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• PDF J. Tran, J. Kim, J. Chon, E. Riskin, R. Ladner, and J. Wobbrock," Evaluating Quality and Comprehension of Real-Time Sign Language Video on Mobile Phones," Proceedings of ASSETS 2011: The 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Dundee, Scotland, UK, October 24-26, 2011. New York: ACM Press, pp. 115-122.
  

• PDF Kim, J., Tran, J.J., Johnson, T.W., Ladner, R., Riskin, E. and Wobbrock, J.O. (2011). Effect of
  MobileASL on communication among deaf users. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on
  Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). New York: ACM Press.
  

• PDF J. Chon, S. Whittle, E. Riskin, and R. Ladner," Improving Compressed Video Sign Language Conversations in the Presence of Data Loss," Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, UT, March 2011 (to appear).
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello and S. Hemami, "Quality versus Intelligibility: Studying Human Preferences for American Sign Language Video," Proc. SPIE Vol. 7865, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2011 (HVEI), San Francisco, CA, January 2011.
  

• PDF J. Tran, T. Johnson, J. Kim, R. Rodriguez, S. Yin, E. Riskin, R. Ladner, and J. Wobbrock," A Web-Based User Survey for Evaluating Power Saving Strategies for Deaf Users of MobileASL," Proceedings of ASSETS 2010: The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Orlando, FL, October 25-27, 2010.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello and S. Hemami, “The Influence of Space and Time Varying Distortions On Objective Intelligibility Estimators For Region-of-Interest Video,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, September 2010.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello, J. Ko, and S. Hemami, “Quality versus Intelligibility: Evaluating the Coding Trade-offs for American Sign Language Video,” IEEE Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2010.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello, R. Vanam, J. Chon, S. Hemami, E. Riskin, and R. Ladner," Rate-distortion-complexity optimization of an H.264/AVC encoder for real-time videoconferencing on a mobile device," 5th International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM 2010), Scottsdale, AZ, January 2010.
  

• PDF J. Chon, N. Cherniavsky, E. Riskin, and R. Ladner, "Enabling Access Through Real-Time Sign Language Communication Over Cell Phones," 43rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2009. (Invited)
  

• PDF N. Cherniavsky, J. Chon, J. Wobbrock, R. Ladner, and E. Riskin, "Activity Analysis Enabling Real-Time Video Communication on Mobile Phones for Deaf Users," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09), Victoria, British Columbia, October 2009.
  

• PDF R. Vanam, F. Ciaramello, E. Riskin, S. Hemami and R. Ladner, "Joint Rate-Intelligibility-Complexity Optimization of an H.264 Video Encoder for American Sign Language," Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIP), Rochester, NY, September 2009. Awarded Best Student Paper.
  

• PDF R. Vanam, E. Riskin, R. Ladner, "H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder parameter selection algorithms for complexity distortion tradeoff," Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 2009.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello and S. Hemami, "Quantifying the Effect of Disruptions to Temporal Coherence on the Intelligibility of Compressed American Sign Language Video," Proc. SPIE Vol. 7240, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 2009 (HVEI), San Jose, CA, January 2009.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello and S. Hemami, "Real-Time Face and Hand Detection for Videoconferencing on a Mobile Device," Fourth International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM), Scottsdale, AZ, January 2009.
  

• PDF N. Cherniavsky, R. Ladner, E. Riskin, "Activity Detection in Conversational Sign Language Video for Mobile Telecommunication," Proceedings of Eighth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2008.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello, S. Hemami, "Complexity constrained rate-distortion optimization of sign language video using an objective intelligibility metric," Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6822, Visual Communication and Image Processing 2008, San Jose, CA, January 2008.
  

• PDF N. Cherniavsky, A. Cavender, E. Riskin, R. Ladner, "Variable Frame Rate for Low Power Mobile Sign Language Communication," Proceedings of ASSETS 2007: The Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe, AZ, October 2007, 163-170.
  

• PDF F. Ciaramello and S. Hemami, “Complexity Constrained Rate-distortion Optimization of Sign Language Video Using an Objective Intelligibility Metric,” Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIP), Rochester, NY, October 2007. Awarded Best Student Paper.

• PDF R. Vanam, E. Riskin, S. Hemami, R. Ladner, "Distortion-Complexity Optimization of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Encoder using the GBFOS Algorithm," Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 2007.

• PDF F. Ciaramello, S. Hemami, "Can You See Me Now?' An Objective Metric for Predicting Intelligibility of Compressed American Sign Language Video," Proc. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 200, San Jose, CA, January 2007.

• PDF F. Ciaramello, S. Hemami, “Can You See Me Now?’ An Objective Metric for Predicting Intelligibility of Compressed American Sign Language Video,” Third International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM), Scottsdale, AZ, January 2007.

• PDF A. Cavender, R. Vanam, D. Barney, R. Ladner, E. Riskin, "MobileASL: Intelligibility of sign language video over mobile phones," Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. London: Taylor and Francis. June 2007 1-13.

• PDF A. Cavender, R. Ladner, E. Riskin, "MobileASL: Intelligibility of Sign Language Video as Constrained by Mobile Phone Technology", Proceedings of ASSETS 2006: The Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Portland, OR, October 23-25, 71-78. Winner of Best Student Technical Paper Award.

• PDF F. Ciaramello, A. Cavender, S. Hemami, E. Riskin, R. Ladner, "Predicting Intelligibility of Compressed American Sign Language Video With Objective Quality Metrics," 2006 International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics , Scottsdale, AZ, January 2006.

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