- Date: September 17, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Generation of Sports Highlights Using Motion Activity in Combination with a Common Audio Feature Extraction Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Feature Selection for Unsupervised Discovery of Statistical Temporal Structures in Video" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "Combined Rate Control and Mode Decision Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. and "Inter-Camera Color Calibration by Cross-Correlation Model Function" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: September 15, 2003
Where: Forum on Information Technology
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "An Experimental Prototype of Multiple Projectors Display System for Visual Systems" by Wada, H., Ogata, M., van Baar, J. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Forum on Information Technology.
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- Date: September 9, 2003
Where: SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems Brief - The papers "An Extended Framework for Adaptive Playback-Based Video Summarization" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. and "Investigation on Effectiveness of Mid-Level Feature Representation for Semantic Boundary Detection in News Video" by Radhakrishan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Raj, B. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems.
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- Date: September 7, 2003
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Adaptive Transmit Weights for Performance Enhancement in Space-Time Transmit Diversity Systems" by Horng, J.H., Li, L. and Zhang, J., "Throughput Analysis for W-CDMA Systems with MIMO and AMC" by Lao, D., Horng, J.H. and Zhang, J., "DFT-Based Hybrid Antenna Selection Schemes for Spatially Correlated MIMO Channels" by Molisch, A.F., Zhang, X., Kung, S.-Y. and Zhang, J., "Impulse Radio Pulse Shaping for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth UWB Systems" by Wu, Y., Molisch, A.F., Kung, S.-Y. and Zhang, J., "A New Measurement-Based Admission Control Method for IEEE802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks" by Gu, D. and Zhang, J. and "Energy/Security Scalable Mobile Cryptosystem" by Huang, Q., Kobayashi, H., Liu, B., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).
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- Date: September 1, 2003
Where: International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics Brief - The paper "Iterative Decoding of Multi-Step Majority Logic Decodable Codes" by Fossorier, M., Palanki, R. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics.
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- Date: September 1, 2003
Where: Eurospeech Brief - The papers "Classification with Free Energy at Raised Temperatures" by Singh, R., Warmuth, M., Raj, B. and Lamere, P. and "Design of the CMU Sphinx-4 Decoder" by Lamere, P., Kwok, P., Walker, W., Gouvea, E., Singh, R., Raj, B. and Wolf, P.P. were presented at Eurospeech.
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- Date: August 31, 2003
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Measurement of Keyhole Effect in a Wireless Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Channel" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: August 31, 2003
Where: Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "A Calculation Method of Car Arrival Time with Dynamic Programming in Elevator Group Control" by Suzuki, N., Iwata, M., Sasakawa, K., Komaya, K., Nikovski, D.N. and Brand, M.E. was presented at the Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.
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- Date: August 28, 2003
Where: IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Time Hopping and Frequency Hopping in Ultra-wideband Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J. and Miyake, M. and "A Rapid Acquisition Technique for Impulse Radio" by Gezici, S., Fishler, E., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM).
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- Date: August 11, 2003
Where: International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Optimal 2-d Interleaving for Robust Multimedia Transmission" by Zhang, X. M., Shi, Y.-Q., Xu, W.-Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE).
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- Date: August 10, 2003
Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "MIMO Systems with Antenna Selection - An Overview" by Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON).
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- Date: August 9, 2003
Where: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Responding to and Recovering from Mistakes During Collaboration" by Garland, A., Lesh, N.B. and Rich, C. and "Continuous Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Kernel Eigenmaps" by Brand, M.E. were presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
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- Date: August 8, 2003
Where: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "Marginalizing Out Future Passengers in Group Elevator Control" by Nikovski, D.N. and Brand, M.E. was presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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- Date: July 26, 2003
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The articles "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and Self-Configuring Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P.A., Willwacher, T., Rao, S. and Forlines, C. and "A Data-Driven Reflectance Model" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Brand, M.E. and McMillan, L. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: July 8, 2003
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Coding Mode Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: July 6, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Multi-Camera Calibration, Object Tracking and Query Generation" by Porikli, F.M. and Divakaran, A., "Unsupervised Discovery of Multilevel Statistical Video Structures Using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Minimized Intra-Frame Quality Variation" by Zhou, J., Shao, H.-R., Shen, C. and Sun, M.-T., "Object-Based Coding for Long-Term Archive of Surveillance Video" by Vetro, A., Haga, T., Sumi, K. and Sun, H., "Rate Allocation for FGS-Coded Video Using Composite Rate-Distortion Analysis" by Cheng, H., Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. and "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 1, 2003
Where: Graphics Interface
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Silhouette-Based 3D Face Shape Recovery" by Lee, J., Moghaddam, B., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. was presented at Graphics Interface.
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- Date: June 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Bit Allocation for MPEG-4 Video Coding with Spatio-Temporal Tradeoffs" by Lee, J.-W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, Y.-S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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- Date: June 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Communications Magazine
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "QoS Enhancement in IEEE802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks" by Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Communications Magazine.
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- Date: June 29, 2003
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Brief - The paper "Representing Codes for Belief Propagation Decoding" by Yedidia, J., Chen, J. and Fossorier, M. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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- Date: June 26, 2003
Where: Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Efficient Isotropic BRDF Measurement" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Brand, M. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW).
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- Date: June 23, 2003
Where: Eurographics/ACM SiGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "3D Reconstruction Using Labeled Image Regions" by Ziegler, R., Matusik, W., Pfister, H. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics/ACM SiGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP).
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- Date: June 22, 2003
Where: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Visualizing a 3rd Data Dimension" by Wittenburg, K., Lanning, T., Forlines, C. and Esenther, A. was presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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- Date: June 18, 2003
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Brief - The paper "Subset Selection for Efficient SVM Tracking" by Avidan, S. was presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 17, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "A Content-Based Browsing System for HDD and/or recordable DVD Personal Video Recorder" by Nakane, K., Otsuka, I., Esumi, K., Murakami, T. and Divakaran, A. and "Optimal MPEG-2 Transcoding for DVD Recording System" by Kong, H.S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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