- Date: May 7, 2006
Where: Pervasive: Workshop Pervasive Technology Applied Real-World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networks (PTA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Toward Spatial Queries for Spatial Surveillance Tasks" by Ivanov, Y.A. and Wren, C.R. was presented at the Pervasive: Workshop Pervasive Technology Applied Real-World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networks (PTA).
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- Date: May 7, 2006
Where: International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications (PerGames) Brief - The paper "Multimodal Multiplayer Tabletop Gaming" by Tse, E., Greenberg, S., Shen, C. and Forlines, C. was presented at the International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications (PerGames).
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- Date: May 7, 2006
Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Region Covariance: A Fast Descriptor for Detection and Classification" by Tuzel, O., Porikli, F. and Meer, P. and "What is the Range of Surface Reconstructions from a Gradient Field?" by Agrawal, A., Raskar, R. and Chellappa, R. were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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- Date: May 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Brief - The article "Wideband Diversity in Multipath Channels with Nonuniform Power Dispersion Profiles" by Win, M.Z., Chrisikos, G. and Molisch, A.F. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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- Date: May 1, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Performance Evaluation of CDMA Reverse Links with Imperfect Beamforming in a Multicell Environment using a Simplified Beamforming Model" by Yu, J., Yao, Y.-D., Molisch, A.F. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
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- Date: May 1, 2006
Awarded to: Christopher Wren and Emmanuel Munguia Tapia
Awarded for: "Toward Scalable Activity Recognition for Sensor Networks"
Awarded by: Second International Workshop in Location and Context-Awareness (LoCA) Brief - MERL researcher Christopher Wren received the Best Presentation award for his talk on "Toward Scalable Activity Recognition for Sensor Networks".
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- Date: May 1, 2006
Where: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The article "Fast Low-Rank Modifications of the Thin Singular Value Decomposition" by Brand, M. was published in Linear Algebra and Its Applications.
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- Date: April 26, 2006
Where: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The article "Quantitative Colorimetric Analysis of Dye Mixtures Using an Optical Photometer Based on LED Array" by Lau, K.-T., Yerazunis, W.S., Shepherd, R.L. and Diamond, D. was published in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.
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- Date: April 24, 2006
Where: Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "View Synthesis for Multiview Video Compression" by Martinian, E., Behrens, A., Xin, J. and Vetro, A. and "Fast Mode Decision for Intra-only H.264/AVC Coding" by Xin, J. and Vetro, A. were presented at the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS).
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- Date: April 23, 2006
Where: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Induction of Compact Decision Trees for Personalized Recommendation" by Nikovski, D. and Kulev, V. was presented at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC).
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- Date: April 22, 2006
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The papers "Effects of Display Position and Control Space Orientation on User Preference and Performance" by Wigdor, D., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. and "Three Modes of Multi-Surface Interaction and Visualization" by Shen, C., Esenther, A., Forlines, C. and Ryall, K. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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- Date: April 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Constant Quality Rate Allocation for FGS Coding Using Composite R-D Analysis" by Cheng, H., Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
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- Date: April 10, 2006
Where: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Brief - The articles "Ultra-Wideband Impulse Radio Systems with Multiple Pulse Types" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z., Kobayashi, H. and Poor, H.V. and "Spectral Shaping of UWB Signals for Time-Hopping Impulse Radio" by Nakache, Y.-P. and Molisch, A.F. were published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
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- Date: April 6, 2006
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Antenna Selection in High-Throughput Wireless LAN" by Zhang, H., Molisch, A.F., Gu, D., Wang, D. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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- Date: April 3, 2006
Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Performance Analysis and a Proposed Improvement for the IEEE 802.15.4 Contention Access Period" by Tao, Z., Panwar, S., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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- Date: March 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Polarized MIMO Channels in 3-D: Models, Measurements and Mutual Information" by Shafi, M., Zhang, M., Moustakas, A.L., Smith, P.J., Molisch, A.F., Tufvesson, F. and Simon, S.H. was published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
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- Date: March 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The article "Two-Dimensional Correction for Min-Sum Decoding of Irregular LDPC Codes" by Zhang, J., Fossorier, M., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: March 2, 2006
Where: ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Brief - The paper "The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Morency, L.-P. and Forlines, C. was presented at the ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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- Date: February 22, 2006
Where: International Conference Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Jianlin Guo Brief - The paper "A Dynamic QoS Algorithm for Wireless AV Home Networks" by Guo, J., Zhang, J. and Chen, W. was presented at the International Conference Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT).
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- Date: February 15, 2006
Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Brief - The article "An Enhanced Video Summarization System Using Audio Features for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Radhakrishnan, R., Siracusa, M., Divakaran, A. and Mishima, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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- Date: January 17, 2006
Where: SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Complexity Scalable Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC" by Kim, C., Xin, J. and Vetro, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
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- Date: January 17, 2006
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval Brief - The papers "Blind Summarization: Content-Adaptive Video Summarization Using Time-Series Analysis" by Divakaran, A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Peker, K.A., "Subjective Assessment of Consumer Video Summarization" by Forlines, C., Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. and "Subjective Evaluation Criterion for Selecting Affective Features and Modeling Highlights" by Xing, L., Yu, H., Huang, Q., Ye, Q. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Content Analysis, Management and Retrieval.
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- Date: January 8, 2006
Where: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Transmitting Multiple HD Video Streams over UWB Links" by Duan, C., Pekhteryev, C., Fang, J., Nakache, Y., Zhang, J., Tajima, K., Nishioka, Y. and Hirai, H. was presented at the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC).
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- Date: January 7, 2006
Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Temporal-Context-Based Video Browsing Interface for PVR-Enabled High-Definition Television Systems" by Shipman, S., Divakaran, A., Flynn, M. and Batra, A., "An Enhanced Video Summarization System Using Audio Features for a Personal Video Recorder" by Otsuka, I., Radhakrishnan, R., Siracusa, M., Divakaran, A. and Mishima, H., "Architecture for Video Summarization Services Over Home Networks and the Internet" by Shipman, S., Radhakrishan, R. and Divakaran, A. and "MPEG-2 to H.264 / AVC Transcoding for Efficient Storage of Broadcast Video Bitstreams" by Xin, J., Vetro, A., Sekiguchi, S. and Sugimoto, K. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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- Date: January 5, 2006
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop) Brief - The papers "Multi-User Interface and Interactions on Direct-Touch Horizontal Surfaces: Collaborative Tabletop Research at MERL" by Shen, C., "Rotation and Translation Mechanisms for Tabletop Interaction" by Hancock, M.S., Vernier, F.D., Wigdor, D., Carpendale, S. and Shen, C., "Experiences With and Observations of Direct-Touch Tables" by Ryall, K., Ringel Morris, M., Everitt, K., Forlines, C. and Shen, C., "Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Reuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces" by Wu, M., Shen, C., Ryall, K., Forlines, C. and Balakrishnan, R. and "MultiSpace: Enabling Electronic Document Micro-mobility in Table-Centric, Multi-Device Environments" by Everitt, K., Shen, C., Ryall, K. and Forlines, C. were presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop).
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