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October 18, 2008 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

Paper: ACM Multimedia (2008) "Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game"

N. Diakopoulos, K. Luther, I. Essa (2008), “Audio Puzzler: Piecing Together Time-Stamped Speech Transcripts with a Puzzle Game.” In Proceedings of  ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008. Vancouver, BC, CANANDA  [Project Link] ABSTRACT We have developed an audio-based casual puzzle game which produces a time-stamped transcription of spokenaudio as a by-product of play. Our evaluation […]
August 12, 2008 / Last updated : August 12, 2008 irfan Computational Journalism

Event: ACM Siggraph 2008 Class on Computional and Journalism

ACM Siggraph 2008 Class on Computional and Journalism Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 August 2008 | 1:45 pm – 5:30 pm Location: Room 502 A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA Fundamentally, journalism is the process of collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by […]
October 26, 2007 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Journalism

Poster: ACM UIST (2007) "NARC: The News Article Revision Comparator."

A. St. Clair, M. Fong, N. Diakopoulos, I. Essa. (2007) “NARC: The News Article Revision Comparator.” In Proceedings addendum of User Interface Software Technology (UIST). Newport, Rhode Island, October 2007 [Abstract] [Poster] ABSTRACT Currency of information in news consumption is an important facet of information quality which involves both the journalist providing updated information and […]
October 23, 2006 / Last updated : February 21, 2021 irfan Publication

Paper: ACM IWVSSN (2006) on “Unsupervised Analysis of Activity Sequences Using Event Motifs”

R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, I. Essa. “Unsupervised Analysis of Activity Sequences Using Event Motifs”, In proceedings of 4th ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006). Abstract We present an unsupervised framework to discover characterizations of everyday human activities, and demonstrate how such representations can be […]
October 22, 2006 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Paper in ACM Multimedia (2006): "Interactive mosaic generation for video navigation"

K. Kim, I. Essa, and G. Abowd (2006) “Interactive mosaic generation for video navigation.” in Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, pages 655-658, 2006. [Project Page | DOI | PDF] Abstract Navigation through large multimedia collections that include videos and images still remains cumbersome. In this paper, we introduce a novel method […]
July 25, 2005 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Paper: ACM SIGGRAPH (2005) "Texture optimization for example-based synthesis"

Vivek Kwatra, Irfan Essa, Aaron Bobick, and Nipun Kwatra (2005), “Texture optimization for example-based synthesis” In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Volume 24 , Issue 3 (July 2005) Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Pages: 795 – 802, ISSN:0730-0301 (DOI|PDF|Project Site|Video|Talk) ABSTRACT We present a novel technique for texture synthesis using optimization. We define a Markov […]