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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2000: publication by Huifang Sun and others
    Date: September 10, 2000
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "A Region Based Descriptor for Spatial Distribution of Motion Activity for Compressed Video" by Divakaran, A., Peker, K.A. and Sun, H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: August 31, 2000
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Video Browsing System Based on Compressed Domain Feature Extraction" by Divakaran, A., Vetro, A., Asai, K. and Nishikawa, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: publication by Matthew Brand and others
    Date: August 31, 2000
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The article "Discovery and Segmentation of Activities in Video" by Brand, M.E. and Kettnaker, V. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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  •  NEWS    AAAI 2000: publication by Kathy Ryall and others
    Date: July 30, 2000
    Where: National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    Brief
    • The paper "Human-Guided Simple Search" by Anderson, D., Anderson, E., Lesh, N.B., Marks, J.W., Mirtich, B., Ratajczack, D. and Ryall, K. was presented at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2000: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: July 30, 2000
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The paper "Efficient Representation and Comparison of Multimedia Content Using DAG-Composition" by Lin, I., Divakaran, A., Vetro, A. and Kung, S.Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    ACM SIGGRAPH 2000: 5 publications by Hanspeter Pfister, Ron Perry, Matthew Brand, Jeroen van Baar and Ramesh Raskar
    Date: July 23, 2000
    Where: ACM SIGGRAPH
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields: A General Representation of Shape for Computer Graphics" by Frisken, S.F., Perry, R.N., Rockwood, A.P. and Jones, T.R., "Style Machines" by Brand, M.E. and Hertzmann, A., "Surfels: Surface Elements as Rendering Primitives" by Pfister, H., Zwicker, M., van Baar, J. and Gross, M., "Tangible Interactions and Graphical Interpretation: A New Approach to 3D Modeling" by Anderson, D., Frankel, J.L., Marks, J.W., Agarwala, A., Beardsley, P.A., Hodgins, J.K., Leigh, D.L., Ryall, K., Sullivan, E. and Yedidia, J.S. and "Image-Based Visual Hulls" by Matusik, W., Buehler, C., Raskar, R., Gortler, S.J. and McMillan, L. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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  •  NEWS    ICML 2000: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: June 29, 2000
    Where: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Exploring Variational Structure by Cross-Entropy Optimization" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
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  •  NEWS    EGRW 2000: publication by Ron Perry and others
    Date: June 26, 2000
    Where: Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW)
    Brief
    • The paper "Antialiasing with Line Samples" by Jones, T.R. and Perry, R.N. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW).
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  •  NEWS    ICCE 2000: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: June 13, 2000
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "A Description Scheme for Video Based on Feature Extraction in the Compressed Domain" by Divakaran, A., Sekiguchi, S., Asai, K. and Sun, H. and "An MPEG-4 Object-Based Transcoder: Architecture and Applications" by Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Wang, Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2000: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 28, 2000
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Object-Based Transcoding for Scalable Quality of Service" by Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Wang, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Multimedia Database 2000: 2 publications by Huifang Sun and others
    Date: January 22, 2000
    Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Multimedia Database
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Fade-In/Out Scene Change Detection in MPEG-1/2/4 Compressed Video Domain" by Divakaran, A., Ito, H., Sun, H. and Poon, T.C. and "Descriptor for Spatial Distribution of Motion Activity for Compressed Video" by Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Multimedia Database.
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  •  NEWS    Japanese Visualization Conference 1999: publication by Hanspeter Pfister
    Date: November 30, 1999
    Where: Japanese Visualization Conference
    Brief
    • The paper "Real Time Volume Visualization with VolumePro" by Pfister, H. was presented at the Japanese Visualization Conference.
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  •  NEWS    UIST 1999: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: November 7, 1999
    Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
    Brief
    • The paper "Building Virtual Structures with Physical Blocks" by Anderson, D., Frankel, J., Marks, J.W., Leigh, D.L., Sullivan, E. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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  •  NEWS    NPIVM 1999: publication by Kathy Ryall and others
    Date: November 6, 1999
    Where: ACM Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIVM)
    Brief
    • The paper "Human-Guided Simple Search: Combining Information Visualization and Optimization" by Anderson, D., Anderson, E., Lesh, N.B., Marks, J.W., Perlin, K., Ratajczack, D. and Ryall, K. was presented at the ACM Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIVM).
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  •  NEWS    Nikkei Science: publication by Hanspeter Pfister
    Date: October 31, 1999
    Where: Nikkei Science
    Brief
    • The article "VolumePro - At the Frontier of Advanced Volume Graphics" by Pfister, H. was published in Nikkei Science.
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  •  NEWS    VLBV 1999: publication by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: October 31, 1999
    Where: International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Shape Representation and Comparison Using Voronoi Order Skeletons and DAG Ordered Trees" by Lin, I.-J., Vetro, A., Divakaran, A. and Kung, S.-Y. was presented at the International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV).
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 1999: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: October 31, 1999
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Rate-Distortion Modeling on Binary Shape Using State Partitioning" by Vetro, A., Sun, H., Wang, Y. and Guleryuz, O. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  NEWS    ICCV 1999: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: September 22, 1999
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Shadow Puppetry" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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  •  NEWS    ACM SIGGRAPH 1999: 4 publications by Hanspeter Pfister, Paul Beardsley, Ron Perry and Matthew Brand
    Date: August 8, 1999
    Where: ACM SIGGRAPH
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "Voice Puppetry" by Brand, M.E., "Feline: Fast Elliptical Lines for Anisotropic Texture Mapping" by McCormack, J., Perry, R.N., Farkas, K.I. and Jouppi, N.P., "The VolumePro Real-Time Ray-Casting System" by Pfister, H., Hardenbergh, J., Knittel, J., Lauer, H. and Seiler, L. and "Computer Vision for Computer Interaction" by Freeman, W.T., Beardsley, P.A., Kage, H., Tanaka, K., Kyuman, C. and Weissman, C. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics: publication by Hanspeter Pfister and others
    Date: July 31, 1999
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Ray-Casting Architectures for Volume Visualization" by Ray, H., Pfister, H., Silver, D. and Cook, T.A. was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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  •  NEWS    Neural Computation Journal: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: July 1, 1999
    Where: Neural Computation Journal
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The article "Structure Learning in Conditional Probability Models via an Entropic Prior and Parameter Extinction" by Brand, M.E. was published in Neural Computation Journal.
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  •  NEWS    UM 1999: publication by Charles Rich and others
    Date: June 20, 1999
    Where: International Conference on User Modeling (UM)
    Brief
    • The paper "Using Plan Recognition in Human-Computer Collaboration" by Lesh, N.B., Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the International Conference on User Modeling (UM).
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  •  NEWS    RTAS 1999: publication by Chia Shen and others
    Date: June 2, 1999
    Where: IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "User Level Scheduling of Communicating Real-Time Tasks" by Shen, C., Gonzalez, O., Ramamritham, K. and Mizunuma, I. was presented at the IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS).
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  •  NEWS    SAE International Congress and Exposition 1999: publication by William Yerazunis, Darren Leigh and others
    Date: March 31, 1999
    Where: SAE International Congress and Exposition
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "An Inexpensive, All Solid-State Video and Data Recorder for Accident Reconstruction" by Yerazunis, W.S., Leigh, D.L., Freeman, W.T. and Bardsley, R.S. was presented at the SAE International Congress and Exposition.
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 1999: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: March 15, 1999
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Structure and Parameter Learning via Entropy Minimization, with Applications to Mixture and Hidden Markov Models" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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