Analysing the Memorability of a Procedural Crime-Drama TV Series, CSI
This work addresses the challenge of interpreting video memorability for applications in TV/film production, education, and marketing, but it is incremental as it applies an existing method to a new dataset.
The researchers tackled the problem of understanding what makes video content memorable by analyzing a 5-season span of the TV series CSI using a fine-tuned vision transformer to predict memorability scores, and they quantitatively linked these scores to various aspects of the show to extract meaningful insights.
We investigate the memorability of a 5-season span of a popular crime-drama TV series, CSI, through the application of a vision transformer fine-tuned on the task of predicting video memorability. By investigating the popular genre of crime-drama TV through the use of a detailed annotated corpus combined with video memorability scores, we show how to extrapolate meaning from the memorability scores generated on video shots. We perform a quantitative analysis to relate video shot memorability to a variety of aspects of the show. The insights we present in this paper illustrate the importance of video memorability in applications which use multimedia in areas like education, marketing, indexing, as well as in the case here namely TV and film production.