The last decade’s advancements in computer technology have facilitated a growing interest in the development of interactive sports-training equipment. This development has provided athletes and coaches with measurement and training tools, with performance analysis or skill improvement as purpose. However, most of these tools are created with a single goal, either to measure or train, and are of...

Newborns of a gestational age of 24-32 weeks are commonly very weak and have health problems. The facilities of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provide the medical equipment needed for their care and in some cases, for their survival. The acoustic environment of a typical NICU is very rich and may contain a large number of different sounds, which come either from the equipment or from the...

In industrial environments such as power plants, automated factories, sewage treatment facilities, railways, etc., digital audio and video play at least three important roles:– • On-line documentation and training. Pre-stored video in documentation databases is typically viewed interactively, both during routine operation and during emergency situations. • Monitoring and surveillance. Video cam...

In addition to traditional viewing media, metadata that record the physical space from multiple perspectives will become extremely important in realizing interactive applications such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented (AR). This paper proposes Software Defined Media (SDM) Ontology designed describe spatio-temporal media systems handle them comprehensively. Spatio-temporal refers video, audi...

Audio carriers are subject to a fast and irreversible decay. In order save valuable historical recordings, the audio signal other relevant information can be extracted from source document stored on another medium, normally redundant digital storage system. This procedure is called ’content transfer’. It costly time-consuming procedure. There several solutions with which cost reduced. One consi...

INTRODUCTION: Nowadays, government officials seek ways to monitor, control, and manage events and crises due to the concerns of the general public and social media as informative tools. Regarding this, the present study aims to identify and analyze the factors affecting the crisis incidence in Iranian stadiums. METHODS: The present interpretive qualitative research was performed based on a gro...

The rapid development of speech synthesis technology has significantly improved the naturalness and human-likeness synthetic speech. As technical barriers for are rapidly lowering, number illegal activities such as fraud extortion is increasing, posing a significant threat to authentication systems, automatic speaker verification. This paper proposes an end-to-end detection model based on audio...

Vocabulary is an important component of language proficiency which provides the basis for learners’ performance in other skills. But, since vocabulary learning seems to be so demanding, learners tend to forget newly-learnt words quite soon. In order to identify vocabulary learning conditions which can produce a more lasting effect, this study investigated the effect of three kinds of gloss cond...