in space, with atoms moving about in a stately dance. They spin the structures mentally to examine them from all angles, perhaps twisting each molecule until a bond pops open and another snaps into place. Such movies play inside the minds of most chemists because they offer a way to visualize how reactions happen. “The unifying thought experiment across all disciplines of chemistry is to imagin...

This paper provides a description of the MediaEval 2011 Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection. This task derives directly from a Technicolor use case which aims at easing a user’s selection process from a movie database. This task will therefore apply to movie content. We provide some insight into the Technicolor use case, before giving details on the task itself. Dataset, annotations, and eval...

Today there is no “Google for video” that actually searches the content of the video. Content-based video search can be achieved by indexing video scene transcriptions much like a film script. We propose to develop a tool that automatically processes video and produces a transcript representing its contents. This processing step may involve scene segmentation, object recognition, behavior recog...

After the evacuation of a transcendental ethic as a universal yardstick or law for action, notions of justice, morality and the law nevertheless remain policed, and are still invested in by strong systems of belief and prejudice. This thesis sets out to analyse the tradition and prevalence of “idealising” moments of consequence, judgement and decision and their specific relation to a transcende...

The digital cinema is very challenging because it represents tomorrow way of capturing, post-producing and projecting movies. Specifications on this media are provided by DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) founded by the Hollywood Majors. Among the specifications we can find issues about resolution, bitrate, JPEG2000 compression Moreover, the market assumes that 3D could raise the turnover of cin...

For many years the film industry has been a loyal contributor to the tobacco industry by showing actors smoking cigarettes onscreen and hence encouraging young people to become nicotine addicts. The Prevention of Nicotine Addiction movement in the United States has adequately documented this phenomenon and there is now sufficient scientific evidence to demonstrate the close relationship between...

When one advocates using drama to breathe fresh life into a col­ lege classroom, engineering is not the first subject that comes to mind. Law, history, and political science seem much more likely candidates. Law offers a natural source of conflict and resolution as major issues are argued passionately by both sides and a jury or all-powerful judge decides the outcome; there are clear winners an...

In this paper, we analyse the Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) produced by cuts where the scenes before and after the cut are narratively related. In tests with 6 participants and 930 cuts from 5 Hollywood feature movies we found that cuts produce a large negative ERP with an onset 100 ms after a cut and a duration of 600 ms, distributed over a very large region of the scalp. The real-world natu...

Robust face clustering is a vital step in enabling computational understanding of visual character portrayal media. Face for long-form content challenging because variations appearance and lack supporting large-scale labeled data. Our work this paper focuses on two key aspects problem: the domain-specific training or benchmark datasets, adapting embeddings learned web images to content, specifi...