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This paper tries to clarify various pauses, which are called "Ma" in Japanese, in performances in order to employ them in transmitting traditional skills from the current generation to the next one. Various pauses are tried to be identified from speeches, music pieces, and actions. A tea ceremony, the knitting of wire netting and the Mie of Kabuki performance are treated as actions. Pauses...
To eliminate mismatches between the intentions of questioners and respondents of Question and Answer (Q&A) sites, we have clarified the characteristics of the question and answer statements. It has been shown that the impression of the statements could be captured by nine factors, and the factor scores could be estimated from the feature values of the statements. Here, the objective scores...
This paper discusses the stimulation of the subject's strong emotions in presenting audiovisual materials. The mental states aroused are charity, nostalgia, nobility, and passion. Audiovisual materials are presented to subjects. The degrees of the mental states with strong emotion and the kinds of mental states are experimentally obtained. The experimental results show that different types of emotion...
In order to avoid the problem of mismatch between the questioner and the respondent, we have conducted impression evaluation experiment and nine factors are obtained as a result. Then factor scores of any other statements have been tried to be estimated by using multiple regression analysis@from feature values of statements. By adopting syntactic information of statements, word image ability and closing...
For the purpose of retrieving impressive scenes from life log videos based on facial expression recognition, an effective equipment to take facial videos is developed in this paper. The important advantage of this equipment is that it is able to take facial videos without excessive fatigue. In addition, we implemented an emotional scene management system. It provides the functions to store facial...
This paper uses Postgre SQL, a database management system, in the data management of the similarity retrieval of subsequences of waveforms. By using Postgre SQL, the management of data could become easy, and a multi-dimensional index structure named the R tree could be used. This paper examines the parallel processing of the similarity retrieval by dividing a table into several tables. It is shown...
This paper proposes a method for evaluating impressions using a space containing impression words. The impression of an object is specified by circling impression words that match the impression. The degree of matching of the impression is expressed by the darkness of the color used to paint the circled area. This proposed method poses few restrictions to users evaluating an impression. Conversely,...
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