We present a system that accepts as input a continuous stream of TV broadcast images from sports events. The system automatically detects a predetermined billboard in the scene, and replaces it with a user defined pattern, with no cooperation from the billboards or camera operators. The replacement is performed seamlessly so that a viewer should not be able to detect the substitution. This allo...

Relations among dimensions of parenting and adolescents' occupational aspirations were examined in two specific domains: academics and sports. The sample consisted of 444 seventh graders, with approximately equal numbers of African American and European American males and females, from two-parent nondivorced families. Multiple measures were used as indicators of parents' values and behaviors, y...

Human vision uses saccadic eye movements to rapidly shift the sensitive foveal portion of our retina to objects of interest. For vision to function properly amidst these ballistic eye movements, a mechanism is needed to extract discrete percepts on each fixation from the continuous stream of neural activity that spans fixations. The speed of visual parsing is crucial because human behaviors ran...

What do we find in common among systems that seek to convey meaningful images to an oil reservoir interpreter, a medical doctor and an ordinary sports fan enjoying a broadcasted game on TV? They are generated by a system that processes captured signals and produces images conveying relevant information to the viewer. These processes are based on Computer Vision techniques to analyze the signal ...

Game species like the red deer have been subjected to anthropogenic impacts for centuries. Translocations are often carried out-sometimes illegally-not only for sporting purposes, but also to increase trophy quality, reduce inbreeding, or mitigate bottlenecks after excessive persecution. Apart from the blurring of large-scale genetic structure, translocations without adequate quarantine measure...

Computational details Calculations to compute the pseudogap (PG) from Equation 1 were performed by averaging 100 ensembles of 2,500 x 2,500 lattices. Four-site plaquettes were randomly doped up to x = 0.187, then three-site plaquettes up to x = 0.226, followed by two-site plaquettes to x = 0.271, and finally one-site plaquettes were doped until no d spins remained at x = 0.317. The details of t...

Anyonewho has experienced artifacts or freezing play while watching a film or a live sporting event on TV is familiar with the frustration accompanying sudden quality degradation at a key moment. Notwithstanding, video services with blurred images may have far more severe consequences for video surveillance practitioners. Therefore, the Quality of Experience (QoE) concept for video content used...

BACKGROUND A largely unaddressed issue in lower income countries and the Philippines, in particular, is the role of alcohol marketing and its potential link to early alcohol use among youth. This study examines the associations between exposures to alcohol marketing and Filipino youths' drinking prevalence and drunkenness. METHODS Cross-sectional analyses were used to examine the Global Schoo...

H UMAN Body Pose Estimation (HBPE) is the process of identifying how a human body and/or its individual limbs are configured in a given scene [9]. The importance of such task has been identified by the computer vision community which has dedicated a large amount of effort towards finding an effective solution. A wide variety of techniques have been proposed in an attempt of finding the one whic...

Although visual perception is dominant on motor perception, control and learning, auditory information can enhance and modulate perceptual as well as motor processes in a multifaceted manner. During last decades new methods of auditory augmentation had been developed with movement sonification as one of the most recent approaches expanding auditory movement information also to usually mute phas...