Video Broadcasting Research Articles

Player tracking and identification in ice hockey

Tracking and identifying players is a fundamental step in computer vision-based ice hockey analytics. The data generated by tracking is used in many other downstream tasks, such as game event detection and game strategy analysis. Player tracking and identification is a challenging problem since the motion of players in hockey is fast-paced and non-linear when compared to pedestrians. There is also significant camera panning and zooming in hockey broadcast video. Identifying players in ice hockey is challenging since the players of the same team appear almost identical, with the jersey number the only consistent discriminating factor between players. To address this problem, an automated system to track and identify players in broadcast National Hockey League (NHL) videos is introduced. The system is composed of three components (1) player tracking, (2) team identification and (3) player identification. Due to the absence of publicly available datasets, the datasets used to train the three components are annotated manually. Player tracking is performed with the help of a state of the art tracking algorithm obtaining a Multi-Object Tracking Accuracy (MOTA) score of 94.5%. For team identification, away-team jerseys are grouped into a single class and home-team jerseys are grouped in classes according to their jersey color. A convolutional neural network is then trained on the team identification dataset. The team identification network obtains an accuracy of 97% on the test set. A novel player identification model is introduced that utilizes a temporal one-dimensional convolutional network to identify players from player bounding box sequences. The player identification model further takes advantage of the available NHL game roster data to obtain a player identification accuracy of 83%.

IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION RESILIENCE OF INDONESIA-MALAYSIA BORDER REGION IN RIAU PROVINCE

Indonesia's border area is located along the Indonesian border with other countries. In general, border areas are still lagging behind other regions in Indonesia. Besides the minimal basic needs, other needs have not been appropriately met, namely the need for information in the country and the penetration of television broadcasts from Malaysia. This study aims to describe how the implementation of information security in border areas, especially in Riau province, through the operational concept of David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining. This research uses a qualitative approach through a case study, namely Rupat Island. The data collection method in this study was through observations in border areas and interviews with government employees of Bengkalis Regency and border communities, which were carried out from January 2021 to November 2021. The results showed that information security in border areas led to improved telecommunications infrastructure, which proliferated. Apart from that, local governments continue to build access to public information. However, border communities are still lagging in television and radio broadcasting. In addition to the ease of accessing Malaysian television channels, in general, the socio-cultural life of people in border areas is constructed from the Malaysian television channel programs they enjoy.

THE SONG CELEBRATION AS POWER OF CULTURAL MEMORY AND A MISSION OF MODERNITY

Following the publication of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention in 2003, and its entry into force in 2006, the Song Celebration tradition and symbolism in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was added to the intangible cultural property. The tradition of the Song festivals, inspired by the protestant culture, has become an integral part of the Baltic States’ identity. The Song festivals were created to demonstrate the diversity of heritage and national history; now they also make efforts to modernise cultural practice, which is passed on from generation to generation, and they still retain the positive, immediate, uniting and mobilising function that is essential for the survival of the nation. Declaring national identity and creativity, the Song and Dance Celebration of the Baltic States reflects their patriotic and historical barriers, ideological conformism, and cultural maturity. What is the common reality of the Song and Dance Celebration as a national cultural priority in all the three Baltic States? It is the programme, the participants, a developed tradition, the creative, ideological and artistic value, the relationship with the media, the role of innovation in the television broadcasts and online communication – all this forms just a small part of topicalities related to the Celebration that requires attention, evaluation and reflection. The article studies the tradition of the Lithuanian Song and Dance Celebration as a multifaceted phenomenon, viewing it through the prism of contemporary cultural discourse. Following the French philosopher Michel de Certeau, the article examines the Lithuanian Song Celebration as a modern cultural phenomenon, which shapes our collective representations of the past and imports our traditional cultural heritage into the cities. The Song Celebration is also defined as a site of memory (lieux de mémoire) the significance of which is outlined by the French historian Pierre Nora, and which is used to strengthen the national authority and promote patriotism. It is also analysed as a practice of cultural memory (kulturelles Gedächtnis), which helps to reconstruct cultural identity and foster self-reflexive processes, as the German researchers Jan and Aleida Assmann claim. However, it can be observed that in recent decades many global memory projects integrate similar memory practices in transnational networks around the world. Besides, in the context of globalism, a very intense visual culture has emerged including a multitude of festivals and spectacles requiring revision and updating of the Song Celebration concept, which would allow us speak openly and boldly about the interpretation of the traditional culture and create new models of communication, without turning the Celebration into a commodity product, and finding original ways to discover a deeper meaning of ethnic culture.

Informal Application of Islamic Rules in Turkey: The Imposition by RTÜK of Islamic Ethics on Television Broadcasting

ABSTRACT This article studies Islamisation in Turkey by analysing some performances of the Supreme Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK), the state agency with the duty of licensing and supervising the various media organizations. As the article demonstrates, Islamisation at RTÜK occurs with its informal incorporation of Islamic ethical principles in its professional decisions. This instance of Islamisation is significant, for it operates informally by engaging Islamic rules directly. RTÜK demonstrates neatly how a state agency can reference Islamic principles in the very act of justifying the rationale of its official decisions about the content of the media organ under its review. It is with such analyses that this article aims to propose a more rigorous conceptualisation and explanation of Islamisation in Turkey than the ones commonly available in the literature: It provides an in-depth analysis of Islamisation in the news media, a field that Islamist political actors know full well to be strategic in the transformation of a society; and by demonstrating that Islamisation endeavours in Turkey are not confined to the obvious organs of propagandisation like the news media, but they penetrate informally also the supposedly neutral statutory rules and regulations.

Effect of Virtual Reality News Presentation on News Learning

This is the first study in which the effects of viewing VR/360-degree video with and without a Cardboard device on news learning outcomes are examined. Cognitive load theory and the dual-coding hypothesis were adopted as the theoretical framework. An experiment was performed with 213 participants watching news clips. The findings show that the participants learned news information better from normal broadcast video or when they watched VR/360-degree video without a Cardboard device than when they watched VR/360-degree video with a Cardboard device. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

Media representations of crimes in close relationships: Qualitative analysis of narratives in a television broadcast.

Recent years have seen increased media attention paid to crimes committed against women by partners or former partners has grown. Crime, especially violent crime, dominates the news and the mass media. In this sense, criminology” impacts publicly the collective representation of crime. The study was motivated by the interest to understand what representations are conveyed by television broadcasts and how closely related they are to criminological theories and literature on the subject. The objective of the proposed qualitative research is to examine the media representations proposed in thematic television broadcasts, as well as the narrative profiles relating to the victims, perpetrators of the crimes and their relationships, as described in the news and by a multiplicity of roles associated with them based on kinship, friendship or professional role.

Çok Kanallı Televizyona Geçiş Sürecinde Türk Televizyonlarına Dair Retrospektif Bir Çalışma

The development and success of television broadcasting in Turkey is a remarkable phenomenon. Television broadcasting, which started in Turkey nearly thirty years after it became widespread in the world, has shown a great development in the process until today. After a long period of single-channel broadcasting, more channels emerged, and private television channels were introduced to the audience as the capital entered. With this, there have been major changes in the broadcasting logic and it continues to be effective today. In this study, in order to understand the current situation of Turkish televisions and possible changes that may occur in the understanding of broadcasting in the future, the data obtained from the broadcast streams of the dates when a significant break in the history of Turkish television was experienced, were analyzed by categorical content analysis. In order to understand the impact of the emergence and development of private television broadcasting on the television industry, the data set of the study is the broadcast flow information of the year 1990, when the Magic Box Star 1 channel was established. For this purpose, the program of 3-9 June 1990 in the 23rd issue of 7 Gong on TV, which is a television viewing guide, was taken as a sample. The reason for choosing the aforementioned week and number for this study is that it was presented to the reader among satellite channels on 6 June 1990 for the first time in the broadcast stream of Star 1 channel. Data from weekly television broadcasts from 7 Gong on TV were evaluated using Williams' comparative program review method. With this method, Williams categorized television program types under various titles and analyzed them according to channel and program durations. In this study, broadcast streams of 6 different channels, which adopt the understanding of public broadcasting and commercial broadcasting, are handled comparatively within the framework of Williams' method. In this context, it is aimed to contribute to the literature on the history of television studies in Turkey, with this study, which conveys the changes in the broadcasting understanding with the start of broadcasting in Turkey through a programming. As a result, it can be said that the international cultural flow took place in one direction, as imported content dominated the broadcast stream during the transition period. However, despite the transformation of publishing technologies, it has been observed that the understanding of content has not changed.

Rapid cycle adaptation of a classroom-based intervention to promote equity in access to youth physical activity.

Our objective was to systematically adapt Interrupting Prolonged sitting with ACTivity (InPACT), a classroom-based physical activity intervention, for home delivery to equitably increase access to structured youth physical activity opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key steps in the rapid-cycle research adaptation process included: (Step 1) identifying partner organizations; (Steps 2 and 3) engaging in problem and knowledge exploration to examine the problem from different perspectives; (Steps 4 and 5) initiating solution development and testing by selecting an intervention and adapting the format and content for home delivery. Using Rapid RE-AIM to guide online assessment and refinement of InPACT at Home; and (Step 6) utilizing dissemination strategies to extend the reach of the program. Core elements of the InPACT program that were retained included: the use of exercise videos, maintenance of the intervention dose, and teacher-led physical activities. Key adaptations included: utilization of physical education specialists to develop the exercise videos, incorporation of health messaging in videos, and utilization of dissemination strategies (intervention website) to reach K-12 students across the state. Intervention website reach included all 83 counties in Michigan, but goals were not met for website pageviews (5,147; 85% of goal) and video view duration (7 min 19 sec; 37% of goal). Accordingly, dissemination was expanded to include public television broadcasting (monthly viewers: 500,000) and videos were shortened to 8 minutes. Dissemination and implementation science frameworks guided the rapid adaptation of an existing intervention, InPACT, to equitably increase access to structured youth physical activity opportunities at home during the pandemic.

A Health Crisis in the Age of Misinformation: How Social Media and Mass Media Influenced Misperceptions about COVID-19 and Compliance Behavior

ABSTRACT The media are important information disseminators in society. Particularly in uncertain times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are very “media dependent.” The way in which people are informed about the coronavirus heavily depends on the type of media they use. Especially on social media, the share of misinformation is considerable, which might impact the way in which people comply with preventive measures. Our study investigates how media use affects misperceptions about the coronavirus and whether this influences important behavioral determinants as well as compliance behavior itself. The results of a unique 5-wave panel survey (N = 1,741) conducted between April 2020 and October 2020 show that the use of mass media reduces misperceptions. The same was found for Twitter users, whereas Facebook and Instagram users have more misperceptions about the coronavirus. Misperceptions negatively influence the perceived severity, susceptibility and efficacy of preventive measures taken by governments, which may ultimately result in decreased compliance. Our findings underline the important role of media consumption and misperceptions in shaping citizens’ beliefs and behavior regarding COVID-19. They re-emphasize the importance of mass media, such as newspapers, television broadcasts or reliable news websites, to inform the public about current affairs. They also imply that platform media might be more heterogeneous in their effects than mass media.

Conservation Environmental Sustainability in The Perspective of Islamic Legal Philosophy

This paper is motivated by the existence of central issues regarding environmental damage that are increasingly concerning, both those reported through the mass media and those circulating on national and international television broadcasts. Therefore, it is necessary to have a solution for handling and to bridge environmental issues studied across various disciplines of knowledge, in this case, using an Islamic legal philosophy approach. This research method is a normative legal study using the perspective of Islamic legal philosophy. This study indicates that religion has tended to focus more on matters of ritual aspects without looking further at the meanings of the symbols of religious teachings themselves, particularly if they are associated with awareness to conserve the environment adequately because it involves the benefit of many people. This paper aims to reveal the sides of religious teachings, especially Islamic teachings that raise awareness of the environment. Because in Islamic doctrine, it is taught about how to behave by values or norms concerning human relations with the universe (hablu minal 'alam). The philosophical view of Islamic law is that humans are essentially entrusted with managing the planet and its contents as caliphs on earth, particularly in maintaining and managing the natural resources in a trustworthy manner to avoid mafsadah (damage) that threatens all human life. The findings of this study indicate that the Islamic legal philosophy provides a living guide for how to treat the environment in both peaceful and emergency situations. This can be accomplished by not destroying plants (trees), not throwing dirt anywhere, managing the land to be productive, removing obstacles in the flow of people's movement, and sharing responsibility for sustainably managing forests, water, and energy.

Introduction: Hong Kong independent documentaries and their visibility

In their general introduction to the present Special Issue the authors trace the origins of and motivation behind much of the independent documentary filmmaking produced in the city during a period of great sociopolitical turbulence, leading up to the tight censorship protocols put in place after the mainland government’s promulgation of the repressive National Security Law in 2020. With reference to the individual essays that comprise this volume, they chart the sudden and unprecedented rise of documentary filmmaking in Hong Kong following many decades of public indifference to the genre. Limited public and underground screenings that took place before absolute censorship measures were implemented in 2021 showed huge box-office demand for these topical films, reflecting images of ordinary Hong Kong people and their struggle for political representation. This opening essay introduces a range of essays and one interview, mostly in relation to specific films, dealing with the now-contentious coupling of documentary films or television broadcasts and democracy. As the essays indicate, some directors and producers of these observational and participatory documentaries are still active overseas and many of the films discussed can now only be screened outside Hong Kong. Nevertheless, they bear witness to a spirit of resilience and resistance as well as a deep-seated desire for a genuine democracy based on universal suffrage constantly reneged on by the city’s various rulers, from the colonial era until now.

Authoritarianism, the struggle for current affairs public service broadcasting and Radio Television Hong Kong

This article is one outcome of research into primary documents held in national archives in Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and, in Hong Kong, the archives of Radio Television Hong Kong and Hong Kong Public Records Office. These documents indicate how the territories of Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong responded to calls to develop television broadcasting systems which embodied public service broadcasting (PSB). That response was conditioned by the reality that all three territories were authoritarian entities, and that PSB was, in contradistinction, a liberal-democratic concept. This article will chart the problems involved in establishing television PSB in these territories, beginning with Malaysia and Singapore during the 1960s, and then Hong Kong, 1970–2020. The article will begin with a brief account of the notion of PSB, and the role played by western broadcasting companies during the Cold War, in colonial British South East Asia, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Public Perception of Indonesian Television Broadcasting Programs Quality

The public's interest in television programs is raised due to their function to increase education and protect the country from conflict or disharmony. According to the function of media, the media has three purposes: as a watchdog, a public forum, and media for public participation. The media also has the assignment to critique the government if they need to be released good regulations for the public. So the researchers are interested in exploring media content, especially television. This research analyzes the public perception of television programs such as news, talk shows, variety shows, infotainment, soap opera, religion, kids' programs, and tourism and culture. In collaboration with Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia (KPI), researchers collect program samples from television from August until December. To collect the data, we held a focus group discussion with eight informants from Universitas Padjadjaran who are experts in media, politics, religion, cinema, and content. The research results show that four programs have an index below the line. The programs include infotainment 2,81; variety shows 2,72; soap operas 2,83, and tourism and culture 2,43. Therefore, producers need to do more in-depth research before creating a show. It is useful for increasing the overall understanding of the target audience's tastes, preferences, characteristics, and knowledge level.

Client-server system for monitoring the quality of TV broadcasting in Russia

The strategy for the development of television and radio broadcasting in the Russian Federation until 2025 specifically states the need to ensure the reliability of uninterrupted television and radio broadcasting. The quality of DVB-T2 broadcasting is estimated by the data transmission rate and the bit error rate BER (Bit Error Ratio) stability margin «at the last mile» in the retransmitters’ broadcast zones. The distributed client-server system of broadcast quality monitoring in RF, proposed in the article, uses the necessary equipment, including BER sensors based on programmable receivers combined with single-board microcomputers implemented on SoC processors. Collection and processing of data in broadcasting areas with the help of the proposed monitoring system will allow specialists engaged in practical network development to make an objective conclusion about the necessity and ways of SFN network reconstruction to provide uninterrupted TV and radio broadcasting in RF. Modernization and technical re-equipment of SFN networks will provide a solution to the problems related to certification of satellite earth stations and transmitters of SFN networks, provision of various services and broadcasting services of DVB-T2 standard to the population with high quality.

Risk management of broadcasting media in Indonesia

Risk management for an institution is a necessity. It is because risk has become an integral part of the institution. For this reason, every institution, whether political, business, or social, must be appropriately managed. In that context, the study aims to find out about the form of risk management carried out by one of the independent state institutions that are trusted to broadcast, namely the Central Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI). The main theories used are Broadcasting and Risk Management. This study uses qualitative methods and is supported by field data through data collection through in-depth interviews and involved observations. The study results show that the Central KPI must manage many risks in managing media broadcasts. Among these risks are unethical advertisements and broadcast protests due to the low socialization of the Broadcasting Code of Conduct and Broadcast Program Standards and complaints from the television reading community. Therefore, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission seeks to manage this risk through the School of Broadcasting Behavior Guidelines and Broadcast Program Standards (P3SPS) program and research on the quality of broadcast programs. With this program, stakeholders, journalists, and television broadcast media, as well as experts, are involved in schools and research. The socialization results made quality television broadcasts more enthusiastic, and finally, the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission issued the KPI award, which was given to the most ethical broadcasting institution.

«MEDICAL TELEVISION»: HISTORICAL STAGE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE (1930-1960)

In the middle of the 20th century, television technologies found their application in various fields of medical science and practice, in particular in instrumental diagnostics and radiology. Interactive teleconferences have become the technical basis for distant consultations (medical videoconferencing). The emergence of two-way exchange of video and audio information in real time preceded by the period of one-way television communication (so-called «medical television»). Objective: to identify, systematize and comparatively study the patterns of development of scientific and practical knowledge related to the use of one-way television technologies in medicine. The «medical television» used in medicine in the period of 1930-1960s to organize closed (non-public) broadcasts for educational purposes. The use of «medical television» in European countries was discrete. In the United States, the use of «medical television» was purely applied, but it was very large-scale. Television broadcasts have become an indispensable component of professional conferences and congresses. In the USSR, the scientific and technical development of «medical television» followed the path of intrahospital broadcasts only. A distinctive feature was a number of development and research works in the 1950s-1960s for creation of specialized television equipment and the scientific substantiation of the requirements for the parameters of the broadcast image. Developed equipment was mass-produced. The technologies of «medical television» were introduce into the activities of medical educational institutions for the routine teaching of surgical disciplines in the USSR, USA, Great Britain, France, etc.

Amateur Radio Activity in the USSR before World War II

The article discusses the emergence and development of amateur activities in radio communications and television reception in the USSR. Amateur radio activity in the USSR received legal recognition in 1924. By the end of 1928, more than 450 amateur radio stations were on the air in the country. From the beginning of the 1930s domestic radio amateurs have also mastered the reception of television broadcasts on home-made televisions. By the end of the 1930s. there were a large number of home-made television receivers tuned to the transmission of optical-mechanical television in the country. In this regard, short-line mechanical television broadcasting in the USSR existed until the early 1940s.

From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society

ABSTRACT Technological changes have dramatically transformed the ways in which contemporary sport mega-events are produced and consumed worldwide. As the production and consumption of these global spectacles have moved beyond the traditional television and radio broadcast, this article examines and reflects on the hyper-digitalisation of sport mega-events. More specifically, we explore how one emerging platform presents a window for examining questions of power and inequality; social integration and identity; social change and development, and finally, the experience of time and space related to sport mega-events in the present-day. By employing video-sharing platform YouTube as a paradigmatic case study of the Olympic Games’ digital shift, the paper contributes towards an enhanced understanding of mega-events, technologies and digital platforms. We argue that systematic efforts to understand the digital manifestations of mega-events in a ‘platform society’ remain extremely crucial when situated against the emerging but overlapping fields of digital sociology, digital leisure studies and digital football studies in which mega-events feature.

360° cinéma montage versus immersive notion: Sam Esmail and the sensory experimentation in Mr. Robot series.

Montage will allow Cinema to find it’s identity, progressively moving away from arts from which it took root, such as oral tradition, literature or theater. It’s practice will change in time, often linked to technological innovation like television broadcasting or camera enhancement and miniaturization.Understanding this evolution in montage when we are interested in 360° cinema innovation, makes us wonder about the meaning of the concept itself and how it seems to disappear, among the written theory and experimentation on the subject. We must acknowledge that montage as used in a standard frame Cinema it’s not viable in a highly immersive sensory environment. There are numerous reasons to explain this issue, going from troubles linked to internal hearing creating motion sickness to how difficult it becomes to attract public attention towards the zone in the film where action takes place and give sense to narrative.In this text we will mostly focus on Sam Esmail’s work on Mr. Robot series and how he not only proposes an immersive 360° cinematic experience of the series, but he also uses 360° devices to achieve what seams to be technically impossible shots or at least very difficult to achieve in a conventional shooting way. Sam Esmail’s experimentation it’s just an example among others that makes us consider an important renewal in montage domain and storytelling.

A Syllabus Suggestion for an Undergraduate Kinetic Typography Course

The static typography of the past has become kinetic and gained dimensions as a result of the opportunities and needs that have emerged with technological developments. Animated images and kinetic applications are needed both in the field of television broadcasting and in animation, game, and generic designs, all of which have become an important part of daily life. For this reason, kinetic typography and complementary courses must be included in visual communication design education in the curriculum today. In this context, this article aims to develop kinetic typography project definitions to analyze kinetic typography applications and propose a future-oriented typography lesson model. To reach this aim, this research employed a qualitative research methodology and literature review design. Examining the literature on the development and use of kinetic typography both in the national and international contexts, a syllabus has been proposed to be used in teaching the topic, of kinetic typography, at the undergraduate level of graphic design education. Scholars in the field are recommended to examine the syllabus and adapt it to their students’ needs.