Digital Image and Cinema

Security and rights management in digital cinema

This paper provides an overview of Digital Cinema including some of the architectural ideas that have been proposed and are being considered. There are a number of security tools that can be used with the goal of secure delivery of motion picture content to the projector. There are many technical and business constraints that guide these designs. Independently, there have been a number of effor...

On Location: Landscape Cinema and Digital Memory

This paper critically reflects on the registers and affects of memory in relation to place, cinematic space, and the materiality of digital film-making technologies, using our recent moving image artwork, On Location (2017), as a case study: this practice-as-research film captures the location over a twelve month period in an unnamed sunken lane at a remote area of rural mid-Devon. On Location ...

Assessment of the Nurse Image in Iranian Cinema

Introduction:Nursing is a profession that requires a positive view of society and governments for growth and excellence. Providing a distorted or populist image of the profession can have negative consequences for health care providers. This article aims to explain the image of nurses in Iranian cinema in the last three decades. Methods: This content analysis study was conducted in 1398 in Semn...

Digital Cinema Technologies from the Archive’s Perspective

Exhibition QIM-based watermarking for digital cinema

The copyright protection of Digital Cinema requires the insertion of forensic watermarks during exhibition playback. This paper presents a low-complexity exhibition watermarking method based on quantization index modulation (QIM) and embedded in the DCI compliant decoder. Watermark embedding is proposed to fit in the JPEG2000 decoding process, prior to the inverse wavelet transform and such as ...