Text in images and videos contains useful information that can help a machine to understand content. Text is very important for the automatic annotation, indexing, and parsing of images and videos [1]-[3]. For sports videos, text information is very important because it displays valuable game information, such as scores and players. Therefore, it is important to efficiently find the key texts c...

Tail-chasing is widely celebrated as normal canine behaviour in cultural references. However, all previous scientific studies of tail-chasing or 'spinning' have comprised small clinical populations of dogs with neurological, compulsive or other pathological conditions; most were ultimately euthanased. Thus, there is great disparity between scientific and public information on tail-chasing. I ga...

Video captions, also known as same-language subtitles, benefit everyone who watches videos (children, adolescents, college students, and adults). More than 100 empirical studies document that captioning a video improves comprehension of, attention to, and memory for the video. Captions are particularly beneficial for persons watching videos in their non-native language, for children and adults ...

INTRODUCTION Social media as YouTube have become a part of daily life and many studies evaluated health-related YouTube videos. Our aim was to evaluate videos available on YouTube for the conformity to textbook information and their sufficiency as a source for patient information. MATERIAL AND METHOD A search of the YouTube website was performed using the keywords "spinal anesthesia, epidural...

Bilingual infants show an extended period of looking at the mouth of talking faces, which provides them with additional articulatory cues that can be used to boost the challenging situation of learning two languages (Pons, Bosch & Lewkowicz, 2015). However, the eye region also provides fundamental cues for emotion perception and recognition, as well as communication. Here, we explored whether t...

This paper explores the influence of online political advertising in the form of digital videos posted on YouTube. We focus on the various campaigns for U.S. Senate in 2010. Using data on the content of online ads, television spots, survey data and coding of media coverage, we examine several indirect measure of YouTube‘s influence on election outcomes. Our findings indicate that online adverti...

Video must now be considered as a precious tool for learning surgery. However, the medium does present production challenges, and currently, quality movies are not always accessible. We developed a series of 7 surgical videos and made them available on a publicly accessible internet website. Our videos have been viewed by thousands of people worldwide. High-quality educational movies must respe...

Slow motion videos are frequently featured during broadcast of sports events. However, these videos do not feature any audio channel, apart from the live ambiance and comments from sports presenters. Standard audio time-scaling methods were not developed with such noisy signal in mind and they do not always permit to obtain an acceptable acoustic quality. In this work, we present a new approach...

There is no evidence comparing head-to-head the effects of monetary incentives to act and to abstain from acting on behaviour. We present an experiment, conducted between June and September 2012, that directly compares the effects of those two different monetary incentive schemes on eating behaviour: we evaluate incentives to eat against incentives not to eat. A large number of participants (n ...

Videos can be used as didactic tools for self-learning under several circumstances, including those cases in which students are responsible for the development of this resource as an audiovisual notebook. We compared students' and teachers' perceptions regarding the main features that an audiovisual notebook should include. Four questionnaires with items about information, images, text and musi...