- Date: August 8, 2004
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission and Autostereoscopic Display of Dynamic Scenes" by Matusik, W. and Pfister, H., "RFIG Lamps: Interacting with a Self-Describing World via Photosensing Wireless Tags and Projectors" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., van Baar, J., Wang, Y., Dietz, P.H., Lee, J., Leigh, D. and Willwacher, T. and "Non-photorealistic Camera: Depth Edge Detection and Stylized Rendering Using Multi-Flash Imaging" by Raskar, R., Tan, K.-H., Feris, R., Yu, J. and Turk, M. were presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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- Date: August 1, 2004
Where: ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Brief - The paper "The Calder Toolkit: Wired and Wireless Components for Rapidly Prototyping Interactive Devices" by Lee, J.C., Avrahami, D., Hudson, S.E., Forlizzi, J., Dietz, P.H. and Leigh, D.L. was presented at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS).
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- Date: August 1, 2004
Where: Technometrics
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Classification in Likelihood Spaces" by Singh, R. and Raj, B. was published in Technometrics.
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- Date: July 31, 2004
Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Brief - The article "Point-Based Computer Graphics" by Pfister, H. and Gross, M. was published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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- Date: July 31, 2004
Where: Perspectives on Speech Separation
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Exploiting Redundancy to Construct Listening Systems" by Smaragdis, P. was presented at Perspectives on Speech Separation.
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- Date: June 30, 2004
Where: IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Drift Compensation for Reduced Spatial Resolution Transcoding: A Summary" by Yin, P., Vetro, A., Liu, B. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine.
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- Date: June 27, 2004
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Brief - The papers "Rateless Codes on Noisy Channels" by Palanki, R. and Yedidia, J.S. and "Sparse Factor Graph Representations of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes" by Yedidia, J.S. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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- Date: June 27, 2004
Where: IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (RTV4HCI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Exploiting Depth Discontinuities for Vision-Based Fingerspelling Recognition" by Feris, R., Turk, M., Raskar, R., Tan, K.-H. and Ohashi, G. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction (RTV4HCI).
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- 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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- Date: June 27, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Adaptive Fast Playback-Based Video Skimming Using a Compressed-Domain Visual Complexity Measure" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A., "Effective and Efficient Sports Highlights Extraction Using the Minimum Description Length Criterion in Selecting GMM Structures" by Xiong, Z., Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Huang, T.S., "Time Series Analysis and Segmentation Using Eigenvectors for Mining Semantic Audio Label Sequences" by Radhakrishnan, R., Xiong, Z., Divakaran, A. and Memon, N., "Towards Maximizing the End-User Experience" by Divakaran, A., Vetro, A. and Kan, T. and "Coding Artifact Reduction Using Edge Map Guided Adaptive and Fuzzy Filter" by Kong, H.-S., Nie, Y., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Barner, K.E. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: June 27, 2004
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Algebraic Solution for the Visual Hull" by Brand, M., Kang, K. and Cooper, D.B. and "Joint Feature-Basis Subset Selection" by Avidan, S. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 21, 2004
Where: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Progressively-Refined Reflectance Functions from Natural Illumination" by Matusik, W., Loper, M. and Pfister, H. was presented at the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR).
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- Date: June 20, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Brief - The papers "A New Multi-path Selection Scheme for Video Streaming on Overlay Networks" by Ma, Z., Shao, H.-R. and Shen, C., "A Hybrid Location Estimation Scheme (H-LES) for Partially Synchronized Wireless Sensor Networks" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Catovic, A., "The Trade-off Between Processing Gains of Impulse Radio Systems in the Presence of Timing Jitter" by Gezici, S., Molisch, A.F., Poor, H.V. and Kobayashi, H. and "Effect of Timing Jitter on the Trade-off Between Processing Gains" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: June 14, 2004
Where: IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Traffic Congestion Estimation Using HMM Models Without Vehicle Tracking" by Porikli, F.M. and Li, X. was presented at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV).
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- Date: June 7, 2004
Where: International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Image Fusion for Context Enhancement and Video Surrealism" by Raskar, R., Ilie, A. and Yu, J. was presented at the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR).
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- Date: May 31, 2004
Where: IEEE CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communications (MWC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM Based UWB Communications" by Li, Y., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communications (MWC).
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- 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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- Date: May 31, 2004
Where: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The article "Independent Component Analysis for Automatic Note Extraction from Musical Trills" by Brown, J.C. and Smaragdis, P. was published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
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- Date: May 25, 2004
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Multi-Projectors and Implicit Interaction in Persuasive Public Displays" by Dietz, P.H., Raskar, R., Mihelic-Booth, S., van Baar, J., Wittenburg, K.B. and Knep, B. was presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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- Date: May 23, 2004
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "Edge Map Guided Adaptive Post-Filter for Blocking and Ringing Artifacts Removal" by Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Rate-Distortion Optimized Bit Allocation for Error-Resilient Transcoding" by Xia, M., Vetro, A., Sun, H. and Liu, B. and "Error Resilient Methods for Real-Time MPEG-4 Video Streaming" by Kung, W.-Y., Kong, H.-S., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 23, 2004
Where: Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Display Grid: Ad-hoc Clusters of Autonomous Projectors" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J. and Beardsley, P. was presented at the Society for Information Displays International Symposium (SID).
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- Date: May 18, 2004
Where: IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Low-Complexity Ultra Wideband Transceiver with Compatibility to Multiband - OFDM" by Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P.V., Gifford, W.M., Molisch, A.F., Ramachandran, I., Fang, G. and Zhang, J. and "Optimal and Suboptimal Linear Receivers for Time-Hopping Impulse Radio Systems" by Gezici, S., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST).
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- Date: May 17, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) Brief - The papers "Finding Optimal Views for 3D Face Shape Modeling" by Lee, J., Moghaddam, B., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. and "Finding Temporal Patterns by Data Decomposition" by Minnen, D.C. and Wren, C.R. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG).
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- Date: May 17, 2004
Where: International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Natural Language Generation and Discourse Context: Computing Distractor Sets from the Focus Stack" by DeVault, D., Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS).
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- Date: May 17, 2004
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Ultra-Wideband Communication Using Hybrid Matched Filter Correlation Receivers" by Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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