To the utmost disappointment of the interested party, this approach usually doesn’t work. The apparent expectation is that visualization is something like using a Web browser: here’s the URL, just click on it and out pops a pretty image. Reality, however, differs markedly from this vision. When people see a good visualization or movie of some data, they typically have no idea about the effort b...

Movies are a huge part of most of our lives. They reflect, distort and influence how our society works. The systematic bias against female and other minority characters and actors in Hollywood has been a hot topic for a while now. However, there has been very little quantitative analysis for this debate. Embodying Silicon Valley’s zeal for data-driven problem solving, we explored a corpus of mo...

This paper describes the LIG participation to the MediaEval 2012 Affect Task on violent scenes’ detection in Hollywood movies. We submitted four runs at the shot level: hierarchical fusion of descriptors and classifier combinations (LIG-4), the same with conceptual feedback (LIG-3), and the same two with reranking (LIG-2 and LIG-1). Our reference run obtained a performance slightly above the me...

The study attempts to understand how dying from cancer is portrayed by five movies produced in Hollywood between 1993 and 2006. Based on the cultural studies and their post-structuralism version and supported by the notions of discourse and subjectivity, as proposed by philosopher Michel Foucault, we suggest one of the possible readings of the movie picture corpus. We assess how the movie pictu...

Marketers routinely use timing as a segmentation device through sequential product releases. While there has been much theoretical research on the optimal introduction strategy of sequential releases, there is little empirical research on this problem. This paper develops an econometric model to empirically solve the inter-release timing problem: it involves (1) developing and estimating a stru...

Blendshapes”, a simple linear model of facial expression, is the prevalent approach to realistic facial animation. It has driven animated characters in Hollywood films, and is a standard feature of commercial animation packages. The blendshape approach originated in industry, and became a subject of academic research relatively recently. This survey describes the published state of the art in t...

Hyman Miller, M.D. Gollans. 13/6. This is the story of the treatment by a clinical psychologist of a seven year old boy who suffered from asthma. Although the case material is used to illustrate the boy's unconscious phantasies, his hidden aggression and sexual wishes, the form used is more that of a novel. A good deal of skill is employed in rounding off each chapter and in starting the next w...

Cutting, Delong and Nothelfer (2010) use statistical methods to investigate the evolution of shot-length patterns in popular film. They argue, using what they call a ‘modified autoregressive index’ (mAR), that patterns are becoming increasingly clustered and also evolving towards 1/f structure, a pattern described in later publication as ‘like those that our minds may naturally generate’. This ...