Abstract This descriptive-exploratory study conducted with graduates from the Graduate Program in Human Movement Sciences at Santa Catarina State University sought to understand meanings of using movies bioethics teaching and identify motion pictures bioethical themes related exercise health human movement sciences. Data were collected semi-structured interviews investigated by content analysis...

Social learning is thought to be a key determinant of the demand for motion pictures. This can be a double-edged sword for motion picture distributors, however, because when a film is good, social learning can enhance the effectiveness of movie advertising, but when a film is bad, it can mitigate this effectiveness. This paper analyzes an equilibrium model of the demand for films and the supply...

When a color video system with highly accurate color reproduction is designed, a good measure is required for evaluating the image quality including the color reproduction. There are some degradation sources in a total imaging system from image acquisition to image reproduction. Color random noise is one of major degradations which is often added in image capture phase. In this paper, we invest...

Line scratches are common degradations in motion picture films. This paper presents an efficient method for line scratches detection strengthened by a Kalman filter. A new interpolation technique, dealing with both low and high frequencies (i.e. film grain) around the line artifacts, is investigated to achieve a nearby invisible reconstruction of damaged areas. Our line scratches detection and ...

T h i s paper dawribcs a new face identification algorithm with two stages. This fitst stage monitors a sequence of face images to select a desired frame for identification and Face identification is performed in the second stage. The face identification algorithm is hased on the geometric parameters of size and distance of the facia[ feature ohjwts (the eyes, the nose. the mouth. etc) The fram...

Recent papers have shown that, in contrast to ―the Long Tail‖ theory, movie sales remain concentrated in a small number of hits. These papers have argued that concentrated sales can be explained, in part, by heterogeneity in quality and increasing returns from social effects. Our research analyzes an additional explanation: how incomplete information may skew sales patterns. We use the movie br...

In April 2007, FUJIFILM introduced ETERNA-RDI for digital intermediate. It is the first film stock in the world, designed specially for use in the digital intermediate workflow. ETERNA-RDI offers a significant improvement over conventional non-specific intermediate film stock, producing fine detail and accurate color from digital image data. New silver halide grain technology prevents spectral ...

Segmentation of images into foreground (an actor) and background is required for many motion picture special effects. To produce these shots, the unwanted background must be removed so that none of it appears in the final composite shot. The standard approach requires the background to be a blue screen. Systems that are capable of segmenting actors from more natural backgrounds have been propos...