- Date: November 1, 2012
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Structured Discriminative Models For Speech Recognition" by Gales, M., Watanabe, S. and Fosler-Lussier, E. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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- Date: October 31, 2012
Where: European Radar Conference (EuRAD)
MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Accurate Models for Spiral Resonators" by Ellstein, D., Wang, B. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the European Radar Conference (EuRAD).
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- Date: October 30, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Decoupled Three-Phase Load Flow Method for Unbalanced Distribution Systems" by Sun, H., Dubey, A., Nikovski, D., Ohno, T., Takano, T. and Kojima, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON).
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- Date: October 29, 2012
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Power Delivery Optimization for a Mobile Power Transfer System based on Resonator Arrays" by Yerazunis, W., Wang, B. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP).
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- Date: October 29, 2012
Where: CIRP Conference on Process Machine Interactions (PMI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "High Accuracy Computation of Geometric Properties of Cutter Workpiece Intersection using Distance Fields for NC Milling" by Erdim, H. and Sullivan, A. was presented at the CIRP Conference on Process Machine Interactions (PMI).
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- Date: October 29, 2012
Where: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Robust Receiver Algorithms to Mitigate Partial-Band and Partial-Time Interference in LDPC-coded OFDM Systems" by Li, L., Annavajjala, R., Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. was presented at the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM).
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 1:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Timothy J. Hazen and David Harwath, MIT Lincoln Labs / MIT CSAIL
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 9:10 AM
Speaker: Prof. Jim Glass and Chia-ying Lee, MIT CSAIL
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 9:55 AM
Speaker: Dr. Tara Sainath, IBM Research
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 3:20 PM
Speaker: Dr. Steven J. Rennie, IBM Research
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 4:05 PM
Speaker: Dr. John R. Hershey, MERL
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: MERL
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - SANE 2012, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the northeast of the American continent, will be held on Wednesday October 24, 2012 at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, MA.
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 11:45 AM
Speaker: Josh McDermott, MIT, BCS
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 2:15 PM
Speaker: Dr. Herb Gish, BBN - Raytheon
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2012; 11:00 AM
Speaker: Prof. Dan Ellis, Columbia University
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date: October 22, 2012
Where: Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Evaluation of Two Types of In-Vehicle Music Retrieval and Navigation Systems" by Zhang, J., Borowsky, A., Schmidt-Nielsen, B., Harsham, B., Weinberg, G., Romoser, M.R.E. and Fisher, D.L. was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).
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- Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - Friday, October 19, 2012
Location: Portsmouth, NH
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - MERL is a sponsor for the Fourth International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Automotive UI 2012.
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- Date: October 17, 2012
Where: ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Decentralized Finite-Time Stabilizing Feedback Network Control" by Zhao, Y. was presented at the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference.
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- Date: October 16, 2012
Where: Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Markov Decision Processes for Train Run Curve Optimization" by Nikovski, D., Lidicky, B., Zhang, W., Kataoka, K. and Yoshimoto, K. was presented at Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS).
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- Date: October 14, 2012
Where: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Hybrid Three-Phase Load Flow Method for Ungrounded Distribution Systems" by Sun, H., Nikovski, D., Ohno, T., Takano, T. and Kojima, Y. was presented at IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe).
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- Date: October 13, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DIMPVT)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Classification and Pose Estimation of Vehicles in Videos by 3D Modeling within Discrete-Continuous Optimization" by Hodlmoser, M., Micusik, B., Liu, M.-Y., Pollefeys, M. and Kaampel, M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DIMPVT).
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- Date & Time: Thursday, October 11, 2012; 2:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Gautham J. Mysore, Adobe
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Abstract - Non-negative spectrogram factorization techniques have become quite popular in the last decade as they are effective in modeling the spectral structure of audio. They have been extensively used for applications such as source separation and denoising. These techniques however fail to account for non-stationarity and temporal dynamics, which are two important properties of audio. In this talk, I will introduce the non-negative hidden Markov model (N-HMM) and the non-negative factorial hidden Markov model (N-FHMM) to model single sound sources and sound mixtures respectively. They jointly model the spectral structure and temporal dynamics of sound sources, while accounting for non-stationarity. I will also discuss the application of these models to various applications such as source separation, denoising, and content based audio processing, showing why they yield improved performance when compared to non-negative spectrogram factorization techniques.
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- Date & Time: Thursday, October 11, 2012; 12:00 PM
Speaker: Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center, Vienna Abstract - Increasing complexity and a large number of control parameters make the design and understanding of modern engineering systems impossible without simulation today. Advances in simulation technology and ability to run multiple simulations with different sets of parameters poses new challenges for analysis techniques. In this talk we will present our experiences in exploration and analysis of simulation ensembles realized in several projects with experts from automotive, meteorology, and medical domains. We tightly integrate simulation, numerical optimization, and interactive visual analysis in a unified framework. Our new data model supports families of curves and families of surfaces. Accompanying interactive visual analysis techniques offer new possibilities for data exploration and analysis. It is possible to start with a simple analysis, to continue with identifying hidden features, and finally to explore very complex dependencies using advanced interaction and on-the-fly data derivation and aggregation. All proposed techniques will be illustrated using a coordinated multiple views system and real-life data from various projects with scientists and engineers, including the optimization of an automotive rail injection system.
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- Date: October 7, 2012
Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Motion-Aware Structured Light Using Spatio-Temporal Decodable Patterns" by Taguchi, Y., Agrawal, A. and Tuzel, O., "Rainbow Flash Camera: Depth Edge Extraction Using Complementary Colors" by Taguchi, Y. and "Monocular Visual Odometry and Dense 3D Reconstruction for On-Road Vehicles" by Zhu, M., Ramalingam, S., Taguchi, Y. and Garaas, T. were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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- Date: October 1, 2012
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
MERL Contacts: Arvind Raghunathan; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "Global Optimization of Optimal Power Flow Using a Branch & Bound Algorithm" by Gopalakrishnan, A., Raghunathan, A.U., Nikovski, D. and Biegler, L.T. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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