There is a great need for more TV programs to be closed-captioned to help hearing impaired and elderly people watch TV. For that purpose, automatic speech recognition is expected to contribute to providing text from speech in real-time. NHK has been using speech recognition for closed-captioning of some of its news, sports and other live TV programs. In news programs, automatic speech recogniti...

Today recommendations are used to improve the quality and the number of interactive TV services offered by providers all over the world. Their main goal is to recommend TV shows and TV events, sometimes combined with an automatic recording function. With the growing number of IPTV offers, the usage of recommendation systems will increase and help to personalize and individualize the TV viewing ...

In this paper, we present our P2P-TV measurement experiment performed in France and in Japan. By using multiple measurement points in different locations of the world, we are able to get a global view of the measured P2P networks and we can infer their main properties. More precisely, we focus on the location of peers and the effect of the P2P-TV traffic on the networks. Our results shows that ...

In this paper, we present TV Scout, a recommendation system providing users with personalized TV schedules. The TV Scout architecture addresses the “cold-start” problem of information filtering systems, i.e. that filtering systems have to gather information about the user’s interests before they can compute personalized recommendations. Traditionally, gathering this information involves upfront...

Brillouin scattering studies have been carried out on high quality single crystals of Fe3O4 with [100] and [110] faces in the temperature range of 300 to 30 K. The room temperature spectrum shows a surface Rayleigh wave (SRW) mode at 8 GHz and a longitudinal acoustic (LA) mode at 60 GHz. The SRW mode frequency shows a minimum at the Verwey transition temperature TV of 123 K. The softening of th...

What do I need to know about children and TV? Television (TV) has its good side. It can be entertaining and educational, and can open up new worlds for kids, giving them a chance to travel the globe, learn about different cultures, and gain exposure to ideas they may never encounter in their own community. Shows with a prosocial message can have a positive effect on kids' behavior; programs wit...

The objective of this work is to determine if people are interacting in TV video by detecting whether they are looking at each other or not. We determine both the temporal period of the interaction and also spatially localize the relevant people. We make the following three contributions: (i) head pose estimation in unconstrained scenarios (TV video) using Gaussian Process regression; (ii) prop...