SiPS 2024
4 – 6 November 2024
Monday, November 4
8:15 Check-in / Light Breakfast
9:00 Opening
9:20 Keynote
William Oliver, PhD – Henry Ellis Warren Professor EECS / MIT
10:00 Session
Emerging Neural Network Architectures
MemNAS: Super-net Neural Architecture Search for Memristor-based DNN Accelerators
Sébastien Henwood, Yvon Savaria and François Leduc-Primeau
Processing Multi-Layer Perceptrons In-Memory
Pedro Carrinho, Oscar Ferraz, João Dinis Ferreira, Yann Falevoz, Vitor Silva and Gabriel Falcao
Demonstrating Confidence in Radio Frequency Machine Learning Systems
Matthew Judah and Scott Kuzdeba
11:00 Coffee
11:20 Session
Wireless 1
Partitioned Successive-Cancellation List Flip Decoding of Polar Codes
Charles Pillet, Ilshat Sagitov, Gregoire Domer and Pascal Giard
Box Decoding: A Low-Complexity Algorithm for MIMO Detection
Sheikh Faizan Qureshi, Stefan Damjancevic, Emil Matus, Dmitry Utyansky, Pieter van der Wolf and Gerhard Fettweis
Hardware Implementation of Soft Mapper/Demappers in iterative EP-based receivers
Ian Fischer Schilling, Serdar Sahin, Camille Leroux, Antonio Cipriano and Christophe Jégo
12:20 Lunch
13:20 Session
Biosignal Processing
Tensor Decomposition for fNIRS-Based Purchase Intention Decoding in Neuromarketing
Jasmine Chan, Terrence Barnhardt, Teresa Wilcox and Behnaz Ghoraani
Coherence Spectrum Learning for Fetal Electrocardiogram Extraction
Ko-Tsung Hsu, Trong Nguyen, Anita Krishnan, Rathinaswamy Govindan and Raj Shekhar
Wasserstein-Based Similarity Constrained Matrix Factorization for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction
Sarah Malone, Mohammed Aburidi and Roummel Marcia
HM-Detect: A Novel Method for Heart Murmur Detection and Classification Using Machine Learning and Sound Feature Analysis
Ram Sivaraman and Yizi Xiao
14:40 Coffee
15:00 Special Session
Signal Processing in Communications, Navigation and Sensing for Autonomous Systems
Model Proficiency for Autonomous Agents: A Signal Processing Perspective
Anna Guerra
Autonomous Vehicle Positioning with LiDAR-only Sensing: an Application on the RACECAR Dataset
Francesco Pigato, Luca Barbieri, Mattia Brambilla and Monica Nicoli
Sampling and Exploration Strategies for Multi-Agent Seismic Imaging Using 3D Full Waveform Inversion
Ban-Sok Shin and Dmitriy Shutin
Deep Learning-driven Landmark Mapping with Channel Impulse Responses
Kyeong-Ju Cha, Minsoo Jeong, Hyeonjin Chung, Jeongwan Kang and Sunwoo Kim
Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for a Gas Source Localization based on Poisson’s Equation
Dmitriy Shutin, Victor Scott Prieto Ruiz, Thomas Wiedemann, Patrick Hinsen and Armin Dammann
Incremental Learning through Fusion of Discrete Anomaly Models from Odometry Signals in Autonomous Agent Navigation
Muhammad Farhan Humayun, Pamela Zontone, Lucio Marcenaro, David Martın Gomez and Carlo Regazzoni
17:00 Adjourn
Tuesday, November 5
9:00 Keynote
Song Han, PhD – Associate Professor EECS / MIT
9:40 Session
Theoretical Concepts and Emerging technologies
Application of Weighted Chebyshev Approximation in Pulse Design for Quantum Gates
Qi Ding, Alan Oppenheim, Petros Boufounos, Simon Gustavsson, Jeffrey Grover, Thomas Baran and William Oliver
Reconfigurable 3D Edge Sensing System of Carbon Nanotube Sensing and Silicon CMOS from a Commercial Manufacturing Facilities
Aya Amer, Gage Hills, Georgios Kyriazidis, Anantha Chandrakasan and Max Shulaker
Noise Identification for Data-augmented Physics-based State-Space Models
Jindrich Dunik, Ondrej Straka, Oliver Kost, Shuo Tang, Tales Imbiriba and Pau Closas
11:00 Coffee
11:20 Session
Neural Networks and Signal Processing for Image, Video and Audio
Enhancing Synthetic Reduced Nearest-Neighbor with Two-Layer Neural Networks: A Step Forward in Image Classification
Azar Alizadeh and Mukesh Singhal
Let’s Roll: Synthetic and Real Dataset for Pedestrian Detection Across Different Shutter Types
Yue Hu, Gourav Datta, Kira Beerel, Yao Liu and Peter Beerel
On the Mismatch Between the Phase Structure of All-pole-based Synthetic Vowels and Natural Vowels
Aníbal Ferreira, Vasco Santos and Marco Oliveira
Word-Level Acoustic Modeling of Speech for COVID-19 Detection
Drew Grant and James West
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Session
Security, Cryptography and Compression
Low-Complexity Integer Divider Architecture for Homomorphic Encryption
Sajjad Akherati, Jiaxuan Cai and Xinmiao Zhang
Improved Ciphertext Multiplication for RNS-CKKS Homomorphic Encryption
Sajjad Akherati and Xinmiao Zhang
A High-Throughput Hardware Accelerator for Lempel-Ziv 4 Compression
Tao Chen
Low-Latency Parallel Row-Layered Min-sum MDPC Decoder for McEliece Cryptosystem
Jiaxuan Cai and Xinmiao Zhang
15:00 Coffee
15:20 Special Session
Quantum Techniques for Signal Processing and ML
Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search in Asynchronous Quantum Reinforcement Learning
Samuel Yen-Chi Chen
QEEGNet: Quantum Machine Learning for Enhanced Electroencephalography Encoding
Chi-Sheng Chen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Aidan Hung-Wen Tsai and Chun-Shu Wei
Hierarchical Quantum Control Gates for Functional MRI Understanding
Xuan Bac Nguyen, Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Hugh Churchill, Samee Khan and Khoa Luu
Quantum Gradient Class Activation Map for Model Interpretability
Hsin-Yi Lin, Huan-Hsin Tseng, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen and Shinjae Yoo
17:00 Social
18:00 Dinner
Wednesday, November 6
9:00 Keynote
Alexander Wyglinski – Professor Robotics Sciences / WPI
9:40 Special Session
Technologies and Techniques for Next Generation Edge AI Platforms
Technologies and Techniques for Next Generation Edge AI Platforms
Vitaliy Gleyzer
Contrastive Learning in Memristor-based Neuromorphic Systems
Cory Merkel and Alexander Ororbia
Modeling and co-design of compute-in-memory accelerators
Tanner Andrulis and Vivienne Sze
Medical imaging at the edge: towards ultra-low power ultrasound with embedded CNN enhancement
Jeremy Kemmerer, Kerri Prinos and Vitaliy Gleyzer
11:00 Coffee
11:20 Session
Wireless 2
A CVNN-Aided Anti-interference Channel Estimation for Massive MIMO Systems
Yue Dai and Borivoje Nikolic
Evaluation of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Array for a Dual Mode OTFS-OFDM Modulator
Zohaib Hassan, Waqar Hussain, Aleksandr Ometov, Elena Simona Lohan and Jari Nurmi
Secrecy Rate Maximization in MIMO RIS-Aided Wireless Communications: A Hardware Accelerator Implementation for Reflection Optimization
Dimitris Kompostiotis and Vassilis Paliouras
12:20 Lunch, Applied Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee meeting
13:20 Session
Efficient Algorithms and Architectures
An Efficient Real-Valued Cross-Correlator via Fast Fourier Transform
Sin-Wei Chiu, Ramesh Harjani and Keshab K. Parhi
Efficient Assignment with Time Constraints for Heterogeneous DSP Systems
Jiajie Li, Christophe Dubach and Warren J. Gross
Fast Energy Optimization of On-Chip ECC Memories
Shahriar Rohman and François Leduc-Primeau