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1,506 News items, Awards, Events and Talks related to MERL and its staff.


  •  NEWS    CHI 2005: 4 publications by Clifton Forlines, Darren Leigh and others
    Date: April 2, 2005
    Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
    Brief
    • The papers "CoR2Ds: Context-Rooted Rotatable Draggables for Tabletop Interaction" by Shen, C., Hancock, M.S., Forlines, C. and Vernier, F.D., "Modal Spaces: Spatial Multiplexing to Mediate Direct-Touch Input on Large Displays" by Everitt, K., Shen, C., Ryall, K. and Forlines, C., "QueryLines: Approximate Query for Visual Browsing" by Ryall, K., Lesh, N., Lanning, T., Leigh, D., Miyashita, H. and Makino, S. and "Glimpse: A Novel Input Model for Multi-Level Devices" by Forlines, C., Shen, C. and Buxton, B. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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  •  AWARD    Finalist in two international design competitions
    Date: April 1, 2005
    Awarded to: Diamond Help Team
    Awarded for: DiamondHelp: Collaborative Help for Networked Home Products
    Awarded by: Third International Conference on Appliance Design (3AD) and INDEX: Award 2005
    Brief
    • DiamondHelp was selected as a finalist for the international design competition associated with the Third International Conference on Appliance Design (3AD) and a finalist for the "INDEX: Award 2005" international design competition.
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2005: 4 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: March 18, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Fast Adaptive Fuzzy Post-Filtering for Coding Artifacts Removal in Interlaced Video" by Nie, Y., Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Barner, K., "Video Coding Using 3-D Dual-Tree Discrete Wavelet Transform" by Wang, B., Wang, Y., Selesnick, I. and Vetro, A., "A Companding Front End for Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition" by Guinness, J., Raj, B., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Turicchia, L. and Sarpeshkar, R. and "Layered Dynamic Mixture Model for Pattern Discovery in Asynchronous Multi-Modal Streams" by Xie, L., Kennedy, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A., Sun, H. and Lin, C.-Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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  •  NEWS    CISS 2005: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: March 16, 2005
    Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The paper "Replica Shuffled Belief Propagation Decoding of LDPC Codes" by Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing 2005: 2 publications by Oncel Tuzel and Ajay Divakaran
    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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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics: publication by Hanspeter Pfister and others
    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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  •  NEWS    Proceedings of the IEEE: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    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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  •  NEWS    MIT Spam Conference 2005: publication by William Yerazunis and others
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications: 2 publications by Paul Beardsley, Jeroen van Baar, Ramesh Raskar and Clifton Forlines
    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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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia 2005: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    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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  •  NEWS    ICCE 2005: 3 publications by Kent Wittenburg, Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran, Samuel Shipman and Clifton Forlines
    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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  •  NEWS    PETS 2005: publication by Christopher R. Wren and others
    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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  •  NEWS    Mitsubishi Electric Demonstrates Wireless Ultrawideband Technology at CES
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Motion and Video Computing 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    Transactions on Electronics (IEICE): publication by Charles Rich and others
    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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  •  NEWS    PCS 2004: 3 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    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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  •  NEWS    NIPS 2004: publication by Christopher R. Wren and others
    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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  •  NEWS    NIPS 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    PCM 2004: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    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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  •  NEWS    ICAT 2004: publication by Jeroen van Baar and Ramesh Raskar
    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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  •  NEWS    GLOBECOM 2004: 5 publications by Anthony Vetro, Zafer Sahinoglu and Jinyun Zhang
    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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  •  NEWS    CSCW 2004: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Communications Letters: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    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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