Multimedia Search and Mining
Multimedia Search and Mining (MSM) group focuses on a wide variety of multimedia-related research and projects, e.g., understanding, analysis, search, data mining, and applications.
Naiad: A Timely Dataflow System
Optimized Product Quantization
Image Cropping Dataset
The Image Cropping Dataset contains the cropping parameters for 1000 images that were manually cropped by an experienced photographer. The cropping parameters indicate the coordinates of the upper-left and bottom-right corners of the crop box.…
Common Sense in Semantic Scene Understanding
Common sense is knowledge that we all have, knowledge that we assume other people know about the world. Computer-science researchers have common sense, but our computers don’t. This limits the research goals that computer scientists…
StoryFlow: Tracking the Evolution of Stories
BodyAvatar: Creating Freeform 3D Avatars Person Body Gestures [Video]
BodyAvatar is a Kinect-based interactive system that allows users without professional skills to create freeform 3D avatars using body gestures. Unlike existing gesture-based 3D modeling tools, BodyAvatar centers around a first-person “you’re the avatar” metaphor,…