- Date: June 26, 2002
Where: Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Acquisition and Rendering of Transparent and Refractive Objects" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Ngan, A., Ziegler, R. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW).
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- Date: June 19, 2002
Where: IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Browsing 3-D Spaces with 3-D Spaces with 3-D Vision: Body-Driven Navigation Through the Internet City" by Sparacino, F., Wren, C., Azarbayejani, A. and Pentland, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission.
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- Date: June 18, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Content-Based Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Cabasson, R., "Complexity-Quality Analysis of MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Transcoding Architectures" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N. and Kalva, H., "Efficient FGS to Single Layer Transcoding" by Lin, Y.-C., Wang, C.-N., Chiang, T., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Signal Circulation for Adaptive Equalization in Digital Communication Systems" by Horng, J.H. and Zhang, J. and "A Mobile Network Architecture with Personalized Instant Information Access" by Sahinoglu, Z., Peker, K.A., Matsubara, F. and Cukier, J. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: June 16, 2002
Where: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium) Brief - The paper "Semi-Automatic Antenna Design via Sampling and Visualization" by Quigley, A., Leigh, D.L., Lesh, N.B., Marks, J.W., Ryall, K. and Wittenburg, K.B. was presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium).
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- Date: June 12, 2002
Where: IEEE Sensors
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Wireless Liquid Level Sensing for Restaurant Applications" by Dietz, P.H., Leigh, D.L. and Yerazunis, W.S. was presented at IEEE Sensors.
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- Date: June 5, 2002
Where: International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) Brief - The paper "Collaborative Discourse Theory as a Foundation for Tutorial Dialogue" by Rickel, J., Lesh, N.B., Rich, C., Sidner, C.L. and Gertner, A. was presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).
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- Date: June 3, 2002
Where: International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Cartoon Dioramas in Motion" by Raskar, R., Ziegler, R. and Willwacher, T. was presented at the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR).
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- Date: June 1, 2002
Where: International Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Subspace Mappings for Image Sequences" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the International Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP).
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- Date: May 31, 2002
Where: Noise Reduction in Speech Applications Brief - The articles "Signal and Feature Compensation Methods for Robust Speech Recognition" by Singh, R., Stern, R.M. and Raj, B. and "Model Compensation and Matched Condition Methods for Robust Speech Recognition" by Singh, R., Raj, B. and Stern, R.M. were published in the book Noise Reduction in Speech Applications.
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- Date: May 28, 2002
Where: International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Sequential Bezout Equalizer for MIMO Systems" by Kung, S.Y., Zhang, X., Vannucci, G. and Zhang, J., "Time Domain Channel Estimation for OFDM Using EM Algorithm" by Ma, X., Kobayashi, H., Schwartz, S.C., Zhang, J. and Gu, D., "Study of Two 1/4 Turbo Code Receivers in Non-Frequency Selective Fast Fading Channels" by Cao, L., Zhang, J., Chen, C.W., Orlik, P.V. and Miyake, M. and "An OFDM Receiver Structure for Broadband Wireless LANs" by Gu, D., Zhang, J., You, C., Miyake, M. and Ma, X. were presented at the International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond.
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- Date: May 27, 2002
Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Incremental Singular Value Decomposition of Uncertain Data with Missing Values" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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- Date: May 26, 2002
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Reduced Spatio-Temporal Transcoding Using an Intra Refresh Technique" by Vetro, A., Yin, P., Liu, B. and Sun, H. and "Successive Packing Based Interleaver for Design Turbo Codes" by Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Chen, H., Haimovich, A.M., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 22, 2002
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Brief - The paper "Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces" by Vernier, F., Lesh, N.B. and Shen, C. was presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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- Date: May 13, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Speech Recognizer Based Microphone Array Processing for Robust Hands-Free Speech Recognition" by Seltzer, M., Raj, B. and Stern, R., "Structure Analysis of Soccer Video with Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "A Probabilistic Approach for Rate-Distortion Modeling of Multi-scale Binary Shape" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: May 6, 2002
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Blind Channel Estimation and Equalization Using Viterbi Algorithms" by Cao, L., Chen, C.W., Zhang, J., Orlik, P.V. and Gu, D. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: April 30, 2002
Where: Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Motion Descriptors" by Jeannin, S., Divakaran, A. and Mory, B. was published in the book Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface.
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- Date: April 20, 2002
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Brief - The paper "Social Net: Using Patterns of Physical Proximity Over Time to Infer Shared Interests" by Terry, M., Mynatt, E.D., Ryall, K. and Leigh, D.L. was presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: April 2, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Efficient Parameter Selection for Use of Self-Similarity in Real Time Resource Management" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Tekinay, S. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: March 20, 2002
Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Improved Low-Complexity Turbo Decoding for HSDPA Applications" by Wang, D., Orlik, P.V., Derand, T., Cao, L., Kobayashi, H. and Zhang, J. was presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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- Date: March 4, 2002
Where: W3C Delivery Context Workshop
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Position Paper: Delivery Context in MPEG-21" by Vetro, A. and Devillers, S. was presented at the W3C Delivery Context Workshop.
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- Date: March 1, 2002
Where: Information Theory Workshop at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Brief - The paper "Generalized Belief Propagation and Free Energy Minimization" by Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Information Theory Workshop at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).
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- Date: January 23, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases Brief - The papers "Data Reduction Procedure for \'Principal-Cast\' and other \'Talking-Head\' Detection" by Divakaran, A. and Radhakrishnan, R. and "Rapid Generation of Sports Video Highlights Using the MPEG-7 Motion Activity Descriptor" by Peker, K.A., Cabasson, R. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases.
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- Date: January 22, 2002
Where: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "A Low-Cost Projector Mosaic with Fast Registration" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J. and Chai, J.X. was presented at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).
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- Date: January 20, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Object-Based Rate Allocation with Spatio-Temporal Trade-Offs" by Lee, J.W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, Y.S., "Drift Compensation Architectures and Techniques for Reduced-Resolution Transcoding" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Liu, B. and "Constant-Quality Constrained-Rate Allocation for FGS Video Coded Bitstreams" by Zhang, X.M., Vetro, A., Shi, Y.Q. and Sun, H. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: January 15, 2002
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA)
MERL Contact: Jianlin Guo Brief - The paper "A TV-Centric Home Network to Provide a Unified Access to UPnP and PLC Domains" by Bhatti, G.M., Sahinoglu, Z., Peker, K.A., Guo, J. and Matsubara, F. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA).
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