This paper presents the work done at Technicolor regarding the MediaEval 2016 Predicting Media Interestingness Task, which aims at predicting the interestingness of individual images and video segments extracted from Hollywood movies. We participated in both the image and video subtasks.

The need for animated graphical models of the human face is commonplace in the movies, video games and television industries, appearing in everything from low budget advertisements and free mobile apps, to Hollywood blockbusters costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Generative statistical models of animation attempt to address some of the drawbacks of industry standard practices such as labo...

Movies are a huge part of most of our lives. They reflect, distort and influence how our society works. The systematic bias against female and other minority characters and actors in Hollywood has been a hot topic for a while now. However, there has been very little quantitative analysis for this debate. Embodying Silicon Valley’s zeal for data-driven problem solving, we explored a corpus of mo...

OBJECTIVE Smoking in movies is associated with adolescent and young adult smoking initiation. Public health efforts to eliminate smoking from films accessible to youth have been countered by defenders of the status quo, who associate tobacco imagery in "classic" movies with artistry and nostalgia. The present work explores the mutually beneficial commercial collaborations between the tobacco co...

The MediaEval 2012 Affect Task challenged participants to automatically find violent scenes in a set of Hollywood movies. We propose to first predict a set of mid-level concept annotations from low-level visual and auditory features, then fuse the concept predictions and features to detect violent content. Instead of engineering features suitable for the task, we deliberately restrict ourselves...

The family in Iran is a powerful and influential institution that is undergoing change over time. Various factors have contributed to these changes. In the 21st century, media such as satellite and cinema have linked communities closer together. In such a situation, the views, attitudes and beliefs of other societies reach out to other societies in the form of images, sounds and symbols through...