Physical aggression is a serious and widespread problem in society, affecting people
worldwide. It impacts nearly every aspect of life. While some studies explore the root causes …

In this article, we report on the creation of a publicly available, common evaluation
framework for Violent Scenes Detection (VSD) in Hollywood and YouTube videos. We …

The last decade has seen innovations that make video recording, manipulation, storage,
and sharing easier than ever before, thus impacting many areas of life. New video retrieval …

The wide popularity of digital photography and social networks has generated a rapidly
growing volume of multimedia data (ie, images, music, and videos), resulting in a great …

Abstract According to the Wall Street Journal, one billion surveillance cameras will be
deployed around the world by 2021. This amount of information can be hardly managed by …

The need for large annotated image datasets for training Convolutional Neural Networks
(CNNs) has been a significant impediment for their adoption in computer vision applications …

With the rapid development of video distribution and broadcasting, affective video content
analysis has attracted a lot of research and development activities recently. Predicting …

In this paper, we describe the first-ever machine human collaboration at creating a real
movie trailer (officially released by 20 th Century Fox). We introduce an intelligent system …

In our present society, the cinema has become one of the major forms of entertainment
providing unlimited contexts of emotion elicitation for the emotional needs of human beings …

Techniques for violent scene detection and affective impact prediction in videos can be
deployed in many applications. In MediaEval 2015, we explore deep learning methods to …