Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, In The News, Interesting | No Comments »
"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 ... Read more..Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Activity Recognition, Aware Home, Face and Gesture, Franzi Meier, Matthias Grundmann, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers | 1 Comment »
M. Grundmann, F. Meier, and I. Essa (2008) "3D Shape Context and Distance Transform for Action Recognition", In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008, Tampa, FL. [Project ... Read more..Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Jessica Hodgins | No Comments »
This academic year, I am spending some time working with the newly formed Disney Research, Pittsburgh, (Directed by Jessica Hodgins) formed next to CMU. The press release is announcing this ... Read more..Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in ACM MM, Computational Journalism, Multimedia, Nick Diakopoulos, Papers | No Comments »
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 ... Read more..Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Collaborators, Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos, Projects | No Comments »
An Online DEMO of Videolyzer, a project by my PhD Student, Nick Diakopolous. Videolyzer is a tool designed to help journalists and bloggers collect, organize, and present information about the quality ... Read more..Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in ISWC, Kihwan Kim, Mobile Computing, Papers, Thad Starner | No Comments »
Kihwan Kim, Jay Summet, Thad Starner, Daniel Ashbrook, Mrunal Kapade and Irfan Essa (2008) "Localization and 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes Using GPS" In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on ... Read more..Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Multimedia, Nick Diakopoulos, Papers | No Comments »
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, ... Read more..Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »
From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Abstract Digital image capture, processing, and sharing has become pervasive in our society. This has had significant impact on how we create novel ... Read more..Monday, September 1st, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Kishore Ramachandran, Mobile Computing | No Comments »
Award#0834545 - CSR-DMSS, SM: Web on Demand - Bridging the Gap Between Social Networks and Ad Hoc Networking Investigator(s): Umakishore Ramachandran, (Principal Investigator), Irfan Essa (Co-Principal Investigator) Dates: September 1, ... Read more..Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events, SIGGRAPH/SCA/NPAR/EG | 3 Comments »
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, ... Read more..Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Audio Puzzler Alpha (ONLINE DEMO) By Nick Diakopoulos (My PhD Student) Audio Puzzler is a new kind of puzzle game based on unauthored content found online. The audio for the puzzles is ... Read more..Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Aaron Bobick, Activity Recognition, Numerical Machine Learning, PhD, Raffay Hamid | No Comments »
M. Raffay Hamid PhD (2008), "A Computational Framework For Unsupervised Analysis of Everyday Human Activities", PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Aaron Bobick & Irfan ... Read more..Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Activity Recognition, David Minnen, PhD, Thad Starner | No Comments »
David Minnen PhD (2008): "Unsupervised Discovery of Activity Primitives from Multivariate Sensor Data" Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Thad Starner & Irfan Essa) Abstract This research addresses the ... Read more..Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Face and Gesture, Funding, James Rehg, NSF (0205507), Numerical Machine Learning, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Pei Yin, Thad Starner | No Comments »
Pei Yin, Irfan Essa, James Rehg, Thad Starner (2008) "Discriminative Feature Selection for Hidden Markov Models using Segmental Boosting", ICASSP 2008 - March 30 - April 4, 2008 - ... Read more..Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Funding | No Comments »
Award#0813831 - Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances ... Read more..Monday, March 3rd, 2008 Posted in Personal | 1 Comment »
Irfan's Office Hacked My students decided to play a very nice joke on me. This morning I walked in to find my office open (and it was not!) check out ... Read more..Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Computational Journalism, Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Journalism 3G: The Future of Technology in the Field (A Symposium on Computation and Journalism) was a huge success. We had over 230 registered attendees. Thanks to all ... Read more..Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Events, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »
Working with Brad Stenger (Wired), Nick Diakopoulos (GA Tech), Sergio Goldenberg (GA Tech), we are organizing a Symposium on computation+journalism, to bring together computationalists, internet/media experts, and journalists together for ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Events, Service | No Comments »
I am Co-Chairing with Drew Bagnell (CMU), Wolfram Burgard (University of Frieberg) a Special Track on Physically-Grounded AI. See AAAI-08: Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, IL, USA. The goal ... Read more..