- Date: November 6, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
MERL Contacts: Tim K. Marks; Michael J. Jones Brief - The paper "Fully Automatic Pose-Invariant Face Recognition via 3D Pose Normalization" by Asthana, A., Marks, T.K., Jones, M.J., Tieu, K.H. and Rohith, M. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
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- Date: November 1, 2011
Where: Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis
MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The article "Democracy in Action: Quantization, Saturation and Compressive Sensing" by Laska, J.N., Boufounos, P.T., Davenport, M.A. and Baraniuk, R.G. was published in Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis.
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- Date: October 31, 2011
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Multimedia Quality Assessment" by Porikli, F., Bovik, A., Plack, C., AlRegib, G., Farrell, J., LeCallet, P., Huynth-Thu, Q., Moeller, S. and Winkler, S. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
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- Date: October 23, 2011
Where: InfoVis
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "Singleton Set Distribution Views for Set-Valued Attribute Visualization" by Wittenburg, K. and Pekhteryev, G. was presented at InfoVis.
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- Date & Time: Thursday, October 20, 2011; 3:40 PM
Speaker: Prof. Nobutaka Ono, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Thursday, October 20, 2011; 2:20 PM
Speaker: Prof. Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary, London
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date & Time: Thursday, October 20, 2011; 2:00 PM -5:00 PM
Location: MERL
MERL Contact: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
Brief - MERL is hosting a mini-symposium on audio and music signal processing, with three talks by eminent researchers in the field: Prof. Mark Plumbley, Dr. Cedric Fevotte and Prof. Nobutaka Ono.
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- Date & Time: Thursday, October 20, 2011; 3:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Cedric Fevotte, CNRS - Telecom ParisTech, Paris
MERL Host: Jonathan Le Roux
Research Area: Speech & Audio
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- Date: October 19, 2011
Where: International Low Carbon Earth Summit
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Charging Technology Enabler for Electric Vehicle" by Teo, K.H. was presented at the International Low Carbon Earth Summit.
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- Date: Monday, October 17, 2011 - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Location: Hangzhou, China
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - MERL is a sponsor for the 2011 edition of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop.
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- Date: Monday, October 17, 2011 - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Location: Hangzhou, China
MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro Brief - Anthony Vetro is the General Co-chair of MMSP 2011, the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, to be held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2011.
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- Date: October 14, 2011
Where: IEICE Technical Committee on Antennas and Propagation (AP)
MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Flexible and Mobile Near-Field Wireless Power Transfer using an Array of Resonators" by Wang, B., Teo, K.H., Yamaguchi, S., Takahashi, T. and Konishi, Y. was presented at IEICE Technical Committee on Antennas and Propagation (AP).
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- Date: September 27, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE)
MERL Contacts: Hongbo Sun; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Data Analytics
Brief - The paper "A Fast and Robust Load Flow Method for Distribution Systems with Distributed Generations" by Sun, H., Nikovski, D., Ohno, T., Takano, T. and Kojima, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid and Clean Energy Technologies (ICSGCE).
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- Date: September 25, 2011
Where: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks Brief - The paper "Entropy-Based Motion Selection for Touch-Based Registration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering" by Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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- Date: September 11, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Anthony Vetro; Petros T. Boufounos Brief - The papers "Distributed Compression of Zerotrees of Wavelet Coefficients" by Wang, Y., Rane, S., Boufounos, P. and Vetro, A., "A Trellis-based Approach for Robust View Synthesis" by Tian, D., Vetro, A. and Brand, M., "Concentric Ring Signature Descriptor for 3D Objects" by Nguyen, H.V. and Porikli, F. and "Parallel Quadratic Programming for Image Processing" by Brand, M. and Chen, D. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
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- Date: September 2, 2011
Awarded to: Fatih Porikli and Huseyin Ozkan.
Awarded for: "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection"
Awarded by: IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
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- Date & Time: Thursday, September 1, 2011; 12:00 PM
Speaker: Alexander Behrens, RWTH Aachen University
MERL Host: Anthony Vetro Abstract - Today, photodynamic diagnostics is commonly used for cancer detection in endoscopic interventions of the urinary bladder. Although the visual contrast between benign and malignant tissue is significantly enhanced using fluorescence markers, the field of view (FOV) of the endoscope becomes very limited. This impedes the navigation and the re-identifying of multi-focal tumors for the physician. Thus, new image mosaicking algorithms and visualization methods, which provide larger FOVs in real-time from free-hand bladder scans are developed and will be presented. Furthermore a novel method for an automatic control of seamless inspections using graphs are addressed. Going beyond image processing, a first low-cost inertial 3-D navigation system will be introduced, and a guided navigation tool for tumor re-identification and its application to virtual endoscopy will be discussed.
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- Date: August 30, 2011
Where: IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - The paper "Data Driven Frequency Mapping for Computationally Scalable Object Detection" by Porikli, F. and Ozkan, H. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS).
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- Date: August 29, 2011
Where: British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
MERL Contacts: Michael J. Jones; Tim K. Marks Brief - The paper "Pose Normalization via Learned 2D Warping for Fully Automatic Face Recognition" by Asthana, A., Jones, M.J., Marks, T.K., Tieu, K.H. and Goecke, R. was presented at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC).
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- Date: August 28, 2011
Where: World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
MERL Contacts: Scott A. Bortoff; Matthew Brand Brief - The papers "Integrated Design and Control of Flexure-Based Nanopositioning Systems - Part I: Methodology" by Shilpiekandula, V. and Youcel-Toumi, K. and "A Parallel Quadratic Programming Algorithm for Model Predictive Control" by Brand, M., Shilpiekandula, V. and Bortoff, S.A. were presented at the World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
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- Date: August 21, 2011
Where: International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND)
MERL Contacts: Jinyun Zhang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - The paper "Secret Key Sharing and Rateless Coding for Practical Secure Wireless Transmission" by Liu, W., Duan, C., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Annavajjala, R. and Zhang, J. was presented at the International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND).
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- Date: August 4, 2011
Where: North American Power Symposium (NAPS)
MERL Contact: Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "State-space Approximate Dynamic Programming for Stochastic Unit Commitment" by Zhang, W. and Nikovski, D. was presented at the North American Power Symposium (NAPS).
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- Date: July 24, 2011
Where: IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Petros T. Boufounos
Research Area: Computational Sensing
Brief - The paper "High Resolution SAR Imaging Using Random Pulse Timing" by Liu, D. and Boufounos, P.T. was presented at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS).
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- Date: July 22, 2011
Where: Chinese Control Conference (CCC)
MERL Contacts: Yebin Wang; Scott A. Bortoff
Research Area: Control
Brief - The paper "Nonlinear Control Design for a Semi-active Vibration Reduction System" by Wang, Y., Utsunomiya, K. and Bortoff, S.A. was presented at the Chinese Control Conference (CCC).
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- Date: July 14, 2011
Where: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Compressed Inference for Probabilistic Sequential Models" by Polatkan, G. and Tuzel, O. was presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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