A substantial proportion of American adults hold fatalistic beliefs about cancer prevention despite evidence that a large proportion of cancer deaths are preventable. Several scholars suggest that news media coverage is one source of these beliefs, but scant evidence has been brought to bear on this assertion. We report findings from two studies that assess the plausibility of the claim that lo...

In this paper, we present our work for automatic generation of textual metadata based on visual content analysis of video news. We present two methods for semantic object detection and recognition from a cross modal image-text thesaurus. These thesaurus represent a supervised association between models and semantic labels. This paper is concerned with two semantic objects: faces and Tv logos. I...

This paper describes MyInfo, a novel interface for a personal news demonstrator that processes and combines content from TV and the web. We detail our design process from concept generation to focus group exploration to final design. Our design focuses on three issues: (i) ease-of-use, (ii) video summarization, and (iii) news personalization. With a single button press on the remote control, us...

Fast networks enable the delivery of TV and newspaper content over an Internet connection. This enables new types of integrated publications that include features from both media. The IMU system, described in this paper, automatically integrates newspaper and TV content into a continuously updated World Wide Web-multimedia publication. An active proxy server pursues the integration and delivers...

The relationship between broadcast TV stations’ ownership characteristics and the quantity of news and public affairs programming they provided is examined, based on the scheduled programming of almost all full power broadcast TV stations for two weeks a year for the four-year period 2002 to 2005. Using a three-way group fixed effects model to control for unobserved market-specific, broadcast n...

This paper presents the results from three lab-based studies that investigated different ways of delivering Mobile TV News by measuring user responses to different encoding bitrates, image resolutions and text quality. All studies were carried out with participants watching News content on mobile devices, with a total of 216 participants rating the acceptability of the viewing experience. Study...

Many scenes in recent TV programs display rich text information on the screen as Television Opaque Projectors or telops. Such telops are useful for obtaining information about the scene, or in searching for scenes using keywords. However, the quality of recognized results for telops, especially in Japanese or Chinese, is still poor even using the latest image recognition techniques. In this pap...

This paper is about a method for visual segmentation of TV news. The TV news shows are segmented according to the visual stream from the video TV recordings in this method. Human faces are found in the single visual segments with the help of the fast algorithm for face detection. The found faces are compared with the visual GMMs, that have been trained from the video picture of the single broad...

The TV news programme is the backbone of all television networks, be they national, regional or local. These types of programmes have been changing over the time. The essence of the information is being modified and has adopted a new format. Based on these principles, this research analyses the evolution of the language used on the Spanish TV news programmes, from their origins until today. Thi...