Chapter XIV

Chapter XIV Video Abstraction

This chapter introduces Video Abstraction, which is a short representation of an original video, and widely used in video cataloging, indexing, and retrieving. It provides a general view of video abstraction and presents different methods to produce various video abstracts. Also, it discusses a new approach to obtain a video abstract called video digest that uses the closed-caption information ...

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Intracranial pressure (ICP) is the pressure of the compartment inside the skull. Since the brain is almost completely incompressible, expansion of the volume in any component within the skull causes an increase in the pressure of the cranial compartment. Increased intracranial pressure can lead to decreased blood flow, resulting in decreased oxygen delivery to the brain and neuronal dysfunction...

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My topic is the debate in moral psychology between the rationalist and the anti-rationalist over the proper relation between reason and desire. My aim is not to adjudicate this debate, but rather to clarify what is at stake, for, it seems to me, both parties are prone to misconceive the issues that divide them. Rationalists and anti-rationalists alike believe that there are norms of rationality...

Psychophysics of Reading: Xiv

Abstract-Most people with low vision require magnification to read. A magnifier's field of view often contains only a few letters at a time. Page navigation is the process by which the reader moves the magnifier from word to word, and from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line. Page navigation takes time and reduces reading speed. The major questions addressed in this paper are:...

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