MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Automatically generating location overviews in the form of both visual and textual descriptions is highly desired for online services such as travel planning, to provide attractiv...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
In this paper, we present an automatic web image mining system towards building a universal human age estimator based on facial information, which is applicable to all ethnic grou...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Potential users of audio production software, such as audio equalizers, may be discouraged by the complexity of the interface. We describe a system that simplifies the interface b...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
We present a novel data-driven algorithm that leverages online image repositories such as Flickr for automatically generating tourist maps. Our hypothesis is that, given a large e...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Speaker clustering is the task of grouping a set of speech utterances into speaker-specific classes. The basic techniques for solving this task are similar to those used for spea...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Experiential image retrieval systems aim to provide the user with a natural and intuitive search experience. The goal is to empower the user to navigate large collections based on...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
We collected traces of how 37 users interacted with 9 progressively streamed and rendered 3D meshes. We analyze the traces and discuss the insights that we learned in relation to ...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
There are still no established methods for the evaluation of browsing and exploratory search tools. In the (multimedia) information retrieval community evaluations following the C...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Until recently, QoE (Quality of Experience) experiments had to be conducted in academic laboratories; however, with the advent of ubiquitous Internet access, it is now possible to...
MM
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Query-to-concept mapping plays one of the keys to concept-based video retrieval. Conventional approaches try to find concepts that are likely to co-occur in the relevant shots fro...