The prose storyboard language is a formal language for describing movies shot by shot, where each shot is described with a unique sentence. The language uses a simple syntax and limited vocabulary borrowed from working practices in traditional movie-making, and is intended to be readable both by machines and humans. The language is designed to serve as a high-level user interface for intelligen...

Detection of shot boundaries in a video has been an active for quite a long time, t ill the TRECVID community almost declared it as a solved problem. A problem is assumed to be solved when there is no significant improvement being achieved from that of the state-of-the art methodologies. However, certain aspects can still be researched and improved. For instance, finding appropriate parameters ...

This paper describes the contribution of the TZI to the shot detection task of the TREC 2003 video analysis track (TRECVID). The approach comprises a feature extraction step and a shot detection step. In the feature extraction, three features are extracted: a frequency-domain approach based on FFT-features, a spatial-domain approach based on changes in the image luminance values, and another sp...

We propose a fast coarse-to-fine video retrieval scheme using shot-level spatio-temporal statistics. The proposed scheme consists of a two-step coarse search and a fine search. At the coarse-search stage, the shot-level motion and color distributions are computed as the spatio-temporal features for shot matching. The first-pass coarse search uses the shotlevel global statistics to cut down the ...

Shot peening beneficial effects on fatigue life of mechanical components are well known. However, there are some reports in the literature that indicate inappropriate shot peening parameters tend to reduce the fatigue life. It is therefore, the purpose of this study to find a logical quantitative justification for these observations. Using finite element method, a dynamic elastic-plastic simula...

The computational cost of conventional shot-record imaging is large for today’s wideazimuth seismic surveys. One strategy to reduce the overall cost of seismic imaging is to migrate with multiple shot-gathers at once, a technique which is known as blended source imaging. Blended source imaging trades the reduced cost of imaging with the presence of artifacts (cross-talk) in the image. A special...