I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

With a cell phone camera a person can take pictures and immediately transmit them to larger repositories using telecommunication channels. This provides the potential for anywhere, anytime picture sharing and story telling. It can also increase awareness among peers within a social network. But while we enjoy telling stories around this informal content, the necessary act of downloading, organi...

Earlier techniques are either based on boundary features [Kass et al., 1988] or manual sketches [Boykov and Lea, 2006]. In this project, we propose a new approach to partition “foreground” and “background” making use of distance data of real objects in the image. To be specific, when an image is taken by camera, there exists a one-to-one mapping from pixels in the image to real objects. For eac...