- Date: April 14, 2015
Awarded to: Anthony Vetro
Awarded by: InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management recognizes individuals who, as officers, have provided outstanding leadership to the subgroup in its national and/or international work, have demonstrated proficiency in achieving consensus in the national and/or international arenas and have followed the approved procedures in an exemplary fashion. Anthony Vetro was the recipient of this award in 2015. He has more than 15 years of participation in standards development, including service as the INCITS L3.1 Vice-Chair and Chair and an active technical participant in the MPEG committee.
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- Date: May 1, 2014
Awarded to: Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos
Awarded for: "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight"
Awarded by: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos are the recipients of the the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award for their paper "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight," presented at IGARSS 2013 (TR2013-070).
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- Date: March 11, 2014
Awarded to: Yuuki Tachioka
Awarded for: "Effectiveness of discriminative approaches for speech recognition under noisy environments on the 2nd CHiME Challenge"
Awarded by: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka received the Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) for "effectiveness of discriminative approaches for speech recognition under noisy environments on the 2nd CHiME Challenge", which was based on joint work with MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John R. Hershey.
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- Date: September 26, 2013
Awarded to: Jonathan Le Roux
Awarded for: "A new non-negative dynamical system for speech and audio modeling"
Awarded by: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date: June 1, 2013
Awarded to: Yuuki Tachioka, Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John R. Hershey
Awarded for: "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark"
Awarded by: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The results of the 2nd 'CHiME' Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge are out! The team formed by MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka and MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John Hershey obtained the best results in the continuous speech recognition task (Track 2). This very challenging task consisted in recognizing speech corrupted by highly non-stationary noises recorded in a real living room. Our proposal, which also included a simple yet extremely efficient denoising front-end, focused on investigating and developing state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition back-end techniques: feature transformation methods, as well as discriminative training methods for acoustic and language modeling. Our system significantly outperformed other participants. Our code has since been released as an improved baseline for the community to use.
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- Date: September 1, 2012
Awarded to: Mu Li, Shantanu Rane and Petros Boufounos
Awarded for: "Quantized Embeddings of Scale-Invariant Image Features for Mobile Augmented Reality"
Awarded by: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Areas: Digital Video, Computational Sensing
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- Date: September 2, 2011
Awarded to: Fatih Porikli and Huseyin Ozkan.
Awarded for: "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: June 25, 2011
Awarded to: Paul A. Viola and Michael J. Jones
Awarded for: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features"
Awarded by: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - Paper from 10 years ago with the largest impact on the field: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features", originally published at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001).
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- Date: January 1, 2011
Awarded to: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Awarded for: his recent papers
Awarded by: Telecommunications Advancement Foundation of Japan
MERL Contact: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - MERL researcher Toshiaki Koike was granted a "TELECOM Systems Technology Award" for by the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation of Japan.
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- Date: October 29, 2010
Awarded to: Jianlin Guo and Jinyun Zhang
Awarded for: "Safety Message Transmission in Vehicular Communication Networks"
Awarded by: ITS World Congress (ITS)
MERL Contact: Jianlin Guo
Research Area: Communications
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- 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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- Date: February 1, 2010
Awarded to: Hideya Shibata, Mamoru Kato, Mitsunori Kori and William Yerazunis
Awarded for: "An Automatic Training Data Collection Method for Confidential E-mail Detection"
Awarded by: The Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
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- Date: November 1, 2009
Awarded to: Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Andreas Molisch, Zhifeng Tao, Philip Orlik and Toshiyuki Kuze
Awarded for: "Unified Analysis of Linear Block Precoding for Distributed Antenna Systems"
Awarded by: Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
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- Date: April 1, 2009
Awarded to: Chandrashekhar Thejaswi P.S., Junshan Zhang and Vincent Poor
Awarded for: "Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling with Two-Level Channel Probing"
Awarded by: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
Research Area: Communications
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- Date: July 1, 2008
Awarded to: Nishiuma, N.; Goto, Y.; Kumazawa, H.; Komaya K.; Nikovski, D. and Brand, M.
Awarded for: "Travel Time Prediction using Singular Value Decomposition"
Awarded by: Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
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- Date: May 1, 2008
Awarded to: Amine Maaref
Awarded for: "Applications of Random Matrix Theory to the Performance Analysis of Wireless MIMO Communication Systems"
Awarded by: National Institute for Scientific Research, Montreal Canada -
- Date: January 1, 2008
Awarded to: Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro and Shun-ichi Sekiguchi
Awarded for: "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution"
Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
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- Date: January 1, 2008
Awarded to: I. Otsuka, H. suginohara, Y. Kushunoki and A. Divakaran
Awarded for: "Detection of Music Segment Boundaries using Audio-Visual Features for a Personal Video Recorder"
Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) -
- Date: July 1, 2007
Awarded to: Jeffrey Tao
Awarded for: Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Electrical Engineering
Awarded by: Polytechnic University. Brief - MERL researcher Jeff Tao received the "Professor Alexander Hessel Award for the Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Electrical Engineering" at Polytechnic University.
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- Date: May 1, 2007
Awarded to: Huifang Sun
Awarded for: Outstanding performance as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Awarded by: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contact: Huifang Sun Brief - MERL researcher Huifang Sun received an award for outstanding performance as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in ISCAS.
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- Date: March 16, 2007
Awarded to: Michael Seltzer
Awarded for: "Likelihood-Maximizing Beamforming for Robust Hands-free Speech Recognition"
Awarded by: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date: January 1, 2007
Awarded to: Oncel Tuzel, Fatih Porikli and Peter Meer
Awarded for: "Human Detection via Classification of Riemannian Manifolds"
Awarded by: IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: January 1, 2007
Awarded to: Yuri Ivanov, Christopher Wren, Alexander Sorokin and Ishwinder Kaur
Awarded for: "Visualizing the History of Living Spaces"
Awarded by: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)
Research Area: Computer Vision
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- Date: May 1, 2006
Awarded to: Christopher Wren and Emmanuel Munguia Tapia
Awarded for: "Toward Scalable Activity Recognition for Sensor Networks"
Awarded by: Second International Workshop in Location and Context-Awareness (LoCA) Brief - MERL researcher Christopher Wren received the Best Presentation award for his talk on "Toward Scalable Activity Recognition for Sensor Networks".
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- Date: January 1, 2006
Awarded to: MERL Staff
Awarded for: The Dome Projector
Awarded by: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The Dome Projector, which was developed by MERL staff and productized by Mitsubishi Electric, was recognized by Nikkan Kogyo Simbun's Best 10 New Products Prize.
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