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Deep learning for diplomatic video analysis

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In this paper, we focus on putting Faster-RCNN into practice to solve the problem of diplomatic video analysis, as the part of Mediated Public Diplomacy. Diplomatic video uploaded by U.S. Embassy in China is our research target. Using Faster-RCNN, we get 56,781 object detection results from those diplomatic videos. Then we use statistical tools to test the abnormal distribution of the object category “person”, clustering the above results so as to analyze the hidden strategic purposes in these diplomatic videos. Then we give an abstract of these videos: they mainly focus on common people’s high-quality life in the U.S. Strategic purposes are: the U.S. takes advantage of the repeating occurrence of common people to make “people to people” diplomacy in order to win hearts and minds of audience. Attractive personal life is depicted in the video so as to build a strong, harmonious and happy U.S. national image. These procedures are elaborately designed, which is a latent agenda setting process, and a fruitful frame construction attempt. By this way, the U.S. successfully bridge the culture gap and accomplish its goal of global hegemony.

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This work was jointly supported in part by National Social Science Foundation under Grant 16BXW054 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U1613212.

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  1. School of International Relations, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

    Hongyan Zhao

  2. School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

    Fangxin Zhou

  3. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Huaping Liu

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Zhao, H., Zhou, F. & Liu, H. Deep learning for diplomatic video analysis. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 4811–4830 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6650-9

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