We present an approach to searching large video corpora for clips which depict a natural-language query in the form of a sentence. Compositional semantics is used to encode subtle meaning differences lost in other approaches, such as the difference between two sentences which have identical words but entirely different meaning: The person rode the horse versus The horse rode the person. Given a...

Scene segmentation is a crucial task in the structural analysis of film. State-of-the-art scene segmentation algorithms target Hollywoodtype films. There is an abundance of films that differ significantly from Hollywood films and need specific scene segmentation techniques. We propose a scene segmentation algorithm targeted at artistic archive documentaries. We evaluate the performance of our t...

Abstract Ethotic arguments, such as arguments from expert opinion and ad hominem play an important role in communication practice. In this paper, we argue that there is another type of reasoning ethos, which people about actions the world. These subspecies ethotic are very common public debates: societies involved heated disputes what should be done with monuments historical figures Stalin or C...

In this article, we report on the creation of a publicly available, common evaluation framework for Violent Scenes Detection (VSD) in Hollywood and YouTube videos. We propose robust data set, VSD96, with more than 96 hours video various genres, annotations at different levels detail (e.g., shot-level, segment-level), mid-level concepts blood, fire), pre-computed multi-modal descriptors, over 23...

The Ontology of " Online Being " and the (re)allocation of the " Ciborg " notion. INTRODUCTION: Cyborgs and their role inside cyberculture studies. The term " cyborg " , is becoming more and more popular these days, especially among " cyberculture " studies. A cyborg, in the broadest sense, is referred as a transgressive mixture between " cybernetics " and an " organism " , or in more theoretic...

Internet technology should eventually provide important improvements over established media not only in the efficiency of broadband delivery, and of particular importance, in the efficiency of business models that can be used to collect money for that programming. I identify five economic characteristics of Internet technology that should lead to these greater efficiencies: (1) lower delivery c...

The Violent Scenes Detection task aims at evaluating algorithms that automatically localize violent segments in both Hollywood movies and short web videos. The definition of violence is subjective: “the segments that one would not let an 8 years old child see in a movie because they contain physical violence”. This is a highly challenging problem because of the strong content variations among t...

This paper analyses the changing use of shot scales and shot types in the films of Alfred Hitchcock from The Pleasure Garden (1925) to The Birds (1963) in the context of the introduction of sound technology to British cinema in 1929 and the director’s move from Britain to Hollywood in 1939. A sample of 42 films was divided into 3 subgroups (British silent films [ = 9]; British sound films [ = 1...

Hollywood likes science. Or, to put that more precisely, Hollywood likes to sound as if it likes science. Consequently, what Hollywood really likes are scientific buzzwords words that sound technical and important so that they impress the audience. In the realm of buzzwords, it is hard to think of any more prominent or more fitting of the description than the words “quantum” and “chaos”. Behind...

This is the story of how the game of Quantum Chess came about, how it was invented, how it was brought to life by a brilliant undergraduate student, how it gained a quick but fleeting fame, and how it came back to prominence with a little help from Hollywood.