This paper presents methods for real-time automated media segmentation, interactive audiovisual analysis, and media search in composition and performance tasks. In addition, we detail a use case where these tools have been deployed successfully as part of high profile public, national broadcast events, installations and exhibitions. These tools utilise a combination of data-mining and informati...

Corporate mergers and the consolidation of ownership in the American communications arena have long been sources of concern. US regulatory and antitrust policy traditionally attempted to secure a “diversity of voices” structurally, largely through rules regarding ownership. Although the meaning of diversity was always problematic and under-theorized, the Federal Communications Commission long s...

The emergence of new multimedia services such as super high definition or free viewpoint TV will put a very large bandwidth pressure on the broadcast networks. In order to offer these services while maintaining quality, service provider will have to use other delivery mechanisms. In this context, enhancing broadcast services with broadband media may be one key to low cost deployment of new serv...

Digital audio broadcast monitoring is the task of detecting and locating occurrences of specific audio content in broadcast streams. It has important applications in the media industry such as automatic monitoring of the airing of advertisements or commercials. The monitoring is accomplished by searching the streaming audio to detect regions where similarity with the specified audio clips of in...

The aim of the paper is to present an analysis of implications of Internet on broadcast TV. The fundamental question addressed in academic and political discussions is whether Internet TV will substitute for or merely be a complementary platform to traditional broadcast services. On basis of technology-, marketand media-based and policy arguments, it is substantiated that the latter point is mo...

One of the major challenges of the language identification (LID) system comes from the sparse training data. Manually collecting the linguistic data through the controlled studio is usually expensive and impractical. But multilingual broadcast programs (Voice of America, for instance) can be collected as a reasonable alternative to the linguistic data acquisition issue. However, unlike studio c...

One of the major challenges facing current media management systems and related applications is the so-called ‘‘semantic gap’’ between the rich meaning that a user desires and the shallowness of the content descriptions that are automatically extracted from the media. In this paper, we address the problem of bridging this gap in the sports domain. We propose a general framework for indexing and...

disclosure of classified public interest information has become one of the major legal challenges in recent years. in the past decades the conflict between the right of people to receive information and principle of sovereignty within the framework of traditional media (direct broadcast satellite) resolved in favor of  principle of free flow of information and the said conflict was replaced by ...

The use of drugs to cure and heal the body system has been irreplaceable value humanity. In other words, it is practically impossible, if not dispose drugs. According World Health Organization (WHO), drug means any substance or product that used intended be modify physiological pathological state for benefit recipient user. Different scholarly studies have shown are useful boost immune metaboli...