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1,517 News items, Awards, Events and Talks related to MERL and its staff.


  •  NEWS    AAMAS 2002: publication by Charles Rich and others
    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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  •  NEWS    ISAS-SCI 2002: 8 publications by Anthony Vetro, Jinyun Zhang, Ajay Divakaran, Philip Orlik and Zafer Sahinoglu
    Date: July 14, 2002
    Where: World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISAS-SCI)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro
    Brief
    • The papers "Timing Synchronization for OFDM" by You, C., Gu, D. and Zhang, J., "An Online Renegotiation-Based Bandwidth Management with Circuit Assignment for VBR Traffic in Communications Networks" by Porikli, F.M. and Sahinoglu, Z., "A Trellis Based Technique for Blind Channel Estimation and Signal Detection" by Cao, L., Orlik, P.V., Gu, D. and Zhang, J., "Automatic Detection of Talking Head Segments in News Video in the Compressed Domain" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A., "Channel Estimation Error Impact on the Link Level Performance of Space-Time Coded Systems" by Li, L., Zhang, J. and Horng, J.H., "Map-Top Video Surveillance with Adaptive Video Delivery" by Kuwahara, N., Hata, T. and Vetro, A., "Study of Rate 1/4 HSDPA Turbo Codes and Scaling Effect" by Orlik, P.V., Derand, T., Horng, J.H. and Wang, D. and "A Date Reduction Procedure for 'Principal Cast' and other 'Talking Head' Detection" by Radhakrishnan, R. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (ISAS-SCI).
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  •  NEWS    EGRW 2002: publication by Hanspeter Pfister and others
    Date: June 26, 2002
    Where: Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Acquisition and Rendering of Transparent and Refractive Objects" by Matusik, W., Pfister, H., Ngan, A., Ziegler, R. and McMillan, L. was presented at the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering (EGRW).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission 2002: publication by Christopher R. Wren and others
    Date: June 19, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Browsing 3-D Spaces with 3-D Spaces with 3-D Vision: Body-Driven Navigation Through the Internet City" by Sparacino, F., Wren, C., Azarbayejani, A. and Pentland, A. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission.
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  •  NEWS    ICCE 2002: 5 publications by Zafer Sahinoglu, Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun, Anthony Vetro, Jinyun Zhang and Johnas Cukier
    Date: June 18, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Content-Based Browsing System for Personal Video Recorders" by Divakaran, A. and Cabasson, R., "Complexity-Quality Analysis of MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 Transcoding Architectures" by Vetro, A., Hata, T., Kuwahara, N. and Kalva, H., "Efficient FGS to Single Layer Transcoding" by Lin, Y.-C., Wang, C.-N., Chiang, T., Vetro, A. and Sun, H., "Signal Circulation for Adaptive Equalization in Digital Communication Systems" by Horng, J.H. and Zhang, J. and "A Mobile Network Architecture with Personalized Instant Information Access" by Sahinoglu, Z., Peker, K.A., Matsubara, F. and Cukier, J. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium) 2002: publication by Kent Wittenburg, Kathy Ryall, Darren Leigh and others
    Date: June 16, 2002
    Where: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium)
    Brief
    • The paper "Semi-Automatic Antenna Design via Sampling and Visualization" by Quigley, A., Leigh, D.L., Lesh, N.B., Marks, J.W., Ryall, K. and Wittenburg, K.B. was presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (AP-S International Symposium).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Sensors 2002: publication by William Yerazunis, Paul Dietz and Darren Leigh
    Date: June 12, 2002
    Where: IEEE Sensors
    MERL Contact: William S. Yerazunis
    Research Area: Data Analytics
    Brief
    • The paper "Wireless Liquid Level Sensing for Restaurant Applications" by Dietz, P.H., Leigh, D.L. and Yerazunis, W.S. was presented at IEEE Sensors.
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  •  NEWS    ITS 2002: publication by Charles Rich and others
    Date: June 5, 2002
    Where: International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)
    Brief
    • The paper "Collaborative Discourse Theory as a Foundation for Tutorial Dialogue" by Rickel, J., Lesh, N.B., Rich, C., Sidner, C.L. and Gertner, A. was presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS).
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  •  NEWS    NPAR 2002: publication by Ramesh Raskar and others
    Date: June 3, 2002
    Where: International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "Cartoon Dioramas in Motion" by Raskar, R., Ziegler, R. and Willwacher, T. was presented at the International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR).
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  •  NEWS    SMVP 2002: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: June 1, 2002
    Where: International Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Subspace Mappings for Image Sequences" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the International Workshop on Statistical Methods in Video Processing (SMVP).
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  •  NEWS    Noise Reduction in Speech Applications: 2 publications by MERL researchers and others
    Date: May 31, 2002
    Where: Noise Reduction in Speech Applications
    Brief
    • The articles "Signal and Feature Compensation Methods for Robust Speech Recognition" by Singh, R., Stern, R.M. and Raj, B. and "Model Compensation and Matched Condition Methods for Robust Speech Recognition" by Singh, R., Raj, B. and Stern, R.M. were published in the book Noise Reduction in Speech Applications.
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  •  NEWS    International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond 2002: 4 publications by Jinyun Zhang, Philip Orlik and others
    Date: May 28, 2002
    Where: International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
    Brief
    • The papers "Sequential Bezout Equalizer for MIMO Systems" by Kung, S.Y., Zhang, X., Vannucci, G. and Zhang, J., "Time Domain Channel Estimation for OFDM Using EM Algorithm" by Ma, X., Kobayashi, H., Schwartz, S.C., Zhang, J. and Gu, D., "Study of Two 1/4 Turbo Code Receivers in Non-Frequency Selective Fast Fading Channels" by Cao, L., Zhang, J., Chen, C.W., Orlik, P.V. and Miyake, M. and "An OFDM Receiver Structure for Broadband Wireless LANs" by Gu, D., Zhang, J., You, C., Miyake, M. and Ma, X. were presented at the International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond.
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  •  NEWS    ECCV 2002: publication by Matthew Brand
    Date: May 27, 2002
    Where: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
    MERL Contact: Matthew Brand
    Brief
    • The paper "Incremental Singular Value Decomposition of Uncertain Data with Missing Values" by Brand, M.E. was presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
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  •  NEWS    ISCAS 2002: 2 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 26, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Reduced Spatio-Temporal Transcoding Using an Intra Refresh Technique" by Vetro, A., Yin, P., Liu, B. and Sun, H. and "Successive Packing Based Interleaver for Design Turbo Codes" by Zhang, X.M., Shi, Y.Q., Chen, H., Haimovich, A.M., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
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  •  NEWS    AVI 2002: publication by Chia Shen and others
    Date: May 22, 2002
    Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
    Brief
    • The paper "Visualization Techniques for Circular Tabletop Interfaces" by Vernier, F., Lesh, N.B. and Shen, C. was presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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  •  NEWS    ICASSP 2002: 3 publications by Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun and others
    Date: May 13, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
    Brief
    • The papers "Speech Recognizer Based Microphone Array Processing for Robust Hands-Free Speech Recognition" by Seltzer, M., Raj, B. and Stern, R., "Structure Analysis of Soccer Video with Hidden Markov Models" by Xie, L., Chang, S.-F., Divakaran, A. and Sun, H. and "A Probabilistic Approach for Rate-Distortion Modeling of Multi-scale Binary Shape" by Vetro, A., Wang, Y. and Sun, H. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2002: publication by Jinyun Zhang, Philip Orlik and others
    Date: May 6, 2002
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Blind Channel Estimation and Equalization Using Viterbi Algorithms" by Cao, L., Chen, C.W., Zhang, J., Orlik, P.V. and Gu, D. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  NEWS    Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface: publication by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: April 30, 2002
    Where: Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The article "Motion Descriptors" by Jeannin, S., Divakaran, A. and Mory, B. was published in the book Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface.
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  •  NEWS    CHI 2002: publication by Kathy Ryall, Darren Leigh and others
    Date: April 20, 2002
    Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
    Brief
    • The paper "Social Net: Using Patterns of Physical Proximity Over Time to Infer Shared Interests" by Terry, M., Mynatt, E.D., Ryall, K. and Leigh, D.L. was presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2002: publication by Zafer Sahinoglu and others
    Date: April 2, 2002
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    Research Area: Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The paper "Efficient Parameter Selection for Use of Self-Similarity in Real Time Resource Management" by Sahinoglu, Z. and Tekinay, S. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    CISS 2002: publication by Jinyun Zhang, Philip Orlik and others
    Date: March 20, 2002
    Where: Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
    MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Improved Low-Complexity Turbo Decoding for HSDPA Applications" by Wang, D., Orlik, P.V., Derand, T., Cao, L., Kobayashi, H. and Zhang, J. was presented at the Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).
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  •  NEWS    W3C Delivery Context Workshop 2002: publication by Anthony Vetro and others
    Date: March 4, 2002
    Where: W3C Delivery Context Workshop
    MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
    Research Area: Digital Video
    Brief
    • The paper "Position Paper: Delivery Context in MPEG-21" by Vetro, A. and Devillers, S. was presented at the W3C Delivery Context Workshop.
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  •  NEWS    MSRI 2002: publication by MERL researchers and others
    Date: March 1, 2002
    Where: Information Theory Workshop at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
    Brief
    • The paper "Generalized Belief Propagation and Free Energy Minimization" by Yedidia, J.S. was presented at the Information Theory Workshop at Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).
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  •  NEWS    SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2002: 2 publications by Ajay Divakaran and others
    Date: January 23, 2002
    Where: SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases
    Brief
    • The papers "Data Reduction Procedure for \'Principal-Cast\' and other \'Talking-Head\' Detection" by Divakaran, A. and Radhakrishnan, R. and "Rapid Generation of Sports Video Highlights Using the MPEG-7 Motion Activity Descriptor" by Peker, K.A., Cabasson, R. and Divakaran, A. were presented at the SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases.
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  •  NEWS    ACCV 2002: publication by Jeroen van Baar, Ramesh Raskar and others
    Date: January 22, 2002
    Where: Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
    Research Area: Computer Vision
    Brief
    • The paper "A Low-Cost Projector Mosaic with Fast Registration" by Raskar, R., van Baar, J. and Chai, J.X. was presented at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).
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