Mobile Cloud Visual Media Computing: From Interaction to Service

This book explores the internet and mobile ecosystems which are powered by cloud computing – an essential, if not indispensable, part of our everyday lives. Billions of users world-wide use this technology for information sharing, communication and social networking and a high proportion of activity is driven by massive media content such as images, videos and other emerging 3D visual media. However, managing, searching and visualizing this gigantic amount of data to facilitate communication is difficult which has led to an influx of innovation and research in these areas.

The research is from academics from all around the world, focusing on the intersection of mobile, cloud, visual and multimedia computing and is split into five clear parts. Topics covered in the book include mobile augmented reality, computational photography, mobile visual recognition and search, and human-computer interaction (HCI). The findings discussed is meant to spur on further creative development in both academia and industry within this area.

Mobile Cloud Visual Media Computing would of great interest to researchers and academics wishing to see how the state-of-the-art in media computing research is applied to innovative applications, whilst engineers and software designers from industry will gain an insight into the key set of technologies which support mobile and cloud media computing.

Table of Contents

Part I Mobile Augmented Reality
Chapter 1 Computer Vision for Mobile Augmented Reality

Part II Mobile Computational Photography
Chapter 2 High-Quality Video Denoising for Motion-Based Exposure Control
Chapter 3 Panoramic Video Construction from Mobile Video Streams
Chapter 4 Intentional Photos from an Unintentional Photographer: Detecting Snap Points in Egocentric Video with a Web Photo Prior
Chapter 5 Photo Composition Feedback and Enhancement

Part III Mobile Visual Search and Recognition
Chapter 6 FaceSimile: A Mobile Application for Face Image Search Based on Interactive Shape Manipulation
Chapter 7 Exploiting On-Device Image Classification for Energy Efficiency in Ambient-Aware Systems
Chapter 8 Compact Deep Neural Networks for Device-Based Image Classification
Chapter 9 Assistive Text Reading from Natural Scene for Blind Persons
Chapter 10 Mobile Image Search: Challenges and Methods

Part IV Cloud Visual Computing and Mobile Applications
Chapter 11 CloudCV: Large-Scale Distributed Computer Vision as a Cloud Service
Chapter 12 Cloud-Based Mobile Experience Sharing Through Automatic Multimedia Blogging
Chapter 13 Automatic Visual Pattern Discovery via Cohesive Subgraph Mining

Part V Mobile Multiple Sensor Fusion
Chapter 14 Absolute Scale Estimation of 3D Monocular Vision on Smart Devices