Title :
Formalising stories: sequences of events and state changes
Author :
Vassiliou, Andrew ; Salway, Andrew ; Pitt, David
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Surrey Univ., Guildford
Abstract :
An attempt is made to synthesise ideas from theories of narrative and computer science in order to model high level semantic video content, especially for films. A notation is proposed for describing sequences of interrelated events and states in narratives. The investigation focuses on the idea of modelling video content as a sequence of states: sequences of characters´ emotional states are considered as a case study. An existing method for attracting information about emotion in film is formalised and extended with a metric to compare the distribution of emotions in two films
Keywords :
emotion recognition; multimedia systems; sequences; video signal processing; computer science theory; emotional states; event sequences; films; multimedia data; narrative theory; semantic video content; state change sequences; story normalisation; Content based retrieval; Coordinate measuring machines; Humans; Information retrieval; Layout; Model driven engineering; Shape; Streaming media; TV; Watches;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8603-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2004.1394260
