July 6, 2009 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

N. Diakopoulos PhD Thesis (2009): Collaborative annotation, analysis, and presentation interfaces for digital video"

Title: Collaborative annotation, analysis, and presentation interfaces for digital video Author: Diakopoulos, Nicholas A. Abstract Information quality corresponds to the degree of excellence in communicating knowledge or intelligence and encompasses aspects of validity, accuracy, reliability, bias, transparency, and comprehensiveness among others. Professional news, public relations, and user generated content alike all have their own subtly different information […]
June 8, 2009 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

Time Magazine (2009) Article "Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?"

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 how journalists gather, organize and utilize information, then take these workflows and see how technology can make the processes easier.” Full article here. Also […]
May 26, 2009 / Last updated : September 2, 2020 irfan Presentations

Presentation at International Workshop on Video (2009) on “Temporal Representations of Video for Analysis and Synthesis”

“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 that we have been studying (and developing on) for analysis and synthesis of video. Forsynthesis of videos, we have been developing representations […]
March 1, 2009 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Paper (2009) In ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics "Human Video Textures"

  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 (I3D ’09), Boston, MA, February 27-March 1 (Fri-Sun), 2009 [PDF (see Copyright) | Video in DiVx | Website ] Abstract This paper describes a data-driven approach […]
February 4, 2009 / Last updated : February 21, 2021 irfan ICASSP

Paper (2009): ICASSP “Learning Basic Units in American Sign Language using Discriminative Segmental Feature Selection”

Citation [bibtex key= 2009-Yin-LBUASLUDSFS] Abstract The natural language for most deaf signers in the United States is American Sign Language (ASL). ASL has internal structure like spoken languages, and ASL linguists have introduced several phonemic models. The study of ASL phonemes is not only interesting to linguists, but also useful for scalability in recognition by […]
January 10, 2009 / Last updated : January 10, 2009 irfan Computational Journalism

Presentation at Duke University (2009): "Computation & Journalism: The Impact of Technology on Journalism, Information Quality, and Civic Literacy"

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, and Civic Literacy Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM Centers  Fundamentally, journalism is the process of collecting […]
December 24, 2008 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

INTERESTING: "Deep Throat Meets Data Mining"

“Deep Throat Meets Data Mining” by JOHN MECKLIN Dec 23, 2008 in Miller-McCune “If you pay passing attention to the media landscape, you know that most mainstream news outlets have had their business models undermined by the digital revolution. As their general-interest monopolies have been pillaged by niche online competitors, traditional news organizations have lost revenue […]
September 28, 2008 / Last updated : September 28, 2008 irfan Computational Journalism

Paper: Pragmatic Web (2008) "An Annotation Model for Making Sense of Information Quality in Online Videos"

N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. (2008) “An Annotation Model for Making Sense of Information Quality in Online Videos.” Proceedings of the International Conference on the Pragmatic Web. 28–30 Sept. 2008, Uppsala, Sweden (To Appear) ABSTRACT Making sense of the information quality of online media including things such as the accuracy and validity of claims and the […]