We propose a fully automatic and computationally efficient framework for analysis and summarization of soccer videos using cinematic and object-based features. The proposed framework includes some novel low-level processing algorithms, such as dominant color region detection, robust shot boundary detection, and shot classification, as well as some higher-level algorithms for goal detection, ref...

HYPOTHESIS Cinematic technetium Tc 99m red blood cell ((99m)Tc-RBC) scans, in which real-time scanning is performed and analyzed, can accurately localize gastrointestinal bleeding and thus direct selective surgical intervention. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review with historical controls. SETTING Large, university-affiliated public hospital in urban setting. PATIENTS Twenty-six pa...

Perception proceeds by cinematic frames that are separated by an endogenous shutter, which is intrinsic to the background spontaneous activity of cerebral cortex. Cinematic displays of spatiotemporal electrocorticograms (ECoG) show turbulence, from which stable spatial patterns emerge that are correlated with perception of conditioned stimuli (CS). Extracting invariant properties of the percept...

Ning Ying’s 2006 film Wuqiong dong/Perpetual Motion can be regarded as her first attempt to explore the genre of ‘women’s film’. Deviating from her previous neo-realist style, this film seeks to cultivate an alternative cinematic practice through developing a heavy-handed negative aesthetics. Ning Ying interiorizes the filmic exploration of female subjectivity in an enclosed time and space, whi...

Writers of stories for both print and screen have a deeply ingrained tendency to construct stories for an audience to experience the finished work in a fixed linear fashion. Although there are starting to be some examples of fixed non-linear multimedia works, viewing a cinematic story must always be linear, as a linear sequence of pictures and sounds conveying some meaning. However, it should b...

In 3D interactive ction systems, a virtual camera must \ lm" the behaviors of multiple autonomous characters as they unpredictably interact with one another, are modi ed by the viewer, and manipulate artifacts in 3D worlds with complex scene geometries. It must continuously plan camera movements to clearly shoot the salient visual features of each relevant character. To address these issues, we...

Film cinematography has been developed and applied for more than a century to involve and engage the viewer in visual storytelling. Interactive storytelling games can benefit from these cinematic conventions to enhance visual experience. However, even conversation scenes in games are highly dynamic, and pre-authoring camera parameters using cinematography principles is often insufficient. This ...

In this paper we define Performatology as a data driven, machine learning, and performance theory based approach to interactive drama through the procedural acting of Performative Embodied Agents (PEAs). PEAs are designed to serve as acting tools for live embodied performers to extend their craft into computational media, and to make agents better actors for the enhancement of cinematic games. ...

Most current video retrieval systems use shot as the basic unit for information organization and access. A shot, however, models only a visually contiguous sequence of video frames with no coherent semantic meanings. On the other hand, viewers tend to “view” video contents in terms of episodes or scenes. In cinematography, scene is the basic story unit that the directors use to compose and conv...