- Date: July 15, 2005
Where: International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Combining Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes with Adaptive Sub-group Antenna Encoding" by Wu, J., Horng, H., Zhang, J., Xiao, C. and Olivier, J.C. was published in International Journal of Wireless Information Networks.
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- Date: July 6, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Highlights Extraction from Sports Video Based on an Audio-Visual Marker Detection Framework" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Husang, T.S. and "Multi-Kernel Object Tracking" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 3, 2005
Where: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium)
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "Sidelobe Minimization of Uniformly-Excited Sparse Linear Arrays using Exhaustive Search and Visual Browsing" by Leigh, D., Ryall, K., Lanning, T., Lesh, N., Miyashita, H., Hirata, K., Hara, Y. and Sakura, T. was presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium).
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- Date: July 1, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Brief - The article "Constructing Free-Energy Approximations and Generalized Belief Propagation Algorithms" by Yedidia, J.S., Freeman, W.T. and Weiss, Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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- Date: June 30, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The articles "Introduction to the Special Section on MPEG-21" by Pereira, F., Smith, J.R. and Vetro, A. and "Digital Item Adaptation: Overview of Standardization and Research Activities" by Vetro, A. and Timmerer, C. were published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
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- Date: June 29, 2005
Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Estimation of 3D Faces and Illumination from Single Photographs Using a Bilinear Illumination Model" by Lee, J., Machiraju, R., Pfister, H. and Moghaddam, B. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering Techniques.
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- Date: June 29, 2005
Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Experimental Analysis of BRDF Models" by Ngan, A., Durand, F. and Matusik, N. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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- Date: June 20, 2005
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "A Direct Method for 3D Factorization of Nonrigid Motion Observed in 2D" by Brand, M., "Integral Histogram: A Fast Way to Extract Histograms in Cartesian Spaces" by Porikli, F., "Why I Want a Gradient Camera" by Tumblin, J., Agrawal, A. and Raskar, R., "Videoshop: A New Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Editing in Gradient Domain" by Wang, H., Xu, N., Raskar, R. and Ahuja, N. and "Handheld Projectors for Mixing Physical and Digital Textures" by Beardsley, P., Forlines, C., Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 20, 2005
Where: IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "A Bayesian Approach to Background Modeling" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision for Intelligent Vehicles (MVIV).
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- Date: June 13, 2005
Where: International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Achieving Fair Scheduling Over Error-Prone Channels in Multirate WLANs" by Yuan, Y., Gu, D., Arbaugh, W. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM).
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- Date: June 11, 2005
Where: ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom Calibration in the Presence of Hybrid Sensor Networks" by Wren, C.R., Erdem, M. and Azarbayejani, A.J. was presented at the ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN).
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- Date: June 10, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops Brief - The paper "DiamondHelp: A Collaborative Interface Framework for Networked Home Appliances" by Rich, C., Sidner, C., Lesh, N., Garland, A., Booth, S. and Chimani, M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops.
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- Date: June 5, 2005
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) Brief - The paper "Reduced Latency Turbo Decoding" by Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).
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- Date: June 1, 2005
Awarded to: MERL Staff
Awarded for: MERL's Digital Merchandising technology
Awarded by: Viaro (a Herman Miller company) at Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) Brief - MERL's Digital Merchandising technology as presented by Viaro (a Herman Miller company) won the "Best New Product 2005" award at the annual conference of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.
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- Date: May 30, 2005
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Brief - The papers "Capacity Analysis for Compact MIMO Systems" by Lau, B.K., Ow, S.M.S., Kristensson, G. and Molisch, A.F., "Effect of Random Walk Phase Noise on MIMO Measurement" by Almers, P., Wyne, S., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A., "Statistical Evaluation of Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Molisch, A.F., Almers, P., Eriksson, G., Karedal, J. and Tufvesson, F. and "MIMO Channel Measurement for Personal Area Networks" by Johansson, A., Karedal, J., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: May 23, 2005
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Image Transmission over IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks" by Pekhteryev, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P. and Bhatti, G., "Fast Region-of-Interest Transcoding for JPEG 2000 Images" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A., Hata, T. and Kuwahara, N., "A Study of Encoding and Decoding Techniques for Syndrome-Based Video Coding" by Wu, M., Vetro, A., Yedidia, J., Sun, H. and Chen, C. W. and "Efficient MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Intra Transcoding in Transform-domain" by Su, Y., Xin, J., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 22, 2005
Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Low-Cost Multi-Projector Curved Screen Displays" by Raskar, R. and van Baar, J. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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- Date: May 17, 2005
Where: Artificial Intelligence Brief - The article "Explorations in Engagement for Humans and Robots" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Kidds, C.D., Lesh, N. and Rich, C. was published in Artificial Intelligence.
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- Date: May 16, 2005
Where: IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Heli-Tele: Road Extraction from Helicopter Video" by Porikli, F., Shao, J. and Maehara, H. was presented at the IAPR Conference on Machine vision Applications (MVA).
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- Date: May 16, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Layered Space-Time Structure with Statistical Rate Allocation" by Du, J., Gu, D., Molisch, A.F., Li, Y. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 15, 2005
Where: SIAM Conference on Optimization
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "A Random Walks Perspective on Maximizing Satisfaction and Profit" by Brand, M. was presented at the SIAM Conference on Optimization.
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- Date: May 9, 2005
Where: Conference on Graphics Interface (GI) Brief - The paper "Exploring Non-Speech Auditory Feedback at an Interactive Multi-User Tabletop" by Hancock, M.S., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Ryall, K. was presented at the Conference on Graphics Interface (GI).
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- 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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- 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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- Date: April 13, 2005
Where: Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Change Detection by Frequency Decomposition: Wave-Back" by Porikli, F. and Wren, C.R. was presented at the Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services.
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