- Date: June 1, 2013
Where: International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Discriminative Methods for Noise Robust Speech Recognition: A CHiME Challenge Benchmark" by Tachioka, Y., Watanabe, S., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME).
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- Date: June 1, 2013
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The results of the 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge are out! The team formed by MELCO researcher Yuuki Tachioka and MERL Speech & Audio team researchers Shinji Watanabe, Jonathan Le Roux and John Hershey obtained the best results in the continuous speech recognition task (Track 2). This very challenging task consisted in recognizing speech corrupted by highly non-stationary noises recorded in a real living room. Our proposal, which also included a simple yet extremely efficient denoising front-end, focused on investigating and developing state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition back-end techniques: feature transformation methods, as well as discriminative training methods for acoustic and language modeling. Our system significantly outperformed other participants. Our code has since been released as an improved baseline for the community to use.
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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 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 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: 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 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 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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