Newspapers, popular magazines, radio, and television are examples of mass media that influence reach enormous audiences. Television is a significant powerful medium for communication. People facilitated by television's moving pictures, which also demand attention ultimately impact people's attitudes actions. Audiences today prefer watching live reality shows to dramatic, emotionally charged tel...

Television (TV) viewing is a risk factor for obesity in children. This is partly due to its promotion of energy intake by distracting from normal satiety signals. Children are exposed to a variety of TV programs which differ in features such as pacing. This is reason to believe that different children’s TV shows distract to varying degrees, and can therefore influence energy intake to different...

This combined quantitative/qualitative study is based on a content analysis of 238 hours of Israeli talk shows from 2012 and semiotic analysis of selected programs to map the gender distribution of TV experts and explore potential differences in the way men and women are treated in the programs.. All in all, 495 experts were coded. Men experts outnumbered women experts in a 1.7 to 1 ratio. Thes...

In this paper we address the problem of recognising interactions between two people in realistic scenarios for video retrieval purposes. We develop a per-person descriptor that uses attention (head orientation) and the local spatial and temporal context in a neighbourhood of each detected person. Using head orientation mitigates camera view ambiguities, while the local context, comprised of his...

This paper presents a collaborative annotation framework for person identification in TV shows. The web annotation frontend will be demonstrated during the Show and Tell session. All the code for annotation is made available on github. The tool can also be used in a crowd-sourcing environment.

Speaker segmentation systems usually have problems detecting short segments, which causes the number of deletions to be high and therefore harming the performance of the system. This is a complication when it comes to segmenting multimedia information such as movies and TV shows, where dialogs among characters are very common. In this paper a modification of the BIC algorithm is presented, whic...

(i) Showing New Viewpoints (A) Facilitation, (B) Greetings, (C) Raising a problem, (D) Showing new information or viewpoints (ii) Responding Previous Utterances (E) Opinions, (F) Supplementary explanations, (G) Repeating previous utterances, (H) Giving responses (iii) Comedy Performances (I) Boke (Silly jokes), (J) Ijiri (Making fun of the others), (K) Waru-Nori (Repeating silly jokes), (L) Tsu...