Sep 2014 - NEW! We have the extended version of the ICMR paper in IJMIR. Check it out.
Story-based Video Retrieval in TV series using Plot Synopses
Makarand Tapaswi, Martin Baeuml and Rainer Stiefelhagen
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR Oral, Full paper) Glasgow, Scotland, Apr 2014
[paper]
[presentation]
[demo poster]
[HQ video]
A demo of the proposed retrieval system was presented at CVPR 2014 and can also be found
here. Please contact me to obtain a login. Below is a video of the retrieval in action
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 5, all Episodes 1 to 22)
The dataset package contains the plot synopses used in this work (as they might have changed on Wiki)
and the annotations from one user indicating which shot is assigned to which sentence.
PRACTICAL NOTE: The frame numbers and time-stamps are for Region 2 DVDs (PAL) and have a 25 fps frame rate.