Funding

March 1, 2011 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Funding

Funding (2011): NSF (1059362): “II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory”

II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory (Stillman, Essa, Egerstadt, Christensen, Ueda) Division of Computer and Network Systems Instrumentation Grant. An anthropomorphic robot arm and a human capture system enable the autonomous performance of assembly tasks with significant uncertainty in problem specifications and environments. This line of work is investigated through sequences of manipulation actions where the guarantee of the completion […]
April 3, 2008 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Face and Gesture

Paper: ICASSP (2008) "Discriminative Feature Selection for Hidden Markov Models using Segmental Boosting"

Pei Yin, Irfan Essa, James Rehg, Thad Starner (2008) “Discriminative Feature Selection for Hidden Markov Models using Segmental Boosting”, ICASSP 2008 – March 30 – April 4, 2008 – Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. (Paper: MLSP-P3.D8, Session: Pattern Recognition and Classification II, Time: Thursday, April 3, 15:30 – 17:30, Topic: Machine Learning for Signal Processing: Learning […]
March 8, 2008 / Last updated : March 8, 2008 irfan Computational Journalism

Funding: NSF (2008) "Symposium on Computation and Journalism"

Award#0813831 – Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances in computational technology are rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported and distributed. Furthermore, new avenues for aggregating, visualizing, summarizing, consuming, and […]
October 9, 2007 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Audio Analysis

Thesis: Mitch Parry PhD (2007), "Separation and Analysis of Multichannel Signals"

Mitch Parry (2007), Separation and Analysis of Multichannel Signals PhD Thesis [PDF], Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Irfan Essa) Abstract This thesis examines a large and growing class of digital signals that capture the combined effect of multiple underlying factors. In order to better understand these signals, we would like […]
June 17, 2007 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Computational Photography and Video

Paper: IEEE CVPR (2007) "Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation"

Yin, Pei Criminisi, Antonio Winn, John Essa, Irfan (2007), Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR ’07, 17-22 June 2007, page(s): 1 – 8, Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA, ISBN: 1-4244-1180-7, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383008 Abstract This paper presents an algorithm for the automatic segmentation of monocular videos […]
April 15, 2007 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Audio Analysis

Paper: IEEE ICASSP (2007) "Incorporating Phase Information for Source Separation via Spectrogram Factorization"

Parry, R.M. Essa, I. (2007) “Incorporating Phase Information for Source Separation via Spectrogram Factorization.” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. 15-20 April 2007, Volume: 2, page(s): II-661 – II-66, Honolulu, HI, ISSN: 1520-6149, ISBN: 1-4244-0728-1, INSPEC Accession Number:9497202, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366322 Abstract Spectrogram factorization methods have been proposed for single channel source separation and audio […]
May 14, 2006 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Audio Analysis

Paper: IEEE ICASSP (2006) "Source Detection Using Repetitive Structure"

Parry, R.M. Essa, I. (2006) “Source Detection Using Repetitive Structure (IEEEXplore).” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006, Publication Date: 14-19 May 2006, Volume: 4, page(s): IV – IV, Location: Toulouse, ISSN: 1520-6149, ISBN: 1-4244-0469-X, INSPEC Accession Number:9154520, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661163 Abstract Blind source separation algorithms typically require that the number of sources are known in advance. […]
June 2, 2004 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Funding

Paper: IEEE CVPR (2004) "Asymmetrically boosted HMM for speech reading"

Pei Yin Essa, I. Rehg, J.M. (2004) “Asymmetrically boosted HMM for speech reading,”, In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2004 (CVPR 2004). Publication Date: 27 June-2 July 2004, Volume: 2, On page(s): II-755 – II-761 Vol.2 ISSN: 1063-6919, ISBN: 0-7695-2158-, INSPEC Accession Number:8161546, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CVPR.2004.1315240 […]
November 9, 2003 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Face and Gesture

Paper: Asilomar Conference (2003) "Boosted audio-visual HMM for speech reading"

Yin, P. Essa, I. Rehg, J.M. (2003) “Boosted audio-visual HMM for speech reading.” In Proceedings Thirty-Seventh Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2003. Date: 9-12 Nov. 2003, Volume: 2, On page(s): 2013 – 2018 Vol.2, , ISBN: 0-7803-8104-1, INSPEC Accession Number:8555396, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ACSSC.2003.1292334 Abstract We propose a new approach for combining acoustic […]
October 1, 2002 / Last updated : January 5, 2020 irfan Funding

Funding: NSF/ITR (2002) "Analysis of Complex Audio-Visual Events Using Spatially Distributed Sensors"

Award#0205507 – ITR: Analysis of Complex Audio-Visual Events Using Spatially Distributed Sensors ABSTRACT We propose to develop a comprehensive framework for the joint analysis of audio-visual signals obtained from spatially distributed microphones and cameras. We desire solutions to the audio-visual sensing problem that will scale to an arbitrary number of cameras and microphones and can […]