Introduction to Video Scaler

Amplified magnetic resonance imaging (aMRI) is an MRI method which is coupled with video magnification processing methods to amplify the subtle spatial variations in MRI scans, to enable better visualization of tissue motion. aMRI can enable better visualization of tissue motion to aid the in vivo assessment of the biomechanical response in pathology. It is thought to have potential for helping with diagnosing and monitoring a range of clinical implications in the brain and other organs, including in Chiari Malformation, brain injury, hydrocephalus, other conditions associated with abnormal intracranial pressure, cerebrovascular, and neurodegenerative disease.

The aMRI method takes high temporal-resolution MRI data as input, applies a spatial decomposition, followed by temporal filtering and frequency-selective amplification of the MRI frames before synthesizing a motion-amplified MRI data set. This approach can reveal deformations of the brain parenchyma and displacements of arteries due to cardiac pulsatility and CSF flow. aMRI has thus far been demonstrated to amplify motion in brain tissue to a more visible scale, however, can in theory be applied to visualize motion induced by other endogenous or exogenous sources in other tissues.

aMRI uses video magnificent processing methods such which uses Eulerian Video Magnification and phase-based motion processing, with the latter thought to be less prone to noise and less sensitive to non-motion induced voxel intensity changes. Both video-processing methods use a series of mathematical operations used in image processing known as steerable-pyramid wavelet transformation to amplify motion without the accompanying noise. The MRI temporal data undergoes spatial decomposition, followed by temporal filtering and frequency-selective amplification and can allow one to visualize in vivo tissue and vascular motion that is smaller than the image resolution.

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SPOCs support blended learning and flipped classroom learning, which variously combine online resources and technology with personal engagement between faculty and students. Early research results point to improved learning and student outcomes using such approaches.

In spring 2013, edX and MITx piloted two blended classroom implementations of 6.00x, Introduction to Computer Science and Programing at Bunker Hill and Mass Bay Community Colleges. The program was funded as part of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant. Students enrolled in the pilot courses completed the same exams as the 6.00x MOOC students, and scored an average of 10 points higher than their MOOC peers.

When a SPOC is implemented at an institution, in concert with students, faculty determines which features and course content to utilize. This can include video lectures, assessments (with immediate feedback), interactive labs (with immediate feedback) and discussion forums used in MOOCs. Using MOOC technology allows the faculty to organize their time with students in different ways, such as allowing more time in class for project-based work instead of grading assignments or preparing lectures. SPOCs have been analogized to next generation textbooks, by allowing faculty to decide how to use some or all parts of the SPOC. In a SPOC as in a MOOC students typically access interactive content at their own pace. Instructors set their own grading scale.

Colleges and universities can create SPOCs, or license them. In the latter instance, a SPOC might give the instructor an opportunity to deliver the material directly to students using video delivered by another expert, instead of assigning an article to read. Harvard University announced SPOCs for its curriculum in the fall of 2013. Unlike MOOCs, SPOCs have limited enrollment and are often used as part of a course for credit.

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Frozen Mountain Software is a Canadian software company known for various real-time communication SDKs and server components:

LiveSwitch, a WebRTC-based on-premise hybrid media server that is capable of operating as a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) and/or Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) simultaneously within the same session. LiveSwitch extends basic WebRTC capabilities by including a SIP Connector for integration with traditional VOIP and PSTN telephony architectures. Large scale low latency audio/video broadcasting is supported via automatic media server scaling.

IceLink, a WebRTC-compatible audio/video/data streaming SDK, available for JavaScript, .NET, Mono, iOS, Android, Xamarin, and Java, including support for non-WebRTC compliant browsers (such as IE) via ActiveX. IceLink includes full implementations of VP8 and PCM audio/video encoding/decoding on all supported platforms, as well as a self-contained DTLS implementation on all platforms.

WebSync, a Bayeux-compliant Comet server for the Microsoft and Mono frameworks, enabling HTTP-based data push from server to client on a wide range of platforms, including JavaScript, .NET, Mono, iOS, Android, Xamarin, and Java. WebSync uses WebSockets when possible and falls back to long polling. It handles scaling to extremely large numbers of simultaneous connections with a provider model for swapping the back-end data services for use with server farms and clusters.

TheRest, a .NET and Mono REST server infrastructure with clients pre-built for JavaScript, .NET, Mono, iOS, Android, Xamarin, and Java. It incorporates a framework for handling translation between exceptions and HTTP error codes, an aspect-oriented approach to mapping URLs to function calls, and a pluggable data transport mechanism that allows XML, HTML, JSON, etc. to be used interchangeably.

Frozen Mountain's goal is to simplify the development of real-time web and mobile applications for business owners as well as develop consumer products that enhance collaboration.

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Carhenge: Genius or Junk? is a 2005 documentary film about Carhenge, an artist's almost-to-scale interpretation of Stonehenge, but built with automobiles instead of megaliths. Located in Western Nebraska, Carhenge has become a huge tourist attraction and also a center of local controversy.

In the film, creator Jim Reinders challenges a community's definition of art, freedom of political expression, and appropriate land use development. This documentary focuses on Reinders' effort to erect the monument, and to then keep it from being dismantled. It also addresses aspects of public art and how, in many forms of art, the creative effort is often more about group unity than about the final end-product. The program runs 26:40.

The director, David Liban is a professor at the University of Colorado Denver.

This film has been broadcast on Public broadcasting stations nationally, Israeli television, and at the following film festivals and conferences:

Australian International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, Oct 2006

Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Berkeley, CA - Oct 28, 2005

Boulder International Film Festival, Boulder, CO - Feb 2006

Big Muddy Film Festival Carbondale, IL - Feb 2006

Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota, FL - April 2006

James River Film Festival, Short Film juried Competition, Richmond VA - April, 2006

Trenton International Film Festival, Trenton, NJ - May 2006

The Estes Park Film Festival, Estes Park, CO - September 2006

Spotlight Nebraska Film Festival, Scottsbluff, NE - October 2006

Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Nevada City, CA - January 1315, 2006

Starz Film Center, Colorado Filmmakers Showcase, Denver, CO - Dec 5th, 2005

Popular Culture Assoc. National Convention, Atlanta, GA - April, 2006

Popular Culture Assoc. Southwest Regional Convention, Albuquerque, NM - Feb 2006

University Film and Video Assoc. Conference, Chicago, IL - Aug. 2005

University of Colorado at Denver, Theatre, Film and Video Production Series -Sept., 23, 2005

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In 2000 and 2001, the Townhouse Gallery contributed to the establishment of the Nitaq Festival in Cairo, which was an art festival situated in downtown that aimed to expose the contemporary art scene to the public. The festival included multimedia video installations that were created by various artists including Lara Baladi, Amina Mansour, Hassan Khan, Wael Shawky and Mona Marzouk. Townhouse also initiated Egypt's first exhibition dedicated to photography in 2002, calling it PhotoCairo, with the aim of exposing the public to the various forms of self-expression that are evident in the world of photography. This event proved to be quite successful in 2002 so the event was repeated in 2003 and 2004, accompanied by the Open Studio Project.

Recent exhibits that have been on display during February and March 2010 in the Townhouse Gallery include The Girl Splendid in Walking by Doa Aly and Making A Man Out of Him by a Professor at the American University in Cairo, Huda Lutfi. Both works have proven themselves quite unique to their audiences, each providing a specific experience to the visitors of the Townhouse Gallery.

Regarding Doa Aly's work, the video installation, inspired by Wilhelm Jenson's Gradiva, includes scenes where the girl was in a room, walking and tracing the sunlight with her feet as it beamed through the window, like she was going after the light. Meanwhile, Lutfi's Making a Man Out of Him, uses the symbolism of the male anatomy as a means of criticizing society's perspective on masculinity. This illustrates how the Townhouse Gallery has the ability to display art that may be viewed as controversial.

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Svetha Venkatesh is one of the top 15 women in the world in Artificial Intelligence. She is Indian/Australian and is the Alfred Deakin Professor in the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Built Environments, in the Department of Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics at Deakin University, as well as a professor of computer science and director of the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics (PRaDA) at Deakin. She was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition in 2004 for her contributions to the "formulation and extraction of semantics in multimedia data". She was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006 and an ARC Laureate Fellow in June 2017.

Venkatesh has developed new technologies in large-scale pattern recognition in big data. Her work has led to start-ups such as iCetana which finds anomalies through video analytics to detect potential security threats in large data sets; the development of a health analytics program which enables doctors to predict suicide risk; and PRaDA's development of the Toby Playpad app which provides therapy for children with autism. Her work on using surveillance data led to the development of a "virtual observer" which was used after the 2005 London bombings.

Based on gender diversity analysis of 1.5m research papers, Svetha Venkatesh is one of the top 15 women in the world contributing to artificial intelligence research. She is based in Geelong, Victoria.

Venkatesh delivered the 2015 Harrison Lecture for Innovation. In addition to her research, in 2015 she founded SPARK Deakin - Deakin University's flagship entrepreneurship program.

Venkatesh's son, Akshay, a mathematician specialising in number theory and related topics, was one of the four Fields Medal winners in 2018.

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After releasing Rocketboom in late 2004, Baron established himself as one of the first vloggers and arguably one of the most influential. With Rocketboom, Baron built one of the first large audiences around a video show, and went on to generate the first large-scale advertising deals.

On August 19, 2005, Baron was interviewed on CBS Evening News. In an "Eye on America", segment CBS veteran Jim Axelrod commented on the effort at daily news coverage on a limited budget and Baron's early grasp of the next Internet wave. "You know what they call that? Vision."

Baron directed a portion of "Killer," an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation which aired February 2, 2006.

Steve Jobs featured Baron's Rocketboom on stage when releasing the video iPod and again when releasing the AppleTV

In March 2006, Baron commented on the sale of a week of advertising for $40,000 on eBay in Brandweek:

"Advertising with us has extra value because we aren't going to accept advertising from someone whose morals are against us, someone like Hummer," said Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron. The creators of the show are acting as ad agency as well as media for the ads for TRM and EarthLink. "We've got to approve the ads and if we like them, chances are our viewers will like 'em."In 2008, Baron created the first version of the Know Your Meme database, to accompany a spin-off show he created and produced for Rocketboom.

Also in 2008, with one of the most followed Twitter accounts, Baron made international news when he put his Twitter account up for sale on eBay.

Baron released his third major site, Magma, in 2009.

In 2011, Baron sold Know Your Meme to Cheezburger in a reported "low seven-figure deal".