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Role of shot length in characterizing tempo and dramatic story sections in motion pictures Adams, Brett, Dorai, Chitra and Venkatesh, Svetha 2000, Role of shot length in characterizing tempo and dramatic story sections in motion pictures, in The first IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia : 2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing : conference proceedings, [University of Sydney], [Sydney, N. S. W.], pp. 54-57. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads venkatesh-roleof-2000.pdf Published version application/pdf 112.90KB 358 Title Role of shot length in characterizing tempo and dramatic story sections in motion pictures Author(s) Adams, Brett Dorai, Chitra Venkatesh, Svetha Conference name IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (1st : 2000 : Sydney, N. S. W.) Conference location Sydney, N. S. W. Conference dates 13-15 Dec. 2000 Title of proceedings The first IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia : 2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing : conference proceedings Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2000 Conference series IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia Start page 54 End page 57 Total pages 4 Publisher [University of Sydney] Place of publication [Sydney, N. S. W.] Keyword(s) tempo function shot length motion Summary Motivated by existing cinematic conventions known as film grammar, we proposed a computational approach to determine tempo as a high-level movie content descriptor as well as means for deriving dramatic story sections and events occurring in movies. Movie tempo is extracted from two easily computed aspects in our approach: shot length and motion. Story sections and events are generally associated with changes in tempo, and are thus identified by edges located in the tempo function. In this paper, we analyze our initial founding of the tempo function on the basis that the distribution of both shot length and motion in movies is normal. Given that the distribution of shot length is approximately Weibull as confirmed in our experiments, we examine the impact of modelling and modifying the contributions of shot length to tempo. We derive an appropriate normalization function that faithfully encapsulates the role of shot length in tempo perception, and analyze the changes to the story sections identified in films. Notes This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Language eng Field of Research 089999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970108 Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2000, IEEE Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30044809 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: School of Information Technology Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 01 May 2012, 10:59:29 EST Mon, 07 May 2012, 09:12:11 EST Mon, 07 May 2012, 09:16:04 EST Mon, 07 May 2012, 11:22:00 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 95 Abstract Views, 358 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 01 May 2012, 10:59:29 EST

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