We explore the ways in which interfaces can be designed to deceive users so as to create the illusion of magic. We present a study of an experimental performance in which a magici...
Cameras are ubiquitous everywhere and hold the promise of significantly changing the way we live and interact with our environment. Human activity recognition is central to under...
Octavia Camps, Mario Sznaier, Binlong Li, Teresa M...
A common video indexing technique is to segment a video sequence into shots and then select representative key-frames. The process of shot break detection is a fundamental compone...
Browsing large multimedia databases is becoming a challenging problem, due to the availability of great amounts of data and the complexity of retrieval. In this paper we propose a...
Massimiliano Albanese, Carmine Cesarano, Antonio P...
Abstract In this paper we present a new character animation technique in which the animation adapts itself based on the change in the user's perspective, i.e., when the user m...
Parag Chaudhuri, George Papagiannakis, Nadia Magne...