On the extraction of thematic and dramatic functions of content in educational videos

Authors:
A. Natsev;S. Venkatesh;C. Dorai
Affiliations:
Sch. of Comput., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia;Sch. of Comput., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia;IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Venue:
ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 1
Year:
2003

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MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose novel computational models for the extraction of high level expressive constructs related to, namely thematic and dramatic functions of the content shown in educational and training videos. Drawing on the existing knowledge of film theory, and media production rules and conventions used by the filmmakers, we hypothesize key aesthetic elements contributing to convey these functions of the content. Computational models to extract them are then formulated and their performance evaluated on a set of ten educational and training videos is presented.