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1,511 News items, Awards, Events and Talks related to MERL and its staff.


  •  NEWS    3DTV-CON 2010: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: June 7, 2010
    Where: 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Temporally Consistent Stereo Matching using Coherence Function" by Min, D., Yea, S. and Vetro, A. was presented at the 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Communications: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 3, 2010
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Communications
    Brief
    • The articles "Source-channel rate optimization for progressive image transmission over block fading relay channels" by Hobin, K., Annavajjala, R., Cosman, P. and Milstein, L. and "Optimal Timer Based Selection Schemes" by Shah, V., Nehta, N. and Yim, R. were published in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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  •  AWARD    OTCBVS 2010 Best Paper Award
    Date: June 1, 2010
    Awarded to: Vijay Venkataraman and Fatih Porikli
    Awarded for: "RelCom: Relational Combinatorics Features for Rapid Object Detection"
    Awarded by: IEEE Workshop on Object Tracking and Classification Beyond and in the Visible Spectrum (OTCBVS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
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  •  NEWS    AVI 2010: 2 publications by Kent B. Wittenburg
    Date: May 25, 2010
    Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
    Brief
    • The papers "Setting the Bar for Set-Valued Attributes" by Wittenburg, K.B. and "Wakame: Sense Making of Multi-Dimensional Spatial-Temporal Data" by Forlines, C. and Wittenburg, K.B. were presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2010: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 23, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)
    Research Area: Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The paper "A Change-Point Detection Approach to Power Quality Monitoring in Smart Grids" by He, X., Pun, M.-O., Kuo, C.-C. J. and Zhao, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications 2010: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: May 23, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "RPL Based Routing for Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid" by Wang, D., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Abouzeid, A.A. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications.
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2010: 8 publications by Chunjie Duan, Jianlin Guo, Jinyun Zhang and Zafer Sahinoglu
    Date: May 23, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The papers "Demodulate-and-Forward Relaying with Higher Order Modulations: Impact of Channel State Uncertainty" by Annavajjala, R., Maaref, A. and Zhang, J., "Enhanced Position Estimation via Node Cooperation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Gezici, S., "A Complete Characterization of an Optimal Timer Based Selection Scheme" by Shah, V., Mehta, N.B. and Yim, M.H.R., "Clustering Based Fractional Frequency Reuse and Fair Resource Allocation in Multi-cell Networks" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P., "Subcarrier Spreading for ICI Mitigation in OFDM/OFDMA Systems" by Gao, W., Duan, C. and Zhang, J., "Prioritized Broadcast Contention Control in VANET" by Ye, F., Yim, M.H.R., Guo, J., Zhang, J. and Roy, S., "Adaptive Probabilistic Decision-based Energy Saving Strategy for the Next Generation Cellular Wireless Systems" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P. and "Congestion Control to Achieve Optimal Broadcast Efficiency in VANETs" by Ye, F., Yim, M.H.R., Zhang, J. and Roy, S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    25th Biennial Symposium on Communications 2010: publication by Chunjie Duan and others
    Date: May 12, 2010
    Where: 25th Biennial Symposium on Communications
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "A Two Stage PAPR Reduction Method on Frequency Redundant OFDM System" by Gao, W., Yan, Y., Osadciw, L., Duan, C. and Li, C. was presented at the 25th Biennial Symposium on Communications.
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  •  NEWS    Accident Analysis & Prevention: publication by Bret A. Harsham and others
    Date: May 12, 2010
    Where: Accident Analysis & Prevention
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The article "Evaluation of Different Speech and Touch Interfaces to In-vehicle Music Retrieval Systems" by Garay-Vega, L., Pradhan, A.K., Weinberg, G.L., Schmidt-Nielsen, B.K., Harsham, B.A., Shen, Y., Divekar, G., Romoser, M., Knodler, M. and Fisher, D.L. was published in Accident Analysis & Prevention.
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  •  NEWS    Eurographics 2010: publication by Amit K. Agrawal and others
    Date: May 3, 2010
    Where: Eurographics
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Reinterpretable Imager: Towards Variable Post-Capture Space, Angle and Time Resolution in Photography" by Agrawal, A.K., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Raskar, R. was presented at Eurographics.
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  •  NEWS    ICRA 2010: 3 publications by Yuichi Taguchi, Amit K. Agrawal, C. Oncel Tuzel, Tim K. Marks and others
    Date: May 3, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
    MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Pose Estimation in Heavy Clutter Using a Multi-Flash Camera" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, C.O., Veeraraghavan, A.N., Chellappa, R., Agrawal, A.K. and Okuda, H., "Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering for Probing-based 6-DOF Localization in Robotic Assembly" by Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Okuda, H. and "Multi-Class Batch-mode Active Learning for Image Classification" by Joshi, A.J., Porikli, F. and Papanikolopoulos, N. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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  •  NEWS    EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: May 1, 2010
    Where: EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Distributed Video Coding: Trends and Perspectives" by Dufaux, F., Gao, W., Tubaro, S. and Vetro, A. was published in EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
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  •  NEWS    International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: April 29, 2010
    Where: International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Multi-Antenna Analog Network Coding for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks" by Annavajjala, R., Maaref, A. and Zhang, J. was published in International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting.
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  •  NEWS    Video Search and Mining: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 20, 2010
    Where: Video Search and Mining
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Statistical Analysis on Manifolds and Its Applications to Video Analysis" by Turaga, P., Veeraraghavan, A.N., Srivastava, A. and Chellappa, R. was published in the book Video Search and Mining.
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  •  NEWS    PEMD 2010: publication by Christopher R. Laughman and others
    Date: April 19, 2010
    Where: International Conference Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD)
    MERL Contact: Christopher R. Laughman
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "A Park Transform-Based Method for Condition Monitoring of Three-Phase Electromechanical Systems" by Laughman, C.R., Leeb, S.B., Norford, L.K., Shaw, S.R. and Armstrong, P.R. was presented at the International Conference Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD).
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  •  NEWS    WCNC 2010: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: April 18, 2010
    Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Differentiable Spectrum Partition for Fractional Frequency Reuse in Multi-Cell OFDMA Networks" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2010: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 15, 2010
    Where: SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Needle Picking: A Sampling Based Track-before-Detection Method for Small Targets" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro 2010: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 14, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Exploiting User Labels with Generalized Distance Transforms and Random Field Level Sets" by Zhu, Y. and Tieu, K.H. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 8, 2010
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Coded Strobing Photography: Compressive Sensing of High Speed Periodic Events" by Veeraraghavan, A., Reddy, D. and Raskar, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 1, 2010
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Splitting Algorithms for Fast Relay Selection: Generalizations, Analysis and a Unified View" by Shah, V., Mehta, N.B. and Yim, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control: publication by Yebin Wang
    Date: April 1, 2010
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    MERL Contact: Yebin Wang
    Research Area: Control
    Brief
    • The article "Multiple Time Scaling of a Multi-Output Observer Form" by Wang, Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
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  •  NEWS    Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (JIHMSP): publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: April 1, 2010
    Where: Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (JIHMSP)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Trick-Play Optimization for H.264 Video Decoding" by Lou, J., Liu, S., Vetro, A. and Sun, M.-T. was published in Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (JIHMSP).
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  •  NEWS    BMSB 2010: 2 publications by Robert A Cohen, Anthony Vetro, Jinyun Zhang, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: March 24, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Huifang Sun; Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "QoS Harmonization for Home Networks" by Bhatti, G.M., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Matsubara, F.M., Asai, K., Miura, S. and Akatsu, S. and "New Techniques for Next Generation Video Coding" by Liu, L., Cohen, R.A., Sun, H., Vetro, A. and Zhuang, X. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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  •  NEWS    CISS 2010: 2 publications by Petros T. Boufounos and others
    Date: March 17, 2010
    Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
    MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
    Brief
    • The papers "Average Case Analysis of Sparse Recovery from Combined Fusion Frame Measurements" by Boufounos, P.T., Kutyniok, G. and Rauhut, H. and "Compressive Sampling for Streaming Signals with Sparse Frequency Content" by Boufounos, P.T. and Asif, M.S. were presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2010: 9 publications by Anthony Vetro, Shantanu D. Rane and Petros T. Boufounos
    Date: March 14, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos
    Brief
    • The papers "Privacy and Security of Features Extracted from Minutiae Aggregates" by Nagar, A., Rane, S.D. and Vetro, A., "Hiding Information Inside Structured Shapes" by Das, S., Rane, S.D. and Vetro, A., "Ultrasonic Sensing for Robust Speech Recognition" by Srinivasan, S., Raj, B. and Ezzat, T., "Reconstruction of Sparse Signals from Distorted Randomized Measurements" by Boufounos, P.T., "Disparity Search Range Estimation: Enforcing Temporal Consistency" by Min, D., Yea, S., Arican, Z. and Vetro, A., "Synthesizing Speech from Doppler Signals" by Toth, A.R., Raj, B., Kalgaonkar, K. and Ezzat, T., "Spectrogram Dimensionality Reduction with Independence Constraints" by Wilson, K.W. and Raj, B., "Robust Regression using Sparse Learning for High Dimensional Parameter Estimation Problems" by Mitra, K., Veeraraghavan, A.N. and Chellappa, R. and "Subword Unit Approaches for Retrieval by Voice" by Gouvea, E., Ezzat, T. and Raj, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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