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2010
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Making computers look the way we look: exploiting visual attention for image understanding
Human Visual attention (HVA) is an important strategy to focus on specific information while observing and understanding visual stimuli. HVA involves making a series of fixations ...
Harish Katti, Subramanian Ramanathan, Mohan S. Kan...
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2010
ACM
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Image classification using the web graph
Image classification is a well-studied and hard problem in computer vision. We extend a proven solution for classifying web spam to handle images. We exploit the link structure of...
Dhruv Kumar Mahajan, Malcolm Slaney
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2010
ACM
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TOP-SURF: a visual words toolkit
TOP-SURF is an image descriptor that combines interest points with visual words, resulting in a high performance yet compact descriptor that is designed with a wide range of conte...
Bart Thomee, Erwin M. Bakker, Michael S. Lew
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2010
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Automatic role recognition based on conversational and prosodic behaviour
This paper proposes an approach for the automatic recognition of roles in settings like news and talk-shows, where roles correspond to specific functions like Anchorman, Guest or ...
Hugues Salamin, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Khiet Truo...
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2010
ACM
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Artistic paper-cut of human portraits
This paper presents a method to render artistic paper-cut of human portraits. Rendering paper-cut images from photographs can be considered as an inhomogeneous image binarization ...
Meng Meng, Mingtian Zhao, Song Chun Zhu
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2010
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Sonify your face: facial expressions for sound generation
We present a novel visual creativity tool that automatically recognizes facial expressions and tracks facial muscle movements in real time to produce sounds. The facial expression...
Roberto Valenti, Alejandro Jaimes, Nicu Sebe
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2010
ACM
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Gaze awareness and interaction support in presentations
: Gaze Awareness and Interaction Support in Presentations Kar-Han Tan, Dan Gelb, Ramin Samadani, Ian Robinson, Bruce Culbertson, John Apostolopoulos HP Laboratories HPL-2010-187 D...
Kar-Han Tan, Dan Gelb, Ramin Samadani, Ian N. Robi...
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2010
ACM
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Processing web-scale multimedia data
The Internet brings us access to multimedia databases with billions of data instances. The massive amount of data available to researchers and application developers brings both o...
Malcolm Slaney, Edward Y. Chang
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2010
ACM
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Building book inventories using smartphones
Manual generation of a book inventory is time-consuming and tedious, while deployment of barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) management systems is costly and afforda...
David M. Chen, Sam S. Tsai, Bernd Girod, Cheng-Hsi...
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2010
ACM
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Affective image classification using features inspired by psychology and art theory
Images can affect people on an emotional level. Since the emotions that arise in the viewer of an image are highly subjective, they are rarely indexed. However there are situation...
Jana Machajdik, Allan Hanbury