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  •  NEWS    Eurospeech 2005: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 4, 2005
    Where: Eurospeech
    Brief
    • The papers "Bandwidth Expansion of Narrowband Speech Using non-Negative Matrix Factorization" by Bansal, D., Raj, B. and Smaragdis, P. and "Recognizing Speech from Simultaneous Speakers" by Raj, B., Singh, R. and Smaragdis, P. were presented at Eurospeech.
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  •  NEWS    ISIT 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 4, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
    Brief
    • The paper "Replica Shuffled Iterative Decoding" by Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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  •  NEWS    EUSIPCO 2005: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    Date: September 4, 2005
    Where: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "A Two-Step Time of Arrival Estimation Algorithm for Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband Systems" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F., Kobayashi, H. and Poor, H.V. was presented at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).
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  •  NEWS    Forum Acusticum 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: August 29, 2005
    Where: Forum Acusticum
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "From Learning Music to Learning to Separate" by Smaragdis, P. was presented at the Forum Acusticum.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Wireless Communications: publication by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: August 15, 2005
    Where: IEEE Wireless Communications
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Error Resilience Video Transcoding for Wireless Communications" by Vetro, A., Xin, J. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    Date: July 31, 2005
    Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
    Research Area: Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The article "Localization via Ultra-Wideband Radios: A Look at Positioning Aspects for Future Sensor Networks" by Gezici, S., Tian, Z., Giannakis, G.V., Kobayashi, H., Molisch, A.F., Poor, H.V. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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  •  NEWS    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG): 2 publications by Matthew Brand, Amit K. Agrawal and others
    Date: July 31, 2005
    Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The articles "Face Transfer with Multilinear Models" by Vlasic, D., Brand, M., Pfister, H. and Popovic, J. and "Removing Photography Artifacts Using Gradient Projection and Flash-Exposure Sampling" by Agrawal, A., Raskar, R., Nayar, S.K. and Li, Y. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: July 31, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Performance Evaluation of Impulse Radio UWB Systems with Pulse-Based Polarity Randomization" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: July 15, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Capacity of MIMO Systems with Antenna Selection" by Molisch, A.F., Win, M.Z., Choi, Y.-S. and Winters, J.H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    International Journal of Wireless Information Networks: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: July 15, 2005
    Where: International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Combining Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes with Adaptive Sub-group Antenna Encoding" by Wu, J., Horng, H., Zhang, J., Xiao, C. and Olivier, J.C. was published in International Journal of Wireless Information Networks.
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2005: 2 publications by Oncel Tuzel, Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: July 6, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The papers "Highlights Extraction from Sports Video Based on an Audio-Visual Marker Detection Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Husang, T.S. and "Multi-Kernel Object Tracking" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium) 2005: publication by Darren Leigh and others
    Date: July 3, 2005
    Where: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium)
    Research Area: Optimization
    Brief
    • The paper "Sidelobe Minimization of Uniformly-Excited Sparse Linear Arrays using Exhaustive Search and Visual Browsing" by Leigh, D., Ryall, K., Lanning, T., Lesh, N., Miyashita, H., Hirata, K., Hara, Y. and Sakura, T. was presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: July 1, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
    Brief
    • The article "Constructing Free-Energy Approximations and Generalized Belief Propagation Algorithms" by Yedidia, J.S., Freeman, W.T. and Weiss, Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: June 30, 2005
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The articles "Introduction to the Special Section on MPEG-21" by Pereira, F., Smith, J.R. and Vetro, A. and "Digital Item Adaptation: Overview of Standardization and Research Activities" by Vetro, A. and Timmerer, C. were published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
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  •  NEWS    Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 29, 2005
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Estimation of 3D Faces and Illumination from Single Photographs Using a Bilinear Illumination Model" by Lee, J., Machiraju, R., Pfister, H. and Moghaddam, B. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques.
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  •  NEWS    EGSR 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 29, 2005
    Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models" by Ngan, A., Durand, F. and Matusik, N. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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  •  NEWS    MVIV 2005: publication by Oncel Tuzel and others
    Date: June 20, 2005
    Where: IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "A Bayesian Approach to Background Modeling" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV).
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  •  NEWS    CVPR 2005: 5 publications by Matthew Brand, Ramesh Raskar and Jeroen van Baar
    Date: June 20, 2005
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The papers "A Direct Method for 3D Factorization of Nonrigid Motion Observed in 2D" by Brand, M., "Integral Histogram: A Fast Way to Extract Histograms in Cartesian Spaces" by Porikli, F., "Why I Want a Gradient Camera" by Tumblin, J., Agrawal, A. and Raskar, R., "Videoshop: A New Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Editing in Gradient Domain" by Wang, H., Xu, N., Raskar, R. and Ahuja, N. and "Handheld Projectors for Mixing Physical and Digital Textures" by Beardsley, P., Forlines, C., Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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  •  NEWS    WIRELESSCOM 2005: publication by Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: June 13, 2005
    Where: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM)
    MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Achieving Fair Scheduling Over Error-Prone Channels in Multirate WLANs" by Yuan, Y., Gu, D., Arbaugh, W. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM).
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  •  NEWS    VSSN 2005: publication by Ali Azarbayejani, Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: June 11, 2005
    Where: ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R., Erdem, M. and Azarbayejani, A.J. was presented at the ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops 2005: publication by Charles Rich and others
    Date: June 10, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
    Brief
    • The paper "DiamondHelp: A Collaborative Interface Framework for Networked Home Appliances" by Rich, C., Sidner, C., Lesh, N., Garland, A., Booth, S. and Chimani, M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops.
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  •  NEWS    SPAWC 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 5, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
    Brief
    • The paper "Reduced Latency Turbo Decoding" by Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).
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  •  AWARD    SEGD 2005 Best New Product
    Date: June 1, 2005
    Awarded to: MERL Staff
    Awarded for: MERL's Digital Merchandising technology
    Awarded by: Viaro (a Herman Miller company) at Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)
    Brief
    • MERL's Digital Merchandising technology as presented by Viaro (a Herman Miller company) won the "Best New Product 2005" award at the annual conference of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2005: 4 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 30, 2005
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    Brief
    • The papers "Capacity Analysis for Compact MIMO Systems" by Lau, B.K., Ow, S.M.S., Kristensson, G. and Molisch, A.F., "Effect of Random Walk Phase Noise on MIMO Measurement" by Almers, P., Wyne, S., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A., "Statistical Evaluation of Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Molisch, A.F., Almers, P., Eriksson, G., Karedal, J. and Tufvesson, F. and "MIMO Channel Measurement for Personal Area Networks" by Johansson, A., Karedal, J., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2005: 4 publications by Anthony Vetro, Zafer Sahinoglu, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 23, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Image Transmission over IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks" by Pekhteryev, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P. and Bhatti, G., "Fast Region-of-Interest Transcoding for JPEG 2000 Images" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A., Hata, T. and Kuwahara, N., "A Study of Encoding and Decoding Techniques for Syndrome-Based Video Coding" by Wu, M., Vetro, A., Yedidia, J., Sun, H. and Chen, C. W. and "Efficient MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Intra Transcoding in Transform-domain" by Su, Y., Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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