There are countless animation movies available nowadays throughout the Internet. Rich media (including Flash and PowerPoint) presentations are increasingly gaining widespread usage, particularly in the domains of elearning and digital entertainment. In order to allow these animation movies to be queried efficiently, in this article we present OXML an Object XML database for storing and retrievi...

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...

With the exponential increase in the integration of mobile communication devices with media communication over the Internet, the need to transmit high quality archived media clips and movies over limited bandwidth connections has increased. Archived movies have immense use for entertainment such as cartoon movies, news clips, and Internet based mobile instructions. In this paper, we describe an...

We reviewed the number of incidents of tobacco use (almost exclusively smoking) depicted in movies in the United States in 2011 to compare that with previously reported trends. We counted use or implied use of a tobacco product by an actor in all movies whose box office gross ranked in the top 10 for at least 1 week. Total tobacco incidents per movie rose 7% from 2010 to 2011, ending 5 years of...

Abstract Armed with technological development, the present study aimed at gauging the effectiveness of exposure to news and movies as two types of audiovisual programs in improving language learners’ listening comprehension at the intermediate level. To this end, a listening comprehension test was administered to 108 language learners and finally 60 language learners were selected as intermedia...

The goal of this paper is to provide a story-based explanation for movie recommendation systems, achieved by a multiaspect explanation and narrative analysis methods. We explain how and why particular movies are similar based on following two aspects: (i) composition of movie characters and (ii) interactions among the characters. These aspects correspond to story-based features of the movies th...

Method We assessed exposure to smoking shown in movies in 3547 adolescents, aged 10–14 years, who reported in a baseline survey that they had never tried smoking. Exposure to smoking in movies was estimated for individual respondents on the basis of the number of smoking occurrences viewed in unique samples of 50 movies, which were randomly selected from a larger sample pool of popular contempo...

In this paper we examine the existence of correlation between movie similarity and low level features from respective movie content. In particular, we demonstrate the extraction of multi-modal representation models of movies based on subtitles, audio and metadata mining. We emphasize our research in topic modeling of movies based on their subtitles. In order to demonstrate the proposed content ...

In this methodological investigation, we examined the influence of cultural background on viewers’ interpretations of visual stimuli and verbs elicited by these materials. French and Mandarin native speakers’ interpretations of seventeen short movies, produced by French speakers, depicting various state-changing actions were collected by a 25-item cultural protocol. A slight difference in the f...

The movie industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, generating approximately $10 billion of revenue annually. In recent years, movies have generally become divided into two categories: blockbusters and independent movies. Studios have focused on relying on only a handful of extremely expensive movies every year to make sure they remain profitable. It is estimated that 80% of the industry’s p...