Animations of American Sign Language (ASL) can make more information, websites, and services accessible for the significant number of deaf people in the United States with lower levels of written language literacy – ultimately leading to fuller social inclusion for these users. We are collecting and analyzing an ASL motion-capture corpus of multi-sentential discourse to seek computational model...

There are a number of pieces of core infrastructure that are missing if we want to build intelligent narrative systems. One is the relative lack of availability of intelligent bodies that support wide behavioral repertoires and dynamic worlds. In this paper, I describe Twig, a simple physics and motion control system optimized for believable agents. Twig is open-source, reasonably fast, and run...

When a color video system with highly accurate color reproduction is designed, a good measure is required for evaluating the image quality including the color reproduction. There are some degradation sources in a total imaging system from image acquisition to image reproduction. Color random noise is one of major degradations which is often added in image capture phase. In this paper, we invest...

Line scratches are common degradations in motion picture films. This paper presents an efficient method for line scratches detection strengthened by a Kalman filter. A new interpolation technique, dealing with both low and high frequencies (i.e. film grain) around the line artifacts, is investigated to achieve a nearby invisible reconstruction of damaged areas. Our line scratches detection and ...

T h i s paper dawribcs a new face identification algorithm with two stages. This fitst stage monitors a sequence of face images to select a desired frame for identification and Face identification is performed in the second stage. The face identification algorithm is hased on the geometric parameters of size and distance of the facia[ feature ohjwts (the eyes, the nose. the mouth. etc) The fram...

Recent papers have shown that, in contrast to ―the Long Tail‖ theory, movie sales remain concentrated in a small number of hits. These papers have argued that concentrated sales can be explained, in part, by heterogeneity in quality and increasing returns from social effects. Our research analyzes an additional explanation: how incomplete information may skew sales patterns. We use the movie br...

In April 2007, FUJIFILM introduced ETERNA-RDI for digital intermediate. It is the first film stock in the world, designed specially for use in the digital intermediate workflow. ETERNA-RDI offers a significant improvement over conventional non-specific intermediate film stock, producing fine detail and accurate color from digital image data. New silver halide grain technology prevents spectral ...

Segmentation of images into foreground (an actor) and background is required for many motion picture special effects. To produce these shots, the unwanted background must be removed so that none of it appears in the final composite shot. The standard approach requires the background to be a blue screen. Systems that are capable of segmenting actors from more natural backgrounds have been propos...

In this paper we introduce our visual explorer “Blockbuster” as a contribution to the InfoVis Contest 2007. The system’s development followed a user-centered design process and a design rationale considering not only the pragmatic qualities of the system, but also hedonic qualities like aesthetics or “joy-of-use”. Apart from briefly outlining the employed visualization techniques, we will focus...

Motion picture Special effects often require the segmentation of image sequences into foreground and background. The background and foreground may then be processed separately and and recombined, perhaps with additional elements in the scene. Alpha Estimation Systems can perform this segmentation where the background is natural (rather than an artificial background such as a blue screen) but th...