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May 13, 2008

Turning Gestures into Speech

Four ECE students have invented a sensor-equipped glove that can translate gestures into spoken words on a cell phone. Called HandTalk, the project was developed this spring as part of the Embedded Systems Design capstone course taught by Professor Priya Narasimhan. ECE seniors Bhargav Bhat, Jorge Meza and Hemant Sikaria, and an ECE graduate student, Wesley Jin, ran with the idea, resulting in a practical research prototype.

April 14, 2008

Gallagher and Chen win Best Paper Award at Computer Vision Conference

ECE graduate student Andrew Gallagher and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM). The paper, titled "Using Group Prior to Identify People in Consumer Images" describes a method for recognizing people in consumer images using more than just facial appearance.

Parikh and Chen Win Best Paper Award at Computer Vision Conference

ECE graduate student Devi Parikh and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Beyond Patches Workshop. The paper titled "Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs)" proposes an algorithm to determine higher-level semantic relationships among objects in a scene such as an office, which is represented via a hierarchical structure.

March 21, 2008

ECE Team Takes Third Place in IC Design Challenge Phase One

ECE graduate students Abhishek Jajoo, John Reinke and Leon Wang have been awarded the 3rd prize in the Phase 1 of the 2007-2008 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge. Their contest entry integrates their Ph.D. research in RF MEMS devices and circuits into an implementable design for "A Tunable Multiband RF MEMS Transceiver Front-End."

January 22, 2008

Singhee and Rutenbar Win 2008 VLSI Best Paper Award

ECE Ph.D. student Amith Singhee and Rob A. Rutenbar, Professor of ECE and CS, and their colleagues Benton H. Calhoun and Jiajing Wang of the University of Virginia, are winners of the 2008 Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on VLSI Design.