Within the scope of this paper we focus on the investigation of potential scenarios for providing clips via common broadcasting platform for sharing these across social media. We develop the idea of a digital clip gift shop and present a technical solution as well as a discussion about its business potential. The digital clip gift shop is discussed on the basis of four scenarios, where we ident...

Connolly suggests an additional benefit: establishing enduring relationships with real people. This means going beyond seeing others simply as peers who trade digital content. For example, connecting with fellow dorm residents through Facebook can help a student overcome the kind of isolation that otherwise might lead her to leave school. A Twitter account can provide a shy student with informa...

Speaker diarization currently focuses on using audio features to partition an audio stream into speaker homogeneous speech regions, in other words to determine “who spoke when”. Recent speaker diarization corpora contains video recordings in addition to the commonly used audio. Thus, we investigated the benefits of incorporating video features, namely histograms of weighted oriented optical flo...

Sociologists have increasingly come to recognize that the discipline has unduly privileged textual representations, but efforts to incorporate visual and other media are still only in their beginning. This paper develops an analysis of the ways objects of knowledge are translated into other media, in order to understand the visual practices of sociology and to point out unused possibilities. I ...

Title of dissertation: PROCESSING OF EX-SITU ACQUIRED SIGNALS FROM MAGNETIC DISKS Patrick McAvoy, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Dissertation directed by: Professor I. D. Mayergoyz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The ubiquity and high performance of hard disk drives for nonvolatile digital data storage cannot be denied. As the magnetic recording industry continues to develop new t...

New consumer services are transforming the Hertzian broadcast media into a rich source of multimedia content. A Broadcast Media Navigator combining Softare Radio elements with Audio Indexing techniques and digital audio recording is proposed. Results from a PC-based demonstrator implementaing a simple speech/music discriminator are presented.