- Date: April 19, 2009
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "A Joint Decoding Algorithm for Multiple-Example-Based Addition of Words to a Pronunciation Lexicon" by Bansal, D., Nair, N., Singh, R. and Raj, B., "One-Handed Gesture Recognition Using Ultrasonic Doppler Sonar" by Kalgaonkar, K. and Raj, B., "A New Method for Tracking Performance Evaluation Based on a Reflective Model and Perturbation Analysis" by Pan, P., Porikli, F. and Schonfeld, D. and "Data Hiding in Hard-Copy Text Documents Robust to Print, Scan, and Photocopy Operations" by Varna, A.L., Rane, S. and Vetro, A. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: April 15, 2009
Where: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems Brief - The article "Efficient On-Chip Crosstalk Avoidance CODEC Design" by Duan, C., Calle, V.H.C. and Khatri, S.P. was published in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.
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- Date: April 13, 2009
Where: International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The paper "Near-Optimal Bayesian Localization via Incoherence and Sparsity" by Cevher, V., Boufounos, P., Baraniuk, R.G., Gilbert, A.C. and Strauss, M.J. was presented at the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN).
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- Date: April 9, 2009
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Brief - The papers "WeSpace: The Design Development and Deployment of a Walk-up and Share Multi-surface Visual Collaboration System" by Wigdor, D., Jian, H., Forlines, C., Borkin, M. and Shen, C. and "Improving Visual Search with Image Segmentation" by Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: April 6, 2009
Where: European Conference on Informaiton Retrieval (ECIR)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Word Particles Applied to Information Retrieval" by Gouvea, E.V. and Raj, B. was presented at the European Conference on Informaiton Retrieval (ECIR).
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- Date: April 1, 2009
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Fast Multiple Access Selection through Variable Power Transmissions" by Yim, R., Mehta, N.B. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: April 1, 2009
Awarded to: Chandrashekhar Thejaswi P.S., Junshan Zhang and Vincent Poor
Awarded for: "Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling with Two-Level Channel Probing"
Awarded by: IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
Research Area: Communications
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- Date: March 19, 2009
Where: Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "NLOS Channel Identification and Mitigation in Ultra Wideband ToA-based Wireless Sensor Networks" by Duan, C., Alsindi, N. and Zhang, J. was presented at the Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC).
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- Date: March 12, 2009
Where: Electronics Letter
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Depth Reconstruction Filter for Depth Coding" by Oh, K.-J., Yea, S., Vetro, A. and Ho, Y.-S. was published in Electronics Letter.
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- Date: March 2, 2009
Where: Voice Search Conference
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Voice Search While Driving: Is it Safe?" by Wittenburg, K. was presented at the Voice Search Conference.
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- Date: March 2, 2009
Where: Multimedia Content Analysis
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Broadcast Video Content Segmentation by Supervised Learning" by Wilson, K.W. and Divakaran, A. was published in the book Multimedia Content Analysis.
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- Date: March 1, 2009
Where: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Implementation of a Cooperative MAC Protocol: Performance and Challenges in a Real Environment" by Korakis, T., Tao, Z., Singh, S., Liu, P. and Panwar, S. was published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
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- Date: February 15, 2009
Where: Proceedings of the IEEE
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "UWB Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks" by Zhang, J., Orlik, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F. and Kinney, P. was published in Proceedings of the IEEE.
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- Date: February 10, 2009
Brief - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (President and CEO: Setsuhiro Shimomura) (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed a high-speed and compact intellectual property (IP) core for graphical user interfaces (GUI), to be used in built-in display systems for operating a variety of equipment. With this development, the text used in displays for operating purposes will be clearer and easier to distinguish, and response time will be quicker when displaying graphics and other applications.
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- Date: January 21, 2009
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Discriminative Genre-Independent Audio-Visual Scene Change Detection" by Wilson, K.W. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems.
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- Date: January 18, 2009
Where: IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Propagation Aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications - An Overview" by Molisch, A., Tufvesson, F., Karedal, J. and Mecklenbrauker, C. was presented at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium.
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- Date: January 15, 2009
Where: Distributed Source Coding
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Information Security
Brief - The article "Securing Biometric Data" by Vetro, A., Draper, S., Rane, S. and Yedidia, J. was published in the book Distributed Source Coding.
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- Date: January 15, 2009
Where: IEEJ Transactions on Electronic, Information and Systems
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The article "Face Recognition: Where we are and where to go from here" by Jones, M.J. was published in IEEJ Transactions on Electronic, Information and Systems.
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- Date: January 15, 2009
Where: Image Communication
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "View Synthesis Prediction for Multiview Video Coding" by Yea, S. and Vetro, A. was published in Image Communication.
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- Date: January 4, 2009
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Society DSP Workshop
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Spatial Diversity and Spatial Correlation Evaluation of Measured Vehicle-to-Vehicle Radio Channels at 5.2 GHz" by Paier, A., Zemen, T., Mecklenbrauker, C.F., Karedal, J., Czink, N., Dumard, C., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A. was presented at the IEEE Signal Processing Society DSP Workshop.
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- Date: December 15, 2008
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Shield Fields: Modeling and Capturing 3D Occluders" by Lanman, D., Raskar, R., Agrawal, A. and Taubin, G. was published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
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- Date: December 8, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
MERL Contact: Michael J. Jones
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Pedestrian Detection Using Boosted Features Over Many Frames" by Jones, M. and Snow, D. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
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- Date: December 1, 2008
Where: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Two-Step Time of Arrival Estimation for Pulse-Based Ultra-Wideband Systems" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F., Kobayashi, H. and Poor, H.V. was published in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
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- Date: November 30, 2008
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Routing with Probabilistic Delay Guarantees in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks" by Brand, M., Maymounkov, P. and Molisch, A.F., "Delay-Energy Tradeoffs in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with Partial Channel State Information" by Brand, M. and Molisch, A.F., "Low-Complexity Hybrid QRD-MCMC MIMO Detection" by Peng, R., Teo, K.H., Zhang, J. and Chen, R.-R., "Adaptive Soft Frequency Reuse for Inter-cell Interference Coordination in SC-FDMA based 3GPP LTE Uplinks" by Mao, X., Maaref, A. and Teo, K.H., "Impact of Mobility on the Behavior of Interference in Cellular Wireless Networks" by Yarkan, S., Maaref, A. and Teo, K.H. and "Modified Beacon-Enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC for Lower Latency" by Bhatti, G., Mehta, A., Sahinoglu, Z., Zhang, J. and Viswanathan, R. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 17, 2008
Where: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Urban Peer-to-Peer MIMO Channel Measurements and Analysis at 300 MHz" by Eriksson, G., Linder, S., Wiklunh, K., Holm, P.D., Johansson, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. was presented at the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM).
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