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Friedland, Gerald
International Computer Science Institute
Berkeley, California
 
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  Feature extraction & image processing for computer vision (3rd ed.)
Nixon M., Aguado A., ACADEMIC PRESS, London, UK, 2012. 632 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-123965-49-3)

This is certainly not the first book ever written about computer vision. The promise of computer vision to make automatic sense of everyday images has attracted many researchers, and many algorithms have been proposed as the field edge...

Apr 18 2013  
  Beginning Android Web apps development: develop for Android using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
Westfall J., Augusto R., Allen G., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 284 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-430239-57-4)

This book is about building Web apps for Android-based smartphones using Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5), cascading style sheets (CSS), and JavaScript. The book contains screenshots and example code, the source code is available on...

Jul 27 2012  
  Serious games and learning effectiveness: the case of It’s a Deal!
Guillén-Nieto V., Aleson-Carbonell M. Computers & Education 58(1): 435-448, 2012.  Type: Article

For centuries, learning was serious and games were fun--full stop. However, in the last couple of decades, and especially with the advent of e-learning, video games are considered more and more to accomplish educational tasks....

Apr 18 2012  
   Characterizing and modelling popularity of user-generated videos
Borghol Y., Mitra S., Ardon S., Carlsson N., Eager D., Mahanti A. Performance Evaluation 68(11): 1037-1055, 2011.  Type: Article

The title of this paper reminds me of many other papers. However, I soon realized that it is one of the most interesting pieces I’ve read in a long time--and I mean compared with any text, not just scientific literat...

Mar 7 2012  
  Vehicle surveillance with a generic, adaptive, 3D vehicle model
Leotta M., Mundy J. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 33(7): 1457-1469, 2011.  Type: Article

The real world and the virtual world are generally considered to be two separate worlds. Leotta and Mundy, however, have changed that. In their paper, they present an approach to track vehicles in surveillance videos based on a virtual...

Dec 1 2011  
  Spatial-geometric approach to physical mobile interaction based on accelerometer and IR sensory data fusion
Rahman A., Hossain M., Saddik A. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications 6(4): 1-23, 2010.  Type: Article

Wouldn’t it be cool if your mobile phone could interact with the real world as a kind of “universal joystick”? This is the basic premise of this paper....

Jul 21 2011  
  Two-stream indexing for Spoken Web search
Ajmera J., Joshi A., Mukherjea S., Rajput N., Sahay S., Shrivastava M., Srivastava K.  WWW 2011 (Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference, Hyderabad, India, Mar 28-Apr 1, 2011) 503-512, 2011.  Type: Proceedings

The Spoken Web affects many people in rural India and other developing areas that have just recently adopted the widespread use of voice-only cell phones (as opposed to smartphones). The Spoken Web, like the World Wide Web (WWW), enabl...

Jun 29 2011  
  Visual event recognition using decision trees
Simon C., Meessen J., De Vleeschouwer C. Multimedia Tools and Applications 50(1): 95-121, 2010.  Type: Article

Simon, Meessen, and De Vleeschouwer present in this paper a decision tree-based approach to recognizing events in a video surveillance sequence....

Jan 4 2011  
  Tabletops - horizontal interactive displays
Müller-Tomfelde C., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 484 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-849961-12-7)

Apple’s new mobile devices are definitely not the only ones that respond to people’s general demand to work with a computer that is oriented horizontally, that is, with the display being integrated in a table, lying...

Oct 6 2010  
  Animation and performance capture using digitized models
de Aguiar E., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2009. 170 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-642103-15-5)

Television technology has transitioned from black and white to color, from color to 16:9, and from 16:9 to high definition. Now that Hollywood and related industries are heavily investing in the space, there is a significant chance tha...

Jul 21 2010  
 
 
 
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