Book Chapter

Journal Papers

Conference Papers

Some Selected Publications

JOURNAL PAPERS

1.     Hong Cao and A C Kot, “Accurate Detection of Demosaicing Regularity for Digital Image Forensics,” in  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (to appear in Dec 09 issue)

2.     P. Yap, X Jiang and A C Kot, “Two Dimensional Polar Harmonic Transforms for Invariant Image Representation,” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. (To appear)

3.     C Ling, K H Li and AC Kot, “Performance of Space-Time Codes: Gallager Bounds and Weight Enumeration” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol 54, Issue 8, pp 3592-3610, Aug 2008

4.     H Yang, A C Kot and Susanto, “Orthogonal Data Embedding for Binary Images in Morphological Transform Domain-A High Capacity Approach”, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol 10, Issue 3, pp 339-351, April 2008

5.     "Eigenfeature Regularization and Extraction in Face Recognition", accepted, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence  Vol. 30, No 3, pp 383-394, March 2008 (with X Jiang and B Mandal)

 

6.     “Objective Distortion Measure for Binary Text Image Based on Edge Line Segment Similarity”, accepted, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, pp 1691-1695, Jun 2007 (with J Cheng).

 

7.     "Pattern-Based Data Hiding for Binary Image Authentication by Connectivity-Preserving” in IEEE Trans on Multimedia, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp 475-485, April 2007. (with H Yang)

 

8.      “Efficient Fingerprint Search Based on Database Clustering”, in Pattern Recognition, Vol. 40/6, pp 1793-1803, 2007. (with MH Liu and XD Jiang)

 

9.      “Fingerprint Retrieval for Identification,” in IEEE Trans. On Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 532-542, Dec 2006 (with X Jiang and M Liu).

 

10.   “Binary Image Authentication with Tampering Localization by Embedding Cryptographic Signature and Block Identifier”, in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 13, No. 12, Dec 2006 (with H Yang).

 

11.   “Enhanced Maximum Likelihood Face Recognition”, in Electronics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 19, pp. 1089-1090, 14 September 2006 (with XD Jiang and B Mandal).

 

12.  "Multiple-Antenna Differential Lattice Decoding," in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Special Issue on Differential and Non-coherent Wireless Communications, USA, September 2005 (with C Ling, W Mow and K Li).

 

13.   “Fingerprint Reference Point Detection,” in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, pp. 498-509,  2005 (with M Liu and XD Jinag).

 

14.   “Binary Image Watermarking through Blurring and Biased Binarization,” in International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-21, 2005 (with H Lu, Y Shi and L Chen).

 

15.  “Multiple-Antenna Differential Lattice Decoding,” accepted in principle in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) special issue on Differential and Non-coherent Wireless Communications, 2005. (with C Ling, W Mow & K Li)

 

16.  “Fingerprint Reference Point Detection,” accepted for publication in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2005. (with M Liu & J Jiang) 

 

17.  "On Decision-Feedback Detection of Differential Space-Time Modulation in Continuous Fading," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp 1613 – 1617, October 2004. (with C Ling & K H Li)

 

18.  “Parameter Estimation of a Real Single Tone from Short Data Records,” in Signal Processing, Vol. 84, Issue 3, pp 601-617, March 2004. (with H Fung & K Li and KTeh)

 

19.  “Distance-Reciprocal Distortion Measure for Binary Document Images”, in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 228-231, February 2004. (with H Lu & Y Shi)

 

20.  “Binary Image Watermarking through Blurring and Biased Binarization,” accepted to appear in International Journal of Image and Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-21, 2005. (H Lu, Y Shi and L Chen)

 

21.  “ICIP’04 in the Lion City – Singapore,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp 108-109, September 2004. (with M. H Er)

 

22.  “Non-coherent Sequence Detection of Differential Space-Time Modulation”, IEEE Transactions in Information Theory, Special Issue on Multi-Antenna Communications, Vol 49, pp 2727-2734, Oct., 2003. (with C Ling & K Li)

 

23.  “Multisampling Decision-Feedback Linear Prediction Receivers for Differential Space-Time Modulation over Rayleigh Fast Fading Channels,” in IEEE Transactions on Communication, Vol. 51, pp. 1214-1223, July 2003. (with C Ling, K Li and Q Zhang)

 

24.  “New Phase Adjustment and Channel Estimation Methods for RF Combining Applicable in Mobile Terminals,” in Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 25, pp. 187-204, Issue 3, June 2003. (with Y Liang)

 

25.  “A Blind Code Timing Estimator and Its implementation for DS-CDMA Signals in Unknown Colored Noise”, in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 1600-1607, November 2002. (with Y Ma, K Li and G Ye)

 

26.  “Nonlinear Dynamic System Identification using Chebyshev Functional Link Artificial Neural Networks”, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 32,  No. 4, August 2002. (with J Patra)

 

27.  “Fast algorithm for multi-dimensional discrete Hartley transform with size qÙ½1 x qÙ½2 x… qÙ½r”, Signal Processing, Vol. 82, pp 1086-1095, 2002. (with Y Zeng and G Bi)

 

28.  “Extending the Sound Impulse Response of Room using Extrapolation”, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10, No. 3, March 2002. (with Z Meng, K Sakagami, M Morimoto and G Bi)

 

29.  “Combined Polynomial Transform and Radix-q Algorithm for MD Discrete W Transform”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol 49, No. 3, pp 634 – 641, March 2001. (with Y Zeng and G Bi)

 

30.  “Integer Discrete Cosine Transforms and Fast Algorithms”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 49, No. 11, pp 2774-2782, 2001. (with Y Zeng, L Cheng & G Bi)

 

31.  “New Method of Performance Analysis for Diversity Reception of Correlated Rayleigh Fading Signals”, IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp 1807 – 1812, September 2000. (with L Fang & G Bi)

 

32.  “An Intelligent Pressure Sensor using Artificial Neural Networks”, IEEE Trans. Instrum. and Measurement, Vol 49, No. 4, pp 829- 834, August 2000. (with J Patra and G Panda)

 

33.  “Error Probabilities of an FFH/BFSK Self-Normalizing Receiver in a Rician-Fading Channel with Multitone Jamming”, IEEE Trans. on Communications, USA, Vol COM-48, No 2, pp 308-315, Feb 2000. (with K Teh and K Li)

 

34.  “An ANN-based Smart Capacitive Pressure Sensor in Dynamic Environment”, Sensors and Actuators, pp 26-38, Jan 2000. (with J Patra & A Bos)

 

35.  “New Algorithm for Multidimensional type-III DCT”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II: Analog and Digital Processing, Vol 47, No 12, pp 1523-1529, December 2000. (with Y Zeng & G Bi)

 

36.  “Performance Analysis of an FFH/BFSK Product-combining Receiver under Multitone Jamming,” IEEE Trans. Vehic. Technol., USA, Vol. VT-48, No 6, pp. 1946-1953, Nov. 1999. (with K Teh and K Li)

 

37.  "Performance Study of a Maximum-Likelihood Receiver for FFH/BFSK Systems with Multitone Jamming", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol COM-47, pp 766-772, No 5, May 1999. (with K  Teh and K H Li)

 

38.  “Partial-Band Jammer Suppression in FFH Spread-Spectrum System Using with FFT”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, USA, Vol VT-48, pp 478-486, No 2, March 1999.(with K Teh and K H Li)

 

39.  "Performance Analysis of an FFT-based FFH/BFSK Product-combining Receiver with Partial-band Jamming", IEE Proc. Commun. Vol. 146, pp 43-47, Feb 1999. (with K The and K Li)

 

40.  “Generalized Split-radix Algorithms for DFT,” in Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol 8, No 3, pp 405-409, 1998. (with G Bi and Z. Meng)

 

41.  “Performance Analysis of an FFH/BFSK Self-normalising Receiver under Multitone Jamming,” IEE Proceedings on Communications, Vol 145, No 6, pp 431-436, Dec 1998. (with K. Teh and K. Li)

 

42.  “A New Limit on Inter-Element Spacing for a Linear Array”, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol 40, pp. 22-29,  No 4, August 1998. (with B Ng and M H Er)

 

43.  “Multitone Jamming Rejection of FFH/BFSK Spread-spectrum System over Fading Channel,”  IEEE Transaction on Communications, Vol. 46, No. 8, pp1050-1057, August 1998. (with K. C. Teh and K.  Li)

 

44.  “Performing Analysis of an FFH/BFSK Linear-combining Receiver against Multitone Jamming,” IEEE Communications Letters., Vol. 2, No. 8, pp205-207 August 1998. (with K. C. The and K. Li)

 

45.  “Computation of 2D discrete Hartley transform,” IEE Electronics Letters, UK, Vol. 34, No. 11, pp 1058-1059, May 1998. (with G Bi and Z Meng)

 

46.  “FFT-based Self-normalising Receiver for FFH Spread Spectrum Systems,”  IEE Proc. on Communications., Vol. 145, No. 2, pp. 99-104, Apr. 1998. (with K. C. The and K. Li)

 

47.  “A Cost Function Constraint to Reduce the Convergence Time in BP Networks,”  Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations, USA, Vol.6, No. 1, pp 109-120, March 1998. (with H Babri, T Yin and H Lim)

 

48.  “Multitone jamming rejection of an FFH/BFSK Linear-combining Receiver over Rayleigh-fading channels,”  IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 337-338, Feb. 1998. (with K. C. The and K. Li)

 

49.  “Performance Study of Time Delay Estimation in a Multi-path Environment”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computer, Vol 7, No 6, pp 599-606, 1997. (with Jian Ming and M H Er)

 

50.  “Performance of FFH/BFSK Product Combining Receiver over a Rician-Fading Channel with Partial-band Jamming,” IEE Electronics Letters, UK, Vol 33, No 11, pp 935-937, May 1997. (with K C Teh and K Li)

 

51.  “Partial-Band Jamming Rejection of FFH/BFSK with Product Combining Receiver over a Rayleigh Fading Channel,” IEEE Communications Letters, USA, Vol 1, No 3, p 64-66, May 1997. (with K C Teh and K Li)

 

52.  “Decorrelator-based Neighbour-searching Multiuser Detector in CDMA Systems,” IEE Electronics Letters, UK, Vol 32, No 25, pp 2307-2308, Dec 1996. (with G He and T Qi)

 

53.  “Microphone Array System in Acoustical Source Localization Using Least Square Estimation,” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, USA, Vol 6, No 6, pp 581-591, 1996. (with Jian Ming and M H Er)

 

54.  “Error-based Constraints for Efficient Neural Network Learning of Pattern Recognition problems”, Pattern Recognition Letter, UK, Vol 17, pp 1239 - 1245, 1996. (with H Babri and S Tay)

 

55.  “Causes and Remedy of Stability and Convergence Problems In Back- Propagation Learning,” Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations, USA,  Vol 3,  No 3,  pp 357-368, September 1995. (with H Babri and H S Lim)

 

56.  “Bias and Variance Calculation of a Principal Component based Frequency Estimator,” IEE Proceedings, Vision Image and Signal Processing, United Kingdom, Vol 142, No 4,  pp 247-251, August 1995. (with Y Lee and H Babri)

 

57.  “A Statistical Analysis of State-Space Approach in Harmonic Retrieval,” IEE Proceedings, Vision Image and Signal Processing, United Kingdom, Vol 141, No 3, pp 181-184.

 

58.  “Linear Array Aperture Synthesis with Minimum Sidelobe and Null Control,” IEE Proceedings – Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, United Kingdom, June 1994, Vol 141, No 3, pp 162-166, June 1994. (with B P Ng and M H Er)

 

59.  “The SVD-based Algorithms in Frequency Estimation at Low Noise Level,” Journal of the IREE, Australia, Vol. 14, No 2, pp 99 - 105, June 1994.

 

60.  “Array Gain/Phase Calibration Techniques for Adaptive Beamforming and Direction Finding,” IEE Proceedings – Radar, Sonar Navigation, United Kingdom, Vol 141, No 1, pp 25-29, February 1994. (with B P Ng and M H Er)

 

61.  “A MUSIC Approach for Estimation of Directions of Arrival of Multiple Narrowband and Broadband Sources,"  Signal Processing.  Netherlands, Vol 40, No 3, 1994. (with B P Ng and M H Er)

 

62.  “Analysis of Linear Prediction by Matrix Approximation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, USA, Vol 41, No 11, pp 3174-3177, Nov 1993. (with D Tufts and R Vaccaro)

 

63.  “A Flexible Array Synthesis Method Using Quadratic Programming,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, USA, Vol 41, No 11, pp 1541-1550, November 1993. (with B P Ng and M H Er)

 

64.  “Statistical Performance of Single Sinusoid Frequency Estimation in White Noise Using State-Variable Balancing and Linear Prediction,”  IEEE Trans. Acoustic.,  Speech and Signal Processing, USA, Vol 35, pp 1639-1642, November 1987. (with S Partha, D Tufts and R Vaccaro)

 

BOOK CHAPTER

    • "THE THRESHOLD EFFECT IN SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS WHICH USE AN ESTIMATED SUBSPACE," IN SVD AND SIGNAL PROCESSING II, FRANCE, ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, B V, 1991, PP 301-320. (WITH TUFTS and VACCARO)

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1.        B. Mandal, X Jiang and A C Kot, “Verification of Human Faces Using Predicted Eigenvalues,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), vol. 1-6, pp. 1442-1445, Tampa, Florida, USA, December, 2008 (Best ICPR Biometrics Student Paper Award) 

2.      “Steganalysis of Binary Cartoon Image using Distortion Measure”, accepted for IEEE ICASSP, Hawaii, USA, Apr 2007. (with J Cheng and Rahardja)

 

3.        “Face Recognition Based on Discriminant Evaluation in the Whole Space”, accepted for IEEE ICASSP, Hawaii, USA, Apr 2007. (with X Jiang, B Mandal)

 

4.        "Data hiding for Binary Images Authentication by considering a Larger Neighborhood", accepted for the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '2007), New Orleans, LA, USA, May 2007. (with H Yang)

 

5.         “Fingerprint Retrieval by Complex Filter Responses”, in 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), pp. 1042-1045, 20-24 August 2006, Hong Kong, China. (with M Liu and X Jiang)

 

6.        “Fingerprint Identification with Exclusive and Continuous Classification”, in 1st IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2006), 24-26 May 2006, Singapore. (with X Jiang and M Liu)

 

7.        “Detection of Data Hiding in Binary Text Images,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova, Italy, Vol. III, pp73-76, September  11-14, 2005. (with J Cheng, J Liu and H Cao)

 

8.        “Relationships and Unification of Binary Images Data-hiding Methods,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. I-981-I-984, September 11-14, 2005, Genova, Italy. (with J Liu, H Yang)

 

9.        “Steganalysis of data hiding in binary text images”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems(ISCAS’05). pp 4405-4408, May 2005, Kobe, Japan (with J Cheng, J Liu and H Cao)

 

10.     “Semi-fragile Watermarking for Text Document Images Authentication”, The 2005 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05),.pp. 4002-4005, May 2005, Kobe, Japan (with H Yang and J Liu)

 

11.      “Steganalysis of binary text images”, in Proc. of IEEE ICASSP, Vol IV, pp. 689-692, March 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (with J Cheng, J Liu and H Cao)

 

12.      “Date Hiding for Text Document Image Authentication by Connectivity-Preserving", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’05), Vol. 2, pp. 505-508, March 18-23, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (with H Yang)

 

13.     “Nonlinear Fingerprint Orientation Smoothing by Median Filter,” in Proceedings of IEEE 5th ICICS, pp. 1439-1443, 6-9 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. (with M Liu and X Jiang)

 

14.     “Improved Bayesian Approach for Face Recognition,” in Proceedings of IEEE ICICS, December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. (with X Jiang and Mandal)

 

15.      “Differential Lattice Decoding in Noncoherent MIMO communication,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications,  2004, pp. 754-756 (with C Ling, W Mow and Li)

 

 

    Patents

 

·         Alex C Kot, H J Yang and J Liu, “Method and System of Data Hiding for Binary Images Using Morphological Binary Wavelet Transform,” filed on November 2005.

 

·         Alex C. Kot, H J Yang and H P Lu, “Method, Software and Device for Hiding Data in Binary Images While Preserving Image Quality,” US patent pending, filed on 21 May 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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