Videos Understanding: Extracting Content and Context from Video. (Presentation at the International Workshop on Computer Vision 2012, Ortigia, Siracusa, Sicily, May 22-24, 2012.) Irfan Essa GEORGIA Tech Abstract In this talk, I will describe various efforts aimed at extracting context and content from video. I will highlight some of our recent work in extracting spatio-temporal features […]
“Spatio-Temporal Video Analysis and Visual Activity Recognition” at the Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA) 2011 Conference in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain. June 8-10. Abstract My research group is focused on various approaches for (a) low-level video analysis and synthesis and (b) recognizing activities in videos. In this talk, I will concentrate […]
Fall 2010 GRASP Seminar – Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute Of Technology, “Two Talks On Video Analysis: 1 Segmentation Of Video And 2 Prediction Of Actions In Video” | GRASP Laboratory – University Of Pennsylvania. Friday September 24, 2010 from 11:00am to 12:00pm My research group is focused on a variety if approaches for video […]
“Temporal Representations of Video for Analysis and Synthesis” at IWV09: International Workshop on Video, In Barcelona, SPAIN, May 25-27, 2009. (Slides, NO Video) Abstract I will present a variety of temporal models of video that we have been studying (and developing on) for analysis and synthesis of video. Forsynthesis of videos, we have been developing representations […]
Talk/Presentation at Duke University, Jan 27, 2009. Hosted by James Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University Computation & Journalism: The Impact of Technology on Journalism, Information Quality, and Civic Literacy Irfan Essa Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing, GVU and RIM Centers Fundamentally, journalism is the process of collecting […]
From Computational Photography and Video to Computational Journalism Abstract Digital image capture, processing, and sharing has become pervasive in our society. This has had significant impact on how we create novel scenes, how we share our experiences, and how we interact with images and videos. In this talk, I will present an overview of […]
Irfan Essa (2004), “Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video” Talk at USC’s IRIS-Vision Seminars (Fall 2004). Temporal Reasoning from Video to Temporal Synthesis of Video Abstract In this talk, I will present some ongoing work on extracting spatio-temporal cues from video for both synthesis of novel video sequences, and recognition of complex […]