- Date: October 30, 2002
Where: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Rate-Reduction Transcoding Design for Wireless Video Streaming" by Vetro, A., Cai, J. and Chen, C.W. was published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
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- Date: October 28, 2002
Where: Volume Visualization Symposia (VolVis)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Efficient Estimation of 3D Euclidean Distance Fields from 2D Range Images" by Frisken, S.F. and Perry, R.N. was presented at the Volume Visualization Symposia (VolVis).
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- Date: October 27, 2002
Where: International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Backward Compatibility of the COST 259 Directional Channel Model" by Molisch, A.F., Steinbauer, M., Asplund, H. and Mehta, N.B. and "Iterative Channel Estimation for OFDM with Clipping" by Schwartz, S.C., Zhang, J. and Gu, D. were presented at the International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC).
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- Date: October 27, 2002
Where: ACM Interactions Brief - The article "First UIST Interface-Design Contest" by Frenzel, M., Marks, J. and Ryall, K. was published in ACM Interactions.
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- Date: October 23, 2002
Where: Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications
MERL Contact: Jianlin Guo Brief - The paper "DTV for Personalized Mobile Access and Unified Home Control" by Guo, J., Matsubara, F., Cukier, J.I. and Kong, H.-S. was presented at the Working Conference on Personal Wireless Communications.
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- Date: October 9, 2002
Where: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Brief - The article "Blending Multiple Views" by Raskar, R. and Low, K.-L. was published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
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- Date: October 1, 2002
Where: Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing Brief - The paper "Generating Code Representations Suitable for Belief Propagation Decoding" by Yedidia, J.S., Chen, J. and Fossorier, M. was presented at the Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing.
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- Date: September 30, 2002
Where: IEEE Computer Brief - The article "Merging Fossil Specimens with Computer-Generated Information" by Bimber, O., Gatesy, S.M., Witmer, L.M., Raskar, R. and Encarnacao, L. was published in IEEE Computer.
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- Date: September 30, 2002
Where: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "EWA Splatting" by Zwicker, M., Pfister, H., van Baar, J. and Gross, M. was published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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- Date: September 29, 2002
Where: ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Parsimony & Transparency in Ubiquitous Interface Design" by Wren, C.R. and Reynolds, C.J. was presented at the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).
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- Date: September 24, 2002
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Capacity Enhancement for HSDPA in W-CDMA System" by Horng, J.H., Vannucci, G. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: September 22, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - The papers "Automatic Threshold Determination of Centroid-Linkage Region Growing by MPEG-7 Dominant Color Descriptors" by Porikli, F.M., "Motion Activity-Based Extraction of Key-Frames from Video Shots" by Divakaran, A., Radhakrishnan, R. and Peker, K.A., "MPEG-4 Video Object-Based Rate Allocation with Variable Temporal Rates" by Lee, J.W., Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Ho, W.S., "Rate-Reduction Transcoding Design for Wireless Video Streaming" by Vetro, A. and Chen, C.W. and "Representation of Motion Activity in Hierarchical Levels for Video Indexing and Filtering" by Sun, X., Manjunath, B.S. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: September 16, 2002
Where: International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) Brief - The paper "Subset Languages for Conversing with Collaborative Interface Agents" by Sidner, C.L. and Forlines, C. was presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP).
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- Date: September 15, 2002
Where: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang Brief - The papers "Turbo Coded HSDPA Systems with Transmit Diversity over Frequency Selective Fading Channels" by Zhang, J., Li, L. and Poon, T.C. and "Measured Capacity Gain Using Waterfilling in Frequency Selective MIMO Channels" by Almers, P., Tufvesson, F., Edfors, O. and Molisch, A.F. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).
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- Date: September 8, 2002
Where: Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Video Summarization and Indexing Using Combinations of the MPEG-7 Motion Activity Descriptor and Other Audio-Visual Descriptors" by Divakaran, A. was presented at the Thyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications (IWDC).
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- Date: September 2, 2002
Where: Computer Graphics Forum
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Free-Form Sketching with Variational Implicit Surfaces" by Karpenko, O., Hughes, J.F. and Raskar, R. was presented at the Computer Graphics Forum.
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- Date: September 2, 2002
Where: Eurographics
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Object Space EWA Splatting: A Hardware-Accelerated Approach to High-Quality Point Rendering" by Ren, L., Pfister, H. and Zwicker, M. was presented at Eurographics.
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- Date: August 31, 2002
Where: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The article "Complexity-Quality Analysis of Transcoding Architectures for Reduced Spatial Resolution" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N., Kalva, H. and Sekiguchi, S. was published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.
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- Date: August 26, 2002
Where: International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP)
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Adaptive Pre-Stored Video Streaming with End System Multicast" by Shao, H.R., Shen, C. and Kong, H.-S. was presented at the International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP).
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- Date: August 26, 2002
Where: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Brief - The papers "The MERL SpokenQuery Information Retrieval System: A System for Retrieving Pertinent Documents from a Spoken Query" by Wolf, P. and Raj, B., "PDH: A Human-Centric Interface for Image Libraries" by Moghaddam, B., Tian, Q., Lesh, N.B., Shen, C. and Huang, T.S. and "Constrained Video Object Segmentation by Color Masks and MPEG-7 Descriptors" by Porikli, F.M. and Wang, Y. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME).
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- Date: July 31, 2002
Where: Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems Brief - The article "Providing Real-Time Services for COTS" by Gonzalez, O., Ramamritham, K., Shen, C. and Fohler, G. was published in the book Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems.
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- Date: July 29, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications
MERL Contacts: Jianlin Guo; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun Brief - The papers "A Platform for Real-Time Content Adaptive Video Transmission Over Heterogeneous Networks" by Kong, H.S., Vetro, A., Kalva, H., Fu, D., Zhang, X., Guo, J. and Sun, H. and "Video Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Asai, K. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications.
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- Date: July 29, 2002
Where: SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Framework for Measurement of the Intensity of Motion Activity of Video Segments" by Peker, K.A. and Divakaran, A. was presented at the SPIE Conference on Internet Multimedia Management Systems.
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- Date: July 23, 2002
Where: ACM SIGGRAPH
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Image-Based 3D Photography Using Opacity Hulls" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Beardsley, P.A., Ngan, A., Ziegler, R. and McMillan, L. was presented at ACM SIGGRAPH.
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- Date: July 15, 2002
Where: International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) Brief - The paper "A Plug-in Architecture for Generating Collaborative Agent Responses" by Rich, C., Lesh, N.B., Rickel, J. and Garland, A. was presented at the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
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