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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.

More detail about MERL is available in our most recent annual report: MERL Annual Report 2023

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Featured Research

Video Description: A novel neural network architecture that fuses multimodal information using a modality-dependent attention mechanism.

Understanding scenes through sensed information is a fundamental challenge for man machine interface. We aim to develop methods for learning semantic representations from multimodal information, including both visual and audio data, as the basis for intelligent communications and interface with machines. Towards this goal, we invented a modality-dependent attention mechanism for video captioning based on encoder-decoder sentence generation using recurrent neural networks (RNNs). [learn more]

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News & Events

  • NEWS  MERL researchers present 9 papers at ACC 2024Released: Jul 25, 2024

    MERL researchers presented 9 papers at the recently concluded American Control Conference (ACC) 2024 in Toronto, Canada. The papers covered a wide range of topics including data-driven spatial monitoring using heterogenous robots, aircraft approach . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote in IEEE ICC 2024 WorkshopReleased: Jun 28, 2024

    Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote titled "Private IoT Networks" in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024 Workshop "Industrial Private 5G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks", held in Denver, Colorado from June 9-13. The ICC is one of . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024Released: Jun 3, 2024

    MERL made significant contributions to both the organization and the technical program of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, which was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 13th to May 17th.

    MERL was a . . . [read more]

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