A novel copyright protection scheme for digital content is presented, which is a private watermarking scheme based on the watermark embedding in the DCT domain and watermark extraction Using independent component anal...A novel copyright protection scheme for digital content is presented, which is a private watermarking scheme based on the watermark embedding in the DCT domain and watermark extraction Using independent component analysis （ICA）. The system includes the key for watermark extraction and the host image. The algorithm splits the original image into blocks and classifies these blocks based on visual masking, that is, noise visibility function （NVF）. Watermark components with different strength are inserted into chosen direct current components of DCT coefficients according to the classifier. The watermark extraction is based on the characteristic of the statistic independence of the host image, watermark and key. Principle component analysis （PCA） whitening process and FastICA techniques are introduced to ensure a blind watermark extraction without requiring the original image. Experirnental results show the proposed technique is robust under attacks such as image filtering and adding noise, cropping and resizing. In addition, the proposed private watermarking system can be improved to the application of the DTV content protection system.展开更多
Purpose: In recent years, there has been concern in Japan about the increase in STDs among adolescents aged 15 - 19. In order to prevent STDs and guide adolescents toward desirable sexual behavior, this study’s goal ...Purpose: In recent years, there has been concern in Japan about the increase in STDs among adolescents aged 15 - 19. In order to prevent STDs and guide adolescents toward desirable sexual behavior, this study’s goal was to examine the actual state of STD prevention education taught by school nurses as part of the school curriculum, as well as the kinds of digital content they wish to have for teaching on the subject. Method: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was distributed by email and leaflet. Targeting the 100 valid responses received from the surveyed school nurses, descriptive statistics were made for each survey item and comparisons were made between the early- and mid-career groups based on years of experience. Results: 70.0% of respondents reported teaching about STDs in Health & Physical Education classes. School nurses in the early-career group used ready-made materials, while the mid-career group used both ready-made and self-made materials. 95% of respondents reported that they had little or no knowledge of STDs, while 84% reported that they were “good” or “fairly good” at teaching classes on sexuality. Both groups reported difficulty with the topics of “phimosis” and “nocturnal emissions” in the physiological category, “sexual behavior” in the “sex-adjacent” category, and “sexual and reproductive issues” in the psychosocial category. Respondents expressed a need for digital content covering the topics of “sexual violence”, “sexual abuse”, “sexually transmitted diseases”, and “how to turn down sex”. The mid-career group desired digital content for more items than the early-career group, with significant differences in the pathogens involved in sexually transmitted diseases and sex-adjacent items. 32.0% of respondents answered that they had done self-study for sex education classes in the past three years, and both groups desired self-study on “sexually transmitted diseases”, with the mid-career group significantly higher than the early-career group on “cervical cancer & HPV”, “emergency contraceptives”, and “media literacy”. Conclusion: Health & Physical Education is the main subject that covers STDs, and pre-existing materials are commonly used. It is expected that this is due to nurses’ busy schedules and the fact that only one school nurse is assigned to each school. The data collected suggested that nurse teachers want categorized digital content that can be used in the classes they are responsible for, rather than educational content on topics they are not comfortable with. In addition, given the changing environment surrounding sex, it was clear that they wish to understand the realities and needs of the high school students they teach, and desire self-study opportunities to improve their teaching methods.展开更多
The digital content industry is becoming a new impetus for the development of the information industry as the infrastructure construction,including the optical fiber backbone transmission network and the wireless mobi...The digital content industry is becoming a new impetus for the development of the information industry as the infrastructure construction,including the optical fiber backbone transmission network and the wireless mobile access network,are being completed.Industrial analysis and technical research of the digital content become more and more important in this situation.Digital content security technology is one of the three supporting technologies in the digital content industry.The key points to guarantee digital content security include the solutions for the following problems:sale of pirated digital content,damage and pollution of illegal and harmful content to the social environment,and the means for consumers’ security and reasonable payment.These issues involve a lot of challenging scientific and technical problems such as highly efficient multimedia encryption and hiding algorithms,multimedia content recognition and filtering algorithms on network,and heterogeneous network oriented micropayment protocols.展开更多
The objective of this study is to propose a theoretical framework that stimulates the joint analysis of the use of digital content marketing and online media in a business-to-business(B2B)marketing and sales funnel.Th...The objective of this study is to propose a theoretical framework that stimulates the joint analysis of the use of digital content marketing and online media in a business-to-business(B2B)marketing and sales funnel.The research was conceived from a general review of the key terms related to the subjects covered,in the Web of Science(WoS)database until February 2021.There was a scarcity of studies on digital content marketing and the three types of online,paid,owned,and earned media,combined with the business-to-business(B2B)segment.Based on this,a theoretical framework was proposed so that the themes could be studied together,as well as research propositions were elaborated.The proposed framework can collaborate with the development of studies on the subject in a more holistic way,in addition to enabling the evaluation of results that help marketing managers to better base their decisions about the allocation of resources in digital content marketing and online media.展开更多
Color,classified as warm and cool colors,impacts consumers’product selection.How the warm and cool di-mensions of colors in polychromatic pictures impact consumers’behavior in e-commerce platforms remains unexplored...Color,classified as warm and cool colors,impacts consumers’product selection.How the warm and cool di-mensions of colors in polychromatic pictures impact consumers’behavior in e-commerce platforms remains unexplored.This research examines the influences of warm and cool color combinations on consumers’liking using polychromatic stimuli in a digital reading context using empirical evidence from over 200000 exposures to 423 books.As a result,warm and cool colors(vs.neutral colors)can enhance the click-through rate,and the romance theme of novels can enhance the positive effect to consumers of warm colors(vs.neutral colors).This research extends the findings using monochromatic stimuli and indicates a theme-based visual-product attribute congruence that enhances consumers’trial-reading choice on the digital reading platform.展开更多
Cyber-physical systems(CPS)represent a sophisticated integration of computational and physical components that power critical applications such as smart manufacturing,healthcare,and autonomous infrastructure.However,t...Cyber-physical systems(CPS)represent a sophisticated integration of computational and physical components that power critical applications such as smart manufacturing,healthcare,and autonomous infrastructure.However,their extensive reliance on internet connectivity makes them increasingly susceptible to cyber threats,potentially leading to operational failures and data breaches.Furthermore,CPS faces significant threats related to unauthorized access,improper management,and tampering of the content it generates.In this paper,we propose an intrusion detection system(IDS)optimized for CPS environments using a hybrid approach by combining a natureinspired feature selection scheme,such as Grey Wolf Optimization(GWO),in connection with the emerging Light Gradient Boosting Machine(LightGBM)classifier,named as GWO-LightGBM.While gradient boosting methods have been explored in prior IDS research,our novelty lies in proposing a hybrid approach targeting CPS-specific operational constraints,such as low-latency response and accurate detection of rare and critical attack types.We evaluate GWO-LightGBM against GWO-XGBoost,GWO-CatBoost,and an artificial neural network(ANN)baseline using the NSL-KDD and CIC-IDS-2017 benchmark datasets.The proposed models are assessed across multiple metrics,including accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score,with an emphasis on class-wise performance and training efficiency.The proposed GWO-LightGBM model achieves the highest overall accuracy(99.73%)for NSL-KDD and(99.61%)for CIC-IDS-2017,demonstrating superior performance in detecting minority classes such as Remote-to-Local(R2L)and Other attacks—commonly overlooked by other classifiers.Moreover,the proposed model consumes lower training time,highlighting its practical feasibility and scalability for real-time CPS deployment.展开更多
There has been disagreement over the value of purchasing space in the metaverse, but many businesses including Nike, The Wendy’s Company, and McDonald’s have jumped in headfirst. While the metaverse land rush has be...There has been disagreement over the value of purchasing space in the metaverse, but many businesses including Nike, The Wendy’s Company, and McDonald’s have jumped in headfirst. While the metaverse land rush has been called an “illusion” given underdeveloped infrastructure, including inadequate software and servers, and the potential opportunities for economic and legal abuse, the “real estate of the future” shows no signs of slowing. While the current virtual space of the metaverse is worth $6.30 billion, that is expected to grow to $84.09 billion by the end of 2028. But the long-term legal and regulatory considerations of capitalizing on the investment, as well as the manner in which blockchain technology can secure users’ data and digital assets, has yet to be properly investigated. With the metaverse still in a conceptual phase, building a new 3D social environment capable of digital transactions will represent most of the initial investment in time in human capital. Digital twin technologies, already well-established in industry, will be ported to support the need to architect and furnish the new digital world. The return on and viability of investing in the “real estate of the future” raises questions fundamental to the success or failure of the enterprise. As such this paper proposes a novel framing of the issue and looks at the intersection where finance, technology, and law are converging to prevent another Dot-com bubble of the late 1990s in metaverse-based virtual real estate transactions. Furthermore, the paper will argue that these domains are technologically feasible, but the main challenges for commercial users remain in the legal and regulatory arenas. As has been the case with the emergence of online commerce, a legal assessment of the metaverse indicates that courts will look to traditional and established legal principles when addressing issues until the enactment of federal and/or state statutes and accompanying regulations. Lastly, whereas traditional regulation of real estate would involve property law, the current legal framing of ownership of metaverse assets is governed by contract law.展开更多
This paper proposes a novel method for color restoration that can effectively apply accurate color based on spectral information to a segmented image using the normalized cut technique. Using the proposed method, we c...This paper proposes a novel method for color restoration that can effectively apply accurate color based on spectral information to a segmented image using the normalized cut technique. Using the proposed method, we can obtain a digital still camera image and spectral information in different environments. Also, it is not necessary to estimate reflectance spectra using a spectral database such as other methods. The synthesized images are accurate and high resolution. The proposed method effectively works in making digital archive contents. Some experimental results are demonstrated in this paper.展开更多
Digital educational content is gaining importance as an incubator of pedagogical methodologies in formal and informal online educational settings. Its educational efficiency is directly dependent on its quality, howev...Digital educational content is gaining importance as an incubator of pedagogical methodologies in formal and informal online educational settings. Its educational efficiency is directly dependent on its quality, however educational content is more than information and data. This paper presents a new data quality framework for assessing digital educational content used for teaching in distance learning environments. The model relies on the ISO2500 series quality standard and beside providing the mechanisms for multi-facet quality assessment it also supports organizations that design, create, manage and use educational content with the quality tools (expressed as quality metrics and measurement methods) to provide a more efficient distance education experience. The model describes the quality characteristics of the educational material content using data and software quality characteristics.展开更多
基金This project was supported by the Digital TV Special Foundation of National Development and Reform Commission ofChina (040313) Home Coming Scholars Science Activity Foundation of Ministry of Personnel (20041231) the Graduate In-novation Foundation of Xidian University (innovaion 0509)
文摘A novel copyright protection scheme for digital content is presented, which is a private watermarking scheme based on the watermark embedding in the DCT domain and watermark extraction Using independent component analysis （ICA）. The system includes the key for watermark extraction and the host image. The algorithm splits the original image into blocks and classifies these blocks based on visual masking, that is, noise visibility function （NVF）. Watermark components with different strength are inserted into chosen direct current components of DCT coefficients according to the classifier. The watermark extraction is based on the characteristic of the statistic independence of the host image, watermark and key. Principle component analysis （PCA） whitening process and FastICA techniques are introduced to ensure a blind watermark extraction without requiring the original image. Experirnental results show the proposed technique is robust under attacks such as image filtering and adding noise, cropping and resizing. In addition, the proposed private watermarking system can be improved to the application of the DTV content protection system.
文摘Purpose: In recent years, there has been concern in Japan about the increase in STDs among adolescents aged 15 - 19. In order to prevent STDs and guide adolescents toward desirable sexual behavior, this study’s goal was to examine the actual state of STD prevention education taught by school nurses as part of the school curriculum, as well as the kinds of digital content they wish to have for teaching on the subject. Method: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire was distributed by email and leaflet. Targeting the 100 valid responses received from the surveyed school nurses, descriptive statistics were made for each survey item and comparisons were made between the early- and mid-career groups based on years of experience. Results: 70.0% of respondents reported teaching about STDs in Health & Physical Education classes. School nurses in the early-career group used ready-made materials, while the mid-career group used both ready-made and self-made materials. 95% of respondents reported that they had little or no knowledge of STDs, while 84% reported that they were “good” or “fairly good” at teaching classes on sexuality. Both groups reported difficulty with the topics of “phimosis” and “nocturnal emissions” in the physiological category, “sexual behavior” in the “sex-adjacent” category, and “sexual and reproductive issues” in the psychosocial category. Respondents expressed a need for digital content covering the topics of “sexual violence”, “sexual abuse”, “sexually transmitted diseases”, and “how to turn down sex”. The mid-career group desired digital content for more items than the early-career group, with significant differences in the pathogens involved in sexually transmitted diseases and sex-adjacent items. 32.0% of respondents answered that they had done self-study for sex education classes in the past three years, and both groups desired self-study on “sexually transmitted diseases”, with the mid-career group significantly higher than the early-career group on “cervical cancer & HPV”, “emergency contraceptives”, and “media literacy”. Conclusion: Health & Physical Education is the main subject that covers STDs, and pre-existing materials are commonly used. It is expected that this is due to nurses’ busy schedules and the fact that only one school nurse is assigned to each school. The data collected suggested that nurse teachers want categorized digital content that can be used in the classes they are responsible for, rather than educational content on topics they are not comfortable with. In addition, given the changing environment surrounding sex, it was clear that they wish to understand the realities and needs of the high school students they teach, and desire self-study opportunities to improve their teaching methods.
基金This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 60675001.
文摘The digital content industry is becoming a new impetus for the development of the information industry as the infrastructure construction,including the optical fiber backbone transmission network and the wireless mobile access network,are being completed.Industrial analysis and technical research of the digital content become more and more important in this situation.Digital content security technology is one of the three supporting technologies in the digital content industry.The key points to guarantee digital content security include the solutions for the following problems:sale of pirated digital content,damage and pollution of illegal and harmful content to the social environment,and the means for consumers’ security and reasonable payment.These issues involve a lot of challenging scientific and technical problems such as highly efficient multimedia encryption and hiding algorithms,multimedia content recognition and filtering algorithms on network,and heterogeneous network oriented micropayment protocols.
文摘The objective of this study is to propose a theoretical framework that stimulates the joint analysis of the use of digital content marketing and online media in a business-to-business(B2B)marketing and sales funnel.The research was conceived from a general review of the key terms related to the subjects covered,in the Web of Science(WoS)database until February 2021.There was a scarcity of studies on digital content marketing and the three types of online,paid,owned,and earned media,combined with the business-to-business(B2B)segment.Based on this,a theoretical framework was proposed so that the themes could be studied together,as well as research propositions were elaborated.The proposed framework can collaborate with the development of studies on the subject in a more holistic way,in addition to enabling the evaluation of results that help marketing managers to better base their decisions about the allocation of resources in digital content marketing and online media.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(72072169).
文摘Color,classified as warm and cool colors,impacts consumers’product selection.How the warm and cool di-mensions of colors in polychromatic pictures impact consumers’behavior in e-commerce platforms remains unexplored.This research examines the influences of warm and cool color combinations on consumers’liking using polychromatic stimuli in a digital reading context using empirical evidence from over 200000 exposures to 423 books.As a result,warm and cool colors(vs.neutral colors)can enhance the click-through rate,and the romance theme of novels can enhance the positive effect to consumers of warm colors(vs.neutral colors).This research extends the findings using monochromatic stimuli and indicates a theme-based visual-product attribute congruence that enhances consumers’trial-reading choice on the digital reading platform.
基金supported by Culture,Sports and Tourism R&D Program through the Korea Creative Content Agency grant funded by the Ministry of Culture,Sports and Tourism in 2024(Project Name:Global Talent Training Program for Copyright Management Technology in Game Contents,Project Number:RS-2024-00396709,Contribution Rate:100%).
文摘Cyber-physical systems(CPS)represent a sophisticated integration of computational and physical components that power critical applications such as smart manufacturing,healthcare,and autonomous infrastructure.However,their extensive reliance on internet connectivity makes them increasingly susceptible to cyber threats,potentially leading to operational failures and data breaches.Furthermore,CPS faces significant threats related to unauthorized access,improper management,and tampering of the content it generates.In this paper,we propose an intrusion detection system(IDS)optimized for CPS environments using a hybrid approach by combining a natureinspired feature selection scheme,such as Grey Wolf Optimization(GWO),in connection with the emerging Light Gradient Boosting Machine(LightGBM)classifier,named as GWO-LightGBM.While gradient boosting methods have been explored in prior IDS research,our novelty lies in proposing a hybrid approach targeting CPS-specific operational constraints,such as low-latency response and accurate detection of rare and critical attack types.We evaluate GWO-LightGBM against GWO-XGBoost,GWO-CatBoost,and an artificial neural network(ANN)baseline using the NSL-KDD and CIC-IDS-2017 benchmark datasets.The proposed models are assessed across multiple metrics,including accuracy,precision,recall,and F1-score,with an emphasis on class-wise performance and training efficiency.The proposed GWO-LightGBM model achieves the highest overall accuracy(99.73%)for NSL-KDD and(99.61%)for CIC-IDS-2017,demonstrating superior performance in detecting minority classes such as Remote-to-Local(R2L)and Other attacks—commonly overlooked by other classifiers.Moreover,the proposed model consumes lower training time,highlighting its practical feasibility and scalability for real-time CPS deployment.
文摘There has been disagreement over the value of purchasing space in the metaverse, but many businesses including Nike, The Wendy’s Company, and McDonald’s have jumped in headfirst. While the metaverse land rush has been called an “illusion” given underdeveloped infrastructure, including inadequate software and servers, and the potential opportunities for economic and legal abuse, the “real estate of the future” shows no signs of slowing. While the current virtual space of the metaverse is worth $6.30 billion, that is expected to grow to $84.09 billion by the end of 2028. But the long-term legal and regulatory considerations of capitalizing on the investment, as well as the manner in which blockchain technology can secure users’ data and digital assets, has yet to be properly investigated. With the metaverse still in a conceptual phase, building a new 3D social environment capable of digital transactions will represent most of the initial investment in time in human capital. Digital twin technologies, already well-established in industry, will be ported to support the need to architect and furnish the new digital world. The return on and viability of investing in the “real estate of the future” raises questions fundamental to the success or failure of the enterprise. As such this paper proposes a novel framing of the issue and looks at the intersection where finance, technology, and law are converging to prevent another Dot-com bubble of the late 1990s in metaverse-based virtual real estate transactions. Furthermore, the paper will argue that these domains are technologically feasible, but the main challenges for commercial users remain in the legal and regulatory arenas. As has been the case with the emergence of online commerce, a legal assessment of the metaverse indicates that courts will look to traditional and established legal principles when addressing issues until the enactment of federal and/or state statutes and accompanying regulations. Lastly, whereas traditional regulation of real estate would involve property law, the current legal framing of ownership of metaverse assets is governed by contract law.
基金This work was supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, under the leading project "Development of High Fidelity Digitization Software for Large-scale and Intangible Cultural Assets"
文摘This paper proposes a novel method for color restoration that can effectively apply accurate color based on spectral information to a segmented image using the normalized cut technique. Using the proposed method, we can obtain a digital still camera image and spectral information in different environments. Also, it is not necessary to estimate reflectance spectra using a spectral database such as other methods. The synthesized images are accurate and high resolution. The proposed method effectively works in making digital archive contents. Some experimental results are demonstrated in this paper.
文摘Digital educational content is gaining importance as an incubator of pedagogical methodologies in formal and informal online educational settings. Its educational efficiency is directly dependent on its quality, however educational content is more than information and data. This paper presents a new data quality framework for assessing digital educational content used for teaching in distance learning environments. The model relies on the ISO2500 series quality standard and beside providing the mechanisms for multi-facet quality assessment it also supports organizations that design, create, manage and use educational content with the quality tools (expressed as quality metrics and measurement methods) to provide a more efficient distance education experience. The model describes the quality characteristics of the educational material content using data and software quality characteristics.
