Can video games change attitudes towards history? Results from a laboratory experiment measuring short- and long-term effects

This study investigates a video game's effects on implicit and explicit attitudes towards depicted historical events in the short- and long-term on a sample of 148 young adults. We used, as an intervention tool, a serious game Czechoslovakia 38–89: Borderlands that deals with the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from the former Czechoslovakia after the WWII. Results showed more negative pretest-posttest explicit attitude changes towards the expulsion on a general level (d = −0.34) and a specific level (d = −0.53) compared to the control group. Over the long-term, group differences in attitude change remained significant for the specific level (d = −0.44), but not for general one (d = −0.16). Exploratory analysis on the item level indicated that especially attitudes towards the expulsion's (un)fairness were affected by the game. However, no significant changes were found in implicit attitudes in the experimental group. This study is the first of such scale to empirically investigate video games' effects on a society's historical awareness.     

H.266/VVC帧内预测模式快速判决方法

为降低新一代高效视频编码标准H.266/VVC的编码复杂度,提出一种快速的帧内预测模式判决方法.从率失真理论的角度出发,分析变换域残差的分布特性,根据标量量化技术对码率的影响推导出编码码率预测模型.结合帧内预测原理,利用当前块预测残差、参考块预测残差及其编码失真提出编码失真预测模型,并根据率失真代价确定最优的帧内预测模...     

实现网络视频流多分类的迁移学习算法

在现实世界中,可用的训练数据通常较少,且很容易过时,所以需要不断采集和标记大量新的数据集;针对此问题,提出一种基于SAMME和TrAdaBoost算法的迁移学习分类方法.该方法的核心思想是:从老视频流数据集中筛选出有用的样本来帮助模型识别新的未知视频流集样本,这里新老视频流数据集的样本特征分布是不相同的.同时该方法结合...     

Joint model of gradient magnitude and Gabor features via Spatio-Temporal slice

To form a high-performance video quality predictor, we developed a framework for full-reference (FR) video quality assessment that integrates Spatio-temporal slice analysis (STS) to create a high-performance predictor of video quality. However, both gradient and Gabor are spatial–temporal structural capturers used for the simultaneous extraction of both spatial and temporal features. In this paper, we proposed a novel VQA algorithm via a joint model of gradient magnitude and Gabor features (JMG) between the STS images of the reference videos and their distorted counterparts to assess the degradation of video quality effectively. Firstly, gradient magnitude and the Gabor filter were constructed to extract the spatiotemporal features of the video sequence. However, the two-feature model combined to predict the perceptual quality of frames. This new proposed VQA model is known as the horizontal and time STS (HT-JMG) model. To further investigate the influence of spatial dissimilarity, we combined the frame-by-frame spatial T-JMG(S) factor with the HT-JMG and propose another VQA model, called the time, horizontal, and vertical STS (THV-JMG) model. Finally, the results of the experiment showed that the proposed method has a strong correlation with subjective perception and is competitive with state-of-the-art full reference VQA models.     

No-reference quality assessment of dynamic sports videos based on a spatiotemporal motion model

This paper proposes an approach to improve the performance of no-reference video quality assessment for sports videos with dynamic motion scenes using an efficient spatiotemporal model. In the proposed method, we divide the video sequences into video blocks and apply a 3D shearlet transform that can efficiently extract primary spatiotemporal features to capture dynamic natural motion scene statistics from the incoming video blocks. The concatenation of a deep residual bidirectional gated recurrent neural network and logistic regression is used to learn the spatiotemporal correlation more robustly and predict the perceptual quality score. In addition, conditional video block-wise constraints are incorporated into the objective function to improve quality estimation performance for the entire video. The experimental results show that the proposed method extracts spatiotemporal motion information more effectively and predicts the video quality with higher accuracy than the conventional no-reference video quality assessment methods.     

Novel View Synthesis Of Transparent Object From a Single Image

We propose a method for converting a single image of a transparent object into multi-view photo that enables users observing the object from multiple new angles, without inputting any 3D shape. The complex light paths formed by refraction and reflection makes it challenging to compute the lighting effects of transparent objects from a new angle. We construct an encoder–decoder network for normal reconstruction and texture extraction, which enables synthesizing novel views of transparent object from a set of new views and new environment maps using only one RGB image. By simultaneously considering the optical transmission and perspective variation, our network learns the characteristics of optical transmission and the change of perspective as guidance to the conversion from RGB colours to surface normals. A texture extraction subnetwork is proposed to alleviate the contour loss phenomenon during normal map generation. We test our method using 3D objects within and without our training data, including real 3D objects that exists in our lab, and completely new environment maps that we take using our phones. The results show that our method performs better on view synthesis of transparent objects in complex scenes using only a single-view image.     

视频数据库中的内容检索技术

计算机和网络的飞速发展,使视频数据库的内容检索成为迫切需求,对视频检索的基本概念进行了介绍,提出一种视频分段技术,利用镜头检测、运行特征、镜头聚类技术等方法对视频进行分段,对实现基于内容的视频检索和浏览,具有很大的实用性。     

Analysis of debris clouds produced by impact of aluminum spheres with aluminum sheets

Results of two-stage light gas gun testing of two diameters of aluminum spheres impacting 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm thickness aluminum plates were described in this paper. Impact velocities for these tests were between 3.16 km/s and 5.17 km/s. The components of debris cloud and damage patterns in the witness plate were described. The morphologic features of debris clouds such as shape, axial velocity, and diametral velocity were discussed. The size and number of fragments in the internal structure of debris cloud were not evaluated quantitatively, but described qualitatively. As a result, the shape of the leading face of the internal structure of debris cloud appeared to be sensitive to impact velocity, but not t/D ratio (bumper-thickness-to-projectile diameter ratio). The point at which the maximum diameter of the external bubble of debris cloud occurred had a same half spray angle of 30 degree and the last fragments ejected from bumper had a same half spray angle of 42 degree for each test. Fragments after the point mentioned above in the external bubble of debris cloud were ejected as several chains, the number of which is sensitive to impact velocity, but not t/D ratio. The changes in normalized velocity of the measurement points at debris cloud appeared the same trend as conclusions presented by Piekutowski except for the normalized internal structure expanding velocity. A certain value of t/D ratio, at two sides of which, the normalized internal structure expanding velocity appeared different variety trend existed.     

基于IP数据包生存期的隐蔽信道

本文通过对IP包的封装结构和通信过程的分析,指出IP包的TTL值隐藏信息的可能性,并提出了基于IP包生存时间的信息隐藏方法。理论分析和实践表明,该方法具有实际应用的可行性和较好的安全性。     

H.264实时视频数据的还原与视频帧提取研究

对因特网中某些不良的实时视频通信数据进行监听和还原,是保证网络应用健康发展和打击网络犯罪的一个重要方面.本文介绍了监听和还原因特网中H.264实时视频数据的一种处理方法和处理过程,实现了对被监听的视频通信数据的截获、还原和存储,并可进一步将存储的视频帧提取、转换为图像文件供特定需求使用.实践证明,该方法的处理效率和效果达到了预期目标,对识别因特网中的不良流媒体信息具有较大的实用价值.