Samuel Shipman

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
M.Sc., Carnegie Mellon University, 1985

Phone: (617) 621-7520
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Sam Shipman received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and the B.S. from UNC-Wilmington. His technical interests and background are in real-time and distributed operating systems research and development. At MERL, he has worked on the Network Replication and Open Community projects, and on smaller efforts related to MPEG-7, interactive surroundings, and fingerprint recognition.

Recent Projects:

Video Summarization for PVRs

Recent Publications:

Shipman, S.; Divakaran, A.; Flynn, M., "Highlight Scene Detection and Video Summarization for PVR-Enabled High-Definition Television Systems", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), pp. 1-2, January 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-060)

Wigdor, D.; Leigh, D.; Forlines, C.; Shipman, S.; Barnwell, J.; Balakrishnan, R.; Shen, C., "Under the Table Interaction", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-313-1, pp. 259-268, October 2006 (ACM Press, TR2006-076)

Ryall, K.; Esenther, A.; Forlines, C.; Shen, C.; Shipman, S.; Morris, M.R.; Everitt, K.; Vernier, F.D., "Identity-Differentiating Widgets for Multiuser Interactive Surfaces", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, ISSN: 0272-1716, Vol. 26, Issue 5, pp. 56-64, September 2006 (IEEE Xplore)

Shipman, S.; Divakaran, A.; Flynn, M.; Batra, A., "Temporal-Context-Based Video Browsing Interface for PVR-Enabled High-Definition Television Systems", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 353-354, January 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-030)

Shipman, S.; Radhakrishan, R.; Divakaran, A., "Architecture for Video Summarization Services Over Home Networks and the Internet ", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), pp. 201-202, January 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-029)

Dietz, P.H.; Harsham, B.; Forlines, C.; Leigh, D; Yerazunis, W.; Shipman, S.; Schmidt-Nielsen, B.; Ryall, K., "DT Controls: Adding Indentity to Physical Interfaces", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-271-2, pp. 245-252, October 2005 (ACM Press, TR2005-069)

Ryall, K.; Esenther, A.; Everitt, K.; Forlines, C.; Ringel Morris, M.; Shen, C.; Shipman, S.; Vernier, F., "iDwidgets: Parameterizing Widgets by User Identity", IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September 2005 (INTERACT 2005, TR2005-055)