A Mood-based Genre Classification of Television Content [PDF]
The classification of television content helps users organise and navigate through the large list of channels and programs now available. In this paper, we address the problem of television content classification by exploiting text information extracted from program transcriptions. We present an analysis which adapts a model for sentiment that has been
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Surveying the Social, Smart and Converged TV Landscape: Where is Television Research Headed? [PDF]
The TV is dead motto of just a few years ago has been replaced by the prospect of Internet Protocol (IP) television experiences over converged networks to become one of the great technology opportunities in the next few years. As an introduction to the Special Issue on Smart, Social and Converged Television, this extended editorial intends to review ...
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Content-Based Video Retrieval in Historical Collections of the German Broadcasting Archive [PDF]
The German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) maintains the cultural heritage of radio and television broadcasts of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The uniqueness and importance of the video material stimulates a large scientific interest in the video content. In this paper, we present an automatic video analysis and retrieval system for searching
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On the use of Satellite Television in High Energy Physics [PDF]
This paper assesses the feasibility of exploiting commercial satellite television technologies to broadcast video signals and data from major High Energy Physics facilities to collaborating institutes throughout the world.
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Forecasting the Success of Television Series using Machine Learning [PDF]
Television is an ever-evolving multi billion dollar industry. The success of a television show in an increasingly technological society is a vast multi-variable formula. The art of success is not just something that happens, but is studied, replicated, and applied.
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Superstars in politics: the role of the media in the rise and success of Junichiro Koizumi [PDF]
This paper explores the role of mass media in people perceptions of charismatic leaders, focusing on the case of Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Using survey data collected immediately after his 2005 landslide electoral victory, this study empirically assesses the influence of television and newspapers on support for ...
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Communicating Science to the Media [PDF]
It's impossible to anticipate everything a reporter will ask you, but this media training will teach you how to prepare for interviews with print, television or radio journalists and increase your understanding of how to communicate effectively through the media.
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Says who? Automatic Text-Based Content Analysis of Television News [PDF]
We perform an automatic analysis of television news programs, based on the closed captions that accompany them. Specifically, we collect all the news broadcasted in over 140 television channels in the US during a period of six months. We start by segmenting, processing, and annotating the closed captions automatically. Next, we focus on the analysis of
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An audio-only method for advertisement detection in broadcast television content [PDF]
We address the task of advertisement detection in broadcast television content. While typically approached from a video-only or audio-visual perspective, we present an audio-only method. Our approach centres on the detection of short silences which exist at the boundaries between programming and advertising, as well as between the advertisements ...
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Prediction and Optimal Scheduling of Advertisements in Linear Television [PDF]
Advertising is a crucial component of marketing and an important way for companies to raise awareness of goods and services in the marketplace. Advertising campaigns are designed to convey a marketing image or message to an audience of potential consumers and television commercials can be an effective way of transmitting these messages to a large ...
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