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Movie Tagger: A Method and System for Parsing and Richly Tagging Every Movie Ever Made

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4003
Description

Movie Tagger is conceived as an easy-to-use online system that allows a community of users to parse and add relevant keywords (“tags”) to movies–scene by scene, shot by shot, and frame by frame–with a custom logging tool. The tags can be about the performers, action, dialogue, cinematics, mood, environment, or anything else. They can be unlimited in number. This metadata (without any image or sound) is uploaded to a shared database, where it can be used to rank, search, filter, and visualize tags through a unique graphical timeline interface.

Advantages
  • No such database is known to exist.
  • Resource for quickly locating specific film sequences.
  • Resource for accessing aggregated film data.
  • USC’s School of Cinematic Arts can serve as the initial test community (approximately 1,000 people).
Applications
  • Feature-length movies
  • Video databases
  • Video archives
  • One-dimensional data sets, such as historical timelines.
State of Development

Prototype in development.

Rights Available

Worldwide,exclusive and non-exclusive.

Patent Status

Collaborative development available.

Inventors

Michael Naimark, Steve Anderson, Maya Churi, Perry Hoberman, Andres Kratky, Erik Loyer

Key Words

Movie database, movie annotation, interactive timeline, tag, wiki, search

For additional information, please contact:

USC Stevens Licensing Team Members

Alex Leshnick and Paul Reep
leshnick@usc.edu
(213) 821-6064

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