- Date: November 2, 2006
Where: International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) Brief - The paper "GSI Demo: Multiuser Gesture/Speech Interaction over Digital Tables by Wrapping Single User Applications" by Tse, E., Greenberg, S. and Shen, C. was presented at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI).
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Tree-Based Data Broadcast in IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks" by Ding, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Bhargava, B. was published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "On the Optimality of Equal Gain Combining for Energy Detection of Unknown Signals" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z. and Poor, H.V. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Ultra-Wideband Communications Using Hybrid Matched Filter Correlation Receivers" by Tufvesson, F., Gezici, S. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: November 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Brief - The articles "A Comprehensive Standardized Model for Ultrawideband Propagation Channels" by Molisch, A.F., Cassioli, D., Chong, C.-C., Emami, S., Fort, A., Kannan, B., Karedal, J., Kunisch, J., Schantz, H.G., Siwiak, K. and Win, M.Z. and "Impact of Matching Network on Bandwidth of Compact Antenna Arrays" by Lau, B.K., Andersen, J.B., Kristensson, G. and Molisch, A.F. were published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
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- Date: October 15, 2006
Where: Pattern Recognition
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Similarity-based Analysis for Large Networks of Ultra-Low Resolution Sensors" by Wren, C.R., Minnen, D.C. and Rao, S.G. was published in Pattern Recognition.
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- Date: October 15, 2006
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Brief - The papers "Under the Table Interaction" by Wigdor, D., Leigh, D., Forlines, C., Shipman, S., Barnwell, J., Balakrishnan, R. and Shen, C., "Multi-User, Multi-Display Interaction with a Single-User, Single-Display Geospatial Application" by Forlines, C., Esenther, A., Shen, C., Wigdor, D. and Ryall, K., "Two New Techniques for Natural Spoken User Interfaces" by Weinberg, G., Raj, B. and Kalgaonkar, K. and "HybridPointing: Fluid Switching between Absolute and Relative Pointing with a Direct Input Device" by Forlines, C., Vogel, D. and Balakrishnan, R. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 8, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Extensions of H.264/AVC for Multiview Video Compression" by Martinian, E., Behrens, A., Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Fast Construction of Covariance Matrices for Arbitrary Size Image Windows" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. and "A Cascading Framework of Contour Motion and Deformation Estimation for Non-Rigid Object Tracking" by Shao, J., Porikli, F. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: October 8, 2006
Where: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Dealing with Multi-Scale Depth Changes and Motion in Depth Edge Detection" by Feris, R., Tuk, M. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI).
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- Date: October 3, 2006
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Hybrid Distributed Video Coding Using SCA Codes" by Martinian, E., Vetro, A., Yedidia, J.S., Ascenso, J., Khisti, A. and Malioutov, D. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).
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- Date: October 1, 2006
Where: Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Merging Segmentations of Low-level and Mid-level Time Series for Audio Class Discovery" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC).
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- 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: October 1, 2006
Where: Journal of Real-time Image Processing
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "Achieving Real-Time Object Detection and Tracking Under Extreme Conditions" by Porikli, F. was published in Journal of Real-time Image Processing.
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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: 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 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: 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 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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