- Date: October 26, 2003
Where: NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Intelligent Clusters and Collaborative Projector-based Displays" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P.A., Forlines, C., Dietz, P.H., Esenther, A.W., Leigh, D.L., Ryall, K., Shen, C., Shipman, S.E. and Yerazunis, W.S. was presented at the NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV).
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- Date: October 20, 2003
Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) Brief - The papers "Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Polyphonic Music Transcription" by Smaragdis, P. and Brown, J.C. and "Multi-Channel Source Separation by Beamforming Trained with Factorial HMMS" by Reyes-Gomez, M.J., Raj, B. and Ellis, D.P.W. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
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- Date: October 19, 2003
Where: International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Performance of Reduced-Complexity Transmit/Receive-Diversity Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Win, M.Z. and Winters, J.H., "A UWB Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Indoor Communications" by Foerster, J.R., Pendergrass, M. and Molisch, A.F., "An Efficient Low-Cost Time-Hopping Impulse Radio for High Data Rate Transmission" by Molisch, A.F., Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P.V., Zhang, J., Wu, Y., Gezici, S., Kung, S.Y., Poor, H.V., Li, Y.G., Sheng, H. and Haimovich, A., "Channel Estimation and Signal Detection for UWB" by Li, Y.G., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "A Low-Cost Time Hopping Impulse Radio System for High Date Rate" by Molisch, A.F., Li, Y.G., Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P., Miyake, M., Wu, Y., Gezici, S., Sheng, H., Kung, S.Y., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V., Haimovich, A. and Zhang, J. and "A Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Indoor Communication" by Foerster, J.R., Pendergrass, M. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC).
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- Date: October 17, 2003
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Model-Based 3D Face Capture with Shape-from-Silhouettes" by Moghaddam, B., Lee, J.H., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG).
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- Date: October 13, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance" by Viola, P., Jones, M.J. and Snow, D. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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- Date: October 12, 2003
Where: ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Very Low Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDS" by Dietz, P.H., Yerazunis, W.S. and Leigh, D.L., "UbiTable: Impromptu Face-to-Face Collaboration on Horizontal Interactive Surfaces" by Shen, C., Everitt, K.M. and Ryall, K. and "Self-configuring, Lightweight Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Computing" by Wren, C.R. and Srinivasa, R. were presented at the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).
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- Date: October 8, 2003
Where: Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) Brief - The paper "Data-Driven Computer Graphics" by Pfister, H. was presented at the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG).
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- Date: October 1, 2003
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Brief - The paper "Iterative Quantization Using Codes on Graphs" by Martinian, E. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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- Date: September 30, 2003
Where: SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Road Extraction by Point-wise Gaussian Models" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery.
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- Date: September 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Regenerator versus Simple Relay with Optimum Transmit Power Control for Error Propagation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Orlik, P.V. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: September 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Reduction of the Error Floor of Binary FSK by Nonlinear Frequency Discriminators" by Molisch, A.F. and Petrovic, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: September 30, 2003
Where: Signal Processing: Image Communication
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The article "Mobility Characteristics for Multimedia Service Adaptation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Vetro, A. was published in Signal Processing: Image Communication.
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- Date: September 23, 2003
Where: International Conference of Instrumental Methods of Analysis -- Modern Trends and Applications (IMA) Brief - The paper "Independent Component Analysis for Deconvolution of Overlapping HPLC Aromatic Peaks of Oil" by Pasadakis, N., Gaganis, V. and Smaragdis, P. was presented at the International Conference of Instrumental Methods of Analysis -- Modern Trends and Applications (IMA).
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- Date: September 19, 2003
Where: International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Fast Authenticated Key Establishment Protocols for Self-Organizing Sensor Networks" by Huang, Q., Cukier, J.I., Kobayashi, H., Liu, B. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA).
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- Date: September 18, 2003
Where: International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Transcoding Scalable Coding & Standardized Metadata" by Vetro, A. was presented at the International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV).
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- 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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