- Date: May 28, 2008
Where: 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "View Synthesis Prediction for Rate-Overhead Reduction in FTV" by Yea, S. and Vetro, A. was presented at the 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON).
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- Date: May 28, 2008
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Brief - The papers "Multiview User Interfaces with an Automultiscopic Display" by Matusik, W., Forlines, C. and Pfister, H., "Adapting a Single-user, Single-display Molecular Visualization Application for Use in a Multi-user, Multi-Display Environment" by Forlines, C. and Lilien, R., "Content Aware Video Presentation on High-Resolution Displays" by Forlines, C., "Visualizing Antenna Design Spaces" by Wittenburg, K., Lanning, T., Leigh, D. and Ryall, K. and "Combining and Measuring the Benefits of Bimanual Pen and Direct-Touch Interaction of Interfaces" by Brandl, P., Forlines, C., Wigdor, D., Haller, M. and Shen, C. were presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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- Date: May 27, 2008
Where: Cambridge University Press
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
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- Date: May 19, 2008
Where: IEEE Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Platforms
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Towards Practical Evaluation of Pedestrian Detectors" by Hussein, M., Porikli, F. and Davis, L. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Platforms.
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- Date: May 19, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang; Koon Hoo Teo Brief - The papers "Narrowband Interference Resilient Receiver Design for Unknown UWB Signal Detection" by Ozdemir, O., Sahinoglu, Z. and Zhang, J., "Localization via TDOA in a UWB Sensor Network using Neural Networks" by Ergut, S., Rao, R.R., Dural, O. and Sahinoglu, Z., "On the Performance of Linear Least-Squares Estimation in Wireless Positioning Systems" by Gezici, S., Guvenc, I. and Sahinoglu, Z., "Best Node Selection through Distributed Fast Variable Power Multiple Access" by Yim, R., Mehta, N.B. and Molisch, A.F., "Antenna Selection for Next Generation IEEE 802.16 Mobile Stations" by Nie, C., Tao, Z., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J., Kuze, T. and Panwar, S., "Routing in Cooperative Wireless Networks with Mutual-Information Accumulation" by Draper, S.C., Liu, A., Molisch, A.F. and Yedidia, J.S., "A Low-Complexity Synchronization Design for MB-OFDM Ultra-Wideband Systems" by Ye, Z., Duan, C., Orlik, P. and Zhang, J., "A Game-Theoretic Framework for Interference Management through Cognitive Sensing" by Chen, Y., Teo, K.H., Kishore, S. and Zhang, J. and "Inter-Cell Interference Management in WiMAX Downlinks by A Stackelberg Game between BSs" by Chen, Y., Teo, K.H., Kishore, S. and Zhang, J. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 18, 2008
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Complexity and Memory Efficient GOP Structures Supporting VCR Functionalities in H.264/AVC" by Lou, J., Liu, S., Vetro, A. and Sun, M.-T. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 15, 2008
Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements and Analysis at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Molisch, A.F., Almers, P., Eriksson, G., Karedal, J. and Tufvesson, F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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- Date: May 11, 2008
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Brief - The papers "The Composite Channel Method: Efficient Experimental Evaluation of a Realistic MIMO Terminal in the Presence of a Human Body" by Harrysson, F., Medbo, J., Molisch, A.F., Johansson, A.J. and Tufvesson, F. and "Scatterer Detection by Successive Cancellation for UWB - Method and Experimental Verification" by Santos, T., Karedal, J., Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: May 1, 2008
Awarded to: Amine Maaref
Awarded for: "Applications of Random Matrix Theory to the Performance Analysis of Wireless MIMO Communication Systems"
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- Date: April 5, 2008
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Brief - The papers "LivOlay: Interactive Ad-hoc Registration and Overlapping of Applications for Collaborative Visual Exploration" by Jiang, H., Wigdor, D., Forlines, C., Borkin, M., Kauffmann, J. and Shen, C. and "Evaluating Tactile Feedback and Direct vs. Indirect Stylus Input in Pointing and Crossing Selection Tasks" by Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: March 31, 2008
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Hot-Spot Wireless Access Exploiting Shadowing Diversity of Distributed Antennas" by Li, Y. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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- Date: March 31, 2008
Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "MAC 24-1 Efficient Multiple Access using Received Signal Strength and Local Channel Information" by Yim, R., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. and "Performance Improvement for Multichannel HARQ Protocol in Next Generation WiMAX System" by Tao, Z., Li, A., Zhang, J. and Kuze, T. were presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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- Date: March 31, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Brief - The papers "Joint Tracking and Video Registration by Factorial Hidden Markov Models" by Mei, X. and Porikli, F., "Speech Denoising Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Priors" by Wilson, K.W., Raj, B., Smaragdis, P. and Divakaran, A., "Ultrasonic Doppler Sensor for Speaker Recognition" by Kalgaonkar, K. and Raj, B. and "Sparse and Shift-Invariant Feature Extraction from Non-Negative Data" by Smaragdis, P., Raj, B. and Shashanka, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: March 12, 2008
Where: IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications Brief - The paper "Iterative Linear-Programming-Based Route Optimization for Cooperative Networks" by Draper, S., Liu, L., Molisch, A. and Yedidia, J. was presented at the IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications.
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- Date: March 10, 2008
Where: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Brief - The paper "Energy Efficient and High Speed On-Chip Ternary Bus" by Duan, C. and Khatri, S.P. was presented at Design, Automation and Test in Europe.
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- Date: March 1, 2008
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Ranging in a Single-Input Multiple Output (SIMO) System" by Gezici, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: February 26, 2008
Where: International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Non-WSSUS Vehicular Channel Characterization in Highway and Urban Scenarios at 5.2 GHz Using the Local Scattering Function" by Paier, A., Zemen, T., Bernado, L., Matz, G., Karedal, J., Czink, N., Dumard, C., Tufvesson, F., Molisch, A.F. and Mecklenbrauker, C.F. was presented at the International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA).
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- Date: February 15, 2008
Where: Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Speech-Based UI Design for the Automobile" by Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Harsham, B., Raj, B. and Forlines, C. was published in the book Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology.
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- Date: January 29, 2008
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Server-Driven Progressive Image Transmission of JPEG 2000" by Schwenke, D., Vetro, A. and Hata, T., "Spatio-Temporal Fuzzy Filtering for Coding Artifacts Reduction" by Vo, D.T., Yea, S. and Vetro, A. and "Bit-depth Scalable Coding for High Dynamic Range Video" by Liu, S., Kim, W.-S. and Vetro, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: January 28, 2008
Where: SPIE Conference on Real-Time Image Processing
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Reshuffling: A Fast Algorithm for Filtering with Arbitrary Kernels" by Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Real-Time Image Processing.
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- Date: January 22, 2008
Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Fading Characterization in a Semi-Anechoic Chamber with Artificial Scatterers for Mean Effective Gain Measurements of Wireless Handheld Terminals" by Glazunov, A.A., Molisch, A.F. and Tufvesson, F. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium.
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- Date: January 15, 2008
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The articles "Asynchronous Interference Mitigation in Cooperative Base Station Systems" by Zhang, H., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J. and Dai, H. and "A Software-Defined Radio System for Backscatter Sensor Networks" by Vannucci, G., Bletsas, A. and Leigh, D. were published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: January 15, 2008
Where: International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Real-Time and Secure Wireless Health Monitoring" by Dagtas, S., Pekhteryev, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Can, H. and Challa, N. was published in International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications.
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- Date: January 12, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "A Multi-Standards HDTV Video Decoder for Blu-Ray Disc Standard" by Minegishi, N., Sato, H., Vetro, A., Izuhara, F. and Koyama, M. and "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution" by Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sekiguchi, S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: January 8, 2008
Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Brief - The papers "Likelihood Map Fusion for Visual Object Tracking" by Yin, Z., Porikli, F. and Collins, R. and "A Non Parametric Approach for Modeling Interferometric SAR Imagery and Applications" by Sengupta, K. and Burman, P. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
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