Rich media social networks promote not only creation and consumption of media, but also communication about the posted media item. What causes a conversation to be interesting, th...
Recognizing human action in non-instrumented video is a challenging task not only because of the variability produced by general scene factors like illumination, background, occlu...
For the majority of blind people, walking in unknown places is a very difficult, or even impossible, task to perform, when without help. The adoption of the white cane is the main...
Computer synthesized characters are expected to make appropriate face, limb, and body gestures during communicative acts. We focus on non-facial movements and try to elucidate wha...
Norman I. Badler, Monica Costa, Liwei Zhao, Diane ...
While global methods for matching shapes to images have recently been proposed, so far research has focused on small deformations of a fixed template. In this paper we present the...