In television shows, we are familiar with the sound of artificial laughter, the so called “canned laughter” or “laugh track”. It generally has an enhancing effect on the v...
This paper proposes a method for the rapid and precise estimation of human hand postures by combining 2-D appearance matching and 3-D model-based fitting. First a rough posture e...
Outdoor imaging is plagued by poor visibility conditions due to atmospheric scattering, particularly in haze. A major problem is spatially-varying reduction of contrast by stray r...
In this paper, we present a novel approach for tracking a lecturer during the course of his speech. We use features from multiple cameras and microphones, and process them in a jo...
Kai Nickel, Tobias Gehrig, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jo...