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2009
ACM
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HugMe: synchronous haptic teleconferencing
Traditional teleconferencing systems have enabled remote communications via audiovisual modalities. However, in real life, human touch such as encouraging pat plays a fundamental ...
Jongeun Cha, Mohamad A. Eid, Ahmad Barghout, A. S....
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2009
ACM
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Sirio: an ontology-based web search engine for videos
In this technical demonstration we show a web video search engine based on ontologies, the Sirio1 system, that has been developed within the EU VidiVideo project. The goal of the ...
Thomas M. Alisi, Marco Bertini, Gianpaolo D'Amico,...
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2009
ACM
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Localizing volumetric motion for action recognition in realistic videos
This paper presents a novel motion localization approach for recognizing actions and events in real videos. Examples include StandUp and Kiss in Hollywood movies. The challenge ca...
Xiao Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Jintao Li, Yongdong Zhang
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2009
ACM
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Inferring semantic concepts from community-contributed images and noisy tags
In this paper, we exploit the problem of inferring images’ semantic concepts from community-contributed images and their associated noisy tags. To infer the concepts more accura...
Jinhui Tang, Shuicheng Yan, Richang Hong, Guo-Jun ...
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2009
ACM
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Streaming HD H.264 encoder on programmable processors
Programmable processors have great advantage over dedicated ASIC design under intense time-to-market pressure. However, realtime encoding of high-definition (HD) H.264 video (up t...
Nan Wu, Mei Wen, Wei Wu, Ju Ren, Huayou Su, Changq...
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2009
ACM
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Investigating the use of visual focus of attention for audio-visual speaker diarisation
Audio-visual speaker diarisation is the task of estimating “who spoke when” using audio and visual cues. In this paper we propose the combination of an audio diarisation syste...
Giulia Garau, Sileye O. Ba, Hervé Bourlard,...
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2009
ACM
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Understanding near-duplicate videos: a user-centric approach
Popular content in video sharing web sites (e.g., YouTube) is usually duplicated. Most scholars define near-duplicate video clips (NDVC) based on non-semantic features (e.g., di...
Mauro Cherubini, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver
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2009
ACM
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MOGFUN: musical mObile group for FUN
The computational power and sensory capabilities of mobile devices are increasing dramatically these days, rendering them suitable for real-time sound synthesis and various musica...
Yinsheng Zhou, Zhonghua Li, Dillion Tan, Graham Pe...
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2009
ACM
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On statistical multiplexing of variable-bit-rate video streams in mobile systems
We consider the problem of broadcasting multiple variable-bit-rate (VBR) video streams from a base station to many mobile devices over a wireless network, so that: (i) perceived q...
Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda
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2009
ACM
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Swan boat: pervasive social game to enhance treadmill running
We designed and implemented a pervasive game called Swan Boat that targets the bland and tedious nature of running on a treadmill, making it fun through social interaction and imm...
Miru Ahn, Sungwon Peter Choe, Sungjun Kwon, Byungl...