Commercial systems such as Flickr display interesting photos from their collection as an interaction mechanism for sampling the collection. It purely relies on social activity analysis for determining the notion of interestingness. We propose an alternative technique based on content analysis for finding interesting photos in a collection. We use a combination of visual attention models and an ...

PhotoStand enables the use of a map query interface to retrieve news photos associated with news articles that are in turn associated with the principal locations that they mention collected as a result of monitoring the output of over 10,000 RSS news feeds, made available within minutes of publication, and stored in a PostgreSQL database. The news photos are ranked according to their relevance...

Temporal information has been regarded as a key vehicle for sorting and grouping home photos into albums associated with events. While time-based browsing might be adequate for relatively small photo collection, query and retrieval would be very useful to find relevant photos of an event in large collection. In this paper, we propose the use of temporal events for organizing and representing ho...

We present a novel interaction technique that helps to make printed information more accessible to those with low or no textual literacy skills. AudioCanvas allows cameraphone users to interact directly with their own photos of media items to receive audio feedback or narration on demand.

With the rapid growth of digital photography, sharing of photos with friends and family has become very popular. When people share their photos, they usually organize them into albums according to events or places. To tell the story of some important events in one’s life, it is desirable to have an efficient summarization tool which can help people to receive a quick overview of an album contai...

Mobile phones are frequently used to determine one's location and navigation directions, and they can also provide a platform for connecting tourists with each other. This paper proposes a system that uses a set of geotagged photos to automatically compute the geographic location of another photo and then augment that photo with text and images that enable collaboration and enhance navigation. ...

Traditionally, stories are considered to be made of a fabula and a discourse. The fabula is the chronological sequence of events happening in the story world. The discourse is the re-ordered sequence of tellings of those events. Most previous work on storytelling has focused on a fabula-driven pipeline, where the fabula is generated independently of and prior to the discourse. However, to creat...

Photo or video mosaicing have drawn a lot of interests in the research field in the past years. Most of the existing work, however, focuses on how to match the images or video frames. This paper presents techniques to handle some practical issues when generating panorama photos. We have found from the experiments that a simple translational motion model gives more robust results than affine mod...

OBJECTIVE A great deal of human activity is involved in anticipating the future, from predicting the next influenza strain to the expectations that underlie the placebo effect. Most models of anticipation take for granted that events unfold in a unidirectional flow of time, from past to future. Two experiments were conducted to test this assumption. DESIGN Pupillary dilation, spontaneous blin...

In response to a lack of data on dholes Cuon alpinus, we initiated an intensive field study of dholes in Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary (KARN) in eastern Thailand to gather critical baseline information on the factors influencing dhole presence. Dholes have declined over time, are exposed to continued pressure from humans, yet are taking over the role of top-predator in many Thai protected...