Paper in CVPR (2010): “Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting”

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Matthias Grundmann, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Vivek Kwatra | No Comments »

Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa (2010) "Discontinuous Seam-Carving for Video Retargeting" in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010 [PDF][Website][DOI][Video (Youtube)]. Abstract We ... Read more..

Paper in CVPR (2010): “Efficient Hierarchical Graph-Based Video Segmentation

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Matthias Grundmann, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Vivek Kwatra | No Comments »

Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, Mei Han, Irfan Essa (2010) "Efficient Hierarchical Graph-Based Video Segmentation" in Proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2010 [PDF][Website][DOI][Video ... Read more..

Paper ISMAR 2009 (IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality): “Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information”

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Kihwan Kim, Modeling and Animation, Papers | No Comments »

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, ... Read more..

In the News (2009): CNN.com “Augmenting Earth Maps”

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 Posted in In The News, Kihwan Kim | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Presentation at International Workshop on Video (2009): “Temporal Representations of Video for Analysis and Synthesis”

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »

"Temporal Representations of Video for Analysis and Synthesis" at IWV09: International Workshop on Video, In Barcelona, SPAIN, May 25-27, 2009. (Slides, NO Video) Abstract I will present a variety of temporal models of video ... Read more..

Presentation at CMU’s Computational Thinking Seminar Series (2009): “From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism”

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »

From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM Centers April 21, 2009. (see the video of this presentation) Abstract Our consumption of ... Read more..

Paper (2009) ACM CHI: “Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and Journalists”

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 Posted in ACM UIST/CHI, Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Nick Diakopoulos | No Comments »

N. Diakopoulos, S. Goldenberg, I. Essa (2009). "Videolyzer: Quality Analysis of Online Informational Video for Bloggers and Journalists." ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). April, 2009. [PDF] ... Read more..

Paper (2009) In ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics “Human Video Textures”

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 Posted in ACM SIGGRAPH, Computational Photography and Video, James Rehg, Matt Flagg, Modeling and Animation, Papers, Sing Bing Kang | No Comments »

Matthew Flagg, Atsushi Nakazawa, Qiushuang Zhang, Sing Bing Kang, Young Kee Ryu, Irfan Essa, James M. Rehg (2009), Human Video Textures In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2009 ... Read more..

Presentation: At Qualcomm Research in San Diego, CA (2008) “From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism”

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..

Personal: Creative Use of Computational Photography and Journalism

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..

Paper: IEEE CVPR (2007) “Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation”

Sunday, June 17th, 2007 Posted in Antonio Crimisini, Computational Photography and Video, Funding, John Winn, NSF (0205507), Numerical Machine Learning, Papers, Pei Yin, Research | No Comments »

Yin, Pei Criminisi, Antonio Winn, John Essa, Irfan (2007), Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR ... Read more..

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

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 Posted in ACM MM, Computational Photography and Video, Gregory Abowd, Kihwan Kim, Multimedia, Papers | No Comments »

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 | ... Read more..

Paper: J. Parallel Distrib. Computing (2005): “Experiences with optimizing two stream-based applications for cluster execution”

Saturday, September 30th, 2006 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, James Rehg, Kishore Ramachandran, Papers, Research | No Comments »

Experiences with optimizing two stream-based applications for cluster execution Angelov, Y., Ramachandran, U., Mackenzie, K., Rehg, J. M., and Essa, I. 2005. "Experiences with optimizing two stream-based applications for cluster ... Read more..

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

Monday, July 25th, 2005 Posted in ACM SIGGRAPH, Aaron Bobick, Computational Photography and Video, Nipun Kwatra, Papers, Research, Vivek Kwatra | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Paper:ICPR (2002) “Learning video processing by example”

Sunday, August 11th, 2002 Posted in Antonio Haro, Collaborators, Computational Photography and Video, Numerical Machine Learning, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV | No Comments »

Haro, A. Essa, I. (2002), "Learning video processing by example" In Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2002, 11-15 Aug. 2002 Volume: 1, page(s): 487 - ... Read more..

Paper: ACM SCA (2002): “Controlled animation of video sprites”

Thursday, August 1st, 2002 Posted in Arno Schödl, Computational Photography and Video, Papers, Research, SIGGRAPH/SCA/NPAR/EG | No Comments »

Arno Schödl and Irfan Essa (2002), "Controlled animation of video sprites" Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation. ACM Press, Pages: 121 - 127 July ... Read more..

Talk: Invited Speaker at CMU’s Robotics Institute (2002): “Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video”

Tuesday, February 12th, 2002 Posted in Activity Recognition, Aware Home, Computational Photography and Video, Presentations | No Comments »

Irfan Essa, "Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video" CMU's Robotics Institute: Seminar, February 15, 2002 Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video Abstract In this talk, I will ... Read more..

Paper: EGSR (2001) “Real-time Photo-Realistic Physically Based Rendering of Fine Scale Human Skin Structure”

Monday, October 1st, 2001 Posted in Antonio Haro, Computational Photography and Video, Papers, Research | No Comments »

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Paper: ACM SIGGRAPH (2001) “Image-based motion blur for stop motion animation”

Wednesday, August 1st, 2001 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Gabriel Brostow, Non-Photorealism, Papers, SIGGRAPH/SCA/NPAR/EG | No Comments »

Gabriel J. Brostow and  Irfan Essa (2001) "Image-based motion blur for stop motion animation" In Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (ACM SIGGRPH) ... Read more..

Paper: ACM SIGGRAPH (2000) “Video textures”

Tuesday, August 1st, 2000 Posted in ACM SIGGRAPH, Arno Schödl, Computational Photography and Video, David Salesin, Papers, Research, Rick Szeliski | No Comments »

Video textures 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 ... Read more..