Dubbing, also known as voice-overs, is the most common way of presenting the audience with the materials in a movie. As this process requires time, budget, and a team of translators, voice-overs, voice recorders, etc., producers sometimes tend to release the movies in other languages through subtitling. This is a rather easier procedure, presenting the audience with the written translated text ...

The cinema industry standards for the calibration of both commercial cinemas and professional dubbing theatres seem, to a growing number of professionals, to be lagging behind the current state of the art for achieving both better overall sound quality and better room-to-room compatibility. In a presentation in late 2010 to the UK's Institute of Acoustics [1] it was clearly shown how the curren...

Mobile wireless video delivery is still challenging due to its limited bandwidth and dynamic channel status. In this paper, a novel approach named Dubbing Video Slides (DVS) is proposed to cope with the bandwidth limitation problem. Based on a statistical video content importance analysis, DVS method can dynamically select and transmit representative video frames which are relatively more impor...