- Date: January 1, 2006
Awarded to: Edward Tse, Saul Greenberg, Chia Shen and Clifton Forlines
Awarded for: "Multimodal Multiplayer Tabletop Gaming"
Awarded by: International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications (PerGames) -
- Date: January 1, 2006
Awarded to: MERL Staff
Awarded for: The Dome Projector
Awarded by: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The Dome Projector, which was developed by MERL staff and productized by Mitsubishi Electric, was recognized by Nikkan Kogyo Simbun's Best 10 New Products Prize.
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- Date: December 15, 2005
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Threshold Selection for UWB TOA Estimation Based on Kurtosis Analysis" by Guvenc, I. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: December 10, 2005
Where: Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC) Brief - The paper "Combadge: A Voice Messaging Device for the Masses" by Frankel, J. L. and Bromberg, D. was presented at the Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC).
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- Date: December 6, 2005
Where: Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Recognition of Isolated Fingerspelling Gestures Using Depth Edges" by Feris, R., Turk, M., Raskar, R., Tan, K.-H. and Ohashi, G. was published in the book Real-Time Vision for Human-Computer Interaction.
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- Date: December 2, 2005
Where: Information Processing Letters Brief - The article "BubbleSearch: A Simple Heuristic for Improving Priority-based Greedy Algorithms" by Lesh, N. and Mitzenmacher, M. was published in Information Processing Letters.
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- Date: November 30, 2005
Where: Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN)
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Multi-User Multi-Touch Games on DiamondTouch with the FTFlash Toolkit" by Esenther, A. and Wittenburg, K. was presented at Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN).
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- Date: November 28, 2005
Where: IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Brief - The papers "A Robust Voice Activity Detector Using an Acoustic Doppler Radar" by Hu, R. and Raj, B. and "Reconstructing Spectral Vectors with Uncertain Spectrographic Masks for Robust Speech Recognition" by Raj, B. and Singh, R. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).
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- Date: November 28, 2005
Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Reduced Latency Iterative Decoding of LDPC Codes" by Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Fossorier, M. and Yedidia, J.S., "Multiscale Energy Products for TOA Estimation in IR-UWB Systems" by Guvenc, I. and Sahinoglu, Z., "Flexible Lognormal Sum Approximation Method" by Wu, J., Mehta, N.B. and Zhang, J., "Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Cellular Systems with Channel-Aware Schedulers" by Wu, J., Mehta, N.B. and Zhang, J., "Orthogonality Factor in WCDMA Downlinks in Urban Macrocellular Environments" by Mehta, N.B., Molisch, A.F. and Greenstein, L.J., "Improved Min-Sum Decoding of LDPC Codes Using 2-Dimensional Normalization" by Zhang, J., Fossorier, M., Gu, D. and Zhang, J. and "A Comprehensive Model for Ultrawideband Propagation Channels" by Molisch, A.F., Balakrishnan, K., Cassioli, D., Chong, C.-C., Emami, S., Fort, A., Karedal, J., Kunisch, J., Schantz, H. and Siwiak, K. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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- Date: November 17, 2005
Where: Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environment (CVIIE)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Tags are Coming: Exploiting Photosensing Wireless Tags for Assisting Geometric Procedures" by Raskar, R., Beardsley, P., Dietz, P. and van Baar, J. was presented at Computer Vision for Interactive and Intelligent Environment (CVIIE).
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- Date: November 15, 2005
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Variable-Phase-Shift-Based RF-Baseband Codesign for MIMO Antenna Selection" by Zhang, X., Molisch, A.F. and Kung, S.-Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: November 15, 2005
Where: NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "CRM114 versus Mr. X: CRM114 Notes for the TREC 2005 Spam Track" by Assis, F., Yerazunis, W., Siefkes, C. and Chhabra, S. was presented at the NIST Text REtrieval Conference (TREC).
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- Date: November 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference Optics East 2005: Communications, Multimedia & Display Technologies
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Development of MPEG Standards for 3D and Free Viewpoint Video" by Smolic, A., Kimata, H. and Vetro, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference Optics East 2005: Communications, Multimedia & Display Technologies.
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- Date: November 7, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems Brief - The paper "Wide-Area Long-Range Unidirectional Sensor (WALRUS) Network" by Vannucci, G., Leigh, D. and Katz, J. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems.
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- Date: November 6, 2005
Where: ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Bayesian Background Modeling for Foreground Detection" by Porikli, F. and Tuzel, O. was presented at the ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN).
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- Date: November 4, 2005
Where: Wireless Communications
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The article "Wireless Communications" by Molisch, A.F. was published in Wireless Communications.
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- Date: October 30, 2005
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Surveillance System with Object-Aware Video Transcoder" by Hata, T., Kuwahara, N., Nozawa, T., Schwenke, D.L. and Vetro, A. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).
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- Date: October 23, 2005
Where: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis Brief - The papers "DTLens: Multi-user Tabletop Spatial Data Exploration" by Forlines, C. and Shen, C., "Zoom-and-Pick: Facilitating Visual Zooming and Precision Pointing with Interactive Handheld Projectors" by Forlines, C., Balakrishnan, R., Beardsley, P., van Baar, J. and Raskar, R. and "DT Controls: Adding Identity to Physical Interfaces" by Dietz, P.H., Harsham, B., Forlines, C., Leigh, D., Yerazunis, W., Shipman, S., Schmidt-Nielsen, B. and Ryall, K. were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST).
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- Date: October 17, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Shadow Flow: A Recursive Method to Learn Moving Cast Shadows" by Porikli, F. and Thornton, J., "An Algebraic Approach to Surface Reconstruction from Gradient Fields" by Agrawal, A., Chellappa, R. and Raskar, R. and "Discontinuity Preserving Stereo with Small Baseline Multi-Flash Illumination" by Feris, R., Raskar, R., Chen, L., Tan, K.-H. and Turk, M. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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- Date: October 16, 2005
Where: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Latent Variable Decomposition of Spectrograms for Single Channel Speaker Separation" by Raj, B. and Smaragdis, P., "Learning Source Trajectories Using Wrapped-Phase Hidden Markov Models" by Smaragdis, P. and Boufounos, P. and "Audio Analysis for Surveillance Applications" by Radhakrishnan, R., Divakaran, A. and Smaragdis, P. were presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
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- Date: October 15, 2005
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia systems and Applications
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Browsing News and Talk Video on a Consumer Electronics Platform Using Face Detection" by Peker, K.A., Divakaran, A. and Lanning, T. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia systems and Applications.
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- Date: October 3, 2005
Where: IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Non-coherent TOA Estimation in IR-UWB Systems with Different Signal Waveforms" by Guvenc, I., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F. and Orlik, P. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks.
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- Date: October 3, 2005
Where: European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "Nonrigid Embeddings for Dimensionality Reduction" by Brand, M. was presented at the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML).
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- Date: September 28, 2005
Where: Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
Research Area: Information Security
Brief - The paper "Secure Biometrics Via Syndromes" by Martinian, E., Yekhanin, S. and Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.
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- Date: September 26, 2005
Where: IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Reliable Broadcasting in ZigBee Networks" by Ding, G., Sahinoglu, Z., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Bhargava, B. was presented at the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON).
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