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Narrative structure detection through audio pace

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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by S Moncrieff, Svetha VenkateshSvetha Venkatesh
We use the concept of film pace, expressed through the audio, to analyse the broad level narrative structure of film. The narrative structure is divided into visual narration, action sections, and audio narration, plot development sections. We hypothesise, that changes in the narrative structure signal a change in audio content, which is reflected by a change in audio pace. We test this hypothesis using a number of audio feature functions, that reflect the audio pace, to detect changes in narrative structure for 8 films of varying genres. The properties of the energy were then used to determine the. audio pace feature corresponding to the narrative, structure for each film analysed. The method was successful in determining the narrative structure for 1 of the films, achieving an overall precision of 76.4% and recall of 80.3%, We map the properties of the speech and energy of film audio to the higher level semantic concept of audio pace. The audio pace was in turn applied to a higher level semantic analysis of the structure of film.

History

Event

International Multi-Media Modelling Conference (12th : 2006 : Beijing, China)

Pagination

20 - 27

Publisher

IEEE

Location

Beijing, China

Place of publication

[Washington, D. C.]

Start date

2006-01-04

End date

2006-01-06

ISBN-13

9781424400287

ISBN-10

1424400287

Language

eng

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Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2006, IEEE

Title of proceedings

MMM 2006 : Proceedings of the 12th International Multi-Media Modelling Conference