- Date: October 1, 2014
Where: Intellectual Property Exchange InternationaI (IPXI)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. (IPXI), the world's first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property (IP) rights, today announced a multi-party offering for standard essential patents (SEPs) involving the world's most widely adopted standard protocol for wireless technology. The offering of Unit License Right™ (ULR™) contracts is based on patent rights from eight organizations—including MERL and other leading consumer electronics and telecommunications companies, universities and research laboratories—whose rights are considered essential to the IEEE 802.11n standard for higher throughput in wireless local area network (WLAN) communications.
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- Date: July 11, 2014
Where: R&D Magazine
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - A team with members from MERL, ATC, and Meiden received an R&D 100 award for its work on Mitsubishi Electric's MELFA-3D Vision system for industrial robot arms. This system completely automates bin picking a task for picking up parts that are randomly placed in a bin and aligning their poses for assembly processes.
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- Date: July 1, 2014
Where: IEEE International Wireless Symposium (IWS) Brief - Rui Ma has joined the Technical Program Committee for the 2015 IEEE International Wireless Symposium and will act as Sub-committee Chair for power amplifier design and organize a workshop on GaN.
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- Date: June 12, 2014
Where: IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society Brief - Rui Ma has been accepted as a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE
Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (Boston Section).
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- Date: June 10, 2014
Where: European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
MERL Contacts: Kieran Parsons; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Four papers from the Optical Communications team have been accepted for publication and presentation at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) to be held in Cannes, France in September 2014. The papers relate to high-dimensional modulation, signal processing and coding for coherent optical links.
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- Date: May 10, 2014
Where: REVERB Workshop
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - Mitsubishi Electric's submission to the REVERB workshop achieved the second best performance among all participating institutes. The team included Yuuki Tachioka and Tomohiro Narita of MELCO in Japan, and Shinji Watanabe and Felix Weninger of MERL. The challenge addresses automatic speech recognition systems that are robust against varying room acoustics.
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- Date: June 6, 2014
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC)
MERL Contact: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - Toshiaki Koike-Akino has accepted the invitation to give a talk on coded modulation formats with optimized constellations in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC 2015).
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- Date: May 12, 2014 - May 14, 2014
Where: Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - MERL is a sponsor for the 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014), held in Nancy, France, in May 2014.
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- Date: May 1, 2014
Awarded to: Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos
Awarded for: "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight"
Awarded by: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos are the recipients of the the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award for their paper "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight," presented at IGARSS 2013 (TR2013-070).
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- Date: May 1, 2014
Where: IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - John R. Hershey is Co-Chair of the GlobalSIP 2014 Symposium on Machine Learning.
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- Date: March 11, 2014
Awarded to: Yuuki Tachioka
Awarded for: "Effectiveness of discriminative approaches for speech recognition under noisy environments on the 2nd CHiME Challenge"
Awarded by: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka received the Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award from the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ) for "effectiveness of discriminative approaches for speech recognition under noisy environments on the 2nd CHiME Challenge", which was based on joint work with MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John R. Hershey.
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- Date: March 1, 2014
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - John R. Hershey is Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Assisted Listening of the IEEE Signal Processing.
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- Date: February 15, 2014
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - David S. Millar has been elected to the 2015 OFC Technical Committee for Digital electronic subsystems and transceivers.
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- Date: February 11, 2014
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - Petros Boufounos was appointed as a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
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- Date: January 1, 2014
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - Jonathan Le Roux, Shinji Watanabe and John R. Hershey have been elected for 3-year terms to Technical Committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Jonathan has been elected to the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP-TC), and Shinji and John to the Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee (SL-TC). Members of the Speech & Audio team now together hold four TC positions, as John also serves on the AASP-TC.
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- Date: February 13, 2014
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has developed energy loss-reduction technology that uses algorithms for fast analysis of three-phase electricity developed by MERL to establish optimal coordination of power-distribution grids for reductions in energy loss and power-generation costs. The technology was achieved under Mitsubishi Electric's Smart Grid Demonstration Project.
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- Date: February 13, 2014
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced its development of advanced optimization algorithms and high-speed calculation methods aimed at optimizing the performance of three practical systems: laser-processing machines for high-speed cutting of sheet metal using the shortest possible trajectories, moon probes achieved with minimized fuel consumption, and particle beam therapies for prompt medical treatments.
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- Date: February 10, 2014
MERL Contacts: Jonathan Le Roux; Daniel N. Nikovski; Anthony Vetro Brief - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation demonstrated an ultra-simple HMI for in-car device operation using algorithms developed by MERL to predict user actions and destinations.
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- Date: September 26, 2013
Awarded to: Jonathan Le Roux
Awarded for: "A new non-negative dynamical system for speech and audio modeling"
Awarded by: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date: August 19, 2013
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
MERL Contact: Ye Wang
Research Area: Information Security
Brief - The article "Secure Biometrics: Concepts, Authentication Architectures & Challenges" by Rane, S., Wang, Y., Draper, S.C. and Ishwar, P. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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- Date: July 21, 2013
Where: IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
Research Areas: Electric Systems, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Fast Frequency and Phase Estimation in Three Phase Power Systems" by Chen, Z., Sahinoglu, Z. and Li, H. was presented at the IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
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- Date: July 19, 2013
Where: International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognion (MLDM)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Smart Meter Data Analysis for Power Theft Detection" by Nikovski, D., Wang, Z., Esenther, A., Sun, H., Sugiura, K., Muso, T. and Tsuru, K. was presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognion (MLDM).
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- Date: July 9, 2013
Where: International Journal of Control
MERL Contacts: Stefano Di Cairano; Matthew Brand; Scott A. Bortoff
Research Area: Control
Brief - The article "Projection-free Parallel Quadratic Programming for Linear Model predictive Control" by Di Cairano, S., Brand, M. and Bortoff, S.A. was published in International Journal of Control.
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- Date: July 8, 2013
Where: Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structural Representation (SPARS)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The article "On Embedding the Angles Between Signals" by Boufounos, P.T. was published in Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structural Representation (SPARS).
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- Date: July 1, 2013
Where: International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The paper "Sparse Signal Reconstruction from Phase-only Measurements" by Boufounos, P.T. was presented at the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA).
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