We present a simple method to resolve discrete intensity shifts from time-resolved single-molecule emission data. This new method uses multiples of the standard deviation of the measured intensities that are integrated into short time bins. By applying the technique to trimeric units of the main light-harvesting complex (LHCII) of plants, it is shown that the amount of information that can be e...

Recently, mining information in sports video data, especially soccer video, has become an active research topic. In this paper, a new algorithm for detection of expected goal events in soccer video is proposed. The proposed algorithm is composed of two main steps. Firstly, video is segmented into its constituent shots and these shots are categorized into two groups, namely long shots and non-lo...

This article proposes a model for stock prices which incorporates shot-noise effects. This means, that sudden jumps in the stock price are allowed, but their effect may decline as time passes by. Our model is general enough to capture arbitrary effects of this type. Generalizing previous approaches to shot-noise we in particular allow the decay to be stochastic. This model describes an incomple...

A number of automated shot-change detection methods for indexing a video sequence to facilitate browsing and retrieval have been proposed in recent years. Many of these methods use color histograms or features computed from block motion or compression parameters to compute frame differences. It is important to evaluate and characterize their performance so as to deliver a single set of algorith...

Video summarization is a process where a long video file is converted to a considerably shorter form. The video summary can then be used to facilitate efficient searching and browsing of video files in large video collections. The aim of successful automatic summarization is to preserve as much as possible from the essential content of each video. What is essential is subjective and dependent o...

With the prevalence of video sharing, there are increasing demands for automatic video digestion such as highlight detection. Recently, platforms with crowdsourced time-sync video comments have emerged worldwide, providing a good opportunity for highlight detection. However, this task is non-trivial: (1) time-sync comments often lag behind their corresponding shot; (2) time-sync comments are se...

The Ellsberg paradox demonstrates that people’s belief over uncertain events might not be representable by subjective probability. We relate this paradox to other commonly observed anomalies, such as a rejection of the backward induction prediction in the one-shot Ultimatum Game. We argue that the pattern common to these observations is that the behavior is governed by “rational rules”. These r...

We present a method for generating femtosecond duration x-ray pulses using a single-pass free-electron laser (FEL). This method uses an energy-chirped electron beam to produce a frequency-chirped x-ray pulse through selfamplified spontaneous emission (SASE). After the undulator we consider passing the radiation through a monochromator. The frequency is correlated to the longitudinal position wi...

The large volume of video content generated each day has led to the need for efficient and effective methods of video indexing and retrieval. A common first step in indexing video content is to identify visually and semantically continuous segments or shots. In this paper, we present the moving query window approach to video shot boundary detection. This uses the techniques of queryby-example (...

Capacity of a quantum channel characterizes the limits of reliable communication through a noisy quantum channel. This fundamental information theoretic question is very well studied specially in the setting of many independent uses of the channel. An important scenario, both from practical and conceptual point of view, is when the channel can be used only once. This is known as the one-shot ch...