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Movie shot selection preserving narrative properties

  • Ioannis Mademlis
  • , Anastasios Tefas
  • , Nikos Nikolaidis
  • , Ioannis Pitas

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    Abstract

    Automatic shot selection is an important aspect of movie summarization that is helpful both to producers and to audiences, e.g., for market promotion or browsing purposes. However, most of the related research has focused on shot
    selection based on low-level video content, which disregards semantic information, or on narrative properties extracted from text, which requires the movie script to be available. In this work, semantic shot selection based on the narrative prominence of movie characters in both the visual and the audio modalities is investigated, without the need for additional data such as a script.
    The output is a movie summary that only contains video frames from selected movie shots. Selection is controlled by a userprovided shot retention parameter, that removes key-frames/keysegments from the skim based on actor face appearances and speech instances. This novel process (Multimodal Shot Pruning,
    or MSP) is algebraically modelled as a multimodal matrix Column Subset Selection Problem, which is solved using an evolutionary computing approach.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2016 IEEE 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2016)
    Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of a meeting held 21-23 September 2016, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    Pages352-356
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509037247
    ISBN (Print)9781509037254
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2017
    Event 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing: MMSP2016 - Montreal, Canada
    Duration: 21 Sept 201623 Sept 2016

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    ISSN (Print)2163-3517
    ISSN (Electronic)2473-3628

    Conference

    Conference 18th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityMontreal
    Period21/09/1623/09/16

    Keywords

    • Video Summarization
    • Shot Selection
    • Column Sub-set Selection Problem

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