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  •  NEWS    INTETAIN 2005: publication by Kent Wittenburg and Alan Esenther
    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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  •  NEWS    ASRU 2005: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    GLOBECOM 2005: 7 publications by Jinyun Zhang, Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    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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  •  NEWS    CVIIE 2005: publication by Paul Beardsley, Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen van Baar and others
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: publication by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference Optics East 2005: Communications, Multimedia & Display Technologies 2005: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    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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  •  NEWS    TREC 2005: publication by William Yerazunis and others
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    VSSN 2005: publication by Oncel Tuzel and others
    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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  •  NEWS    Wireless Communications: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: November 4, 2005
    Where: Wireless Communications
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Wireless Communications" by Molisch, A.F. was published in Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    MMSP 2005: publication by Derek Schwenke, Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: October 30, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Surveillance System with Object-Aware Video Transcoder" by Hata, T., Kuwahara, N., Nozawa, T., Schwenke, D.L. and Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).
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  •  NEWS    UIST 2005: 3 publications by William S. Yerazunis, Bret A. Harsham, Jeroen van Baar and Clifton Forlines
    Date: October 23, 2005
    Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Brief
    • The papers "DTLens: Multi-user Tabletop Spatial Data Exploration" by Forlines, C. and Shen, C., "Zoom-and-Pick: Facilitating Visual Zooming and Precision Pointing with Interactive Handheld Projectors" by Forlines, C., Balakrishnan, R., Beardsley, P., van Baar, J. and Raskar, R. and "DT Controls: Adding Identity to Physical Interfaces" by Dietz, P.H., Harsham, B., Forlines, C., Leigh, D., Yerazunis, W., Shipman, S., Schmidt-Nielsen, B. and Ryall, K. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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  •  NEWS    ICCV 2005: 3 publications by Jay Thornton and Ramesh Raskar
    Date: October 17, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Shadow Flow: A Recursive Method to Learn Moving Cast Shadows" by Porikli, F. and Thornton, J., "An Algebraic Approach to Surface Reconstruction from Gradient Fields" by Agrawal, A., Chellappa, R. and Raskar, R. and "Discontinuity Preserving Stereo with Small Baseline Multi-Flash Illumination" by Feris, R., Raskar, R., Chen, L., Tan, K.-H. and Turk, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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  •  NEWS    WASPAA 2005: 3 publications by Petros T. Boufounos, Ajay Divakaran and Paris Smaragdis
    Date: October 16, 2005
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
    MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
    Brief
    • The papers "Latent Variable Decomposition of Spectrograms for Single Channel Speaker Separation" by Raj, B. and Smaragdis, P., "Learning Source Trajectories Using Wrapped-Phase Hidden Markov Models" by Smaragdis, P. and Boufounos, P. and "Audio Analysis for Surveillance Applications" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Smaragdis, P. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Multimedia systems and Applications 2005: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: October 15, 2005
    Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia systems and Applications
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Browsing News and Talk Video on a Consumer Electronics Platform Using Face Detection" by Peker, K.A., Divakaran, A. and Lanning, T. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia systems and Applications.
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  •  NEWS    ECML 2005: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: October 3, 2005
    Where: European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Nonrigid Embeddings for Dimensionality Reduction" by Brand, M. was presented at the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks 2005: publication by Philip V. Orlik, Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    Date: October 3, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The paper "Non-coherent TOA Estimation in IR-UWB Systems with Different Signal Waveforms" by Guvenc, I., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F. and Orlik, P. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks.
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  •  NEWS    Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 28, 2005
    Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
    Research Area: Information Security
    Brief
    • The paper "Secure Biometrics Via Syndromes" by Martinian, E., Yekhanin, S. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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  •  NEWS    SECON 2005: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu, Philip Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: September 26, 2005
    Where: IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Reliable Broadcasting in ZigBee Networks" by Ding, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Bhargava, B. was presented at the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON).
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  •  NEWS    LANMAN 2005: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: September 18, 2005
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "A Two-Level Carrier Sensing Mechanism for Overlapping BSS Problem in WLAN" by Fang, Y., Gu, D., McDonald, A.B. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN).
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  •  NEWS    Communications of the ACM: publication by Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: September 15, 2005
    Where: Communications of the ACM
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Photosensing Wireless Tags for Geometric Procedures" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., Dietz, P. and van Baar, J. was published in Communications of the ACM.
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  •  NEWS    AVSS 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 15, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Performance Evaluation of Event Detection Solutions: The CREDS Experience" by Zilani, F., Velastin, S., Porikli, F., Marcenaro, L., Kelliher, T., Cavallaro, A. and Bruneaut, P. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 15, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Ultrawideband Propagation Channels-Theory, Measurement and Modeling" by Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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  •  NEWS    ITSC 2005: publication by Daniel Nikovski and others
    Date: September 13, 2005
    Where: International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC)
    MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "Univariate Short-Term Prediction of Road Travel Times" by Nikovski, D., Nishiuma, N., Goto, Y. and Kumazawa, H. was presented at the International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC).
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  •  NEWS    INTERACT 2005: 5 publications by Kent B. Wittenburg, Kathy Ryall, Samuel Shipman, Alan Esenther, Chia Shen and Clifton Forlines
    Date: September 12, 2005
    Where: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The papers "DocuBits and Containers: Providing e-Document Micro-Mobility in a Walk-up Interactive Tabletop Environment" by Everitt, K., Shen, C., Ryall, K. and Forlines, C., "iDwidgets: Parameterizing Widgets by User Identity" by Ryall, K., Esenther, A., Everitt, K., Forlines, C., Ringel Morris, M., Shen, C., Shipman, S. and Vernier, F., "Temporal Magic Lens: Combined Spatial and Temporal Query and Presentation" by Ryall, K., Li, Q. and Esenther, A., "A Comparison between Spoken Queries and Menu-based Interfaces for In-Car Digital Music Selection" by Forlines, C., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Raj, B., Wittenburg, K. and Wolf, P. and "Under My Finger: Human Factors in Pushing and Rotating Documents Across the Table" by Forlines, C., Shen, C. and Vernier, F. were presented at the IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT).
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