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1,509 News items, Awards, Events and Talks related to MERL and its staff.


  •  NEWS    International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: August 18, 2004
    Where: International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Clustering Variable Length Sequences by Eigenvector Decomposition Using Hmm" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at the International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition.
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  •  NEWS    ISAP 2004: publication by Kathy Ryall, Darren Leigh and others
    Date: August 17, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)
    Brief
    • The paper "Exhaustive Generation and Visual Browsing for Radiation Patterns of Linear Array Antennas" by Leigh, D., Lanning, T., Lesh, N., Ryall, K., Miyashita, H. and Makino, S. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP).
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  •  NEWS    ACM SIGGRAPH 2004: 3 publications by Paul Beardsley, Jeroen van Baar, Paul Dietz, Ramesh Raskar, Darren Leigh and Hanspeter Pfister
    Date: August 8, 2004
    Where: ACM SIGGRAPH
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission and Autostereoscopic Display of Dynamic Scenes" by Matusik, W. and Pfister, H., "RFIG Lamps: Interacting with a Self-Describing World via Photosensing Wireless Tags and Projectors" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., van Baar, J., Wang, Y., Dietz, P.H., Lee, J., Leigh, D. and Willwacher, T. and "Non-photorealistic Camera: Depth Edge Detection and Stylized Rendering Using Multi-Flash Imaging" by Raskar, R., Tan, K.-H., Feris, R., Yu, J. and Turk, M. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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  •  NEWS    DIS 2004: publication by Paul Dietz, Darren Leigh and others
    Date: August 1, 2004
    Where: ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
    Brief
    • The paper "The Calder Toolkit: Wired and Wireless Components for Rapidly Prototyping Interactive Devices" by Lee, J.C., Avrahami, D., Hudson, S.E., Forlizzi, J., Dietz, P.H. and Leigh, D.L. was presented at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS).
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  •  NEWS    Technometrics: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: August 1, 2004
    Where: Technometrics
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The article "Classification in Likelihood Spaces" by Singh, R. and Raj, B. was published in Technometrics.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications: publication by Hanspeter Pfister and others
    Date: July 31, 2004
    Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
    Brief
    • The article "Point-Based Computer Graphics" by Pfister, H. and Gross, M. was published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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  •  NEWS    Perspectives on Speech Separation 2004: publication by Paris Smaragdis
    Date: July 31, 2004
    Where: Perspectives on Speech Separation
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "Exploiting Redundancy to Construct Listening Systems" by Smaragdis, P. was presented at Perspectives on Speech Separation.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: June 30, 2004
    Where: IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Drift Compensation for Reduced Spatial Resolution Transcoding: A Summary" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Liu, B. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine.
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  •  NEWS    ISIT 2004: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
    Brief
    • The papers "Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels" by Palanki, R. and Yedidia, J.S. and "Sparse Factor Graph Representations of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes" by Yedidia, J.S. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2004: 5 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Adaptive Fast Playback-Based Video Skimming Using a Compressed-Domain Visual Complexity Measure" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A., "Effective and Efficient Sports Highlights Extraction Using the Minimum Description Length Criterion in Selecting GMM Structures" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Time Series Analysis and Segmentation Using Eigenvectors for Mining Semantic Audio Label Sequences" by Radhakrishnan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Memon, N., "Towards Maximizing the End-User Experience" by Divakaran, A., Vetro, A. and Kan, T. and "Coding Artifact Reduction Using Edge Map Guided Adaptive and Fuzzy Filter" by Kong, H.-S., Nie, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Barner, K.E. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    CVPRW 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Event Detection by Eigenvector Decomposition Using Object and Frame Features" by Porikli, F.M. and Haga, T. was presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW).
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  •  NEWS    RTV4HCI 2004: publication by Ramesh Raskar and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (RTV4HCI)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Exploiting Depth Discontinuities for Vision-Based Fingerspelling Recognition" by Feris, R., Turk, M., Raskar, R., Tan, K.-H. and Ohashi, G. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (RTV4HCI).
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  •  NEWS    CVPR 2004: 2 publications by Matthew Brand and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "Algebraic Solution for the Visual Hull" by Brand, M., Kang, K. and Cooper, D.B. and "Joint Feature-Basis Subset Selection" by Avidan, S. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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  •  NEWS    EGSR 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 21, 2004
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Progressively-Refined Reflectance Functions from Natural Illumination" by Matusik, W., Loper, M. and Pfister, H. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2004: 4 publications by Zafer Sahinoglu, Chia Shen and others
    Date: June 20, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    Brief
    • The papers "A New Multi-path Selection Scheme for Video Streaming on Overlay Networks" by Ma, Z., Shao, H.-R. and Shen, C., "A Hybrid Location Estimation Scheme (H-LES) for Partially Synchronized Wireless Sensor Networks" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Catovic, A., "The Trade-off Between Processing Gains of Impulse Radio Systems in the Presence of Timing Jitter" by Gezici, S., Molisch, A.F., Poor, H.V. and Kobayashi, H. and "Effect of Timing Jitter on the Trade-off Between Processing Gains" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    IV 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 14, 2004
    Where: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Traffic Congestion Estimation Using HMM Models Without Vehicle Tracking" by Porikli, F.M. and Li, X. was presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV).
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  •  NEWS    NPAR 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 7, 2004
    Where: International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Image Fusion for Context Enhancement and Video Surrealism" by Raskar, R., Ilie, A. and Yu, J. was presented at the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR).
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  •  NEWS    Pattern Recognition Letters: publication by Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: Pattern Recognition Letters
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Structure Analysis of Soccer Video with Domain Knowledge and Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Xu, P., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. was published in Pattern Recognition Letters.
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  •  NEWS    MWC 2004: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: IEEE CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communications (MWC)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM Based UWB Communications" by Li, Y., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communications (MWC).
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  •  NEWS    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: publication by Paris Smaragdis and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The article "Independent Component Analysis for Automatic Note Extraction from Musical Trills" by Brown, J.C. and Smaragdis, P. was published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
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  •  NEWS    AVI 2004: publication by Kent Wittenburg, Paul Dietz, Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: May 25, 2004
    Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Multi-Projectors and Implicit Interaction in Persuasive Public Displays" by Dietz, P.H., Raskar, R., Mihelic-Booth, S., van Baar, J., Wittenburg, K.B. and Knep, B. was presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2004: 3 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 23, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Edge Map Guided Adaptive Post-Filter for Blocking and Ringing Artifacts Removal" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Rate-Distortion Optimized Bit Allocation for Error-Resilient Transcoding" by Xia, M., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Liu, B. and "Error Resilient Methods for Real-Time MPEG-4 Video Streaming" by Kung, W.-Y., Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    SID 2004: publication by Paul Beardsley, Ramesh Raskar and Jeroen van Baar
    Date: May 23, 2004
    Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Display Grid: Ad-hoc Clusters of Autonomous Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J. and Beardsley, P. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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  •  NEWS    UWBST 2004: 2 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: May 18, 2004
    Where: IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
    Brief
    • The papers "Low-Complexity Ultra Wideband Transceiver with Compatibility to Multiband - OFDM" by Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P.V., Gifford, W.M., Molisch, A.F., Ramachandran, I., Fang, G. and Zhang, J. and "Optimal and Suboptimal Linear Receivers for Time-Hopping Impulse Radio Systems" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST).
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 17, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "On Tracking Noise with Linear Dynamical System Models" by Raj, B., Singh, R. and Stern, R.M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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