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  •  NEWS    DIMACS Workshop on Algebraic Coding 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: December 20, 2003
    Where: DIMACS Workshop on Algebraic Coding
    Brief
    • The paper "Sparse Factor Graph Representations of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes" by Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the DIMACS Workshop on Algebraic Coding.
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  •  NEWS    NIPS 2003: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: December 12, 2003
    Where: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Minimax Embeddings" by Brand, M. was presented at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
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  •  NEWS    GLOBECOM 2003: 4 publications by Zafer Sahinoglu, Philip Orlik and Jinyun Zhang
    Date: December 1, 2003
    Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang
    Brief
    • The papers "Optimum Power Compensation for Error Propagation in Relay Assisted Wireless Networks" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Orlik, P.V., "Keyhole Effects in MIMO Wireless Channels-Measurements and Theory" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F., "Phase-Shift-Based Antenna Selection for MIMO Channels" by Zhang, X., Molisch, A.F. and Kung, S.-Y. and "Reverse Link Capacity of Power-Controlled CDMA Systems with Antenna Arrays in a Multipath Fading Environment" by Yu, J., Yao, Y.D., Zhang, J. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: November 30, 2003
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Reduced Complexity Transmit/Receive Diversity Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Win, M.Z. and Winters, J.H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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  •  NEWS    UWBST 2003: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: November 16, 2003
    Where: IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Optimum Combining for Time Hopping Impulse Radio UWB Rake Receivers" by Sheng, H., Haimovich, A.M., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST).
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  •  NEWS    UIST 2003: publication by Kent Wittenburg, Clifton Forlines, Alan Esenther and others
    Date: November 2, 2003
    Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Consumer Digital Video Devices" by Wittenburg, K.B., Forlines, C., Lanning, T., Esenther, A.W., Harada, S. and Miyachi, T. was presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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  •  NEWS    Video Mining: 2 publications by Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: October 31, 2003
    Where: Video Mining
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The articles "Unsupervised Mining of Statistical Temporal Structures in Video" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "Video Summarization Using MPEG-7 Motion Activity and Audio Descriptors" by Divakaran, A., Peker, K.A., Radharkishnan, R., Xiong, Z. and Cabasson, R. were published in the book Video Mining.
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  •  NEWS    NSF Workshop on Perspectives on Speech Separation 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: October 31, 2003
    Where: NSF Workshop on Perspectives on Speech Separation
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "Speech Recognizer Based Maximum Likelihood Beamforming" by Raj, B., Seltzer, M.L. and Reyes-Gomez, M.J. was presented at the NSF Workshop on Perspectives on Speech Separation.
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  •  NEWS    SASN 2003: publication by Johnas Cukier and others
    Date: October 31, 2003
    Where: ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN)
    Brief
    • The paper "A Security Design for a General Purpose, Self-Organizing, Multihop Ad Hoc Wireless Network" by Messerges, T.S., Cukier, J.I., Kevenaar, T.A.M., Puhl, L., Struik, R. and Callaway, E. was presented at the ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN).
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  •  NEWS    CC 2003: publication by Paris Smaragdis and others
    Date: October 27, 2003
    Where: Conferentia Chemometrica (CC)
    Brief
    • The paper "Deconvolution of Overlapping HPLC Peaks of Aromatic Hydrocarbons using Independent Component Analysis" by Gaganis, V., Pasadakis, N., Smaragdis, P. and Varotsis, N. was presented at Conferentia Chemometrica (CC).
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  •  NEWS    CVRV 2003: publication by William Yerazunis, Alan Esenther, Jeroen van Baar, Samuel Shipman, Clifton Forlines and others
    Date: October 26, 2003
    Where: NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV)
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Intelligent Clusters and Collaborative Projector-based Displays" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P.A., Forlines, C., Dietz, P.H., Esenther, A.W., Leigh, D.L., Ryall, K., Shen, C., Shipman, S.E. and Yerazunis, W.S. was presented at the NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV).
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  •  NEWS    WASPAA 2003: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: October 20, 2003
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
    Brief
    • The papers "Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Polyphonic Music Transcription" by Smaragdis, P. and Brown, J.C. and "Multi-Channel Source Separation by Beamforming Trained with Factorial HMMS" by Reyes-Gomez, M.J., Raj, B. and Ellis, D.P.W. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
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  •  NEWS    WPMC 2003: 6 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: October 19, 2003
    Where: International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
    Brief
    • The papers "Performance of Reduced-Complexity Transmit/Receive-Diversity Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Win, M.Z. and Winters, J.H., "A UWB Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Indoor Communications" by Foerster, J.R., Pendergrass, M. and Molisch, A.F., "An Efficient Low-Cost Time-Hopping Impulse Radio for High Data Rate Transmission" by Molisch, A.F., Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P.V., Zhang, J., Wu, Y., Gezici, S., Kung, S.Y., Poor, H.V., Li, Y.G., Sheng, H. and Haimovich, A., "Channel Estimation and Signal Detection for UWB" by Li, Y.G., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "A Low-Cost Time Hopping Impulse Radio System for High Date Rate" by Molisch, A.F., Li, Y.G., Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P., Miyake, M., Wu, Y., Gezici, S., Sheng, H., Kung, S.Y., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V., Haimovich, A. and Zhang, J. and "A Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Indoor Communication" by Foerster, J.R., Pendergrass, M. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC).
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  •  NEWS    AMFG 2003: publication by Hanspeter Pfister and others
    Date: October 17, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Model-Based 3D Face Capture with Shape-from-Silhouettes" by Moghaddam, B., Lee, J.H., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG).
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  •  NEWS    ICCV 2003: publication by Michael Jones and others
    Date: October 13, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
    MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance" by Viola, P., Jones, M.J. and Snow, D. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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  •  NEWS    ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2003: 3 publications by William Yerazunis, Paul Dietz, Christopher R. Wren and Darren Leigh
    Date: October 12, 2003
    Where: ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The papers "Very Low Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDS" by Dietz, P.H., Yerazunis, W.S. and Leigh, D.L., "UbiTable: Impromptu Face-to-Face Collaboration on Horizontal Interactive Surfaces" by Shen, C., Everitt, K.M. and Ryall, K. and "Self-configuring, Lightweight Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Computing" by Wren, C.R. and Srinivasa, R. were presented at the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).
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  •  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    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    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    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    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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