We describe a probabilistic method for identifying characters in TV series or movies. We aim at labeling every character appearance, and not only those where a face can be detected. Consequently, our basic unit of appearance is a person track (as opposed to a face track). We model each TV series episode as a Markov Random Field, integrating face recognition, clothing appearance, speaker recogni...

BACKGROUND Online broadcasting substantially affects the production, distribution, and profit of TV series. In addition, online word-of-mouth significantly affects the diffusion of TV series. Because on-demand streaming rates are the most important factor that influences the earnings of online video suppliers, streaming statistics and forecasting trends are valuable. In this paper, we investiga...

objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the relation between respiratory muscle strength and the severity of chf, and the influence of respiratory muscle strength on abnormal ventilation during exercise in chf patients. conclusions respiratory muscle strength is related to the severity of chf, and associated with rapid and shallow ventilation or excessive ventilation during exercise...

We study the impact of TV advertising on viewers’ online search behaviors. In particular, we develop methods to estimate how many incremental searches can be causally attributed to TV ad spots, based on Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS) models. Simulation studies show that the TV-induced incremental search volumes can be accurately estimated in most cases. Our work provides a way of compar...

An important and challenging problem in systems biology is the inference of gene regulatory networks from short non-stationary time series of transcriptional profiles. A popular approach that has been widely applied to this end is based on dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs), although traditional homogeneous DBNs fail to model the non-stationarity and time-varying nature of the gene regulatory pro...

مرت الدراما التلفزيونية بمراحل تطورية عديدة الى ان وصلت واستقرت عل شكل المسلسل التلفزيوني بالثلاثين حلقة، ومع تطور التقنيات وانتشار القنوات الفضائية بشكل كبير تغير وأصبح بجزأين ثم تصاعدت الاجزاء حتى العشرة اجزاء وتجاوزت ذلك. واصبح هذا الشكل من ظاهرة فنية، فما يعرض احدى الشاشات ويحقق نجاحا ملحوظا يذهب منتجوه انتاج جزء ثاني وهكذا، وقد ظل الدرامي بعيدا عن متناول البحث، الأمر لذي دعى الباحث انجاز ا...