1 Mathematics Education Department, Mauritius Institute of Education, Reduit, MAURITIUS __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: In this study, we examined the use of videos as a pedagogical tool in mathematics lessons at O-level (age 15-16 years). A case study of a class of 29 students from a low-performing school was considered. The ...

Videos captured by consumer cameras often exhibit temporal variations in color and tone that are caused by camera autoadjustments like white-balance and exposure. When such videos are sub-sampled to play fast-forward, as in the increasingly popular forms of timelapse and hyperlapse videos, these temporal variations are exacerbated and appear as visually disturbing high frequency flickering. Pre...

YouTube is the leading Internet video service and one of the most popular websites in 2014. Music videos hold top positions in different YouTube charts, but the music video types or engagement patterns with them have not been systematically studied. In this paper we present three studies that focus on YouTube music. We first show that music videos are the most popular content genre in YouTube. ...

In the United States, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in men after skin cancer. There is a paucity of research devoted to the types of prostate cancer information available on social media outlets. YouTube™ is a widely used video sharing website, which is emerging as commonplace for information related to health. The purpose of this study was to describe the most widely viewed...

Objective: To analyze the videos on the You Tube video sharing site, noting which points addressed in the videos related to CPR and BLS, based on the 2010 Guidelines for the American Heart Association (AHA). Methods: This was an exploratory, quantitative and qualitative research performed in the Youtube sharing site, using as keywords the expressions in Portuguese equivalent to the Medical Subj...

INTRODUCTION Information derived from social media sources is being used to save lives and take vital life altering decisions. You Tube is one of the most widely used social media for seeking medical information. Quality of information available to patients and medical professionals on YouTube with regards to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a common urological condition, w.as assessed. MA...

In this paper, we introduce the concept of learning latent super-events from activity videos, and present how it benefits activity detection in continuous videos. We define a super-event as a set of multiple events occurring together in videos with a particular temporal organization; it is the opposite concept of sub-events. Real-world videos contain multiple activities and are rarely segmented...

Videos have diverse content that can assist students in learning. However, because videos are linear media, video users may take a longer time than readers of text to evaluate the context. Therefore, the process of video search may vary from one user to another depending on the users' individual characteristics, and the effectiveness of video learning may also vary across individuals. This stud...

An increasing number of freely accessible adult content websites arose recently, displaying a wide variety of different offensive images and videos. Since many users do not want to be confronted with such material, automatic tools to detect and filter these images and videos are needed. Additionally, tools are required to protect children from accessing offensive websites. This thesis presents ...

In many court cases, surveillance videos are used as significant court evidence. As these surveillance videos can easily be forged, it may cause serious social issues, such as convicting an innocent person. Nevertheless, there is little research being done on forgery of surveillance videos. This paper proposes a forensic technique to detect forgeries of surveillance video based on sensor patter...