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... variables and , and an increasing function offor all values of Proof: In order to prove the theorem we show through induction that for we have andfor any vector that increase and , and decrease ... of slots increases Size of the grid used for discretization, and , can affect performance of the system In Table we provide FTH performance of the algorithms that have used different values of ... function of the state variables (31) We consider as the state update function and define two possible next states andofandFor known values we can use (1)–(3) and easily show that for some...
... results: Y1 stands for the number of edge points at OREC ASIC output, Y2 is the average length of linked edge points at OPNI ASIC output, and Y3 and Y4 (resp., Y5 and Y6 ) are the number and average ... and the covering rate for the set of trials of the first design of experiments (Table 2) These designs have been tested on 180 input images selected from a video sequence of over 30 000 city and ... UK, April 1996 [3] W Forstner, “10 pros and cons against performance characterization of vision algorithms,” in Proceedings of the ECCV Workshop on Performance Characteristics of Vision Algorithms,...
... Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts Borko Furht Editor Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts 123 Editor Borko Furht Department of Computer Science and ... matrix, where users form the rows and items form the columns, while each cell Cij of the matrix is filled by the degree of satisfaction of the ith user for the j th item The degree of satisfaction ... University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany Cristoforo Camerano University of Catania, Italy Petros Caravelas Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece Matina Charami Athens University of...
... category but also for cross-category recommendation VE adopts a VSM and handles all of the models such as user preference, content profile, and user context with a common vector format Therefore, it is ... movie To calculate the similarity of two movies, we use the cosine similarity measure computed in formula and bi are the values of the i -th elements of vectors E a and b E P bi a b E E i E D cos.E ... four or five) a set U of movies, asks for recommendations, a set C of candidate movies for recommendation is created as the union of the k-most similar movies for each movie j U , excluding movies...
... introduction of the Facebook platform (a set of APIs) in May 2007 which made it easy to develop software and new features making use of this user data Afterwards, also others saw the benefit of making ... space of user id’s: ˆU D fu1 ; : : : ; uK g and let I be a random variable over the sample space of item id’s: ˆR D fi1 ; : : : ; iM g, where K is the number of users and M the number of items ... Exploitation of a Social Network Content Descriptions of the Recommended Programs Fig User interface of Tribler in a way that makes sense to a user and allows for exploration and exploitation of the...
... Recommendation Performance We first studied the behavior of the linear interpolation smoothing for recommendation For this, we plotted the average precision and recall rate for the different values of the ... method for target advertisement; Plenty of experimental results are provided and analyzed for the profile reasoning performance; and finally we conclude our work in concluding section Architecture of ... utilizing this information, the profile inference agent infers the TV viewers’ profile in their preferred genres and time bands of TV viewing for the groups of different genders and ages by the...
... extremes, and are a stepping stone towards a NR VQA algorithm See [5] and [13] for examples of RR VQA and IQA algorithms Since most work has been done in the FR domain, and procedures and standards for ... account for human perception of motion This is validated by improved performance of VQA algorithms that incorporate some motion modeling The performance of any VQA algorithm is evaluated in terms of ... [10] for a more detailed explanation of these ideas Figure shows a schematic model of the HVS The visual stimulus in the form of light from the environment passes through the optics of the eye and...
... used to determine useful information for a specific player and block all other information For example, the area of interest of an avatar in an MMOG is the set of avatars and non-playing components ... is a new genre of online games that has emerged with the introduction of Ultima since 1997 It is a kind of online computer game with the participation of hundreds of thousands of players in a ... Ahmed and S Shirmohammadi ( ) School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada e-mail: dahmed@discover.uottawa.ca B Furht (ed.), Handbook of Multimedia...
... feature value of the Cross-Modal Approach for Karaoke Artifacts Correction 205 Fig Zero-crossing rate of feedback noise and its waveform Fig Zero-crossing rate of huffing noise and its waveform feedback ... use of game theory in spectrum sharing for more flexible, efficient and fair spectrum usage and provides an overview of this area by exploiting the behavior of users and analyzing the design and ... cut the redundant parts of the stream by using ı C and ı Tune handling Tune, as the basic melody of a piece of audio, is closely related to the amplitude of the waveform Amateur singers easily...
... initial settlement of the gameQueue players, the server offers this bandwidth to each one of each one of the players that declined its offers earlier If one of the players takes the offer then this ... his/her performance [16] Therefore, the game client must be able to run and accept new user commands continuously regardless of the condition of the underlying communication channel, and that it ... sufficient bandwidth Each player participates in the game under a number of rules for gaining the wanted bandwidth resources Players have priorities according to the time of arrival One of the difference...
... Properties of Event Properties of Object Properties of Person Time of Event Time of Object Time of Person Relations between events, objects and/ or people Location of Event Person Template Location of ... tagging of non-video media SweetWiki [9] revisits the design rationale of wikis, taking into account the wealth of new Web standards available, such as for the wiki page format (XHTML), for the ... amount of metadata on pictures and photos This large number 268 D.D Zad and H Agius of images has been carefully annotated for the obvious reason they were accessible to all users and therefore...
... ; m2 , and m3 The bit-sequences of items and 2C-lists of sliding window SW1 in the initialization phase of FTP-stream algorithm are shown in Fig Fig Bit-sequences and 2C-lists of items of SW1 ... sequences of a stream of melody sequences be ; ; , and , where m1 ; m2 ; m3 , and m4 are the identifiers of melody sequences and a, b, c, d and e are ... (a list of 2-C andidates), is constructed after performing bit-sequence transform of each incoming item Therefore, each item has its unique 2C-list Each entry in the 2C-list consists of two fields:...
... where C is a covariance matrix of X, and i and vi are the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of C The column vectors vi form the PCA transformation matrix W The mapping of original feature matrix into ... different techniques and therefore are able to compensate for some of the drawbacks of a standalone approach, have the largest potential to provide good recommendations 16 Music Search and Recommendation ... Requirements for the visualization of music archives are the scalability to large numbers of songs and computational complexity Even for music archives containing hundreds of thousands of songs,...
... Computation times for segmentation and analysis of music and video Table A visual count of the numbers of shots in each videos, and the number of segments generated using different values of ı in the ... (15) where y and z are the indexes of a segment, and Ny and Nz are the sum of the cardinality of the video and music histograms This associates low-timbre music with near-static video, and high-timbre ... viewer Y.M Ro ( ) and S.H Jin IVY Lab, Information and Communications University, Daejon, Korea e-mail: yro@icu.ac.kr B Furht (ed.), Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts, DOI...