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Computational Media Aesthetics

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CMA; Media semantics; Production-based approach to media analysis

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Computational media aesthetics is defined as the algorithmic study of a variety of image and aural elements in media founded on their patterns of use in film grammar, and the computational analysis of the principles that have emerged underlying their manipulation, individually or jointly, in the creative art of clarifying, intensifying, and interpreting some event for the audience [3]. It is a computational framework to establish semantic relationships between the various elements of sight, sound, and motion in the depicted content of a video and to enable deriving reliable, high-level concept-oriented content annotations as opposed to verbose low-level features computed today in video processing for search and retrieval, and nonlinear browsing of video. This media production knowledge-guided semantic analysis has led to a shift away from a focus on low level features that cannot answer high level...

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  1. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    Chitra Dorai

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Dorai, C. (2009). Computational Media Aesthetics. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1036

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