-   Date: October 15, 2008
Where: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
MERL Contact: Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
  Brief   - The article "Wavelet-Based Multiscale Anisotropic Diffusion with Adaptive Statistical Analysis for Image Restoration" by Zhong, J. and  Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers.
 
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 -   Date: October 15, 2008
Where: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Research Area: Machine Learning
  Brief   - The article "Pedestrian Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds" by Tuzel, O.,  Porikli, F. and  Meer, P. was published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
 
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 -   Date: October 12, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
  Brief   - The paper "Edge-Based Directional Fuzzy Filter for Compression Artifact Reduction in JPEG Images" by Vo, D.,  Nguyen, T.,  Yea, S. and  Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
 
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 -   Date: October 6, 2008
Where: COST 2100 Meeting  Brief   - The papers "On the Temporal Evolution of Signal Subspaces in Vehicular MIMO Channels in the 5 GHz band" by Mecklenbrauker, C.F.,  Paier, A.,  Zemen, T.,  Matz, G. and  Molisch, A.F. and "Description of Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Radio Channel Measurements at 5.2GHz" by Paier, A.,  Karedal, J.,  Zemen, T.,  Czink, N.,  Dumard, C.,  Tufvesson, F.,  Mecklenbrauker, C.F. and  Molisch, A.F. were presented at the COST 2100 Meeting.
 
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 -   Date: October 1, 2008
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop)  Brief   - The papers "System Design for the WeSpace: Linking Personal Devices to a Table-Centered Multi-User, Multi-Surface Environment" by Jiang, H.,  Wigdor, D.,  Forlines, C. and  Shen, C. and "Pokey: Interaction through Covert Structured Light" by Wren, C.R.,  Ivanov, Y.,  Beardsley, P.,  Kaneva, B. and  Tanaka, S. were presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop).
 
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 -   Date: September 22, 2008
Where: Interspeech
Research Area: Speech & Audio
  Brief   - The paper "Regularized Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Temporal Dependencies for Speech Denoising" by Wilson, K. W.,  Raj, B. and  Smaragdis, P. was presented at Interspeech.
 
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 -   Date: September 17, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)  Brief   - The papers "Ambient Intelligence as the Bridge to the Future of Pervasive Computing" by Wren, C.R. and  Ivanov, Y.A. and "Recognizing Talking Faces from Acoustic Doppler Reflections" by Kalgaonkar, K. and  Raj, B. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG).
 
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 -   Date: September 15, 2008
Where: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
  Brief   - The paper "Incremental Exemplar Learning Schemes for Classification on Embedded Devices" by Jain, A. and  Nikovski, D. was presented at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD).
 
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 -   Date: September 10, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
  Brief   - The paper "Ultra-wideband Range Estimation: Theoretical Limits and Practical Algorithms" by Guvenc, I.,  Gezici, S. and  Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB).
 
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 -   Date: September 1, 2008
Where: Turbo Coding  Brief   - The paper "Construction of High-Girth QC-LDPC Codes" by Wang, Y.,  Yedidia, J.S. and  Draper, S.C. was presented at Turbo Coding.
 
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 -   Date: August 25, 2008
Where: International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Jianlin Guo
Research Area: Communications
  Brief   - The paper "Efficient Medium Access Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks" by Guo, J.,  Duan, C.,  Bhatti, G. and  Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM).
 
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 -   Date: August 19, 2008
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
  Brief   - The article "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Relaying over Fading Channels with Simple Relay Selection" by Madan, R.,  Mehta, N.B.,  Molisch, A.F. and  Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
 
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 -   Date: August 11, 2008
Where: SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
  Brief   - The paper "Towards a 3D Video Format for Auto-Stereoscopic Displays" by Vetro, A.,  Yea, S. and  Smolic, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing.
 
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 -   Date: August 11, 2008
Where: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Research Area: Computer Vision
  Brief   - The paper "Towards Passive 6D Reflectance Field Displays" by Fuchs, M.,  Raskar, R.,  Seidel, H.-P. and  Lensch, P.A.L. was presented at the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
 
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 -   Date: August 6, 2008
Where: International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Communications
  Brief   - The paper "Enhanced HARQ Technique Using Self-Interference Cancellation Coding (SICC)" by Matsumoto, W.,  Kuze, T.,  Uchida, S.,  Hideo, Y.,  Orlik, P.V.,  Molisch, A.F.,  Tao, Z. and  Zhang, J. was presented at the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC).
 
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 -   Date: August 1, 2008
Where: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Research Area: Computer Vision
  Brief   - The articles "Improved Seam Carving for Video Retargeting" by Rubinstein, M.,  Shamir, A. and  Avidan, A. and "Glare Aware Photography: 4D Ray Sampling for Reducing Glare Effects of Camera Lenses" by Raskar, R.,  Agrawal, A.,  Wilson, C. and  Veeraraghavan, A. were published in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG).
 
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 -   Date: July 25, 2008
Where: IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI)
Research Area: Speech & Audio
  Brief   - The paper "Display Style Considerations for In-Car Multimodal Music Search" by Weinberg, G. and  Kondili, D. was presented at the IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI).
 
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 -   Date: July 6, 2008
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Information Security
  Brief   - The paper "Feature Extraction for a Slepian-Wolf Biometric System Using LDPC Codes" by Sutcu, Y.,  Rane, S.,  Yedidia, J.S.,  Draper, S.C. and  Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
 
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 -   Date: July 1, 2008
Awarded to: Nishiuma, N.; Goto, Y.; Kumazawa, H.; Komaya K.; Nikovski, D. and Brand, M.
Awarded for: "Travel Time Prediction using Singular Value Decomposition"
Awarded by: Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
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 -   Date: June 28, 2008
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Anthony Vetro  Brief   - The papers "Non-Refractive Modulators for Encoding and Capturing Scene Appearance and Depth" by Veeraraghavan, A.,  Agrawal, A.,  Raskar, R.,  Mohan, A. and  Tumblin, J., "Feature Transformation of Biometric Templates for Secure Biometric Systems based on Error Correcting Codes" by Sutcu, Y.,  Rane, S.,  Yedidia, J.S.,  Draper, S.C. and  Vetro, A., "Constant Time O(1) Bilateral Filtering" by Porikli, F., "Learning on Lie Groups for Invariant Detection and Tracking" by Tuzel, O.,  Porikli, F. and  Meer, P., "Kernel Integral Images: A Framework for Fast non-Uniform Filtering" by Hussein, M.,  Porikli, F. and  Davis, L., "A Conditional Random Field for Automatic Photo Editing" by Brand, M. and  Pletscher, P., "Boosting Adaptive Linear Weak Classifiers for Online Learning and Tracking" by Parag, T.,  Porikli, F. and  Elgammai, A. and "Sensing Increased Image Resolution Using Aperture Masks" by Mohan, A.,  Huang, X.,  Tumblin, J. and  Raskar, R. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
 
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 -   Date: June 12, 2008
Where: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
  Brief   - The paper "Workflow Trees for Representation and Mining of Implicitly Concurrent Business Processes" by Nikovski, D. was presented at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS).
 
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 -   Date: June 8, 2008
Where: ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference  Brief   - The paper "Forbidden Transition Free Crosstalk Avoidance CODEC Design" by Duan, C.,  Zhu, C. and  Khatri, S.P. was presented at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference.
 
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 -   Date: May 28, 2008
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)  Brief   - The papers "Multiview User Interfaces with an Automultiscopic Display" by Matusik, W.,  Forlines, C. and  Pfister, H., "Adapting a Single-user, Single-display Molecular Visualization Application for Use in a Multi-user, Multi-Display Environment" by Forlines, C. and  Lilien, R., "Content Aware Video Presentation on High-Resolution Displays" by Forlines, C., "Visualizing Antenna Design Spaces" by Wittenburg, K.,  Lanning, T.,  Leigh, D. and  Ryall, K. and "Combining and Measuring the Benefits of Bimanual Pen and Direct-Touch Interaction of Interfaces" by Brandl, P.,  Forlines, C.,  Wigdor, D.,  Haller, M. and  Shen, C. were presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
 
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 -   Date: May 28, 2008
Where: 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
  Brief   - The paper "View Synthesis Prediction for Rate-Overhead Reduction in FTV" by Yea, S. and  Vetro, A. was presented at the 3DTV-Conference (3DTV-CON).
 
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 -   Date: May 27, 2008
Where: Cambridge University Press
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
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