Abstract Story segmentation is an important problem in multimedia indexing and retrieval and includes detection of commercials as one of its component problems. Commercials appear regularly in television data and are usually treated as noise. Hence, filtering of commercials is an important task. This paper presents a system that detects and filters commercials from broadcast news data. While pr...

ÐOperating systems form a foundation for robust application software, making it important to understand how effective they are at handling exceptional conditions. The Ballista testing system was used to characterize the handling of exceptional input parameter values for up to 233 POSIX functions and system calls on each of 15 widely used operating system (OS) implementations. This identified wa...