- 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: 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 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 27, 2008
Where: Cambridge University Press
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
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- Date: May 19, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Narrowband Interference Resilient Receiver Design for Unknown UWB Signal Detection" by Ozdemir, O., Sahinoglu, Z. and Zhang, J., "Localization via TDOA in a UWB Sensor Network using Neural Networks" by Ergut, S., Rao, R.R., Dural, O. and Sahinoglu, Z., "On the Performance of Linear Least-Squares Estimation in Wireless Positioning Systems" by Gezici, S., Guvenc, I. and Sahinoglu, Z., "Best Node Selection through Distributed Fast Variable Power Multiple Access" by Yim, R., Mehta, N.B. and Molisch, A.F., "Antenna Selection for Next Generation IEEE 802.16 Mobile Stations" by Nie, C., Tao, Z., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J., Kuze, T. and Panwar, S., "Routing in Cooperative Wireless Networks with Mutual-Information Accumulation" by Draper, S.C., Liu, A., Molisch, A.F. and Yedidia, J.S., "A Low-Complexity Synchronization Design for MB-OFDM Ultra-Wideband Systems" by Ye, Z., Duan, C., Orlik, P. and Zhang, J., "A Game-Theoretic Framework for Interference Management through Cognitive Sensing" by Chen, Y., Teo, K.H., Kishore, S. and Zhang, J. and "Inter-Cell Interference Management in WiMAX Downlinks by A Stackelberg Game between BSs" by Chen, Y., Teo, K.H., Kishore, S. and Zhang, J. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: May 19, 2008
Where: IEEE Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Platforms
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Towards Practical Evaluation of Pedestrian Detectors" by Hussein, M., Porikli, F. and Davis, L. was presented at the IEEE Workshop on Human Detection from Mobile Platforms.
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- Date: May 18, 2008
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Complexity and Memory Efficient GOP Structures Supporting VCR Functionalities in H.264/AVC" by Lou, J., Liu, S., Vetro, A. and Sun, M.-T. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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- Date: May 15, 2008
Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Outdoor-to-Indoor Office MIMO Measurements and Analysis at 5.2 GHz" by Wyne, S., Molisch, A.F., Almers, P., Eriksson, G., Karedal, J. and Tufvesson, F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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- Date: May 11, 2008
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Brief - The papers "The Composite Channel Method: Efficient Experimental Evaluation of a Realistic MIMO Terminal in the Presence of a Human Body" by Harrysson, F., Medbo, J., Molisch, A.F., Johansson, A.J. and Tufvesson, F. and "Scatterer Detection by Successive Cancellation for UWB - Method and Experimental Verification" by Santos, T., Karedal, J., Almers, P., Tufvesson, F. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: May 1, 2008
Awarded to: Amine Maaref
Awarded for: "Applications of Random Matrix Theory to the Performance Analysis of Wireless MIMO Communication Systems"
Awarded by: National Institute for Scientific Research, Montreal Canada -
- Date: April 5, 2008
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Brief - The papers "LivOlay: Interactive Ad-hoc Registration and Overlapping of Applications for Collaborative Visual Exploration" by Jiang, H., Wigdor, D., Forlines, C., Borkin, M., Kauffmann, J. and Shen, C. and "Evaluating Tactile Feedback and Direct vs. Indirect Stylus Input in Pointing and Crossing Selection Tasks" by Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: March 31, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Brief - The papers "Joint Tracking and Video Registration by Factorial Hidden Markov Models" by Mei, X. and Porikli, F., "Speech Denoising Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Priors" by Wilson, K.W., Raj, B., Smaragdis, P. and Divakaran, A., "Ultrasonic Doppler Sensor for Speaker Recognition" by Kalgaonkar, K. and Raj, B. and "Sparse and Shift-Invariant Feature Extraction from Non-Negative Data" by Smaragdis, P., Raj, B. and Shashanka, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: March 31, 2008
Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "MAC 24-1 Efficient Multiple Access using Received Signal Strength and Local Channel Information" by Yim, R., Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. and "Performance Improvement for Multichannel HARQ Protocol in Next Generation WiMAX System" by Tao, Z., Li, A., Zhang, J. and Kuze, T. were presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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- Date: March 31, 2008
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Hot-Spot Wireless Access Exploiting Shadowing Diversity of Distributed Antennas" by Li, Y. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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- Date: March 12, 2008
Where: IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications Brief - The paper "Iterative Linear-Programming-Based Route Optimization for Cooperative Networks" by Draper, S., Liu, L., Molisch, A. and Yedidia, J. was presented at the IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications.
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- Date: March 10, 2008
Where: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Brief - The paper "Energy Efficient and High Speed On-Chip Ternary Bus" by Duan, C. and Khatri, S.P. was presented at Design, Automation and Test in Europe.
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- Date: March 1, 2008
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Ranging in a Single-Input Multiple Output (SIMO) System" by Gezici, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: February 26, 2008
Where: International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA)
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Non-WSSUS Vehicular Channel Characterization in Highway and Urban Scenarios at 5.2 GHz Using the Local Scattering Function" by Paier, A., Zemen, T., Bernado, L., Matz, G., Karedal, J., Czink, N., Dumard, C., Tufvesson, F., Molisch, A.F. and Mecklenbrauker, C.F. was presented at the International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA).
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