Close-up (CU) is a photographic technique which tightly frames a person or an object. In movies, it is applied to guide audience attention and to evoke audience emotion. In this p...
Huiying Liu, Min Xu, Qingming Huang, Jesse S. Jin,...
Roles in a movie form a small society and their interrelationship provides clues for movie understanding. Based on this observation, we present a new viewpoint to perform semantic...
In this work, we present a novel method to detect violent shots in movies. The detection process is split into two views–––the audio and video views. From the audio-view, a w...
Given a movie comment, does it contain a spoiler? A spoiler is a comment that, when disclosed, would ruin a surprise or reveal an important plot detail. We study automatic methods...
We describe a new method to find and cluster recurrent keyplaces in a movie. It consists of an unsupervised classification of shots that are taking place in the same physical loca...