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Automated film rhythm extraction for scene analysis
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posted on 2001-01-01, 00:00 authored by B Adams, C Dorai, Svetha VenkateshSvetha VenkateshThis paper examines film rhythm, an important expressive element in motion pictures, based on our ongoing study to exploit film grammar as a broad computational framework for the task of automated film and video understanding. Of the many, more or less elusive, narrative devices contributing to film rhythm, this paper discusses motion characteristics that form the basis of our analysis, and presents novel computational models for extracting rhythmic patterns induced through a perception of motion. In our rhythm model, motion behaviour is classified as being either nonexistent, fluid or staccato for a given shot. Shot neighbourhoods in movies are then grouped by proportional makeup of these motion behavioural classes to yield seven high-level rhythmic arrangements that prove to be adept at indicating likely scene content (e.g. dialogue or chase sequence) in our experiments. Underlying causes for this level of codification in our approach are postulated from film grammar, and are accompanied by detailed demonstration from real movies for the purposes of clarification.
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International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2001 : Tokyo, Japan)Pagination
1056 - 1059Publisher
IEEELocation
Tokyo, JapanPlace of publication
[Washington, D. C.]Publisher DOI
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2001-08-22End date
2001-08-25ISBN-10
0769511988Language
engNotes
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