Anne Eisenberg (2001)“A ‘Smart’ Home, to Avoid the Nursing Home” New York Times Circuits Section, April 5, 2001 Issue Quote from the Article: “Cameras are going to rule one day at the Georgia Tech house, though, staff members there say. Dr. Irfan A. Essa, a computer science professor at Georgia Tech, is one of the […]
Abstract As computing technology continues to become increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous, we envision the development of environments that can sense what we are doing and support our daily activities. In this article, we outline our efforts toward building such environments and discuss the importance of a sensing and signal-understanding infrastructure that leads to awareness of […]
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2000-Schodl-VT] Abstract This paper introduces a new type of medium, called a video texture, which has qualities somewhere between those of a photograph and a video. A video texture provides a continuous infinitely varying stream of images. While the individual frames of a video texture may be repeated from time to time, […]
Cory D. Kidd, Robert Orr, Gregory D. Abowd, Christopher G. Atkeson, Irfan A. Essa, Blair MacIntyre, Elizabeth Mynatt, Thad E. Starner and Wendy Newstetter (1999) “The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research”, In Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations and Architecture , Volume 1670/1999, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 978-3-540-66596-0. [PDF | DOI | Project Site] Abstract We are building a home, called […]
The Aware Home Is it possible to create a home environment that is aware of its occupants whereabouts and activities? If we build such a home, how can it provide services to its residents that enhance their quality of life or help them to maintain independence as they age? The Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI) […]
DVFX@GeorgiaTech The DVFX Group at the Georgia Tech’s GVU Center and the School of Interactive Computing is aimed at exploring the technical aspects of digital video special effects production and computer animation. For more information see the research at the Computational Perception Laboratory, and the class offerings in this area since 1999. Check out the […]
Motion Based Decompositing Video [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=1999-Brostow-MBDV] Abstract We present a method to decompose video sequences into layers that represent the relative depths of complex scenes. Our method combines spatial information with temporal occlusions to determine relative depths of these layers. Spatial information is obtained through edge detection and a customized contour completion algorithm. Activity […]
Irfan A. Essa “Computers Seeing People”, AI Magazine 20(2): Summer 1999, 69-82 Abstract AI researchers are interested in building intelligent machines that can interact with them as they interact with each other. Science fiction writers have given us these goals in the form of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Commander Data in Star […]
Award#9806822 – Experimental Software Systems: Automated Understanding of Captured Experience ABSTRACT 9806822 Essa, Irfan A. Abowd, Gregory D. Georgia Institute of Technology Experimental Software Systems: Automated Understanding of Captured Experience The objective of this research is to reduce substantially the human input necessary for creating and accessing large collections of multimedia, particularly multimedia created by […]
