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A probabilistic framework for extracting narrative act boundaries and semantics in motion pictures
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posted on 2005-11-01, 00:00 authored by B Adams, Svetha VenkateshSvetha Venkatesh, H Bui, C DoraiThis work constitutes the first attempt to extract the important narrative structure, the 3-Act storytelling paradigm in film. Widely prevalent in the domain of film, it forms the foundation and framework in which a film can be made to function as an effective tool for story telling, and its extraction is a vital step in automatic content management for film data. The identification of act boundaries allows for structuralizing film at a level far higher than existing segmentation frameworks, which include shot detection and scene identification, and provides a basis for inferences about the semantic content of dramatic events in film. A novel act boundary likelihood function for Act 1 and 2 is derived using a Bayesian formulation under guidance from film grammar, tested under many configurations and the results are reported for experiments involving 25 full-length movies. The result proves to be a useful tool in both the automatic and semi-interactive setting for semantic analysis of film, with potential application to analogues occuring in many other domains, including news, training video, sitcoms.
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Multimedia tools and applicationsVolume
27Issue
2Pagination
195 - 213Publisher
Springer New York LLCLocation
Secaucus, N.J.Publisher DOI
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1380-7501eISSN
1573-7721Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2005, Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.Usage metrics
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narrative structuresemanticsmultimedia content managementfilmScience & TechnologyTechnologyComputer Science, Information SystemsComputer Science, Software EngineeringComputer Science, Theory & MethodsEngineering, Electrical & ElectronicComputer ScienceEngineeringInformation SystemsArtificial Intelligence and Image ProcessingComputer SoftwareDistributed Computing
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