Video is the primary archival source for human movement, with examples ranging from sports coverage of Olympic events to dance routines in Hollywood movies. The ability to reliably track the human figure in movie footage would unlock a large, untapped repository of motion data. Figure tracking using a single video source is a challenging problem due to the size of the state space, the presence ...

This paper introduces a benchmark evaluation targeting the detection of violent scenes in Hollywood movies. The evaluation was implemented in 2011 and 2012 as an affect task in the framework of the international MediaEval benchmark initiative. We report on these two years of evaluation, providing a detailed description of the dataset created, describing the state-of-the-art by studying the resu...

Exclusive Quality – Why Exclusive Distribution May Benefit the TV Viewers* Sports organizations, Hollywood studios and TV channels grant satellite and cable networks exclusive rights to televise their matches, movies and media contents. Exclusive distribution prevents viewers from watching attractive programs, and reduces the TV-distributors incentives to compete in prices. This paper demonstra...

The study attempts to understand how dying from cancer is portrayed by five movies produced in Hollywood between 1993 and 2006. Based on the cultural studies and their post-structuralism version and supported by the notions of discourse and subjectivity, as proposed by philosopher Michel Foucault, we suggest one of the possible readings of the movie picture corpus. We assess how the movie pictu...

In our modern life, the introduction of new technologies and subsequent boom in satellites, television, as well as the Internet has made the world a much smaller place allowing different nations, cultures, and languages to interact more frequently. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is cultural and ideological items which taboo terms are included. This study aims at investig...

Translators face a number of difficulties while translating. Not only translation of cultural elements is of utmost importance in translation studies, but also it is an arduous task for translators, especially in the case of interlingual translation. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is culture-specific items amongst which taboo expressions are included. This study aimed at...

In this paper, we present a novel method for semantic video segmentation by using both low-level features and high-level rules on videos and managing it in a hierarchical structure of key-frame, shot and scene. Features in color domain is calculated and utilized for detecting the key-frames and estimating the similarity between shots. By applying the predefined high-level rules, similar shots a...