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IEPOL
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Piracy or promotion? The impact of broadband Internet penetration on DVD sales
ABSTRACT Digital computer networks represent a disruptive technology, with the potential to create or destroy economic value in established industries. These opportunities and chal...
Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Utilizing affective analysis for efficient movie browsing
Because of the fast increasing number of movies and long time span each movie lasts, novel methods should be developed to help users browse movies and find their desired clips eff...
Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao, ...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Shipping to streaming: is this shift green?
Streaming movies over the Internet has become increasingly popular in recent years as an alternative to mailing DVDs to a customer. In this paper we investigate the environmental-...
Anand Seetharam, Manikandan Somasundaram, Donald F...
HVEI
2010
14 years 11 days ago
Efficient motion weighted spatio-temporal video SSIM index
Recently, Seshadrinathan and Bovik proposed the Motion-based Video Integrity Evaluation (MOVIE) index for VQA.1,2 MOVIE utilized a multi-scale spatio-temporal Gabor filter bank to...
Anush K. Moorthy, Alan C. Bovik
MM
1994
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Scheduling Policies for an On-Demand Video Server with Batching
In an on-demand video server environment, clients make requests for movies to a centralized video server. Due to the stringent response time requirements, continuous delivery of a...
Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram, Perwez Shahabuddin
TIME
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Towards a Theory of Movie Database Queries
We present a data model for movies and movie databases. A movie is considered to be a 2-dimensional semialgebraic figure that can change in time. We give a number of computabilit...
Bart Kuijpers, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht
DRM
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Analysis of security vulnerabilities in the movie production and distribution process
Unauthorized copying of movies is a major concern for the motion picture industry. While unauthorized copies of movies have been distributed via portable physical media for some t...
Simon Byers, Lorrie Faith Cranor, David P. Kormann...
ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Learning Relations Among Movie Characters: A Social Network Perspective
If you have ever watched movies or television shows, you know how easy it is to tell the good characters from the bad ones. Little, however, is known “whether” or “how” com...
MIR
2006
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Automatically selecting shots for action movie trailers
Movie trailers, or previews, are an important method of advertising movies. They are extensively shown before movies in cinemas, as well as on television and increasingly, over th...
Alan F. Smeaton, Bart Lehane, Noel E. O'Connor, Co...