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1,511 News items, Awards, Events and Talks related to MERL and its staff.


  •  NEWS    PG 2003: publication by Hanspeter Pfister
    Date: October 8, 2003
    Where: Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG)
    Brief
    • The paper "Data-Driven Computer Graphics" by Pfister, H. was presented at the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG).
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  •  NEWS    Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: October 1, 2003
    Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
    Brief
    • The paper "Iterative Quantization Using Codes on Graphs" by Martinian, E. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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  •  NEWS    Signal Processing: Image Communication: publication by Anthony Vetro and Zafer Sahinoglu
    Date: September 30, 2003
    Where: Signal Processing: Image Communication
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The article "Mobility Characteristics for Multimedia Service Adaptation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Vetro, A. was published in Signal Processing: Image Communication.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Communications Letters: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and Philip Orlik
    Date: September 30, 2003
    Where: IEEE Communications Letters
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Regenerator versus Simple Relay with Optimum Transmit Power Control for Error Propagation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Orlik, P.V. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 30, 2003
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Reduction of the Error Floor of Binary FSK by Nonlinear Frequency Discriminators" by Molisch, A.F. and Petrovic, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 30, 2003
    Where: SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Road Extraction by Point-wise Gaussian Models" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery.
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  •  NEWS    IMA 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 23, 2003
    Where: International Conference of Instrumental Methods of Analysis -- Modern Trends and Applications (IMA)
    Brief
    • The paper "Independent Component Analysis for Deconvolution of Overlapping HPLC Aromatic Peaks of Oil" by Pasadakis, N., Gaganis, V. and Smaragdis, P. was presented at the International Conference of Instrumental Methods of Analysis -- Modern Trends and Applications (IMA).
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  •  NEWS    WSNA 2003: publication by Jinyun Zhang, Johnas Cukier and others
    Date: September 19, 2003
    Where: International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Fast Authenticated Key Establishment Protocols for Self-Organizing Sensor Networks" by Huang, Q., Cukier, J.I., Kobayashi, H., Liu, B. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA).
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  •  NEWS    VLBV 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro
    Date: September 18, 2003
    Where: International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Transcoding Scalable Coding & Standardized Metadata" by Vetro, A. was presented at the International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV).
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2003: 4 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: September 17, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Generation of Sports Highlights Using Motion Activity in Combination with a Common Audio Feature Extraction Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Feature Selection for Unsupervised Discovery of Statistical Temporal Structures in Video" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "Combined Rate Control and Mode Decision Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. and "Inter-Camera Color Calibration by Cross-Correlation Model Function" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  NEWS    Forum on Information Technology 2003: publication by Jeroen van Baar and others
    Date: September 15, 2003
    Where: Forum on Information Technology
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "An Experimental Prototype of Multiple Projectors Display System for Visual Systems" by Wada, H., Ogata, M., van Baar, J. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Forum on Information Technology.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems 2003: 2 publications by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: September 9, 2003
    Where: SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems
    Brief
    • The papers "An Extended Framework for Adaptive Playback-Based Video Summarization" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. and "Investigation on Effectiveness of Mid-Level Feature Representation for Semantic Boundary Detection in News Video" by Radhakrishan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Raj, B. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems.
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  •  NEWS    PIMRC 2003: 6 publications by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: September 7, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The papers "Adaptive Transmit Weights for Performance Enhancement in Space-Time Transmit Diversity Systems" by Horng, J.H., Li, L. and Zhang, J., "Throughput Analysis for W-CDMA Systems with MIMO and AMC" by Lao, D., Horng, J.H. and Zhang, J., "DFT-Based Hybrid Antenna Selection Schemes for Spatially Correlated MIMO Channels" by Molisch, A.F., Zhang, X., Kung, S.-Y. and Zhang, J., "Impulse Radio Pulse Shaping for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth UWB Systems" by Wu, Y., Molisch, A.F., Kung, S.-Y. and Zhang, J., "A New Measurement-Based Admission Control Method for IEEE802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks" by Gu, D. and Zhang, J. and "Energy/Security Scalable Mobile Cryptosystem" by Huang, Q., Kobayashi, H., Liu, B., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).
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  •  NEWS    Eurospeech 2003: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 1, 2003
    Where: Eurospeech
    Brief
    • The papers "Classification with Free Energy at Raised Temperatures" by Singh, R., Warmuth, M., Raj, B. and Lamere, P. and "Design of the CMU Sphinx-4 Decoder" by Lamere, P., Kwok, P., Walker, W., Gouvea, E., Singh, R., Raj, B. and Wolf, P.P. were presented at Eurospeech.
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  •  NEWS    International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 1, 2003
    Where: International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics
    Brief
    • The paper "Iterative Decoding of Multi-Step Majority Logic Decodable Codes" by Fossorier, M., Palanki, R. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Communications Letters: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: August 31, 2003
    Where: IEEE Communications Letters
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Measurement of Keyhole Effect in a Wireless Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Channel" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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  •  NEWS    Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan 2003: publication by Matthew Brand, Daniel Nikovski and others
    Date: August 31, 2003
    Where: Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
    MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "A Calculation Method of Car Arrival Time with Dynamic Programming in Elevator Group Control" by Suzuki, N., Iwata, M., Sasakawa, K., Komaya, K., Nikovski, D.N. and Brand, M.E. was presented at the Conference of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.
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  •  NEWS    PACRIM 2003: 2 publications by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: August 28, 2003
    Where: IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The papers "Time Hopping and Frequency Hopping in Ultra-wideband Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J. and Miyake, M. and "A Rapid Acquisition Technique for Impulse Radio" by Gezici, S., Fishler, E., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM).
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  •  NEWS    ITRE 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: August 11, 2003
    Where: International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Optimal 2-d Interleaving for Robust Multimedia Transmission" by Zhang, X. M., Shi, Y.-Q., Xu, W.-Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE).
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  •  NEWS    RAWCON 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: August 10, 2003
    Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON)
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "MIMO Systems with Antenna Selection - An Overview" by Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON).
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  •  NEWS    IJCAI 2003: 2 publications by Charles Rich, Matthew Brand and others
    Date: August 9, 2003
    Where: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "Responding to and Recovering from Mistakes During Collaboration" by Garland, A., Lesh, N.B. and Rich, C. and "Continuous Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Kernel Eigenmaps" by Brand, M.E. were presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
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  •  NEWS    UAI 2003: publication by Matthew Brand and Daniel Nikovski
    Date: August 8, 2003
    Where: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
    MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "Marginalizing Out Future Passengers in Group Elevator Control" by Nikovski, D.N. and Brand, M.E. was presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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  •  NEWS    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG): 2 publications by Paul Beardsley, Jeroen van Baar, Matthew Brand, Ramesh Raskar, Clifton Forlines and others
    Date: July 26, 2003
    Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The articles "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and Self-Configuring Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P.A., Willwacher, T., Rao, S. and Forlines, C. and "A Data-Driven Reflectance Model" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Brand, M.E. and McMillan, L. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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  •  NEWS    VCIP 2003: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: July 8, 2003
    Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Coding Mode Optimization for MPEG-2 Transcoding with Spatial Resolution Reduction" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2003: 7 publications by Chia Shen, Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: July 6, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Multi-Camera Calibration, Object Tracking and Query Generation" by Porikli, F.M. and Divakaran, A., "Unsupervised Discovery of Multilevel Statistical Video Structures Using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Minimized Intra-Frame Quality Variation" by Zhou, J., Shao, H.-R., Shen, C. and Sun, M.-T., "Object-Based Coding for Long-Term Archive of Surveillance Video" by Vetro, A., Haga, T., Sumi, K. and Sun, H., "Rate Allocation for FGS-Coded Video Using Composite Rate-Distortion Analysis" by Cheng, H., Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. and "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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