We consider the distribution planning problem in the motion picture industry. This problem involves forecasting theater-level box office revenues for a given movie and using these forecasts to choose the best locations to screen a movie. We first develop a method that predicts theater-level box office revenues for a given movie as a function of movie attributes and theater characteristics. Thes...

A motion picture can be modeled as a composition of many scenes where each scene is comprised of multiple shots. Thus, a conventional movie is a sequential aggregation of a large number of disparate image sequences. Within each image sequence or shot, there is consistency in image content and dynamics. This consistency in dynamics can be used in identifying scene changes for video segment decom...

We have developed a semi automatic film restoration system, DIMORF (DIgital MOtion Picture Restoration System for Film Archives), working with a minimum effort of parameter settings and training, with adaptive learning abilities, at relatively high speed. The system is being applied for the restoration of old films, characterized by strong color distortions, scratches, dirt, vibration, and flic...

© 2013 ETRI Journal, Volume 35, Number 6, December 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.13.2013.0040 This paper describes the scalable extension of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) to provide flexible highquality digital video content services. The proposed scalable codec is designed on multi-loop decoding architecture to support inter-layer sample prediction and inter-layer motion parameter...

In this paper, we propose a rate-optimized motion estimation based on a “true” motion tracker. We observe that piecewise continuous motion field reduces the bit rate for differentially encoded motion vectors. Hence, a neighborhood relaxation method is proposed. In addition, in current MPEG-4 video VM, each video-object-plane (VOP) is individually coded by a block-based approach. The bit rate ca...

We report the first ab initio density-functional study of <111> screw dislocation cores in the bcc transition metals Mo and Ta. Our results suggest a new picture of bcc plasticity with symmetric and compact dislocation cores, contrary to the presently accepted picture based on continuum and interatomic potentials. Core energy scales in this new picture are in much better agreement with the Peie...

Displaying broadcast video on a MultiMedia PC, implies the use of video format conversion (VFC) techniques, as computer displays and television receivers use quite distinct scanning rasters. VFC consists of spatial scaling, deinterlacing and picture rate conversion. Although scaling is rather straightforward, the other two tasks are far from trivial, and advanced motion compensated interpolatio...

Synchronous video has long been the preferred mode for controlling remote robots with other modes such as asynchronous control only used when unavoidable as in the case of interplanetary robotics. We identify two basic problems for controlling multiple robots using synchronous displays: operator overload and information fusion. Synchronous displays from multiple robots can easily overwhelm an o...

In this paper, a new approach for MC-DCT (motion compensated – Discrete Cosine Transform) hybrid video coding based on true motion estimation is proposed. The true motion estimation technique employs the leastmedian-squares (LMedS) matching criterion in block matching process for motion estimation. The rationale for using such true motion estimator is that at low bit-rates, very few bits are av...

This paper presents a new scheme for interpolation of missing data in image sequences, an important problem in many areas including archived motion picture lm and digital video. A uniied framework for image data modelling and motion estimation is adopted which is based on 3-dimensional autoregressive (3DAR) models with motion correction. A fully Bayesian methodology is implemented using the Gib...