This report presents work done on classification and segmentation of cinematic sound employing support vector machines (svm) with sequential minimal optimization (smo). Speech, music, environmental sound and silence, plus all pairwise combinations, are considered as classes. A model considering simple adjacency rules and probabilistic output from logistic regression is used for segmenting fixed...

This study is concerned with the use of specific tools from Mikhail Bakhtin’s comprehensive literary work in order to investigate the notion of time/space in Bahram Beyzaie’s 1979 movie, The Crow. Employing the Bakhtinian notion of chronotope in the analysis of the movie as a cinematic text proves helpful in developing the notion of anachronotopicity, which is then utilized to investigate the w...