Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in Activity Recognition, Franzi Meier, Intelligent Environments, Michael Beetz, Papers | No Comments »
Radu Bogdan Rusu, Jan Bandouch, Franziska Meier, Irfan Essa and Michael Beetz (2009) "Human Action Recognition Using Global Point Feature Histograms and Action Shapes", in Journal of Advanced ... Read more..Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Kihwan Kim, Modeling and Animation, Papers | No Comments »
Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee and Irfan Essa (2009), "Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information," In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Orlando, ... Read more..Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 Posted in In The News, Kihwan Kim | No Comments »
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com. Check out the media coverage of our new paper to appear in ISMAR 2009, in October. Also see "Latest videos makes Google Earth cities bustle" New ... Read more..Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Events | No Comments »
IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision for Humanoid Robots in Real Environments. I am co-organizing the First IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision for Humanoids in conjunction with ICCV Conference in Kyoto, Japan. ... Read more..Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in AAAI/IJCAI/UAI, Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Charles Isbell, Papers, Raffay Hamid, Siddhartha Maddi | No Comments »
Raffay Hamid, Siddhartha Maddi, Amos Johnson, Aaron Bobick, Irfan Essa and Charles Isbell (2009) "A novel sequence representation for unsupervised analysis of human activities" in Artificial ... Read more..Saturday, July 11th, 2009 Posted in Personal | No Comments »
See my personal weblog at http://personal.irfanessa.com/2009/07/13/irfan-updated-to-v1-1/ Read more..Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 Posted in Greg Turk, Modeling and Animation, Nipun Kwatra | No Comments »
Nipun Kwatra, Chris Wojtan, Mark Carlson, Irfan A. Essa, Peter J. Mucha, Greg Turk (2009), "Fluid Simulation with Articulated Bodies", IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10 Jun. 2009. ... Read more..Monday, June 8th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, In The News, Interesting | No Comments »
Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?, TIME Magazine, by MATT VILLANO, June 8, 2009 EXCERPT "At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, a three-year-old program in "computational journalism" helps computer-science majors study ... Read more..Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
"Temporal Representations of Video for Analysis and Synthesis" at IWV09: International Workshop on Video, In Barcelona, SPAIN, May 25-27, 2009. (Slides, NO Video) Abstract I will present a variety of temporal models of video ... Read more..Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM Centers April 21, 2009. (see the video of this presentation) Abstract Our consumption of ... Read more..Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in ACM UIST/CHI, Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
N. Diakopoulos, S. Goldenberg, I. Essa (2009). "Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and Journalists." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2009. [PDF] ... Read more..Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in ACM SIGGRAPH, Computational Photography and Video, James Rehg, Matt Flagg, Modeling and Animation, Papers, Sing Bing Kang | No Comments »
Matthew Flagg, Atsushi Nakazawa, Qiushuang Zhang, Sing Bing Kang, Young Kee Ryu, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg (2009), Human Video Textures In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2009 ... Read more..Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in Events, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV | No Comments »
CVPR 2009 site is http://www.cvpr2009.org. (see ORALs and POSTERs) Decisions were announced after the AC Meeting. See the stats Registration is OPEN (http://www.cvpr2009.org/registration) Hotel Registration to OPEN soon (http://www.cvpr2009.org/travel-and-hotel) Read more..Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Face and Gesture, Funding, ICASSP, James Rehg, NSF (0205507), Numerical Machine Learning, Pei Yin, Thad Starner | No Comments »
Pei Yin, Thad Starner, Harley Hamilton, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg (2009), "Learning Basic Units in American Sign Language using Discriminative Segmental Feature Selection" in IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and ... Read more..Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Presentations | No Comments »
Talk/Presentation at Duke University, Jan 27, 2009. Hosted by James Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University Computation & Journalism: The Impact of Technology on Journalism, Information Quality, ... Read more..Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Jessica Hodgins | No Comments »
This academic year, I am spending some time working with the newly formed Disney Research, Pittsburgh, (Directed by Jessica Hodgins) formed next to CMU. The press release is announcing this ... Read more..