Comic presentation for videos has attracted more and more attention in recent years. This work deeply discusses one important component, i.e., speech balloon placement, that was depreciated and was done by heuristic approaches before. According to ...

This paper proposes a novel video representation method for videos capturing events held in a wide field. Such events can be captured with high resolution due to the recent development of video capturing technologies. Despite the development of these ...

In this paper, we define a new metric, the Fragile Bit Weight (FBW), which is used in binary feature matching and measures how two features differ. High FBWs are associated with genuine matches between two binary features and low FBWs are associated ...

Modern mobile devices provide several functionalities and new ones are being added at a breakneck pace. Unfortunately browsing the menu and accessing the functions of a mobile phone is not a trivial task for visual impaired users. Low vision people ...

We performed an experiment to investigate differences between persons with and without hearing losses when playing a novel audio-based game on a tablet computer, and how persons with hearing losses appreciated the game when they played it with three ...

Portable devices for first-person camera views will play a central role in future interactive systems. One necessary step for feasible human-computer guided activities is gesture recognition, preceded by a reliable hand segmentation from egocentric ...

With the advent of feature rich smartphone platforms such as Android and iOS, people can now enjoy a wide variety of applications on-the-go. Among these applications, games are one of the most desired types. However, as bigger screens, faster CPUs and ...