University of Florence, Italy) Francesco Bertocci (University of Florence, Italy) Roberto Singuaroli (University of Florence, Italy) Paolo Palchetti (University of Florence, Italy) Andrea Grandoni (Esaote S.p.A, Italy)

4:20 Effective Magnetic Permeability Measurement in

Composite Resonator Structures Mauro Bologna (University of North Texas, USA) Alessandra Petri (University of Pisa, Italy) Bernardo Tellini (University of Pisa, Italy) Carmine Zappacosta (University of Pisa, Italy)

4:45 Determination of the Effective Atomic Numbers of Light Composite Materials

Konstantinos Athanassiadis (Alexander Technological and Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece)

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2D2: Non-invasive Measurements I 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Pasquale Daponte (University of Sannio, Italy) 3:30 Sheep Skin Property Estimation Using A Low-Cost

Planar Sensor Mohd Amri Md Yunus (Massey University, New Zealand) Vishnu Kasturi (Massey University, New Zealand) Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Massey University, New Zealand) G. Sen Gupta (Massey University, New Zealand)

3:55 Study on Reducing the Effect of Salinity in the Phase

Fraction Measurement of Oil/Water Two-Phase Flow Dongyue Wu (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Chao Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Jiaqing Shao (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Wuliang Yin (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

4:20 Measurement System for Characterization of Gas-liquid

Two-phase Flow in Micro-channel Haifeng Ji (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Zhiyao Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Baoliang Wang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Haiqing Li (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

4:45 High-Resolution Short-Range Wideband FMCW Radar

Measurements Based on MUSIC Algorithm Mohamed Abou-Khousa (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Devin Simms (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Sergey Kharkovsky (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Reza Zoughi (Missouri University of Science and Technoogy, USA)

2D3: Inverse Problems 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 3:30 Extended Kalman Filter training T-S fuzzy model for

Signal Reconstruction of Multifunctional Sensor Guo Wei (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Xin Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jinwei Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

3:55 A New Analytical Inversion to Fraunhofer Diffraction

Zhang Cao (Beihang University, P.R. China) Lijun Xu (Beihang University, P.R. China) Jie Ding (Beihang University, P.R. China)

4:20 A Study of Practical Biological Phantoms with Simple

Instrumentation for Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) Tushar Bera (Indian Institute of Science, India) Jampanna Nagaraju (Indian Institute of Science, India)

4:45 Blind Identification/Deconvolution of Single-Event

Impulsive Acoustic Signals Pablo Lecumberri (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain) Marisol Gómez (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain) Alfonso Carlosena (Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain)

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2D4: Telecommunications I 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) 3:30 An In-situ Measurement Approach for IEEE 802.11

Wireless Multihop Networks Alvin Valera (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Pius Lee (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Hwee Pink Tan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Winston Seah (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Zhi Ang Eu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

3:55 A New Method for Multi-Layer Capacity Measurements in Communication Networks Leopoldo Angrisani (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Aniello Napolitano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Michele Vadursi (University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy)

4:20 Measuring One-Way Delay of VoIP Packets Without

Clock Synchronization Boonchai Ngamwongwattana (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand) Richard Thompson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

4:45 Measurement-Based Traffic Characterization for Web 2.0

Applications Stejarel Veres (University of Ottawa, Canada) Dan Ionescu (University of Ottawa, Canada)

2D5: Special Session 6 – I 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Christopher Messom (Massey University, New Zealand) 3:30 Performance improvement of a 3D-TOF PMD camera

using a pseudo 4-phase shift algorithm Stephan Hussmann (Westcoast University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Torsten Edeler (Westcoast University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

3:55 Integration of a 3D-TOF camera into an autonomous,

mobile robot system Stephan Hussmann (Westcoast University of Applied Sciences, Germany Daniel Schauer (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany) Bruce MacDonald (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)

4:20 Instantaneous Position and Pose Measurements of

Moving Vehicles with Applications to Railway Infrastructure Monitoring Liqiang Zhu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Zujun Yu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

4:45 WiFi-based Control of a Robotic Arm with Remote

Vision Gourab Sen Gupta (Massey University, New Zealand) Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Massey University, New Zealand) Matthew Finnie (Massey University, New Zealand)

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2D6: Optical Measurements I 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Marco Parvis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) 3:30 New Type Small-Angle Sensor Based on the Surface

Plasmon Resonance Technology Shinn-Fwu Wang (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Chih-Ju Lin (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Cheng-Lung Hsu (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Hung-Shing Tsai (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Che-Yu Liu (Ching Yun University, Taiwan)

3:55 A Calibration Method of Triangulation Sensors for

Thickness Measurement Joni Hattuniemi (University of Oulu, Finland) Anssi Mäkynen (University of Oulu, Finland)

4:20 A Scattering Measurement System to Determine the

Optical Characteristics of Industrial Suspensions Ville Keränen (University of Oulu, Finland) Anssi Mäkynen (University of Oulu, Finland) Scott Prahl (Oregon Health and Science University, USA) Matti Törmänen (Metso Automation, Finland)

4:45 Design of a highly accurate optical sensor system for

pressure and temperature monitoring in oil wells Grzegorz Fusiek (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) Pawel Niewczas (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom) James McDonald (University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom)

5:40 PM – 7:30 PM Welcome Reception Room: Concourse

Wednesday, May 6

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Room: Prefunction 3A1: Sensors and Transducers II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Moi Tin Chew (Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia) 8:30 Non-Contact Characterisation of Carbon Fibre

Reinforced Plastics in Hybrid Aluminium / CFRP Sheets Using Multi-frequency Eddy Current Senso rs Wuliang Yin (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Ze Liu (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) X. Li (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) P. J. Withers (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) A.J Peyton (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

8:55 Microwave Mass Flow Meter for Pneumatic Conveyed

Particulate Solids Andreas Penirschke (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Margarita Puentes (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Holger Maune (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Martin Schüßler (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Alexander Gaebler (TU-Darmstadt, Germany) Rolf Jakoby (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

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9:20 Design and Implementation of A Real-time Electronic Nose System Kai Song (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qi Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Hongquan Zhang (Center of Biochemistry, P.R. China) Yingguo Cheng (Center of Biochemistry, P.R. China)

9:45 Flexible tailored sensors for large deformation

monitoring Pietro Giannone (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Graziani (University of Catania, Italy)

3A2: Measurement Uncertainty I 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Alessandro Ferrero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 8:30 Web-Based Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty

Using Symbolic Computation Peng Wei (Brunel University, United Kingdom) Qing Ping Yang Hu (Brunel University, United Kingdom) Li Yi (Brunel University, United Kingdom)

8:55 Application of Genetic Algorithms for Estimation of

Impedance Parameters of Two-Terminal Networks Fernando Janeiro (Universidade de Évora/ Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Pedro Ramos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, IST, Portugal)

9:20 Free Space Quasi-Optical Instrumentation for Dielectric

Measurements of Highly Scattering Materials in Millimeter-Waves Zijing Li (Tufts University, USA) Ana Medina Ayala (Tufts University, USA) Mohammed Afsar (Tufts University, USA) Konstantin Korolev (Tufts University, USA)

9:45 A Method for Considering and Processing Measurement

Uncertainty in Fuzzy Inference Systems Alessandro Ferrero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Andrea Federici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Simona Salicone (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

3A3: Digital Signal Processing I 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Izzet Kale (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) 8:30 A New Frequency Domain Approach for Light Flicker

Evaluation of Power Systems Neslihan Köse (TUBITAK-Uzay, Turkey) Özgül Salor (TUBITAK-Uzay, Turkey)

8:55 Generating Nonlinear Modulation with Minimum Memory

Requirements Matthew Hunter (DME corporation, USA) Achilleas Kourtellis (University of Central Florida, USA) Wasfy Mikhael (University of Central Florida, USA)

9:20 An Adaptive and Secure Audio Watermarking Algorithm

Robust to MP3 Compression Bingwei Chen (University of Ottawa, Canada) Jiying Zhao (University of Ottawa, Canada)

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9:45 A Blind Implementation of Multi-Dimensional Matched Filtering in a Maximum-Likelihood Receiver for SIMO Channels Adem Coskun (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) Izzet Kale (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)

3A4: Calibration II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Wendy Van Moer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 8:30 Calibration System of Optical Disc Data-to-data Jitter

Based on Bessel-zero Method Yang Zhi-jun (National Institute of Metrology P.R.China, P.R. China) Wu Zhao-chun (National Institute of Metrology P.R.China, P.R. China) Ma Xiao-qing (National Institute of Metrology P.R.China, P.R. China) Yu Shao-na (Minzu University of China, P.R. China)

8:55 Determination of the Reference Impedance of Line –

Attenuator – Reflect On-Wafer Vector Network Analyzer Calibration Mebrouk Bahouche (TELECOMParisTech; Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais, France) Eric Bergeault (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais, France) Djamel Allal (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais, France)

9:20 Capacitance Mismatch Correction for a Fluidic

Inclinometer Thomas Bretterklieber (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Hubert Zangl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

9:45 A simplified procedure for the calibration of a fringe

pattern profilometer Costantino D'Argenio (University of Salerno, Italy) Giuseppe Di Leo (University of Salerno, Italy) Consolatina Liguori (University of Salerno, Italy) Alfredo Paolillo (University of Salerno, Italy)

3A5: Medical and Biological measurements II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Minfen Shen (Shantou university, P.R. China) 8:30 A resonant vibrating tactile probe for biomedical

applications based on IPMC Paola Brunetto (University of Catania, Italy) Luigi Fortuna (University of Catania, Italy) Pietro Giannone (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Graziani (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Strazzeri (University of Catania, Italy)

8:55 Application of multifunctional sensing technique with

ANFIS to physical parameters estimations of ternary solution with NaCl and sucrose Guo Wei (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jian Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jinwei Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

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9:20 Quantitative Determination of Cyfluthrin in N-hexane by Terahertz Time-domain Spectroscopy With Chemometrics Methods Yuefang Hua (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Hongjian Zhang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Hongliang Zhou (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

9:45 Modeling of Nonlinear Medical Signal Based on Local

Support Vector Machine Minfen Shen (Shantou University, P.R. China) Jialiang Chen (Shantou University, P.R. China) Chunhao Lin (Shantou University, P.R. China)

3A6: Special Session 5 – II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Boguslaw Jarosz (Carleton University, Canada) 8:30 A PC Based System for Non-Invasive Measurement of

Carotid Artery Compliance Jayaraj Joseph (Indian Institute of Technolgy, Madras, India) Venkataraman Jayashankar (Indian Institute of Technolgy, Madras, India) Jagadeesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

8:55 Facial Expression Recognition by Applying Multi-step

Integral Projection and SVMs Yisu Zhao (University of Ottawa, Canada) Xiaojun Shen (University of Ottawa, Canada) Nicolas Georganas (University of Ottawa, Canada)

9:20 Multiple Infrared Markers Based Real-time Stereo Vision

Positioning System for Surgical Navigation Ping Zhou (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yue Liu (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yongtian Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

9:45 Voice codification evaluation based on a real-time

training system with tactile feedback applied to deaf people Ilton Barbacena (Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraiba, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Aléssio Barros (Federal Center for Technological Education of Paraiba, Brazil) Benedito Neto (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Elyson Carvalho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Euler Macedo (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil)

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction

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3B1: Chemical and Biological Measurements 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Massey University, New Zealand) 10:30 A novel planar interdigital sensor based sensing and

instrumentation for detection of dangerous contaminated chemical in seafood A.R. Mohd Syaifudin (Massey University, New Zealand) K.P. Jayasundera (Institute of Fundamental Sciences) Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Massey University, New Zealand)

10:55 New Type Liquid Refractometer Based on Multiple Total-

Internal Reflections in Heterodyne Interferometry Shinn-Fwu Wang (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Cheng-Lung Hsu (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Chih-Ju Lin (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Chun-Wei Huang (Ching Yun University, Taiwan) Chin-Hsiang Hsieh (Ching Yun University, Taiwan)

11:20 Oil-Water Two-Phase Flow Measurement Based on a

Hybrid Flowmeter and Dominant Phase Identification Zhiyao Huang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Xia Li (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Haifeng Ji (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Baoliang Wang (Zhejiang University, P.R. China) Haiqing Li (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

11:45 Density measurement into lead-acid batteries with

multipoint optical fiber sensor Jorge Marcos-Acevedo (University of Vigo, Spain) Ana Cao-Paz (University of Vigo, Spain) Alfredo Del Riío-Vázquez (University of Vigo, Spain) Camilo Quintans-Graña (University of Vigo, Spain) Carlos Peñalver-Freire (University of Vigo, Spain)

3B2: Non-invasive Measurements II 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Carlo Muscas (University of Cagliari, Italy) 10:30 An Inverse Scattering Based Hybrid Method for the

Measurement of the Complex Dielectric Permittivities of Arbitrarily Shaped Homogenous Targets Giovanni Bozza (University of Genoa, Italy) Massimo Brignone (University of Verona, Italy) Matteo Pastorino (University of Genoa, Italy) Michele Piana (University of Verona, Italy) Andrea Randazzo (University of Genoa, Italy)

10:55 Comparative Studies of Electrostatic Sensors with

Circular and Rod Electrodes for the Velocity Measurement of Pulverized Coal and Biomass Fuels Jiaqing Shao (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Jan Krabicka (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

11:20 Near-Field Millimeter Wave Non-Contact Measurement of

Step and Gap Mismatch in Aircraft and Automotive Panels Sergey Kharkovsky (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Reza Zoughi (Missouri University of Science and Technoogy, USA)

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11:45 Plasma deposited thermocouple for non-invasive temperature measurement Sabrina Grassini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Domenico Mombello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alessandra Neri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Marco Parvis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alberto Vallan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

3B3: Automated Test and Diagnostics Systems I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Sunil Das (University of Ottawa, Canada) 10:30 Using a Simple Charge-Discharge Circuit to Estimate

Capacitors Equivalent Circuit at their Operating Conditions Acácio Amaral (Coimbra Polytechnic, Portugal) Antonio Marques Cardoso (FCTU/IT Coimbra, Portugal)

10:55 An Advanced Platform to Develop Test Software for

Domestic Appliances Based on Hybrid Architecture Pengpeng Chen (Ocean University of China, P.R. China) Zhongwen Guo (Ocean University of China, P.R. China) Peng Zhou (Ocean University of China, P.R. China)

11:20 On-Line Measurement Device to Detect Bearing Faults

on Electric Motors Jordi Cusidó (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Antoni Garcia (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Luis Navarro (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Miguel Delgado (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Luis Romeral (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Juan Ortega (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

11:45 Diagnosis of Sensor Failure Detection and Information

Rebuilding Using Polynomial Chaos Theory Huimin Li (University of South Carolina, USA) Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

3B4: Telecommunications II 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) 10:30 Experimental analysis of UHF RFID impairments and

performance Matteo Bertocco (University of Padova, Italy) Andrea Dalla Chiara (University of Padova, Italy) Giovanni Gamba (University of Padova, Italy Alessandro Sona (University of Padova, Italy)

10:55 Experimental comparison of spectrum analyzer

architectures in the diagnosis of RF interference phenomena Matteo Bertocco (University of Padova, Italy) Andrea Dalla Chiara (University of Padova, Italy) Giovanni Gamba (University of Padova, Italy) Alessandro Sona (University of Padova, Italy)

11:20 Practical Wideband Channel Sounding System for Air-

to-Ground Measurements at C Band Yu Song Meng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Yee Hui Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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11:45 Model and Measurement of MMOG Time-Constraint Relaxation Algorithm Dewan Ahmed (University of Ottawa, Canada) Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada)

3B5: Special Session 6 – II 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Gourab Sen Gupta (Massey University, New Zealand) 10:30 An Integrated Instrumentation System for Combustion

Plant Optimisation Robert Carter (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Jan Krabicka (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Stephen Cornwell (RWE npower, United Kingdom)

10:55 Hyperbolic Ultrasonic LPS using a Cayley-Menger

Bideterminant-based Algorithm F. Daniel Ruiz (University of Alcala, Spain) Jesús Ureña (University of Alcala, Spain) Isaac Gude (University of Alcala, Spain) José Villadangos (University of Alcala, Spain) Juan Carlos García (University of Alcala, Spain) Maria Carmen Pérez (University of Alcala, Spain) Enrique Garcia (University of Alcala, Spain)

11:20 Fault-Tolerant Weld Line Detection for Automatic

Inspection of Storage Tanks Based on Distance and Visual Information Fusion Elyson Carvalho (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Benedito Luciano (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil) Lucas Molina (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil) Eduardo Freire (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil)

11:45 Simple Mobile Robots for Introduction into Engineering

Moi Tin Chew (Monash University, Malaysia) Serge Demidenko (Monash University, Malaysia) Loulin Huang (Massey University, New Zealand) Christopher Messom (Monash University, New Zealand) Gourab Sen Gupta (Massey University, New Zealand) Malcolm Watts (Massey University, New Zealand)

3B6: Optical Measurements II 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Bernardo Tellini (University of Pisa, Italy) 10:30 A View Planning Method for Automatic 3D Modeling based on the Trend Surface and Limit Region

Bingwei He (Fuzhou University, P.R. China) Xiaolong Zhou (Fuzhou University, P.R. China) You Fu Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

10:55 Comparison of Luminance Measurement based on

Illuminance and Luminance Detectors Pietro Fiorentin (University of Padova, Italy) Alessandro Scroccaro (University of Padova, Italy)

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11:20 Static characterization of the optical transfer function on dielectric LiNbOз waveguides used as high intensity electric field sensors Celso Gutiérrez-Martínez (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y electrónica (INAOE), Mexico) Joel Santos-Aguilar (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y electrónica (INAOE), Mexico) Raúl Ochoa-Valiente (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y electrónica (INAOE), Mexico)

Range Imaging Using a Time-of-Flight 3D Camera And a Cooperative Object

Arttu Ollikkala (University of Oulu, Finland) A.J. Mäkynen (University of Oulu, Finland)

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Room: Concourse 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Session 2 Room: Concourse Video Steganography using Flash Video (FLV)

Adrian Joseph Mozo (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Marie Engelene Obien (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Christian John Rigor (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Dave Francis Rayel (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Kinsley Chua (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) Gregory Tangonan (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

Direct Digital Converter for a Single Active Element Resistive Sensor

Madhu Mohan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Jagadeesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Laguerre Neural Network-based Smart Sensors for Wireless Sensor Networks

Jagdish Patra (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Cedric Bornand (University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland) Pramod Meher (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Embedded updating system based on integrated NNs in order to achieve adaptative predistortion of non-linear HPA characteristics

Laurent Gatet (CNES (French Spatial Agency) - LOSE, France) Francis Bony (LOSE, France) Hélène Tap-Béteille (LOSE, France) Emmanuel Moutaye (LOSE, France) Francis Jayat (ENSEEIHT, France) Daniel Roviras (ENSEEIHT, France) Francis Gizard (CNES (French Spatial Agency), France)

Digital NN implementations in a FPGA for distance measurement and surface classification

Laurent Gatet (CNES (French Spatial Agency) - LOSE, France) Francis Bony (LOSE, France) Hélène Tap-Béteille (LOSE, France)

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Medium-high Correlated Weibull-distributed Clutter Reduction by Neural Networks in Coherent Radar Systems

Raúl Vicen-Bueno (University of Alcalá, Spain) Manuel Rosa-Zurera (University of Alcalá, Spain) Maria -Pilar Jarabo-Amores (University of Alcalá, Spain) David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalá, Spain)

Loop-back linearity test of ADCs and DACs

Attilio Di Nisio (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Nicola Giaquinto (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Mario Savino (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy)

Geodesic Geometric Flow for Medical Image Segmentation Based on Similarities of Interfacial Gradients

Yi Shen (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Xiaoqiu Dong (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Chunhui Zhu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jiasheng Hao (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Naizhang Feng (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Kernel Method Based on Normalized Mutual Information for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Miao Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yi Shen (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Imaging Techniques for Radiography of Cervical vertebrae using CT images

Toshinori Maruyama (Okayama University, Japan) Hideki Yamamoto (Okayama University, Japan)

Mobile Communication Traffic Forecast Based on a New Fuzzy Model

Wang Jianmin (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Peng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Peng Xiyuan (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Motion Analysis of Hand Writing Japanese Character using Human Computer Interface

Tetsuya Sano (System Enterprise Co.,Ltd, Japan) Hiroyuki Ukida (The University of Tokushima, Japan) Hideki Yamamoto (Okayama University, Japan)

Local sensor system for badminton smash analysis

Chang Tai Kiang (University of Nottingham, Singapore) Chan Kuan Yoong (University of Nottingham, Singapore)

Towards Robust Skin Colour Detection and Tracking

Nuwan Gamage (Monash University, Malaysia) Rini Akmeliawati (International Islamic University, Malaysia) Kuang Ye Chow (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia)

Multi Triangle based Automatic Face Recognition System by using 3D Geometric Face Features

Moe Ma Ma Tin (University of Computer Studies, Myanmar) Myint Myint Sein (University of Computer Studies, Myanmar)

A 0.13 μm CMOS Laser Radar Receiver with Leading Edge Detection and Time Domain Error Compensation

Jan Nissinen (University of Oulu, Finland) Juha Kostamovaara (University of Oulu, Finland)

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Tracking of the Motion Path of a Person from Video Streams for the Overlapping Case

Aye Pa Pa Mya (University of Computer Studies, Myanmar) Myint Myint Sein (University of Computer Studies, Myanmar)

Performance Evaluation of CNFET-Based Logic Gates

Geunho Cho (Northeastern University, USA) Yong-Bin Kim (Northeastern University, USA) Fabrizio Lombardi (Northeastern University, USA) Minsu Choi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

A Concept of Q-Varying Continuous-Time Notch Filter with Improved Dynamic Behavior

Jacek Piskorowski (West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland)

An overview of image fusion metrics

Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Daren Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Shen Yi (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Voltage-Mode Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass Biquad Filter Using Simple CMOS OTAs

Montree Kumngern (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand) Kobchai Dejhan (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand)

Assessing the CAN Communication Startup Behavior of Automotive ECUs by Prototype Measurements

Thomas Herpel (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Bernhard Kloiber (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Reinhard German (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Steffen Fey (Audi AG, Germany)

An Update on Multi-Channel Digital Receiver Development for the Phased Array Radar at the National Weather Radar Testbed

Mark Yeary (University of Oklahoma, USA) J. Crain (University of Oklahoma, USA) A. Zahrai (National Radar Research Center, USA) R. Palmer (University of Oklahoma, USA) M. Xue (University of Oklahoma, USA) T.-Y. Yu (University of Oklahoma, USA) G. Zhang (University of Oklahoma, USA) Y. Zhang (University of Oklahoma, USA) R. Doviak (National Radar Research Center, USA) Q. Xu (National Radar Research Center, USA) P. Chilson (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Realization of FPGA-based Packet Classification in Embedded System

Wang Yong-gang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Zhang Tao (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Zheng Yu-feng (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China) Yang Yang (University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)

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Symbol Rate Classification of PSK/QAM Signals Using Direct Frequency Estimators

William Justin Barnes (University of Oklahoma, USA) Nickolas LaSorte (University of Oklahoma, USA) Hazem Refai (University of Oklahoma, USA) Mark Yeary (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Denoising Filter to Improve the Quality of CT images

Anna Lanzolla (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Gregorio Andria (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Filippo Attivissimo (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Giuseppe Cavone (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Maurizio Spadavecchia (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Tommaso Magli (G.Moscati Hospital of Taranto, Italy)

A Fast Low-Power Modulo 2ⁿ+1 Multiplier Design

Rajashekhar Modugu (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Nohpill Park (Oklahoma State University, USA) Minsu Choi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

HDR Luminance Mapping Analysis System for Visual Comfort Evaluation

Laura Bellia (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Arcangelo Cesarano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Giuseppe Fabio Iuliano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Gennaro Spada (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Power Spectrum Measurement of Wideband Signals Interfering with One Another in Both Time and Frequency Domain

Leopoldo Angrisani (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Rosario Schiano Lo Moriello (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Aniello Napolitano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)

Modeling the Dynamics of MEMS-based Mobile Devices under Speed-controlled Human Motion Using Acceleration Measurements

Andreas Kotsopoulos (University of Patras, Greece) Theodore Antonakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)

Frequency Domain Based Algorithm for Estimation of Single-Tone Multichannel Signals

Tomáš Radil (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Pedro Ramos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, IST, Portugal)

Novel Pattern Recognition Technique For An Intelligent Cricket Decision System

Simon Ting (Multimedia University, Malaysia) Mahendra Chilukuri (Multimedia University, Malaysia)

Soil Moisture Measurements Through a Seismic Wave-Based System: Experimental and Metrological Validation

Giuseppe Cannazza (University of Salento, Italy) Andrea Cataldo (University of Salento, Italy) Egidio De Benedetto (University of Salento, Italy) Filippo Attivissimo (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy) Laura Fabbiano (Polytechnic of Bari, Italy)

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Perceptibility of Digital Watermarks Embedded in 3D Meshes using Unimodal and Bimodal Hapto-Visual Interaction

Nizar Sakr (University of Ottawa, Canada) Nicolas D. Georganas (University of Ottawa, SITE, Canada) Jiying Zhao (University of Ottawa, Canada) Emil Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada)

A New Method for Measurment Power of Lens using Image Processing techniques

Rasool Baghbani (Azad University, Iran) Masoomeh Ashoorirad (Azad University, Iran)

Fast Iris Localization Recognition Systems

Maryam Yazdanpanah (Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran) Ehsan Amini (Islamic Azad University, Iran)

Japanese Accent Measurement System for Training Foreign Students

Zhenlei Xing (Okayama University, Japan) Tetsuya Sano (System Enterprise Co.,Ltd, Japan) Hideki Yamamoto (Okayama University, Japan) Akira Kikuchi (Naruto University of Education, Japan)

UKF-Based Estimation Fusion of Underbalanced Drilling Process Using Pressure Sensors

Tahimeh Nazari (University of Calgary, Canada) Vahid Mostafavi (University of Calgary, Canada) Geir Hareland (University of Calgary, Canada)

Automatic Calibration of Time to Digital Converter

YoungHo Lee (SungKyunKwan University, Korea) Kwang-Hee Lee (SungKyunKwan University, Korea) Jong-wan Seo (SungKyunKwan University, Korea) Donghwan Lim (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Sang-Hwa Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) Jin-Myung Kim (SungKyunKwan University, Korea) Tae-Yong Kuc (SungKyunKwan University, Korea) Seung-Min Baek (LG Electronics, Korea) Ki-Min Lee (LG Innotek, Korea) S. J. Jung (LG Innotek, Korea) Seung-Ho Baeg (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Korea) M. H. Baeg (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Korea)

Simple Floating Inductance Simulators Using OTAs

Wandee Petchmaneelumka (King Mongkut's Institute of technology ladkrabang, Thailand)

A GUI Driven Σ-Δ Modulator Design, Evaluation and Measurement Tool with a View to Practical Implementation

Gunes Damla Altinok (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) Mohammed Al-Janabi (University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom) Izzet Kale (University of Westminster, United Kingdom)

Reduction of Polling Cycle to Check Trigger Condition for Instrument Synchronization

Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy) Francesco Lamonaca (Univeristy of Calabria, Italy)

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3C1: Sensor networks 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Kang Lee (NIST, USA) 1:30 SenseFace: A Sensor Network Overlay for Social

Networks Md. Abdur Rahman (University of Ottawa, Canada) Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada) Wail Gueaieb (University of Ottawa, Canada)

1:55 Enhanced use of RSSI-based wireless network nodes

for power measurement purposes Luigino Benetazzo (University of Padova, Italy) Matteo Bertocco (University of Padova, Italy) Andrea Dalla Chiara (University of Padova, Italy) Giovanni Gamba (University of Padova, Italy) Alessandro Sona (University of Padova, Italy) Mirco Ponzin (University of Padova, Italy)

2:20 Service-oriented Sensor Data Interoperability for IEEE

1451 Smart Transducers Eugene Song (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) Kang Lee (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

2:45 Sensor Alert Web Service for IEEE 1451-Based Sensor

Networks Kang Lee (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) Eugene Song (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)

3C2: Analog & Mix Signal I 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Pasquale Daponte (University of Sannio, Italy) 1:30 A 14-bit Oversampled Delta-Sigma Modulator for Silicon

Condenser Microphones Cheng-Ta Chiang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan) Yu-Chung Huang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

1:55 Pulse Width Time Walk Compensation Method for a

Pulsed Time-of-Flight Laser Rangefinder Sami Kurtti (University of Oulu, Finland) Juha Kostamovaara (University of Oulu, Finland)

2:20 Hardware Design of Neural Network System State

Observer Wei Hong Loh (i-Math Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia) Ye Chow Kuang (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia) Melanie Ooi (Monash University, Malaysia)

2:45 Sea Clutter Power Reduction in Radar Measurement

Systems by Feedforward Multilayer Perceptrons with Medium Input Data Integration Rate Raúl Vicen-Bueno (University of Alcalá, Spain) Rubén Carrasco-Álvarez (University of Alcalá, Spain) Manuel Rosa (University of Alcalá, Spain) Jose Nieto-Borge (University of Alcalá, Spain)

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3C3: Distributed measurements III 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) 1:30 Hybrid Gaussian Process Visual Target Classification in

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Xue Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Sheng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Liang Ding (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

1:55 Real Time Performance Analysis and Evaluation of CAN

Bus with an Extended Petri Net Model Liangxue Ding (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Shen Yi (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yang Zhou (Jia Musi University, P.R. China)

2:20 Investigating WirelessHART coexistence issues through

a specifically designed simulator Chiara Maria De Dominicis (University of Brescia, Italy) Paolo Ferrari (University of Brescia, Italy) Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) Emiliano Sisinni (University of Brescia, Italy) Matteo Bertocco (University of Padova, Italy) Giada Giorgi (University of Padova, Italy) Claudio Narduzzi (University of Padova, Italy) Federico Tramarin (University of Padova, Italy)

2:45 An Innovative Distributed Instrument for WirelessHART

Testing Paolo Ferrari (University of Brescia, Italy) Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) Daniele Marioli (University of Brescia, Italy) Stefano Rinaldi (University of Brescia, Italy) Emiliano Sisinni (University of Brescia, Italy) Andrea Taroni (Carlo Cattaneo University, Italy)

3C4: Mechanical Measurements II 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Mel Siegel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 1:30 Cross-section System and V-cone Meter Fusion in Plug

Flow Measurement Fusheng Zhang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Feng Dong (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

1:55 Uncertainty model and estimation for emissivity of a

steel plate with a multi-wavelength pyrometer Shenghu Xue (China Jiliang University, P.R. China) Yongjun Zheng (China Jiliang University, P.R. China) Lingyan Xu (China Jiliang University, P.R. China) Dailiang Xie (China Jiliang University, P.R. China)

2:20 Icing Detector for Overhead Power Transmission Lines

Michael Moser (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Boby George (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Hubert Zangl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

2:45 Estimating International Roughness Index from Noisy

Profilograph Measurements Justin Dyer (Stanford University, USA) Dwight Day (Kansas State University, USA) Stephen Dyer (Kansas State University, USA) John Devore (Kansas State University, USA)

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3C5: Special Session 4 – I 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Serge Demidenko (Monash University & Sunway Campus, Malaysia) 1:30 Probabilistic Analysis of Design Mapping in

Asynchronous Nanowire Crossbar Architecture Shikha Chaudhary (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Minsu Choi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Yong-Bin Kim (Northeastern University, USA)

1:55 Novel Functional Testing Technique for Asynchronous

Nanowire Crossbar System Sriram Venkateswaran (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) Jong-Seok Lee (Woosuk University, Korea) Minsu Choi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

2:20 Test Vector Compression Technique in System-on-Chip

Satyendra Biswas (Georgia Southern University, USA) Sunil Das (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mansour Assaf (The University of Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago) Altaf Hossain (University of Ottawa, Canada)

2:45 Further Studies on Improved Test Efficiency in Cores-

Based System-on-Chips Using ModelSim Verification Tool Sunil Das (University of Ottawa, Canada) Altaf Hossain (University of Ottawa, Canada) Junfeng Li (University of Ottawa, Canada) Emil Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada) Satyendra Biswas (Georgia Southern University, USA) Wen Jone (University of Cincinnati, USA) Mansour Assaf (The University of Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago)

3C6: Soft Computing I 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Ruth Dyer (Kansas State University, USA) 1:30 Functional Networks Softsensor for Formation Porosity

and Water Saturation in Oil Wells Ahmed Adeniran (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Moustafa Elshafei (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia) Gharib Hamada (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

1:55 On-Line Fuel Identification Using Optical Sensing and

Support Vector Machines Technique Cheng Tan (Beihang University, P.R. China) Lijun Xu (Beihang University, P.R. China) Zhang Cao (Beihang University, P.R. China)

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2:20 Fast Electrostatic Diagnostic of an Electron Beam in a Penning-Malmberg Trap Giovanni Bettega (I.N.F.N., Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Bruno Paroli (I.N.F.N., Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Massimiliano Romè (I.N.F.M., Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Michele Norgia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Alessandro Pesatori (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Cesare Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

2:45 Wet Gas Metering Using a Venturi-Meter and Support

Vector Machines Lijun Xu (Beihang University, P.R. China) Shaliang Tang (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 3D1: Special Session 3 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Ferdinanda Ponci (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 3:30 Enhancement of Reliability of an Embedded

Surveillance System by Multiple Sensor Circuit Using a Majority Voting Mechanism Ying-Wen Bai (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Hen Teng (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Li-Sih Shen (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

3:50 Fault Prediction based on Time Series with Online

Combined Kernel SVR Methods Liu Datong (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Peng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Peng Xiyuan (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

4:10 A novel technique for power inverter control based on a

single voltage sensor Lorenzo Ciani (University of Florence, Italy) Marcantonio Catelani (University of Florence, Italy) Mario Mancini (Astrid Energy Enterprises, Italy) Enrico Simoni (Astrid Energy Enterprises, Italy)

4:30 Dynamic Stress-Strength Approach for Reliability

Prediction Maria Gabriella Masi (University of Bologna, Italy) Lorenzo Peretto (University of Bologna, Italy) Roberto Tinarelli (University of Bologna, Italy)

4:50 An On-Board Device for Condition Based Maintenance

on Inverted Fed Induction Machines Loredana Cristaldi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Marco Faifer (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sergio Toscani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Massimo Lazzaroni (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

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3D2: Image Processing III 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Ye Chow Kuang (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia) 3:30 Evaluating the Performance of Hyperspectral Feature

Selection using Quantitative Multivariate Correlation Analysis Miao Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Yi Shen (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

3:55 ”Mean-Shift” Filtering to Reduce Speckle Noise in SAR

Images Pilar Jarabo-Amores (University of Alcalá, Spain) Manuel Rosa-Zurera (University of Alcalá, Spain) David Mata-Moya (University of Alcalá, Spain) Raúl Vicen-Bueno (University of Alcalá, Spain)

4:20 Reducing IO bandwidth for GPU based Moment Invariant

Classifier Systems Christopher Messom (Massey University, New Zealand) A.L.C. Barczak (Massey University, New Zealand)

4:45 Towards Real-Time Sign Language Analysis via

Markerless Gesture Tracking Rini Akmeliawati (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia) Farhad Dadgostar (Massey University, New Zealand) Serge Demidenko (Monash University, Malaysia) Nuwan Gamage (Monash University, Malaysia) Ye Chow Kuang (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia) Christopher Messom (Massey University, New Zealand) Melanie Ooi (Monash University, Malaysia) Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh (Massey University, New Zealand) Gourab Sen Gupta (Massey University, New Zealand)

3D3: Distributed measurements IV 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 3:30 Self-Calibrating Indoor Positioning System Based On

ZigBee® Devices Graziano Santinelli (University of Perugia, Italy) Riccardo Giglietti (University of Perugia, Italy) Antonio Moschitta (University of Perugia, Italy)

3:55 An Automated Multiport Measurement System for Linear

and Non-Linear Characterization of N-Port Microwave Devices Walid El-Deeb (University of Calgary, Canada) Noueddine Boulejfen (University of Hail, Saudi Arabia) Fadhel Ghannouchi (University of Calgary, Canada)

4:20 A Distributed Sensor Network Approach for Orientation

Tasks Bruno Andò (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Baglio (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore La Malfa (University of Catania, Italy) Vincenzo Marletta (University of Catania, Italy) Nicolò Savalli (University of Catania, Italy)

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4:45 A Software-based Instrument for Testing and Monitoring Multi-processing Communications Devices Panayiotis Savvopoulos (University of Patras, Greece) Andreas Kotsopoulos (University of Patras, Greece) Maria Varsamou (University of Patras, Greece) Nikolaos Papandreou (University of Patras, Greece) Theodore Antonakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)

3D4: Analog and Digital Conversion I 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy) 3:30 Multiplying Delay Locked Loop (MDLL) in Time-to-Digital

Conversion Jussi-Pekka Jansson (University of Oulu, Finland) Antti Mäntyniemi (University of Oulu, Finland) Juha Kostamovaara (University of Oulu, Finland)

3:55 Design of a Test Equipment for DAC’s Performance

Assessment Mauro D'Arco (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Annalisa Liccardo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Michele Vadursi (University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy)

4:20 Harmonization of Standard Procedures for ADC Time

Domain Dynamic Testing Eulalia Balestrieri (University of Sannio, Italy) Pasquale Daponte (University of Sannio, Italy) Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy)

4:45 Characterization of High Resolution DAC by DFT and

Sine Fitting Domenico Luca Carnì (University of Calabria, Italy) Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy)

3D5: Electrical and Power Measurements III 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Carmine Landi (Second University of Naples, Italy) 3:30 Design and 3-D Electric Field Simulation of a Calculable

Capacitor Yicheng Wang (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) John Lawall (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) Jon Pratt Bo Gong (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) Rae Duk Lee (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) Han Jun Kim (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science) Sae Won Yoon (Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science)

3:55 Interference Mechanism of External Current on Heavy

Current Transformer Kaifeng Qu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Wei Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Peng Yang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Songling Huang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Bo Jiang (SICHUAN Electric Power Test and Research Institute)

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4:20 On the Use of Concurrent High Frequency Excitation During a Short Circuit Test in a Power Transformer Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India) Jayaraj Joseph (Indian Institute of Technolgy, Madras, India) Jayashankar Venkataraman (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)

4:45 Capacitive Behavior of HF Planar Transformers: Global

Approach to Draw Robust Equivalent Circuits and Experimental characterization Abdelhadi Besri (G2elab, France) Herve Chazal (G2elab, France) Jean-Pierre Keradec (G2elab, France)

3D6: Mathematical Modeling II 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 3:30 A Novel Automatic Level Control for Gain Stabilization

in a Radio Interferometry Homin Jiang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Chia-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Chao-Te Li (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Yuh-Jing Hwang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Johnson C. Han (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Su-Wei Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Derek Kubo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Ming-Tang Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

3:55 Automatic modeling based on cultural programming for

osseointegration diagnostics Pasquale Arpaia (Università del Sannio, Italy) Fabrizio Clemente (CNR - Istituto di Ingegneria Biomedica, Italy) Carlo Manna (Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II, Italy) Giuseppe Montenero (Università del Sannio, Italy)

4:20 Measurements-based Modeling of Burst Errors on

Multiple Parallel Storage Channels Maria Varsamou (University of Patras, Greece) Theodore Antonakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)

4:45 Development of a DC test network for monitoring power

transfer Mihaela Albu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Elias Kyriakides (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) George Nicolaou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Gianfranco CHICCO (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alexandru Nechifor (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Aurel Chirilă (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Dragoş Deaconu (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania)

6:00PM – 7:00 PM Recepton Singapore Zoo 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM I²MTC 2009 Banquet Singapore Zoo

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Thursday, May 7

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Room: Prefunction 4A1: Sensor Interfaces 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) 8:30 Smart Sensors Interface for Wireless Data and Power

Transmission. Jerzy Weremczuk (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Krzysztof Płotczyk (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Grzegorz Tarapata (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Ryszard Jachowicz (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Xue Shan (Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore) Chee Wai Patrick Shi (Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore) Hon Tat Hui (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

8:55 Web-based Real-time Monitoring System on Cold Chain

of Blood Guangpeng Lv (Ocean University of China, P.R. China) Zhongwen Guo (Ocean University of China, P.R. China) Song Xie (Ocean University of China, P.R. China) Wenli Pan (Ocean University of China, P.R. China)

9:20 Improving the performance of direct interface circuits

using the Vernier technique Ernesto Sifuentes (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ), Mexico) Manel Gasulla (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Oscar Casas (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Ferran Reverter (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

9:45 Introducing the Wireless Ultra Smart Sensor Paolo Ferrari (University of Brescia, Italy) Alessandra Flammini (University of Brescia, Italy) Emiliano Sisinni (University of Brescia, Italy)

4A2: Analog & Mixed Signal II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 8:30 eSYSID: A proposal for a flexible electronic SYStem

IDentification test bench Gerd Vandersteen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Ludwig De Locht (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

8:55 Accurate Amplitude Estimation of Sine-Wave Harmonic

Components by Frequency-Domain Approach Daniel Belega (University of Timisoara, Romania) Dominique Dallet (University Bordeaux, France) David Slepicka (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

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9:20 A frequency domain procedure for estimation of the exponentially damped sinusoids Dušan Agrež (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

9:45 FFT Filter-Bank-Based Wideband Detection: Coherent

vs. Non-Coherent Integration Sichun Wang (DRDC-Ottawa, Canada) Robert Inkol (DRDC-Ottawa, Canada) Sreeraman Rajan (DRDC-Ottawa, Canada) François Patenaude (Communications Research Centre, Canada)

4A3: Distributed measurements V 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Ferdinanda Ponci (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 8:30 A Wearable Wireless Sensor Network for Human Limbs

Monitoring Kay Soon Low (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Guo Xiong Lee (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tawfiq Taher (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

8:55 Design of a Tropical Rain – Disaster Alarm System: A

New Approach based on Wireless Sensor Networks and Acoustic Rain Rate Measurements Nathaniel Libatique (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) G. L. Tangonan (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) R. Gustilo (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) W. K. G. Seah (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singpore) C. Pineda (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) M. L. Guico (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) G. Abrajano (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) R. Ching (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) J. L. Zamora (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) A. Espinosa (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) A. C. Verla (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singpore) R. Lamac (Japan Radio C. Ltd., Philippine-Branch, Philipppines) H. Dy (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) J. Pusta (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) E. M. Trono (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) A. Gimpaya (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) J. R. San Luis (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) S. J. Gonzales (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines) A. T. Lotho (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

9:20 Delivery the Common Sense of the Time to Stand Alone

Measurement Instrument by PDA Antonino Barresi (University of Calabria, Italy) Domenico Grimaldi (University of Calabria, Italy) Francesco Lamonaca (Univeristy of Calabria, Italy)

9:45 Power Consumption Reduction in Wireless Sensor

Networks through Optimal Synchronization David Macii (University of Trento, Italy) Anton Ageev (University of Trento, Italy) Andrey Somov (University of Trento, Italy)

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4A4: Mechanical Measurements III 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Antonello Monti (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 8:30 Measurement of Wheelchair Turn Radius for SCI

Patient's Remodeling House Yoshio Tanimoto (Kibikogen RehabilitationCenter, Japan) Akihiro Tokuhiro (Kibikogen Rehabilitation Center, Japan) Hideki Yamamoto (Okayama University, Japan) Kuniharu Nanba (Kibikogen Rehabilitation Center, Japan) Hiroyuki Ukida (The University of Tokushima, Japan)

8:55 Ground Water Level Measurements using a Segmented

Resistance Sensor Xianhua Yao (University of Taiyuan Technology, P.R. China) Ying_mei Zhang (University of Taiyuan Technology, P.R. China) Lin Gao (University of Taiyuan Technology, P.R. China) Wuliang Yin (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Juan Yang (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Chao Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

9:20 Using the Skin Effect to Estimate Cracks Depths in

Mettalic Structures Helena Ramos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) Octavian Postolache (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Francisco Alegria (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) Artur Ribeiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

9:45 Eddy Current Inspection of a Duralumin Plate Artur Ribeiro (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Francisco Alegria (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) Octavian Postolache (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal) Helena Ramos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

4A5: Special Session 4 – II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Sunil Das (University of Ottawa, Canada) 8:30 A Novel Technique to Minimize Standby Leakage Power

in Nanoscale CMOS VLSI Heung Jun Jeon (Northeastern University, USA) Yong-Bin Kim (Northeastern University, USA) Minsu Choi (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

8:55 Test-Per-Scan BIST Based on Berlekamp-Massey

Algorithm Cleonilson Souza (Federal Center of Technological Education of Maranhao, Brazil) José Iran Silva (Federal Center of Technological Education of Maranhao, Brazil) Cláudio Torres (Federal Center of Technological Education of Maranhao, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil) Francisco M. Assis (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil)

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9:20 Combining ATE and Flying Probe In-Circuit Test

Strategies for Load Board Verification and Test Soh Ying Seah (Monash University, Malaysia) Melanie Ooi (Monash University, Malaysia) Ye Chow Kuang (Monash University, Malaysia) Chee Sun See (Texas Instruments, Malaysia) Shanti Panchadcharam (Texas Instruments, Malaysia) Serge Demidenko (Monash University, Malaysia)

9:45 Fixture Control for Mobile Phone Testing

Jason Wan (Flextronics International, Malaysia) Alan Choong (Flextronics International, Malaysia) Moi Tin Chew (Monash University, Malaysia) Serge Demidenko (Monash University, Malaysia)

4A6: Soft Computing II 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Ruth Dyer (Kansas State University, USA) 8:30 Mass Flow Rate Measurement of Gas/liquid Two-phase

Flow in Horizontal Pipe Based on V-cone Flow Meter and Adaptive Wavelet Network Jun Han (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Feng Dong (Tianjin University, P.R. China)

8:55 A Multilevel Interface for an Intelligent Transport System

Vincenzo Di Lecce (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Alberto Amato (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)

9:20 Hypermedia user-interface integration in distribution

power systems SCADA Antonio Moreno-Muñoz (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain) José Flores Arias (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain) Aurora del Rocio Gil de Castro (Universidad de Córdoba, Spain) Juan Jose Gonzalez de la Rosa (University of Cadiz, Spain)

9:45 Methodology of the Real-Time Multicore Virtual

Instrumentation Design Piotr Bilski (Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland) Wieslaw Winiecki (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 4B1: Sensors and Transducers III 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Bernardo Tellini (University of Pisa, Italy) 10:30 A Portable Dielectric Constant Sensor Based on Time of

Flight Measurements Tommaso Grego (University of Perugia, Italy) Marco Dionigi (University of Perugia, Italy) Antonio Moschitta (University of Perugia, Italy) Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy)

10:55 Innovative Ferrofluidic Inertial Sensor exploiting the

Rosensweig effect Bruno Andò (University of Catania, Italy) Alberto Ascia (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Baglio (University of Catania, Italy) Angela Beninato (University of Catania, Italy)

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11:20 Hybrid Telemetric MEMS for High Temperature Measurements into Harsh Industrial Environments Daniele Marioli (University of Brescia, Italy) Emilio Sardini (University of Brescia, Italy) Mauro Serpelloni (University of Brescia, Italy) Bruno Andò (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Baglio (University of Catania, Italy) Nicolò Savalli (University of Catania, Italy) Carlo Trigona (University of Catania, Italy)

11:45 Estimating Bearing Angles by Encoding Ultrasonic

Transmissions at Different Frequencies Alvaro Hernández (University of Alcala, Spain) Ana Jiménez (University of Alcala, Spain) Israel Gomez (University of Alcala, Spain) Juan García (University of Alcalá, Spain) Maria Carmen Perez (University of Alcala, Spain) Enrique Garcia (University of Alcala, Spain) Fernando Alvarez (University of Extremadura, Spain)

4B2: Non-invasive Measurements III 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Kim Fowler (CoolStream, USA) 10:30 An Integrated ECT/ERT Dual Modality Sensor

Ziqiang Cui (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Huaxiang Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Yanbin Xu (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Lianfang Zhang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

10:55 Detection of knots in veneer surface by using laser

scattering based on the tracheid effect Veli-Matti Törmänen (University of Oulu, Finland) Anssi Mäkynen (University of Oulu, Finland)

11:20 Application of a combined capacitive flow velocity and

density sensor for the measurement of liquid hydrogen mass flow Gert Holler (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Daniel Hrach (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Anton Fuchs (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

11:45 Virtual Instrument for Assessing Dermal Perfusion

Madhu Mohan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Jagadeesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

4B3: Digital Signal Processing II 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Dominique Dallet (IMS Laboratory - University Bordeaux, France) 10:30 The Effect of Increasing the Sampling Rate on the

Effectiveness of the Matched Filter Shlomo Engelberg (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel)

10:55 Signal processing method with cold junction

compensation for thermocouple Guo Wei (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Xin Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Jinwei Sun (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

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11:20 Iterative equalization of room transfer function using biquadratic filters Khaled Lakhdhar (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Jaidane Meriem (U2S, Tunisia) Hmaied Shaiek (Cabasse Acoustic Center, France) Jean-Marc Boucher (Telecom Bretagne, France)

11:45 Bandpass Sampling for a New Cost Effective DVB-T

Power Meter Leopoldo Angrisani (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Domenico Capriglione (University of Cassino, Italy) Luigi Ferrigno (University of Cassino, Italy) Gianfranco Miele (University of Cassino, Italy)

4B4: Analog and Digital Conversion II 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Izzet Kale (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) 10:30 A Novel Charge-Pump Based Time-to-Digital Converter

Pasquale Napolitano (University of Perugia, Italy) Federico Alimenti (University of Perugia, Italy) Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy)

10:55 Spectral estimation of piece-constant waveforms

generated by digital-to-analog converters Mauro D'Arco (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Annalisa Liccardo (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Michele Vadursi (University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy)

11:20 Characterization of sigma-delta modulators using

ARMAX identification methods Gerd Vandersteen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Maulik Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India) Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

11:45 ADC Standard Harmonization: Comparison of test

methods – Phase II Luca De Vito (University of Sannio, Italy) Sergio Rapuano (University of Sannio, Italy) David Slepicka (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)

4B5: Medical and Biological measurements I 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Boguslaw Jarosz (Carleton University, Canada) 10:30 Genetic Algorithm for Integration of Ensemble of

Classifiers in Arrhythmia Recognition Stanislaw Osowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Robert Siroic (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Krzysztof Siwek (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

10:55 A Novel Signal Processing Method for the Measurement

of Venous Refilling Time Madhu Mohan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Leo Mariappan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Jagadeesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

11:20 Parametric approach for brain tissues volume

measurements from 2D MRI Peter Kartashov (Saratov State Technical University, Russia)

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Alexey L'vov (Saratov State Technical University, Russia) 11:45 Viscoelastic Properties of Tissue Mimicking Phantoms

for Ultrasound Elastograpghy Kishore Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Jayashankar Venkataraman (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Jagadeesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Maneesha Andrews (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Ashok Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

4B6: Mathematical Modeling III 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy) 10:30 Upper bounding the variations of the best linear

approximation of a nonlinear system in a power sweep measurement Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Tadeusz Dobrowiecki (Budapest University of of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Yves Rolain (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

10:55 Nonparametric Noise Modeling in the Presence of

Exogenous Inputs Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Gerd Vandersteen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

11:20 Finite record effects of the errors-in-variables estimator

for linear dynamic systems Kurt Barbé (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Gerd Vandersteen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

11:45 Profile Measurement via Circle-Line Spline Fitting

Matthew Harker (University of Leoben, Austria) Paul O'Leary (University of Leoben, Austria) Richard Neumayr (University of Leoben, Austria)

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch Concourse 4C1: Magnetic Sensors 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Boguslaw Jarosz (Carleton University, Canada) 1:30 Two-axis inclination measurement system based on a

planar flux-gate sensor Luigi Rovati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Stefano Cattini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

1:55 Experimental Investigations on the Spatial Resolution in

RTD-Fluxgates B. Andò (University of Catania, Italy) Salvatore Baglio (University of Catania, Italy) S. La Malfa (University of Catania, Italy) Carlo Trigona (University of Catania, Italy) A.R. Bulsara (SPAWAR Systems Center, USA)

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2:20 Magnetic Images of a Surface Crack on the Heated Specimen by using an Area-Type Magnetic Camera with High Spatial Resolution Jiseong Hwang (Chosun University, Korea) Jungmin Kim (Chosun University, Korea) Jinyi Lee (Chosun University, Korea)

2:45 Measurement of Decarburisation of Steel Rods with an

Electromagnetic Sensor Using an Analytical Model Wuliang Yin (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) X. J. Hao (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) A. J. Peyton (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) M. Strangwood (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) C. L. David (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

4C2: Measurement Uncertainty II 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada) 1:30 Calibrating an Instrument Voltage Transformer to

Achieve Reduced Uncertainty Karel Draxler (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) Renata Styblikova (Czech Metrology Institute, Czech Republic)

1:55 Theoretical and Practical Realization for the Uncertainty

Measurement by Coverage Interval Wen-Hui Lo (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Sin-Horng Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

2:20 Random and Systematic Error Analysis in the Complex

Permittivity Measurements of High Dielectric Strength Thermoplastics Nahid Rahman (Tufts University, USA) Ana Medina Ayala (Tufts University, USA) Konstantin Korolev (Tufts University, USA) Mohammed Afsar (Tufts University, USA) Rudy Cheung (Microwave Engineering Corporation, USA) Maurice Aghion (Microwave Engineering Corporation, USA)

2:45 Evidence Theory and Data Fusion Application in Wind

Speed Measurement Juan Mauricio Villanueva (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Sebastian Catunda (Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brazil) Ricardo Tanscheit (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

4C3: Digital Signal Processing III 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Dominique Dallet (IMS Laboratory - University Bordeaux, France) 1:30 Design and Implementation of a Remote Embedded DSP

Stethoscope with Methods for Judging Heart Murmur Ying-Wen Bai (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Cheng-Hsiang Yeh (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)

1:55 Asynchronously sampled multi-harmonic signal

estimation algorithm Rado Lapuh (Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia)

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2:20 A New Precise Measurement Method on Inter-harmonics Jing Wu (Beihang University, P.R. China) Kaifeng Qu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China) Wei Zhao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

2:45 Probabilistic Model For Clock Synchronization Of

Cascaded Network Elements Chongning Na (Siemens AG, Germany) Dragan Obradovic (Siemens AG, Germany) Ruxandra Lupas-Scheiterer (Siemens AG, Germany)

4C4: Calibration III 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Wendy Van Moer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) 1:30 A Smart add-on Device for the Remote Calibration of

Electrical Energy Meters Donatello Amicone (University of Cassino, Italy) Andrea Bernieri (University of Cassino, Italy) Luigi Ferrigno (University of Cassino, Italy) Marco Laracca (University of Cassino, Italy)

1:55 Baseband identification and RF validation of a nonlinear

feedback model for a crystal detector Liesbeth Gommé (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Yves Rolain (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Johan Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Rik Pintelon (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

2:20 Quality Management Issues for PC-Controlled

Calibration Systems Alessio Carullo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alessia Luoni (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alessandra Neri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Giuseppe La Paglia (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy) Giulia Suriani (TEC Eurolab s.r.l., Italy)

2:45 Influence of an Asymmetrically Positioned Load in a

Reverberation Chamber Stenio Cantalice (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - PB, Brazil) Glauco Fontgalland (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - PB, Brazil) Raimundo Freire (Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - PB, Brazil) Elodie Richalot (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France) Silvio Barbin (University of Sao Paulo - Escola Politécnica, Brazil)

4C5: Electrical & Power Measurements IV 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Moi Tin Chew (Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia) 1:30 Broadband Microwave Attenuation Measurement

Standard in the Frequency Range from 10 MHz to 26.5 GHz Thomas Wu (A*STAR, Singapore) S. Chua (A*STAR, Singapore)

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1:55 Powering Wireless Sensor Nodes: Primary Batteries versus Energy Harvesting Maria Teresa Penella (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Joan Albesa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Manel Gasulla (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

2:20 Calibration of VFTO Bushing Sensor Based on

Convolution Model Ma Guo-ming (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China) Li Cheng-ring (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China) Quan Jiang-tao (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China) Jiang Jin (North China Electric Power University, P.R. China)

2:45 Performance Measurement of Amorphous and

Monocrystalline Silicon PV Modules in Eastern U.S. Ulrich Schwabe (Rowan University, USA) Peter Jansson (Rowan University, USA)

4C6: Optical Measurements III 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Gourab Sen Gupta (Massey University, New Zealand) 1:30 Automatic Optical Phase Identification of Microdrill Bits

Using Active Shape Models Guifang Duan (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Yen-Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Takeshi Sukekawa (Remixpoint, Inc., Japan)

1:55 A 2-Channel CMOS Time-to-Digital Converter for Time-

of-Flight Laser Rangefinding Ilkka Nissinen (University of Oulu, Finland) Juha Kostamovaara (University of Oulu, Finland)

2:20 Measurement of the Pupil Diameter Under Different

Light Stimula Maria Gabriella Masi (University of Bologna, Italy) Lorenzo Peretto (University of Bologna, Italy) Roberto Tinarelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Luigi Rovati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

2:45 Determination of Edge Positions of Hot Objects Using

Simple IR–Sensing Elements Stefan Rupitsch (Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria) Bernhard Zagar (Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria)

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Coffee Break Room: Prefunction 4D1: Optical Sensors 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 301 Session Chair: Carmine Landi (Second University of Naples, Italy) 3:30 Development of a low-cost pH sensor based on plastic

optical fibers Luigi Rovati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Paola Fabbri (University of Modena, Italy) Francesco Pilati (University of Modena, Italy)

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3:55 Plastic Optic Fiber Sensor for Cumulative Measurements Emma Angelini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Sabrina Grassini (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alessandra Neri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Marco Parvis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Guido Perrone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

4:20 Non-Contact Low-Cost Fiber Distance Sensor with

Compensation of Target Reflectivity Maria Luisa Casalicchio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alessandra Neri (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Guido Perrone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Daniele Tosi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alberto Vallan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

4:45 A Fiber Optical Sensor for Displacement and

Acceleration Measurements in Vibration Tests Maria Luisa Casalicchio (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Guido Perrone (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Alberto Vallan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

4D2: Imaging Processing IV 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 302 Session Chair: Christopher Messom (Massey University, New Zealand) 3:30 Fast Extraction of Linear Segmentation Characteristic

Based on Gray Scale Projection Multiple Processing Xudong Yang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Peng Dai (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Ping He (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China) Hongjian Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

3:55 Rule Based Concave Curvature Segmentation for

Touching Rice Grains in Binary Digital Images David Hobson (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Robert Carter (University of Kent, United Kingdom) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

4:20 Thermal Event Recognition Applied to Tokamak

Protection during Plasma Operation Vincent Martin (INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France) François Brémond (INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France) Jean-Marcel Travere (CEA, France) Victor Moncada (CEA, France) Gwenaël Dunand (CEA, France)

4:45 Trained Texture Segmentation Using Data Mining

Algorithms Daniel Schleicher (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Bernhard Zagar (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

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4D3: Automated Test and Diagnostics Systems II 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 303 Session Chair: Sunil Das (University of Ottawa, Canada) 3:30 Online measurements and control of a laboratory scale

DC grid Alexandru Nechifor (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Mihai Eugen Marin (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) Mihail Popa (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania) George Nicolaou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

3:55 Qualification tests and reliability analysis on electronic

ballast system Marcantonio Catelani (University of Florence, Italy) Andrea Zanobini (Università di Firenze, Italy) Lorenzo Ciani (Università di Firenze, Italy)

4:20 An Automated Procedure for Data Converter Test

Design Antonio Moschitta (University of Perugia, Italy) Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy)

4:45 Measurement-Domain Specific Language for Magnetic

Test Specifications at CERN Pasquale Arpaia (Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università del Sannio, Italy) Marco Buzio (CERN, Switzerland) Lucio Fiscarelli (University of Sannio; CERN, Switzerland) Vitaliano Inglese (CERN - University of Naples FEDERICO II, Switzerland) Giuseppe La Commara (University of Sannio, Italy) Louis Walckiers (CERN, Switzerland)

4D4: Soft Computing III 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 304 Session Chair: Annamaria Varkonyi-Koczy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) 3:30 Design of Electromagnetic Tomography System based

on Integrated Impedance Analyzer Ze Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China) Wuliang Yin (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Xiufang Sun (Beijing Union University, P.R. China)

3:55 Independent component analysis of the interface

fluctuations of gas/liquid two-phase flow Yanbin Xu (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Huaxiang Wang (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Ziqiang Cui (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Feng Dong (Tianjin University, P.R. China) Yong Yan (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

4:20 Short-time Traffic Flow Volume Prediction Based on

Support Vector Machine with Time-dependent Structure Qiangwei Li (Zhejiang Police College, P.R. China)

4:45 Ring Artifacts Reduction in Cone-Beam CT Images

based on Independent Component Analysis Yen-Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Guifang Duan (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Akinori Fujita (Shimadzu Corporation, Japan) Ken Hirooka (Shimadzu Corporation, Japan) Yoshihiro Ueno (Shimadzu Corporation, Japan)

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4D5: Electrical & Power Measurements V 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 305 Session Chair: Georg Brasseur (Graz University of Technology, Austria) 3:30 Electrical Characterization of a Pressed Contact

Between a Power Chip and a Metal Electrode Eric Vagnon (Grenoble Université, France) Yvan Avenas (Grenoble Université, France) Jean-Christophe Crebier (Grenoble Université, France) Pierre-Olivier Jeannin (Grenoble Université, France) Ihab Al Batta (Grenoble Université, France) Abdelhadi Besri (Grenoble Université, France)

3:55 Measurements for proof of concept validation of a twin

unidirectional turbine wave energy plant Jayaraj Joseph (Indian Institute of Technolgy, Madras, India) Pratulya Sivashankar (National institute of Technology,Surathkal, India) Jayashankar Venkataraman (Indian Institute of Technolgy, Madras, India) U Vinatha (National institute of Technology,Surathkal, India)

4:20 Method using square pulse excitation for high-

impedance spectroscopy of anticorrosion coatings Jerzy Hoja (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Grzegorz Lentka (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)

4:45 Purpose-built Standalone Photovoltaic System Testbed

Alex See Kok Bin (Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore) Yang Xiao Wei (Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore)

4D6: Special Session 5 – III 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM, Meeting Room 306 Session Chair: Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada) 3:30 Optical Flowmeter for Blood Extracorporeal Circulators

Michele Norgia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Alessandro Pesatori (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Luigi Rovati (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

3:55 Assessment of Algorithms for Oscillometric Blood

Pressure Measurement Silu Chen (University of Ottawa, Canada) Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada) Miodrag Bolic (University of Ottawa, Canada) Hilmi Dajani (University of Ottawa, Canada)

4:20 A Low-cost Real-time Closed-loop Epileptic Seizure

Monitor and Controller Chung-Ping Young (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Chao-Hsien Hsieh (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Hsu-Chuan Wang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

4:45 Robust Automatic Feature Extraction for Protein

Microarrays Murat Ahmed (Stanford University, USA) Justin Dyer (Stanford University, USA) Evangelos Hytopoulos (Aviir, Inc., USA) Haruka Itakura (Stanford University, USA) Philip Tsao (Stanford University, USA)

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