This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an
established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the …

A first step required to allow video indexing and retrieval of visual data is to perform a
temporal segmentation, that is, to find the location of camera-shot transitions, which can be …

Body movement is integral to both performance and perception of music, and this
dissertation suggests that we also think about music as movement. Based on ideas of …

MPEG-7 constitutes a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. It can be
expected that a lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions will be set up in the …

Good motion data is costly to create. Such an expense often makes the reuse of motion data
through transformation and retargetting a more attractive option than creating new motion …

Shape is an important image feature-it is one of the primary low level image features
exploited in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). There are generally two types of shape …

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Methods, systems, and data structures for communicating object metadata are provided. A
generic metadata containeris presented that allows object metadata to be described in an …

A great challenge in information visualization today is to provide models and software that
effectively integrate the graphics content of scenes with domain-specific knowledge so that …

Active reading and hypermedia usage are an integral part of scholar daily practices, but the
full exploitation of their potentialities still lies far ahead. In the search for new methods and …