26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux

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Friday May 20th

09:00 - 09:40 : Invited talk, Andreas Winter (University of Bristol) : "Quantum resources in information theory"

09:40 - 10:40 : Classical and quantum error-correcting codes

  1. "Coding for reliability and security over wire tap channel systems", A. Thangaraj, S. Dihidar, R. Calderbank, S. McLaughlin - IIT Madras, Georgia Tech and Princeton

  2. "Interleaved serial concatenation of quantum convolutional codes: gate implementation and iterative error estimation algorithm", H. Ollivier, J.-P. Tillich - Perimeter Institute (Canada) and INRIA (France)

  3. "Stopping and Dead-End Set Enumerators for Binary Hamming Codes", J. H. Weber, K. A. S. Abdel-Ghaffar - TU Delft and UC Davis

10:40 - 11:00 : Coffee break

11:00 - 12:20 : Quantum information and quantum cryptography (parallel session)

  1. "One-dimensional and multi-dimensional reconciliation using turbo codes for quantum key distribution", K.-C. Nguyen, G. Van Assche, N. Cerf - ULB

  2. "Quantum Information Theoretical Analysis of Various Constructions for Quantum Secret Sharing", K. Rietjens, B. Schoenmakers, P. Tuyls - TU/e and Philips Research

  3. "Generic security proof of quantum key exchange using squeezed states", K. Poels, P. Tuyls, B. Schoenmakers - TU/e and Philips Research

  4. "Simulating quantum correlations with classical resources", J. Degorre, J. Roland - Paris Sud (France)

11:00 - 12:20 : Communication Channels (parallel session)

  1. "Direct message coding for multiple-access channels", P. Vanroose - ABIS training and consulting (Leuven)

  2. "Parallel channels with cribbing encoders", E. C. van der Meulen, A. R. Ghazaryan - KUL and Armenian National Academy of Sciences

  3. "Numerical computation of the capacity of continuous memoryless channels", J. Dauwels - ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

  4. "Aerial Entropy and Capacity of an MEA EM Source", A. Kalis, M. J. Carras - Athens Information Technology (Greece)

12:20 - 13:30 : Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 : Communication Theory

  1. "Signal constellations for multilevel coded modulation with sparse-graph codes", H. S. Cronie - U Twente

  2. "Impulse noise modelling in the upstream path of HFC/CATV networks", V. Tamgnoue, S. Bette, V. Moeyaert, M. Blondel, P. Mégret - Faculté Polytechnique de Mons

  3. "Spatial Bandwidth: a Heuristic Calculation with Applications", A. Martinez - TU/e

14:30 - 14:50 : Coffee break

14:50 - 16:10 : Cryptography and Security II (parallel session)

  1. "Classification of cubic boolean functions in 7 variables", A. Braeken, S. Nikova, Y. Borissov - KUL and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

  2. "Efficient implementation of recent stream ciphers on reconfigurable hardware devices", P. Léglise, F.-X. Standaert, G. Rouvroy, J.-J. Quisquater - UCL

  3. "Condensed White-Box Implementations", B. Wyseur, B. Preneel - KUL

  4. "Partitions of polynomials: stream ciphers based on jumping shift registers", C. J. A. Jansen - Banksys

14:50 - 15:50 : Image Processing (parallel session)

  1. "Maximum likelihood amplitude scale estimation in secure quantization-based watermarking", I. D. Shterev, R. L. Lagendijk - TU Delft

  2. "Reconstructing Virtual Rooms from Panoramic Images", D. Farin, P. H. N. de With - TU/e

  3. "Automatic tracking method for sports video analysis", J. Han, D. Farin, P. H. N. de With, W. Lao - TU/e and LogicaCMG