Going Through the Clouds

Abstract

Movies are one of the biggest sources of entertainment, in individual and social contexts, and increasingly accessible as enormous collections of videos and movies over the Internet, in social media and interactive TV. These richer environments demand for new and more powerful ways to search, browse and view videos and movies, that may benefit from video contentbased analysis and classification techniques. In this paper, we present and evaluate extended features of content processing, search, overview and browsing in the MovieClouds, from overview clouds at the movies space down to the movies, based on the information conveyed in the different tracks or perspectives of its content, especially audio and subtitles where most of the semantics is expressed. Tag clouds are adopted as a unifyingparadigm, complemented with other approaches, to extend to movies the power, flexibility, engagement and fun usually associated with clouds, in a consistent way. Evaluation results were very encouraging, reinforcing the previous approach and reflecting the improvements and new features.

The MovieWall: A New Interface for Browsing Large Video Collections

“…Low et al [8] recently proposed an interface for exploratory movie browsing using map-based exploration that allows users to easily find interesting links between movies. Other approaches [3,9] allow users to browse through a cloud of words (e.g. moods, emotions) that were previously extracted from the audio and subtitles of movies.…”