- Date: March 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The article "Two-Dimensional Correction for Min-Sum Decoding of Irregular LDPC Codes" by Zhang, J., Fossorier, M., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: March 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Polarized MIMO Channels in 3-D: Models, Measurements and Mutual Information" by Shafi, M., Zhang, M., Moustakas, A.L., Smith, P.J., Molisch, A.F., Tufvesson, F. and Simon, S.H. was published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
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- Date: March 2, 2006
Where: ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Brief - The paper "The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Morency, L.-P. and Forlines, C. was presented at the ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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- Date: February 22, 2006
Where: International Conference Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Jianlin Guo Brief - The paper "A Dynamic QoS Algorithm for Wireless AV Home Networks" by Guo, J., Zhang, J. and Chen, W. was presented at the International Conference Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT).
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- Date: February 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Brief - The article "An Enhanced Video Summarization System Using Audio Features for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Radhakrishnan, R., Siracusa, M., Divakaran, A. and Mishima, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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- Date: January 17, 2006
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval Brief - The papers "Blind Summarization: Content-Adaptive Video Summarization Using Time-Series Analysis" by Divakaran, A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Peker, K.A., "Subjective Assessment of Consumer Video Summarization" by Forlines, C., Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. and "Subjective Evaluation Criterion for Selecting Affective Features and Modeling Highlights" by Xing, L., Yu, H., Huang, Q., Ye, Q. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval.
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- Date: January 17, 2006
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Complexity Scalable Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC" by Kim, C., Xin, J. and Vetro, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: January 8, 2006
Where: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Transmitting Multiple HD Video Streams over UWB Links" by Duan, C., Pekhteryev, C., Fang, J., Nakache, Y., Zhang, J., Tajima, K., Nishioka, Y. and Hirai, H. was presented at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC).
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- Date: January 7, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Temporal-Context-Based Video Browsing Interface for PVR-Enabled High-Definition Television Systems" by Shipman, S., Divakaran, A., Flynn, M. and Batra, A., "An Enhanced Video Summarization System Using Audio Features for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Radhakrishnan, R., Siracusa, M., Divakaran, A. and Mishima, H., "Architecture for Video Summarization Services Over Home Networks and the Internet" by Shipman, S., Radhakrishan, R. and Divakaran, A. and "MPEG-2 to H.264 / AVC Transcoding for Efficient Storage of Broadcast Video Bitstreams" by Xin, J., Vetro, A., Sekiguchi, S. and Sugimoto, K. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: January 5, 2006
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop) Brief - The papers "Multi-User Interface and Interactions on Direct-Touch Horizontal Surfaces: Collaborative Tabletop Research at MERL" by Shen, C., "Rotation and Translation Mechanisms for Tabletop Interaction" by Hancock, M.S., Vernier, F.D., Wigdor, D., Carpendale, S. and Shen, C., "Experiences With and Observations of Direct-Touch Tables" by Ryall, K., Ringel Morris, M., Everitt, K., Forlines, C. and Shen, C., "Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Reuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces" by Wu, M., Shen, C., Ryall, K., Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. and "MultiSpace: Enabling Electronic Document Micro-mobility in Table-Centric, Multi-Device Environments" by Everitt, K., Shen, C., Ryall, K. and Forlines, C. were presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop).
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- Date: January 1, 2006
Awarded to: Edward Tse, Saul Greenberg, Chia Shen and Clifton Forlines
Awarded for: "Multimodal Multiplayer Tabletop Gaming"
Awarded by: International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications (PerGames) -
- 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 15, 2005
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Threshold Selection for UWB TOA Estimation Based on Kurtosis Analysis" by Guvenc, I. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: December 10, 2005
Where: Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC) Brief - The paper "Combadge: A Voice Messaging Device for the Masses" by Frankel, J. L. and Bromberg, D. was presented at the Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC).
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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: December 2, 2005
Where: Information Processing Letters Brief - The article "BubbleSearch: A Simple Heuristic for Improving Priority-based Greedy Algorithms" by Lesh, N. and Mitzenmacher, M. was published in Information Processing Letters.
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- Date: November 30, 2005
Where: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Multi-User Multi-Touch Games on DiamondTouch with the FTFlash Toolkit" by Esenther, A. and Wittenburg, K. was presented at Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN).
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- Date: November 28, 2005
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Reduced Latency Iterative Decoding of LDPC Codes" by Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S., "Multiscale Energy Products for TOA Estimation in IR-UWB Systems" by Guvenc, I. and Sahinoglu, Z., "Flexible Lognormal Sum Approximation Method" by Wu, J., Mehta, N.B. and Zhang, J., "Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Cellular Systems with Channel-Aware Schedulers" by Wu, J., Mehta, N.B. and Zhang, J., "Orthogonality Factor in WCDMA Downlinks in Urban Macrocellular Environments" by Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Greenstein, L.J., "Improved Min-Sum Decoding of LDPC Codes Using 2-Dimensional Normalization" by Zhang, J., Fossorier, M., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. and "A Comprehensive Model for Ultrawideband Propagation Channels" by Molisch, A.F., Balakrishnan, K., Cassioli, D., Chong, C.-C., Emami, S., Fort, A., Karedal, J., Kunisch, J., Schantz, H. and Siwiak, K. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 28, 2005
Where: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Brief - The papers "A Robust Voice Activity Detector Using an Acoustic Doppler Radar" by Hu, R. and Raj, B. and "Reconstructing Spectral Vectors with Uncertain Spectrographic Masks for Robust Speech Recognition" by Raj, B. and Singh, R. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).
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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 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference Optics East 2005: Communications, Multimedia & Display Technologies
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Development of MPEG Standards for 3D and Free Viewpoint Video" by Smolic, A., Kimata, H. and Vetro, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference Optics East 2005: Communications, Multimedia & Display Technologies.
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- Date: November 15, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Variable-Phase-Shift-Based RF-Baseband Codesign for MIMO Antenna Selection" by Zhang, X., Molisch, A.F. and Kung, S.-Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: November 15, 2005
Where: NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "CRM114 versus Mr. X: CRM114 Notes for the TREC 2005 Spam Track" by Assis, F., Yerazunis, W., Siefkes, C. and Chhabra, S. was presented at the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC).
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- Date: November 7, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems Brief - The paper "Wide-Area Long-Range Unidirectional Sensor (WALRUS) Network" by Vannucci, G., Leigh, D. and Katz, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems.
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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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