BACKGROUND Television viewing is hypothesized to contribute to obesity among children and adolescents through several mechanisms that include the displacement of physical activity, snacking while watching TV, and the influence of food advertising. METHODS This study drew on television ratings to examine the distribution of food advertising exposure among adolescents aged 12 through 17 based o...

Politician speaker turn detection in TV Broadcast News shows is addressed in this paper. Politician speech model combines acoustical and lexical cues as well as contextual information, and does not use any specific politician model (person-independent). Politician speaker turn detection is coupled with an automatic role labeling step, which determines the contextual information and the set on w...

In recent years, recommendation algorithms have become one of the most active research areas driven by the enormous industrial demands. Most of the existing recommender systems focus on topics such as movie, music, e-commerce etc., which essentially differ from the TV show recommendations due to the cold-start and temporal dynamics. Both effectiveness (effectively handling the cold-start TV sho...

Fig. 1 shows the comparison of our structure-aware smoothness term with the TV regularizer used in [Valgaerts et al. 2010] for the target frame of Fig.6 in the paper. The top results are obtained using TV regularized scene flow and the bottom results using scene flow with our proposed anisotropic regularizer. The two zoom-ins clearly show that anisotropic regularized scene flow produces more re...

The aim of this work is to study the usability of voting on music TV channels. We asked subjects to perform a voting-task on two different music TV shows. The results indicate, that 1) there are small differences in acceptance and understanding of the voting-instructions between users and non-users, 2) the mobile phone is a familiar and the most preferred voting-device and 3) sociability featur...

The NoTube European project looks at creating the future of TV, in which the TV user will be placed back in the driver’s seat by having a personalized TV experience with rich interaction possibilities. For this, new technologies like Linked Data, Semantic Web and Social Web data analysis are applied to the TV domain. The ultimate goal of the EU project NoTube is to develop an adaptive end-to-en...

The study aimed to identify the role of Jordanian television talk shows in promoting freedom opinion and expression society. program "Voice Kingdom" on Kingdom Jordan channel is a model. used analytical descriptive approach. most important results were as follows: largest percentage topics workshops local, national social programs that dealt with related public affairs, followed by economic the...