This paper proposes a single generic real-time (or near real-time) play-break event detection algorithm for multiple sports, which include football, tennis, basketball, and soccer. The proposed algorithm only uses shot-based generic cinematic features, such as shot type and shot length. Detected play-break events are employed for two purposes: 1) All plays in certain sports, such as football an...

Real-time 3D game environments provide a compelling medium for cinematic storytelling. Professional filmmakers have started using them for pre-visualization. They provide a low-cost learning environment to students. Longboard is an intelligent storyboarding tool that provides content authors access to 3D graphical environments through an intuitive sketch based interface. Users can author script...

This article presents a new method to create maps that chart changes across a cinematic narrative. These are unlike narrative spaces previously discussed in the literature—they are abstract, holistic, dynamic representations based on objective criteria. The analysis considers three films (All About Eve, Inception, and MASH) by counting the co-occurrences of main characters within scenes, and 12...

We have built a system that automatically generates camera actions for storytelling in virtual environments. Given a sequence of character actions, scene properties (like mood, tempo, etc), and a mapping from names to characters, objects, and locations in a graphical world, the goal of a camera planning system is to generate sequences of directives for the camera to satisfy derived from certain...

In this paper we analyze data collected from three of the biggest Hungarian bittorrent based filesharing communities between 2008 May-June, and Hungarian cinema distribution data from the same period. We asked if the number of downloads for any given film correlates with ticket sales, revenues, the number of cinemas where the film was shown or any other statistical data on the traditional movie...

Automated control of a virtual camera is useful for both linear animation and interactive virtual environments. It has been partially addressed in the past by numeric constraint optimization and by idiom-based approaches. We have constructed a knowledge-based system that allows users to experiment with various cinematic genres and view the results in the form of animated 3D movies. We have foll...