- 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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- Date: May 19, 2003
Where: International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Dynamic Resource Control for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access Wireless Channel" by Shao, H.-R., Shen, C., Gu, D., Zhang, J. and Orlik, P. was presented at the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops.
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- Date: May 19, 2003
Where: SPIE Conference on VLSI Circuits and Systems
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Performance Optimization of the MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Video Transcoder" by Kalva, H., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the SPIE Conference on VLSI Circuits and Systems.
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- Date: May 11, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "On the Spectral and Power Requirements for Ultra-Wideband Transmission" by Sheng, H., Orlik, P.V., Hiamovich, A.M., Cimini, L.J. and Zhang, J. and "Effects of Spreading Bandwidth on the Performance of UWB Rake Receivers" by Cassioli, D., Win, M.Z., Vatalaro, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 1, 2003
Where: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Fast Online SVD Revisions for Lightweight Recommender Systems" by Brand, M. was presented at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM).
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- Date: April 28, 2003
Where: Packet Video (PV)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Multi-Path Transport of FGS Video" by Zhou, J., Shao, H.-R., Shen, C. and Sun, M.-T. was presented at Packet Video (PV).
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- Date: April 28, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Coding and Computing
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Scalable Layered Multicast with Explicit Congestion Notification" by Zhu, L., Ansari, N., Sahinoglu, Z., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Coding and Computing.
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- Date: April 28, 2003
Where: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Opacity Light Fields: Interactive Rendering of Surface Light Fields with View-Dependent Opacity" by Vlasic, D., Pfister, H., Molinov, S., Grzeszczuk, R. and Matusik, W. was presented at the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D).
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- Date: April 22, 2003
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Adaptive Space-Time Transmit Diversity for MIMO Systems" by Horng, J.H., Li, L. and Zhang, J., "Effect of Far Scatterer Clusters in MIMO Outdoor Channel Models" by Molisch, A.F., "Spectral Shape of UWB Signals - Influence of Modulation Format, Multiple Access Scheme and Pulse Shape" by Nakache, Y.-P. and Molisch, A.F. and "The Effect of Horizontal Array Orientation on MIMO Channel Capacity" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F., Karlsson, P. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: April 17, 2003
Where: The IET - Electronics Letters
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Power Efficient Transmission of Layered Video Through Wireless Proxy Servers" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Orlik, P. was published in The IET - Electronics Letters.
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- Date: April 6, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Lossless Compression of Language Model Structure and Word Identifiers" by Raj, B. and Whittaker, E.W.D., "Rate-Distortion Analysis of the Multiple Description Motion Compensation Video Coding Scheme" by Lin, S., Vetro, A. and Wang, Y., "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., "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., "Multi-Channel Source Separation by Factorial HMMs" by Reyes-Gomez, M.J., Raj, B. and Ellis, D.P.W. and "Tracking Noise via Dynamical Systems with a Continuum of States" by Singh, R. and Raj, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: April 1, 2003
Where: International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Audio/Visual Independent Components" by Smaragdis, P. and Casey, M. was presented at the International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA).
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- Date: April 1, 2003
Where: International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Fast Object Tracking by Adaptive Background Models and Mean-Shift Analysis" by Porikli, F.M. and Tuzel, O. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS).
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- Date: March 31, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Speech Recognizer Based Filter Optimization for Microphone Array Processing" by Seltzer, M.L. and Raj, B. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: March 31, 2003
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Video Transcoding Architectures and Techniques: An Overview" by Vetro, A., Christopoulos, C. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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- Date: March 31, 2003
Where: ACM Interactions
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The article "Personal Digital Historian: Story Sharing Around the Table" by Shen, C., Lesh, N. and Vernier, F. was published in ACM Interactions.
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- Date: March 31, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Rate-Distortion Modeling for Multiscale Binary Shape Coding Based on Markov Random Fields" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
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- Date: March 31, 2003
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Human Body Tracking by Adaptive Background Models and Mean-Shift Analysis" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS).
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- Date: March 12, 2003
Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Proxy Caching for Video on Demand Systems in Multicast Networks" by Zhu, L., Sahinoglu, Z., Cheng, G., Vetro, A., Ansari, N. and Sun, H. and "Sensitivity Characteristics of Cross-Correlation Distance Metric and Model Function" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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- Date: February 28, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Constant Quality Constrained Rate Allocation for FGS Coded Video" by Zhang, X.M., Vetro, A., Shi, Y.Q. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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- Date: January 31, 2003
Where: Computer Speech and Language
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Classifier-Based Non-Linear Projection for Adaptive Endpointing of Continuous Speech" by Raj, B. and Singh, R. was published in Computer Speech and Language.
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