Digital content industry is one of the Twin-Star projects in Taiwan. Among the various categories of digital contents, computer animation is the one that presents many technological challenges as well as many applications including computer games, films, TV and architectural design. Two common techniques in producing a computer animation are motion capture and procedural animation. Both approac...

Nowadays, Cable TV operators provide their users multiple ways to watch TV content, such as Live TV and Video on Demand (VOD) services. In the last years, Catch-up TV has been introduced, allowing users to watch recent broadcast content whenever they want to. Understanding how the users interact with such services is important to develop solutions that may increase user satisfaction, user engag...

This paper presents the methods used in a TV Recommender System that helps users in the difficult task of finding an interesting TV program from among the hundreds of channels that we can find nowadays on TV. Our aim is to cover not only user preferences but also user restrictions while watching TV. The recommendations use a hybrid method, combining content based and folksonomy (collaborative a...

3D animation has been manipulated widely in movies and video games nowadays. To make a 3D model move, traditionally, requires animators’ efforts to edit the key poses of the model. It is a time-consuming task, especially when dealing with an imposing scene such as those full of different animals or soldiers. In this paper, we propose an efficient technique to clone skeleton-driven animation dat...

Nowadays, despite the Internet, social networks are the main competitors of mass networks, and the number of their users is increasing day to day. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a cultural model to understand the process of attracting TV audiences. This research is a practical research, and a descriptive-survey research in terms of data collection. The research orientation t...

Nowadays, due to the gradually mature on LCD TV related technologies, the profit margin of LCD TV has become thinner. Finding a niche point to overcome such difficulty is comparatively important at this moment. As stated by many literatures, the concept of modular design had been applied to many thin-margin products, such as personal computer, and received highly successful. However, the modula...

BACKGROUND Healthy, nulliparous women at low risk for preterm birth would not usually undergo transvaginal scanning at the 20-week morphology scan. The study aimed to determine whether transabdominal cervical measurement would be sufficient to exclude a short cervix in this population. AIMS To investigate the relationship between transabdominal (TA) and transvaginal (TV) ultrasound measuremen...