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2009

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Video Scene Detection Using Closed Caption Text, Gregory Smith May 2009

Video Scene Detection Using Closed Caption Text, Gregory Smith

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Issues in Automatic Video Biography Editing are similar to those in Video Scene Detection and Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). The techniques of Video Scene Detection and TDT can be applied to interviews to reduce the time necessary to edit a video biography. The system has attacked the problems of extraction of video text, story segmentation, and correlation. This thesis project was divided into three parts: extraction, scene detection, and correlation. The project successfully detected scene breaks in series television episodes and displayed scenes that had similar content.


Exploring Impact Of Educational And Economic Factors On National Intellectual Productivity Using Machine Learning Methods, Canon Fazenbaker Jan 2009

Exploring Impact Of Educational And Economic Factors On National Intellectual Productivity Using Machine Learning Methods, Canon Fazenbaker

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The patent process is representative of a nationwide means for innovations and new ideas to be recognized. The U.S. Patents Office, since its inception in 1790, has issued nearly five million patents. These patents span from the U.S. Patent #1, which was for an improvement "in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process" to today's patents which deal with technologies and mediums that were unimaginable at the Patent Offices' inception. The purpose of this study is to determine what social and economic factors at the federal level have the highest impact on national …