Photo or video mosaicing have drawn a lot of interests in the research field in the past years. Most of the existing work, however, focuses on how to match the images or video frames. This paper presents techniques to handle some practical issues when generating panorama photos. We have found from the experiments that a simple translational motion model gives more robust results than affine mod...

OBJECTIVE A great deal of human activity is involved in anticipating the future, from predicting the next influenza strain to the expectations that underlie the placebo effect. Most models of anticipation take for granted that events unfold in a unidirectional flow of time, from past to future. Two experiments were conducted to test this assumption. DESIGN Pupillary dilation, spontaneous blin...

The automatic association of illustrative photos to paragraphs of text is a challenging cross-media retrieval problem with many practical applications. In this paper we propose novel methods to associate photos to textual documents. The proposed methods are based on the recognition and disambiguation of location names in the texts, using them to query Flickr for candidate photos. The best photo...

Growing Up on Facebook, authored by Brady Robards and Sian Lincoln, exposes the reader to role of Computer-Mediated Communication in creating, recreating, altering online identities users. Highlighting self intimate relationships, professional family Lincoln discuss such identity markers as friend requests, postings photos, political discourse, creation profiles, providing fields communication,...

An autovideography approach was used to investigate the gender role and identity perceptions of ten adolescent Chinese girls in Vancouver. They were asked to take 20 photos in a week from the media that could illustrate ‘‘what women should or should not be and what women should or should not do’’. Individual face-to-face interviews were conducted discussing their choices. Six dominant themes em...

Material and Methods: Overall, 100 patients (60 women, 40 men) demanding rhinoplasty between January and December 2013 were included in this study. Standard profile photos were taken. Rhinoplasty and extra profile surgeries were simulated in those photos with both patient and surgeon decisions. These simulated photos were assumed as the desired profile view. In those photos, some angles or meas...

With the explosion in the number of images and videos on the Internet and ongoing amassing of huge volumes of visual data from digital cameras and mobile devices, we are unknowingly logging our own history. Consider that the number of digital cameras and camera phones in the world has surpassed one billion and that 500 billion consumer photos are taken each year. Given the world’s population of...

For many years, researchers have explored digital support for photographs and various methods of interaction around those photos. Services like Instagram, Facebook, and Flickr have demonstrated the value of online photographs in social media. Yet we know relatively little about these new practices of mobile social photography and in-situ sharing. Drawing on screen and audio recordings of mobile...