- Date: July 15, 2006
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The articles "Coded Exposure Photography: Motion Deblurring Using Fluttered Shutter" by Raskar, R., Agrawal, A. and Tumblin, J., "Fast Separation of Direct and Global Components of a Scene Using High Frequency Illumination" by Nayar, S.K., Krishnan, G., Grossberg, M.D. and Raskar, R., "Analysis of Human Faces using a measurement-Based Skin Reflectance Model" by Weyrich, T., Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Bickel, B., Donner, C., Tu, C., McAndless, J., Lee, J., Ngan, A., Jensen, H. and Gross, M., "Inverse Shade Trees for Non-Parametric Material Representation and Editing" by Lawrence, J., Ben-Artzi, A., DeCoro, C., Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Ramamoorthi, R. and Rusinkiewicz, S., "A Compact Factored Representation of Heterogeneous Subsurface Scattering" by Peers, P., Berge, K., Matusik, W., Ramamoorthi, R., Lawrence, J., Rusinkiewicz, S. and Dutre, P., "Time-Varying Surface Appearance: Acquisition, Modeling and Rendering" by Gu, J., Tu, C., Ramamoorthi, R., Belhumeur, P., Matusik, W. and Nayar, S. and "A Statistical Model for Synthesis of Detailed Facial Geometry" by Golovinskiy, A., Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Rusinkiewicz, S. and Funkhouser, T. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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