- Date: September 7, 2010
Where: Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Object-Oriented Multimodality for Safer-In-Vehicle Interfaces" by Weinberg, G. and Harsham, B. was presented at Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE).
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- Date: September 7, 2010
Where: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Contextual Push-to-talk: Shortening Voice Dialogs to Improve Driving Performance" by Weinberg, G., Harsham, B., Forlines, C. and Medenica, Z. was presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI).
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- Date: September 6, 2010
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contact: Koon Hoo Teo
Research Area: Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Electric Vehicles Network with Nomadic Portable Charging Stations" by Li, Z., Sahinoglu, Z., Tao, Z. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: September 5, 2010
Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Image Invariants for Smooth Reflective Surfaces" by Sankaranarayanan, A.C., Veeraraghavan, A., Tuzel, O. and Agrawal, A., "Analytical Forward Projection for Axial Non-Central Dioptric & Catadioptric Cameras" by Agrawal, A., Taguchi, Y. and Ramalingam, S., "P2Pi: A Minimal Solution for Registration of 3D Points to 3D Planes" by Ramalingam, S., Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Tuzel, O., "Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Methods for Non-Euclidean Manifolds with Applications to Human Activity Analysis in Videos" by Chaudhry, R. and Ivanov, Y. and "Flexible Voxels for Motion-Aware Videography" by Gupta, M., Agrawal, A., Veeraraghavan, A. and Narasimhan, S.G. were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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- Date: August 28, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Koon Hoo Teo
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Wireless Power Transmission Efficiency Enhancement with Metamaterials" by Wang, B., Nishino, T. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS).
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- Date: August 23, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Brief - The papers "Scene-Adaptive Human Detection with Incremental Active Learning" by Joshi, A.J. and Porikli, F. and "Human State Classification and Predication for Critical Care Monitoring by Real-Time Bio-signal Analysis" by Li, X. and Porikli, F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
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- Date: August 18, 2010
Where: Joint IAPR International Conference on Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SSPR & SPR)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Learning on Manifolds" by Porikli, F. was presented at the Joint IAPR International Conference on Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition (SSPR & SPR).
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- Date: August 12, 2010
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "The Relay Selection and Transmission Trade-off in Cooperative Communication Systems" by Shah, V., Mehta, N.B. and Yim, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: July 24, 2010
Where: Black Hat Technical Security Conference
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Keeping the Good Stuff In: Confidential Information Firewalling with the CRM114 Spam Filter & Text Classifier" by Yerazunis, W.S., Kato, M., Kori, M., Shibata, H. and Hackenberg, K. was presented at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference.
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- Date: July 19, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Information Security
Brief - The paper "Privacy-Preserving Approximation of L1 Distance for Multimedia Applications" by Rane, S., Sun, W. and Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 15, 2010
Where: IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications
MERL Contacts: Yebin Wang; Scott A. Bortoff
Research Area: Control
Brief - The paper "On the Output Transformation to an Observer Form" by Wang, Y., Lynch, A.F. and Bortoff, S.A. was presented at the IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications.
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- Date: June 22, 2010
Where: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "A Modified Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Emergency Response Applications" by Mehta, A., Bhatti, G.M., Sahinoglu, Z., Viswanathan, R. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC).
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- Date: June 15, 2010
Where: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "A Synchronization Design for UWB-Based Wireless Multimedia Systems" by Ye, Z., Duan, C., Orlik, P.V., Zhang, J. and Abouzeid, A.A. was published in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.
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- Date: June 13, 2010
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Tim K. Marks Brief - The papers "Optimal Coded Sampling for Temporal Super-Resolution" by Agrawal, A.K., Gupta, M., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Narasimhan, S.G., "Breaking the Interactive Bottleneck in Multi-class Classification with Active Selection and Binary Feedback" by Joshi, A.J., Porikli, F.M. and Papanikolopoulos, N., "Axial Light Field for Curved Mirrors: Reflect Your Perspective, Widen Your View" by Taguchi, Y., Agrawal, A.K., Ramalingam, S. and Veeraraghavan, A.N., "Morphable Reflectance Fields for Enhancing Face Recognition" by Kumar, R., Jones, M.J. and Marks, T.K., "Increasing Depth Resolution of Electron Microscopy of Neural Circuits using Sparse Tomographic Reconstruction" by Veeraraghavan, A., Genkin, A.V., Vitaladevuni, S., Scheffer, L., Xu, S., Hess, H., Fetter, R., Cantoni, M., Knott, G. and Chklovskii, D., "Specular Surface Reconstruction from Sparse Reflection Correspondences" by Sankaranarayanan, A., Veeraraghavan, A.N., Tuzel, C.O. and Agrawal, A.K., "Fast Directional Chamfer Matching" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, C.O., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Chellappa, R. and "Robust RVM regression using sparse outlier model" by Mitra, K., Veeraraghavan, A. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 13, 2010
Where: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection" by Venkatraman, V. and Porikli, F.M. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum.
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- Date: June 7, 2010
Where: 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Temporally Consistent Stereo Matching using Coherence Function" by Min, D., Yea, S. and Vetro, A. was presented at the 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON).
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- Date: June 3, 2010
Where: IEEE Transactions on Communications Brief - The articles "Source-channel rate optimization for progressive image transmission over block fading relay channels" by Hobin, K., Annavajjala, R., Cosman, P. and Milstein, L. and "Optimal Timer Based Selection Schemes" by Shah, V., Nehta, N. and Yim, R. were published in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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- Date: June 1, 2010
Awarded to: Vijay Venkataraman and Fatih Porikli
Awarded for: "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: May 25, 2010
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Brief - The papers "Setting the Bar for Set-Valued Attributes" by Wittenburg, K.B. and "Wakame: Sense Making of Multi-Dimensional Spatial-Temporal Data" by Forlines, C. and Wittenburg, K.B. were presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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- Date: May 23, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Demodulate-and-Forward Relaying with Higher Order Modulations: Impact of Channel State Uncertainty" by Annavajjala, R., Maaref, A. and Zhang, J., "Enhanced Position Estimation via Node Cooperation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Gezici, S., "A Complete Characterization of an Optimal Timer Based Selection Scheme" by Shah, V., Mehta, N.B. and Yim, M.H.R., "Clustering Based Fractional Frequency Reuse and Fair Resource Allocation in Multi-cell Networks" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P., "Subcarrier Spreading for ICI Mitigation in OFDM/OFDMA Systems" by Gao, W., Duan, C. and Zhang, J., "Prioritized Broadcast Contention Control in VANET" by Ye, F., Yim, M.H.R., Guo, J., Zhang, J. and Roy, S., "Adaptive Probabilistic Decision-based Energy Saving Strategy for the Next Generation Cellular Wireless Systems" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P. and "Congestion Control to Achieve Optimal Broadcast Efficiency in VANETs" by Ye, F., Yim, M.H.R., Zhang, J. and Roy, S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 23, 2010
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "RPL Based Routing for Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid" by Wang, D., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Abouzeid, A.A. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications.
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- Date: May 23, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "A Change-Point Detection Approach to Power Quality Monitoring in Smart Grids" by He, X., Pun, M.-O., Kuo, C.-C. J. and Zhao, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC).
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- Date: May 12, 2010
Where: 25th Biennial Symposium on Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "A Two Stage PAPR Reduction Method on Frequency Redundant OFDM System" by Gao, W., Yan, Y., Osadciw, L., Duan, C. and Li, C. was presented at the 25th Biennial Symposium on Communications.
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- Date: May 12, 2010
Where: Accident Analysis & Prevention
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Evaluation of Different Speech and Touch Interfaces to In-vehicle Music Retrieval Systems" by Garay-Vega, L., Pradhan, A.K., Weinberg, G.L., Schmidt-Nielsen, B.K., Harsham, B.A., Shen, Y., Divekar, G., Romoser, M., Knodler, M. and Fisher, D.L. was published in Accident Analysis & Prevention.
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- Date: May 3, 2010
Where: Eurographics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Reinterpretable Imager: Towards Variable Post-Capture Space, Angle and Time Resolution in Photography" by Agrawal, A.K., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Raskar, R. was presented at Eurographics.
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