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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...