Title :
Characterization of movie genre based on music score
Author :
Austin, Aida ; Moore, Elliot, II ; Gupta, Udit ; Chordia, Parag
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Savannah, GA, USA
Abstract :
While it is clear that the full emotional effect of a movie scene is carried through the successful interpretation of audio and visual information, music still carries a significant impact for interpretation of the director´s intent and style. The intent of this study was to provide a preliminary understanding on a new database for the impact of timbral and select rhythm features in characterizing the differences among movie genres based on their film scores. For this study, a database of film scores from 98 movies was collected containing instrumental (non-vocal) music from 25 romance, 25 drama, 23 horror, and 25 action movies. Both pair-wise genre classification and classification with all four genres was performed using support vector machines (SVM) in a ten-fold cross-validation test. The results of the study support the notion that high intensity movies (i.e., Action and Horror) have musical cues that are measurably different from the musical scores for movies with more measured expressions of emotion (i.e., Drama and Romance).
Keywords :
music; statistical analysis; support vector machines; SVM; action movies; audio information interpretation; drama movies; film score; horror movies; movie genre characterization; movie scene emotional effect; rhythm features; romance movies; support vector machines; timbral features; visual information interpretation; Instruments; Layout; Motion pictures; Performance evaluation; Rhythm; Spatial databases; Support vector machine classification; Support vector machines; Testing; Visual databases; Movie Genre Classification; Music Emotion Analysis; Music Genre Classification; Music Information Retrieval;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4295-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495763