- Date: January 23, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases Brief - The papers "Data Reduction Procedure for \'Principal-Cast\' and other \'Talking-Head\' Detection" by Divakaran, A. and Radhakrishnan, R. and "Rapid Generation of Sports Video Highlights Using the MPEG-7 Motion Activity Descriptor" by Peker, K.A., Cabasson, R. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases.
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- Date: January 22, 2002
Where: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "A Low-Cost Projector Mosaic with Fast Registration" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J. and Chai, J.X. was presented at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).
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- Date: January 20, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Object-Based Rate Allocation with Spatio-Temporal Trade-Offs" by Lee, J.W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, Y.S., "Drift Compensation Architectures and Techniques for Reduced-Resolution Transcoding" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Liu, B. and "Constant-Quality Constrained-Rate Allocation for FGS Video Coded Bitstreams" by Zhang, X.M., Vetro, A., Shi, Y.Q. and Sun, H. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: January 15, 2002
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA)
MERL Contact: Jianlin Guo Brief - The paper "A TV-Centric Home Network to Provide a Unified Access to UPnP and PLC Domains" by Bhatti, G.M., Sahinoglu, Z., Peker, K.A., Guo, J. and Matsubara, F. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA).
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- Date: January 13, 2002
Where: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Brief - The paper "Agents and GUI\'s from Task Models" by Eisenstein, J. and Rich, C. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
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- Date: December 31, 2001
Where: Artificial Intelligence Magazine Brief - The article "COLLAGEN: Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory to Human-Computer Interaction" by Rich, C., Sidner, C.L. and Lesh, N.B. was published in Artificial Intelligence Magazine.
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- Date: December 11, 2001
Where: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference: Technical Sketches
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Volumetric Operations with Surface Margins" by Wren, C.R. and Ivanov, Y.A. was presented at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference: Technical Sketches.
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- Date: December 9, 2001
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Morphable 3D Models from Video" by Brand, M.E., "Flexible Flow for 3D Nonrigid Tracking and Shape Recovery" by Brand, M.E. and Bhotika, R., "A Self-Correcting Projector" by Raskar, R. and Beardsley, P.A. and "Rapid Object Detection Using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features" by Viola, P. and Jones, M. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: December 9, 2001
Where: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Distributed Speech Recognition with Codec Parameters" by Raj, B., Migdal, J. and Singh, R. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).
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- Date: November 30, 2001
Where: ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization in Africa (AFRIGRAPH)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Interacting with Spatially Augmented Reality" by Raskar, R. and Low, K.-L. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization in Africa (AFRIGRAPH).
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- Date: November 30, 2001
Where: International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) Brief - The papers "Video Object Segmentation by Volume Growing Using Feature-Based Motion Estimator" by Porikli, F.M. and "Image Simplification by Robust Estimator Based Reconstruction Filter" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS).
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- Date: November 25, 2001
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Novel Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm: Wavelet-Decomposed Signal Energy Approach" by Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 20, 2001
Where: Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Privacy-Enhanced Displays by Time-Masking Images" by Yerazunis, W.S. and Carbone, M. was presented at the Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI).
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- Date: November 11, 2001
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Real-Time Audio Buffering for Telephone Applications" by Dietz, P.H. and Yerazunis, W.S. and "DiamondTouch: A Multi-User Touch Technology" by Dietz, P.H. and Leigh, D.L. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 31, 2001
Where: Journal of Electronic Imaging
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Video Summarization Using Descriptors of Motion Activity: A Motion Activity Based Approach to Key-Frame Extraction from Video Shots" by Divakaran, A., Regunathan, R. and Peker, K.A. was published in Journal of Electronic Imaging.
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- Date: October 29, 2001
Where: IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Dynamic Shader Lamps: Painting on Movable Objects" by Bandyopadhyay, D., Raskar, R. and Fuchs, H. was presented at the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality.
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- Date: October 23, 2001
Where: IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Intelligent Multi-Hop Video Communications" by Wu, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Kung, S.Y. and "A Motion Activity Descriptor and Its Extraction in the Compressed Domain" by Sun, X., Divakaran, A. and Manjunath, B.S. were presented at the IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).
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- Date: October 21, 2001
Where: ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP) Brief - The paper "Learning Hierarchical Task Models by Defining and Refining Examples" by Garland, A., Ryall, K. and Rich, C. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP).
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- Date: October 21, 2001
Where: IEEE Visualization
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "EWA Volume Splatting" by Zwicker, M., Pfister, H., van Baar, J. and Gross, M. was presented at IEEE Visualization.
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- Date: October 15, 2001
Where: International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) Brief - The paper "Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation with Optimal Number of Renegotiations in ATM Networks" by Porikli, F.M. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN).
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- Date: October 7, 2001
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Adaptive Diversity Combining for Interference Cancellation in CDMA Systems" by Horng, J.H. and Nakache, Y.-P. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: October 7, 2001
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Accurate Detection of Edge Orientation for Color and Multi-Spectral Imagery" by Porikli, F.M., "An Unsupervised Multi-Resolution Object Extraction Algorithm Using Video-Cubes" by Porikli, F.M. and Wang, Y., "Constant Pace Skimming and Temporal Sub-sampling of Video Using Motion Activity" by Peker, K.A., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "Rate-Distortion Optimized Video Coding Considering Frameskip" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: October 3, 2001
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Brief - The paper "Projection Algebra Analysis of Error-Correcting Codes" by Yedidia, J.S., Sudderth, E.B. and Bouchaud, J.-P. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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- Date: September 23, 2001
Where: Graph Drawing - International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD)
MERL Contact: Richard C. (Dick) Waters Brief - The paper "A Short Note on the History of Graph Drawing" by Kruja, E., Marks, J., Blair, A. and Waters, R.C. was presented at the Graph Drawing - International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD).
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- Date: September 19, 2001
Where: International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Visualization and Layout for Personal Photo Libraries" by Moghaddam, B., Tian, Q., Lesh, N.B., Shen, C. and Huang, T.S. was presented at the International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing.
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