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Towards automatic extraction of expressive elements from motion pictures : tempo
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posted on 2000-01-01, 00:00 authored by B Adams, C Dorai, Svetha VenkateshSvetha VenkateshThis paper proposes a unique computational approach to extraction of expressive elements of motion pictures for deriving high level semantics of stories portrayed, thus enabling better video annotation and interpretation systems. This approach, motivated and directed by the existing cinematic conventions known as film grammar, as a first step towards demonstrating its effectiveness, uses the attributes of motion and shot length to define and compute a novel measure of tempo of a movie. Tempo flow plots are defined and derived for four full-length movies and edge analysis is performed leading to the extraction of dramatic story sections and events signaled by their unique tempo. The results confirm tempo as a useful attribute in its own right and a promising component of semantic constructs such as tone or mood of a film.
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International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2000 : New York, N. Y.)Pagination
641 - 644Publisher
IEEELocation
New York, N. Y.Place of publication
[Washington, D. C.]Publisher DOI
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2000-07-30End date
2000-08-02ISBN-10
0780365364Language
engNotes
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