Georgia Tech Alumna Named Rhodes Scholar Georgia Tech alumna Joy Buolamwini has been named a Rhodes scholar. She will attend the University of Oxford, where she plans to pursue degrees in African studies and global governance and diplomacy. A 2012 computer science graduate from Memphis, Tenn., Buolamwini plans to use her skills to lower barriers […]
Here is an excerpt from a Google Research Blog on our Video Stabilization on YouTube. Now even more improved. One thing we have been working on within Research at Google is developing methods for making casual videos look more professional, thereby providing users with a better viewing experience. Professional videos have several characteristics that differentiate […]
Our following paper was just awarded the Excellent Paper for 2011 in Computer Vision by Google Research. Casually shot videos captured by handheld or mobile cameras suffer from significant amount of shake. Existing in-camera stabilization methods dampen high-frequency jitter but do not suppress low-frequency movements and bounces, such as those observed in videos captured by […]
Via Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing‘s Website > Essa, Egerstedt Named IEEE Fellows. The IEEE Board of Directors has elected professors Irfan Essa and Magnus Egerstedt (both Interactive Computing) as Fellows in its Class of 2012. Essa is a professor whose research focus is in computer vision, computer graphics, computational perception, robotics and computer animation. In his […]
Our work, as described in the following paper, now showcased in youtube. [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2011-Grundmann-AVSWROCP] YouTube effects: Shake it like an Instagram picture via YouTube effects: Shake it like an Instagram picture — Online Video News. YouTube users can now apply a number of Instagram-like effects to their videos, giving them a cartoonish or Lomo-like look with […]
via Auto-Directed Video Stabilization with Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths – Google Research Blog. Auto-Directed Video Stabilization with Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths Posted by Matthias Grundmann, Vivek Kwatra, and Irfan Essa, Earlier this year, we announced the launch of new features on the YouTube Video Editor, including stabilization for shaky videos, with the ability to preview them in […]
Congratulations to Matthias Grundmann, winner of the Google PhD Fellowship in Computer Vision for 2012. via PhD Fellowships – Google Research. Google PhD Fellowship Program Overview Nurturing and maintaining strong relations with the academic community is a top priority at Google. The Google U.S./Canada PhD Student Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students […]
via YouTube Blog: Lights, Camera… EDIT! New Features for the YouTube Video Editor. [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2011-Grundmann-AVSWROCP] Lights, Camera… EDIT! New Features for the YouTube Video Editor Nine months ago we launched our cloud-based video editor. It was a simple product built to provide our users with simple editing tools. Although it didn’t have all the features […]
Video – Breaking News Videos from CNN.com. Check out the media coverage of our new paper to appear in ISMAR 2009, in October. Also see “Latest videos makes Google Earth cities bustle” New Scientist (Sep 30, 2009 Issue) “Video: Google Earth animated with real time human and vehicular traffic” Endgadget (Sep 30, 2009)
Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?, TIME Magazine, by MATT VILLANO, June 8, 2009 EXCERPT “At the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, a three-year-old program in “computational journalism” helps computer-science majors study how journalists gather, organize and utilize information, then take these workflows and see how technology can make the processes easier.” Full article here. Also […]