- Date: December 9, 2001
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Morphable 3D Models from Video" by Brand, M.E., "Flexible Flow for 3D Nonrigid Tracking and Shape Recovery" by Brand, M.E. and Bhotika, R., "A Self-Correcting Projector" by Raskar, R. and Beardsley, P.A. and "Rapid Object Detection Using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features" by Viola, P. and Jones, M. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: November 30, 2001
Where: International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) Brief - The papers "Video Object Segmentation by Volume Growing Using Feature-Based Motion Estimator" by Porikli, F.M. and "Image Simplification by Robust Estimator Based Reconstruction Filter" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS).
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- Date: November 30, 2001
Where: ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization in Africa (AFRIGRAPH)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Interacting with Spatially Augmented Reality" by Raskar, R. and Low, K.-L. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization in Africa (AFRIGRAPH).
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- Date: November 25, 2001
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Novel Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm: Wavelet-Decomposed Signal Energy Approach" by Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 20, 2001
Where: Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Privacy-Enhanced Displays by Time-Masking Images" by Yerazunis, W.S. and Carbone, M. was presented at the Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI).
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- Date: November 11, 2001
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Real-Time Audio Buffering for Telephone Applications" by Dietz, P.H. and Yerazunis, W.S. and "DiamondTouch: A Multi-User Touch Technology" by Dietz, P.H. and Leigh, D.L. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 31, 2001
Where: Journal of Electronic Imaging
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Video Summarization Using Descriptors of Motion Activity: A Motion Activity Based Approach to Key-Frame Extraction from Video Shots" by Divakaran, A., Regunathan, R. and Peker, K.A. was published in Journal of Electronic Imaging.
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- Date: October 29, 2001
Where: IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Dynamic Shader Lamps: Painting on Movable Objects" by Bandyopadhyay, D., Raskar, R. and Fuchs, H. was presented at the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality.
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- Date: October 23, 2001
Where: IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Intelligent Multi-Hop Video Communications" by Wu, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Kung, S.Y. and "A Motion Activity Descriptor and Its Extraction in the Compressed Domain" by Sun, X., Divakaran, A. and Manjunath, B.S. were presented at the IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).
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- Date: October 21, 2001
Where: ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) Brief - The paper "Learning Hierarchical Task Models by Defining and Refining Examples" by Garland, A., Ryall, K. and Rich, C. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP).
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- Date: October 21, 2001
Where: IEEE Visualization
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "EWA Volume Splatting" by Zwicker, M., Pfister, H., van Baar, J. and Gross, M. was presented at IEEE Visualization.
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- Date: October 15, 2001
Where: International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) Brief - The paper "Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation with Optimal Number of Renegotiations in ATM Networks" by Porikli, F.M. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN).
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- Date: October 7, 2001
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Adaptive Diversity Combining for Interference Cancellation in CDMA Systems" by Horng, J.H. and Nakache, Y.-P. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: October 7, 2001
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Accurate Detection of Edge Orientation for Color and Multi-Spectral Imagery" by Porikli, F.M., "An Unsupervised Multi-Resolution Object Extraction Algorithm Using Video-Cubes" by Porikli, F.M. and Wang, Y., "Constant Pace Skimming and Temporal Sub-sampling of Video Using Motion Activity" by Peker, K.A., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "Rate-Distortion Optimized Video Coding Considering Frameskip" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: October 3, 2001
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Brief - The paper "Projection Algebra Analysis of Error-Correcting Codes" by Yedidia, J.S., Sudderth, E.B. and Bouchaud, J.-P. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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- Date: September 23, 2001
Where: Graph Drawing - International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) Brief - The paper "A Short Note on the History of Graph Drawing" by Kruja, E., Marks, J., Blair, A. and Waters, R.C. was presented at the Graph Drawing - International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD).
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- Date: September 19, 2001
Where: International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Visualization and Layout for Personal Photo Libraries" by Moghaddam, B., Tian, Q., Lesh, N.B., Shen, C. and Huang, T.S. was presented at the International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.
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- Date: September 17, 2001
Where: IEICE Conference
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The paper "On Bi-Directional SOVA Decoding of Turbo Codes" by Wang, D., Kobayashi, H., Zhang, J. and Gu, D. was presented at the IEICE Conference.
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- Date: September 5, 2001
Where: International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP) Brief - The papers "An Overview of MPEG-7 Motion Descriptors and Their Applications" by Divakaran, A. and "Object Segmentation of Color Video Sequences" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP).
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- Date: September 2, 2001
Where: Workshop for Consistent and Reliable Acoustic Cues (CRAC)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Robust Speech Recognition: The Case for Restoring Missing Features" by Raj, B., Seltzer, M. and Stern, R. was presented at the Workshop for Consistent and Reliable Acoustic Cues (CRAC).
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- Date: August 22, 2001
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Algorithm and System for High-Level Structure Analysis and Event Detection in Soccer Video" by Xu, P., Chang, S.F., Divakaran, A., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "A Novel Pair-Wise Comparison Based Analytical Framework for Automatic Measurement of Intensity of Motion Activity of Video" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. and "Estimating Distortion for Coded and Non-Coded Frames for Frameskip-Optimized Video Coding" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: August 19, 2001
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "MPEG-7 Applications for Video Browsing and Analysis" by Divakaran, A., Bober, M. and Asai, K. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications.
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- Date: August 12, 2001
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware (HWWS)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Hardware Support for Non-Photorealistic Rendering" by Raskar, R. was presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware (HWWS).
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- Date: August 12, 2001
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH Brief - The papers "Computing 3D Geometry Directly from Range Images" by Frisken, S.F. and Perry, R.N., "A New Method for Numerical Constrained Optimization" by Perry, R.N., "Dynamic Meshing Using Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields" by Pope, J., Frisken, S.F. and Perry, R.N., "Shadermaps: A Method for Accelerating Procedural Shading" by Jones, T.R., Perry, R.N. and Callahan, M., "A Computationally Efficient Framework for Modeling Soft Body Impact" by Frisken, S.F. and Perry, R.N., "Kizamu: A System for Sculpting Digital Characters" by Perry, R.N. and Frisken, S.F. and "Surface Splatting" by Zwicker, M., Pfister, H., van Baar, J. and Gross, M. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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- Date: August 5, 2001
Where: International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI) Brief - The paper "Human-Computer Collaboration for Universal Access" by Rich, C., Lesh, N.B. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI).
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