Feasibility of Personalized Affective Video Summaries

Arthur G. Money and Harry Agius

Article SummaryBy Mina Rady

Introduction

The demand for video summaries originates primarily from users’ viewing time constraints

Introduction

Video summaries are produced by analyzing the underlying semantic content of the original video stream to determine what segments of the stream should be included and excluded

Introduction

Video Semanti

cs

Internal

ExternalHybrid

Affective State MeasurementAffective

State Measureme

nt

Valence

Blood Pulse

Heart Rate

Respiration Amplitude

Arousal

Electro-Dermal

Responses

Respiratory Rate

Experiment Design

Experiment Design

Experiment Design

Experiment Results

Horror/thriller content elicit substantially higher levels of EDR

compared with other content genres. Constricted blood flow in the fingers:

fear Increase Respiration rate and decrease

amplitude

Experiment Results

Comedy content Low percentage of EDR. Consistent Responses in overall

Experiment Results

Drama/Action: Elicits physiological responses evenly. Subtle and slow paced nature of this

content Responses mixed and not obvious

Conclusion

Horror Movies and Comedy proven to give more significant responses than action/drama

Possible Applications

For Children Supervising Horror/Violent Content for

Children For Patients:

Selecting comedy movies for psychology patients

Commercial Use Humans can have better access to

movies For Health

Selecting more suitable videos for people with health problems (Heart, Respiration)