- Date: June 16, 2013
Where: REHVA World Congress (CLIMA)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Control
Brief - The paper "A Method for Computing Optimal Set-Point Schedule for HVAC Systems" by Nikovski, D., Xu, J. and Nonaka, M. was presented at the REHVA World Congress (CLIMA).
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- Date: June 14, 2013
Where: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
MERL Contact: Stefano Di Cairano Brief - The article "Vehicle Yaw Stability Control by Coordinated Active Front Steering and Differential Braking in the Tire Sideslip Angles Domain" by Di Cairano, S., Tseng, H.E., Bernardini, D. and Bemporad, A. was published in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
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- Date: June 13, 2013
Where: CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CIRP CMMO)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Cutter Workpiece Engagement Calculations for Five-axis Milling using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields" by Erdim, H. and Sullivan, A. was presented at the CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations (CIRP CMMO).
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- Date: June 12, 2013
Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Hierarchical and High-Girth QC LDPC Codes" by Wang, Y., Draper, S.C. and Yedidia, J.S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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- Date: June 10, 2013
Where: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "Operational Planning of Thermal Generators with Factored Markov Decision Process Models" by Nikovski, D. was presented at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
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- Date: June 9, 2013
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Cognitive Multihop Networks in Spectrum Sharing Environment with Multiple Licensed Users" by Kim, K.J., Duong, T.Q., Tsiftsis, T.A. and Bao, V.N.Q., "Opportunistic Relaying for Cognitive Network with Multiple Primary Users over Nakagami-m Fading" by Duong, T.Q., Kim, K.J., Zepernick, H-J and Tellambura, C. and "On Probabilistic Data Association for Achieving Near-Exponential Diversity over Fading Channels" by Yellepeddi, A., Kim, K.J., Duan, C. and Orlik, P. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: June 2, 2013
Where: IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The paper "A 40-dBm High Voltage Broadband GaN Class-J Power Amplifier for PoE Micro-Basestations" by Ma, R., Goswami, S., Yamanaka, K., Komatsuzaki, Y. and Ohta, A. was presented at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS).
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- Date: June 1, 2013
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The results of the 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge are out! The team formed by MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka and MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John Hershey obtained the best results in the continuous speech recognition task (Track 2). This very challenging task consisted in recognizing speech corrupted by highly non-stationary noises recorded in a real living room. Our proposal, which also included a simple yet extremely efficient denoising front-end, focused on investigating and developing state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition back-end techniques: feature transformation methods, as well as discriminative training methods for acoustic and language modeling. Our system significantly outperformed other participants. Our code has since been released as an improved baseline for the community to use.
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- Date: June 1, 2013
Where: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark" by Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME).
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- Date: May 26, 2013
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Jianlin Guo; Petros T. Boufounos; Jonathan Le Roux Brief - The papers "Stereo-based Feature Enhancement Using Dictionary Learning" by Watanabe, S. and Hershey, J.R., "Effectiveness of Discriminative Training and Feature Transformation for Reverberated and Noisy Speech" by Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S. and Hershey, J.R., "Non-negative Dynamical System with Application to Speech and Audio" by Fevotte, C., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R., "Source Localization in Reverberant Environments using Sparse Optimization" by Le Roux, J., Boufounos, P.T., Kang, K. and Hershey, J.R., "A Keypoint Descriptor for Alignment-Free Fingerprint Matching" by Garg, R. and Rane, S., "Transient Disturbance Detection for Power Systems with a General Likelihood Ratio Test" by Song, JX., Sahinoglu, Z. and Guo, J., "Disparity Estimation of Misaligned Images in a Scanline Optimization Framework" by Rzeszutek, R., Tian, D. and Vetro, A., "Screen Content Coding for HEVC Using Edge Modes" by Hu, S., Cohen, R.A., Vetro, A. and Kuo, C.C.J. and "Random Steerable Arrays for Synthetic Aperture Imaging" by Liu, D. and Boufounos, P.T. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: May 26, 2013
Where: International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD)
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The paper "Design of Enhancement Mode Single-gate and Double-gate Multi-channel GaN HEMT with Vertical Polarity Inversion Heterostructure" by Feng, P., Teo, K.H., Oishi, T., Yamanaka, K. and Ma, R. was presented at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD).
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- Date: May 19, 2013
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "View Synthesis Prediction Using Skip and Merge Candidates for HEVC-based 3D Video Coding" by Zou, F., Tian, D. and Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 15, 2013
Where: Proceedings of IEEE
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis Brief - The article "Wireless Power Transfer: Metamaterials and Array of Coupled Resonators" by Wang, B., Yerazunis, W. and Teo, K.H. was published in Proceedings of IEEE.
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- Date: May 15, 2013
Where: IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Wireless Power Transfer with Artificial Magnetic Conductors" by Wu, J., Wang, B., Yerazunis, W.S. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC).
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- Date: May 14, 2013
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Point-Plane SLAM for Hand-Held 3D Sensors" by Taguchi, Y., Jian, Y-D, Ramalingam, S. and Feng, C. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: May 8, 2013
Where: Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Analysis of Depth Map Resampling Filters for Depth-based 3D Video Coding" by Graziosi, D.B., Rodrigues, N.M.M., de Faria, S.M.M., Tian, D. and Vetro, A. was presented at the Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele).
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- Date: May 2, 2013
Where: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Block Coordinate Descent for Sparse NMF" by Potluru, V.K., Plis, S.M., Le Roux, J., Pearlmutter, B.A., Calhoun, V.D. and Hayes, T.P. was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
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- Date: May 1, 2013
Where: Emerging Technologies for 3D Video: Creation, Coding, Transmission and Rendering
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Depth Based 3D Video Formats and Coding Technology" by Vetro, A. and Muller, K. was published in the book Emerging Technologies for 3D Video: Creation, Coding, Transmission and Rendering.
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- Date: April 8, 2013
Where: Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC)
MERL Contact: Stefano Di Cairano
Research Area: Control
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- Date: April 7, 2013
Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jianlin Guo; Kieran Parsons
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Load Balanced Routing for Low Power and Lossy Networks" by Liu, X., Guo, J., Bhatti, G., Orlik, P. and Parsons, K. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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- Date: April 1, 2013
Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Support Vector Shape: A Classifier Based Shape Representation" by Nguyen, H. V. and Porikli, F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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- Date: March 25, 2013
Where: National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
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- Date: March 20, 2013
Where: Data Compression Conference (DCC)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The paper "Efficient Coding of Signal Distances Using Universal Quantized Embeddings" by Boufounos, P.T. and Rane, S. was presented at the Data Compression Conference (DCC).
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- Date: March 17, 2013
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "A Baud-Rate Sampled Coherent Transceiver with Digital Pulse Shaping and Interpolation" by Millar, D., Lavery, D., Maher, R., Thomsen, B.C., Bayvel, P. and Savory, S.J. was presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC).
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- Date: March 17, 2013
Where: IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Generalized DC-link Voltage Balancing Control Method for Multilevel Inverters" by Deng, Y., Teo, K.H. and Harley, R.G. was presented at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).
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