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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization.

MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in physical simulation & modeling, optimization, control, signal processing and Artificial Intelligence. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.

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Featured Research

MERL Shopping Dataset: We describe a recurrent deep network for detecting actions in video sequences.

This research attempts to solve the problem of finding particular actions occurring in a video. Much of the past work in this field has looked at the related problem of action recognition. In action recognition, the algorithm is given a short video clip of an action and asked to classify which action is present. In contrast, the problem of action detection requires the algorithm to look through a long video and find the start and stop points of all instances of each known action. We consider action detection to be a more difficult, but much more useful problem to solve in practice. [learn more]

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News & Events

  • NEWS  MERL contributes to IROS 2026Released: Oct 5, 2026

    MERL made broad contributions to the technical program and robotics community at the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. MERL researchers presented one . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL Presents Five Papers at IEEE Quantum Week 2026Released: Sep 17, 2026

    MERL is pleased to announce that five papers have been accepted to the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), also known as IEEE Quantum Week 2026, held September 13–18, 2026, in Toronto, Canada.

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  • NEWS  MERL collaborator Yuri Shimane receives IFAC Young Author Applications Paper PrizeReleased: Sep 16, 2026

    MERL collaborator and former intern Prof. Yuri Shimane received the IFAC Young Author Applications Paper Prize at the 23rd IFAC World Congress 2026, held August 23–28 in Busan, South Korea for a paper co-authored with MERL researchers.

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