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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
soft(n): toward a somaesthetics of touch
This paper explores the concept of somaesthetics as an approach to the design of expressive interaction. This concept is exemplified through the design process of soft(n), an inte...
Thecla Schiphorst
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards systematic usability verification
Although usability is the core aspect of the whole HCI research field, it still waits for its economic breakthrough. There are some corporations that are famous for their usable p...
Jan Borchers, Jonathan Diehl, Markus Jordans, Max ...
SPAA
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Towards transactional memory semantics for C++
Transactional memory (TM) eliminates many problems associated with lock-based synchronization. Over recent years, much progress has been made in software and hardware implementati...
Tatiana Shpeisman, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Robert ...
KDD
2003
ACM
130views Data Mining» more  KDD 2003»
16 years 7 months ago
Towards systematic design of distance functions for data mining applications
Distance function computation is a key subtask in many data mining algorithms and applications. The most effective form of the distance function can only be expressed in the conte...
Charu C. Aggarwal