There is much video available today. To help viewers find video of interest, work has begun
on methods of automatic video classification. In this paper, we survey the video classification …

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to
the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the …

Theorists have suggested that emotions are canonical responses to situations ancestrally
linked to survival. If so, then emotions may be afforded by features of the sensory …

The task of predicting a movie genre from its poster can be very challenging owing to the
high variability of movie posters. A novel approach for the generation of a multi-label movie …

This paper presents a method for movie genre categorization of movie trailers, based on
scene categorization. We view our approach as a step forward from using only low-level …

In this paper we present our research towards the detection of violent scenes in movies,
employing fusion methodologies, based on learning. Towards this goal, a multi-step …

We propose to achieve movie genre classification based only on movie poster images. A
deep neural network is constructed to jointly describe visual appearance and object …

Prior to a movie release in theaters, trailer advertising provides valuable information that can
help viewers and investors form expectations about the movie's future success. While …

Visual media have important persuasive power, but prior computer vision approaches have
predominantly ignored the persuasive aspects of images. In this work, we propose a suite of …

If you have ever watched movies or television shows, you know how easy it is to tell the
good characters from the bad ones. Little, however, is known “whether” or “how” computers …