- Date: October 9, 2002
Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Brief - The article "Blending Multiple Views" by Raskar, R. and Low, K.-L. was published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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- Date: October 1, 2002
Where: Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing Brief - The paper "Generating Code Representations Suitable for Belief Propagation Decoding" by Yedidia, J.S., Chen, J. and Fossorier, M. was presented at the Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing.
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- Date: September 30, 2002
Where: IEEE Computer Brief - The article "Merging Fossil Specimens with Computer-Generated Information" by Bimber, O., Gatesy, S.M., Witmer, L.M., Raskar, R. and Encarnacao, L. was published in IEEE Computer.
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- Date: September 30, 2002
Where: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "EWA Splatting" by Zwicker, M., Pfister, H., van Baar, J. and Gross, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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- Date: September 29, 2002
Where: ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Parsimony & Transparency in Ubiquitous Interface Design" by Wren, C.R. and Reynolds, C.J. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).
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- Date: September 24, 2002
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Capacity Enhancement for HSDPA in W-CDMA System" by Horng, J.H., Vannucci, G. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: September 22, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Automatic Threshold Determination of Centroid-Linkage Region Growing by MPEG-7 Dominant Color Descriptors" by Porikli, F.M., "Motion Activity-Based Extraction of Key-Frames from Video Shots" by Divakaran, A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Peker, K.A., "MPEG-4 Video Object-Based Rate Allocation with Variable Temporal Rates" by Lee, J.W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, W.S., "Rate-Reduction Transcoding Design for Wireless Video Streaming" by Vetro, A. and Chen, C.W. and "Representation of Motion Activity in Hierarchical Levels for Video Indexing and Filtering" by Sun, X., Manjunath, B.S. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: September 16, 2002
Where: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) Brief - The paper "Subset Languages for Conversing with Collaborative Interface Agents" by Sidner, C.L. and Forlines, C. was presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP).
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- Date: September 15, 2002
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Turbo Coded HSDPA Systems with Transmit Diversity over Frequency Selective Fading Channels" by Zhang, J., Li, L. and Poon, T.C. and "Measured Capacity Gain Using Waterfilling in Frequency Selective MIMO Channels" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F., Edfors, O. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).
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- Date: September 8, 2002
Where: Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Video Summarization and Indexing Using Combinations of the MPEG-7 Motion Activity Descriptor and Other Audio-Visual Descriptors" by Divakaran, A. was presented at the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC).
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- Date: September 2, 2002
Where: Eurographics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Object Space EWA Splatting: A Hardware-Accelerated Approach to High-Quality Point Rendering" by Ren, L., Pfister, H. and Zwicker, M. was presented at Eurographics.
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- Date: September 2, 2002
Where: Computer Graphics Forum
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Free-Form Sketching with Variational Implicit Surfaces" by Karpenko, O., Hughes, J.F. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Computer Graphics Forum.
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- Date: August 31, 2002
Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Complexity-Quality Analysis of Transcoding Architectures for Reduced Spatial Resolution" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N., Kalva, H. and Sekiguchi, S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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- Date: August 26, 2002
Where: International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Adaptive Pre-Stored Video Streaming with End System Multicast" by Shao, H.R., Shen, C. and Kong, H.-S. was presented at the International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP).
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- Date: August 26, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Brief - The papers "The MERL SpokenQuery Information Retrieval System: A System for Retrieving Pertinent Documents from a Spoken Query" by Wolf, P. and Raj, B., "PDH: A Human-Centric Interface for Image Libraries" by Moghaddam, B., Tian, Q., Lesh, N.B., Shen, C. and Huang, T.S. and "Constrained Video Object Segmentation by Color Masks and MPEG-7 Descriptors" by Porikli, F.M. and Wang, Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 31, 2002
Where: Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems Brief - The article "Providing Real-Time Services for COTS" by Gonzalez, O., Ramamritham, K., Shen, C. and Fohler, G. was published in the book Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems.
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- Date: July 29, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "A Platform for Real-Time Content Adaptive Video Transmission Over Heterogeneous Networks" by Kong, H.S., Vetro, A., Kalva, H., Fu, D., Zhang, X., Guo, J. and Sun, H. and "Video Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Asai, K. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications.
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- Date: July 29, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Framework for Measurement of the Intensity of Motion Activity of Video Segments" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems.
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- Date: July 23, 2002
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Image-Based 3D Photography Using Opacity Hulls" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Beardsley, P.A., Ngan, A., Ziegler, R. and McMillan, L. was presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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- Date: July 15, 2002
Where: International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) Brief - The paper "A Plug-in Architecture for Generating Collaborative Agent Responses" by Rich, C., Lesh, N.B., Rickel, J. and Garland, A. was presented at the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
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- Date: July 14, 2002
Where: World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISAS-SCI)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Timing Synchronization for OFDM" by You, C., Gu, D. and Zhang, J., "An Online Renegotiation-Based Bandwidth Management with Circuit Assignment for VBR Traffic in Communications Networks" by Porikli, F.M. and Sahinoglu, Z., "A Trellis Based Technique for Blind Channel Estimation and Signal Detection" by Cao, L., Orlik, P.V., Gu, D. and Zhang, J., "Automatic Detection of Talking Head Segments in News Video in the Compressed Domain" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Channel Estimation Error Impact on the Link Level Performance of Space-Time Coded Systems" by Li, L., Zhang, J. and Horng, J.H., "Map-Top Video Surveillance with Adaptive Video Delivery" by Kuwahara, N., Hata, T. and Vetro, A., "Study of Rate 1/4 HSDPA Turbo Codes and Scaling Effect" by Orlik, P.V., Derand, T., Horng, J.H. and Wang, D. and "A Date Reduction Procedure for 'Principal Cast' and other 'Talking Head' Detection" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISAS-SCI).
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- Date: June 26, 2002
Where: Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Acquisition and Rendering of Transparent and Refractive Objects" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Ngan, A., Ziegler, R. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW).
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- Date: June 19, 2002
Where: IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Browsing 3-D Spaces with 3-D Spaces with 3-D Vision: Body-Driven Navigation Through the Internet City" by Sparacino, F., Wren, C., Azarbayejani, A. and Pentland, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission.
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- Date: June 18, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Content-Based Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Cabasson, R., "Complexity-Quality Analysis of MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Transcoding Architectures" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N. and Kalva, H., "Efficient FGS to Single Layer Transcoding" by Lin, Y.-C., Wang, C.-N., Chiang, T., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Signal Circulation for Adaptive Equalization in Digital Communication Systems" by Horng, J.H. and Zhang, J. and "A Mobile Network Architecture with Personalized Instant Information Access" by Sahinoglu, Z., Peker, K.A., Matsubara, F. and Cukier, J. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: June 16, 2002
Where: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium) Brief - The paper "Semi-Automatic Antenna Design via Sampling and Visualization" by Quigley, A., Leigh, D.L., Lesh, N.B., Marks, J.W., Ryall, K. and Wittenburg, K.B. was presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium).
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