The readily and easily available nature of capturing devices made enormous amounts of video available in day-to-day life. Processing of such a lengthy video is a time consuming process, therefore researchers have introduced key frames. Key frame in short can be visualized as a frame that represents the information present in entire video shot. Detecting shot boundaries plays a vital role in ext...

This paper describes progress toward developing visual intelligence algorithms (VI) that can produce humanlike text descriptions (captions) from video inputs. Video frames are assumed to be generated according to an underlying “script’ that specifies a camera model and the content and action in a scene. VI is formulated as the problem of recovering the script (or relevant portions of the script...

the ability of smartphone technology to document static microscopy images has been well documented and is gaining widespread use in ophthalmology, where slit-lamp biomicroscopy is frequently utilized. however, little has been described regarding the use of smartphone technology to relay video of tissue microscopy results to patients, particularly when a tissue sample integrates motility of orga...

the prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision with no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) developed video questionnaire for epidemiological studies with less reliance on understanding written asthma questionnaire. the aim of this research was to determine the agreement between the isaac written and vi...

this study sought to investigate the impact of teaching speech acts and role relations through authentic audio-taped and video-taped materials on the level of iranian efl learners’ pragmatic competence. to this end, 55 intermediate learners were ed and randomly assigned to two experimental groups: the audio-taped group and the video-taped group. during the treatment, the audio-taped group recei...