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Statistical analysis is an important part of an inductive programme of research into film style enabling large groups of films to be analysed, identifying key trends, and identifying changes in film style between groups of films from different countries and time periods. In this paper, the use of shot scales in Hollywood and German cinema between 1910 and 1939 is analysed using linear regressio...

Lawrence Lessig called the most recent battle ‘‘Hollywood v. Silicon Valley,’’1 but one could just as well dub it ‘‘Code v. The Common Law.’’ The content industries’ latest efforts to re-calibrate the balance of copyright2 imply that the United States copyright system has reached a crisis that cannot be resolved under existing law. In particular, bills such as the Consumer Broadband & Digital T...

This paper describes the ViVoLab/CVLab system to provide segments of violent scenes from Hollywood movies and “wild-user” videos from the internet. We propose a system based on a fusion of acoustic features, audio concepts and video features. Our joint audio-visual approach achieves MAP2014 values of 17.81% and 43.03%, for the main task and the generalization task, respectively.

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