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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2004: 6 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    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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  •  NEWS    IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: June 30, 2004
    Where: IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Drift Compensation for Reduced Spatial Resolution Transcoding: A Summary" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Liu, B. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine.
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2004: 5 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Adaptive Fast Playback-Based Video Skimming Using a Compressed-Domain Visual Complexity Measure" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A., "Effective and Efficient Sports Highlights Extraction Using the Minimum Description Length Criterion in Selecting GMM Structures" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Time Series Analysis and Segmentation Using Eigenvectors for Mining Semantic Audio Label Sequences" by Radhakrishnan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Memon, N., "Towards Maximizing the End-User Experience" by Divakaran, A., Vetro, A. and Kan, T. and "Coding Artifact Reduction Using Edge Map Guided Adaptive and Fuzzy Filter" by Kong, H.-S., Nie, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Barner, K.E. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    Pattern Recognition Letters: publication by Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: Pattern Recognition Letters
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Structure Analysis of Soccer Video with Domain Knowledge and Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Xu, P., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. was published in Pattern Recognition Letters.
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2004: 3 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 23, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Edge Map Guided Adaptive Post-Filter for Blocking and Ringing Artifacts Removal" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Rate-Distortion Optimized Bit Allocation for Error-Resilient Transcoding" by Xia, M., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Liu, B. and "Error Resilient Methods for Real-Time MPEG-4 Video Streaming" by Kung, W.-Y., Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    WIAMIS 2004: publication by Anthony Vetro and Huifang Sun
    Date: April 21, 2004
    Where: International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Minimum Distortion Sampling of Multiple Image Sequences" by Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS).
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  •  AWARD    ICIP 2004 Best Student Paper Award
    Date: January 1, 2004
    Awarded to: L. Xie, L. Kennedy, S.-F. Chang, A. Divakaran, H. Sun, and C.-Y. Lin
    Awarded for: "Discovering Meaningful Multimedia Patterns with Audio-Visual Concepts and Associated Text"
    Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
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  •  NEWS    Video Mining: 2 publications by Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: October 31, 2003
    Where: Video Mining
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The articles "Unsupervised Mining of Statistical Temporal Structures in Video" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "Video Summarization Using MPEG-7 Motion Activity and Audio Descriptors" by Divakaran, A., Peker, K.A., Radharkishnan, R., Xiong, Z. and Cabasson, R. were published in the book Video Mining.
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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    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    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    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    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    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    ICCE 2002: 5 publications by Zafer Sahinoglu, Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun, Anthony Vetro, Jinyun Zhang and Johnas Cukier
    Date: June 18, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Content-Based Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Cabasson, R., "Complexity-Quality Analysis of MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Transcoding Architectures" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N. and Kalva, H., "Efficient FGS to Single Layer Transcoding" by Lin, Y.-C., Wang, C.-N., Chiang, T., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Signal Circulation for Adaptive Equalization in Digital Communication Systems" by Horng, J.H. and Zhang, J. and "A Mobile Network Architecture with Personalized Instant Information Access" by Sahinoglu, Z., Peker, K.A., Matsubara, F. and Cukier, J. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2002: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 26, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Reduced Spatio-Temporal Transcoding Using an Intra Refresh Technique" by Vetro, A., Yin, P., Liu, B. and Sun, H. and "Successive Packing Based Interleaver for Design Turbo Codes" by Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Chen, H., Haimovich, A.M., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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