Special Section on Digital Signal Processing ============================================ . FOREWORD ........................................................ 899 Hideaki SAKAI PAPERS ====== . Design of Discrete Coefficient FIR Linear Phase Filters Using Hopfield Neural Networks ........................................ 900 Xi ZHANG and Hiroshi IWAKURA . Performance Improvement of Variable Stepsize NLMS ............... 905 Jirasak TANPREEYACHAYA, Ichi TAKUMI and Masayasu HATA . A Modified Normalized LMS Algorithm Based on a Long-Term Average of the Reference Signal Power ...................................... 915 Akihiro HIRANO and Akihiko SUGIYAMA . A Novel Adaptive Filter with Adaptation of Sampling Phase ....... 921 Miwa SAKAI, Kiyoharu AIZAWA and Mitsutoshi HATORI . 8-kb/s Low-Delay Speech Coding with 4-ms Frame Size ............. 927 Yoshiaki ASAKAWA, Preeti RAO and Hidetoshi SEKINE . Parallel Processing Techniques for Multidimensional Sampling Lattice Alteration Based on Overlap-Add and Overlap-Save Methods ........ 934 Shogo MURAMATSU and Hitoshi KIYA . Rotation and Scaling Invariant Parameters of Textured Images and Its Applications .................................................... 944 Yue WU and Yasuo YOSHIDA . Extraction of a Person's Handshape for Application in a Human Interface ....................................................... 951 Alberto TOMITA-Jr., and Rokuya ISHII . High-Speed Digital Circuit for Discrete Cosine Transform ........ 957 Motonobu TONOMURA . A Highly Parallel DSP Architecture for Image Recognition ........ 963 Hiroyuki KAWAI, Yoshitsugu INOUE, Rebert STREITENBERGER and Masahiko YOSHIMOTO . A Down Sampling Technique for Open-Loop Fiber Optic Gyroscopes and Its Implementation with a Single-Chip Digita Signal Processor ... 971 Shigeru OHO, Masatoshi HOSHINO, Hisao SONOBE and Hiroshi KAJIOKA . Discrete Time Cellular Neural Networks with Two Types of Neuron Circuits for Image Coding and Their VLSI Implementations ........ 978 Cong-Kha PHAM, Munemitsu IKEGAMI and Mamoru TANAKA . DSP Compiler for Matrix and Vector Expressions with Automatic Computational Ordering .......................................... 989 Nobuhiko SUGINO, Seiji OHBI and Akinori NISHIHARA LETTERS ======= . Spectrum Broadening of Telephone Band Signals Using Multirate Processing for Speech Quality Enhancement ....................... 996 Hiroshi YASUKAWA . A Stable Least Square Algorithm Based on Predictors and Its Application to Fast Newton Transversal Filters .................. 999 Youhua WANG and Kenji NAKAYAMA Regular Section =============== PAPERS ====== [Digital Signal Processing] . A Variable Step Size (VSS-CC) NLMS Algorithm ................... 1004 Fausto CASCO, Hector PEREZ, Mariko NAKANO and Mauricio LOPEZ . Equiripple Design of QMF Banks Using Digital Allpass Networks .. 1010 Xi ZHANG and Hiroshi IWAKURA [Numerical Analysis and Optimization] . A Pipelined Data-Path Synthesis Method Based on Simulated Annealing ....................................................... 1017 Xing-jian XU and Mitsuru ISHIZUKA [Graphs and Networks] . Minimax Approach for Logical Configuration in Reconfigurable Virtual Circuit Data Networks .......................................... 1029 Chang Sup SUNG and Sung Ki PARK [Information Theory and Coding Theory] . Multi-Dimensional Block Shaping ................................ 1034 Tadashi WADAYAMA, Koichiro WAKASUGI and Masao KASAHARA LETTERS ======= [Information Security] . Spectrum Scrambling by Means of QMF Banks for Secure Communication ....................................................... 1042 Shigeo WADA and Yo NISHIMURA [Information Theory and Coding Theory] . Error Correction/Detection Decoding Scheme of Binary Hamming Codes ....................................................... 1046 Chaehag YI and Jae Hong LEE . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-A, No.8 in Japanese) .......... 1049