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1,511 News items, Awards, Events and Talks related to MERL and its staff.


  •  EVENT    VCIP 2005 - Visual Communications and Image Processing
    Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - Friday, July 15, 2005
    Location: Beijing, China
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Anthony Vetro is the Special Session Co-Chair of VCIP 2005, the IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference.
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2005: 2 publications by Oncel Tuzel, Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: July 6, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Highlights Extraction from Sports Video Based on an Audio-Visual Marker Detection Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Husang, T.S. and "Multi-Kernel Object Tracking" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium) 2005: publication by Darren Leigh and others
    Date: July 3, 2005
    Where: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium)
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "Sidelobe Minimization of Uniformly-Excited Sparse Linear Arrays using Exhaustive Search and Visual Browsing" by Leigh, D., Ryall, K., Lanning, T., Lesh, N., Miyashita, H., Hirata, K., Hara, Y. and Sakura, T. was presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: July 1, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
    Brief
    • The article "Constructing Free-Energy Approximations and Generalized Belief Propagation Algorithms" by Yedidia, J.S., Freeman, W.T. and Weiss, Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: June 30, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The articles "Introduction to the Special Section on MPEG-21" by Pereira, F., Smith, J.R. and Vetro, A. and "Digital Item Adaptation: Overview of Standardization and Research Activities" by Vetro, A. and Timmerer, C. were published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
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  •  NEWS    EGSR 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 29, 2005
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models" by Ngan, A., Durand, F. and Matusik, N. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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  •  NEWS    Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 29, 2005
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Estimation of 3D Faces and Illumination from Single Photographs Using a Bilinear Illumination Model" by Lee, J., Machiraju, R., Pfister, H. and Moghaddam, B. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques.
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  •  NEWS    CVPR 2005: 5 publications by Matthew Brand, Ramesh Raskar and Jeroen van Baar
    Date: June 20, 2005
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "A Direct Method for 3D Factorization of Nonrigid Motion Observed in 2D" by Brand, M., "Integral Histogram: A Fast Way to Extract Histograms in Cartesian Spaces" by Porikli, F., "Why I Want a Gradient Camera" by Tumblin, J., Agrawal, A. and Raskar, R., "Videoshop: A New Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Editing in Gradient Domain" by Wang, H., Xu, N., Raskar, R. and Ahuja, N. and "Handheld Projectors for Mixing Physical and Digital Textures" by Beardsley, P., Forlines, C., Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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  •  NEWS    MVIV 2005: publication by Oncel Tuzel and others
    Date: June 20, 2005
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "A Bayesian Approach to Background Modeling" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV).
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  •  NEWS    WIRELESSCOM 2005: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: June 13, 2005
    Where: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Achieving Fair Scheduling Over Error-Prone Channels in Multirate WLANs" by Yuan, Y., Gu, D., Arbaugh, W. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM).
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  •  NEWS    VSSN 2005: publication by Ali Azarbayejani, Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: June 11, 2005
    Where: ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R., Erdem, M. and Azarbayejani, A.J. was presented at the ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2005: publication by Charles Rich and others
    Date: June 10, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
    Brief
    • The paper "DiamondHelp: A Collaborative Interface Framework for Networked Home Appliances" by Rich, C., Sidner, C., Lesh, N., Garland, A., Booth, S. and Chimani, M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops.
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  •  NEWS    SPAWC 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 5, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
    Brief
    • The paper "Reduced Latency Turbo Decoding" by Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).
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  •  AWARD    SEGD 2005 Best New Product
    Date: June 1, 2005
    Awarded to: MERL Staff
    Awarded for: MERL's Digital Merchandising technology
    Awarded by: Viaro (a Herman Miller company) at Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)
    Brief
    • MERL's Digital Merchandising technology as presented by Viaro (a Herman Miller company) won the "Best New Product 2005" award at the annual conference of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2005: 4 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 30, 2005
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    Brief
    • The papers "Capacity Analysis for Compact MIMO Systems" by Lau, B.K., Ow, S.M.S., Kristensson, G. and Molisch, A.F., "Effect of Random Walk Phase Noise on MIMO Measurement" by Almers, P., Wyne, S., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A., "Statistical Evaluation of Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Molisch, A.F., Almers, P., Eriksson, G., Karedal, J. and Tufvesson, F. and "MIMO Channel Measurement for Personal Area Networks" by Johansson, A., Karedal, J., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2005: 4 publications by Anthony Vetro, Zafer Sahinoglu, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 23, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Image Transmission over IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks" by Pekhteryev, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P. and Bhatti, G., "Fast Region-of-Interest Transcoding for JPEG 2000 Images" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A., Hata, T. and Kuwahara, N., "A Study of Encoding and Decoding Techniques for Syndrome-Based Video Coding" by Wu, M., Vetro, A., Yedidia, J., Sun, H. and Chen, C. W. and "Efficient MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Intra Transcoding in Transform-domain" by Su, Y., Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    SID 2005: publication by Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: May 22, 2005
    Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Low-Cost Multi-Projector Curved Screen Displays" by Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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  •  NEWS    Artificial Intelligence: publication by Charles Rich and others
    Date: May 17, 2005
    Where: Artificial Intelligence
    Brief
    • The article "Explorations in Engagement for Humans and Robots" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Kidds, C.D., Lesh, N. and Rich, C. was published in Artificial Intelligence.
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  •  NEWS    MVA 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 16, 2005
    Where: IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video" by Porikli, F., Shao, J. and Maehara, H. was presented at the IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2005: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: May 16, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Layered Space-Time Structure with Statistical Rate Allocation" by Du, J., Gu, D., Molisch, A.F., Li, Y. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    SIAM Conference on Optimization 2005: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: May 15, 2005
    Where: SIAM Conference on Optimization
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "A Random Walks Perspective on Maximizing Satisfaction and Profit" by Brand, M. was presented at the SIAM Conference on Optimization.
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  •  NEWS    GI 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 9, 2005
    Where: Conference on Graphics Interface (GI)
    Brief
    • The paper "Exploring Non-Speech Auditory Feedback at an Interactive Multi-User Tabletop" by Hancock, M.S., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Ryall, K. was presented at the Conference on Graphics Interface (GI).
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  •  NEWS    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: May 4, 2005
    Where: EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The article "A Content-Adaptive Analysis and Representation Framework for Audio Event Discovery from Unscripted Multimedia" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A., Xiong, Z. and Otsuka, I. was published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
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  •  NEWS    KIMAS 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 18, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Ambiguity Detection by Fusion and Conformity: A Spectral Clustering Approach" by Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS).
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  •  NEWS    Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 13, 2005
    Where: Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Change Detection by Frequency Decomposition: Wave-Back" by Porikli, F. and Wren, C.R. was presented at the Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services.
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