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Assisted news reading with automated illustration

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Diogo Delgado,

Joao Magalhaes,

Nuno CorreiaAuthors Info & Claims

MM '10: Proceedings of the 18th ACM international conference on Multimedia

Pages 1647 - 1650

https://doi.org/10.1145/1873951.1874311

Published: 25 October 2010 Publication History

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We all had the problem of forgetting about what we just read a few sentences before. This comes from the problem of attention and is more common with children and elderly. People feel either bored or distracted by something more interesting. This paper proposes an application to help people reading news by illustrating the news story. The application provides mechanisms to (1) select the best illustration for each scene and (2) to select the set of illustrations to improve the story sequence. The application proposed in this technical demo aims at improving the user's attention when reading news articles. The application implements several information processing techniques to generate an audio-visual presentation of the text news article.

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1. Human-centered computing
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2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems

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MM '10: Proceedings of the 18th ACM international conference on Multimedia

October 2010

1836 pages

ISBN:9781605589336

DOI:10.1145/1873951

General Chairs:
Alberto del Bimbo
University of Florence, Italy
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Shih-Fu Chang
Columbia University, USA
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Arnold Smeulders
University of Amsterdam, NL

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