We have built the first version of ScriptViz v.1.0 that allows users to visualize their screenplays in real time via animated graphics. Our system consists of a text understanding module, a high-level planning module and a scene generator. The user can input a screenplay as a set of well-formed English sentences via a graphic user interface. The text understanding module interprets the input se...

In this paper we study the task of movie script summarization, which we argue could enhance script browsing, give readers a rough idea of the script’s plotline, and speed up reading time. We formalize the process of generating a shorter version of a screenplay as the task of finding an optimal chain of scenes. We develop a graph-based model that selects a chain by jointly optimizing its logical...

Movies and TV are a rich source of diverse and complex video of people, objects, actions and locales “in the wild”. Harvesting automatically labeled sequences of actions from video would enable creation of large-scale and highlyvaried datasets. To enable such collection, we focus on the task of recovering scene structure in movies and TV series for object tracking and action retrieval. We prese...

We are developing an intelligent approach of motion picture generation for desktop software system EMM (Electronic MovieMaker) that aims at automating the production of digital movies with various visual effects like three-dimensional animation, real image, and their composition. This paper describes our efforts focusing on automatic synthesis of character animation and automatic video retrieva...

Complex movies with different parallel lines of action, only intersecting in a small number of scenes, can be difficult to analyze. The present study sets out to provide the viewer with assisted automatic procedures designed to decompose and analyze the narrative from different possible perspectives. We propose a model for narrative decomposition, based on the interaction of characters. The pro...

This paper presents a recurrent neural network framework for the problem of attributing spoken lines to characters in a screenplay or novel. We study these quotes as a sequence in the absence of additional context, e.g. descriptions of scenes or actions, from the text surrounding them. Instead, attributions may only be made on the basis of learned expectations for how each character speaks, as ...