People with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have difficulty comprehending social situations in the complex, dynamic contexts encountered in the real world. To study the social brain under conditions which approximate naturalistic situations, we measured brain activity with fMRI while participants watched a full-length episode of the sitcom The Office. Having quantified the degree of socia...

While much has been learned regarding the neural substrates supporting episodic encoding using highly controlled experimental protocols, relatively little is known regarding the neural bases of episodic encoding of real-world events. In an effort to examine this issue, we measured fMRI activity while observers viewed a novel TV sitcom. Three weeks later, subsequent memory (SM) for the narrative...

Segmentation, Index and Summarization of Digital Video Content Di Zhong In this thesis, we propose and develop unique frameworks and methods for temporal and spatial video segmentation as well as object based video representation, indexing and retrieval at both the syntactic and the semantic level. First we demonstrate a robust and real-time temporal scene cut detection system that combines col...

Abstract Humor can be induced by various signals in the visual, linguistic, and vocal modalities emitted humans. Finding humor videos is an interesting but challenging task for intelligent system. Previous methods predict sentence level given some text (e.g., speech transcript), sometimes together with other modalities, such as speech. Such ignore caused visual modality their design, since pred...

This article argues that cringe humour in British television had begun at least by the early 1960s and derived from a theatre history which conventions of Naturalism were modified emergent writers working with European avant-garde motifs. The makes case analysing importance to BBC sitcom Steptoe Son, tracing its form themes back ‘comedy menace’ ‘Theatre Absurd’ emblematised work playwright Haro...

There is little question that popular television shows influence the shaping of social norms, identities, and the ways we navigate daily life. High profile shows are also a common magnet for critical attention. No primetime television show has provoked as wide a range of reactions as Fox’s The Simpsons. From shock radio to public broadcasting pundits pour condemnations, accolades, and adulation...