- Date: August 5, 2007
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Brief - The articles "Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings" by Vlasic, D., Adelsberger, R., Vannucci, G., Barnwell, J., Gross, M., Matusik, W. and Popovic, J. and "Multi-Aperture Photography" by Green, P., Sun, W., Matusik, W. and Durand, F. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: August 5, 2007
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH Brief - The papers "Modern Approaches to Augmented Reality" by Bimber, O. and Raskar, R., "Buzz: Measuring and Visualizing Conference Crowds" by Wren, C.R., Ivanov, Y.A., Leigh, D. and Westhues, J. and "Illumination Sensitive Dynamic Virtual Sets" by Nii, J., deDecker, B., Hashimoto, Y., Moore, D., Summet, J., Zhao, Y., Westhues, J., Dietz, P., Barnwell, J., Inami, M., Bekaert, P. and Raskar, R. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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- Date: August 1, 2007
Where: Journal of Computers
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "Integrated Detection, Tracking and Recognition for IR Video-based Vehicle Classification" by Mei, X., Zhou, S.K., Wu, H. and Porikli, F. was published in Journal of Computers.
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- Date: August 1, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Soft Mask Methods for Single-Channel Speaker Separation" by Reddy, A.M. and Raj, B. was published in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
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- Date: July 23, 2007
Where: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) Brief - The paper "Highly Accurate DSM Reconstruction Using Ku-band Airborne InSAR" by Okada, Y., Hirao, C., Horiuchi, T., Hara, Y., Yedidia, J.S., Azarbayejani, A. and Oishi, N. was presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).
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- Date: July 15, 2007
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Brief - The articles "Prakash: Lighting Aware Motion Capture using Photosensing Markers and Multiplexed Illuminators" by Raskar, R., Nii, H., deDecker, B., Hashimoto, Y., Summet, J., Moore, D., Zhao, Y., Westhues, J., Dietz, P., Barnwell, J., Nayar, S., Inami, M., Bekaert, P., Noland, M., Branzoi, V. and Bruns, E., "Dappled Photography: Mask Enhanced Cameras for Heterodyned Light Fields and Coded Aperture Refocusing" by Veeraraghavan, A., Raskar, R., Agrawal, A., Mohan, A. and Tumblin, J., "Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing" by Avidan, S. and Shamir, A., "Factored Time-Lapse Video" by Sunkavalli, K., Matusik, W., Pfister, H. and Rusinkiewicz, S., "Post-production Facial Performance Relighting using Reflectance Transfer" by Peers, P., Tamura, N., Matusik, W. and Debevec, P. and "Multi-scale Capture of Facial Geometry and Motion" by Bickel, B., Botsch, M., Angst, R., Matusik, W., Otaduy, M., Pfister, H. and Gross, M. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: July 15, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The articles "Hybrid Ultrawideband Modulations Compatible for Both Coherent and Transmit-Reference Receivers" by Zhao, S., Orlik, P., Molisch, A.F., Liu, H. and Zhang, J. and "Approximating a Sum of Random Variables with a Lognormal" by Mehta, N.B., Wu, J., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. were published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: July 15, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Iterative Methods for Cancellation of Intercarrier Interference in OFDM Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Toeltsch, M. and Vermani, S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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- Date: July 2, 2007
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Brief - The papers "An SVM Framework for Genre-Independent Scene Change Detection" by Goela, N., Wilson, K., Niu, F., Divakaran, A. and Otsuka, I. and "Probabilistic Visual Tracking via Robust Template Matching and Incremental Subspace Update" by Mei, X., Zhou, S.K. and Porikli, F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 1, 2007
Awarded to: Jeffrey Tao
Awarded for: Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Electrical Engineering
Awarded by: Polytechnic University. Brief - MERL researcher Jeff Tao received the "Professor Alexander Hessel Award for the Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Electrical Engineering" at Polytechnic University.
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- Date: June 24, 2007
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Brief - The papers "ML Decoding via Mixed-Integer Adaptive Linear Programming" by Draper, S.C., Yedidia, J.S. and Wang, Y. and "Compound Conditional Source Coding, Slepian-Wolf List Decoding, and Applications to Media Coding" by Draper, S. and Martinian, E. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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- Date: June 24, 2007
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Spectral Efficiency of Channel-Aware Schedulers in Non-identical Composite Links with Interference" by Wu, J., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. and "On the Fundamentally Asynchronous Nature of Interference in Cooperative Base Station Systems" by Zhang, H., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J. and Dai, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: June 23, 2007
Where: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Areas: Optmization, Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Memory-Based Algorithms for Abrupt Change Detection in Sensor Data Streams" by Nikovski, D. and Jain, A. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics.
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- Date: June 17, 2007
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Resolving Objects at Higher Resolution from a Single Motion-blurred Image" by Agrawal, A. and Raskar, R., "Human Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. and "Statistics of Infrared Images" by Morris, N., Avidan, S., Matusik, W. and Pfister, H. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 1, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Communications Brief - The article "Iterative Decoding of Multiple-Step Majority Logic Decodable Codes" by Palanki, R., Fossorier, M.P.C. and Yedidia, J.S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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- Date: May 21, 2007
Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINA Workshops)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Multi-Stage Real Time Health Monitoring via ZigBee in Smart Homes" by Dagtas, S., Pekhteryev, G. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINA Workshops).
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- Date: May 7, 2007
Where: 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Depth Estimation for View Synthesis in Multiview Video Coding" by Ince, S., Martinian, E., Yea, S. and Vetro, A. was presented at the 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON).
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- Date: May 1, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Brief - The article "Iterative Decoding With Replicas" by Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Fossorier, M. P.C. and Yedidia, J.S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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- Date: May 1, 2007
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Motion Mapping for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding" by Xin, J., Li, J., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Sekiguchi, S. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 1, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "A Framework for Secure Speech Recognition" by Smaragdis, P. and Shashanka, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing.
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- Date: May 1, 2007
Awarded to: Huifang Sun
Awarded for: Outstanding performance as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Awarded by: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contact: Huifang Sun Brief - MERL researcher Huifang Sun received an award for outstanding performance as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in ISCAS.
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- Date: April 28, 2007
Where: Conference on Human Factors In Computing Systems (SIGCHI) Brief - The papers "Perception of Elementary Graphical Elements in Tabletop and Multi-Surface Environments" by Wigdor, D., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. and "How Pairs Interact Over a Multimodal Digital Table" by Tse, E., Shen, C., Greenberg, S. and Forlines, C. were presented at the Conference on Human Factors In Computing Systems (SIGCHI).
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- Date: April 28, 2007
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Direct-touch vs. Mouse Input for Tabletop Displays" by Forlines, C., Wigdor, D., Shen, C. and Balakrishnan, R. was presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: April 15, 2007
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Using Distributed Source Coding to Secure Fingerprint Biometrics" by Draper, S.C., Khisti, A., Martinian, E., Vetro, A. and Yedidia, J.S., "A Framework for Secure Speech Recognition" by Smaragdis, P. and Shashanka, M., "Sparse Overcomplete Decomposition for Single Channel Speaker Separation" by Shashanka, M.V.S., Raj, B. and Smaragdis, P. and "Bandwidth Expansion with a Polya URN Model" by Raj, B., Singh, R., Shashanka, M. and Smaragdis, P. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: April 1, 2007
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Low Complexity Rake Receivers in Ultra-Wideband Channels" by Cassioli, D., Win, M.Z., Vatalaro, F. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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