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 […]
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Paper’s Committee Meeting was held at GA Tech in Atlanta, March 29-30, under the leadership of Greg Turk. Following is a picture of all of us at work, with our sigs, as a note of thanks for Greg Original Photo by myself, this version with sigs by Fredo Durand.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Citation J. Hays and I. Essa (2004), “Image and video based painterly animation,” in ACM Conference on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), New York, NY, USA, 2004, p. 113–120. [PDF] [WEBSITE] [DOI] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2004-Hays-IVBPA, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {J. Hays and I. Essa}, booktitle = {{ACM Conference on Non-Photorealistic Animation […]
Vivek Kwatra, Arno Schödl, Irfan Essa, Greg Turk, Aaron Bobick (2003), “Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts” In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 22 , Issue 3, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, Pages: 277 – 286, July 2003, ISSN:0730-0301. (DOI|Paper| SIGGRAPH Video (160 MB, 50 MB) | Video Results 87 MB […]
Citation A. Schödl and I. Essa (2002), “Controlled Animation of Video Sprites,” in ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2002. [PDF] [WEBSITE] [VIDEO] [DOI] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2002-Schodl-CAVS, address = {San Antonio, TX, USA}, author = {A. Sch{\”o}dl and I. Essa}, booktitle = {{ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA)}}, doi = {10.1145/545261.545281}, […]
Citation G. J. Brostow and I. Essa (2001), “Image-Based Motion Blur for Stop Motion Animation,” in ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings of Annual Conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, 2001, p. 561–566. [WEBSITE] [VIDEO] [DOI] [BIBTEX] @InProceedings{ 2001-Brostow-IMBSMA, author = {G. J. Brostow and I. Essa}, booktitle = {{ACM SIGGRAPH Proceedings of Annual Conference on Computer […]