- Date: June 27, 2012
Where: American Control Conference (ACC)
MERL Contacts: Stefano Di Cairano; Scott A. Bortoff Brief - The papers "Further Developments and Applications of Network Reference Governor for Constrained Systems" by Di Cairano, S. and Kolmanovsky, I.V. and "Load Positioning in the Presence of Base Vibrations" by Shilpiekandula, V., Bortoff, S.A., Barnwell, J.C. and El Rifai, K. were presented at the American Control Conference (ACC).
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- Date: June 16, 2012
Where: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Connecting the Dots in Multi-Class Classification: From Nearest Subspace to Collaborative Representation" by Chi, Y. and Porikli, F., "Decomposing Global Light Transport using Time of Flight Imaging" by Wu, D., O'Toole, M., Velten, A., Agrawal, A. and Raskar, R., "Changedetection.net: A New Change Detection Benchmark Dataset" by Goyette, N., Jodoin, P.-M., Porikli, F., Konrad, J. and Ishwar, P. and "A Theory of Multi-Layer Flat Refractive Geometry" by Agrawal, A., Ramalingam, S., Taguchi, Y. and Chari, V. were presented at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
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- Date: June 10, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Non-coherent ToA Estimation for UWB Multipath Channels using Max-eigenvalue Detection" by Shi, W., Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P.V., Molisch, A.F., Ochiari, M. and Taira, A. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: June 4, 2012
Where: CIRP Conference on High Performance Cutting
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Offline Force Control and Feedrate Scheduling for Complex Free Form Surfaces in 5-Axis Milling" by Layegh, S.E., Erdim, H. and Lazoglu, I. was presented at the CIRP Conference on High Performance Cutting.
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- Date: June 1, 2012
Where: Computer-Aided Design
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "High Accuracy NC Milling Simulation Using Composite Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields" by Sullivan, A., Erdim, H., Perry, R.N. and Frisken, S.F. was published in Computer-Aided Design.
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- Date: May 21, 2012
Where: IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Two-Level State Estimation Method for Power Systems with SCADA and PMU Measurements" by Sun, H., Wang, Z. and Nikovski, D. was presented at IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia).
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- Date: May 21, 2012
Where: International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Brief - The papers "Visualizing Set-valued Attributes in Parallel with Equal-height Histograms" by Wittenburg, K., Malizia, A., Lupo, L. and Pekhteryev, G. and "Envisioning Grid Vulnerabilities: Multi-dimensional Visualization for Electrical Grid Planning" by Romero, R., Diez, D., Wittenburg, K. and Diaz, P. were presented at the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
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- Date: May 14, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The papers "Voting-based Pose Estimation for Robotic Assembly Using a 3D Sensor" by Choi, C., Taguchi, Y., Tuzel, O., Liu, M.-Y. and Ramalingam, S., "Convex Bricks: A New Primitive for Visual Hull Modeling and Reconstruction" by Chari, V., Agrawal, A., Taguchi, Y. and Ramalingam, S. and "Coverage Optimized Active Learning for k - NN Classifiers" by Joshi, A.J., Porikli, F. and Papanikolopoulos, N. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: May 8, 2012
Where: The International Journal of Robotics Research
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Fast Object Localization and Pose Estimation in Heavy Clutter for Robotic Bin Picking" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, O., Veeraraghavan, A., Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Chellappa, R. was published in The International Journal of Robotics Research.
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- Date: May 7, 2012
Where: Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
MERL Contacts: Anthony Vetro; Huifang Sun
Research Area: Digital Video
Brief - The paper "Predictive Coding of Intra Prediction Modes for High Efficiency Video Coding" by Xu, X., Cohen, R., Vetro, A. and Sun, H. was presented at the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS).
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- Date: May 6, 2012
Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Improved and Opportunistic Interference Alignment Schemes for Multi-Cell Interference Channels" by Gou, T., Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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- Date: April 23, 2012
Where: Optics Express
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Kieran Parsons
Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The article "Mode-evolution-based Polarization Rotator-splitter Design via Simple Fabrication Process" by Yuan, W., Kojima, K., Wang, B., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Nishikawa, S. and Yagyu, E. was published in Optics Express.
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- Date: April 1, 2012
Where: Computational Photography (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Variable Focus Video: Reconstructing Depth and Video for Dynamic Scenes" by Shroff, N., Veeraraghavan, A., Taguchi, Y., Tuzel, O., Agrawal, A. and Chellappa, R. was presented at the Computational Photography (ICCP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on.
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- Date: April 1, 2012
Where: European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "SAR Despeckle Filtering by Sparse Coding on Affinity Nets (SCAN)" by Porikli, F., Sundaresan, R. and Suwa, K. was presented at the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR).
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- Date: March 31, 2012
Where: International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Latent Dirichlet Reallocation for Term Swapping" by Heaukulani, C., Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the International Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning for Speech Processing (IWSML).
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- Date: March 26, 2012
Where: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Analysis on Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Devices Based on Array of Resonators" by Wang, B., Ellstein, D. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
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- Date: March 25, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Jonathan Le Roux; Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Dictionary Learning Based Pan-Sharpening" by Liu, D. and Boufounos, P.T., "Multiple Dictionary Learning for Blocking Artifacts Reduction" by Wang, Y. and Porikli, F., "A Compressive Phase-Locked Loop" by Schnelle, S.R., Slavinsky, J.P., Boufounos, P.T., Davenport, M.A. and Baraniuk, R.G., "Indirect Model-based Speech Enhancement" by Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R., "A Clustering Approach to Optimize Online Dictionary Learning" by Rao, N. and Porikli, F., "Parametric Multichannel Adaptive Signal Detection: Exploiting Persymmetric Structure" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O. and Li, H., "Additive Noise Removal by Sparse Reconstruction on Image Affinity Nets" by Sundaresan, R. and Porikli, F. and "Depth Sensing Using Active Coherent Illumination" by Boufounos, P.T. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
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- Date: March 22, 2012
Where: Journal of Applied Physics
MERL Contact: Jinyun Zhang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The article "Magnetic Superlens-enhanced Inductive Coupling for Wireless Power Transfer" by Huang, D., Urzhumov, Y., Smith, D.R., Teo, K.H. and Zhang, J. was published in Journal of Applied Physics.
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- Date: March 13, 2012
Where: Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting (ASJ)
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - The paper "Speech Enhancement by Indirect VTS" by Le Roux, J. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the Acoustical Society of Japan Spring Meeting (ASJ).
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- Date: March 8, 2012
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Persymmetric Parametric Adaptive Matched Filter for Multichannel Adaptive Signal Detection" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O. and Li, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: March 5, 2012
Where: IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT)
MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Metamaterials for Wireless Power Transfer" by Wang, B. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT).
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- Date: March 4, 2012
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC)
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons Brief - The papers "Fractionally-Spaced Statistical Equalizer for Fiber Nonlinearity Mitigation in Digital Coherent Optical Systems" by Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Kojima, K., Duan, C., Yoshida, T., Sugihara, T. and Mizuochi, T. and "A Low-Complexity Sliding-Window Turbo Equalizer for Nonlinearity Compensation" by Duan, C., Parsons, K., Koike-Akino, T., Annavajjala, R., Kojima, K., Yoshida, T., Sugihara, T. and Mizouchi, T. were presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC).
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- Date: March 1, 2012
Where: Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (JEST)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The article "A Hybrid Decoupled Power Flow Method for Balanced Power Distribution Systems" by Sun, H., Nikovski, D., Ohno, T., Takano, T. and Kojima, Y. was published in Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (JEST).
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- Date: February 27, 2012
Where: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The article "Universal Rate-Efficient Scalar Quantization" by Boufounos, P.T. was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
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- Date: January 29, 2012
Where: AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting
Research Area: Dynamical Systems
Brief - The paper "Optimized Three-Body Gravity Assists and Manifold Transfers in End-to-End Lunar Mission Design" by Grover, P. and Andersson, C. was presented at the AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting.
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