Adam Thirlwell’s Kapow! – the Montage Book

Video Montage

Unedited video often has significant content that is of low interest to the viewer. One way to present such videos is by creating a video montage preserving interesting content. Manually doing this is difficult for a non-expert without specialized video editing software. We propose and demonstrate a technique for creating a video montage automatically from unedited video with minimal need for u...

kaPoW Webmail: Effective Disincentives Against Spam

Webmail spam poses a significant threat to major webmail providers such as Google GMail, Yahoo! Mail, and Microsoft Live Mail, as well as to individual companies and universities that provide web-based interfaces to their email. Whether spammers create new accounts or hijack existing accounts to send spam, the transmission of spam drives up server operating costs as well as the human costs requ...

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable...

Compressive Optical MONTAGE Photography

The Compressive Optical MONTAGE Photography Initiative (COMP-I) is an initiative under DARPA’s MONTAGE program. The goals of COMP-I are to produce 1 mm thick visible imaging systems and 5 mm thick IR systems without compromising pixel-limited resolution. Innovations of COMP-I include focal-plane coding, block-wise focal plane codes, birefringent, holographic and 3D optical elements for focal pl...

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