In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, complete with a prototype system, for supporting instant access to maps for local navigation by people with visual impairment. The...
Object-level image retrieval is an active area of research. Given an image, a human observerdoesnot see randomdots of colors. Rather,he she observesfamiliarobjectsin the image. The...
Hand-held computing devices are ubiquitous and have become part of our lives these days. Moreover, hand-held devices are also increasingly being equipped with special sensors and ...
A long standing challenge in pen-based computer interaction is the ability to make sense of informal sketches. A main difficulty lies in reliably extracting and recognizing the i...
Navigation through large multimedia collections that include videos and images still remains a hard problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to visualize and navigate t...