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  •  TALK    Electromagnetic Remote Sensing for the Detection of Concealed Objects
    Date & Time: Thursday, December 13, 2012; 12:00 PM
    Speaker: Dr. Tomasz M. Grzegorczyk, Delpsi LLC
    MERL Host: Anthony Vetro
    Abstract
    • Electromagnetic (EM) remote sensing is a well-established modality for the detection, tracking, and identification of concealed targets. The degree of freedom offered by the operating frequency (and the associated propagation or induction regimes) make EM waves sufficiently versatile to interrogate both large as well as small structures, metallic as well as dielectric objects, in close proximity or further away. This wide flexibility has made EM remote sensing a modality of choice in many applications. This presentation will focus on two implementations of non-destructive and non-contact EM sensing. The first is based on a tomographic approach, whereby EM waves are used to infer material properties within the volume of accessible structures. The two examples to be discussed are breast cancer detection, i.e. locating areas of high vascularity in otherwise healthy biological tissues, and inspection of concrete structures, i.e. identifying volumetric material property variations to locate rebars and cracks. The second area we will discuss is that of subsurface target detection, with again two very different applications. The first pertains to ground penetrating radars with frequencies in the GHz aimed at the detection of buried weak dielectric scatterers, whereas the second focuses on the detection of metallic targets in the magnetic induction regime, for which much lower frequencies are used. In all these applications, the data collected by the appropriate hardwares are processed by combining fundamental EM concepts with inverse methods for parameter estimation. We will discuss both a deterministic method -- Gauss-Newton -- and a stochastic method -- Kalman filters for real time target detection.
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  •  EVENT    APSIPA 2012
    Date: Monday, December 3, 2012 - Thursday, December 6, 2012
    Location: Hollywood, CA
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • MERL is a sponsor for APSIPA 2012, the fourth annual conference organized by Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association.
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  •  NEWS    Asia-Pacific Signal & Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference 2012: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun, Robert A. Cohen and Dong Tian
    Date: December 3, 2012
    Where: Asia-Pacific Signal & Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Depth Map Up-sampling Based on Edge Layers" by Graziosi, D.B., Tian, D. and Vetro, A. and "Joint Perceptually-based Intra Prediction and Quantization for HEVC" by Jin, G., Cohen, R., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the Asia-Pacific Signal & Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference.
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  •  EVENT    Automotive UI 2012 - 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
    Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - Friday, October 19, 2012
    Location: Portsmouth, NH
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • MERL is a sponsor for the Fourth International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Automotive UI 2012.
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2012: 4 publications by Anthony Vetro, Shantanu D. Rane, Huifang Sun and Dong Tian
    Date: September 30, 2012
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "An Attribute-Based Framework for Privacy Preserving Image Querying" by Rane, S. and Sun, W., "Emerging Cryptographic Challenges in Image and Video Processing" by Puech, W., Erkin, Z., Barni, M., Rane, S. and Lagendijk, R.L., "A Local Depth Image Enhancement Scheme for View Synthesis" by Wang, Y., Tian, D. and Vetro, A. and "On Modeling the Rendering Error in 3D Video" by Cheung, N.-M., Tian, D., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  EVENT    ICIP 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
    Date: Sunday, September 30, 2012 - Wednesday, October 3, 2012
    Location: Orlando, FL
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Anthony Vetro is the Industrial Co-chair of ICIP 2012, the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, to be held in Orlando, Florida, in September 2012.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing 2012: publication by Anthony Vetro and Dong Tian
    Date: August 12, 2012
    Where: SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Analysis of 3D and Multiview Extensions of the Emerging HEVC Standard" by Vetro, A. and Tian, D. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing.
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  •  TALK    Quadratic Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding
    Date & Time: Friday, July 6, 2012; 12:00 PM
    Speaker: Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University
    MERL Host: Anthony Vetro
    Abstract
    • Driven by a host of emerging applications, distributed source coding has assumed renewed interest in the past decade. Although the Slepian-Wolf theorem has been known for almost 40 years and progresses have been made recently on the rate region of quadratic Gaussian two-terminal source coding, finding the sum-rate bound of quadratic Gaussian multiterminal source coding with more than two terminals is still an open problem. In this talk, I'll briefly go over existing results on distributed source coding problems before describing a set of new results we obtained recently.
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  •  NEWS    PCS 2012: publication by Anthony Vetro, Robert A. Cohen, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 7, 2012
    Where: Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Predictive Coding of Intra Prediction Modes for High Efficiency Video Coding" by Xu, X., Cohen, R., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS).
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  •  EVENT    ICASSP 2012 - Special Session on Signal-Processing Challenges and Opportunities in Depth Cameras
    Date & Time: Friday, March 30, 2012; 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    Location: Kyoto, Japan
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Anthony Vetro co-organized a Special Session of ICASSP 2012 on Signal-Processing Challenges and Opportunities in Depth Cameras. ICASSP 2012 will be held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2012.
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  •  TALK    User-guided 2D-to-3D Conversion
    Date & Time: Tuesday, February 21, 2012; 12:00 PM
    Speaker: Dimitri Androutsos, Richard Rzeszutek, Ryerson University
    MERL Host: Anthony Vetro
    Abstract
    • The problem of converting monoscopic footage into stereoscopic or multi-view content is inherently difficult and ill-posed. On the surface, this does not appear to be the case as the problem may be summed up as, "Given single-view image or video, create one or more views as if they were taken from a different camera view." However, capturing a three-dimensional scene as a two-dimensional image is a lossy process and any information regarding the distance of objects to the camera is lost. Methods exist for extracting depth information from a monoscopic view and it is possible to obtain metrically-correct depth estimates under certain conditions. But since conversion is primarily used as a post-processing stage in film production, the user requires a degree of control over the results. This, in turn, makes it ill-posed as there is no way to know ahead of time what the user wants from the conversion. In this talk we will present the work being done at Ryerson University on user-guided 2D-to-3D conversion. In particular, we will focus on how existing image segmentation techniques may be combined to produce reasonable depth maps for conversion while still providing complete control to the user. We will also discuss how our research can be applied to both images and video without any significant alterations to our methods.
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  •  EVENT    99th MPEG meeting
    Date: Monday, February 6, 2012 - Friday, February 10, 2012
    Location: San Jose, CA
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • MERL is a sponsor for the 99th MPEG meeting to be held in San Jose, CA, in February 2012. MERL researcher Anthony Vetro serves as Head of the US Delegation to MPEG.
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  •  EVENT    MMSP 2011 - IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop
    Date: Monday, October 17, 2011 - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
    Location: Hangzhou, China
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Anthony Vetro is the General Co-chair of MMSP 2011, the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, to be held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2011.
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  •  EVENT    MMSP 2011 - IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop
    Date: Monday, October 17, 2011 - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
    Location: Hangzhou, China
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • MERL is a sponsor for the 2011 edition of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop.
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2011: 4 publications by Matthew E. Brand, Petros T. Boufounos, Shantanu D. Rane, Anthony Vetro and Dong Tian
    Date: September 11, 2011
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos
    Brief
    • The papers "Distributed Compression of Zerotrees of Wavelet Coefficients" by Wang, Y., Rane, S., Boufounos, P. and Vetro, A., "A Trellis-based Approach for Robust View Synthesis" by Tian, D., Vetro, A. and Brand, M., "Concentric Ring Signature Descriptor for 3D Objects" by Nguyen, H.V. and Porikli, F. and "Parallel Quadratic Programming for Image Processing" by Brand, M. and Chen, D. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  TALK    Image and Sensor-based Navigation in Fluorescence Endoscopy
    Date & Time: Thursday, September 1, 2011; 12:00 PM
    Speaker: Alexander Behrens, RWTH Aachen University
    MERL Host: Anthony Vetro
    Abstract
    • Today, photodynamic diagnostics is commonly used for cancer detection in endoscopic interventions of the urinary bladder. Although the visual contrast between benign and malignant tissue is significantly enhanced using fluorescence markers, the field of view (FOV) of the endoscope becomes very limited. This impedes the navigation and the re-identifying of multi-focal tumors for the physician. Thus, new image mosaicking algorithms and visualization methods, which provide larger FOVs in real-time from free-hand bladder scans are developed and will be presented. Furthermore a novel method for an automatic control of seamless inspections using graphs are addressed. Going beyond image processing, a first low-cost inertial 3-D navigation system will be introduced, and a guided navigation tool for tumor re-identification and its application to virtual endoscopy will be discussed.
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2011: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: May 15, 2011
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Efficient Dictionary Based Video Coding with Reduced Side Information" by Kang, J.-W., Kuo, C.-C. J., Cohen, R. and Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  EVENT    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Distributed Image Processing and Communications
    Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Anthony Vetro is Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Distributed Image Processing and Communications of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery 2011: publication by Petros T. Boufounos, Shantanu D. Rane, Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: April 27, 2011
    Where: SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Low-Complexity Efficient Raw SAR Data Compression" by Rane, S., Boufounos, P., Vetro, A. and Okada, Y. was presented at SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery.
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  •  NEWS    Proceedings of the IEEE: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: April 15, 2011
    Where: Proceedings of the IEEE
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Overview of the Stereo and Multiview Video Coding Extensions of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Standard" by Vetro, A., Wiegand, T. and Sullivan, G. J. was published in Proceedings of the IEEE.
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  •  EVENT    Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on 3D Media & Displays
    Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • Anthony Vetro is Guest Editor for the Special Issue on 3D Media & Displays of the Proceedings of the IEEE.
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  •  NEWS    DCC 2011: publication by Robert A Cohen, Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: March 29, 2011
    Where: Data Compression Conference (DCC)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Robust Learning of 2-D Separable Transforms for Next-Generation Video Coding" by Sezer, O.G., Cohen, R. and Vetro, A. was presented at the Data Compression Conference (DCC).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: March 22, 2011
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Depth Coding Using a Boundary Reconstruction Filter for 3-D Video Systems" by Oh, K.-J., Vetro, A. and Ho, Y.-S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: January 17, 2011
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "3D-TV Content Storage and Transmission" by Vetro, A., Tourapis, A.M., Muller, K. and Chen, T. was published in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.
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  •  NEWS    PCS 2010: publication by Petros T. Boufounos, Shantanu D. Rane, Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: December 7, 2010
    Where: Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Wyner-Ziv Coding of Multispectral Images for Space and Airborne Platforms" by Rane, S., Wang, Y., Boufounos, P. and Vetro, A. was presented at the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS).
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