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Interpreting visual art with sound for a more inclusive experience
Landscape painter Keith Salmon dedicated his career to visualizing the mountains of Scotland. As his eyesight started to deteriorate, he soon realized that his art could be expressed in new ways with the help of…
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Interpreting visual art with sound for a more inclusive experience – Audio Description
Landscape painter Keith Salmon dedicated his career to visualizing the mountains of Scotland. As his eyesight started to deteriorate, he soon realized that his art could be expressed in new ways with the help of…
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Interpreting visual art with sound for a more inclusive experience
By Vanessa Ho, Microsoft News Center Staff. Follow her on Twitter. A well-known Scottish landscape painter, Keith Salmon creates ethereal, moody abstracts of skylines and mountains inspired by the rugged highlands in his country. Trained…
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The Oregon Project
The Oregon Project is an installation by Artists Keith Salmon, Daniel Thornton, Graham Byron, and Microsoft Researcher Neel Joshi. It provides alternative insight and exploration of a landscape for those with limited sight and is…
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A Contour Completion Model for Augmenting Surface Reconstructions
The availability of commodity depth sensors such as Kinect has enabled development of methods which can densely reconstruct arbitrary scenes. While the results of these methods are accurate and visually appealing, they are quite often…
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FLARE: Fast Layout for Augmented Reality Applications
Creating a layout for an augmented reality (AR) application which embeds virtual objects in a physical environment is difficult as it must adapt to any physical space. We propose a rule-based framework for generating object…
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