Paper Abstract Recognizing when eating activities take place is one of the key challenges in automated food intake monitoring. Despite progress over the years, most proposed approaches have been largely impractical for everyday usage, requiring multiple onbody sensors or specialized devices such as neck collars for swallow detection. In this paper, we describe the implementation […]
Citation Abstract Dietary self-monitoring has been shown to be an effective method for weight loss, but it remains an onerous task despite recent advances in food journaling systems. Semi-automated food journaling can reduce the effort of logging but often requires that eating activities be detected automatically. In this work, we describe results from a feasibility […]
Video Analysis and Enhancement: Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Removal on YouTube Irfan Essa Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing GVU and RIM @ GT Centers October 19, 2012, 3:30 PM, NSH 1305 Abstract In this talk, I will discuss a variety of approaches my group is working on for video analysis and enhancement. In […]
Mitch Parry (2007), Separation and Analysis of Multichannel Signals PhD Thesis [PDF], Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Irfan Essa) Abstract This thesis examines a large and growing class of digital signals that capture the combined effect of multiple underlying factors. In order to better understand these signals, we would like […]
Parry, R.M. Essa, I. (2007) “Incorporating Phase Information for Source Separation via Spectrogram Factorization.” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. 15-20 April 2007, Volume: 2, page(s): II-661 – II-66, Honolulu, HI, ISSN: 1520-6149, ISBN: 1-4244-0728-1, INSPEC Accession Number:9497202, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366322 Abstract Spectrogram factorization methods have been proposed for single channel source separation and audio […]
Parry, R.M. Essa, I. (2006) “Source Detection Using Repetitive Structure (IEEEXplore).” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006, Publication Date: 14-19 May 2006, Volume: 4, page(s): IV – IV, Location: Toulouse, ISSN: 1520-6149, ISBN: 1-4244-0469-X, INSPEC Accession Number:9154520, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661163 Abstract Blind source separation algorithms typically require that the number of sources are known in advance. […]
Award#0205507 – ITR: Analysis of Complex Audio-Visual Events Using Spatially Distributed Sensors ABSTRACT We propose to develop a comprehensive framework for the joint analysis of audio-visual signals obtained from spatially distributed microphones and cameras. We desire solutions to the audio-visual sensing problem that will scale to an arbitrary number of cameras and microphones and can […]
Award#9806822 – Experimental Software Systems: Automated Understanding of Captured Experience ABSTRACT 9806822 Essa, Irfan A. Abowd, Gregory D. Georgia Institute of Technology Experimental Software Systems: Automated Understanding of Captured Experience The objective of this research is to reduce substantially the human input necessary for creating and accessing large collections of multimedia, particularly multimedia created by […]
Andrew Gardner and Irfan Essa (1997) “Prosody Analysis for Speaker Affect Determination” In Proceedings of Perceptual User Interfaces Workshop (PUI 1997), Banff, Alberta, CANADA, Oct 1997 [PDF][Project Site] Abstract Speech is a complex waveform containing verbal (e.g. phoneme, syllable, and word) and nonverbal (e.g. speaker identity, emotional state, and tone) information. Both the verbal and […]