Title of dissertation: FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS WITH APPLICATION TO VIEWERSHIP OF MOTION PICTURES Yue Tian, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Paul J. Smith Department of Mathematics University of Maryland, College Park Anderson Professor Wolfgang S. Jank Information Systems Decision Sciences Department College Of Business, University of South Florida ...

P roducers of motion pictures, tele­ vision programs and even neon signs have long banked on the fact that human beings have a quirk in their visual system. When it is con­ fronted with a rapid series of still im­ ages, the mind can "fill in" the gaps between "frames" and imagine that it sees an object in continuous motion. For instance, a series of neon arrows lighted up in succession are perc...

In Japan, most of children haven’t read children’s story (Fairy tales or tales of old Japan) because the high technology video games are more exciting than most of picture books. But they must be effective to bring up the children’s cultivation of aesthetic sensitivity. And we have heard from teachers of elementary schools that most of themes of computer education in school are the operation of...

This paper describes a new large-scale motion capture based game that is called Squidball. It was tested on up to 4000 player audiences last summer at SIGGRAPH 2004. It required to build the world’s largest motion capture space, the largest motion capture markers (balls), and many other challenges in technology, production, game play, and social studies. Our aim was to entertain the SIGGRAPH El...

he growing popularity of online product review forums invites the development of models and metrics that allow firms to harness these new sources of information for decision support. Our work contributes in this direction by proposing a novel family of diffusion models that capture some of the unique aspects of the entertainment industry and testing their performance in the context of very earl...

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation among touchless, vision-based hand tracking interfaces (Kinect and Leap Motion) and the feasibility of their adoption into the surgical theater compared to traditional interfaces.

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...