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  •  NEWS    CVPR 2004: 2 publications by Matthew Brand and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "Algebraic Solution for the Visual Hull" by Brand, M., Kang, K. and Cooper, D.B. and "Joint Feature-Basis Subset Selection" by Avidan, S. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2004: 5 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Adaptive Fast Playback-Based Video Skimming Using a Compressed-Domain Visual Complexity Measure" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A., "Effective and Efficient Sports Highlights Extraction Using the Minimum Description Length Criterion in Selecting GMM Structures" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Time Series Analysis and Segmentation Using Eigenvectors for Mining Semantic Audio Label Sequences" by Radhakrishnan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Memon, N., "Towards Maximizing the End-User Experience" by Divakaran, A., Vetro, A. and Kan, T. and "Coding Artifact Reduction Using Edge Map Guided Adaptive and Fuzzy Filter" by Kong, H.-S., Nie, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Barner, K.E. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    ISIT 2004: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
    Brief
    • The papers "Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels" by Palanki, R. and Yedidia, J.S. and "Sparse Factor Graph Representations of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes" by Yedidia, J.S. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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  •  NEWS    EGSR 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 21, 2004
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Progressively-Refined Reflectance Functions from Natural Illumination" by Matusik, W., Loper, M. and Pfister, H. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2004: 4 publications by Zafer Sahinoglu, Chia Shen and others
    Date: June 20, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    Brief
    • The papers "A New Multi-path Selection Scheme for Video Streaming on Overlay Networks" by Ma, Z., Shao, H.-R. and Shen, C., "A Hybrid Location Estimation Scheme (H-LES) for Partially Synchronized Wireless Sensor Networks" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Catovic, A., "The Trade-off Between Processing Gains of Impulse Radio Systems in the Presence of Timing Jitter" by Gezici, S., Molisch, A.F., Poor, H.V. and Kobayashi, H. and "Effect of Timing Jitter on the Trade-off Between Processing Gains" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    IV 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 14, 2004
    Where: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Traffic Congestion Estimation Using HMM Models Without Vehicle Tracking" by Porikli, F.M. and Li, X. was presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV).
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  •  NEWS    NPAR 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 7, 2004
    Where: International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Image Fusion for Context Enhancement and Video Surrealism" by Raskar, R., Ilie, A. and Yu, J. was presented at the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR).
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  •  NEWS    Pattern Recognition Letters: publication by Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: Pattern Recognition Letters
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Structure Analysis of Soccer Video with Domain Knowledge and Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Xu, P., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. was published in Pattern Recognition Letters.
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  •  NEWS    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: publication by Paris Smaragdis and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The article "Independent Component Analysis for Automatic Note Extraction from Musical Trills" by Brown, J.C. and Smaragdis, P. was published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
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  •  NEWS    MWC 2004: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: IEEE CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communications (MWC)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM Based UWB Communications" by Li, Y., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communications (MWC).
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  •  NEWS    AVI 2004: publication by Kent Wittenburg, Paul Dietz, Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: May 25, 2004
    Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Multi-Projectors and Implicit Interaction in Persuasive Public Displays" by Dietz, P.H., Raskar, R., Mihelic-Booth, S., van Baar, J., Wittenburg, K.B. and Knep, B. was presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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  •  NEWS    SID 2004: publication by Paul Beardsley, Ramesh Raskar and Jeroen van Baar
    Date: May 23, 2004
    Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Display Grid: Ad-hoc Clusters of Autonomous Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J. and Beardsley, P. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2004: 3 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 23, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Edge Map Guided Adaptive Post-Filter for Blocking and Ringing Artifacts Removal" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Rate-Distortion Optimized Bit Allocation for Error-Resilient Transcoding" by Xia, M., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Liu, B. and "Error Resilient Methods for Real-Time MPEG-4 Video Streaming" by Kung, W.-Y., Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    UWBST 2004: 2 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: May 18, 2004
    Where: IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
    Brief
    • The papers "Low-Complexity Ultra Wideband Transceiver with Compatibility to Multiband - OFDM" by Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P.V., Gifford, W.M., Molisch, A.F., Ramachandran, I., Fang, G. and Zhang, J. and "Optimal and Suboptimal Linear Receivers for Time-Hopping Impulse Radio Systems" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST).
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 17, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "On Tracking Noise with Linear Dynamical System Models" by Raj, B., Singh, R. and Stern, R.M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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  •  NEWS    FLAIRS 2004: publication by Charles Rich and others
    Date: May 17, 2004
    Where: International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS)
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "Natural Language Generation and Discourse Context: Computing Distractor Sets from the Focus Stack" by DeVault, D., Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS).
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  •  NEWS    FG 2004: 2 publications by Hanspeter Pfister, Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: May 17, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)
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    • The papers "Finding Optimal Views for 3D Face Shape Modeling" by Lee, J., Moghaddam, B., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. and "Finding Temporal Patterns by Data Decomposition" by Minnen, D.C. and Wren, C.R. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG).
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 17, 2004
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Ultra-Wideband Communication Using Hybrid Matched Filter Correlation Receivers" by Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  NEWS    ECCV 2004: 3 publications by Matthew Brand
    Date: May 10, 2004
    Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "Trajectory Pattern Detection by HMM Parameter Space features and Eigenvector Clustering" by Porikli, F.M., "Trajectory Distance Metric Using Hidden Markov Model Based Representation" by Porikli, F.M. and "Spectral Solution of Large-Scale Extrinsic Camera Calibration as a Graph Embedding Problem" by Brand, M., Antone, M. and Teller, S. were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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  •  NEWS    Talanta: publication by William Yerazunis, Paul Dietz and others
    Date: May 10, 2004
    Where: Talanta
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The article "Novel Fused-LEDs Devices as Optical Sensors for Colorimetric Analysis" by Lau, K.T., Baldwin, S., Shepherd, R.L., Dietz, P.H., Yerazunis, W.S. and Diamond, D. was published in Talanta.
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  •  NEWS    Human Language Technology Conference 2004: publication by Kent B. Wittenburg and others
    Date: May 2, 2004
    Where: Human Language Technology Conference
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "A Speech-In List-Out Approach to Spoken User Interfaces" by Divi, V., Forlines, C., van Gemert, J.V., Raj, B., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Wittenburg, K., Woelfel, J., Wolf, P. and Zhang, F. was presented at the Human Language Technology Conference.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 1, 2004
    Where: SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Real-time Video Object Segmentation for MPEG-encoded Video Sequences" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging.
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  •  NEWS    ELEVCON 2004: publication by Daniel Nikovski and Matthew Brand
    Date: April 27, 2004
    Where: Elevcon World Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies (ELEVCON)
    MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "Risk-Averse Group Elevator Scheduling" by Brand, M.E. and Nikovski, D.N. was presented at the Elevcon World Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies (ELEVCON).
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  •  NEWS    ICRA 2004: publication by Daniel Nikovski and Matthew Brand
    Date: April 26, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
    MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "Optimal Parking in Group Elevator Control" by Brand, M.E. and Nikovski, D.N. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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  •  NEWS    CHI 2004: 2 publications by Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines and others
    Date: April 25, 2004
    Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
    Brief
    • The papers "DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction" by Shen, C., Vernier, F.D., Forlines, C. and Ringel, M. and "Release, Relocate, Reorient, Resize: Fluid Techniques for Document Sharing on Multi-User Interactive Tables" by Ringel, M., Ryall, K., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Vernier, F. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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