Automatic face analysis, including head pose estimation, gender recognition, and
expression classification, strongly benefits from an accurate segmentation of the human …

Understanding movies and their structural patterns is a crucial task in decoding the craft of
video editing. While previous works have developed tools for general analysis, such as …

The perceived distance of the camera from the subject of a filmed scene, namely shot scale,
is a prominent formal feature of any filmic product, endowed with both stylistic and narrative …

Mental state attribution, an important aspect of social cognition, refers to the verbalization of
mental state references observed in another person. Fictional film narratives can elicit social …

Hair highly characterises human appearance. Hair detection in images is useful for many
applications, such as face and gender recognition, video surveillance, and hair modelling …

We provide a database containing shot scale annotations (ie, the apparent distance of the
camera from the subject of a filmed scene) for more than 792,000 image frames. Frames …

The apparent distance of the camera from the subject of a filmed scene, namely shot scale,
is one of the prominent formal features of any filmic product, endowed with both stylistic and …

This chapter examines the crucial role of non-content-related formal features in sha** the
media entertainment experience. Formal features, which encompass low-level components …

Previous research suggests that particular formal features of film, such as the use of close-
ups, can affect the levels of empathy experienced by viewers. Because empathy is a key …

Colors are one of the most difficult stylistic elements of film to analyze, but—as this paper
elaborates—a most rewarding one too. A long-neglected topic in film studies, film colors …