Technique for horror video recognition is important for its application in web content filtering and surveillance, especially for preventing children from being threaten. In this paper, a novel horror video recognitio...Technique for horror video recognition is important for its application in web content filtering and surveillance, especially for preventing children from being threaten. In this paper, a novel horror video recognition algorithm based on fuzzy comprehensive evolution model is proposed. Three low-level video features are extracted as typical features, and they are video key-light, video colour energy and video rhythm. Analytic Hierarchy Process （AHP） is adopted to estimate the weights of extracted features in fuzzy evolution model. Horror evaluation （membership function） is on shot scale and it is constructed based on the knowledge that videos which share the same affective have similar low-level features. K-Means algorithm is implemented to help finding the most representative feature vectors. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach has good performance in recognition precision, recall rate and F1 measure.展开更多
By reviewing the contemporary films produced in the East and West, the author of this thesis makes a comparative study of monster image in horror films between the two worlds, and reveals the truth that monster image ...By reviewing the contemporary films produced in the East and West, the author of this thesis makes a comparative study of monster image in horror films between the two worlds, and reveals the truth that monster image has been gradually transformed into convergence with the impact of modern computer-generated technology although the distinction of their respective cultural identities are still there. This shifting phenomenon also accounts for the influence of Internet technology and economic globalization on filmdom.展开更多
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many mystery and detective stories from 1890s to 1910s, years saw the advancement of powerful modem science and technology, especially inventions of transportation means or machines that a...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many mystery and detective stories from 1890s to 1910s, years saw the advancement of powerful modem science and technology, especially inventions of transportation means or machines that accelerate mobility power in late-Victorian and Edwardian society. In some of these mystery or detective stories especially featuring the well-known sleuth Sherlock Holmes, Doyle tended to integrate an early subject＇s experience of shrunken space and reduced time into an unknown fear by delineating his characters who perceive horror and nervousness while facing or riding on a railway transportation, including mainly the steam railway in mysterious tales like ＂The Lost Special＂ and ＂The Man with the Watches＂ as well as in detective stories like ＂The Adventure of the Engineer＇s Thumb＂, ＂The Adventure of Bruce-Partington Plan＂, ＂Valley of Fear＂ and several others. How can this spatiotemporal mobility be connected to mysterious affairs which lead Doyle＇s quasi-detective characters and police power to spring into investigative action？ Railway, mobility, and horror are woven together into a driving force that facilitates our geographical and forensic exploration of Doyle＇s stories.展开更多
In The Sky Fall series, romance and horror are the main impetuses that keep the plot developing. How the protagonists, Vane and Audra, bravely face the obstacles and hazards on the way of pursuing true love as well as...In The Sky Fall series, romance and horror are the main impetuses that keep the plot developing. How the protagonists, Vane and Audra, bravely face the obstacles and hazards on the way of pursuing true love as well as freedom for people under the tyranny of Raiden becomes the essence of the series. Love helps Vane and Audra overcome various difficulties and threats to their individual development. In the present paper, the author tries to analyze how Shannon Messenger, the author of the book, successfully mingles the fantasy element ofparanormal romance with the Gothic elements of horror to foreground the initiation theme in The Sky Fall series展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe's life is a misery and the horror tales written by him are impressive,which has a strong sense of Gothic feeling.Like author,like his works.Almost every feature of Poe's horror tales could find...Edgar Allan Poe's life is a misery and the horror tales written by him are impressive,which has a strong sense of Gothic feeling.Like author,like his works.Almost every feature of Poe's horror tales could find explanation in his own life.展开更多
We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated,...We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated, eyes gouged out or noses cut off. These stories of horror might be beyond comprehension of any person with the least sense of human civilization, even though they are real. The system of serfdom practiced in old Tibet featured a combination of civil and展开更多
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a difficult novella.The last cry of Kurtz,"The horror! The horror!",is ambiguous,complex,and metaphorical in meaning.This paper tries to make a thorough analysis of all the ...Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a difficult novella.The last cry of Kurtz,"The horror! The horror!",is ambiguous,complex,and metaphorical in meaning.This paper tries to make a thorough analysis of all the possible meanings of the words,hoping to reveal its relation with the themes and facilitate a better understanding of the story.展开更多
文摘Technique for horror video recognition is important for its application in web content filtering and surveillance, especially for preventing children from being threaten. In this paper, a novel horror video recognition algorithm based on fuzzy comprehensive evolution model is proposed. Three low-level video features are extracted as typical features, and they are video key-light, video colour energy and video rhythm. Analytic Hierarchy Process （AHP） is adopted to estimate the weights of extracted features in fuzzy evolution model. Horror evaluation （membership function） is on shot scale and it is constructed based on the knowledge that videos which share the same affective have similar low-level features. K-Means algorithm is implemented to help finding the most representative feature vectors. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach has good performance in recognition precision, recall rate and F1 measure.
文摘By reviewing the contemporary films produced in the East and West, the author of this thesis makes a comparative study of monster image in horror films between the two worlds, and reveals the truth that monster image has been gradually transformed into convergence with the impact of modern computer-generated technology although the distinction of their respective cultural identities are still there. This shifting phenomenon also accounts for the influence of Internet technology and economic globalization on filmdom.
文摘Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many mystery and detective stories from 1890s to 1910s, years saw the advancement of powerful modem science and technology, especially inventions of transportation means or machines that accelerate mobility power in late-Victorian and Edwardian society. In some of these mystery or detective stories especially featuring the well-known sleuth Sherlock Holmes, Doyle tended to integrate an early subject＇s experience of shrunken space and reduced time into an unknown fear by delineating his characters who perceive horror and nervousness while facing or riding on a railway transportation, including mainly the steam railway in mysterious tales like ＂The Lost Special＂ and ＂The Man with the Watches＂ as well as in detective stories like ＂The Adventure of the Engineer＇s Thumb＂, ＂The Adventure of Bruce-Partington Plan＂, ＂Valley of Fear＂ and several others. How can this spatiotemporal mobility be connected to mysterious affairs which lead Doyle＇s quasi-detective characters and police power to spring into investigative action？ Railway, mobility, and horror are woven together into a driving force that facilitates our geographical and forensic exploration of Doyle＇s stories.
文摘In The Sky Fall series, romance and horror are the main impetuses that keep the plot developing. How the protagonists, Vane and Audra, bravely face the obstacles and hazards on the way of pursuing true love as well as freedom for people under the tyranny of Raiden becomes the essence of the series. Love helps Vane and Audra overcome various difficulties and threats to their individual development. In the present paper, the author tries to analyze how Shannon Messenger, the author of the book, successfully mingles the fantasy element ofparanormal romance with the Gothic elements of horror to foreground the initiation theme in The Sky Fall series
文摘Edgar Allan Poe's life is a misery and the horror tales written by him are impressive,which has a strong sense of Gothic feeling.Like author,like his works.Almost every feature of Poe's horror tales could find explanation in his own life.
文摘We are going to tell you some stories that took place in old Tibet, before the Democratic Reform in the late 1950s. about how, for the sole "crime" of being slaves or serfs, people had their limbs amputated, eyes gouged out or noses cut off. These stories of horror might be beyond comprehension of any person with the least sense of human civilization, even though they are real. The system of serfdom practiced in old Tibet featured a combination of civil and
文摘Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a difficult novella.The last cry of Kurtz,"The horror! The horror!",is ambiguous,complex,and metaphorical in meaning.This paper tries to make a thorough analysis of all the possible meanings of the words,hoping to reveal its relation with the themes and facilitate a better understanding of the story.
