A lthough Linux has yet to achieve wide popularity in the computer game world (" Will Linux Be Computer Games' Dark Horse OS? " Computer, Dec. 2001, pp. 161-162), it is making rapid progress toward becoming the dominant operating system in the other major entertainment arena: motion pictures. Name a motion picture from the past year or two that featured stunning animation or dazzling special ef...

Internet technology should eventually provide important improvements over established media not only in the efficiency of broadband delivery, and of particular importance, in the efficiency of business models that can be used to collect money for that programming. I identify five economic characteristics of Internet technology that should lead to these greater efficiencies: (1) lower delivery c...

In this paper the problem of complex event detection in the continuous domain (i.e. events with unknown starting and ending locations) is addressed. Existing event detection methods are limited to features that are extracted from the local spatial or spatio-temporal patches from the videos. However, this makes the model vulnerable to the events with similar concepts e.g. “Open drawer” and “Open...

This May, Bjørn Lomborg’s “Environmental Assessment Institute” published a report [Olsen and Buch, 2004] on the risk of ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic, to coincide with the release of Roland Emmerich’s Hollywood blockbuster The Day after Tomorrow (a film based on a shut-down of the North Atlantic Current). Given its lack of expertise on ocean circulation and climate, the Environmenta...

MAYNARD, A. S. C. De Hollywood a Aracaju: antinazismo e cinema durante Segunda Guerra Mundial. Rio de Janeiro: Autografia; Recife: EDUPE, 2021.

This paper provides a description of the MediaEval 2011 Affect Task: Violent Scenes Detection. This task derives directly from a Technicolor use case which aims at easing a user’s selection process from a movie database. This task will therefore apply to movie content. We provide some insight into the Technicolor use case, before giving details on the task itself. Dataset, annotations, and eval...

The prospect of a superbug that could wipe out much of the human race sounds like the stuff of science-fiction novels, Hollywood movies or doomsday prophets. However, such a global pandemic might not be as unlikely as it seems—some would even go so far as to say that it is a certainty, with the only uncertainties being what pathogen will cause it, when it will happen and how well the world will...

We present an international benchmark on the detection of violent scenes in movies, implemented as a part of the multimedia benchmarking initiative MediaEval 2011. The task consists in detecting portions of movies where physical violence is present from the automatic analysis of the video, sound and subtitle tracks. A dataset of 15 Hollywood movies was carefully annotated and divided into a dev...

Hollywood blockbusters are usually released in the U.S. before other foreign markets. The release gaps have declined significantly over time and varied greatly across countries. While movie piracy has been suggested as an important determinant for the release gap decision of distributors, theory and evidence suggest there are other important determinants. In this paper, we use a discrete choice...

Although the sales of the motion-picture industry in China have grown incomparably to any other country during the past decade, most research related to it has focused on discourse of the political or social contexts. Using the resource-based view, our study empirically examines the determinants that encourage the audience to pay for a movie at China’s box offices. The resource-based view posit...