New media networks differ from old media networks in the sense that for the press, TV, and radio, the formats are more established. To old media one sends a press release, a prepared sound bite, or an edited video can. One organizes a scripted event and invites journalists in the hopes that the story eventually told adheres to the prepared text and overall narrative. But what does one send to a...

A sensor node is composed of different parts including processing units, sensor, transmitter, receiver, and security unit. There are many nodes in a sensor unit. These networks can be used for military, industrial, medicine, environmental, house, and many other applications. These nodes may be established in the lands of enemies to monitor the relations. Hence, it is important to consider conse...

The media and TV world faces new challenges such as the introduction of digital and interactive TV. In order to cope with the complexity of these new services, a well-structured back office is of prime importance. Today, efficient management of content is hampered by the proprietary formats used in the different software applications that have been developed by various vendors. Moreover, the la...

This paper explores the impact of light filtering on automatic key phrase extraction (AKE) applied to Broadcast News (BN). Key phrases are words and expressions that best characterize the content of a document. Key phrases are often used to index the document or as features in further processing. This makes improvements in AKE accuracy particularly important. We hypothesized that filtering out ...

Digital Video Broadcasting over Terrestrial Networks (DVB-T) is an increasingly popular option for receiving TV in Europe, with computer hardware available to capture the MPEG-2 [2] compressed digital streams. 802.11 wireless networks are also becoming commonplace in the home, and so it is a logical extension to allow digital TV to be distributed over a wireless LAN. In such an environment, it ...

With digital technologies, music content providers face serious challenges to protect their rights. Due to the widespread nature of music sources, it is very difficult to centralize the audio management. Audio fingerprinting allows the identification of audio content regardless of the audio format and without the need of additional metadata. Monitoring the audio being broadcasted by the TV and ...