- 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: 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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- 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: 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 18, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Joint Pilot and Data Loading Technique for MIMO Systems Operating with Covariance Feedback" by Digham, F.F., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G).
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- Date: October 18, 2004
Where: World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Traffic Prediction using Singular Value Decomposition" by Nishiuma, N., Goto, Y., Kumazawa, H., Nikovski, D. and Brand, M. was presented at the World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS).
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- Date: October 17, 2004
Where: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Specular Reflection Reduction with Multi-Flash Imaging" by Feris, R., Raskar, R., Tan, K. and Turk, M. was presented at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI).
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- Date: October 15, 2004
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Network Transcoder with Seamless Switching Function" by Kuwahara, N., Hata, T., Nozawa, T. and Vetro, A. and "Multiple-Description Image Coding with Distributed Source Coding and Side Information" by Wu, M., Vetro, A. and Chen, C.W. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications.
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- Date: October 15, 2004
Where: ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "A Time Series Clustering Based Framework for Multimedia Mining and Summarization Using Audio Features" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Xiong, Z. was presented at the ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval.
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- Date: October 13, 2004
Where: European Microwave Conference
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "UWB Wireless Channels - Propagation Aspects and Interplay with System Design" by Molisch, A.F. was presented at the European Microwave Conference.
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- Date: October 11, 2004
Where: International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "High-Performance MAC for High-Capacity Wireless LANs" by Yuan, Y., Gu, D., Arbaugh, W. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN).
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- Date: October 10, 2004
Where: IEEE Visualization Brief - The paper "Hardware-Accelerated Adaptive EWA Volume Splatting" by Chen, W., Ren, L., Zwicker, M. and Pfister, H. was presented at IEEE Visualization.
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- Date: October 4, 2004
Where: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "SpokenQuery: An Alternate Approach to Choosing Items with Speech" by Wolf, P., Woelfel, J., van Gemert, J., Raj, B. and Wong, D. was presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP).
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- Date & Time: Sunday, October 3, 2004; 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location: Jeju, Korea Brief - MERL is a sponsor for SAPA 2004, the first ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing, to be held in Jeju, Korea, in October 2004. The workshop is co-organized by MERL researchers Bhiksha Raj and Paris Smaragdis.
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- Date: October 2, 2004
Where: Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing (SAPA)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Discovering Auditory Objects Through Non-Negativity Constraints" by Smaragdis, P. was presented at Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing (SAPA).
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