Line scratches are common degradations in motion picture films. This paper presents an efficient method for line scratches detection strengthened by a Kalman filter. A new interpolation technique, dealing with both low and high frequencies (i.e. film grain) around the line artifacts, is investigated to achieve a nearby invisible reconstruction of damaged areas. Our line scratches detection and ...

T h i s paper dawribcs a new face identification algorithm with two stages. This fitst stage monitors a sequence of face images to select a desired frame for identification and Face identification is performed in the second stage. The face identification algorithm is hased on the geometric parameters of size and distance of the facia[ feature ohjwts (the eyes, the nose. the mouth. etc) The fram...

Recent papers have shown that, in contrast to ―the Long Tail‖ theory, movie sales remain concentrated in a small number of hits. These papers have argued that concentrated sales can be explained, in part, by heterogeneity in quality and increasing returns from social effects. Our research analyzes an additional explanation: how incomplete information may skew sales patterns. We use the movie br...

In April 2007, FUJIFILM introduced ETERNA-RDI for digital intermediate. It is the first film stock in the world, designed specially for use in the digital intermediate workflow. ETERNA-RDI offers a significant improvement over conventional non-specific intermediate film stock, producing fine detail and accurate color from digital image data. New silver halide grain technology prevents spectral ...

Segmentation of images into foreground (an actor) and background is required for many motion picture special effects. To produce these shots, the unwanted background must be removed so that none of it appears in the final composite shot. The standard approach requires the background to be a blue screen. Systems that are capable of segmenting actors from more natural backgrounds have been propos...

In this paper we introduce our visual explorer “Blockbuster” as a contribution to the InfoVis Contest 2007. The system’s development followed a user-centered design process and a design rationale considering not only the pragmatic qualities of the system, but also hedonic qualities like aesthetics or “joy-of-use”. Apart from briefly outlining the employed visualization techniques, we will focus...

Motion picture Special effects often require the segmentation of image sequences into foreground and background. The background and foreground may then be processed separately and and recombined, perhaps with additional elements in the scene. Alpha Estimation Systems can perform this segmentation where the background is natural (rather than an artificial background such as a blue screen) but th...

In this paper, we propose a semi-blind video watermarking scheme, where we use pseudo-random robust semiglobal features of video in the spatially wavelet transform domain. We design the watermark sequence via solving an optimization problem, such that the features of the mark-embedded video are the quantized versions of the features of the original video. We use a novel approach in generating t...

In this paper we apply stochastic methods (Gibbs sampling and simulated annealing) and deterministic (mean eld) approximations to the problem of detecting and interpolating`dirt and sparkle' or`blotches' in archived motion pictures.

This study examines how consumers’ interest in a new movie develops around paid and earned media in pre-launch periods, how this interest impacts opening-week revenue, and how postlaunch revenue of a movie is influenced by advertising and various earned media. The prelaunch, opening-week and post-launch worlds are structurally different and we therefore develop three separate models, two multip...