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104 News items, Awards, Events or Talks found.


  •  EVENT    ICASSP 2013 - Student Career Luncheon
    Date & Time: Thursday, May 30, 2013; 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
    Location: Vancouver, Canada
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos; Jonathan Le Roux
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • MERL is a sponsor for the first ICASSP Student Career Luncheon that will take place at ICASSP 2013. MERL members will take part in the event to introduce MERL and talk with students interested in positions or internships.
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  •  NEWS    International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control: publication by Stefano Di Cairano and others
    Date: January 24, 2013
    Where: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
    MERL Contact: Stefano Di Cairano
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  •  EVENT    SANE 2012 - Speech and Audio in the Northeast
    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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  •  TALK    Visual 3D/4D modeling of urban places and events
    Date & Time: Friday, June 29, 2012; 2:30 PM
    Speaker: Prof. Marc Pollefeys, ETH Zurich and UNC Chapel Hill
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Abstract
    • One of the fundamental problems of computer vision is to extract 3D shape and motion from images. This can be achieved when a scene or object is observed from different viewpoints or over a period of time. First, we will discuss image-based 3D modeling and localization in large environments, e.g. urban 3D reconstruction from vehicle-borne cameras and (geo)localization from mobile-phone images. In this context, we will discuss some of the challenges an opportunities offered by symmetries of architectural structures. We will also discuss how changes in an urban environment can be detected from images, leading to the possibility to efficiently acquire 4D models. In addition to explicit 4D modeling of an event, we'll consider the possibility to perform interactive video-based rendering from casually captured videos.
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  •  NEWS    Video Analytics for Business Intelligence: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: January 1, 2012
    Where: Video Analytics for Business Intelligence
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The article "Object Detection & Tracking" by Porikli, F. and Yilmaz, A. was published in the book Video Analytics for Business Intelligence.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    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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  •  NEWS    ICC 2010: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 23, 2010
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)
    Research Area: Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The paper "A Change-Point Detection Approach to Power Quality Monitoring in Smart Grids" by He, X., Pun, M.-O., Kuo, C.-C. J. and Zhao, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 8, 2010
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The article "Coded Strobing Photography: Compressive Sensing of High Speed Periodic Events" by Veeraraghavan, A., Reddy, D. and Raskar, R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
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  •  NEWS    International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA) 2007: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 20, 2007
    Where: International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "SocialMotion: Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building" by Wren, C., Ivanov, Y., Kaur, I., Leigh, D. and Westhues, J. was presented at the International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA).
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  •  NEWS    INTETAIN 2005: publication by Kent Wittenburg and Alan Esenther
    Date: November 30, 2005
    Where: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN)
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "Multi-User Multi-Touch Games on DiamondTouch with the FTFlash Toolkit" by Esenther, A. and Wittenburg, K. was presented at Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN).
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  •  NEWS    AVSS 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: September 15, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Performance Evaluation of Event Detection Solutions: The CREDS Experience" by Zilani, F., Velastin, S., Porikli, F., Marcenaro, L., Kelliher, T., Cavallaro, A. and Bruneaut, P. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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  •  NEWS    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: May 4, 2005
    Where: EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The article "A Content-Adaptive Analysis and Representation Framework for Audio Event Discovery from Unscripted Multimedia" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A., Xiong, Z. and Otsuka, I. was published in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
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  •  NEWS    KIMAS 2005: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 18, 2005
    Where: IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Ambiguity Detection by Fusion and Conformity: A Spectral Clustering Approach" by Porikli, F. was presented at the IEEE International Conference Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia 2005: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: January 15, 2005
    Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia
    Brief
    • The paper "Modeling Sports Highlights Using a Time-Series Clustering Framework and Model Interpretation" by Radhakrishnan, R., Otsuka, I., Xiong, Z. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia.
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  •  NEWS    NIPS 2004: publication by Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: December 6, 2004
    Where: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Activity Recognition and Discovery
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "Activity Mining in Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R. and Minnen, D.C. was presented at the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on Activity Recognition and Discovery.
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  •  NEWS    ICIP 2004: 6 publications by Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: October 24, 2004
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Nonlinear Warping Function Recovery by Scan-Line Search Using Dynamic Programming" by Porikli, F.M., "A Hidden Markov Model Framework for Traffic Event Detection Using Video Features" by Li, X. and Porikli, F.M., "Adaptive Fuzzy Post-Filtering for Highly Compressed Video" by Kong, H.S., Nie, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Barner, K., "An Investigation of 3D Dual-Tree Wavelet Transform for Video Coding" by Wang, B., Wang, Y., Selesnick, I. and Vetro, A., "Video Mining: Pattern Discovery Versus Pattern Recognition" by Divakaran, A., Peker, K.A., Chang, S.-F., Radhakrishnan, R. and Xie, L. and "Discovering Meaningful Multimedia Patterns with Audio-Visual Concepts and Associated Text" by Xie, L., Kennedy, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A., Sun, H. and Lin, C.-Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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  •  NEWS    ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval 2004: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: October 15, 2004
    Where: ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "A Time Series Clustering Based Framework for Multimedia Mining and Summarization Using Audio Features" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Xiong, Z. was presented at the ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval.
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  •  NEWS    CVPRW 2004: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: June 27, 2004
    Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
    Research Area: Machine Learning
    Brief
    • The paper "Event Detection by Eigenvector Decomposition Using Object and Frame Features" by Porikli, F.M. and Haga, T. was presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW).
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  •  NEWS    Pattern Recognition Letters: publication by Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 31, 2004
    Where: Pattern Recognition Letters
    MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Structure Analysis of Soccer Video with Domain Knowledge and Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Xu, P., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. was published in Pattern Recognition Letters.
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Multimedia Databases 2004: 2 publications by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: January 20, 2004
    Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Multimedia Databases
    Brief
    • The papers "Audio-Visual Event Detection Based on Mining of Semantic Audio-Visual Labels" by Goh, K.-S., Miyahara, K., Radhakrishan, R., Xiong, Z. and Divakaran, A. and "Video Mining Using Combinations of Unsupervised and Supervised Learning Techniques" by Divakaran, A., Miyaraha, K., Peker, K.A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Xiong, Z. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Multimedia Databases.
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  •  NEWS    International Conference on Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia 2003: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: December 31, 2003
    Where: International Conference on Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "Generation of Sports Highlights Using a Combination of Supervised & Unsupervised Learning in Audio Domain" by Radhakrishan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Ishikawa, Y. was presented at the International Conference on Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia.
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  •  NEWS    ICME 2003: 7 publications by Chia Shen, Anthony Vetro, Ajay Divakaran and Huifang Sun
    Date: July 6, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Multi-Camera Calibration, Object Tracking and Query Generation" by Porikli, F.M. and Divakaran, A., "Unsupervised Discovery of Multilevel Statistical Video Structures Using Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H., "FGS Enhancement Layer Truncation with Minimized Intra-Frame Quality Variation" by Zhou, J., Shao, H.-R., Shen, C. and Sun, M.-T., "Object-Based Coding for Long-Term Archive of Surveillance Video" by Vetro, A., Haga, T., Sumi, K. and Sun, H., "Rate Allocation for FGS-Coded Video Using Composite Rate-Distortion Analysis" by Cheng, H., Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. and "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2003: 6 publications by Anthony Vetro and Ajay Divakaran
    Date: April 6, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "Lossless Compression of Language Model Structure and Word Identifiers" by Raj, B. and Whittaker, E.W.D., "Rate-Distortion Analysis of the Multiple Description Motion Compensation Video Coding Scheme" by Lin, S., Vetro, A. and Wang, Y., "Comparing MFCC and MPEG-7 Audio Features for Feature Extraction, Maximum Likelihood HMM and Entropic Prior HMM for Sports Audio Classification" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Audio Events Detection Based Highlights Extraction from Baseball, Golf and Soccer Games in a Unified Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Multi-Channel Source Separation by Factorial HMMs" by Reyes-Gomez, M.J., Raj, B. and Ellis, D.P.W. and "Tracking Noise via Dynamical Systems with a Continuum of States" by Singh, R. and Raj, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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  •  NEWS    ICA 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: April 1, 2003
    Where: International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA)
    Research Area: Speech & Audio
    Brief
    • The paper "Audio/Visual Independent Components" by Smaragdis, P. and Casey, M. was presented at the International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation (ICA).
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  •  NEWS    PETS 2003: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: March 31, 2003
    Where: IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Human Body Tracking by Adaptive Background Models and Mean-Shift Analysis" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS).
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