This paper tackles the problem of surveillance video content modelling. Given a set of surveillance videos, the aims of our work are twofold: firstly a continuous video is segment...
This paper forms a continuation of our work focused on exploiting film grammar for the task of automated film understanding. We examine film rhythm, a powerful narrative concept u...
Close-up (CU) is a photographic technique which tightly frames a person or an object. In movies, it is applied to guide audience attention and to evoke audience emotion. In this p...
Huiying Liu, Min Xu, Qingming Huang, Jesse S. Jin,...
The detection of abrupt shot changes ("cuts") in videos is a basic step in video content analysis. Many cut detection algorithms based on histogram differences have been...
Face detection and tracking, through image sequences, are primary steps in many applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, and expression analysis. Many cu...