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Movie Summarization via Sparse Graph Construction

arXiv 2012.07536 ↗First posted 14 Dec 2020cs.CL cs.CVcited by 22

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Abstract (arXiv)

We summarize full-length movies by creating shorter videos containing their most informative scenes. We explore the hypothesis that a summary can be created by assembling scenes which are turning points (TPs), i.e., key events in a movie that describe its storyline. We propose a model that identifies TP scenes by building a sparse movie graph that represents relations between scenes and is constructed using multimodal information. According to human judges, the summaries created by our approach are more informative and complete, and receive higher ratings, than the outputs of sequence-based models and general-purpose summarization algorithms. The induced graphs are interpretable, displaying different topology for different movie genres.

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  1. 2023AutoAD II: The Sequel -- Who, When, and What in Movie Audio Descriptioncited by 49
  2. 2021IntentVizor: Towards Generic Query Guided Interactive Video Summarizationcited by 18
  3. 2024A Modular Approach for Multimodal Summarization of TV Showscited by 13
  4. 2021Finding the Right Moment: Human-Assisted Trailer Creation via Task Compositioncited by 12
  5. 2022Hierarchical3D Adapters for Long Video-to-text Summarizationcited by 12
  6. 2022Match Cutting: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitionscited by 12
  7. 2024Select and Summarize: Scene Saliency for Movie Script Summarizationcited by 10
  8. 2022Synopses of Movie Narratives: a Video-Language Dataset for Story Understandingcited by 8
  9. 2024ScreenWriter: Automatic Screenplay Generation and Movie Summarisationcited by 5
  10. 2022A Closer Look at Temporal Ordering in the Segmentation of Instructional Videoscited by 4
  11. 2023MEGA: Multimodal Alignment Aggregation and Distillation For Cinematic Video Segmentationcited by 4
  12. 2022Unsupervised Audio-Visual Lecture Segmentationcited by 3
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  1. 2025Parameter-free Video Segmentation for Vision and Language Understandingcited by 3
  2. 2024DiscoGraMS: Enhancing Movie Screen-Play Summarization using Movie Character-Aware Discourse Graphcited by 2
  3. 2026Contrastive Learning with Narrative Twins for Modeling Story Saliencecited by 2
  4. 2024"Previously on ..." From Recaps to Story Summarizationcited by 1
  5. 2026BEAT: Rhythm-Elastic Alignment for Agentic Music-guided Movie Trailer Generationcited by 1
  6. 2026REFRAMED: Towards Realistic Audio Description Generation for Moviescited by 1
  7. 2024MTP: A Dataset for Multi-Modal Turning Points in Casual Conversationscited by 0
  8. 2025Prompt2LVideos: Exploring Prompts for Understanding Long-Form Multimodal Videoscited by 0
  9. 2025Integrating Video and Text: A Balanced Approach to Multimodal Summary Generation and Evaluationcited by 0
  10. 2025Minimal Clips, Maximum Salience: Long Video Summarization via Key Moment Extractioncited by 0