“Social TV” is a term that broadly describes the online social interactions that occur between viewers while watching television. Television shows are now instigating online social interactions between viewers by requesting viewers, as part of the first broadcasts, to engage in simultaneous discussions about the shows. Examples include explicitly asking users to follow and comment on topics on ...

We prove a closed-form solution to second-order Tensor Voting (TV), and employ the resulting structure-aware tensors in ExpectationMaximization (EM). Our new algorithm, aptly called EM-TV, is an efficient and robust method for parameter estimation. Quantitative comparison shows that our method performs better than the conventional second-order TV and other representative techniques in parameter...

Gender stereotypes negatively affect people’s views and opinions on gender and, thus, bolster inequalities. Recently, the children’s TV industry has been reinforcing throughout its shows, which can be highly detrimental to a child’s upbringing. In addition, countries of different socioeconomic levels vary in progress equality. This discrepancy creates barrier identifying where exactly change ne...

TV shows depict a wide variety of human behaviors and have been studied extensively for their potential to be rich source data many applications. However, the majority existing work focuses on 2D recognition tasks. In this paper, we make observation that there is certain persistence in shows, i.e., repetition environments humans, which makes possible 3D reconstruction content. Building insight,...

The presence of social networks and computing device in form of secondary screens used in conjunction with television plays a significant role in the shift from traditional television to social television (sTV). In this research, we explore the overall secondary screen usage in terms of four conversation patterns each over different cultural social soundtrack related to different TV shows. We p...