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Remembering winter was coming

Xavier Bost
Serigne Gueye
Vincent Labatut
Martha Larson
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Georges Linarès
Damien Malinas
Raphaël Roth

Abstract

Today's popular TV series tend to develop continuous, complex plots spanning several seasons, but are often viewed in controlled and discontinuous conditions. Consequently, most viewers need to be re-immersed in the story before watching a new season. Although discussions with friends and family can help, we observe that most viewers make extensive use of summaries to re-engage with the plot. Automatic generation of video summaries of TV series' complex stories requires, first, modeling the dynamics of the plot and, second, extracting relevant sequences. In this paper, we tackle plot modeling by considering the social network of interactions between the characters involved in the narrative: substantial, durable changes in a major character's social environment suggest a new development relevant for the summary. Once identified, these major stages in each character's storyline can be used as a basis for completing the summary with related sequences. Our algorithm combines such social network analysis with filmmaking grammar to automatically generate character-oriented video summaries of TV series from partially annotated data. We carry out evaluation with a user study in a real-world scenario: a large sample of viewers were asked to rank video summaries centered on five characters of the popular TV series Game of Thrones, a few weeks before the new, sixth season was released. Our results reveal the ability of character-oriented summaries to re-engage viewers in television series and confirm the contributions of modeling the plot content and exploiting stylistic patterns to identify salient sequences.
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hal-02278188 , version 1 (04-09-2019)
hal-02278188 , version 2 (04-12-2019)

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Xavier Bost, Serigne Gueye, Vincent Labatut, Martha Larson, Georges Linarès, et al.. Remembering winter was coming. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019, 78 (24), pp.35373-35399. ⟨10.1007/s11042-019-07969-4⟩. ⟨hal-02278188v2⟩
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