- 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: 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 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 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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- Date: August 10, 2003
Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "MIMO Systems with Antenna Selection - An Overview" by Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON).
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- Date: August 9, 2003
Where: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Responding to and Recovering from Mistakes During Collaboration" by Garland, A., Lesh, N.B. and Rich, C. and "Continuous Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Kernel Eigenmaps" by Brand, M.E. were presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
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- Date: August 8, 2003
Where: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "Marginalizing Out Future Passengers in Group Elevator Control" by Nikovski, D.N. and Brand, M.E. was presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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- Date: July 26, 2003
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The articles "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and Self-Configuring Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P.A., Willwacher, T., Rao, S. and Forlines, C. and "A Data-Driven Reflectance Model" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Brand, M.E. and McMillan, L. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: July 8, 2003
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Coding Mode Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: July 6, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Multi-Camera Calibration, Object Tracking and Query Generation" by Porikli, F.M. and Divakaran, A., "Unsupervised Discovery of Multilevel Statistical Video Structures Using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Minimized Intra-Frame Quality Variation" by Zhou, J., Shao, H.-R., Shen, C. and Sun, M.-T., "Object-Based Coding for Long-Term Archive of Surveillance Video" by Vetro, A., Haga, T., Sumi, K. and Sun, H., "Rate Allocation for FGS-Coded Video Using Composite Rate-Distortion Analysis" by Cheng, H., Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. and "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 1, 2003
Where: Graphics Interface
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Silhouette-Based 3D Face Shape Recovery" by Lee, J., Moghaddam, B., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. was presented at Graphics Interface.
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- Date: June 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Communications Magazine
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "QoS Enhancement in IEEE802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks" by Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Communications Magazine.
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- Date: June 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Bit Allocation for MPEG-4 Video Coding with Spatio-Temporal Tradeoffs" by Lee, J.-W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, Y.-S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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- Date: June 29, 2003
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Brief - The paper "Representing Codes for Belief Propagation Decoding" by Yedidia, J., Chen, J. and Fossorier, M. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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- Date: June 26, 2003
Where: Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Efficient Isotropic BRDF Measurement" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Brand, M. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW).
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- Date: June 23, 2003
Where: Eurographics/ACM SiGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "3D Reconstruction Using Labeled Image Regions" by Ziegler, R., Matusik, W., Pfister, H. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics/ACM SiGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP).
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- Date: June 22, 2003
Where: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Visualizing a 3rd Data Dimension" by Wittenburg, K., Lanning, T., Forlines, C. and Esenther, A. was presented at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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- Date: June 18, 2003
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Brief - The paper "Subset Selection for Efficient SVM Tracking" by Avidan, S. was presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 17, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "A Content-Based Browsing System for HDD and/or recordable DVD Personal Video Recorder" by Nakane, K., Otsuka, I., Esumi, K., Murakami, T. and Divakaran, A. and "Optimal MPEG-2 Transcoding for DVD Recording System" by Kong, H.S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: June 9, 2003
Where: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski Brief - The papers "Decision-Theoretic Group Elevator Scheduling" by Nikovski, D. and Brand, M. and "Non-Linear Stochastic Control in Continuous State Spaces by Exact Integration in Bellman\'s Equations" by Nikovski, D. and Brand, M. were presented at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
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- Date: May 31, 2003
Where: Journal of Graphics Tools
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Simple and Efficient Traversal Methods for Quadtrees and Octrees" by Frisken, S. and Perry, R. was published in Journal of Graphics Tools.
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- Date: May 28, 2003
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Resource Adaptation Based on MPEG-21 Usage Environment Descriptions" by Sun, H., Vetro, A. and Asai, K. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 25, 2003
Where: World Wireless Congress (WWC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Evaluation of EDCF Mechanism for QoS in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks" by Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was presented at the World Wireless Congress (WWC).
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- Date: May 22, 2003
Where: Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Seamless Multi-Projector Display on Curved Screens" by van Baar, J., Willwacher, T., Rao, S. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE).
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