Forgery of Icons

Icons R Icons

Bending Icons: Syntactic and Semantic Transformations of Icons

The notion of icons in visual environments is limited by perceiving icons as tacit entities that have meaning only to human beings and not to the machines that display them. This perception leads to visual tools that provide very little support for the creation of related icons representing related concepts. A large number of complex icons can be generated automatically by applying simple synta...

IconStickers: Converting Computer Icons into Real Paper Icons

Face Alive Icons

Facial expression is one of the primary communication means of the human. However, realistic facial expression images are not used in popular communication tools on portable devices because of the difficulties in: 1) Acquisition; 2) Transference; 3) Display. In this paper, we propose a system tackling these problems to synthesize facial expression images from photographs for the devices with li...

"Dancing icons" detection

Undoubtedly, a key feature in the popularity of smartphones is the numerous applications one can install. Frequently, we learn about applications we desire by seeing them on someone else’s mobile device. A user-friendly way to obtain these particular applications could be by taking a photo of their corresponding icons as displayed on our friend’s screen. We then need to develop methods for auto...