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• 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 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 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 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.

last updated 11/23/2009 - jc