- 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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- 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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- 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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- Date: May 22, 2005
Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Low-Cost Multi-Projector Curved Screen Displays" by Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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- Date: May 17, 2005
Where: Artificial Intelligence Brief - The article "Explorations in Engagement for Humans and Robots" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Kidds, C.D., Lesh, N. and Rich, C. was published in Artificial Intelligence.
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- Date: May 16, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Layered Space-Time Structure with Statistical Rate Allocation" by Du, J., Gu, D., Molisch, A.F., Li, Y. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 16, 2005
Where: IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video" by Porikli, F., Shao, J. and Maehara, H. was presented at the IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA).
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- Date: May 15, 2005
Where: SIAM Conference on Optimization
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "A Random Walks Perspective on Maximizing Satisfaction and Profit" by Brand, M. was presented at the SIAM Conference on Optimization.
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- Date: May 9, 2005
Where: Conference on Graphics Interface (GI) Brief - The paper "Exploring Non-Speech Auditory Feedback at an Interactive Multi-User Tabletop" by Hancock, M.S., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Ryall, K. was presented at the Conference on Graphics Interface (GI).
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- Date: May 4, 2005
Where: EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Brief - The article "A Content-Adaptive Analysis and Representation Framework for Audio Event Discovery from Unscripted Multimedia" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A., Xiong, Z. and Otsuka, I. was published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
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- Date: April 18, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Ambiguity Detection by Fusion and Conformity: A Spectral Clustering Approach" by Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS).
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- Date: April 13, 2005
Where: Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Change Detection by Frequency Decomposition: Wave-Back" by Porikli, F. and Wren, C.R. was presented at the Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services.
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- Date: April 2, 2005
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Brief - The papers "CoR2Ds: Context-Rooted Rotatable Draggables for Tabletop Interaction" by Shen, C., Hancock, M.S., Forlines, C. and Vernier, F.D., "Modal Spaces: Spatial Multiplexing to Mediate Direct-Touch Input on Large Displays" by Everitt, K., Shen, C., Ryall, K. and Forlines, C., "QueryLines: Approximate Query for Visual Browsing" by Ryall, K., Lesh, N., Lanning, T., Leigh, D., Miyashita, H. and Makino, S. and "Glimpse: A Novel Input Model for Multi-Level Devices" by Forlines, C., Shen, C. and Buxton, B. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: April 1, 2005
Awarded to: Diamond Help Team
Awarded for: DiamondHelp: Collaborative Help for Networked Home Products
Awarded by: Third International Conference on Appliance Design (3AD) and INDEX: Award 2005 Brief - DiamondHelp was selected as a finalist for the international design competition associated with the Third International Conference on Appliance Design (3AD) and a finalist for the "INDEX: Award 2005" international design competition.
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- Date: March 18, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Fast Adaptive Fuzzy Post-Filtering for Coding Artifacts Removal in Interlaced Video" by Nie, Y., Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Barner, K., "Video Coding Using 3-D Dual-Tree Discrete Wavelet Transform" by Wang, B., Wang, Y., Selesnick, I. and Vetro, A., "A Companding Front End for Noise-Robust Automatic Speech Recognition" by Guinness, J., Raj, B., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Turicchia, L. and Sarpeshkar, R. and "Layered Dynamic Mixture Model for Pattern Discovery in Asynchronous Multi-Modal Streams" by Xie, L., Kennedy, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A., Sun, H. and Lin, C.-Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: March 16, 2005
Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The paper "Replica Shuffled Belief Propagation Decoding of LDPC Codes" by Zhang, J., Wang, Y., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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- Date: March 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Systematic Acquisition of Audio Classes for Elevator Surveillance" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. and "Object Tracking in Low-Frame-Rate Video" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing.
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- Date: February 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Computationally Efficient Histogram Extraction for Rectangular Image Regions" by Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Real-Time Imaging.
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- Date: January 31, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Rendering Deformable Surface Reflectance Fields" by Weyrich, T., Pfister, H. and Gross, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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- Date: January 31, 2005
Where: Proceedings of the IEEE
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Video Adaptation: Concepts, Technologies and Open Issues" by Chang, S.-F. and Vetro, A. was published in Proceedings of the IEEE.
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- Date: January 21, 2005
Where: MIT Spam Conference
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "A Unified Model of Spam Filtration" by Yerazunis, W.S., Chhabra, S., Siefkes, C., Assis, F. and Gunopulos, D. was presented at the MIT Spam Conference.
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- Date: January 17, 2005
Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The articles "Interaction Using a Handheld Projector" by Beardsley, P., van Baar, J., Raskar, R. and Forlines, C. and "Harnessing Real-World Depth Edges with Multiflash Imaging" by Tan, K.-H., Feris, R.S., Turk, M., Kobler, J., Yu, J. and Raskar, R. were published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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- Date: January 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia Brief - The paper "Modeling Sports Highlights Using a Time-Series Clustering Framework and Model Interpretation" by Radhakrishnan, R., Otsuka, I., Xiong, Z. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia.
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- Date: January 8, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Implementation of Edge Map Guided Fuzzy Filtering for Artifact Reduction in Highly Compressed Video" by Nie, Y., Hong, H.-S., Vetro, A., Shimada, T. and Minegishi, N., "Augmenting Fast-Forward and Rewind for Personal Digital Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A., Forlines, C., Lanning, T., Shipman, S. and Wittenburg, K. and "A Highlight Scene Detection and Video Summarization System Using \'Audio\' Feature for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Nakane, K., Divakaran, A., Hatanaka, K. and Ogawa, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: January 8, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Brief - The article "A Highlight Scene Detection and Video Summarization System Using Audio Feature for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Nakane, K., Divakaran, A., Hatanaka, K. and Ogawa, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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