The emerging multiple media portals accessed by a variety of terminals require semiand fully automatic procedures for managing the material. The IMU trial system, developed in this work, automatises parts of the news content acquirement and processing work of the portal web master. The IMU active proxy server extracts the metadata from news web sites and from the television news broadcasts thro...

This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised TV programs structuring. Program structuring allows direct and non linear access to the desired parts of a program. Our work addresses the structuring of recurrent TV programs like news, entertainment programs, TV shows, TV magazines... In our previous work [1] we proposed a program structuring method based on the detection of video recurrences. ...

Broadcasters are demonstrating interest in building digital archives of their assets for reuse of archive materials for TV programs or on-line availability. This requires tools for video indexing and retrieval by content. E3ective indexing by content of videos is based on the association of high-level information associated with visual data. In this paper a system is presented that enables cont...

This paper describes a topic segmentation and indexation system for TV broadcast news programs spoken in European Portuguese. The system is integrated in an alert system for selective dissemination of multimedia information developed in the scope of an European Project. The goal of this work is to enhance the retrieval of specific spoken documents that have been automatically transcribed, using...

M illions of Americans depend on the national nightly network news programs for current events information (1). Previous studies showed that nightly network news coverage about diabetes paled in comparison with that given to cancer and heart disease during the 1970s and 1980s (2,3). We evaluated whether the amount of national news coverage given to diabetes had improved during the 1990s and the...

This paper discusses (a) the design and (b) the development of easy to use interactive TV applications. (a) Because of the specifics of interaction design for interactive TV applications specific design guidance for interactive TV is needed. This paper investigates how the design of interactive TV applications can benefit from existing software usability knowledge as well as from the interactio...

A survey measuring audience reactions to local television news was administered to middle school/high school students, college students, and senior citizens. The majority in each population reported watching the news to learn about the world. They agreed that news is mostly about violent events and that such news causes them to worry and to feel that the world is not a safe place. Significant s...

To the Editor: Scholars have routinely noted ways in which scientific inquiry is isolated from public life and popular attention and have bemoaned relatively low levels of scientific literacy among lay audiences (1–3). While public understanding of science in the United States and elsewhere undoubtedly is not at the level desired by most scientists, apparent interest and hunger to learn are hig...