Irfan Essa

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WatchWithMe: LLM-Based Interactive Guided Watching of Review Videos

Videos are a popular way for viewers to follow topics of interest. In areas such as product and technology reviews, videos often present in-depth perspectives in a compact fashion, driving viewers to look for additional explanations. We propose WatchWithMe, an automatic approach that provides viewers in-context guided…

CHI '23CorrespondingVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

Slide Gestalt: Automatic Structure Extraction in Slide Decks for Non-Visual Access

Presentation slides commonly use visual patterns for structural navigation, such as titles, dividers, and build slides. However, screen readers do not capture such intention, making it time-consuming and less accessible for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users to linearly consume slides with repeated content. We pr…

UIST '22CorrespondingVideo Production & Editing +1

Synthesis-Assisted Video Prototyping From a Document

Video productions commonly start with a script, especially for talking head videos that feature a speaker narrating to the camera. When the source materials come from a written document -- such as a web tutorial, it takes iterations to refine content from a text article to a spoken dialogue, while considering visual c…

UIST '21CorrespondingVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Automatic Instructional Video Creation from a Markdown-Formatted Tutorial

We introduce HowToCut, an automatic approach that converts a Markdown-formatted tutorial into an interactive video that presents the visual instructions with a synthesized voiceover for narration. HowToCut extracts instructional content from a multimedia document that describes a step-by-step procedure. Our method sel…

CHI '214th AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +1

Automatic Generation of Two Level Hierarchical Tutorials from Instructional Makeup Videos

We present a multi-modal approach for automatically generating hierarchical tutorials from instructional makeup videos. Our approach is inspired by prior research in cognitive psychology, which suggests that people mentally segment procedural tasks into event hierarchies, where coarse-grained events focus on objects w…

UIST '20CorrespondingAI-Assisted Creative Writing +1

Automatic Video Creation From a Web Page

Creating marketing videos from scratch can be challenging, especially when designing for multiple platforms with different viewing criteria. We present URL2Video, an automatic approach that converts a web page into a short video given temporal and visual constraints. URL2Video captures quality materials and design sty…

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