- Date: September 2, 2011
Awarded to: Fatih Porikli and Huseyin Ozkan.
Awarded for: "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date: August 30, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection" by Porikli, F. and Ozkan, H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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- Date: August 29, 2011
Where: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Tim K. Marks Brief - The paper "Pose Normalization via Learned 2D Warping for Fully Automatic Face Recognition" by Asthana, A., Jones, M.J., Marks, T.K., Tieu, K.H. and Goecke, R. was presented at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC).
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- Date: August 28, 2011
Where: World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
MERL Contacts: Scott A. Bortoff; Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Integrated Design and Control of Flexure-Based Nanopositioning Systems - Part I: Methodology" by Shilpiekandula, V. and Youcel-Toumi, K. and "A Parallel Quadratic Programming Algorithm for Model Predictive Control" by Brand, M., Shilpiekandula, V. and Bortoff, S.A. were presented at the World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
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- Date: August 21, 2011
Where: International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Secret Key Sharing and Rateless Coding for Practical Secure Wireless Transmission" by Liu, W., Duan, C., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Annavajjala, R. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND).
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- Date: August 4, 2011
Where: North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "State-space Approximate Dynamic Programming for Stochastic Unit Commitment" by Zhang, W. and Nikovski, D. was presented at the North American Power Symposium (NAPS).
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- Date: July 24, 2011
Where: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The paper "High Resolution SAR Imaging Using Random Pulse Timing" by Liu, D. and Boufounos, P.T. was presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).
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- Date: July 22, 2011
Where: Chinese Control Conference (CCC)
MERL Contacts: Yebin Wang; Scott A. Bortoff
Research Area: Control
Brief - The paper "Nonlinear Control Design for a Semi-active Vibration Reduction System" by Wang, Y., Utsunomiya, K. and Bortoff, S.A. was presented at the Chinese Control Conference (CCC).
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- Date: July 14, 2011
Where: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Compressed Inference for Probabilistic Sequential Models" by Polatkan, G. and Tuzel, O. was presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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- Date: June 27, 2011
Where: International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Investigating HUDs or the Presentation of Choice Lists in Car navigation Systems" by Weinberg, G., Harsham, B. and Medenica, Z. was presented at the International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design.
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- Date: June 25, 2011
Awarded to: Paul A. Viola and Michael J. Jones
Awarded for: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features"
Awarded by: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - Paper from 10 years ago with the largest impact on the field: "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features", originally published at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2001).
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- Date: June 23, 2011
Where: Applied Physics Letters
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Jinyun Zhang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The article "Experiments on Wireless Power Transfer with Metamaterials" by Wang, B., Teo, K.H., Nichino, T., Yerazunis, W., Barnwell, J. and Zhang, J. was published in Applied Physics Letters.
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- Date: June 21, 2011
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Entropy Rate Superpixel Segmentation" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, O., Ramalingam, S. and Chellappa, R., "Structured Light 3D Scanning in the Presence of Global Illumination" by Gupta, M., Agrawal, A., Veeraraghavan, A. and Narasimhan, S., "CrossTrack: Robust 3D Tracking from Two Cross-Sectional Views" by Hussein, M., Porikli, F., Li, R. and Arsian, S., "P2C2: Programmable Pixel Compressive Camera for High Speed Imaging" by Reddy, D., Veeraraghavan, A. and Chellappa, R., "Beyond Alhazen's Problem: Analytical Projection Model for Non-Central Catadioptric Cameras with Quadric Mirrors" by Agrawal, A., Taguchi, Y. and Ramalingam, S. and "The Light-Path Less Traveled" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S., Sturm, P. and Torr, P. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 8, 2011
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Resource Block Embedding: Towards High Throughput Broadband Multimedia Wireless Networks" by Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P.V. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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- Date: June 5, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino Brief - The papers "Reduced-Rate OFDM Transmission with Statistics-based ICI Mitigation" by Ma, J., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Li, G.Y., "Super-Resolution Blind Channel Modeling" by Pun, M.-O., Molisch, A.F., Orlik, P. and Okazaki, A., "Network-Coded Interference Alignment in K-Pair Bidirectional Relaying Channels" by Koike-Akino, T., Pun, M.-O. and Orlik, P., "Non-Coherent Grassmann TCM Design for Physical-Layer Network Coding in Bidirectional MIMO Relaying Systems" by Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. and "Order-Extended Sparse RLS Algorithm for Doubly-Selective MIMO Channel Estimation" by Koike-Akino, T., Molisch, A.F., Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P. and Pun, M.-O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 23, 2011
Where: IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Low Complexity STAP via Subspace Tracking in Compound-Gaussian Environment" by Wang, P., Pun, M.O. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon).
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- Date: May 23, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The article "Sparse Recovery from Combined Fusion Frame Measurements" by Boufounos, P.T., Kutyniok, G. and Rauhut, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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- Date: May 22, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Compressive Sensing for Over-the-Air Ultrasound" by Boufounos, P.T., "Privacy Preserving Probabilistic Inference with Hidden Markov Models" by Pathak, M., Rane, S., Sun, W. and Raj, B., "Saturation-robust SAR Image Formation" by Wei, D. and Boufounos, P.T. and "Scale-Invariant GLRT in Stochastic Partially Homogeneous Environments" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O., Li, H. and Himed, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: May 15, 2011
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Efficient Dictionary Based Video Coding with Reduced Side Information" by Kang, J.-W., Kuo, C.-C. J., Cohen, R. and Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 15, 2011
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Performance Evaluation of Cross-Polarized Antenna Selection over 2 GHz Measurement-Based Channel Models" by Nishimoto, H., Taira, A., Kubo, H., Pun, M.O., Annavajjala, R. and Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: May 12, 2011
Where: CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Modeling Cutting Forces for 5-Axis Machining of Sculptured Surfaces" by Boz, Y., Erdim, H. and Lazoglu, I. was presented at the CIRP Conference on Modeling of Machining Operations.
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- Date: May 9, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Pose Estimation using Both Points and Lines for Geo-Localization" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S. and Sturm, P. and "Finding a Needle in a Specular Haystack" by Shroff, N., Taguchi, Y., Tuzel, O., Veeraraghavan, A., Ramalingam, S. and Okuda, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: May 2, 2011
Where: International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The paper "Hierarchical Distributed Scalar Quantization" by Boufounos, P.T. was presented at the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA).
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- Date: April 27, 2011
Where: SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Low-Complexity Efficient Raw SAR Data Compression" by Rane, S., Boufounos, P., Vetro, A. and Okada, Y. was presented at SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery.
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- Date: April 21, 2011
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Comparative Analysis of Pilot-Assisted Distributed Co-phasing Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks" by Chaythanya, K.V., Annavajjala, R. and Murthy, C.R. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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