{"id":95614,"date":"2019-08-30T21:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T04:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/investigating-the-best-features-for-predicting-a-movies-genre-and-estimated-budget"},"modified":"2019-08-31T06:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T13:52:29","slug":"investigating-the-best-features-for-predicting-a-movies-genre-and-estimated-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/investigating-the-best-features-for-predicting-a-movies-genre-and-estimated-budget","title":{"rendered":"Investigating the best features for predicting a movie\u2019s genre and estimated budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/investigating-the-best-features-for-predicting-a-movies-genre-and-estimated-budget3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the University of Virginia has recently carried out a large-scale analysis aimed at identifying features in film trailers that best predict a movie\u2019s genre and estimated budget. In their study, outlined in a paper pre-published on arXiv, the researchers specifically compared the effectiveness of visual, audio, text, and metadata-based features.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVideo understanding is the next frontier after image understanding,\u201d Vicente Ordonez, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told <i>TechXplore<\/i>. \u201cHowever, much work on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/video\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">video<\/a> understanding has so far focused on short clips with a human performing a single action. We wanted something longer, but there is also the issue of computational power. Video trailers seemed like an intermediate compromise, as they display a multitude of things, from scary to funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Movie trailers are short and can easily be paired with movie descriptions. Ordonez and his colleagues realized that these characteristics make them ideal to investigate parallels between video and language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the University of Virginia has recently carried out a large-scale analysis aimed at identifying features in film trailers that best predict a movie\u2019s genre and estimated budget. In their study, outlined in a paper pre-published on arXiv, the researchers specifically compared the effectiveness of visual, audio, text, and metadata-based features. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95631,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95614\/revisions\/95631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}