The paper describes a technique which lets designers implement artistic ideas rapidly into an autonomous interactive art system. The technique consists of two parts: the fixed set of computer vision algorithms and image-based rendering with branching animation sequences. Despite some limitations, the technique provides easy implementation of the wide range of fascinating interactive scenes. The...

In Taiwan, there are different types of TV programs, and each program usually has its broadcast length and frequency. We accumulate the broadcasted TV programs’ word-ofmouth on Facebook and apply the Backpropagation Network to predict the latest program audience rating. TV audience rating is an important indicator regarding the popularity of programs and it is also a factor to influence the rev...

T-Learning was passive, for a long time, because of the restrictions imposed on TVs. The relevant restrictions are a result of the input function, i.e. the normal TV remote control. Researchers have proposed various solutions for improving the normal TV remote control. However, these are difficult to be in practice now. Nowadays, it has been established that dual-device services may be helpful ...

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), besides the original applications typically related to traffic safety, we nowadays can observe an increasing trend toward infotainment applications, such as IPTV services. Quality of experience (QoE), as observed by the end users of IPTV, is highly important to guarantee adequate user acceptance for the service. In IPTV, QoE is mainly determined by the ava...

Nowadays, information technologies play an important role in education. In education, mobile and TV applications can be considered a support tool in the teaching learning process, however, relevant and appropriate mobile and TV applications are not always available; teachers can only judge applications by reviews or anecdotes instead of testing them. These reasons lead to the needs and benefits...

Television and movie images have been altered ever since it was technically possible. Nowadays embedding advertisements, or incorporating text and graphics in TV scenes, are common practice, but they can not be considered as integrated part of the scene. The introduction of new services for interactive augmented television is discussed in this paper. We analyse the main aspects related with the...

Nowadays television means more than the passive consumption of broadcast content. Television sets are equipped with modern computer technologies and provide manifold opportunities for accessing content interactively and on-demand. Personal devices such as the Smartphone can be used as a second screen to show additional information, to chat with others and interact with the content on the main s...

television viewing (tv) is associated with an in-creased risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular dis-eases, and all-cause mortality (1). in particular, ex-cessive tv viewing was found to be more preva-lent among older adults aged over 55 years than among younger age groups (2). moreover, it has been emphasized the importance of identifying at-risk populations with excessive tv viewing time and ...

Light source animation is a particularly hard field of real-time global illumination algorithms since moving light sources result in drastic illumination changes and make coherence techniques less effective. However, the animation of small (point-like) light sources represents a special but practically very important case, for which the reuse of the results of other frames is possible. This pap...