- 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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- Date: January 13, 2002
Where: ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Brief - The paper "Agents and GUI\'s from Task Models" by Eisenstein, J. and Rich, C. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
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- Date: December 31, 2001
Where: Artificial Intelligence Magazine Brief - The article "COLLAGEN: Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory to Human-Computer Interaction" by Rich, C., Sidner, C.L. and Lesh, N.B. was published in Artificial Intelligence Magazine.
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- Date: December 11, 2001
Where: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference: Technical Sketches
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Volumetric Operations with Surface Margins" by Wren, C.R. and Ivanov, Y.A. was presented at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference: Technical Sketches.
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- Date: December 9, 2001
Where: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Distributed Speech Recognition with Codec Parameters" by Raj, B., Migdal, J. and Singh, R. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).
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- Date: December 9, 2001
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Morphable 3D Models from Video" by Brand, M.E., "Flexible Flow for 3D Nonrigid Tracking and Shape Recovery" by Brand, M.E. and Bhotika, R., "A Self-Correcting Projector" by Raskar, R. and Beardsley, P.A. and "Rapid Object Detection Using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features" by Viola, P. and Jones, M. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: November 30, 2001
Where: International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) Brief - The papers "Video Object Segmentation by Volume Growing Using Feature-Based Motion Estimator" by Porikli, F.M. and "Image Simplification by Robust Estimator Based Reconstruction Filter" by Porikli, F.M. were presented at the International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS).
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- Date: November 30, 2001
Where: ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization in Africa (AFRIGRAPH)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Interacting with Spatially Augmented Reality" by Raskar, R. and Low, K.-L. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics and Visualization in Africa (AFRIGRAPH).
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- Date: November 25, 2001
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Novel Adaptive Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm: Wavelet-Decomposed Signal Energy Approach" by Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 20, 2001
Where: Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Privacy-Enhanced Displays by Time-Masking Images" by Yerazunis, W.S. and Carbone, M. was presented at the Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI).
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- Date: November 11, 2001
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Real-Time Audio Buffering for Telephone Applications" by Dietz, P.H. and Yerazunis, W.S. and "DiamondTouch: A Multi-User Touch Technology" by Dietz, P.H. and Leigh, D.L. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 31, 2001
Where: Journal of Electronic Imaging
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Video Summarization Using Descriptors of Motion Activity: A Motion Activity Based Approach to Key-Frame Extraction from Video Shots" by Divakaran, A., Regunathan, R. and Peker, K.A. was published in Journal of Electronic Imaging.
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- Date: October 29, 2001
Where: IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Dynamic Shader Lamps: Painting on Movable Objects" by Bandyopadhyay, D., Raskar, R. and Fuchs, H. was presented at the IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality.
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