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Optimized Product Quantization

Tiesheng Ge, Kaiming He, Qifa Ke, Jian Sun

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) | November 2013

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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.…

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Structured Exploration of Who, What, When, and Where in Heterogeneous Multimedia News Sources

Brendan Jou, Hongzhi Li, Joseph G. Ellis, Daniel Morozoff-Abegauz, Shih-Fu Chang

MM ’13 Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia | October 2013

ISBN: 978-1-4503-2404-5

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News Rover: Exploring Topical Structures and Serendipity in Heterogeneous Multimedia News

Hongzhi Li, Brendan Jou, Jospeh G. Ellis, Daniel Morozoff, Shih-Fu Chang

MM ’13 Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia | October 2013

ISBN: 978-1-4503-2404-5

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Standardized Extensions of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)

Gary J. Sullivan, Jill M. Boyce, Ying Chen, Jens-Rainer Ohm, C. Andrew Segall, Anthony Vetro

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | October 2013, Vol 7(6): pp. 1001-1016

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BodyAvatar: Creating Freeform 3D Avatars Person Body Gestures [Video]

October 8, 2013 | Xin Tong, Yang Liu

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,…