Automatic face recognition for film character retrieval in feature-length films

The objective of this work is to recognize all the frontal faces of a character in the closed world of a movie or situation comedy, given a small number of query faces. This is challenging because faces in a feature-length film are relatively uncontrolled with a wide variability of scale, pose, illumination, and expressions, and also may be partially occluded. We develop a recognition method based on a cascade of processing steps that normalize for the effects of the changing imaging environment. In particular there are three areas of novelty: (i) we suppress the background surrounding the face, enabling the maximum area of the face to be retained for recognition rather than a subset; (ii) we include a pose refinement step to optimize the registration between the test image and face exemplar; and (iii) we use robust distance to a sub-space to allow for partial occlusion and expression change. The method is applied and evaluated on several feature length films. It is demonstrated that high recall rates (over 92%) can be achieved whilst maintaining good precision (over 93%).

Medo de dentista em cena: uma análise de produções cinematográficas

The fear related to dental procedures can be acquired through disturbing experiences and/or negative cultural influences related in experiences of previous generations. Such influences may be present in diverse forms of cultural expression: in the cinema, plastic arts, music, literature, and diverse vehicles of printed and visual media. This research aimed investigates the images of fear related to the dental service and dentist in motion pictures. The study has qualitative approach, which used the documentary analysis of movies. The data collection was accomplished through research in the Internet by means of the Google tool (http://www.google.com.br), using the describing words filme and dentista . A total of 44 films were found. Of these, after selective criterion for films with scenes showing interaction between dentist and patient in the execution of clinical procedure, only 24 films were enclosed. Then, these were registered in data base created for this research. After second selective criterion of inclusion (scenes with suggestion of dental anxiety), 15 films remained. As regards cinematographic gender, the films with scenes showing "dental anxiety" varied between comedy (8), horror (3), drama (2), thriller (1) and childish (1). Of these films, scenes with images of situations that suggest fear of the dentist and his job were selected and described. The images were categorized by the identification of negative characteristics that incite "dental anxiety". Then, the classification of the categories was proceeded detaching the most recurrent characteristics in the scenes: situation of fear in the waiting-room; pain; instrument coarse/rudimentary; coarseness of the dentist; torture; and low qualification technique. The waiting-room was observed as a place of great tension, due to the noises coming from the dental attendance. The pain related to the Dentistry was the predominant subject in the majority of films (14), associated to others negative characteristics. The rudimentary aspects of procedures and instruments, and the coarse attitudes of the professional could be observed too. The dentist was characterized as confused, sadist, violent, insensitive, incompetent person and disturbed. Such results suggest that, despite the technological advances of the profession, the image of the dentist and his job is still transmitted in a negative way aspect and reinforces the dental anxiety

Artemídia movente: processos e procedimentos artísticos em animação

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

História e cinema: encontro de conhecimento em sala de aula

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Imagem digital em movimento

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Representações da periferia no cinema brasileiro: do neorrealismo ao hiper-realismo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Aspectos históricos e implicações da utilização do efeito 3D no cinema: o caso de A invenção de Hugo Cabret

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Primeiras Estórias e o filme A terceira margem do rio: estruturas artísticas e consciência possível

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Paralelos do corpo

O objetivo deste trabalho foi à criação de um Curta-Metragem que causasse uma conexão com o espectador de forma mais sensorial e emotiva, amenizando compreensões racionais e lógicas. Para tal propósito foi utilizada uma representação, uma representação imagética de conceitos oriundos da Psicologia Jungiana, do Teatro da Crueldade e dos estudos de mitologia de Joseph Campbell. A computação gráfica foi utilizada na geração de elementos com o intuito de possibilitar a criação de uma simbologia fundamentada nas teorias pesquisadas. A tentativa de representação dos símbolos arquetípicos baseados nos estudos do Jung fundamentou a construção da obra final. Diversas técnicas foram aplicadas na produção do Curta-Metragem, como: Stop-motion, Foto-manipulação, Camera Tracking, Rotoscopia e Animação 3D. O estudo de composição de artistas que tenham a mesma linha temática possibilitou o melhor desenvolvimento da proposta.

O olhar do outro: cenas do documentário brasileiro

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Necinecidades

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A discursivização em Wall.E: sociedade, tecnologia e poder

This article consists in a discourse analysis of the feature film in animation Wall.e produced by Pixar in association to Disney in 2008. Pixar has been known to produce films that contain various discursive levels, making its products appealing not only for children, but also for adults. However, Wall-e proves to be a masterpiece in Pixar carrier, because it is the one which focuses on the analysis and critique of contemporary society associated with technological development. For this, the plot has as its starting point the question of sustainability and unbridled consumerism. But the film expands the debate, tracing the relationship between technology and humanity, discussing how one affects the other. The project therefore aims to show how the animation works such concepts and constructs his discourse. To this end, the work seeks to identify the signs that make up the discourse and draw the intertextuality between WALL.E and other works that also discuss the same elements such as Stanley Kubrick‟s 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968)

Caipiras nas telas: a construção da identidade cultural campineira através dos jornais Gazeta de Campinas e Diário do Povo relatando o cinema local na década de 1920

O presente trabalho de conclusão de curso Jornalismo da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) baseia-se na análise de conteúdo das notícias, notas e críticas publicadas nos periódicos Gazeta de Campinas e Diário do Povo sobre as atividades e exibições dos cinco filmes realizados na cidade de Campinas na década de 1920 – João da Matta (1923), Soffrer Para Gozar (1923), Alma Gentil (1924), A Carne (1925) e Mocidade Louca (1927) – para a verificação do processo de construção da identidade cultural local. Para objetivar a análise do corpus será realizada uma contextualização histórica da cidade de Campinas, do cinema brasileiro, da imprensa e de outros fatores que irão corroborar para uma compreensão ampla da proposta a que essa monografia se propõe