- Date: November 6, 2004
Where: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Brief - The papers "Beyond Social Protocols: Multi-User Coordination Policies for Co-located Groupware" by Ringel-Morris, M., Ryall, K., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Vernier, F. and "Exploring the Effects of Group Size and Table Size on Interactions with Tabletop Shared-Display Groupware" by Ryall, K., Forlines, C., Shen, C. and Ringel-Morris, M. were presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
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- Date: October 31, 2004
Where: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The article "Exact Calculation of Expected Waiting Times for Group Elevator Control" by Nikovski, D. and Brand, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
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- Date: October 31, 2004
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "The Cramer-Rao Bounds of Hybrid TOA/RSS and TDOA/RSS Location Estimation Schemes" by Catovic, A. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: October 24, 2004
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors" by Lee, J.C., Dietz, P.H., Maynes-Aminzade, D., Raskar, R. and Hudson, S.E. and "Haptic Pen: A Tactile Feedback Stylus for Touch Screens" by Lee, J.C., Dietz, P.H., Leigh, D., Yerazunis, W.S. and Hudson, S.E. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 24, 2004
Where: IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) Brief - The paper "Distributed Source Coding Using Serially-Concatenated-Accumulate Codes" by Chen, J., Khisti, A., Malioutov, D.M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW).
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- Date: October 24, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Nonlinear Warping Function Recovery by Scan-Line Search Using Dynamic Programming" by Porikli, F.M., "A Hidden Markov Model Framework for Traffic Event Detection Using Video Features" by Li, X. and Porikli, F.M., "Adaptive Fuzzy Post-Filtering for Highly Compressed Video" by Kong, H.S., Nie, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Barner, K., "An Investigation of 3D Dual-Tree Wavelet Transform for Video Coding" by Wang, B., Wang, Y., Selesnick, I. and Vetro, A., "Video Mining: Pattern Discovery Versus Pattern Recognition" by Divakaran, A., Peker, K.A., Chang, S.-F., Radhakrishnan, R. and Xie, L. and "Discovering Meaningful Multimedia Patterns with Audio-Visual Concepts and Associated Text" by Xie, L., Kennedy, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A., Sun, H. and Lin, C.-Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: October 18, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Joint Pilot and Data Loading Technique for MIMO Systems Operating with Covariance Feedback" by Digham, F.F., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G).
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- Date: October 18, 2004
Where: World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Traffic Prediction using Singular Value Decomposition" by Nishiuma, N., Goto, Y., Kumazawa, H., Nikovski, D. and Brand, M. was presented at the World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS).
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- Date: October 17, 2004
Where: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Specular Reflection Reduction with Multi-Flash Imaging" by Feris, R., Raskar, R., Tan, K. and Turk, M. was presented at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI).
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- Date: October 15, 2004
Where: ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "A Time Series Clustering Based Framework for Multimedia Mining and Summarization Using Audio Features" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Xiong, Z. was presented at the ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval.
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- Date: October 15, 2004
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Network Transcoder with Seamless Switching Function" by Kuwahara, N., Hata, T., Nozawa, T. and Vetro, A. and "Multiple-Description Image Coding with Distributed Source Coding and Side Information" by Wu, M., Vetro, A. and Chen, C.W. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications.
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- Date: October 13, 2004
Where: European Microwave Conference
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "UWB Wireless Channels - Propagation Aspects and Interplay with System Design" by Molisch, A.F. was presented at the European Microwave Conference.
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- Date: October 11, 2004
Where: International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "High-Performance MAC for High-Capacity Wireless LANs" by Yuan, Y., Gu, D., Arbaugh, W. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN).
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- Date: October 10, 2004
Where: IEEE Visualization Brief - The paper "Hardware-Accelerated Adaptive EWA Volume Splatting" by Chen, W., Ren, L., Zwicker, M. and Pfister, H. was presented at IEEE Visualization.
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- Date: October 4, 2004
Where: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "SpokenQuery: An Alternate Approach to Choosing Items with Speech" by Wolf, P., Woelfel, J., van Gemert, J., Raj, B. and Wong, D. was presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP).
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- Date: October 2, 2004
Where: Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing (SAPA)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Discovering Auditory Objects Through Non-Negativity Constraints" by Smaragdis, P. was presented at Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing (SAPA).
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- Date: September 30, 2004
Where: IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Likelihood-Maximizing Beamforming for Robust Hands-Free Speech Recognition" by Seltzer, M.L., Raj, B. and Stern, R.M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.
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- Date: September 30, 2004
Where: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Minimalism in Ubiquitous Interface Design" by Wren, C.R. and Reynolds, C.J. was published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
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- Date: September 29, 2004
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Brief - The paper "New Spreading Transforms for Fading Channels" by Yedidia, J.S., Pedagani, K. and Molisch, A.F. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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- Date: September 27, 2004
Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Reverse-link Capacity of Power-Controlled CDMA Systems with Beamforming" by Yu, J., Yao, Y.-D. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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- Date: September 26, 2004
Where: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Shape Enhanced Surgical Visualizations and Medical Illustrations with Multi-Flash Imaging" by Tan, K.-H., Kobler, J., Feris, R., Dietz, P.H. and Raskar, R. was presented at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI).
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- Date: September 26, 2004
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Spatial Diversity and Channel Statistics-Based RF-Baseband Co-Design for Antenna Selection" by Sudarshan, P., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "Estimation of Performance Loss Due to Delay in Channel Feedback in MIMO Systems" by Du, J., Li, Y., Gu, D., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "Rate of MIMO Systems with CSI at Transmitter and Receiver from Pilot-Aided Estimation" by Mehta, N.B., Digham, F.F., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "Achieving Packet-Level Quality of Service Through Scheduling in Multirate WLANs" by Yuan, Y., Gu, D., Arbaugh, W. and Zhang, J. and "Statistical Analysis of the UWB Channel in an Industrial Environment" by Karedal, J., Wyne, S., Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: September 22, 2004
Where: International Congress on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Non-negative Matrix Factor Deconvolution; Extraction of Multiple Sound Sources from Monophonic Inputs" by Smaragdis, P. was presented at the International Congress on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation.
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- Date: September 20, 2004
Where: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Combining Winnow and Orthogonal Sparse Bigrams for Incremental Spam Filtering" by Siefkes, C., Assis, F., Chhabra, S. and Yerazunis, W.S. was presented at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD).
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- Date: September 19, 2004
Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Antenna Selection with RF Pre-Processing: Robustness to RF and Selection Non-Idealities" by Sudarshan, P., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON).
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