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Climate change and energy performance of European residential building stocks-A comprehensive impact assessment using climate big data from the coordinated regional climate downscaling experiment

Vahid Moussavi Nik, Kavan Javanroodi, Yuchen Yang

In recent years, climate change and the corresponding expected extreme weather conditions have been widely recognized as potential problems. The building industry is taking various actions to achieve sustainable development, implement energy conservation s ...

2021

Beyond Essentials: Nuanced and Diverse Text-to-video Retrieval

Yuchen Yang

The field of text-to-video retrieval has advanced significantly with the evolution of language models and large-scale pre-training on generated caption-video pairs. Current methods predominantly focus on visual and event-based details, making retrieval lar ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

Yuchen Yang

Purpose Recent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of memory materials, encourage personalized sense-making and extract, man ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2024

The BiographScope: Exploring Early Cinema in an Immersive Environment

Samy Mehdi Mannane, Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yuchen Yang, Giacomo Alliata, Loïc Guillaume Serafin

This paper presents a new interactive installation, the BiographScope, meant to immerse visitors in an archival collection of early silent films from the turn of the twentieth century. It further investigates certain important aspects through a pilot study ...

Association for Computing Machinery2024

Déjà Vu: Uncanny and Serendipitous Re-encountering of Audiovisual Archives

Yuchen Yang

The advent of the "generative age"marks a pivotal moment in AI evolution, with models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and DALL-E transforming content creation across various fields. These advancements bring unprecedented efficiency and new applications but also presen ...

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc2024

Latent Wander: an Alternative Interface for Interactive and Serendipitous Discovery of Large AV Archives

Yuchen Yang

Audiovisual (AV) archives are invaluable for holistically preserving the past. Unlike other forms, AV archives can be difficult to explore. This is not only because of its complex modality and sheer volume but also the lack of appropriate interfaces beyond ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Encoding and Decoding Narratives: Datafication and Alternative Access Models for Audiovisual Archives

Yuchen Yang

Situated in the intersection of audiovisual archives, computational methods, and immersive interactions, this work probes the increasingly important accessibility issues from a two-fold approach. Firstly, the work proposes an ontological data model to hand ...

ACM2023

Toward an Ontological Model for Audiovisual Archive Datafication

Yuchen Yang

With the initiatives like Collections as Data and Computational Archival Science, archives are no longer seen as a static documentation of objects, but evolving sources of cultural and historical data. This work emphasizes the potential updates in preservi ...

2023

Write What YouWant: Applying Text-to-Video Retrieval to Audiovisual Archives

Yuchen Yang

Audiovisual (AV) archives, as an essential reservoir of our cultural assets, are suffering from the issue of accessibility. The complex nature of the medium itself made processing and interaction an open challenge still in the field of computer vision, mul ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Augmenting the Metadata of Audiovisual Archives with NLP Techniques: Challenges and Solutions

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yuchen Yang, Giacomo Alliata

Alliance of Digital Humanities Association (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung - Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Graz)2023