To support more efficient video database management, this paper explores the concept of video association mining, with which the association patterns are characterized by sequentially associated video shots and their cluster information. Given a continuous video sequence V, the video shot segmentation mechanism is first introduced to parse it into discrete shots. We then cluster shots into visu...

Multiple laser shots could be used to elongate an ion beam pulse width or to intensify beam current from laser ion sources. In order to confirm the feasibility of the multiple shot scheme, we investigated the properties of plasmas produced by double laser shots. We found that when the interval of the laser shots is shorter than 10 μs, the ion current profile had a prominent peak, which is not o...

The authors research by experiments to define the potency of wounding of a special mouse trap which belongs to the spring-guns. Besides the regular assigned 9 mm blank cartridge also the 9 x 17 mm "green" cattle stunning cartridge is tested. Shots were made on soap, cotton and skin on different conditions. As result the authors found that by close range shots (up to 1 cm) by the blank cartridge...

In this paper, we propose a story unit extraction method using contextual information in video shots. We divide the contextual information into two categories: local and global contextual information. We represent the local contextual information in the video shot as foreground region's information, shot activity, and background color semantics. The global contextual information is determined b...

In an image, the faces of the persons are the first information looked for. Performing efficient face detection in a video with persons (excluding cartoons and nature videos) allows to classify shots, and to obtain automatically face summaries. Shot sampling greatly improves time processing. Scene layout (same number of person, similar face position and size) provides a criterion to establish a...