Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2008)
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Connection Admission Control (CAC) is needed in ATM networks to provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to real-time connections. This paper presents a CAC scheme based on a bit-stream traffic...
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Http Www Merl, R. Waters, D. Anderson, A. Greysukh, W. Lambert, H. Kozuka, ...
This document describes the #Internal# Spline Version 3.0 Application Program Interface #API# as exported to ANSI C. It documents each publicly available object class and function. In addition, it...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2007)
Http Www Merl, B. Andalman, K. Ryall, J. Marks, S. Shieber, W. Ruml
Many problems in computer-aided design and graphics involve the process of setting and adjusting input parameters to obtain desirable output values. Exploring di#erent parameter settings can be a...
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Graphical models, suchasBayesian networks and Markov random #elds represent statistical dependencies of variables by a graph.
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Http Www Merl, Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro, Shun-ichi Sekiguchi, Kazuo Sugimoto, Jun Xin, ...
This paper introduces an HDD recording system that employs MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC transcoding to achieve efficient storage of broadcast streams. Novel transcoding techniques are presented and several...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2005)
Http Www Merl, Jinho Lee, Raghu Machiraju, Hanspeter Pfister, Baback Moghaddam
this paper we present a novel framework that acquires the 3D shape, texture, pose and illumination of a face from a single photograph. Additionally, we show how we can recreate a face under varying...
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Http Www Merl, Georgiy Pekhteryev, Zafer Sahinoglu, Philip Orlik, Ghulam Bhatti
An image sensor network platform is developed for testing transmission of images over ZigBee networks that support multi-hopping. The ZigBee is a low rate and low power networking technology for...
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Http Www Merl, Amit Agrawal, Ramesh Raskar, Jack Tumblin, Jack Tumblin
of Maryland aagrawal@umd.edu Ramesh Raskar MERL raskar@merl.com We propose a camera that measures static gradients instead of static intensities. Quantizing sensed intensity differences between...
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Http Www Merl, Kathy Ryall, Neal Lesh, Hiroaki Miyashita, Shigeru Makino, Tom Lanning, ...
We introduce approximate query techniques for searching and analyzing two-dimensional data sets such as line or scatter plots. Our techniques allow users to explore a dataset by defining QueryLines:...
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Http Www Merl, Giovanni Vannucci, Darren Leigh, Joseph Katz
Networks consisting of low-cost wireless sensors have been the subject of extensive research, with applications ranging from environmental monitoring to building control systems, to name a few. In...
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Http Www Merl, Min Wu, Anthony Vetro, Jonathan Yedidia, Huifang Sun, Chang Wen Chen
In conventional video coding, the complexity of an encoder is generally much higher than that of a decoder because of operations such as motion estimation consume significant computational resources....
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Http Www Merl, Masakazu Furuichi, Yutaka Mihori, Fumiko Muraoka, Alan Esenther, Kathy Ryall, ...
Interactive tabletops are an increasingly common form factor for group collaborations. Visual data, such as maps, are particularly well-suited for interactive tabletop applications. In this...
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Http Www Merl, Rendering Deformable, Surface Reflectance, Tim Weyrich, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Gross, ...
Animation of photorealistic computer graphics models is an important goal for many applications.
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Http Www Merl, Anders Johansson, Johan Karedal, Fredrik Tufvesson, Andreas Molisch, Anders J Johansson, ...
This paper analyzes MIMO propagation channels for personal area networks. Such channels show important differences to propagation channels in wide-area networks, due to the different environments in...
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Http Www Merl, Tim Weyrich, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Addy Ngan, Markus Gross, ...
this technical report we describe how these devices are constructed, calibrated, and used to acquire high-quality reflectance data of human faces
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Http Www Merl, Kathy Ryall, Qing Li, Alan Esenther, Kathy Ryall, Qing Li, ...
We introduce the concept of a temporal Magic Lens, a novel interaction technique that supports querying and browsing for video data. Video data is available from an increasingly number of sources,...
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Http Www Merl, Chia Shen, Marks S. Hancock, Clifton Forlines, Frederic D. Vernier, ...
this paper, we present the design, interaction and implementation of CoR2Ds. We also discuss a set of current usage scenarios
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Http Www Merl, Paris Smaragdis, Paris Smaragdis
Making machines that can understand musical structure has long been one of the holy grails of audio processing separating overlapping sounds has been another. Here we present a simple framework...
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Http Www Merl, Kuang-chih Lee, Kuang-chih Lee, Baback Moghaddam, Baback Moghaddam
We propose a simplified and practical computational technique for estimating directional lighting in uncalibrated images of faces in frontal pose. We show that this inverse problem can be solved...
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Http Www Merl, Jingxian Wu, Neelesh Mehta, Jin Zhang, Jingxian Wu, Neelesh B. Mehta, ...
We derive exact closed-form expressions for the system-level theoretical spectral efficiency of cellular radio systems that use channel-aware schedulers and operate in the presence of cochannel...
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Http Www Merl, Bill Buxton, Clifton Forlines, Clifton Forlines, Chia Shen, Chia Shen
We describe a technique that supports the previewing of navigation, exploration, and editing operations by providing convenient Undo for unsuccessful and/or undesirable actions on multilevel input...
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Http Www Merl, Ace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee, Cory Kidd, Neal Lesh, Charles Rich
This paper explores the concept of engagement, the process by which individuals in an interaction start, maintain and end their perceived connection to one another. The paper reports on one aspect of...
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Http Www Merl, Katherine Everitt, Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines, Katherine Everitt
this paper, we introduce Modal Spaces, a "workbench approach" to enhance support for modal interfaces on large, direct-touch input displays. On a physical workbench, location and tool...
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Http Www Merl, Katherine Everitt, Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines
this paper, we introduce MultiSpace, a research effort which explores the role of the table as a central hub to support ad hoc collaboration in a multi-device environment. The table-centric approach...
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Http Www Merl, Alan Esenther, Kent Wittenburg, The Dtflash Toolkit, Alan Esenther, ...
Games and other forms of tabletop electronic entertainment are a natural application of the new multi-user multi-touch tabletop technology DiamondTouch [3]. Electronic versions of familiar tabletop...
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Http Www Merl, Katherine Everitt, Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines
A key challenge in supporting face-to-face collaborative work is e-document micro-mobility: supporting movement of digital content amongst shared display surfaces and personal devices at arbitrary...
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Http Www Merl, Oncel Tuzel, Oncel Tuzel, Fatih Porikli, Fatih Porikli, Peter Meer, ...
this paper, we propose a new method for modeling background statistics of dynamic scene. Each pixel is represented with layers of Gaussian distributions. Using recursive Bayesian learning, we...
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Http Www Merl, T. Weyrich, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, J. Lee, A. Ngan, ...
this paper, we focus on modeling skin reflectance of human faces, an important aspect of face appearance. It varies for different people (e.g., due to race or gender) and even varies for the same...
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Http Www Merl, Anthony Vetro, Christian Timmerer
MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA) has recently been finalized as part of the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework. DIA specifies metadata for assisting the adaptation of Digital Items according to...
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Http Www Merl, Hide Maehara, Fatih Porikli, Fatih Porikli, Jie Shao, Jie Shao
on from several weak features. Our method is automatic, robust, and computationally feasible at the same time. We use road likelihood to align a color helicopter image onto a given street map to find...
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Http Www Merl, D. Nikovski, N. Nishiuma, Y. Goto, H. Kumazawa
This paper presents an experimental comparison of several statistical machine learning methods for short-term prediction of travel times on road segments. The comparison includes linear regression,...
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Http Www Merl, I. Guvenc, Z. Sahinoglu, I. Guvenc, Z. Sahinoglu
Highly dispersive nature of ultra-wideband (UWB) channels makes time of arrival (TOA) estimation extremely challenging, where the leading-edge path is not necessarily the strongest path.
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Http Www Merl, Hiroaki Miyashita, Darren Leigh, Darren Leigh, Kathy Ryall, Kathy Ryall, ...
Exhaustive searches were applied to uniformly-excited sparse linear arrays to find the configurations with lowest peak sidelobe levels. By removing interior elements from the non-sparse array and...
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Http Www Merl, Fredo Dur, Morgan Mcguire, Morgan Mcguire, Wojciech Matusik, Wojciech Matusik, ...
this paper are the application of a multiparameter camera to video matting; an automatic method to extract crude, conservative mattes called trimaps; and a novel optimization method for defocus...
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Http Www Merl, Fatih Porikli, Christopher R. Wren
ire a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright c Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., 2005 201 Broadway, Cambridge,...
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Previous attempts to perform figure-ground segmentation have universally made the assumption that observations of the scene are independent in time. In the vocabulary of the stochastic systems...
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Http Www Merl, Mit Csail, Candace Sidner, Christopher Lee, Trevor Darrell
Head pose and gesture offer several key conversational grounding cues and are used extensively in face-to-face interaction among people. We investigate how dialog context from an embodied...
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Http Www Merl, Frederic Vernier, Clifton Forlines, Clifton Forlines, Chia Shen, Chia Shen, ...
When passing a document to someone across a table, the person passing the document often rotates it to face the receiver. In this paper, we present the results of a user evaluation of three...
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Http Www Merl, Yuan Yuan, Daqing Gu, William Arbaugh, Jinyun Zhang
The next-generation wireless technologies, e.g., 802.11n and 802.15.3a, offer a physical-layer speed at least an-order-of-magniture higher than the current standards. However, direct application of...
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Http Www Merl, Kathy Ryall, Kathy Ryall, Alan Esenther, Alan Esenther, Katherine Everitt, ...
We introduce the concept of identity-differentiating widgets (iDwidgets), widgets parameterized by the identity of their user. Although multi-user applications have become more common, most support...
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this paper we explore the idea of making recommendations on the basis of associations in a relational database
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this paper are: # We proposed a method to compare the variable length sequences using the HMM parameter space # We showed that the number of largest eigenvalues (in absolute value) to span subspace...
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Http Www Merl, Juntan Zhang, Yige Wang, Marc Fossorier, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Juntan Zhang, ...
Replica shu#ed belief propagation decoders of low-density parity-check codes are presented.
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Http Www Merl, Clifton Forlines, Chia Shen
Supporting groups of individuals exploring large maps and design diagrams on interactive tabletops is till an open research problem. Today s geospatial, mechanical engineering and CAD design...
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this paper, we present observations of user experience n the wild on interactive tables in four different real-world contexts - all non-controlled settings. We reflect upon our collective experience,...
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Http Www Merl, Jianxuan Du, Daquing Gu, Andreas F. Molisach, Ye Li, Jinyun Zhang, ...
We propose a modified layered structure for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the layer detection order is fixed and the data rate for each layers i allocated based on the...
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Http Www Merl, Fatih Porikli, Fatih Porikli, Oncel Tuzel, Oncel Tuzel
In this paper, we present an object detection and tracking algorithm for low-frame-rate applications.
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Http Www Merl, Hongchen Wang, Hongcheng Wang, Ramesh Raskar, Ramesh Raskar, Narendra Ahuja, ...
This paper presents a new framework for seamless video Editing in the gradient domain. The spatio-temporal gradient fields of target videos are modified or mixed to generate a new gradient field,...
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Http Www Merl, Juntan Zhang, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Juntan Zhang, Jonathan S. Yedidia, ...
We describe simple iterative decoders for low-density parity check codes based on Euclidean geometries, suitable for practical VLSI implementation in applications requiring very fast decoders. The...
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Http Www Merl, Johan Karedal, Peter Almers, Fredrik Tufvession, Andreas F. Molisch, Johan Karedal, ...
In this paper we present a statistical model for the ultra-wideband (UWB) channel in an industrial environment. Based on a set of measurements in a factory hall, we find that the abundance of...
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Http Www Merl, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Ajay Divakaran, Ajay Divakaran, Paris Smaragdis, ...
We propose a time series analysis based approach for systematic choice of audio classes for detection of crimes in elevators in 1. Since all the different sounds in a surveillance environment cannot...
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Http Www Merl, Peter Almers, Shurjeel Wyne, Fredrik Tufvesson, Andreas Molisch, Peter Almers, ...
In this paper we study the influence of phase noise from free-running local oscillators on SAGE signal parameter estimation. Phase noise is here modeled as a random-walk process. We present phase...
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Http Www Merl, Michael Jones, Paul Beardsley, Guodong Guo, Guodong Guo, Michael J. Jones
This paper describes a new system to capture iris images automatically without user interaction. It works at a distance of over l meter to the users. Experimental results demonstrate the performance...
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Http Www Merl, William Arbaugh, Jinyun Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan, Daqing Gu, ...
Wireless packet scheduling has been a popular paradigm to provide packet-level quality of services (QoS), in terms of throughput, delay and fair sharing, over error-prone channels. However, the...
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Http Www Merl, Fatih Porikli, Fatih Porikli
We present a novel method, which we refer as an integral histogram, to compute the histograms of all possible target regions in an image. Our method is computationally superior and makes it possible...
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Http Www Merl, A. Molisch, I. Guvenc, I. Guvenc, Z. Sahinoglu, Z. Sahinoglu, ...
In this paper, signal waveform designs for TOA estimation with non-coherent receivers based on ultrawideband impulse radio are discussed. Four different transmit signal waveforms are analyzed, both...
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Http Www Merl, Ace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee Merl, Cory D. Kidd, Mit Media Lab, Neal Lesh Merl, ...
This paper explores the concept of engagement, the process by which individuals in an interaction start, maintain and end their perceived connection to one another. The paper reports on one aspect of...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2004)
Http Www Merl, Dongyan Chen, Daqing Gu, Jinyun Zhang
With fast deployment of wireless local area networks (WLANs), the ability of WLAN to support real time services with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements has come into fore. In this paper,...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2004)
Http Www Merl, Wei-ying Kung, Wei-ying Kung, Hao-song Kong, Hao-song Kong, Anthony Vetro, ...
Two novel error resilient approaches are proposed respectively, to replenish intra and inter frame in this work. First we propose a spatial-domain error concealment method to conceal corrupted still...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2004)
Http Www Merl, Fatih Porikli, Fatih Porikli, Yao Wang, Yao Wang
We introduce an automatic segmentation framework that blends the advantages of color, texture, shape, and motion based segmentation methods in a computationally feasible way. A spatiotemporal data...
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Http Www Merl, Ravi Palanki, Ravi Palanki, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Jonathan S. Yedidia
We study the performance of the newly invented rateless codes (LT and Raptor codes) on noisy channels such as the BSC and the AWGNC. We find that Raptor codes outperform LT codes, and have good...
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Http Www Merl, Shaohua Zhou, Baback Moghaddam, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
Intra-personal space modeling proposed by Moghaddam et al. has been successfully applied in face recognition. In their work the regular principal subspaces are derived from the intra-personal space...
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Http Www Merl, Lexing Xie, Peng Xu, Shih-fu Chang, Ajay Divakaran, Huifang Sun
In this paper, we present statistical techniques for parsing the structure of produced soccer programs. The problem is important for applications such as personalized video streaming and browsing...
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Http Www Merl, Uma Srinivasan, Ajay Divakaran, Uma Srinivasan, Ajay Divakaran
This chapter presents the ISO/IEC MPEG-7 Multimedia Content description Interface Standard from the point of view of managing semantics in the context of multimedia applications. We describe the...
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Http Www Merl, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh
In classification methods that explicitly model class-conditional probability distributions, the true distributions are often not known. These are estimated from the data available, to approximate...
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Http Www Merl, Matthew Br, Kongbin Kang, David B. Cooper, Matthew Brand, Kongbin Kang, ...
this paper we characterize the visual hull as a manifold reconstruction problem in differential geometry and find an algebraic solution that can be computed in linear time. The result is a set of...
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Http Www Merl, Kazuhiko Nakane, Ajay Divakaran, Ajay Divakaran, Isao Otsuka, Isao Otsuka, ...
We present an audio-assisted video browsing system for a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) enhanced DVD recorder. We focus on our sports highlights extraction based on audio classification. We have...
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Http Www Merl, Shared-display Groupware, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines, Chia Shen, Meredith Ringel Morris, ...
Interactive tabletops have been previously proposed and studied in the domain of co-located group applications However, little fundamental research has been done to explore the issue of size. In this...
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Http Www Merl, Matthew Brand, Daniel Nikovski
We consider the problem of optimally parking empty cars in an elevator group so as to anticipate and intercept the arrival of new passengers and minimize their waiting times. Two solutions are...
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Http Www Merl, Jonathan S. Yedidia
We present sparse factor graph representations of Reed-Solomon codes based on a fast Fourier transform. These representations can be used to create encoders, or messagepassing decoders that use soft...
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Http Www Merl, Min Wu, Anthony Vetro, Chang Wen Chen
Multiple description coding (MDC) is a source coding technique that involves coding the source information into multiple descriptions. When these descriptions are transmitted over different channels...
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Http Www Merl, M. Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister
Three-dimensional TV is expected to be the next revolution in the history of television. We implemented a 3D TV prototype system with real-time acquisition, transmission, and 3D display of dynamic...
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Http Www Merl, Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan, Daqing Gu, Daqing Gu, Williams Arbaugh, ...
this paper, we propose Multirate Wireless Fair Scheduling (WMFS). In MWFS, each flow is granted temporal fair share of the channel, in contrast to the throughput fair share adopted by existing...
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Http Www Merl, V. Gaganis, N. Pasadakis, P. Smaragdis, N. Varotsis, V. Gaganis, ...
EFA) have been applied to improve peaks separation, especially in HPLC UV-DAD analysis.
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Http Www Merl, Andreas F. Molisch, Andreas F. Molisch, Moe Z. Win, Moe Z. Win, Jack H. Winters, ...
this paper, we are treating a transmit/receivediversity system where the transmitter uses hybrid selection /maximal ratio transmission (H-S/MRT), while the receiver uses MRC. We will analyze the...
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Http Www Merl, Sinan Gezici, Zafer Sahinoglu, Sinan Gezici, Zafer Sahinoglu
n and TOA-based location estimation is described. For NLOS identification, we consider both a simple variance test, and a more complex non-parametric identification test. The ranging technique is...
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Http Www Merl, Charles Rich, Ace Sidner, Neal Lesh, Andy Garl, Shane Booth
this paper, we demonstrate how, using home networking to share a larger and more powerful display, we can provide home products with a new type of collaborative interface in which the product...
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Http Www Merl, H. Vincent Poor, Hisashi Kobayashi, Sinan Gezici, Sinan Gezici, Student Member, ...
In time hopping impulse radio, Nf pulses of duration Tc are transmitted for each symbol. This gives rise to two types of processing gain: (i) pulse combining gain, which is a factor Nf, and (ii)...
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We present an efficient algorithm for exact calculation and minimization of expected waiting times of all passengers using a bank of elevators. The dynamics of the system are represented by a...
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Http Www Merl, Johnny C. Lee, Johnny C. Lee, Paul H. Dietz, Paul H. Dietz, Darren Leigh, ...
this paper we present a system for providing tactile feedback for stylus-based touch-screen displays. The Haptic Pen is a simple low-cost device that provides individualized tactile feedback for...
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Http Www Merl, Neal Lesh, Joe Marks, Charles Rich, Ace L. Sidner
In 1960, the famous computer pioneer J.C.R. Licklider described a vision for human-computer interaction that he called man-computer symbiosis.Licklider predicted the development of computer software...
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Http Www Merl, Ye Li, Daqing Gu, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, Jianxuan Du, ...
Latency of available channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter in time-varying channels greatly affects the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We have derived a...
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Http Www Merl, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Ravi Palanki, Ravi Palanki
We study the performance of the newly invented rateless codes (LT- and Raptor codes) on noisy channels such as the BSC and the AWGN channel. We find that Raptor codes outperform LT codes, and have...
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Http Www Merl, Pallav Sudarshan, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch, Jin Zhang
Multiple antenna transmitter and receiver architectures that combine antenna selection with RF pre-processing have been shown to significantly outperform conventional antenna selection with the same...
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Http Www Merl, Shai Avidan, Moshe Butman, Shai Avidan, Moshe Butman
oduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright c Mitsubishi Electric...
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this paper, we propose a unified, content-adaptive, unsupervised mining framework to bring out such temporal patterns from different multimedia genres. We formulate the problem of pattern discovery...
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Http Www Merl, Johnny Chen, Ashish Khisti, Dmitri M. Malioutov, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Johnny Chen, ...
Malioutov LIDS MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 dmm@mit.edu Jonathan S. Yedidia MERL 201 Broadway, 8th Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 yedidia@merl.com We describe a practical method for distributed compression of...
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We present a novel solution to the warping recovery problem. Our algorithm has several distinct advantages; it is scalable, it enables effective integration of boundary and continuity constraints,...
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Http Www Merl, Xiaokun Li, Fatih M. Porikli, Xiaokun Li, Fatih M. Porikli
We present a novel approach for highway traffic event detection. Our algorithm extracts features directly from the compressed video and automatically detects traffic events using a Gaussian Mixture...
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Http Www Merl, Huaiyu Dai, Andreas F. Molisch, H. Vicent Poor
The capacity of downlink cellular multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where cochannel interference is the dominant channel impairment, is investigated in this paper, mainly from a...
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Http Www Merl, Jianxuan Du, Ye (geoffrey Li, Daqing Gu, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, ...
In this paper, we incorporate the layered structure with low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) to develop a quasi-block diagonal LDPC space-time structure. The lower triangular structure of the...
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In this paper we present an extension to the Non-Negative Matrix Factorization algorithm which is capable of identifying components with temporal structure. We demonstrate the use of this algorithm...
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Http Www Merl, Pallav Sudarshan, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch, Jin Zhang
For MIMO systems, we introduce two novel architectures that significantly reduce the required number of expensive RF chains and still perform as well as a conventional full complexity solution for...
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Http Www Merl, Ajay Divakaran, Ajay Divakaran, Kadir A. Peker, Kadir A. Peker, Shih-fu Chang, ...
We examine the significance of video mining as pattern discovery in multimedia content. We examine the underlying issue of pattern discovery versus pattern recognition, since most past work has not...
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Http Www Merl, Pallav Sudarshan, Neelesh B. Mehta, Andreas F. Molisch, Jin Zhang
For a multiple input multiple output system, antenna selection reduces complexity at the expense of performance. In this paper, we propose two novel RF pre-processing architectures that significantly...
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Http Www Merl, S. Kobayashi, H. Poor, H. V. Molisch
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a binary phase shift keyed time-hopping impulse radio system with pulse-based polarity randomization. Effect of multiple access interference is...
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Http Www Merl, Jin Yu, Yu-dong Yao, Jinyun Zhang
In this paper, reverse-link capacity, in terms of user capacity and Erlang capacity, of a directsequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) system with the use of beamforming is investigated.
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Http Www Merl, Christopher R. Wren, David C. Minnen
We present results from the exploration of activity discovery based on impoverished sensors. Networks of low-cost, low-power, low-bandwidth sensors are a practical way of gathering context awareness...
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Http Www Merl, Ajay Divakaran, Anthony Vetro, Takashi Kan
This paper proposes enhancements over this previous work. A key technical advancement of our proposed summarization is that it yields scalable summaries that allow simple and quick adjustment of...
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Http Www Merl, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Jonathan S. Yedidia, Karunakar Pedagani, Karunakar Pedagani, Andreas F. Molisch, ...
this paper, we only consider QPSK). A block of complex symbols is then spread over many sub-carriers by a spreading transform. These spreading transforms will be the main focus of this paper....
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Http Www Merl, F. Mehta, N. Molisch, A. Zhang, Fadel F. Digham, Neelesh B. Mehta, ...
We consider a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system wherein channel correlation as well as noisy channel estimation are both taken into account. For a given block fading duration,...
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Http Www Merl, Andreas Molisch, Sinan Gezici, Sinan Gezici, Student Member, Fredrik Tufvesson, ...
We consider a time-hopping impulse-radio system that uses transmitted-reference pulses for implicit channel estimation and equalization. A hybrid receiver structure first performs a filtering matched...
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Http Www Merl, L. Xie, L. Xie, L. Kennedy, L. Kennedy, ...
This paper presents algorithms for finding the meanings of the audio-visual video patterns obtained in the unsupervised discovery process. This problem is interesting in domains where neither...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Markus Chimani, Neal Lesh, Michael Mitzenmacher, Candy Sidner, A Case, ...
We describe lessons learned in developing a program for interactive optimization of large airlift scheduling problems. While for small problems one can create a visualization that both shows a...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2004)
Http Www Merl, Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen Baar, Paul Beardsley, Ramesh Raskar, Jeroen Vanbaar, ...
this paper, we are not discussing the photometric correction aspects or issues of image quality due to warping. The demonstration shows a front projection setup, but the ideas can be used in a...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Michael L. Seltzer, Bhiksha Raj, Richard M. Stern
this paper we present a mask-estimation technique that uses a Bayesian classification strategy to determine the reliability of each spectrographic element [24]. Classification is performed using a...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Christopher Lee Merl, Neal Lesh Merl, Ace L. Sidner, Trevor Darrell, Mit Vision Group, ...
In this demo we describe our ongoing efforts to build a robot that can collaborate with a person in hosting activities. We illustrate our current robot's conversations, which include gestures of...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Andreas F. Molisch, Jeffrey R. Foerster
This article describes the modeling of ultra-wideband wireless propagation channels, especailly for the simulation of personal area networks. The IEEE 802.15.3a standards task group has established a...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Katherine Everitt, Katherine Everitt, Clifton Forlines, Clifton Forlines, Kathy Ryall, ...
We present observational user study findings of UbiTable, a multi-user interactive table top that provides walk-up wireless connections for multiple personal devices. UbiTable offers shared...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Peter Wolf, Joseph Woelfel, Jan Gemert, Bhiksha Raj, David Wong
A majority of spoken user interfaces deal with the task of retrieving an element from a list.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Paris Smaragdis
this paper we will present a approach that gives accurate results through a surprisingly simple optimization process. This method is akin to the ICA approaches described in the past by Casey and...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun, Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro, ...
this paper, we propose to use transform-domain processing in the macro block coding mode decision of H.264/AVC such that an optimal mode decision is achieved with significantly reduced computational...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Gerald Dalley, Bill Freeman, Joe Marks
We address the problem of text super-resolution: given a single image of text scanned in at low resolution from a piece of paper, return the image that is mostly likely to be generated from a...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Charles Rich, Y Sidner, Neal Lesh, Andrew Garl, Shane Booth, ...
DiamondHelp is a reusable Java framework for building graphical user interfaces based on the collaborative paradigm of human-computer interaction. DiamondHelp s graphical design combines a generic...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, B. Raj, M. L. Seltzer, R. M. Stern
Speech recognition systems perform poorly in the presence of corrupting noise. Missing feature methods attempt to compensate for the noise by removing noise corrupted components of spectrographic...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
We propose an unsupervised, low-latency traffic congestion estimation algorithm that operates on the MPEG video data. We extract congestion features directly in the compressed domain, and employ...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Anthony Vetro, Anthony Vetro, Wojciech Matusik, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, ...
We present a 3D TV prototype system with real-time acquisition, transmission and auto-stereoscopic display of dynamic scenes. Our system uses a distributed, scalable architecture to manage the high...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Ye Li, Andreas F. Molisch, Andreas F. Molisch, Jinyun Zhang, Jinyun Zhang, ...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication is a potential technique for future high-speed networks.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Candace L. Sidner, Trevor Darrell
This paper has been accepted for presentation at the AISB symposium on Conversational Informatics, Hatfield, England, April, 2005
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Xiaokun Li, Fatih M. Porikli, Xiaokun Li, Fatih M. Porikli
We present a novel approach for highway traffic event detection. Our algorithm extracts features directly from the compressed video and automatically detects traffic events using a Gaussian Mixture...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Matthew Br, Matthew Antone, Seth Teller, Matthew Br, Matthew Antone, ...
Extrinsic calibration of large-scale ad hoc networks of cameras is posed as the following problem: Calculate the locations o N mobile, rotationally aligned cameras distributed over an urban region,...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2004)
Http Www Merl, Jun Xin, Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro, Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun, ...
Many video coding schemes, including MPEG-2, use a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). The recently completed video coding standard, H.264/AVC, uses an integer transform, which will be referred to as HT...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, Meredith Ringel Morris
The status quo for co-located groupware is to assume that social protocols (standards of polite behavior) are sufficient to coordinate the actions of a group of users; however, prior studies of...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2004)
Http Www Merl, A. Catovic, Z. Sahinoglu
this article, hybrid TOA/RSS and TDOA/RSS location estimation schemes, suitable for shortrange networks, such as WiFi, Ultra-wideband (UWB), Bluethooth or Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), are...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2003)
Http Www Merl, Hao-song Kong, Anthony Vetro, Huifang Sun
This paper describes the application of transcoding techniques for high quality DVD recording.
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2003)
We present a Gaussain model based approach for robust and automatic extraction of roads from very low-resolution satellite imagery. First, the input image is filtered to suppress the regions that the...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, Ace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee, Neal Lesh, Candace L. Sidner
This paper reports on research on develop-ing the ability for robots to engage with humans in a collaborative conversation for hosting activities. It defines the engagement process in collaborative...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2003)
Http Www Merl, Fatih Porikli, Ajay Divakaran
An automatic object tracking and video summarization method for multi-camera systems with a large number of non-overlapping field-of-view cameras is explained. In this framework, video sequences are...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, Andrew Garland, Neal Lesh, Charles Rich
This paper, unlike prior work, addresses how to maintain these mutual beliefs when a user performs a non-contributor, i.e., a mistake or an interruption
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Http Www Merl, Paul Dietz, Darren Leigh
A technique for creating touch sensitive surfaces is proposed which allows multiple, simultaneous users to interact in an intuitive fashion. Touch location information is determined independently for...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2003)
Http Www Merl, J. Henry Horng, Jinyun Zhang, Debang Lao, Debang Lao
We evaluated the average throughput of two types of W-CDMA systems with Multiple-inputmultiple -outputand adaptive modulation and coding by numerical simulation and theoretic analysis.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, W. Matusik, H. Pfister, M. Brand, L. Mcmillan, Wojciech Matusik, ...
We present a generative model for isotropic bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) based on acquired reflectance data. Instead of using analytical reflectance models, we represent...
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Speaker separation has conventionally been treated as a problem of Blind Source Separtion (BSS). This approach does not utilize any knowledge of teh statistical characteristics of the signals to be...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, Gerald Dalley, Gerald Dalley, Bill Freeman, Bill Freeman, Joe Marks, ...
We address the problem of text super-resolution: given an image of text scanned in at low resolution from a piece of paper, return the image that is mortly likely to be generated from a noiseless...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, Rita Singh, Rita Singh, Manfred K. Warmuth, Manfred K. Warmuth, Bhiksha Raj, ...
In this paper we describe a generalized classification method for HMM-based speech recognition systems, that uses free energy as a discriminant function rather than conventional probabilities.
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Creating 3D computer models is a difficult, time consuming task. Existing systems capable of providing detailed, expressive models of sufficient quality for "Hollywood" or CAD are complex,...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, David Guillament, Jordi Vitria, Baback Moghaddam, Baback Moghaddam, David Guillamet, ...
r any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright c Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.,...
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Http Www Merl, Kadir A. Peker, Ajay Divakaran
Psychophysical experiments have shown that the human visual system is sensitive to visual stimuli only within a certain spatio-temporal window. the location of a moving image in the spatiotemporal...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, Michael Jones, Michael J. Jones, Paul Viola, Paul Viola
This paper extends the face detection framework proposed by Viola and Jones 2001 to handle profile views and rotated faces. As in the work of Rowley et al 1998. and Schneiderman et al. 2000, we build...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2003)
Http Www Merl, Fatih Porikli, Oncel Tuzel
this paper, we have integrated a model-based background subtraction into a mean-shift based forward tracking mechanism. We combined these methods to accomplish an automatic and robust tracker that...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2003)
Http Www Merl, Baback Moghaddam, Baback Moghaddam, Jinho Lee, Jinho Lee, Hanspeter Pfister, ...
this paper, we present two systems that recover 3D shape of a human face (and consequently its 2D texture-map as well) from a sequence of silhouette images using an underlying model-based 3D face...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2002)
Http Www Merl, Matthew Br, Matthew Br, Kun Huang, Kun Huang
this paper we develop a unifying view of spectral methods that answers many of these questions and gives guidance for the construction of clustering and nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithms....
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Myrosia Dzikovska, Candace L. Sidner, Candace L. Sidner, Myroslava Dzikovska
This paper reports on research on engagement in humanhuman interaction and applications to (non-mobile) robots interacting with humans in hosting activities
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Wojciech Matusik Mit, Hanspeter Pfister Merl, Remo Ziegler Merl, Addy Ngan Mit, Leonard Mcmillan Mit, ...
This paper introduces a new image-based approach to capturing and modeling highly specular, transparent, or translucent objects. We have built a system for automatically acquiring high quality...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Liu Ren Cmu, Hanspeter Pfister Merl, Matthias Zwicker, Eth Zürich
this paper we introduce a new multi-pass approach to perform EWA surface splatting on modern PC graphics hardware, called object space EWA splatting. We derive an object space formulation of the EWA...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Andrew Garland, Neal Lesh
This paper extends that work to support interleaved planning and execution by taking into account past and current sensor readings
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Baback Moghaddam, Xiang Zhou
this paper, we will focus our attention on the modeling of images and objects through the use of joint histograms. Figure 1 provides an overview diagram of our histogram-based image and object model....
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Gunnar W. Klau, Gunnar W. Klau, Neal Lesh, Neal Lesh, Joe Marks, ...
this paper were among the test subjects for num initial after 30 after 300 after 600 trials solut- minutes minutes minutes ion guided unguided unguided Delivery 4 61.46 60.86 60.97 60.94 Crossing 8...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Peter Wolf, Bhiksha Raj
This paper describes some key concepts developed and used in the design of a spoken-query based information retrieval system developed at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL).
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Olga Karpenko, John F. Hughes, Ramesh Raskar
this paper, we discuss our preliminary efforts at using variational implicit surfaces [Turk, 2000] as a representation in a free-form modeler. We also discuss the implementation of several operations...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2002)
Http Www Merl, Christopher R. Wren, Carson J. Reynolds
Minimalism in ubiquitous interface design allows computational augmentations to seamlessly coexist with existing artifacts and the constellations of task behaviors surrounding them. Specifically,...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
Http Www Merl, Ramesh Raskar, Ramesh Raskar, Kok-lim Low, Kok-lim Low
this paper, we focus on projectorbased augmented reality applications. We describe a framework to easily incorporate the interaction on a continuum of display surfaces and input devices
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
Http Www Merl, Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Kok-lim Low, Deepak Bandyopadhyay
this paper, we have mainly focussed on the visualization aspect, but a more detailed study of human interaction and issues is necessary
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
Http Www Merl, Ramesh Raskar, Paul Beardsley
this paper, we present a technique to calibrate a projector, and associated camera, by exploiting planar homographies. We then demonstrate a method for correctly displaying rectangular images on a...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
This paper presents the design of a system that interacts with users via a set of "guessers": algorithms for suggesting possible annotations to the user, in the context of learning...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
ering MERL, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Special features such as ridges, valleys and silhouettes, of a polygonal scene are usually displayed by explicitly identifying and then rendering...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
Http Www Merl, Edward Whittaker, Bhiksha Raj
This paper describes two techniques for reducing the size of statistical back-off - gram language models in computer memory. Language model compression is achieved through a combination of quantizing...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2001)
Http Www Merl, Candace L. Sidner, Justine Cassell, Justine Cassell, Yukiko I. Nakano, Timothy W. Bickmore, ...
This paper addresses the issue of designing embodied conversational agents that exhibit appropriate posture shifts during dialogues with human users. Previous research has noted the importance of...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (2000)
Http Www Merl, Jeff Rickel, Charles Rich, Ace L. Sidner, Neal Lesh, Je Rickel, ...
Towards our goal of developing computer tutors that can collaborate with students on tasks in simulated environments, wehave built a series of four prototype tutors. These tutors integrate two...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2000)
Http Www Merl, Abigail S. Gertner, Jeff Rickel, Jim R. Davies, Jim R. Davies, Neal Lesh, ...
Computer tutors and intelligent software assistants have traditionally been thought of as different kinds of systems. However tutors and assistants share many properties. We have incorporated...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2000)
Http Www Merl, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, William T. Freeman
PERCEPTUAL systems routinely separate #content" from #style", classifying familiar words spoken in an unfamiliar accent, identifying a font or handwriting style across letters, or...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2000)
Http Www Merl, William T. Freeman, Egon C. Pasztor
We address the super-resolution problem: how to estimate missing high spatial frequency components of a static image. From a training set of full- and lowresolution images, we build a database of...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (2000)
Http Www Merl, Matthew Brand, Matthew Brand, Aaron Hertzmann, Aaron Hertzmann
this paper we introduce the style machine---a statistical model that can generate new motion sequences in a broad range of styles, just by adjusting a small number of stylistic knobs (parameters)....
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1999)
Http Www Merl, W. S. Yerazunis, W. S. Yerazunis, D. L. Leigh, D. L. Leigh, W. T. Freeman, ...
An accurate record of the events preceding a tra#c accident is useful to trucking companies, car rental agencies, commercial carriers, and insurance providers, as well as to passenger car drivers. A...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1999)
Http Www Merl, H. Kage Y, K. Tanaka Y, K. Kyuma Y, W. T. Freeman, ...
It might seem that an interface based on computer vision would require visual competence near the level of a human being, which is still beyond the state of the art. Fortunately, the interactive...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1999)
Http Www Merl, Neal Lesh, James Allen
The dynamic execution of plans in uncertain domains requires the ability to infer likely current and future world states from past observations. This task can be cast as inference on Dynamic Belief...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1999)
Http Www Merl, Hanspeter Pfister, Jan Hardenbergh, Jim Knittel, Hugh Lauer, Larry Seiler
This paper describes VolumePro, the world's first single-chip real-time volume rendering system for PC class computers. VolumePro implements object-space ray-casting with parallel slice-by-slice...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1998)
Http Www Merl, Andrew R. Golding, Dan Roth
A large class of machine-learning problems in natural language require the characterization of linguistic context. Two characteristic properties of such problems are that their feature space is of...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1998)
Http Www Merl, Neil R. Mckenzie
As the performance of networks and processors increases, the performance of the network interface becomes an increasingly significant bottleneck in the overall performance of the parallel or...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1998)
The most di#cult aspect of rigid-body simulation is contact modeling. Two major subproblems of contact modeling are detecting contacts and computing contact forces. Although typically studied in...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1998)
workshop web site. Matthew Brand and Ken Shan MERL---a Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02139 brand@merl.com We introduce a method for learning a mapping between signals,...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1997)
Http Www Merl, W. T. Freeman, W. T. Freeman, J. B. Tenenbaum, J. B. Tenenbaum
This paper shows how bilinear models can be used to learn the style-content structure of a pattern analysis or synthesis problem, which can then be generalized to solve related tasks using...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1997)
Http Www Merl, Charles Rich C, Ace L. Sidner, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner
We have implemented an application-independent collaboration manager, called Collagen, based on the SharedPlan theory of discourse, and used it to build a software interface agent for a simple air...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1997)
This paper presents the Voronoi-clip,orV-Clip,collision detection algorithm for polyhedral objects speci#edbyaboundary representation. V-Clip tracks the closest pair of features between convex...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1997)
Http Www Merl, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner, Candace L. Sidner
We have developed an application-independent toolkit, called Collagen, based on the SharedPlan theory of collaborative discourse, in which interaction histories are hierarchically structured...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (1996)
Http Www Merl, Emmanuel Roche, Yves Schabes
The theory of #nite-state automata #FSA# is rich and #nite-state automata techniques have been used in a wide range of domains, such as switching theory, pattern matching, pattern recognition, speech...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1996)
Http Www Merl, Andrew R. Golding, Yves Schabes
This paper addresses the problem of correcting spelling errors that result in valid, though unintended words #suchaspeace and piece,orquiet and quite# and also the problem of correcting particular...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1996)
Http Www Merl, Chloe M. Chao, Alex Pentland, Flavia Sparacino, Joe Marks
Creative Tools for Interactive Video Environments Chloe M. Chao Harvard Flavia Sparacino MIT Media Lab Alex Pentland MIT Media Lab Joe Marks MERL TR-96-27 October 1996 Abstract Full-body,...
Merl -- A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1996)
Http Www Merl, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner, Candace L. Sidner
We take the position that autonomous agents, when they interact with people, should be governed by the same principles that underlie human collaboration.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (1995)
An implemented system is described which allows a software agent to collaborate with a human user using a shared application window. The system automatically controls input permission and also...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1995)
Http Www Merl, Rebecca Hwa, Joe Marks, Stuart Shieber
Embedded hypermedia documents #HDs# are becoming more common in aircraft cockpits, power- and industrial-plant control panels, and other user interfaces to complex systems. These hypermedia documents...
Merl A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (1995)
Http Www Merl, Andrew R. Golding, Andrew R. Golding
This paper takes Yarowsky's work as a starting point, applying decision lists to the problem of context-sensitive spelling correction. Decision lists are found, by and large, to outperform...
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (1994)
Http Www Merl, Andrew R. Golding, Andrew R. Golding, Paul S. Rosenbloom, Paul S. Rosenbloom
An architecture is presented for combining rule-based and case-based reasoning.