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  •  NEWS    CVPR 2006: 3 publications by Oncel Tuzel, Amit Agrawal and Ramesh Raskar
    Date: June 17, 2006
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Covariance Tracking using Model Update Based on Lie Algebra" by Porikli, F., Tuzel, O. and Meer, P., "Covariance Tracker" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. and "Edge Suppression by Gradient Field Transformation using Cross-Projection Tensors" by Agrawal, A., Raskar, R. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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  •  NEWS    PETS 2006: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 17, 2006
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Performance Evaluation of Object Detection and Tracking Systems" by Bashir, F. and Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Infrared Technology and Applications 2006: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 15, 2006
    Where: SPIE Conference on Infrared Technology and Applications
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Pedestrian Tracking Using Thermal Infrared Imaging" by Goubet, E., Katz, J. and Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Infrared Technology and Applications.
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  •  NEWS    International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) 2006: publication by Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: May 10, 2006
    Where: International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Toward Scalable Activity Recognition for Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R. and Tapia, E.M. was presented at the International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA).
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  •  NEWS    ECCV 2006: 2 publications by Oncel Tuzel, Amit Agrawal and Ramesh Raskar
    Date: May 7, 2006
    Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Region Covariance: A Fast Descriptor for Detection and Classification" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. and "What is the Range of Surface Reconstructions from a Gradient Field?" by Agrawal, A., Raskar, R. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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  •  NEWS    Pervasive 2006: Workshop on Privacy Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient Intelligence 2006: publication by Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: May 7, 2006
    Where: Pervasive 2006: Workshop on Privacy Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient Intelligence
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Worse is Better for Ambient Sensing" by Reynolds, C.J. and Wren, C.R. was presented at the Pervasive 2006: Workshop on Privacy Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient Intelligence.
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  •  NEWS    PTA 2006: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 7, 2006
    Where: Pervasive: Workshop Pervasive Technology Applied Real-World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networks (PTA)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Toward Spatial Queries for Spatial Surveillance Tasks" by Ivanov, Y.A. and Wren, C.R. was presented at the Pervasive: Workshop Pervasive Technology Applied Real-World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networks (PTA).
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  •  AWARD    Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Best 10 New Products Prize
    Date: January 1, 2006
    Awarded to: MERL Staff
    Awarded for: The Dome Projector
    Awarded by: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The Dome Projector, which was developed by MERL staff and productized by Mitsubishi Electric, was recognized by Nikkan Kogyo Simbun's Best 10 New Products Prize.
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  •  NEWS    Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: December 6, 2005
    Where: Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Recognition of Isolated Fingerspelling Gestures Using Depth Edges" by Feris, R., Turk, M., Raskar, R., Tan, K.-H. and Ohashi, G. was published in the book Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction.
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  •  NEWS    CVIIE 2005: publication by Paul Beardsley, Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: November 17, 2005
    Where: Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environment (CVIIE)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Tags are Coming: Exploiting Photosensing Wireless Tags for Assisting Geometric Procedures" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., Dietz, P. and van Baar, J. was presented at Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environment (CVIIE).
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  •  NEWS    VSSN 2005: publication by Oncel Tuzel and others
    Date: November 6, 2005
    Where: ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Bayesian Background Modeling for Foreground Detection" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. was presented at the ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN).
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  •  NEWS    UIST 2005: 3 publications by William S. Yerazunis, Bret A. Harsham, Jeroen van Baar and Clifton Forlines
    Date: October 23, 2005
    Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Brief
    • The papers "DTLens: Multi-user Tabletop Spatial Data Exploration" by Forlines, C. and Shen, C., "Zoom-and-Pick: Facilitating Visual Zooming and Precision Pointing with Interactive Handheld Projectors" by Forlines, C., Balakrishnan, R., Beardsley, P., van Baar, J. and Raskar, R. and "DT Controls: Adding Identity to Physical Interfaces" by Dietz, P.H., Harsham, B., Forlines, C., Leigh, D., Yerazunis, W., Shipman, S., Schmidt-Nielsen, B. and Ryall, K. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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  •  NEWS    ICCV 2005: 3 publications by Jay Thornton and Ramesh Raskar
    Date: October 17, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Shadow Flow: A Recursive Method to Learn Moving Cast Shadows" by Porikli, F. and Thornton, J., "An Algebraic Approach to Surface Reconstruction from Gradient Fields" by Agrawal, A., Chellappa, R. and Raskar, R. and "Discontinuity Preserving Stereo with Small Baseline Multi-Flash Illumination" by Feris, R., Raskar, R., Chen, L., Tan, K.-H. and Turk, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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  •  NEWS    AVSS 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 15, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Performance Evaluation of Event Detection Solutions: The CREDS Experience" by Zilani, F., Velastin, S., Porikli, F., Marcenaro, L., Kelliher, T., Cavallaro, A. and Bruneaut, P. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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  •  NEWS    Communications of the ACM: publication by Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: September 15, 2005
    Where: Communications of the ACM
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Photosensing Wireless Tags for Geometric Procedures" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., Dietz, P. and van Baar, J. was published in Communications of the ACM.
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  •  NEWS    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG): 2 publications by Matthew Brand, Amit K. Agrawal and others
    Date: July 31, 2005
    Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The articles "Face Transfer with Multilinear Models" by Vlasic, D., Brand, M., Pfister, H. and Popovic, J. and "Removing Photography Artifacts Using Gradient Projection and Flash-Exposure Sampling" by Agrawal, A., Raskar, R., Nayar, S.K. and Li, Y. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2005: 2 publications by Oncel Tuzel, Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: July 6, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Highlights Extraction from Sports Video Based on an Audio-Visual Marker Detection Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Husang, T.S. and "Multi-Kernel Object Tracking" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 29, 2005
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Estimation of 3D Faces and Illumination from Single Photographs Using a Bilinear Illumination Model" by Lee, J., Machiraju, R., Pfister, H. and Moghaddam, B. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques.
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  •  NEWS    EGSR 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 29, 2005
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models" by Ngan, A., Durand, F. and Matusik, N. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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  •  NEWS    MVIV 2005: publication by Oncel Tuzel and others
    Date: June 20, 2005
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "A Bayesian Approach to Background Modeling" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV).
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  •  NEWS    CVPR 2005: 5 publications by Matthew Brand, Ramesh Raskar and Jeroen van Baar
    Date: June 20, 2005
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "A Direct Method for 3D Factorization of Nonrigid Motion Observed in 2D" by Brand, M., "Integral Histogram: A Fast Way to Extract Histograms in Cartesian Spaces" by Porikli, F., "Why I Want a Gradient Camera" by Tumblin, J., Agrawal, A. and Raskar, R., "Videoshop: A New Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Editing in Gradient Domain" by Wang, H., Xu, N., Raskar, R. and Ahuja, N. and "Handheld Projectors for Mixing Physical and Digital Textures" by Beardsley, P., Forlines, C., Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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  •  NEWS    VSSN 2005: publication by Ali Azarbayejani, Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: June 11, 2005
    Where: ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R., Erdem, M. and Azarbayejani, A.J. was presented at the ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN).
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  •  NEWS    SID 2005: publication by Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: May 22, 2005
    Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Low-Cost Multi-Projector Curved Screen Displays" by Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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  •  NEWS    MVA 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 16, 2005
    Where: IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video" by Porikli, F., Shao, J. and Maehara, H. was presented at the IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA).
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  •  NEWS    KIMAS 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 18, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Ambiguity Detection by Fusion and Conformity: A Spectral Clustering Approach" by Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS).
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