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211 News items, Awards, Events or Talks found.


  •  NEWS    Mitsubishi Electric Announces the successful development of a "face-to-face" video call center system
    Date: February 17, 2004
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Tamotsu Nomakuchi) has successfully developed a "Face-to-Face" Video Call Center System, utilizing a broadband network to allow communication between customers and service providers at separate locations.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Multimedia: publication by Anthony Vetro
    Date: January 31, 2004
    Where: IEEE Multimedia
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation: Enabling Universal Multimedia Access" by Vetro, A. was published in IEEE Multimedia.
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  •  NEWS    Signal Processing: Image Communication: publication by Anthony Vetro and Zafer Sahinoglu
    Date: September 30, 2003
    Where: Signal Processing: Image Communication
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The article "Mobility Characteristics for Multimedia Service Adaptation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Vetro, A. was published in Signal Processing: Image Communication.
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  •  NEWS    VLBV 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro
    Date: September 18, 2003
    Where: International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Transcoding Scalable Coding & Standardized Metadata" by Vetro, A. was presented at the International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV).
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2003: 4 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: September 17, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Generation of Sports Highlights Using Motion Activity in Combination with a Common Audio Feature Extraction Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Feature Selection for Unsupervised Discovery of Statistical Temporal Structures in Video" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "Combined Rate Control and Mode Decision Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. and "Inter-Camera Color Calibration by Cross-Correlation Model Function" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  NEWS    ITRE 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: August 11, 2003
    Where: International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Optimal 2-d Interleaving for Robust Multimedia Transmission" by Zhang, X. M., Shi, Y.-Q., Xu, W.-Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE).
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  •  NEWS    VCIP 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: July 8, 2003
    Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Coding Mode Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2003: 7 publications by Chia Shen, Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: July 6, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Multi-Camera Calibration, Object Tracking and Query Generation" by Porikli, F.M. and Divakaran, A., "Unsupervised Discovery of Multilevel Statistical Video Structures Using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Minimized Intra-Frame Quality Variation" by Zhou, J., Shao, H.-R., Shen, C. and Sun, M.-T., "Object-Based Coding for Long-Term Archive of Surveillance Video" by Vetro, A., Haga, T., Sumi, K. and Sun, H., "Rate Allocation for FGS-Coded Video Using Composite Rate-Distortion Analysis" by Cheng, H., Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. and "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: June 30, 2003
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Bit Allocation for MPEG-4 Video Coding with Spatio-Temporal Tradeoffs" by Lee, J.-W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, Y.-S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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  •  NEWS    ICCE 2003: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: June 17, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "A Content-Based Browsing System for HDD and/or recordable DVD Personal Video Recorder" by Nakane, K., Otsuka, I., Esumi, K., Murakami, T. and Divakaran, A. and "Optimal MPEG-2 Transcoding for DVD Recording System" by Kong, H.S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 28, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Resource Adaptation Based on MPEG-21 Usage Environment Descriptions" by Sun, H., Vetro, A. and Asai, K. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on VLSI Circuits and Systems 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 19, 2003
    Where: SPIE Conference on VLSI Circuits and Systems
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Performance Optimization of the MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Video Transcoder" by Kalva, H., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the SPIE Conference on VLSI Circuits and Systems.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Coding and Computing 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Zafer Sahinoglu, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: April 28, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Coding and Computing
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Scalable Layered Multicast with Explicit Congestion Notification" by Zhu, L., Ansari, N., Sahinoglu, Z., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Coding and Computing.
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2003: 6 publications by Anthony Vetro and Ajay Divakaran
    Date: April 6, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "Lossless Compression of Language Model Structure and Word Identifiers" by Raj, B. and Whittaker, E.W.D., "Rate-Distortion Analysis of the Multiple Description Motion Compensation Video Coding Scheme" by Lin, S., Vetro, A. and Wang, Y., "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Multi-Channel Source Separation by Factorial HMMs" by Reyes-Gomez, M.J., Raj, B. and Ellis, D.P.W. and "Tracking Noise via Dynamical Systems with a Continuum of States" by Singh, R. and Raj, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: March 31, 2003
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Rate-Distortion Modeling for Multiscale Binary Shape Coding Based on Markov Random Fields" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: March 31, 2003
    Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Video Transcoding Architectures and Techniques: An Overview" by Vetro, A., Christopoulos, C. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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  •  NEWS    CISS 2003: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Zafer Sahinoglu, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: March 12, 2003
    Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Proxy Caching for Video on Demand Systems in Multicast Networks" by Zhu, L., Sahinoglu, Z., Cheng, G., Vetro, A., Ansari, N. and Sun, H. and "Sensitivity Characteristics of Cross-Correlation Distance Metric and Model Function" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: February 28, 2003
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Constant Quality Constrained Rate Allocation for FGS Coded Video" by Zhang, X.M., Vetro, A., Shi, Y.Q. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing 2003: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: January 20, 2003
    Where: SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Rate-Distortion Models for Video Transcoding" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Xia, M. and Liu, B. and "Adaptive Field/Frame Selection for High-Compression Coding" by Zhang, X.M., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Shi, Y.-Q. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: November 30, 2002
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Drift Compensation for Reduced Spatial Resolution Transcoding" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Liu, B. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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  •  NEWS    Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: October 30, 2002
    Where: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Rate-Reduction Transcoding Design for Wireless Video Streaming" by Vetro, A., Cai, J. and Chen, C.W. was published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2002: 5 publications by Anthony Vetro and Ajay Divakaran
    Date: September 22, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "Automatic Threshold Determination of Centroid-Linkage Region Growing by MPEG-7 Dominant Color Descriptors" by Porikli, F.M., "Motion Activity-Based Extraction of Key-Frames from Video Shots" by Divakaran, A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Peker, K.A., "MPEG-4 Video Object-Based Rate Allocation with Variable Temporal Rates" by Lee, J.W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, W.S., "Rate-Reduction Transcoding Design for Wireless Video Streaming" by Vetro, A. and Chen, C.W. and "Representation of Motion Activity in Hierarchical Levels for Video Indexing and Filtering" by Sun, X., Manjunath, B.S. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: August 31, 2002
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Complexity-Quality Analysis of Transcoding Architectures for Reduced Spatial Resolution" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N., Kalva, H. and Sekiguchi, S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications 2002: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun, Jianlin Guo and others
    Date: July 29, 2002
    Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications
    MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "A Platform for Real-Time Content Adaptive Video Transmission Over Heterogeneous Networks" by Kong, H.S., Vetro, A., Kalva, H., Fu, D., Zhang, X., Guo, J. and Sun, H. and "Video Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Asai, K. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications.
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  •  NEWS    ISAS-SCI 2002: 8 publications by Anthony Vetro, Jinyun Zhang, Ajay Divakaran, Philip Orlik and Zafer Sahinoglu
    Date: July 14, 2002
    Where: World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISAS-SCI)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "Timing Synchronization for OFDM" by You, C., Gu, D. and Zhang, J., "An Online Renegotiation-Based Bandwidth Management with Circuit Assignment for VBR Traffic in Communications Networks" by Porikli, F.M. and Sahinoglu, Z., "A Trellis Based Technique for Blind Channel Estimation and Signal Detection" by Cao, L., Orlik, P.V., Gu, D. and Zhang, J., "Automatic Detection of Talking Head Segments in News Video in the Compressed Domain" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Channel Estimation Error Impact on the Link Level Performance of Space-Time Coded Systems" by Li, L., Zhang, J. and Horng, J.H., "Map-Top Video Surveillance with Adaptive Video Delivery" by Kuwahara, N., Hata, T. and Vetro, A., "Study of Rate 1/4 HSDPA Turbo Codes and Scaling Effect" by Orlik, P.V., Derand, T., Horng, J.H. and Wang, D. and "A Date Reduction Procedure for 'Principal Cast' and other 'Talking Head' Detection" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISAS-SCI).
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