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


  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2008: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: May 18, 2008
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Complexity and Memory Efficient GOP Structures Supporting VCR Functionalities in H.264/AVC" by Lou, J., Liu, S., Vetro, A. and Sun, M.-T. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 15, 2008
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements and Analysis at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Molisch, A.F., Almers, P., Eriksson, G., Karedal, J. and Tufvesson, F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2008: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 11, 2008
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    Brief
    • The papers "The Composite Channel Method: Efficient Experimental Evaluation of a Realistic MIMO Terminal in the Presence of a Human Body" by Harrysson, F., Medbo, J., Molisch, A.F., Johansson, A.J. and Tufvesson, F. and "Scatterer Detection by Successive Cancellation for UWB - Method and Experimental Verification" by Santos, T., Karedal, J., Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  AWARD    ADESAQ Prize of Excellence for best PhD dissertation
    Date: May 1, 2008
    Awarded to: Amine Maaref
    Awarded for: "Applications of Random Matrix Theory to the Performance Analysis of Wireless MIMO Communication Systems"
    Awarded by: National Institute for Scientific Research, Montreal Canada
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  •  NEWS    CHI 2008: 2 publications by Clifton Forlines and others
    Date: April 5, 2008
    Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
    Brief
    • The papers "LivOlay: Interactive Ad-hoc Registration and Overlapping of Applications for Collaborative Visual Exploration" by Jiang, H., Wigdor, D., Forlines, C., Borkin, M., Kauffmann, J. and Shen, C. and "Evaluating Tactile Feedback and Direct vs. Indirect Stylus Input in Pointing and Crossing Selection Tasks" by Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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  •  NEWS    BMSB 2008: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: March 31, 2008
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Hot-Spot Wireless Access Exploiting Shadowing Diversity of Distributed Antennas" by Li, Y. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2008: 4 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: March 31, 2008
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    Brief
    • The papers "Joint Tracking and Video Registration by Factorial Hidden Markov Models" by Mei, X. and Porikli, F., "Speech Denoising Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Priors" by Wilson, K.W., Raj, B., Smaragdis, P. and Divakaran, A., "Ultrasonic Doppler Sensor for Speaker Recognition" by Kalgaonkar, K. and Raj, B. and "Sparse and Shift-Invariant Feature Extraction from Non-Negative Data" by Smaragdis, P., Raj, B. and Shashanka, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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  •  NEWS    WCNC 2008: 2 publications by Zhifeng, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: March 31, 2008
    Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The papers "MAC 24-1 Efficient Multiple Access using Received Signal Strength and Local Channel Information" by Yim, R., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. and "Performance Improvement for Multichannel HARQ Protocol in Next Generation WiMAX System" by Tao, Z., Li, A., Zhang, J. and Kuze, T. were presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications 2008: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: March 12, 2008
    Where: IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Iterative Linear-Programming-Based Route Optimization for Cooperative Networks" by Draper, S., Liu, L., Molisch, A. and Yedidia, J. was presented at the IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications.
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  •  NEWS    Design, Automation and Test in Europe 2008: publication by Chunjie Duan and others
    Date: March 10, 2008
    Where: Design, Automation and Test in Europe
    Brief
    • The paper "Energy Efficient and High Speed On-Chip Ternary Bus" by Duan, C. and Khatri, S.P. was presented at Design, Automation and Test in Europe.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Communications Letters: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    Date: March 1, 2008
    Where: IEEE Communications Letters
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Ranging in a Single-Input Multiple Output (SIMO) System" by Gezici, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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  •  NEWS    WSA 2008: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: February 26, 2008
    Where: International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA)
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Non-WSSUS Vehicular Channel Characterization in Highway and Urban Scenarios at 5.2 GHz Using the Local Scattering Function" by Paier, A., Zemen, T., Bernado, L., Matz, G., Karedal, J., Czink, N., Dumard, C., Tufvesson, F., Molisch, A.F. and Mecklenbrauker, C.F. was presented at the International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA).
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  •  NEWS    Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology: publication by Bret A. Harsham and others
    Date: February 15, 2008
    Where: Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The article "Speech-Based UI Design for the Automobile" by Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Harsham, B., Raj, B. and Forlines, C. was published in the book Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology.
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  •  NEWS    VCIP 2008: 3 publications by Derek Schwenke, Anthony Vetro and Sehoon Yea
    Date: January 29, 2008
    Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "Server-Driven Progressive Image Transmission of JPEG 2000" by Schwenke, D., Vetro, A. and Hata, T., "Spatio-Temporal Fuzzy Filtering for Coding Artifacts Reduction" by Vo, D.T., Yea, S. and Vetro, A. and "Bit-depth Scalable Coding for High Dynamic Range Video" by Liu, S., Kim, W.-S. and Vetro, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Real-Time Image Processing 2008: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: January 28, 2008
    Where: SPIE Conference on Real-Time Image Processing
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Reshuffling: A Fast Algorithm for Filtering with Arbitrary Kernels" by Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Real-Time Image Processing.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium 2008: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: January 22, 2008
    Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS)
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Fading Characterization in a Semi-Anechoic Chamber with Artificial Scatterers for Mean Effective Gain Measurements of Wireless Handheld Terminals" by Glazunov, A.A., Molisch, A.F. and Tufvesson, F. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications: 2 publications by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: January 15, 2008
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The articles "Asynchronous Interference Mitigation in Cooperative Base Station Systems" by Zhang, H., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J. and Dai, H. and "A Software-Defined Radio System for Backscatter Sensor Networks" by Vannucci, G., Bletsas, A. and Leigh, D. were published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    Date: January 15, 2008
    Where: International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Real-Time and Secure Wireless Health Monitoring" by Dagtas, S., Pekhteryev, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Can, H. and Challa, N. was published in International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications.
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  •  NEWS    ICCE 2008: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: January 12, 2008
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "A Multi-Standards HDTV Video Decoder for Blu-Ray Disc Standard" by Minegishi, N., Sato, H., Vetro, A., Izuhara, F. and Koyama, M. and "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution" by Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sekiguchi, S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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  •  NEWS    WACV 2008: 2 publications by Kuntal Sengupta and others
    Date: January 8, 2008
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
    Brief
    • The papers "Likelihood Map Fusion for Visual Object Tracking" by Yin, Z., Porikli, F. and Collins, R. and "A Non Parametric Approach for Modeling Interferometric SAR Imagery and Applications" by Sengupta, K. and Burman, P. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
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  •  AWARD    ICCE 2008 Best Paper Award
    Date: January 1, 2008
    Awarded to: Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro and Shun-ichi Sekiguchi
    Awarded for: "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution"
    Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
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  •  AWARD    ICCE 2007 Best Paper Award
    Date: January 1, 2008
    Awarded to: I. Otsuka, H. suginohara, Y. Kushunoki and A. Divakaran
    Awarded for: "Detection of Music Segment Boundaries using Audio-Visual Features for a Personal Video Recorder"
    Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
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  •  NEWS    IWPSD 2007: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: December 16, 2007
    Where: International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, (IWPSD)
    Brief
    • The paper "Analytical Modeling of Threshold Voltage for Nanoscale Symmetric Double Gate (SDG) MOSFET with Ultra Thin Body (UTB)" by Vishvakarma, S.K., Raj, B., Singh, R., Panda, C.R., Saxena, A.K. and Sasgupta, S. was presented at the International Workshop on Physics of Semiconductor Devices, (IWPSD).
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  •  NEWS    ICICS 2007: publication by Koon Hoo Teo, Zhifeng (Jeffrey) Tao, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: December 13, 2007
    Where: International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Koon Hoo Teo
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Adaptive Frame Structure for Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) Networks" by Teo, K.H., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Li, A. was presented at the International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS).
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  •  NEWS    CAMPSAP 2007: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: December 12, 2007
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMPSAP)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Antenna Selection Training in MIMO-OFDM/OFDMA Cellular Systems" by Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J. and Bala, E. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMPSAP).
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