...News Video Indexing and Retrieval System Using Feature-Based Indexing and Inserted-Caption Detection Retrieval 1 News Video Indexing and Retrieval System Using Feature-Based Indexing and InsertedCaption Detection Retrieval Akshay Kumar Singh, Soham Banerjee, Sonu Kumar and Asst. Prof. Mr. S. Ghatak Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, India. Abstract—Data compression coupled with the availability of high bandwidth networks and storage capacity have created the overwhelming production of multimedia content, this paper briefly describes techniques for content-based analysis, retrieval and filtering of News Videos and focuses on basic methods for extracting features and information that will enable indexing and search of any news video based on its content and semantics. The major themes covered by the study include shot segmentation, key frame extraction, feature extraction, clustering, indexing and video retrieval-by similarity, probabilistic, transformational, refinement and relevance feedback. A new caption text extraction algorithm that takes full advantage of the temporal information in a video sequence is developed. Keywords—Shot Boundaries Detection, Inserted Caption Detection, Machine Learning, Face Annotation, Edge/Field Detection. I. INTRODUCTION E ffective techniques for video indexing/searching are required for large visual information systems (such as video databases and video servers). In addition...
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...Blue Orb: A Company in Transition This report is consistent with my signed Academic Integrity Form on file with the instructor. Team 6 February 17, 2015 Critical Issues After an analysis of the current situation, Blue Orb Inc. needs to address the following: • Transition Path from a research-orientated organization into retail oriented business • Strategic business decision regarding marketing plan for SwitchBlade Pro o Inability to convert free subscribers to paid subscribers o Whether to accept The FightWare Proposal as a part of marketing campaign o Whether to do in-house promotional SwitchBlade Pro gaming competition as a part of marketing campaign Situation analysis Blue Orb Inc. must develop a comprehensive marketing strategy in order to create awareness for their SwitchBlade Pro software to generate revenue. They are in this situation due to a low volume of paid subscribers. They need to convert free downloads to subscriptions. They have an excellent software program and Blue Orb believes when gamers use SwitchBlade they will like it. The inability to get the word out has hindered Blue Orb’s market share as well as sales. Blue Orb’s weakness is its lack of promotional efforts as the awareness of SwitchBlade is relevantly low with a deadline of mid-September, and its strength is that they offer a differentiated product and offer 15 years of active business. Their opportunities involve creating...
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...BUSN460 Senior Project Final Report and Presentation Guide Overview: The object of this course and this project is to provide you with a realistic situation that you are likely to face in the real world business environment. You'll be working with limited information, limited support from your client, within a limited time frame - and yet, you have to get up to speed in a new area quickly, and make informed professional recommendations based on your research and analysis. You and your team have been hired by CanGo as consultants to help them improve their fast-growing business. The management team at CanGo is busy, not entirely organized and somewhat overwhelmed by their success. They are looking to you as an objective, intelligent, experienced business person - and to your combined experience as a team to help them figure out what they should do in several areas of their business. CanGo can provide very little guidance to you - if they knew what they were doing they wouldn't have asked you for help! CanGo is your customer, and they are paying you a great deal of money, so the tone of your work on the project should be that of information addressed to the Board of Directors of this company, and it should be the best professional work of your (academic) career. You should approach this project as if your job depended on it - as if it were paying your mortgage and grocery bill. This project is your new job. In previous courses you have been given specific guidelines, templates...
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...•Microenvironmental Analysis •PESTLE Analysis •SWOT Analysis •Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis •The Industry Life Cycle •Nintendo’s Key Success Factors Presentation Overview (1/2) •Analysis of Key Uncertainties •Analysis of Future Trends •The Scenarios & Implications •Conclusion •References A Brief History of Video Games Atari to Wii Introduction (1/2) • Video games have been around since the 1940s. • Over the decades, game machines continuously evolved to become powerful machines capable of stunning visuals and graphics. • In the mid 2000 to 2007, social media, smartphone and tablet technology entered the gaming scene. • Casual games become the norm attracting previously non-gamers into the market. Introduction (cont 2/2) • As the dominant force of the mobile and gaming market, in the next coming 5 years, where does Nintendo see itself competing with threats from smartphones and other gaming platforms taking up its share of the market? • Scenario planning : To make strategic decisions that will be a sound foundation for all plausible and possible future scenarios. Company Profile (1/3) • Founded in 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi. • Manufacturer of Hanafuda “flower” cards • Expanded in 1960s by Hiroshi Yamauchi. • Following the crash of the cards business, Nintendo entered the toy industry upon discovering Gunpei Yokoi, a mechanical engineer. Company Profile (2/3) • 1970: Yokoi teamed up with Shigeru Miyamoto to create games – The Father of Modern Video Gaming...
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... |College of Humanities | | |COM/156 Version 7 | | |University Composition and Communication II | Copyright © 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course builds upon the foundations established in COM/155. It addresses the various rhetorical modes necessary for effective college essays: narration, illustration, description, process analysis, classification, definition, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and argumentation. In addition, requirements for research essays, including the use of outside sources and appropriate formatting, are considered. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class...
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...demonstrate how technology obligates organizations to change their business model. Blockbuster opened their first store in 1985 in Dallas, Texas and expanded to operate 6,500 video rental stores (Blockbuster, n.d.). The organization was a competitor in the small video rental stores by providing a wider selection of movies and game rentals. Because of the positive, public acceptance Blockbuster expanded quickly and opened stores across the nation, London and Canada (Blockbuster, n.d.). Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valle, California. The organization website was launched in April 14, 1998 providing to the public online-per-rental model. Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September, 1999. In February, 2007 Netflix introduced the video-on-demand via the Internet. At the present time Netflix provide services in Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. Netflix is recognized to be one of the most successful dot-com ventures (Funding Universe, 2011). ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES Blockbuster was purchased by Dish Network after filing for bankruptcy in late September 2010. The company has closed a large number of stores at it works to create an online video-streaming outlet (Merced, 2010). Blockbuster’s edge over its competitors is that it is allowed to carry videos as soon as they are released. With the use of interactive media and other successful media outlets, Blockbuster should be able to regain the public that it has lost over the...
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...Part 1: As a news director of a local television station, it is my duty to make my lead story about what is happening in the community. A celebrity’s death is important to many, but the parks closing three days a week will affect my audience more. When reporting news, you should always think about the effects of the community and not the ratings. Rating matter, but not as much as people seem to think they should. Today’s headline is that the city council has just voted to close all city parks for three days a week to save money. I think we should get together and do a fundraiser to allow our children to play at the park when us adults need a break. They will probably close these parks from Saturday to Monday. These days are two of the days that children are not in school. What about our younger children not old enough for school. Many take their children to the park in the morning time, while the school-age children are at school. “Why do we need to save money at a city park, anyway?” City parks are free for the children to play anytime during the day. I think we need to protest the city council’s decision. “Don’t you think so?” Next on discussion today is that Whitney Houston has died. They ...
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...objective, set priorities, allocate resources, and influence the situation. 6. Accept prudent risk – a deliberate exposure to potential injury or loss when the commander judges the outcome in terms of mission accomplishment as worth the cost. PRESENTATION OUTLINE / SLIDES A. Intro, purpose, references, procedure/outline 1. Greeting (poised and confident) 2. Purpose (BLUF) – relevant, focused, clear, concise, stating thesis 3. References (current and meaningful) 4. Procedure and outline, logical, posted or embedded throughout the brief B. Quick summary of events leading to battle. C. Analysis of mission command from one side of the battle – four of the 6 principles of mission command D. Quick description of the battles outcome on how the mission affected that outcome. E. Significance of this analysis. 1. Para B-E body of Mission Analysis paper 2....
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...Executive Team: I appreciate the opportunity to meet with you and discuss the many opportunities available to Brightcove. Through the interviews with key members of your organization and analysis of industry trends my team and has put together recommendations that will align with your business strategy. With the re-launch of the website, Brightcove has established itself as a leader in the future of Internet TV. Doing so has attracted significant investors who have financially backed the firm in its development of a multisided media distribution business. With fast paced industry and increasing competition the executive team is faced with the task of deciding where these funds should be allocated in order to provide the greatest return and maintain Brightcove’s leadership in the industry. Our recommendation is to split funds among the three projects: completing the full-service platform, building the media network, and expanding internationally. Please review the details of the analysis in our report below. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Regards, Sr. Consultant TechWave Consulting Background Information Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire and focused on building a full-featured Web-based software platform for video publishers of all levels. Jeremy Allaire has a full resume demonstrating his experience and success as and entrepreneur and a technologist. His desire was to mature Brightcove’s services...
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...Chapter 3 – Conceptual Design: An Overview of Methodologies, Models and Notations CHAPTER OBJECTIVES (YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO): 1. Define and describe a methodology. 2. Define and describe traditional, structured analysis & design, information modeling, and object-oriented methodology classifications. 3. Define and describe a Data Flow Diagram (DFD) and an Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD). 4. Define and describe attributes, operations and relationships in an object-oriented methodology. 5. Define and describe the foundational characteristics of an object-oriented methodology. 6. Describe two classic information systems development challenges and their potential resolution. 7. Discuss Classification Theory and its relationship with object-oriented methodologies. 8. Describe Rational Corporation's Unified Software Development Process. 9. Define parallelism, substitution and omission. 10. Describe the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and describe Use Case, Class Diagram and Interaction Diagram. 11. Describe a simplistic object-oriented methodology for applying and using the UML. 12. Describe the foundational characteristics of the UML’s Class Diagram DESIGN A generic systems development life cycle (SDLC) was presented in an earlier chapter. You may recall that the purpose for this version of a SDLC was to give you a simplified way of sequentially studying the activities that are utilized to produce software-intensive information systems. In reality the SDLC...
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...Overview: Skype is a global player in the telecommunications industry. It offers its customers Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service, which is telephone via an Internet connection. These services include but are not limited to; instant messaging; voice calling; video calling’ short message services using a number of product platforms available at any time a user might want its services.. Skype uses the internet at its main platform leading the communication transition from hardware to software. VoIP calls are billed per amount of information sent over the Internet; Skype users communicate for free with other Skype users and pay only a small fee for long-distance calls to landlines. Key Issues and Assumptions: VoIP’s market share in the overall global telecommunications market is still minimal, which had a roughly 5% market share by the end of 2010. For Skype, the main issue internally is the mismatch in the relationship between revenue growth rate and company growth rate. Growth in revenue shrunk from 685% in 2006 to 37% in 2008. Skype executives have realized that the main reason for the flattening in revenue rates is the company’s cheap international calling rate and the free user-to-user calls and videos. Furthermore, VoIP is still a small competitor in the industry, but competition in the industry is increasing rapidly, and Skype needs to determine how to remain an industry leader. There is a question if consumers will begin to look at expanded VoIP services as...
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... | | 27 | 2 | | | 28 | 1 | | Teacher Desk Teacher Desk | 29 | | | 30 | | Teacher Resource area Teacher Resource area DoorSmart Board Smart Board | | Classroom dimensions: approximately 27’ by 42’ Classroom consists of 30 desktop PC’s for individual student use. These PC’s are situated on a shelf that is built into the wall and not able to be moved. The PC’s are hard wired into the network for internet connections. PC’s are all configured with Microsoft Office 2013. In addition to individual student PC’s, there are 15 traditional student desks that are used for discussion areas and for students to use when not on the PC. Some students find it more convenient to use the traditional desks when watching a video on the Smart Board. Individual student work area includes a desktop PC that includes speakers and text book. Text Book Speakers Text Book Speakers All students in our county have been issued Chrome books at have WiFi connections to the school network and are about to be connected at home. These Chrome books are not able to have Microsoft Office on them,...
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...Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 6(8): 492-499, 2012 ISSN 1991-8178 Kinect-based Gesture Password Recognition Mohd Afizi Mohd Shukran, Mohd Suhaili Bin Ariffin Faculty of Science and Defence Technology, Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, Aras 6, Bangunan Bistari, Kem Sungai Besi, 57000 Kuala Lumpur. Abstract: Hand gesture password might be the most natural and intuitive way to communicate between people and machines, since it closely mimics how human interact with each other. Its intuitiveness and naturalness have spawned many applications in exploring large and complex data, computer games, virtual reality, health care, etc. Although the market for hand gesture password is huge, building a robust hand gesture recognition system remains a challenging problem for traditional vision-based approaches, which are greatly limited by the quality of the input from optical sensors. In this paper, we use their gesture in order to login or authenticate to the system. And then we introduce a novel method to create a gesture pattern that act as a password. This hand gesture recognition system performs robustly despite variations in hand orientation, scale or articulation. Moreover, it works well in uncontrolled environments with background clusters. Key words: Password Recognition, Authentication, Gesture password INTRODUCTION The advent of relatively cheap image and depth sensors has spurred research in the field of object tracking and gesture recognition. One...
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...SYLLABUS STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MANA 5336-001 Long Summer 2012 Scheduled Meeting Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays June 5 to August 9 . Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. Place: COBA 252 Professor: Charles D. Little, Ph.D. Office Hours: Immediately before and after class e-mail: drclittle@gmail.com or UTA email Phone: 817/944-9825 Course Description Integration of the MBA curriculum into a cohesive whole. Treats the several elements of business administration by use of discussions of strategic approaches, business policy cases, and analysis of various strategies deployed by organizations of all varieties. Textbook* Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage, Concepts and Cases, Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble, and Strickland. 18th Edition. McGraw-Hill. New York, NY, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-07-811272-0 *This textbook is absolutely essential to the successful completion of this course! It it the responsibility of the student to purchase the correct edition of the textbook, regardless of where you purchase it. If you attempt to take this class using the wrong textbook, or the wrong edition of the textbook, you will bear the responsibility of that. The professor is not to be held responsible for any lack of performance in the class due to an incorrect purchase of the textbook by the student. Course Overview This course “capstones” the graduate business learning experience. It deals with strategy...
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...possessed exceptional expertise in operating the eatery, the eatery’s nontechnological business operations remain today in the same manner as they did in 1952. Consequently, the eatery had incurred a progressive decline of five years of clientele. The eatery possesses no computers: the eatery’s orders take place by hand, or maintain a Web site: thus, consequently, the marketing occurred via the eatery’s clientele. The eatery’s promotion coupons occurred via pamphlets and newspaper clip outs, the eatery’s payroll, and inventory tracking took place on an annotation notepad. Thus, consequently, a reengineering modernization project analysis and stratagem of The Broadway Café that will enable the eatery merge into the eBusiness Twenty-First Century ensues, in an attempt to ensure my grandfather’s bequest to me arises as a windfall. PART 1: PORTER’S FIVE-FORCES: ANALYSIS In order to enable the assemblage of an avenue...
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