Bulldozers, Bibles, and Very Sharp Knives: The Chinese Independent Documentary Scene

Detection of Documentary Scene Changes by Audio-Visual Fusion

The concept of a documentary scene was inferred from the audio-visual characteristics of certain documentary videos. It was observed that the amount of information from the visual component alone was not enough to convey a semantic context to most portions of these videos, but a joint observation of the visual component and the audio component conveyed a better semantic context. From the observ...

Weiss Knives

Depoliticization and the Chinese Intellectual Scene

The sharpening of microtome knives.

The regular production of a satisfactory edge on a microtome knife for the cutting of sections as thin as 2 u, which are free from scores and other blemishes, is a serious technical problem in histological laboratories. Eyen when a good edge is produced on a knife, its life is generally limited because contact with any hard material in the specimen may damage the delicate edge, causing it to sc...

Independent Study Computational Auditory Scene

Aim To do a literature survey of Computational Auditory Scene Analysis and look for features or techniques t hat can be used for purposes such as discriminating a particular sound (speech in this case) from all the other sounds.