This paper deals with visual programming in the framework of a Movie-based Multimedia Environment, which includes special movie-program objects. These objects can generate frames of an algorithmic movie as well as executable code. The important part of the movie-based programming is in defining activity areas in matrix structures as well as ordering operations according to computational steps. ...

A digital movie can be created jointly under the cooperation of many creators. It is then necessary to provide protection to the creatorship of each participating creator. In this paper, we propose a framework for providing the creatorship protection of multiple creators involved in creating the object-based digital movie. The proposed framework makes use of digital watermarking techniques and ...

In this paper, we introduce a new panoramic movie system that can capture and play 360◦ viewing angle. The system captures surround movie by using four wide-angle video cameras, and then the video streams are encoded as a single stream of common video format. At the viewing side, geometric correction and image mosaicking are performed in real-time by using 3D graphics accelerators hardware. By ...

Streaming movies over the Internet has become very popular in the recent years. It is giving a stiff competition to the alternative method of DVD being shipped to the customer, after an order is placed online. It is likely that in future, the online streaming method will displace the DVD shipping method. In this paper, we evaluate the environmental impact of such a paradigm shift in delivering ...

This paper explores the effectiveness of social network analysis and sentiment analysis in predicting trends. Our research focuses on predicting the success of new movies over their first four weeks in the box office after opening. Specifically, we try to predict prices on the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), a prediction market on movie gross income, and predict the ratio of gross income to pro...

OBJECTIVE We examine the association between exposure to depictions of reckless driving in movies and unsafe driving, modeling inattentive and reckless driving as separate outcomes. METHODS Data were obtained by telephone from 1,630 US adolescents aged 10 to 14 years at baseline who were drivers at a survey 6 years later. Exposure to movie reckless driving was measured based on movies seen fr...

OBJECTIVE Morphing is an image processing technology that transforms one image into another by generating a series of intermediate synthetic images. The ability to perform morphing, once restricted to high-end graphics workstations, is now widely available for desktop computers. We investigated the potential use of morphing for displaying radiographic images. MATERIALS AND METHODS Morphing wa...

BACKGROUND Lyme disease (LD) has become the most common vector borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Prevention relies predominantly on fostering protective behaviors (e.g., avoiding tick areas, using protective clothing and repellent, and doing routine tick checks post-exposure). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness (in terms of knowledge, perceived severity and su...

A new framework is designed for sentiment classification and feature based summarization system in a mobile environment. Posting online reviews has become an increasingly popular way for people to share their opinions about specific product or service with other users. It has become a common practice for web technologies to provide the venues and facilities for people to publish their reviews. ...

This study investigated twenty four 18-month-olds' memory for dynamic visual stimuli. During the first visit participants saw one of two brief movies (30 seconds) with a simple storyline displayed in four iterations. After 2 weeks, memory was tested in the visual paired comparison paradigm in which the familiar and the novel movie were contrasted simultaneously and displayed in two iterations f...