Abstract: A process for the automatic selection of digital photographs from an archive includes the step of providing software programmed to perform at least the following steps and to perform them through such software: accessing an archive of digital photographs containing a plurality of digital photographs; setting a reference geolocation, referred to below as the “home” position; including in an identifiable selection the photographs that comply with at least the following conditions: they were taken at a spatial distance from the “home” position greater than or “greater than or equal to” a predetermined distance; and they were taken in a time sequence between each other during a timeframe where photographs taken at a distance that is less than or “less than or equal to” the predetermined distance from the “home” position are absent; preferably ordering the printing and/or archiving of the selection.

Abstract: A method of generating accessible content is described. Embodiments of the method identifies a plurality of channels for a multimedia communication session, generate a master timeline for the communication session, wherein the master timeline comprises a chronological ordering of events from each of the channels, and wherein each of the events is associated with event-specific audio data, and present the multimedia communication session to a user to enable the user to transition among the channels based on the master timeline.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for identifying a group for similar digital content items. The method includes retrieving one or more digital content items and determining at least one characteristic of each digital content item. The determined one or more digital content items are transformed to form one or more transformed digital content items. At least one characteristic of the one or more digital content items is determined. The determined at least one characteristic of the one or more digital content items is assessed with respect to at least one characteristic of the one or more transformed digital content items to form a first transformation assessment result. The first transformation assessment result is used to determine a group for the one or more digital content items. A view of the results is provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for identifying abusive user accounts based on playlists are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method for identifying abusive content is provided, the method comprising: determining at least one feature associated with a playlist created by a user-generated channel; calculating a playlist score associated with the playlist based on a playlist classifier, wherein the playlist classifier comprises a function that maps the at least one feature to the playlist score; calculating a channel score associated with the user-generated channel based at least on the calculated playlist score; determining that one or more content items associated with the user-generated channel is to be demoted based on the calculated channel score, wherein the one or more content items comprises the playlist; and causing the one or more content items to be demoted.

Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for consistent schema-less and scalable database storage are described herein. A data object is generated. The data object corresponds to a column of a table from a database. The data object includes information regarding an order that is placed over a network publication system. The data object is stored in the column of the table in the database. A request to access the data object is received from a device of a first user. The data object is transmitted to the device of the first user. The data is kept coherent during concurrent updates by using optimistic locks. The data is kept backward and forward compatible utilizing intermediate data structures common to both versions of the software. The data is kept searchable by using lookup indexes. The storage system is kept scalable by sharding data across many databases.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including: a feature information accepting unit that, by causing a user to specify a position in a feature map in which a plurality of feature images indicating features to be displayed are arranged, accepts entry of feature information associated with the position in the feature map; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image used for display based on the feature information; and a display information generation unit that generates display information used for causing a display device to display the image used for display.

Abstract: Innovations in the area of server-side processing when committing transactions to disk in a distributed database system can improve computational efficiency at database nodes and/or reduce network bandwidth utilization. For example, when transactions are committed in a database system, at a master node of the database system, a server uses different threads for certain processor-intensive operations and certain I/O-intensive operations.

Abstract: An electronic device, for each media content item of a plurality of media content items, receives a respective score for each of a first set of objectives and a second set of objectives and generates a respective score between a user and the media content item. The generating includes applying a first ordered weighted average to the respective scores for the first set of objectives, to produce a first combined score for the first set of objectives, applying a second ordered weighted average to the respective scores for the second set of objectives, to produce a second combined score for the second set of objectives and applying a third ordered weighted average to the combined score for the first set of objectives and the second set of objectives. The electronic device provides media content to the user based on the respective scores between the user and the media content items.

Abstract: A word extraction unit 11 that analyzes m texts to extract n words, a vector computation unit 12 that converts each of the m texts into a q-dimension vector and each of the n words into a q-dimension vector, thereby computing m text vectors including q axis components and n word vectors including q axis components, and an index value computation unit 13 that takes each of inner products of the m text vectors and the n word vectors, thereby computing a similarity index value reflecting a relationship between the m texts and the n words are included, and it is possible to obtain a similarity index value representing which word contributes to which text and to what extent as an inner product value by calculating an inner product of a text vector computed from a text and a word vector computed from a word included in the text.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately, efficiently, and flexibly identifying and providing digital images of human figures in poses corresponding to a query pose. In particular, the disclosed systems can provide multiple approaches to searching for and providing pose images, including identifying a digital image depicting a human figure in a particular pose based on a query digital image that depicts the pose or identifying a digital image depicting a human figure in a particular pose based on a virtual mannequin. Indeed, the disclosed systems can provide a manipulable virtual mannequin that defines a query pose for searching a repository of digital images. Additionally, the disclosed systems can generate and provide digital pose image groups by clustering digital images together according to poses of human figures within a pose feature space.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage use of a multiscale quantization model that is configured to provide a quantized dataset. In particular, the multiscale quantization model can receive and perform vector quantization of a first dataset. The multiscale quantization model can generate a residual dataset based at least in part on a result of the vector quantization. The multiscale quantization model can apply a rotation matrix to the residual dataset to generate a rotated residual dataset that includes a plurality of rotated residuals. The multiscale quantization model can perform reparameterization of each rotated residual in the rotated residual dataset into a direction component and a scale component. The multiscale quantization model can perform product quantization of the direction components of the plurality of rotated residuals, and perform scalar quantization of the scale components of the plurality of rotated residuals.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product, which given in input a question in natural language format, delivers personalized insights related to the answer. Personalized insights are selected among candidate insights mined from the data and ranked based on closeness to (mined) user-preference, relevance to the question, and surprise factor. Two core components include: Question analysis and meaningful insight look up and Multi-dimensional insight ranking. The Question analysis and meaningful insights lookup module performs a semantic analysis of the questions and, uses techniques including “templates” to build new questions which could uncover insights from the data. The Multi-dimensional insight ranking module takes in input a list of insights returned from Question analysis and meaningful insights lookup and rank such insights based on such factors as: relevance to the query, surprise factor, and user preferences.

Abstract: A method of processing a cover page image of multimedia information, a client and an electronic device are provided. The method includes acquiring initial cover page images of N pieces of second multimedia information following first multimedia information, where the first multimedia information is displayed on a current display interface of the client, the N pieces of second multimedia information are not displayed on the current display interface of the client, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, performing a super-resolution processing on the initial cover page images of the N pieces of second multimedia information, to obtain super-resolution cover page images of the N pieces of second multimedia information, and displaying the super-resolution cover page images of the second multimedia information, in a case that the second multimedia information enters the current display interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for providing a summary of a multimedia document in a session. In some implementations, a message may be received from a user in a session and the session is between the user and an electronic conversational agent. The multimedia document may be obtained based at least on the message. The emotion information in the multimedia document may be extracted. The summary of the multimedia document may be generated based at least on the message and the extracted emotion information. A response including the generated summary of the multimedia document may be provided to the user.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, may cause the at least one processor to retrieve a first training profile of a plurality of training profiles from a database, identify a plurality of index keywords in a respective training content of the first training profile, in which the respective training content includes audio data, video data, or both, and divide the first training profile into a plurality of sections based on the plurality of index keywords. Each of the plurality of sections is selectable for playback.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to method and system for performing optimized image search. The method includes receiving an input image and user requirements with respect to an image search, identifying a sub-section from various sub-sections of the input image based on semantic parameters corresponding to each sub-section and the user requirements, and determining an optimal resolution of the sub-section based on a pixel density of various image formats derived for the sub-section. The method further includes identifying an optimal set of layers from a plurality of layers of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based image search model for performing the image search based on the semantic parameters for the sub-section, the optimal resolution of the sub-section, and historical data, and performing the image search to identify a set of output images similar to the sub-section based on a modified ANN based image search model comprising the optimal set of layers.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information provision device has a plurality of cameras and a processor. The processor identifies a person included in an image acquired by the camera from the image. The processor identifies a place photographed by the camera from the image obtained by the camera. The processor identifies an information terminal used by the person from the image obtained by the camera. The processor provides information according to the identified place to the identified information terminal.

Abstract: A system having a computer, a database for storage and retrieval of real estate data, an agent/owner computing device in remote data communication with the computer, at least two geolocations provided to the computer by the agent/owner computing device, a multimedia recording device connected to the agent/owner computing device, at least two multimedia presentations captured by the multimedia recording device and transmitted to the computer by the agent/owner computing device, a route created by software on the agent/owner computing device associating at least one of the multimedia presentations with each of the geolocations, the route uploaded to the computer for storage on the database, a user computing device including a display and speakers for remotely accessing the route through the computer, and a variable presentation path generated by software on the computer by combining a route requested by the user computing device with a geolocation of the user computing device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating contextual queries based on media samples automatically captured by a computing device are disclosed herein. A server receives from a computing device over a communication network, a media sample of a media asset automatically captured by the computing device. The server obtains contextual information corresponding to the captured media sample. The server stores the media sample in a memory indexed by the contextual information. The server receives, from the computing device over the communication network, a query that includes a criterion but lacks an identifier of the media asset. The server identifies the media sample in the memory by matching the query criterion to the contextual information. The server generates a reply to the query based on the identifying of the media sample and communicates the reply to the computing device over the communication network.