This paper presents a framework for the classification of feature films into genres, based on computable visual cues. The authors view the work as a step towards high-level semantic film interpretation, currently using low-level video features and knowledge of ubiquitous cinematic practices. Our current domain of study is the film preview (the commercial advertisements primarily created to attr...

We present work on a verse-composition assistant for composing, checking correctness of, and singing traditional Basque bertsoak—impromptu verses on particular themes. A performing bertsolari—a verse singer in the Basque Country—must adhere to strict rules that dictate the format and content of the verses sung. To help the aspiring bertsolari, we provide a tool that includes a web interface tha...

Received 7/14/2006; revised 8/17/2006; accepted 8/18/2006. For correspondence or reprints contact: Nan-Jing Peng, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, 386 Ta-Chung 1st Rosd, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)7-3422121 ext. 6418, Fax: (886)7-3468234, E-mail: [email protected] Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of correct localization of gastrointes...

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...

This article suggests that the way in to sociology may not always be through the front door. The authors demonstrate how students in a three-day campus diversity program develop a sociological imagination despite not having a formal affiliation with the sociology department. In particular, students demonstrate a move from color blindness into racial consciousness and a shift from individual pre...

The eighteenth century is commonly thought of as the "age of reason", an age in which the imagination was not given a central role in the arts, far less in science. But in Hume's attempts to account for our belief in a continuing external world he is forced into invoking the activity of the imagination. His views on the activity of the imagination greatly influenced Adam Smith, who adapted them...

This creation is part of the ongoing project “Positioning Audience in Cinematic Virtual Reality”, supported by Scientific and Technological Research Council Turkey. The engages with attentional corporeal resonance between spectators visual experiences participatory immersive practices. In continuing first phase project, we are designing producing a VR that will then enable us to conduct audienc...