With the aim of audiovisual database consulting, the prospect of an interactive visual organization tool should be enviable. We consider a document as a visual entity in a computer screen. Thanks to an appropriate simplified GUI, a user can organize a few documents. Its notion of audiovisual similarity is relative to the Euclidean distance between entities: the more they are close, the more the...

This paper describes the COALA (Content-Oriented Audiovisual Library Access) project, which aims to offer a framework for the retrieval of audiovisual TV news documents. COALA’s principal design features are based on the analysis of a classical archive system: TSR (Television Suisse Romande) archive. It provides a retrieval interface allowing simple/advanced search capabilities combined with hi...

CAH, a chronic condition with essentially life threatening aspects, is a frightening concept for families to come to terms with, even more so in the isolation of country areas. Having adequate knowledge and understanding is important in maintaining a sense of normality for these families and is an essential component to management both medically and within the family. The ultimate goal of this ...

The open, independent, and international standards organization Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has chartered a working group. It is named "Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission" (CELLAR) and aims to develop specifications for a lossless audiovisual file format for use in archival environments and transmission. It consists of the combination of the audiovisual c...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of tuberculosis awareness program amongst school students. METHODS This school-based interventional study was done on 135 secondary school students. They were randomly selected in field practice area of Urban Health Training Center (UHTC) of a private medical college in Pune city. Health awareness session on tuberculosis was conducted by...

We studied the representations underlying audiovisual integration using a priming paradigm. Audiovisual primes, preceding auditory targets, were either incongruent (auditory /ba/ & visual /va/) or congruent (auditory /va/ & visual /va/, auditory /ba/ & visual /ba/). The targets were /ba/ or /va/. The intensity of the prime ́s auditory component was either 50 dB or 60 dB. Identification speed of ...

This paper describes the work done in the PrestoSpace project dealing with audiovisual and semantic content analysis, content description and retrieval in a broadcast archive environment. We present the metadata model that is used in the PrestoSpace system and discuss its design. A key issue is the integration of audiovisual content description and semantic metadata in the model as well as the ...

The AEVE provides for a brain-computer-interface (BCI) controlled audiovisual experience, presented through a virtual reality head-mounted display (VRHMD). We have developed an audiovisual art piece where progression through 3 sections and 1 extra section occurs using an “Attention” value derived from the Electroencephalography (EEG) data. The only interaction in this work is perspective that i...

This paper presents methods for real-time automated media segmentation, interactive audiovisual analysis, and media search in composition and performance tasks. In addition, we detail a use case where these tools have been deployed successfully as part of high profile public, national broadcast events, installations and exhibitions. These tools utilise a combination of data-mining and informati...

Audiovisual quality assessment is a relatively unexplored topic. We designed subjective experiments for audio , video, and audiovisual quality using content and encoding parameters representative of video for mobile applications. Our focus were the MPEG-4 AVC (a.k.a. H.264) and AAC coding standards. Our goals in this study are twofold: we want to understand the interactions between audio and vi...