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Real-Time Captcha Technique Improves Biometric Authentication | College of Computing
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 Posted in Computer Vision, In The News, Machine Learning | No Comments »
A short write-up on one of my recent publications. A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users’ faces. ... Read more..Paper in AAAI’s ICWSM (2017) “Selfie-Presentation in Everyday Life: A Large-Scale Characterization of Selfie Contexts on Instagram”
Thursday, May 18th, 2017 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Computer Vision, Face and Gesture, Julia Deeb-Swihart, Papers, Social Computing | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2017-Deeb-Swihart-SELLCSCI] Abstract Carefully managing the presentation of self via technology is a core practice on all modern social media platforms. Recently, selfies have emerged as a new, pervasive genre of ... Read more..Paper in IJCNN (2017) “Towards Using Visual Attributes to Infer Image Sentiment Of Social Events”
Thursday, May 18th, 2017 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Papers, Unaiza Ahsan | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2017-Ahsan-TUVAIISSE] Abstract Widespread and pervasive adoption of smartphones has led to instant sharing of photographs that capture events ranging from mundane to life-altering happenings. We propose to capture sentiment information ... Read more..Paper in IEEE WACV (2017): “Complex Event Recognition from Images with Few Training Examples”
Monday, March 27th, 2017 Posted in Computational Journalism, Computational Photography and Video, Computer Vision, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Papers, Unaiza Ahsan | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2017-Ahsan-CERFIWTE] Abstract We propose to leverage concept-level representations for complex event recognition in photographs given limited training examples. We introduce a novel framework to discover event concept attributes from the web and ... Read more..Paper in M2CAI (workshop MICCAI) on “Fine-tuning Deep Architectures for Surgical Tool Detection” and results of Tool Detection Challange
Friday, October 21st, 2016 Posted in Aneeq Zia, Awards, Computer Vision, Daniel Castro, Medical, MICCAI | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2016-Zia-FDASTD] Abstract [caption id="attachment_1904" align="alignright" width="300"] Visualization of some of the training videos.[/caption] Understanding surgical workflow has been a key concern of the medical research community. One of the main advantages ... Read more..Paper (ACM MM 2016) “Leveraging Contextual Cues for Generating Basketball Highlights”
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 Posted in ACM MM, Caroline Pantofaru, Computational Photography and Video, Computer Vision, Papers, Sports Visualization, Vinay Bettadapura | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2016-Bettadapura-LCCGBH] Abstract [caption id="attachment_1896" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Leveraging Contextual Cues for Generating Basketball Highlights[/caption] The massive growth of sports videos has resulted in a need for automatic generation of sports highlights that ... Read more..Paper in IJCARS (2016) on “Automated video-based assessment of surgical skills for training and evaluation in medical schools”
Friday, September 2nd, 2016 Posted in Activity Recognition, Aneeq Zia, Computer Vision, Eric Sarin, Mark Clements, Medical, MICCAI, Thomas Ploetz, Vinay Bettadapura, Yachna Sharma | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2016-Zia-AVASSTEMS] Abstract [caption id="attachment_1924" align="alignright" width="300"] Sample frames from our video dataset[/caption] Purpose: Routine evaluation of basic surgical skills in medical schools requires considerable time and effort from supervising faculty. For ... Read more..Fall 2016 Teaching
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016 Posted in Computational Photography, Computer Vision | No Comments »
My teaching activities for Fall 2016 are CS 6475 Computational Photography (Part of the Online MS CS Program), supported by TAs, Kim Sirichoke, Chris Gearhart, Vickie Backman, Daniel Castro, and Phuc-Hai Huynh ... Read more..Research Blog: Motion Stills – Create beautiful GIFs from Live Photos
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Computer Vision, In The News, Interesting, Matthias Grundmann, Projects | No Comments »
Kudos to the team from Machine Perception at Google Research that just launched the Motion Still App to generate novel photos on an iOS device. This work is in part ... Read more..Paper (WACV 2016) “Discovering Picturesque Highlights from Egocentric Vacation Videos”
Monday, March 7th, 2016 Posted in Computational Photography and Video, Computer Vision, Daniel Castro, PAMI/ICCV/CVPR/ECCV, Vinay Bettadapura | No Comments »
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2016-Castro-DPHFEVV] Abstract We present an approach for identifying picturesque highlights from large amounts of egocentric video data. Given a set of egocentric videos captured over the course of a vacation, ... Read more..