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Contribution Details

Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title VIAN – a visual annotation tool for film analysis
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Gaudenz Halter
  • Rafael Ballester-Ripoll
  • Barbara Flückiger
  • Renato Pajarola
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Computer Graphics Forum
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0167-7055
Volume 38
Number 3
Page Range 119 - 129
Date 2019
Abstract Text Color plays a fundamental role in film design and production. Unfortunately, existing solutions for film analysis in the digital humanities address perceptual and spatial color information only tangentially. We introduce VIAN, a visual film annotation system centered on the semantic aspects of color film analysis. The tool enables expert-assessed labeling, curation, visualization, and classification of film color features based on their perceived context and aesthetic quality. Crucially, it is also the first of its kind that incorporates foreground-background information as it is made possible by modern deep learning segmentation methods. The proposed visual front-end is seamlessly integrated with a multimedia data management system, so that films can undergo a full color-oriented analysis pipeline by scholars and practitioners.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/cgf.13676
Other Identification Number merlin-id:18059
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