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cs.CV2020

Learning to Transfer Visual Effects from Videos to Images

Christopher Thomas, Yale Song, Adriana Kovashka

We study the problem of animating images by transferring spatio-temporal visual effects (such as melting) from a collection of videos. We tackle two primary challenges in visual ef…

cs.CV2020

Preserving Semantic Neighborhoods for Robust Cross-modal Retrieval

Christopher Thomas, Adriana Kovashka

The abundance of multimodal data (e.g. social media posts) has inspired interest in cross-modal retrieval methods. Popular approaches rely on a variety of metric learning losses, w…

cs.CV2018

Artistic Object Recognition by Unsupervised Style Adaptation

Christopher Thomas, Adriana Kovashka

Computer vision systems currently lack the ability to reliably recognize artistically rendered objects, especially when such data is limited. In this paper, we propose a method for…

cs.CV2018

Persuasive Faces: Generating Faces in Advertisements

Christopher Thomas, Adriana Kovashka

In this paper, we examine the visual variability of objects across different ad categories, i.e. what causes an advertisement to be visually persuasive. We focus on modeling and ge…

cs.CV2017

Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements

Zaeem Hussain, Mingda Zhang, Xiaozhong Zhang +5

There is more to images than their objective physical content: for example, advertisements are created to persuade a viewer to take a certain action. We propose the novel problem o…

cs.CV2016

OpenSalicon: An Open Source Implementation of the Salicon Saliency Model

Christopher Thomas

In this technical report, we present our publicly downloadable implementation of the SALICON saliency model. At the time of this writing, SALICON is one of the top performing salie…