- Date: October 1, 2006
Where: International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "UWB-based Sensor Networks and the IEEE 802.15.4a Standard" by Molisch, A.F., Orlik, P., Sahinoglu, Z. and Zhang, J. and "Implementation Aspects of Antenna Selection for MIMO Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Mehta, N.B., Zhang, H., Almers, P. and Zhang, J. were presented at the International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom).
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- Date: September 29, 2006
Where: SPIE Conference on Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems Technology and Applications
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Fast Image Registration via Joint Gradient maximization: Application to Multimodal Data" by Mei, X. and Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems Technology and Applications.
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- Date: September 25, 2006
Where: International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Weighted Ensemble Boosting for Robust Activity Recognition in Video" by Ivanov, Y. and Hamid, R. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG).
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- Date: September 24, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB)
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Optimal and Suboptimal Linear Receivers for Impulse Radio UWB Systems" by Gezici, S., Poor, H.V., Kobayashi, H. and Molisch, A.F. and "Interference Suppression in Non-coherent Time-hopping IR-UWB Ranging" by Sahinoglu, Z., Guvenc, I., Orlik, P. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB).
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- Date & Time: Saturday, September 16, 2006; 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location: Pittsburgh, PA Brief - MERL is a sponsor for SAPA 2006, the second ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, in September 2006. The workshop is co-organized by MERL researchers Bhiksha Raj and Paris Smaragdis.
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- Date: September 1, 2006
Where: European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Stochastic Shortest Paths Via Quasi-convex Maximization" by Nikolova, E., Kelner, J., Brand, M. and Mitzenmacher, M. was presented at the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA).
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- Date: September 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The articles "Identity-Differentiating Widgets for Multiuser Interactive Surfaces" by Ryall, K., Esenther, A., Forlines, C., Shen, C., Shipman, S., Morris, M.R., Everitt, K. and Vernier, F.D. and "Informing the Design of Direct-Touch Tabletops" by Shen, C., Ryall, K., Forlines, C., Esenther, A., Vernier, F.D., Everitt, K., Wu, M., Wigdor, D., Morris, M.R., Hancock, M. and Tse, E. were published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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- Date: September 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM-based UWB Communications" by Li, Y.G., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: September 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Brief - The papers "Measured Diversity Gains from MIMO Antenna Selection" by Almers, P., Santos, T., Tufvesson, F., Molisch, A.F., Karedal, J. and Johansson, A.J. and "A Cluster-Based Analysis of Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Czink, N., Karedal, J., Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: July 30, 2006
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH Brief - The papers "Cartoon Dioramas in Motion" by Raskar, R., Ziegler, R. and Willwacher, T., "Non-photorealistic Camera: Depth Edge Detection and Stylized Rendering Using Multi-flash Imaging" by Raskar, R., Feris, R., Yu, J. and Turk, M., "RFIG Lamps: Interacting with a Self-Describing World via Photosensing Wireless Tags and Projectors" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., van Baar, J., Wang, Y., Dietz, P., Lee, J., Leigh, D. and Willwacher, T., "Designing with Distance Fields" by Frisken, S.F. and Perry, R.N., "An Improved Representation for Stroke-based Fonts" by Jakubiak, E.J., Perry, R.N. and Frisken, S.F., "iLamps: Geometrically Aware and Self-configuring Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P., Willwacher, T., Rao, S. and Forlines, C. and "Natural Video Matting using Camera Arrays" by Joshi, N., Matusik, W. and Avidan, S. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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- Date: July 16, 2006
Where: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Brief - The paper "From the Programmer\'s Apprentice to Human-Robot Interaction: Thirty Years of Research on Human-Computer Collaboration" by Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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- Date: July 15, 2006
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The articles "Coded Exposure Photography: Motion Deblurring Using Fluttered Shutter" by Raskar, R., Agrawal, A. and Tumblin, J., "Fast Separation of Direct and Global Components of a Scene Using High Frequency Illumination" by Nayar, S.K., Krishnan, G., Grossberg, M.D. and Raskar, R., "Analysis of Human Faces using a measurement-Based Skin Reflectance Model" by Weyrich, T., Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Bickel, B., Donner, C., Tu, C., McAndless, J., Lee, J., Ngan, A., Jensen, H. and Gross, M., "Inverse Shade Trees for Non-Parametric Material Representation and Editing" by Lawrence, J., Ben-Artzi, A., DeCoro, C., Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Ramamoorthi, R. and Rusinkiewicz, S., "A Compact Factored Representation of Heterogeneous Subsurface Scattering" by Peers, P., Berge, K., Matusik, W., Ramamoorthi, R., Lawrence, J., Rusinkiewicz, S. and Dutre, P., "Time-Varying Surface Appearance: Acquisition, Modeling and Rendering" by Gu, J., Tu, C., Ramamoorthi, R., Belhumeur, P., Matusik, W. and Nayar, S. and "A Statistical Model for Synthesis of Detailed Facial Geometry" by Golovinskiy, A., Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Rusinkiewicz, S. and Funkhouser, T. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: July 13, 2006
Where: International Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "RemoteDT: Support for Multi-Site Table Collaboration" by Esenther, A. and Ryall, K. was presented at the International Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech).
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- Date: July 9, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Dynamic Rate Control for JPEG 2000 Transcoding" by Schwenke, D., Vetro, A., Hata, T. and Kuwahara, N., "Broadcast Video Program Summarization using Face Tracks" by Peker, K.A., Otsuka, I. and Divakaran, A., "Sports Program Boundary Detection" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Otsuka, I. and "Motion and Mode Mapping for MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding" by Xin, J., Vetro, A., Sekiguchi, S. and Sugimoto, K. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: June 26, 2006
Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Practical, Real-time Studio Matting using Dual Imagers" by McGuire, M., Matusik, W. and Yerazunis, W. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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- Date: June 17, 2006
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Covariance Tracking using Model Update Based on Lie Algebra" by Porikli, F., Tuzel, O. and Meer, P., "Covariance Tracker" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. and "Edge Suppression by Gradient Field Transformation using Cross-Projection Tensors" by Agrawal, A., Raskar, R. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 17, 2006
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Performance Evaluation of Object Detection and Tracking Systems" by Bashir, F. and Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS).
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- Date: June 15, 2006
Where: SPIE Conference on Infrared Technology and Applications
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Pedestrian Tracking Using Thermal Infrared Imaging" by Goubet, E., Katz, J. and Porikli, F. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Infrared Technology and Applications.
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- Date: June 13, 2006
Where: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Multiuser Interference Mitigation in Non-coherent UWB Ranging via Nonlinear Filtering" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Guvenc, I. was published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
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- Date: June 11, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Approximating the Sum of Correlated Lognormal or Lognormal-Rice Random Variables" by Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Wu, J. and Zhang, J. and "A Hybrid UWB Modulation Design Compatible for Both Coherent and Transmit-Reference Receivers" by Orlik, P., Zhao, S. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: June 6, 2006
Where: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Optimal Route Planning under Uncertainty" by Nikolova, E., Brand, M. and Karger, D.R. was presented at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
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- Date: June 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "TOA Estimation for IR-UWB Systems with Different Transceiver Types" by Guvenc, I., Sahinoglu, Z. and Orlik, P.V. was published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
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- Date: May 23, 2006
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Enabling Interaction with Single User Applications through Speech and Gestures on a Multi-User Tabletop" by Tse, E., Shen, C., Greenberg, S. and Forlines, C., "Table-Centric Interactive Spaces for Real-Time Collaboration" by Wigdor, D., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R., "The Prospects for Unrestricted Speech Input for TV Content Search" by Wittenburg, K., Lanning, T., Schwenke, D., Shubin, H. and Vetro, A. and "Fluid DTMouse: Better Mouse Support for Touch-Based Interactions" by Esenther, A. and Ryall, K. were presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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- Date: May 21, 2006
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Brief - The papers "Computing During Supply Voltage Switching in DVS Enabled Real-time Processors" by Duan, C. and Khatri, S.P. and "Memory-based Cross-talk Canceling CODECs for On-chip Buses" by Duan, C., Gulati, K. and Khatri, S. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 14, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Brief - The papers "Generative Process Tracking for Audio Analysis" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Latent Dirichlet Decomposition for Single Channel Speaker Separation" by Raj, B., Shashanka, M.V.S. and Smaragdis, P. and "Secure Sound Classification: Gaussian Mixture Models" by Shashanka, M.V.S. and Smaragdis, P. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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