This paper explores the topic of sociable interfaces, demonstrated in an embedded tabletop application and a psychological friendship framework called "Dinner Party," in which a user can have a dinner party with friendly virtual creatures while dining ...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for image retrieval by using texture features. Texture features are grabbed by using the combinations of two-dimensional complex wavelet transform (CWT) and rotated complex wavelet filters (RCWF) in combination ...

In this article, we present the basic architecture of the Network Environment for Multimedia Objects (NEMO). NEMO is a smart media environment for contextualized, personalized, and device-specific interaction with multimedia objects. It provides its ...

Medical data is often large in size and there is an evident trend for it to become even larger. Such data is also being stored more frequently in distributed databases, which give users access to a much greater diversity of data than ever before. ...

This paper describes the development of Hindi-Punjabi sentence aligned parallel corpus consisting of 50K sentences using existing Hindi-Punjabi Machine Translation (MT) system (available at http://h2p.learnpunjabi.org). This parallel corpus is utmost ...