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ImageScape FAQ |
14 Nov 2000 |
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This project is an investigation into true image query interfaces. Toward this goal, we implemented (1) a general sketch query interface and (2) object oriented(thru the image icons) image queries. |
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Virtual Studio Overview |
12 Nov 2000 |
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This article gives an overview of virtual studios - what they are and why they are useful. |
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Speech Interfaces Overview |
13 Nov 2000 |
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We give a summary of our research directions and projects in speech systems. The projects include a voice controlled CD player, an interactive musical jam session; and a virtual human. |
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Perl and Mysql |
19 Nov 2000 |
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Quick guide to using perl with the mysql database |
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Sound in Java |
19 Nov 2000 |
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An example of loading and playing a sampled audio file |
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Search Engine Myths |
1 Feb 2001 |
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Web search engines are shrouded in hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims. This article attempts to distinguish between search engine reality and myth |
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WWW Text Search Engines |
1 May 2001 |
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This article briefly summarizes the different text based WWW search user interfaces. |
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Reflective Notebook Displays |
5 Jul 2001 |
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On a notebook computer, the main power drain is typically the display. New technology called reflective displays promise significant power savings. |
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Storage Blues |
30 Aug 2001 |
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We have tested a wide variety of storage options and give the results of our tests. |
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Graphics Card Roundup |
1 Oct 2001 |
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In this article, we summarize the latest developments in graphics cards. |
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Pentium IV vs. Athlon |
14 Dec 2001 |
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In this article we summarize the debate over CPU performance between the PIV and the Athlon |
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DivX 5.0 |
22 Mar 2002 |
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DivX has released a new version of their codec. We discuss the effectiveness of DivX for video archiving. |
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Xmpeg |
11 Sep 2002 |
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Xmpeg is a tool for converting mpeg video from one format to another. We explain what the tool does and give recommendations for using it. |
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VirtualDub |
28 Jun 2002 |
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VirtualDub is a free, open-source program for basic video editing of mpeg and avi video and audio files. We explain when to use VirtualDub and how to overcome some common limitations. |
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Video Players |
15 Jul 2002 |
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We give an overview of the DivX Player and Microsoft Media Player. |
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Dynamic Art |
25 Jun 2002 |
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Using live video capture and wall sized projections, we created a dynamic art exhnibit. |
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Virtual Pet Dolphin |
15 Jan 2002 |
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Create a virtual pet, in our case a dolphin, that reacts on speech and position of the user. |
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Augmented Reality |
18 Jul 2002 |
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In many situations, it would be nice to have additional information about one's surroundings. This project does that by augmenting reality. |
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Interactive Movie Theatre |
8 Jul 2002 |
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In this project we create a special movie theater which changes the video on the screen based on user interaction via the chairs |
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Video to Music |
15 Jan 2002 |
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This project examines methods for automatically creating music for video input. |
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Virtual 3D Display |
30 Jul 2002 |
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This project is about designing a 3D display which can be viewed without shutter glasses or a head mounted display |
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Dynamic Disks |
31 Oct 2002 |
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Dynamic disks allow you to span disk drives and utilize RAID striping and mirroring within Windows 2000 and XP. We discuss the strengths and caveats of this technology. |
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Virtual Window |
12 Dec 2002 |
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The intention of the project was to generate a window on a computer that was realistic and believable. A tromp l'oeil. |
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3D Photo Album |
9 Jan 2003 |
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We designed a virtual 3D photo album which could give a more natural way of viewing digital images. |
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3D Visual Sign Language Translator |
10 Feb 2003 |
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We wanted to create a device which could work as a visual sign-language translator. On the fingertips of a glove we placed 4 different color leds. These leds can be recognized by an OpenGL code. |
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Why Do We Need A Mouse? |
15 Oct 2003 |
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Our project goal is to use your hand as a pointing device (like the mouse). Hand motions can be much more expressive and convey more information than using the mouse. Also, you always bring your hands with you. |
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International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval |
5 Jul 2003 |
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The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world. |
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Voice Search |
20 Nov 2003 |
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Voicesearch is about as the name suggests, using your voice for doing the search on a webpage. Before it was all textual, now its possible to make it more dynamic,interactive and appealing to the users. |
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Virtual Aquarium |
7 Dec 2003 |
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Imagine a television that shows an aquarium with fishes which respond to movement and sound from the surrounding area. |
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Digital Immortality - Memory Cabinet |
14 Jan 2004 |
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We want to build a cabinet which holds 'memories'. The cabinet stands in a public space like the main entrance of a library or city hall. Every visitor can show an object with emotional value or memory to the digital camera/webcam. |
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Fractal Worlds |
19 Jan 2004 |
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Our main goal: Is to create an artificial world according to a set of random parameters(seed) at the begin of the program. So every time you run the program, you will get an entire new world that can be viewed in 3d. More general, every mountain, every ocean, and every tree will be placed differently in each run. |
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Speech Street Fighter |
25 Jan 2004 |
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This is a fighting game like "Street Fighter" played by speech. You can control your 3D fighter in real time using voice commands. |
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Virtual Education - Online School |
7 Feb 2004 |
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This is a 3D online school where you can walk around, see and talk to other students and teachers. You can also listen to music and view video for your studies. |
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ACM SIGMM Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2004 |
10 Nov 2004 |
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Extending beyond all borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR2004 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. |
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International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 2004 |
25 Mar 2004 |
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the field of computer vision whose work is related to human computer interaction. We are soliciting original contributions that address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human computer interaction. Developments in mobile, wearable and pervasive communications and computing technologies provide exciting challenges and opportunities for HCI |
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DVD Notes: Making IFO files |
23 May 2004 |
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Suppose you have the VOB files for a DVD and want to create the IFO file so that you can burn a DVD, then this article tells you how. |
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PCI Express: What is it? |
25 Sep 2004 |
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PCI Express is the next generation PCI bus. We introduce what PCI Express is and explain the architecture. |
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IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction |
5 Jul 2005 |
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Human computer interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scientific areas. These areas include affective computing, smart interfaces, human motion and gesture recognition, perceptual user interfaces, and learning in HCI. The goal of this workshop (IEEE HCI'2005) is to share new ideas and paradigms with other researchers worldwide. |
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MagicVideoBrowser |
1 Sep 2005 |
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Built specifically for movie enthusiasts, MagicVideoBrowser offers a highly intuitive interface that allows its users an easy and effective way of navigating one's computer to browse or search for video files. In this application, video files are represented in a truly visual way as opposed to text. This program brings next generation video browsing and playing capabilities to video enthusiasts and professionals. |
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Welcome to the LIACS Media Lab |
31 Dec 2020 |
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The goal of the LIACS Media Lab (LML) at Leiden University is to unify education and research in the areas of multimedia analysis/understanding, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction and internet technologies. |
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PeerExplorer - Trustworthy P2P |
3 Jul 2006 |
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Current Peer-2-Peer systems have significant limitations regarding security, interaction, browsing, and searching. The PeerExplorer project seeks to address all of these issues towards a next generation P2P application |
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Perl Primer |
3 Jul 2006 |
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This document gives a brief primer for the Perl programming language. It is meant to be a refresher for perl programmers, not an introduction for someone who has no perl experience. |
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Firefox Optimization |
26 Nov 2007 |
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This article shows how to greatly enhance the speed of the Firefox 2 internet browser |
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IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction HCI2007 |
12 Jan 2007 |
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The goal of this workshop (IEEE HCI'2007) is to share new ideas and paradigms with other researchers worldwide in the scientific study of Human Computer Interaction. Human computer interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scientific areas. including artificial intelligence, computer vision, face recognition, motion tracking, etc. In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they will need to understand their environment through vision and sound. |
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SMB/Samba over SSH |
29 Jan 2007 |
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Suppose you have a samba server on server S, and wish to connect to it from a machine C. Perhaps you can't connect directly, because either S can't open port 139, or because you don't trust the security of windows file sharing. (Both are good reasons!) |
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IEEE Multimedia 2007 |
2 Jul 2007 |
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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. |
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ACM Multimedia 2007 |
23 Sep 2007 |
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ACM Multimedia 2007 invites you to participate in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. |
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Changing Default Logon Screesaver |
26 Nov 2007 |
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Before a user logs in, XP has a default screensaver which in some cases might be annoying. This note explains how to change it. |
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Create a Safely Remove Hardware shortcut |
26 Nov 2007 |
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This article shows how to create a desktop shortcut which activates the Safely Remove Hardware function - especially useful when disconnecting USB drives |
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Hack (1985) - version 103, the original |
15 Feb 2008 |
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This has a download of the original game and notes on getting Hack103 working with ansi.sys. Here is the quick and easy solution for Windows XP. |
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Smbclient |
12 Jun 2010 |
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Notes on using the smbclient program from Linux to access Windows shares |
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Remote console |
14 May 2008 |
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When all connections on remote desktop are used up, in many cases you can still use remote console as described here. |
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval |
17 Jul 2008 |
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval. |
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Encoding Difficult Files with Mencoder |
3 Aug 2008 |
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Some video files are difficult to transcode such as from VC1 to MPEG4, not because of the video codecs but because the file contains a poorly standardized codec like OGG Vorbis. This document gives some tips on how to make the transcoded files. |
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Mencoder Tips |
14 Aug 2008 |
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Converting difficult files using Mencoder |
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Text2Image |
10 Dec 2008 |
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This article describes how to convert a text file into an image. |
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Improving Apache Download Speeds |
29 Apr 2010 |
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Download speeds on Windows XP using Apache can be slow. The rate is actually limited by XP and can be improved using regedit. |
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Are Macs safe? |
25 Jan 2010 |
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This article gives an overview of the reality of computer security on a Mac. |
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Intel Modular Server and Windows 2003 Server |
1 Feb 2010 |
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The Intel Modular Server is not immediately compatible with most Windows Operating Systems. This article shows how to create a slipstreamed installation CD with the storage drivers |
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Acer 4810 Battery Life Problem |
17 Jun 2010 |
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The Acer timeline 4810 should have an 8 hour battery life when surfing the Web. However, due to driver problems with the switchable graphics, users may only be seeing 4 hours battery life. |
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Turn off Windows XP Auto-Run |
5 Dec 2010 |
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One of the most important things to switch off for better security is the windows XP auto-run feature. This article explains how to do it. |
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Skype in High Resolution |
8 Dec 2010 |
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This article describes how to get high resolution video from Skype assuming your webcam supports high res capture. |
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Excel Notes |
2 Jan 2011 |
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Notes on using Excel for computing grades |
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Hard Linking in XP |
17 Jan 2011 |
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As opposed to the soft linking from creating a shortcut in XP, you can also do a real hard link which will treat the file as if it is there. |
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Disabling ADOBE ARM |
2 Feb 2011 |
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Adobe ARM refers to their updating programs. On some computers, ARM can cause network outages. This article explains how to disable ARM |
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International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Systems |
4 Jun 2011 |
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This workshop brings together researchers in the field of interactive multimedia systems. It is meant to provide a forum for sharing new ideas and discoveries. A strong focus of this meeting is in interdisciplinary work from diverse fields such as interactive artificial intelligence, social media computing, digital art systems, human computer interaction, media retrieval, psychology, multiplayer games, and digital libraries. Contributions are in the form of novel peer reviewed papers which are published in the workshop proceedings. |
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval |
7 Jan 2012 |
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Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, is set up to illuminate the state of the arts in multimedia (text, image, video and audio) retrieval. |
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Mongoose and PHP |
5 Mar 2013 |
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This article explains how to get Mongoose working with PHP |
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Backup and Restore MySQL |
9 May 2013 |
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This article gives a quick overview of backing up and restoring a mysql database or installation |
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CFP: ACM Multimedia 2013 |
14 Mar 2013 |
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Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. |
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