ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Generating story variants with constrained video recombination
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
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Currently, automatic generation of filmic variants faces a number of key technical issues and thus it usually resorts to the shooting of multiple versions of alternative scenes. However, recent advancements in video analysis has made this objective feasible, though semantic consistency must be somehow preserved. This demo presents a video-based storytelling (VBS) system that successfully integrates video processing with narrative generation by means of a shared semantic description. The novel filmic variants are constructed through a flexible video recombination process that takes advantage of the polysemy of baseline video segments. The short output video clips shown in this demo prove how the generated narratives are semantically consistent while keeping generative power intact.