Motion picture industry is characterized by extensive advertising and word-of-mouth among (potential) consumers. We develop a simple computational model of consumer behavior to study the interaction between these two forces. WOM that propagates through fixed social network is affected by the mismatch between consumer’s expectations and realized quality of the film. As a result, intensive advert...

A new method to detect and track an object having a unique movement out of general moving background comprised of a number of moving areas is reported here. After an overall picture movement is detected and normalized from local movements of an image, the moving object becomes detectable by applying a time sequential processing on the difference between frames. Thus, the detection of moving obj...

Horse eosinophil function has been studied in vitro by means of phase contrast cinemicrophotography. Locomotion of horse eosinophils was inhibited by serum factors reacting with glass surfaces. Under appropriate conditions which eliminated this inhibitory effect, eosinophils moved about and ingested some particles as rapidly as did neutrophils. Eosinophils were attracted to and readily engulfed...

Video Object (VO) extraction is of great importance in multimedia processing. In recent years approaches have been proposed to deal with VO extraction as a classification problem. This method calls for state-of-the-art classifiers because the performance is directly related to the accuracy of classification. Promising results have been reported for single object extraction using Support Vector ...

Many archived motion pictures suuer from what we term replacement noise, that is various degradations such as dirt, scratches, ngerprints etc, where the original picture is replaced by some unrelated information. In this paper we use markov random eld based motion eld segmentation to detect these areas, and then interpolate into the gaps using a motion-compensated interpolation scheme to restor...

In the present study, memory for picture boundaries was measured with scenes that simulated self-motion along the depth axis. The results indicated that boundary extension (a distortion in memory for picture boundaries) occurred with moving scenes in the same manner as that reported previously for static scenes. Furthermore, motion affected memory for the boundaries but this effect of motion wa...

2 According to the standard Aristotelian picture, in any given instance of motion or change the action and the passion are the very same entity – namely, the motion that exists within the subject and hence outside the agent. This entity can be looked at in two ways. Insofar as it emanates from the agent, it is called an action; insofar as it is received within the patient, it is called a passio...

This paper presents a method for automatic removal of local defects such as blotches and impulse noise in old motion picture films. The method is fully automatic and includes the following steps: fuzzy prefiltering, motioncompensated blotch detection, and spatiotemporal inpainting. The fuzzy prefilter removes small defective areas such as impulse noise. Modified bidirectional motion estimation ...

Scalability at the bitstream level is an important feature for encoded video that is to be transmitted and stored with a variety of target rates or to be replayed on devices with different capabilities and resolutions. This is attractive for digital cinema applications, where the same encoded source representation could seamlessly be used for purposes of archival and various distribution channe...