We have the following 4 papers that have been accepted for publications in IEEE CVPR 2010. More details forthcoming, with links to more details. Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, and Irfan Essa (2010) “Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting” (a GA Tech, Google Collaboration) Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, and Irfan […]
Final Projects 2010 « Computation + Journalism Class at Georgia Tech. Check out the list of final projects for this term’s (Spring 2010) class on Computational Journalism. Final reports expected in last week of April. Stay tuned.
Happy 2010! In Spring Term 2010, I am teaching the following two classes. Computation + Journalism (CS 4464 / CS 6465) This class is aimed at understanding the computational and technological advancements in the area of journalism. Primary focus is on the study of technologies for developing new tools for (a) sense-making from diverse news information [...]
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 Robotics, volume 23, pages 1873–1908, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden and The Robotics Society of Japan, 2009. [ DOI | PDF] Abstract This paper investigates th […]
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, FL, USA, October 2009 [Project Site, Video (AVI/DiVX), Video (Youtube) Paper (pdf)]. Abstract We introduce methods for augmenting aeria […]
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 Scientist (Sep 30, 2009 Issue) “Video: Google Earth animated with real time human and vehicular traffic” Endgadget (Sep 30, 2009)
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. This workshop will be held September 27, 2009. (9:30am – 6:00pm). The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from the fields [...]
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. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society. [DOI | PDF (see copyright) | Video | Website] Abstract We present an algorithm […]
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 ca […]
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