- Date: March 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Systematic Acquisition of Audio Classes for Elevator Surveillance" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. and "Object Tracking in Low-Frame-Rate Video" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing.
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- Date: February 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Computationally Efficient Histogram Extraction for Rectangular Image Regions" by Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging.
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- Date: January 31, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Rendering Deformable Surface Reflectance Fields" by Weyrich, T., Pfister, H. and Gross, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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- Date: January 31, 2005
Where: Proceedings of the IEEE
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Video Adaptation: Concepts, Technologies and Open Issues" by Chang, S.-F. and Vetro, A. was published in Proceedings of the IEEE.
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- Date: January 21, 2005
Where: MIT Spam Conference
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "A Unified Model of Spam Filtration" by Yerazunis, W.S., Chhabra, S., Siefkes, C., Assis, F. and Gunopulos, D. was presented at the MIT Spam Conference.
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- Date: January 17, 2005
Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The articles "Interaction Using a Handheld Projector" by Beardsley, P., van Baar, J., Raskar, R. and Forlines, C. and "Harnessing Real-World Depth Edges with Multiflash Imaging" by Tan, K.-H., Feris, R.S., Turk, M., Kobler, J., Yu, J. and Raskar, R. were published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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- Date: January 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia Brief - The paper "Modeling Sports Highlights Using a Time-Series Clustering Framework and Model Interpretation" by Radhakrishnan, R., Otsuka, I., Xiong, Z. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia.
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- Date: January 8, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Implementation of Edge Map Guided Fuzzy Filtering for Artifact Reduction in Highly Compressed Video" by Nie, Y., Hong, H.-S., Vetro, A., Shimada, T. and Minegishi, N., "Augmenting Fast-Forward and Rewind for Personal Digital Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A., Forlines, C., Lanning, T., Shipman, S. and Wittenburg, K. and "A Highlight Scene Detection and Video Summarization System Using \'Audio\' Feature for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Nakane, K., Divakaran, A., Hatanaka, K. and Ogawa, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: January 8, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Brief - The article "A Highlight Scene Detection and Video Summarization System Using Audio Feature for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Nakane, K., Divakaran, A., Hatanaka, K. and Ogawa, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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- Date: January 7, 2005
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Waviz: Spectral Similarity for Object Detection" by Wren, C.R. and Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS).
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- Date: January 6, 2005
MERL Contact: Kieran Parsons Brief - Mitsubishi Electric is demonstrating its wireless ultrawideband technology for home theater at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Jointly developed by corporate research and development labs in the US and Japan, Mitsubishi Electric's demonstration is based on the emerging standard from the MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA).
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- Date: January 5, 2005
Where: IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Motion and Video Computing
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Multiplicative Background-Foreground Estimation Under Uncontrolled Illumination using Intrinsic Images" by Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Motion and Video Computing.
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- Date: December 31, 2004
Where: Transactions on Electronics (IEICE) Brief - The article "Man-Computer Symbiosis Revisited: Achieving Natural Communication and Collaboration with Computers" by Lesh, N., Marks, J., Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was published in Transactions on Electronics (IEICE).
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- Date: December 15, 2004
Where: Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Efficient Macroblock Coding-mode Decision for H.264/AVC Video Coding" by Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Coding Approaches for End-to-End 3D TV Systems" by Vetro, A., Matusik, W., Pfister, H. and Xin, J. and "Video Coding Without Motion Compensation Using a 3-D Dual-tree Wavelet Transform" by Wang, B., Wang, Y., Selesnick, I. and Vetro, A. were presented at the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS).
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- Date: December 6, 2004
Where: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "The Power of Feature Clustering: An Application to Object Detection" by Avidan, S. and Butman, M. was presented at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
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- Date: December 6, 2004
Where: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Activity Recognition and Discovery
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Activity Mining in Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R. and Minnen, D.C. was presented at the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Activity Recognition and Discovery.
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- Date: November 30, 2004
Where: International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Flexible Calibration of Multiple Projectors for Low-Cost Curved SAcreen Displays" by van Baar, J. and Raskar, R. was presented at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT).
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- Date: November 30, 2004
Where: IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Converting DCT Coefficients to H.264/AVC Transform Coefficients" by Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. and "Audio-Assisted Video Browsing for DVD Recorders" by Divakaran, A., Otsuka, I., Radhakrishnan, R., Nakane, K. and Ogawa, M. were presented at the IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).
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- Date: November 29, 2004
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Energy Efficient JPEG 2000 Image Transmission Over Wireless Sensor Networks" by Yu, W., Sahinoglu, Z. and Vetro, A., "Spatial Multiplexing and Channel Statistics-Based RF Pre-Processing for Antenna Selection" by Sudarshan, P., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "On the Performance of Transmitted-Reference Impulse Radio" by Gezici, S., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F., "UWB Channel Measurements in an Industrial Environment" by Karedal, J., Wyne, S., Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. and "Combining Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes with Adaptive Sub-Group Antenna Encoding" by Wu, J., Horng, H., Zhang, J., Olivier, J.C. and Xiao, C. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- 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: 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 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: 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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