-   Date: May 26, 2013
 Where: International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD)
 Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices
   Brief   - The paper "Design of Enhancement Mode Single-gate and Double-gate Multi-channel GaN HEMT with Vertical Polarity Inversion Heterostructure" by Feng, P.,  Teo, K.H.,  Oishi, T.,  Yamanaka, K. and  Ma, R. was presented at the International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD).
 
 
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-   Date: May 26, 2013
 Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
 MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Jianlin Guo; Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos; Jonathan Le Roux  Brief   - The papers "Stereo-based Feature Enhancement Using Dictionary Learning" by Watanabe, S. and  Hershey, J.R., "Effectiveness of Discriminative Training and Feature Transformation for Reverberated and Noisy Speech" by Tachioka, Y.,  Watanabe, S. and  Hershey, J.R., "Non-negative Dynamical System with Application to Speech and Audio" by Fevotte, C.,  Le Roux, J. and  Hershey, J.R., "Source Localization in Reverberant Environments using Sparse Optimization" by Le Roux, J.,  Boufounos, P.T.,  Kang, K. and  Hershey, J.R., "A Keypoint Descriptor for Alignment-Free Fingerprint Matching" by Garg, R. and  Rane, S., "Transient Disturbance Detection for Power Systems with a General Likelihood Ratio Test" by Song, JX.,  Sahinoglu, Z. and  Guo, J., "Disparity Estimation of Misaligned Images in a Scanline Optimization Framework" by Rzeszutek, R.,  Tian, D. and  Vetro, A., "Screen Content Coding for HEVC Using Edge Modes" by Hu, S.,  Cohen, R.A.,  Vetro, A. and  Kuo, C.C.J. and "Random Steerable Arrays for Synthetic Aperture Imaging" by Liu, D. and  Boufounos, P.T. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
 
 
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-   Date: May 19, 2013
 Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
 MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
 Research Area: Digital Video
   Brief   - The paper "View Synthesis Prediction Using Skip and Merge Candidates for HEVC-based 3D Video Coding" by Zou, F.,  Tian, D. and  Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
 
 
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-   Date: May 15, 2013
 Where: IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC)
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis
 Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
   Brief   - The paper "Wireless Power Transfer with Artificial Magnetic Conductors" by Wu, J.,  Wang, B.,  Yerazunis, W.S. and  Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference (WPTC).
 
 
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-   Date: May 15, 2013
 Where: Proceedings of IEEE
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis  Brief   - The article "Wireless Power Transfer:  Metamaterials and Array of Coupled Resonators" by Wang, B.,  Yerazunis, W. and  Teo, K.H. was published in Proceedings of IEEE.
 
 
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-   Date: May 14, 2013
 Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)
 Research Area: Computer Vision
   Brief   - The paper "Point-Plane SLAM for Hand-Held 3D Sensors" by Taguchi, Y.,  Jian, Y-D,  Ramalingam, S. and  Feng, C. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA).
 
 
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-   Date: May 8, 2013
 Where: Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele)
 MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
 Research Area: Digital Video
   Brief   - The paper "Analysis of Depth Map Resampling Filters for Depth-based 3D Video Coding" by Graziosi, D.B.,  Rodrigues, N.M.M.,  de Faria, S.M.M.,  Tian, D. and  Vetro, A. was presented at the Conference on Telecommunications (Conftele).
 
 
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-   Date: May 2, 2013
 Where: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
 MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
 Research Area: Speech & Audio
   Brief   - The paper "Block Coordinate Descent for Sparse NMF" by Potluru, V.K.,  Plis, S.M.,  Le Roux, J.,  Pearlmutter, B.A.,  Calhoun, V.D. and  Hayes, T.P. was presented at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
 
 
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-   Date: May 1, 2013
 Where: Emerging Technologies for 3D Video: Creation, Coding, Transmission and Rendering
 MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
 Research Area: Digital Video
   Brief   - The article "Depth Based 3D Video Formats and Coding Technology" by Vetro, A. and  Muller, K. was published in the book Emerging Technologies for 3D Video: Creation, Coding, Transmission and Rendering.
 
 
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-   Date: April 8, 2013
 Where: Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC)
 MERL Contact: Stefano Di Cairano
 Research Area: Control
 
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-   Date: April 7, 2013
 Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
 MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jianlin Guo; Kieran Parsons
 Research Area: Communications
   Brief   - The paper "Load Balanced Routing for Low Power and Lossy Networks" by Liu, X.,  Guo, J.,  Bhatti, G.,  Orlik, P. and  Parsons, K. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
 
 
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-   Date: April 1, 2013
 Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
 Research Area: Computer Vision
   Brief   - The article "Support Vector Shape: A Classifier Based Shape Representation" by Nguyen, H. V. and  Porikli, F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
 
 
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-   Date: March 25, 2013
 Where: National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
 MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
 Research Area: Data Analytics
 
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-   Date: March 20, 2013
 Where: Data Compression Conference (DCC)
 MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
 Research Area: Computational Sensing
   Brief   - The paper "Efficient Coding of Signal Distances Using Universal Quantized Embeddings" by Boufounos, P.T. and  Rane, S. was presented at the Data Compression Conference (DCC).
 
 
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-   Date: March 17, 2013
 Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC)
 Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
   Brief   - The paper "A Baud-Rate Sampled Coherent Transceiver with Digital Pulse Shaping and Interpolation" by Millar, D.,  Lavery, D.,  Maher, R.,  Thomsen, B.C.,  Bayvel, P. and  Savory, S.J. was presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC).
 
 
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-   Date: March 17, 2013
 Where: IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
 Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Electric Systems
   Brief   - The paper "Generalized DC-link Voltage Balancing Control Method for Multilevel Inverters" by Deng, Y.,  Teo, K.H. and  Harley, R.G. was presented at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC).
 
 
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-   Date: March 14, 2013
 Where: SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing  Brief   - The article "Absolute Value Preconditioning for Symmetric Indefinite Linear Systems" by Vecharynski, E. and  Knyazev, A.V. was published in SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing.
 
 
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-   Date: March 14, 2013
 Where: Proceedings of the IEEE
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis
 Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
   Brief   - The article "Wireless Power Transfer: Metamaterials and Array of Coupled Resonators" by Wang, B.,  Yerazunis, W. and  Teo, K.H. was published in Proceedings of the IEEE.
 
 
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-   Date: March 1, 2013
 Where: Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
 MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
 Research Area: Computational Sensing
   Brief   - The article "Greedy Sparsity-Constrained Optimization" by Bahmani, S.,  Raj, B. and  Boufounos, P. was published in Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).
 
 
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-   Date: March 1, 2013
 Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
 MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
 Research Area: Speech & Audio
   Brief   - The article "Consistent Wiener Filtering for Audio Source Separation" by Le Roux, J. and  Vincent, E. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
 
 
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-   Date: March 1, 2013
 Where: IEICE Technical Committee Conference (OCS/OFT/OPE)
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
 Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
   Brief   - The paper "An MMI-based Polarization Splitter using Patterned Metal and Angled Joint" by Kojima, K.,  Nishikawa, S.,  Yagyu, E.,  Yuan, W.,  Wang, B.,  Koike-Akino, T. and  Parsons, K. was presented at the IEICE Technical Committee Conference (OCS/OFT/OPE).
 
 
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-   Date: February 14, 2013
 Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
 Research Area: Computer Vision
   Brief   - The article "Nonlinear Camera Response Functions and Image Deblurring: Theoretical Analysis and Practice" by Tai, Y-W,  Chen, X.,  Kim, S.,  Kim, S.J.,  Li, F.,  Yang, J.,  Yu, J.,  Matsushita, Y. and  Brown, M.S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
 
 
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-   Date: February 13, 2013
 Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
 MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos  Brief   - The articles "Privacy-Preserving Nearest Neighbor Methods: Comparing Signals without Revealing Them" by Rane, S. and  Boufounos, P.T. and "Privacy-preserving Speech Processing: Cryptographic and String-Matching Frameworks Show Promise" by Pathak, M.A.,  Raj, B.,  Rane, S. and  Samaragdis, P. were published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
 
 
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-   Date: February 12, 2013  Brief   - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today it has developed ultra-high resolution 3D shape representation technology for numerically controlled (NC) machine tools. The technology displays detailed shapes of machined surfaces down to a resolution of 1 micrometer (um) in a 3D machining simulation, which machine operators can use to evaluate surface textures without trial cutting through a high quality machining process.
 
 
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-   Date: January 25, 2013
 Where: Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
 Research Area: Dynamical Systems
   Brief   - The article "Characterization of Flow-Magnetic Field Interactions in Magneto-Hydrodynamic Turbulence" by Richard, J.C.,  Kumar, G.,  Kalmar-Nagy, T. and  Girimaji, S.S. was published in Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics.
 
 
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