Finding the beat : an analysis of the rhythmic elements of motion pictures Adams, Brett, Dorai, Chitra and Venkatesh, Svetha 2002, Finding the beat : an analysis of the rhythmic elements of motion pictures, in ACCV 2002 : Proceedings of the fifth Asian conference on computer vision, Asian Federation of Computer Vision Societies, [Tokyo, Japan], pp. 62-68. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Finding the beat : an analysis of the rhythmic elements of motion pictures Author(s) Adams, Brett Dorai, Chitra Venkatesh, Svetha orcid.org/0000-0001-8675-6631 Conference name Asian conference on computer vision (5th : 2002 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 23-25 Jan. 2002 Title of proceedings ACCV 2002 : Proceedings of the fifth Asian conference on computer vision Editor(s) Suter, D. Bab-Hadiashar, A. Publication date 2002 Conference series Asian conference on computer vision Start page 62 End page 68 Total pages 7 Publisher Asian Federation of Computer Vision Societies Place of publication [Tokyo, Japan] Keyword(s) computer vision film grammar rhythm Summary This paper forms a continuation of our work focused on exploiting film grammar for the task of automated film understanding. We examine film rhythm, a powerful narrative concept used to endow structure and form to the film compositionally and to enhance its lyrical quality experientially. Of the many, often complex, cinematic devices contributing to film rhythm, this paper investigates the rhythmic elements that are present in edited sequences of shots, and presents a novel computational model to detect shot structural rhythm as either metric, accelerated, decelerated, or free. Details of the algorithm for the extraction of these editing rhythm classes are presented, along with experimental results on real movie data. Following this we study the usefulness of combining the rhythmic patterns induced through both motion and editing in film. We show that, whilst detailed content identification via rhythm types alone is not possible by virtue of the fact that film is not codified to this level in terms of rhythmic elements, analysis of the combined motion/shot rhythm can allow us to determine that the content has changed and hypothesize as to why this is so. We present 3 such categories of change and demonstrate their efficacy for capturing useful film elements (e.g., scene change precipitated by plot event), by providing data support from 5 motion pictures. Notes Papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. ISBN 0958025606 9780958025607 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 ©2002, Springer Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30044926 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Information Technology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 01 May 2012, 11:06:59 EST Tue, 01 May 2012, 15:42:54 EST Tue, 01 May 2012, 15:45:19 EST Tue, 08 May 2012, 11:50:28 EST Tue, 24 Jun 2014, 09:02:29 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 522 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 01 May 2012, 11:06:59 EST

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