Remembering Winter Was Coming: Character-Oriented Video Summaries of TV Series

no code implementations • 5 Sep 2019 • Xavier Bost, Serigne Gueye, Vincent Labatut, Martha Larson, Georges Linarès, Damien Malinas, Raphaël Roth

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.

Audiovisual speaker diarization of TV series

no code implementations • 18 Dec 2018 • Xavier Bost, Georges Linarès, Serigne Gueye

Speaker diarization may be difficult to achieve when applied to narrative films, where speakers usually talk in adverse acoustic conditions: background music, sound effects, wide variations in intonation may hide the inter-speaker variability and make audio-based speaker diarization approaches error prone.

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Narrative Smoothing: Dynamic Conversational Network for the Analysis of TV Series Plots

1 code implementation • 25 Feb 2016 • Xavier Bost, Vincent Labatut, Serigne Gueye, Georges Linarès

In order to assess our method, we apply it to a new corpus of 3 popular TV series, and compare it to both standard approaches.