This paper describes the LIG participation to the MediaEval 2011 Affect Task on violent scenes’ detection in Hollywood movies. We submitted only the required run (shot classification run) with a minimal system using only the visual information. Color, texture and SIFT descriptors were extracted from key frames. The performance of our system was below the performance of the systems using both au...

We use data on a movie’s stock price as it trades on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation, to study the impact of movie advertising. We find that advertising has a positive and statistically significant effect on expected revenues, but that the effect varies strongly across movies of different ‘‘quality’’. The point estimate implies that the returns to advertising fo...

It is more than forty years since the first wireframe images of the Boeing Man revealed a stylized human pilot in a simulated pilot's cabin. Since then, it has almost become standard to include scenes in Hollywood movies which incorporate virtual human actors. A trait particularly recognizable in the games industry world-wide is the eagerness to render athletic muscular young men, and young wom...

Background: Among few of the recreational activities students are sports and watching cinema. Movies found to be powerful instruments in influencing attitudinal changes, emotional impact, education, life styles, health other behaviours. Objectives 1. Choice cinema among medical 2. Perceived effects on study participants. Methods- This was a cross sectional carried out undergraduate students. Sa...

In the wave of industrialization and internationalization Chinese Film Industry, blockbuster ‘Operation Red Sea’ burst out as 2018’s revelation in terms quality standards visual effects. The movie starred a navy team, ‘Jiaolong’, made eight highly-trained well-armed commandos to protect overseas nationals, rescue hostages, handle terrorist organization involved nuclear weapons’ deals. However, ...

This paper examines genre trends in the top 50 grossing films at the US box office each year from 1991 to 2010, focussing on the frequency and rank of different genres, the box office gross and release patterns of films in different genres, and the release profile of Hollywood studios. The results show a narrowing of the range of genres at the highest rankings, with fantasy/science fiction movi...

Transmedia narratives became an entertainment experience in which visual elements, characters, and objects create imaginary world, conquering large audiences a sequence of movies. From toy lines to Hollywood blockbusters, the Transformers movies franchise has turned into opportunity for brands reach consumers world where technological devices have changed how they absorb advertisements. In this...

Video Scene Segmentation is an important problem in computer vision as it helps in efficient storage, indexing and retrieval of videos. Significant amount of work has been done in this area in the form of shot segmentation techniques and they often give reasonably good results. However, shots are not of much importance for the semantic analysis of the videos. For semantic and meaningful analysi...