Unlike more celebrated Hollywood-on-Hollywood films, Walter Wanger’s neglected screwball comedy Stand-In (1937) emphasizes the centrality of labour to studio-era production. Besides climaxing with a highly unusual, if carefully negotiated spectacle industrial action by Hollywood’s rank and file workers, film departs further from other self-reflexive movies defining stardom in relation gender fo...

Abstract Our research concentrates on developing a novel HDTV content management system that enables end users to search, retrieve, and browse archived standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) television material for program production and content repurposing in a digital television studio. We have developed the first system that automatically analyzes motion occurring in MPEG-2 coded ...

In this talk, we discuss modern tools for creating 4D content and mixed-reality systems for future internet. First, we present the main features of the 4D studio at MTA SZTAKI. The studio is capable of building dynamic 3D models of humans in real-time and, in higher quality, off-line. In the real-time mode, the system can transmit a model to a mobile device which can visualise the model as mixe...

This paper introduces the concept of a “3D Virtual Studio” for human appearance capture, akin to the motion capture studio for human motion tracking. Ultimately the 3D Virtual Studio should enable video-realistic reconstruction of a moving person from any viewpoint. A mesh-based stereo technique is presented to reconstruct a moving person from multiple camera views. This technique optimises a s...

Gross and microscopic studies of the auriculoventricular conduction system were performed in 60 human hearts. A unique technic is introduced which will produce a photographic. record of undistorted serial sections through a block containing the auriculoventricular node, auriculoventricular bundle and branches. By projecting the completed film as a motion picture, the course and changing relatio...

In this paper we apply recently developed nonparametric kernel regression estimation methods to quantify the conditional distribution of motion-picture earnings. The nonparametric data-driven approach allows the full range of relationships among variables to be captured, including nonlinearities that usually remain hidden in parametric models. The nonparametric approach does not assume a functi...

convictions are strong that multimedia courseware holds great promise for enhancing learning efficiency among learners. this study thus aimed at comparing the effects of the multimedia programs introducing 100 vocabulary items through pictures and streaming video with those of teacher instruction on increasing efl learners’ vocabulary repertoire. a total of 120 subjects were identified as inter...