- Date: June 25, 2011
Awarded to: Paul A. Viola and Michael J. Jones
Awarded for: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features"
Awarded by: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - Paper from 10 years ago with the largest impact on the field: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features", originally published at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001).
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- Date: June 23, 2011
Where: Applied Physics Letters
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Jinyun Zhang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The article "Experiments on Wireless Power Transfer with Metamaterials" by Wang, B., Teo, K.H., Nichino, T., Yerazunis, W., Barnwell, J. and Zhang, J. was published in Applied Physics Letters.
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- Date: June 21, 2011
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Entropy Rate Superpixel Segmentation" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, O., Ramalingam, S. and Chellappa, R., "Structured Light 3D Scanning in the Presence of Global Illumination" by Gupta, M., Agrawal, A., Veeraraghavan, A. and Narasimhan, S., "CrossTrack: Robust 3D Tracking from Two Cross-Sectional Views" by Hussein, M., Porikli, F., Li, R. and Arsian, S., "P2C2: Programmable Pixel Compressive Camera for High Speed Imaging" by Reddy, D., Veeraraghavan, A. and Chellappa, R., "Beyond Alhazen's Problem: Analytical Projection Model for Non-Central Catadioptric Cameras with Quadric Mirrors" by Agrawal, A., Taguchi, Y. and Ramalingam, S. and "The Light-Path Less Traveled" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S., Sturm, P. and Torr, P. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 8, 2011
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Resource Block Embedding: Towards High Throughput Broadband Multimedia Wireless Networks" by Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P.V. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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- Date: June 5, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino Brief - The papers "Reduced-Rate OFDM Transmission with Statistics-based ICI Mitigation" by Ma, J., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Li, G.Y., "Super-Resolution Blind Channel Modeling" by Pun, M.-O., Molisch, A.F., Orlik, P. and Okazaki, A., "Network-Coded Interference Alignment in K-Pair Bidirectional Relaying Channels" by Koike-Akino, T., Pun, M.-O. and Orlik, P., "Non-Coherent Grassmann TCM Design for Physical-Layer Network Coding in Bidirectional MIMO Relaying Systems" by Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. and "Order-Extended Sparse RLS Algorithm for Doubly-Selective MIMO Channel Estimation" by Koike-Akino, T., Molisch, A.F., Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P. and Pun, M.-O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 23, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The article "Sparse Recovery from Combined Fusion Frame Measurements" by Boufounos, P.T., Kutyniok, G. and Rauhut, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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- Date: May 23, 2011
Where: IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Low Complexity STAP via Subspace Tracking in Compound-Gaussian Environment" by Wang, P., Pun, M.O. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon).
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- Date: May 22, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Compressive Sensing for Over-the-Air Ultrasound" by Boufounos, P.T., "Privacy Preserving Probabilistic Inference with Hidden Markov Models" by Pathak, M., Rane, S., Sun, W. and Raj, B., "Saturation-robust SAR Image Formation" by Wei, D. and Boufounos, P.T. and "Scale-Invariant GLRT in Stochastic Partially Homogeneous Environments" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O., Li, H. and Himed, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- 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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- Date: May 15, 2011
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Performance Evaluation of Cross-Polarized Antenna Selection over 2 GHz Measurement-Based Channel Models" by Nishimoto, H., Taira, A., Kubo, H., Pun, M.O., Annavajjala, R. and Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: May 12, 2011
Where: CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Modeling Cutting Forces for 5-Axis Machining of Sculptured Surfaces" by Boz, Y., Erdim, H. and Lazoglu, I. was presented at the CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations.
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- Date: May 9, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Pose Estimation using Both Points and Lines for Geo-Localization" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S. and Sturm, P. and "Finding a Needle in a Specular Haystack" by Shroff, N., Taguchi, Y., Tuzel, O., Veeraraghavan, A., Ramalingam, S. and Okuda, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: May 2, 2011
Where: International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The paper "Hierarchical Distributed Scalar Quantization" by Boufounos, P.T. was presented at the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA).
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- 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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- Date: April 21, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Pilot Matrix Design for Estimating Cascaded Channels in Two-Hop MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems" by Ma, J., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Li, G.Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: April 21, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Comparative Analysis of Pilot-Assisted Distributed Co-phasing Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks" by Chaythanya, K.V., Annavajjala, R. and Murthy, C.R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- 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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- Date: April 11, 2011
Where: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Wireless Power Transfer with Metamaterials" by Wang, B., Teo, K.H., Nishino, T., Yerazunis, W., Barnwell, J. and Zhang, J. was presented at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
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- Date: April 10, 2011
Where: Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Shape Retrieval on Non-rigid 3D Watertight Meshes" by Lian, Z., Godil, A., Bustos, B., Daoudi, M., Hermans, J., Kawamura, S., Kurita, Y., Lavoua, G., Nguyen, H.V., Ohbuchi, R., Ohkita, Y., Porikli, F., Reuter, M., Sipiran, I., Smeets, P., Suetens, P., Tabia, H. and Vandermeulen, D. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval.
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- Date: April 8, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Brief - The articles "Coded Strobing Photography: Compressive Sensing of High-Speed Periodic Events" by Veeraraghavan, A.N., Reddy, D. and Raskar, R. and "Statistical Computations on Grassmann and Stiefel Manifolds for Image and Video-Based Recognition" by Turaga, P., Veeraraghavan, A., Srivastava, A. and Chellappa, R. were published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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- Date: April 4, 2011
Where: Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Sensor Placement Tool for Rapid Development of Video Sensor Layouts" by Garaas, T.W. was presented at the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD).
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- 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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- 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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- Date: March 17, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Communications
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Capacity, MSE and Secrecy Analysis of Linear Block Precoding for Distributed Antenna Systems in Multi-User Frequency-Selective Fading Channels" by Koike-Akino, T., Molisch, A.F., Duan, C., Tao, Z. and Orlik, P. was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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- Date: March 15, 2011
Where: Machine Vision and Applications
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "In-vehicle Camera Traffic Sign Detection and Recognition" by Ruta, A., Porikli, F.M., Watanabe, S. and Li, Y. was published in Machine Vision and Applications.
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