This article introduces audio-enhanced paper photos enabled by digital pen technology as an interaction paradigm for supporting and understanding emotional wellbeing in late adulthood, particularly in the context of communication therapy activities and related social interactions. We describe the development of a multimodal pen-based system that enables creation of audio-enhanced paper photos a...

In psychology, theory-driven researches are usually conducted with extensive laboratory experiments, yet rarely tested or disproved with big data. In this paper, we make use of 418K travel photos with traveler ratings to test the influential “broaden-and-build” theory, that suggests positive emotions broaden one’s visual attention. The core hypothesis examined in this study is that positive emo...

In the Web 2.0 era, platforms for sharing and collaboratively annotating images with keywords, called tags, became very popular. Tags are a powerful means for organizing and retrieving photos. However, manual tagging is time consuming. Recently, the sheer amount of user-tagged photos available on the Web encouraged researchers to explore new techniques for automatic image annotation. The idea i...

home video analysis, video to photo, video printing, camera motion analysis, intelligent keyframe extraction, video panorama, superresolution, user intent, motion mining More and more home videos have been generated with the ever growing popularity of digital cameras and camcorders. In many cases of home video, a photo, whether capturing a moment or a scene within the video, provides a compleme...

iniencephaly is a rare kind of neural tube defect that is classified into two types of iniencephaly apertus and iniencephaly clausus. this anomaly could be diagnosed prenatally by obstetric ultrasonography and terminated by therapeutic abortion; however, it could be undiagnosed until birth similar to our case due to the abnormal position of the fetus or lack of experience of the sonographer. du...

With rapid new technological development during the past 50 years, aerial photos have been increasingly and commonly used not only in geographic information systems but also in various spatially related applications. Many municipalities and government agencies have constructed aerial photo databases all over the world. Keeping these databases up to date is the most important part of making them...

the tehran museum of contemporary art has held photo annual and biennial since 1366 and 12 exhibitions have been held so far; moreover, it is one of the most important places for presentation of photos and photographic thinking in country. ninth and eleventh iran photography biennial were similar approaches and artistic and creative photography was considered for photographers as a goal but so ...

Issues about navigation of large photo collections have been studied for years. Associated interfaces tend to provide a single usage to deal with all kinds of photos and an integrated interface is rarely addressed. As the everyman photo collection consists of photos of various contexts, we advocate browsing different types of photos by different interaction techniques and presentation models. W...

Technological advances in digital photography have made it possible to acquire and store more pictures than ever before. Unfortunately this has led to massively sized photo collections that becomes difficult to browse. We propose a novel interface to facilitate browsing these large collections. Our approach hierarchically groups the photos, summarizes the groups as a tree of collages, and allow...