- Date: January 5, 2004
Where: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Supporting Real-Time Traffic with QoS in IEEE 802.11e Based Home Networks" by Chen, D., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC).
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- Date: January 1, 2004
Awarded to: L. Xie, L. Kennedy, S.-F. Chang, A. Divakaran, H. Sun, and C.-Y. Lin
Awarded for: "Discovering Meaningful Multimedia Patterns with Audio-Visual Concepts and Associated Text"
Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
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- 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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- Date: December 31, 2003
Where: IEEE Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Channel Models for Ultrawideband Personal Area Networks" by Molisch, A.F., Foerster, J.R. and Pendergrass, M. was published in IEEE Wireless Communications.
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- Date: December 31, 2003
Where: Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Framework for Measurement of the Intensity of Motion Activity of Video Segments" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. was published in Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation.
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- Date: December 20, 2003
Where: DIMACS Workshop on Algebraic Coding Brief - The paper "Sparse Factor Graph Representations of Reed-Solomon and Related Codes" by Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the DIMACS Workshop on Algebraic Coding.
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- Date: December 12, 2003
Where: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Minimax Embeddings" by Brand, M. was presented at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
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- Date: December 1, 2003
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Optimum Power Compensation for Error Propagation in Relay Assisted Wireless Networks" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Orlik, P.V., "Keyhole Effects in MIMO Wireless Channels-Measurements and Theory" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F., "Phase-Shift-Based Antenna Selection for MIMO Channels" by Zhang, X., Molisch, A.F. and Kung, S.-Y. and "Reverse Link Capacity of Power-Controlled CDMA Systems with Antenna Arrays in a Multipath Fading Environment" by Yu, J., Yao, Y.D., Zhang, J. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 30, 2003
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Reduced Complexity Transmit/Receive Diversity Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Win, M.Z. and Winters, J.H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: November 16, 2003
Where: IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Optimum Combining for Time Hopping Impulse Radio UWB Rake Receivers" by Sheng, H., Haimovich, A.M., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems and Technologies (UWBST).
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- Date: November 2, 2003
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Techniques for Consumer Digital Video Devices" by Wittenburg, K.B., Forlines, C., Lanning, T., Esenther, A.W., Harada, S. and Miyachi, T. was presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 31, 2003
Where: ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN) Brief - The paper "A Security Design for a General Purpose, Self-Organizing, Multihop Ad Hoc Wireless Network" by Messerges, T.S., Cukier, J.I., Kevenaar, T.A.M., Puhl, L., Struik, R. and Callaway, E. was presented at the ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN).
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- Date: October 31, 2003
Where: Video Mining
MERL Contact: Huifang Sun Brief - The articles "Unsupervised Mining of Statistical Temporal Structures in Video" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "Video Summarization Using MPEG-7 Motion Activity and Audio Descriptors" by Divakaran, A., Peker, K.A., Radharkishnan, R., Xiong, Z. and Cabasson, R. were published in the book Video Mining.
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- Date: October 31, 2003
Where: NSF Workshop on Perspectives on Speech Separation
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Speech Recognizer Based Maximum Likelihood Beamforming" by Raj, B., Seltzer, M.L. and Reyes-Gomez, M.J. was presented at the NSF Workshop on Perspectives on Speech Separation.
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- Date: October 27, 2003
Where: Conferentia Chemometrica (CC) Brief - The paper "Deconvolution of Overlapping HPLC Peaks of Aromatic Hydrocarbons using Independent Component Analysis" by Gaganis, V., Pasadakis, N., Smaragdis, P. and Varotsis, N. was presented at Conferentia Chemometrica (CC).
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- Date: October 26, 2003
Where: NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Intelligent Clusters and Collaborative Projector-based Displays" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J., Beardsley, P.A., Forlines, C., Dietz, P.H., Esenther, A.W., Leigh, D.L., Ryall, K., Shen, C., Shipman, S.E. and Yerazunis, W.S. was presented at the NSF Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Reality and Visualization (CVRV).
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- Date: October 20, 2003
Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) Brief - The papers "Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Polyphonic Music Transcription" by Smaragdis, P. and Brown, J.C. and "Multi-Channel Source Separation by Beamforming Trained with Factorial HMMS" by Reyes-Gomez, M.J., Raj, B. and Ellis, D.P.W. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
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- Date: October 19, 2003
Where: International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik Brief - The papers "Performance of Reduced-Complexity Transmit/Receive-Diversity Systems" by Molisch, A.F., Win, M.Z. and Winters, J.H., "A UWB Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Indoor Communications" by Foerster, J.R., Pendergrass, M. and Molisch, A.F., "An Efficient Low-Cost Time-Hopping Impulse Radio for High Data Rate Transmission" by Molisch, A.F., Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P.V., Zhang, J., Wu, Y., Gezici, S., Kung, S.Y., Poor, H.V., Li, Y.G., Sheng, H. and Haimovich, A., "Channel Estimation and Signal Detection for UWB" by Li, Y.G., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J., "A Low-Cost Time Hopping Impulse Radio System for High Date Rate" by Molisch, A.F., Li, Y.G., Nakache, Y.-P., Orlik, P., Miyake, M., Wu, Y., Gezici, S., Sheng, H., Kung, S.Y., Kobayashi, H., Poor, H.V., Haimovich, A. and Zhang, J. and "A Channel Model for Ultra Wideband Indoor Communication" by Foerster, J.R., Pendergrass, M. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC).
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- Date: October 17, 2003
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Model-Based 3D Face Capture with Shape-from-Silhouettes" by Moghaddam, B., Lee, J.H., Pfister, H. and Machiraju, R. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG).
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- Date: October 13, 2003
Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance" by Viola, P., Jones, M.J. and Snow, D. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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- Date: October 12, 2003
Where: ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Very Low Cost Sensing and Communication Using Bidirectional LEDS" by Dietz, P.H., Yerazunis, W.S. and Leigh, D.L., "UbiTable: Impromptu Face-to-Face Collaboration on Horizontal Interactive Surfaces" by Shen, C., Everitt, K.M. and Ryall, K. and "Self-configuring, Lightweight Sensor Networks for Ubiquitous Computing" by Wren, C.R. and Srinivasa, R. were presented at the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).
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- Date: October 8, 2003
Where: Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG) Brief - The paper "Data-Driven Computer Graphics" by Pfister, H. was presented at the Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (PG).
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- Date: October 1, 2003
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing Brief - The paper "Iterative Quantization Using Codes on Graphs" by Martinian, E. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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- Date: September 30, 2003
Where: SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Road Extraction by Point-wise Gaussian Models" by Porikli, F.M. was presented at SPIE Algorithms and Technologies for Multispectral, Hyperspectral and Ultraspectral Imagery.
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- Date: September 30, 2003
Where: Signal Processing: Image Communication
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The article "Mobility Characteristics for Multimedia Service Adaptation" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Vetro, A. was published in Signal Processing: Image Communication.
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