generally human vision system searches for salient regions and movements in video scenes to lessen the search space and effort. using visual saliency map for modelling gives important information for understanding in many applications. in this paper we present a simple method with low computation load using visual saliency map for background subtraction in video stream. the proposed technique i...

This paper represents a method to stabilize the frame rate of real-time free-viewpoint video generation. When we apply real-time free-viewpoint video to live video broadcasting, the frame rate of video processing should be constant. Otherwise, presented video gives viewers unnatural feeling due to time inconsistency. Our method to generate freeviewpoint video is based on 3-D shape reconstructio...

the prevalence of asthma remains difficult to determine with precision with no absolute or gold standard for diagnosis. international study of asthma and allergies in childhood (isaac) developed video questionnaire for epidemiological studies with less reliance on understanding written asthma questionnaire. the aim of this research was to determine the agreement between the isaac written and vi...

this study sought to investigate the impact of teaching speech acts and role relations through authentic audio-taped and video-taped materials on the level of iranian efl learners’ pragmatic competence. to this end, 55 intermediate learners were ed and randomly assigned to two experimental groups: the audio-taped group and the video-taped group. during the treatment, the audio-taped group recei...