ACM Siggraph 2008 Class on Computional and Journalism Date and Time: Wednesday, 13 August 2008 | 1:45 pm – 5:30 pm Location: Room 502 A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA Fundamentally, journalism is the process of collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by […]
R. Hamid, S. Maddi, A. Bobick, I. Essa. “Unsupervised Analysis of Activity Sequences Using Event Motifs”, In proceedings of 4th ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2006). Abstract We present an unsupervised framework to discover characterizations of everyday human activities, and demonstrate how such representations can be […]
K. Kim, I. Essa, and G. Abowd (2006) “Interactive mosaic generation for video navigation.” in Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, pages 655-658, 2006. [Project Page | DOI | PDF] Abstract Navigation through large multimedia collections that include videos and images still remains cumbersome. In this paper, we introduce a novel method […]
Citation [bibtex key= 2004-Hays-IVBPA] Abstract We present techniques for transforming images and videos into painterly animations depicting different artistic styles. Our techniques rely on image and video analysis to compute appearance and motion properties. We also determine and apply motion information from different (user-specified) sources to static and moving images. These properties that encode spatio-temporal […]
Vivek Kwatra, Arno Schödl, Irfan Essa, Greg Turk, Aaron Bobick (2003), “Graphcut textures: image and video synthesis using graph cuts” In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 22 , Issue 3, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, Pages: 277 – 286, July 2003, ISSN:0730-0301. (DOI|Paper| SIGGRAPH Video (160 MB, 50 MB) | Video Results 87 MB […]
Citation [bibtex key= 2002-Schodl-CAVS] Abstract We introduce a new optimization algorithm for video sprites to animate realistic-looking characters. Video sprites are animations created by rearranging recorded video frames of a moving object. Our new technique to find good frame arrangements is based on repeated partial replacements of the sequence. It allows the user to specify […]
Citation [bibtex key= 2001-Brostow-IMBSMA] Additional Info Gabriel J. Brostow and Irfan Essa (2001) “Image-based motion blur for stop motion animation” In Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (ACM SIGGRPH) Pages: 561 – 566 August 2001, ISBN:1-58113-374-X ACM New York, NY, USA (DOI|PDF|Video|Project Site) Abstract Stop motion animation is a […]
Paper [bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2000-Schodl-VT] Abstract This paper introduces a new type of medium, called a video texture, which has qualities somewhere between those of a photograph and a video. A video texture provides a continuous infinitely varying stream of images. While the individual frames of a video texture may be repeated from time to time, […]
We describe a real-time solid modeling system that is based on the physical analogy of forming clay by applying forces. The system is implemented by simulating real materials as they react to user-supplied forces. Unlike other physically-based modeling approaches, the Thingworld system allows the user to restrict forming action to simple global deformations during the initial “roughing in” phase of modeling, and then later concern themselves with detailing.
