A computable structure model for hollywood film

Automatic parsing of video structure is one of the key techniques for video understanding and retrieval. In this paper, we propose a computable film structure model: the nine-plot model, which parses a film into three hierarchical semantic levels: act, plot and scene. The model has been motivated by “Hollywood mode” and generic narrative structure of the story. In addition, a set of modeling methods for film-making rules based on scene classification and segmentation are proposed. The experimental results on seven full-length Hollywood movies demonstrate the effectiveness of the model.