This demo presents a method of detecting television programs in TV streams. The objective is to automatically detect the precise start and end of broadcasted television programs. The method first detects inter-programs (commercials, trailers. . . ) as repeated sequences in the broadcast stream, and then deduces the programs boundaries. The extracted programs can then be stored in a database to ...

Sleepydog is a TV and games company. We also have a strong track record in mobile and social TV. The merging of media silos requires new TV shows to have a strong back story to capitalise on the 360 nature of today's output. Our submission is part of the back story for a detective show. As they say in Hollywood, think Bones in a Bladerunner future. It is set in a future San Francisco 10 15 year...

television viewing (tv) is associated with an in-creased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular dis-eases, and all-cause mortality (1). in particular, ex-cessive tv viewing was found to be more preva-lent among older adults aged over 55 years than among younger age groups (2). moreover, it has been emphasized the importance of identifying at-risk populations with excessive tv viewing time and ...

Collaborative filtering(CF) for the personalized recommendation is a successful and popular method in recommender systems. But the mainly researched and implemented cases focus on dealing with independent items with explicit feedback by users. For the domain of TV program recommendation in VOD service platform, we need to consider the unique characteristic and constraints of the domain. In this...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether television (TV) viewing and low leisure-time physical activity in adolescence predict the metabolic syndrome in mid-adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS TV viewing habits and participation in leisure-time physical activity at age 16 years were assessed by self-administered questionnaires in a population-based cohort in Northern Sweden. The presence of the m...

The ultimate goal of this paper is to compare speak with talk in four corpora. In the Movie Corpus (Movie (MC). 20, January 2022. Online https://english-corpora.org /movies/), was preferable films six countries (America, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland). It worth mentioning that (2,620 tokens) (18,667 most preferred types 2010s. TV (TV (TVC). /tv/), countries’ Ireland) programs....

The anticipated take-up of interactive TV (iTV) has been supported by the nature of the medium, which is considered to be a familiar and trusted one and which is available in the majority of households in modern societies. Applications and services that have been developed for other digital platforms (e.g. Internet and mobile) can be offered through television and can enhance the viewing experi...

The arrival of PVRs (Personal Video Recorders)—tape less devices that allow for easy navigation and storage of TV content—and the availability of hundreds of TV channels in US homes have made the task of finding something good to watch increasingly difficult. In order to ease this content selection overload problem, we pursued three related research themes. First, we developed a recommender eng...

This paper presents a novel recommendation system (RS) based on the user-generated content (UGC) contributed by TV viewers via Twitter, in order to demonstrate the value UGC presents for firms. In aggregate these millions of TV viewers’ tweets enable us to calculate the affinity between TV shows and explain the similarity between TV show audiences based on their demographics, geographic locatio...

This paper is about a method for visual segmentation of TV news. The TV news shows are segmented according to the visual stream from the video TV recordings in this method. Human faces are found in the single visual segments with the help of the fast algorithm for face detection. The found faces are compared with the visual GMMs, that have been trained from the video picture of the single broad...