Audiovisual material has been a valuable resource for the humanities. As Andrew Buchanan wrote in 1951, "The function of film in education is to add to man's sense of reality by adding the faculty of sight to abstract apprehension. To see the things of which we learn completes, or almost completes, our study. The eye can often teach that which no words can convey" (15). Indeed, as the availabil...

Sign language (SL), sign interpreting (SLI) and translation (SLT) have often been overlooked in both theoretical more practical approaches within Audiovisual Translation (AVT) studies. This is a contribution that aims at presenting taxonomy for the classification of SL, SLI SLT might serve to encourage develop descriptive accounts field. objective achieved through review previous literature on ...

This paper aims to detail an innovative multimedia edition system. A special functionality provides this solution with different ways of managing audiovisual sources. It has been specially designed for media centralized environments dealing with large files and groups of users that access contents simultaneously for editing and composing. Mass media headquarters or user communities can take adv...

We study the importance of a melodic audio (MA) feature set in music emotion recognition (MER) and compare its performance to an approach using only standard audio (SA) features. We also analyse the fusion of both types of features. Employing only SA features, the best attained performance was 46.3%, while using only MA features the best outcome was 59.1% (Fmeasure). A combination of SA and MA ...

In this article, the problem of detecting MP3Stego which is a typical steganographic tool for MP3 audio is analyzed. Since MP3Stego takes place in the quantization during MP3 encoding, the main data begin in side information which is an important parameter closely related to quantization is considered to extract the steganalytic feature. In order to improve the feature’s sensitivity, recompress...

Nowadays, a vast amount of information concerning all aspects of human activity is digitised with the goal of profit. One of the most prominent examples is the music industry that now markets audio data mainly in the form of MPEG Audio Layer 3 files rather than on CDs or DVDs. The MP3 audio files are distributed as digital files through various communication means and can easily be copied and r...

In audiovisual composition, coupling montage moving images with music is common practice. Interpretation of the effect on an audioviewer's consequent interpretation of the composition is discursive and unquantified. Methodology for evaluating the audiovisual multimodal interactivity is proposed, developing an analysis procedure via the study of modality interdependent transient structures, expl...

Finding audiovisual material for reuse in new programs is an important activity for news producers, documentary makers, and other media professionals. Such professionals are typically served by an audiovisual broadcast archive. We report on a study of the transaction logs of one such archive. The analysis includes an investigation of commercial orders made by the media professionals and a chara...