In 1948, outspoken émigré director Erich von Stroheim offered a now-famous account of the troubled post-production history his notorious 1924 exercise in naturalism, Greed. According to Stroheim, cadre MGM studio executives, led by Irving Thalberg, had pressured him cut gritty, sprawling masterpiece – an attempt ‘reproduce life as it actually was’ from its eight-hour, 42-reel initial assembly d...

This paper presents the reducing method of the complexity in motion estimation for video coding by using the depth information. We obtain two regions of each picture within video sequence from distance information calculated by depth camera. Background region has large distance, but object region has small distance. If a current block is the object region, then motion is searched within the obj...

Performance quantification of biometric systems, such as face tracking and recognition highly depend on the database used for testing the systems. Systems trained and tested on realistic and representative databases evidently perform better. Actually, the main reason for evaluating any system on test data is that these data sets represent problems that systems might face in the real world. Howe...

We investigated whether acoustic variation of musical properties can analogically convey descriptive information about an object. Specifically, we tested whether information from the temporal structure in music interacts with perception of a visual image to form an analog perceptual representation as a natural part of music perception. In Experiment 1, listeners heard music with an accelerating...

The stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display provides a 3D image by inducing binocular disparity for the observers who wear special glasses. With the rapid progress in flat panel display technologies, the stereoscopic 3D display is becoming a new benefit-model of the current display industry, and several kinds of commercial stereoscopic 3D products have been released and are attracting peopl...

We present a new block-based motion estimation strategy, which aims a t correctly finding the velocity of picture blocks, even for background blocks in occlusion areas. This tritemporal ME calculates the motion between two pictures, switching the ME reference plane dependent on an occlu.sion detector. \lie also introduce a retimer, which can transform, locally in the picture, motion vectors val...

pink floyd was a british band whose work began in the late 60s. roger waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. he deliberately attacks western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. the present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...

This article aims to unsettle familiar notions of the educational design studio by examining how it is different from professional studio. Both settings share similar routines, practices, and physical features; however, I argue their operations differ in critical ways. By bringing attention these differences, hope open up new perspectives on learning happens studios make a case for further mate...

Pink Floyd was a British band whose work began in the late 60s. Roger Waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. He deliberately attacks Western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. The present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...