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Enriching audio-visual chat with conversation-based image retrieval and display
This paper presents the results of a user study carried out to evaluate an application prototype in which an audio-visual chat conversation between two users is augmented by pictu...
Jeroen Vanattenhoven, Christof van Nimwegen, Matth...
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2010
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Improving online gaming quality using detour paths
We study the problem of improving the user perceived quality of online games in which multiple players form a game session and exchange game-state updates over an overlay network....
Cong Ly, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda
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2010
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Changing characters' point of view in interactive storytelling
Virtual characters are at the epicentre of Interactive Storytelling systems and in recent years multiple AI planning approaches have been described to specify their autonomous beh...
Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza
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2010
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Restoration of out-of-focus lecture video by automatic slide matching
Restoring the fine detail in the slide area of a defocused lecture video is a challenging task. In this work, we propose to use clean images of slides available along with the def...
Ngai-Man Cheung, David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekha...
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2010
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A 3d data intensive tele-immersive grid
Networked virtual environments like Second Life enable distant people to meet for leisure as well as work. But users are represented through avatars controlled by keyboards and mo...
Benjamin Petit, Thomas Dupeux, Benoit Bossavit, Jo...
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2010
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Embedded media marker: linking multimedia to paper
An Embedded Media Marker (EMM) is a transparent mark printed on a paper document that signifies the availability of additional media associated with that part of the document. Use...
Qiong Liu, Chunyuan Liao, Lynn Wilcox, Anthony Dun...
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2010
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TalkMiner: a search engine for online lecture video
TalkMiner is a search engine for lecture webcasts. Lecture videos are processed to recover a set of distinct slide images and OCR is used to generate a list of indexable terms fro...
John Adcock, Matthew Cooper, Laurent Denoue, Hamed...
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2010
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KPB-SIFT: a compact local feature descriptor
Invariant feature descriptors such as SIFT and GLOH have been demonstrated to be very robust for image matching and object recognition. However, such descriptors are typically of ...
Gangqiang Zhao, Ling Chen, Gencai Chen, Junsong Yu...
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2010
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A music search engine for therapeutic gait training
Zhonghua Li, Qiaoliang Xiang, Jason Hockman, Jianq...
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2010
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Mining and cropping common objects from images
Discovering common objects that appear frequently in a number of images is a challenging problem, due to (1) the appearance variations of the same common object and (2) the enormo...
Gangqiang Zhao, Junsong Yuan