Seinfeld Browser Demonstration Page

Introduction

This page contains the demonstration material for our CBTV workshop submission.

The demo assumes the following use case: When a sitcom is watched a second, third, or later time, a user might want to show a very funny scene to a friend, point out and post the sharpest punchline to his or her Facebook network, or even create a home-made YouTube video composed of the most hilarious moments of his or her favorite actor. In order to do this quickly, we present the user with the basic narrative elements of a sitcom such as the scenes, punchlines, and individual dialog segments on top of a standard video player interface. A per-actor filter helps to search only for elements that contain a certain protagonist. The user is now able to selectively skip certain parts and to directly navigate into elements he or she remembers from the past.

Java Applet Demonstrators

As mentioned in the article, we present two demos. One, where the acoustic event and speaker identification is based on manual annotation (only narrative scene segmentation is automatic) and one that has been generated fully automatically. The Java Applets require a java-compatible browser with Java 1.4 or higher. The video is first downloaded into memory (about 30MB) so a cable Internet connection or better is recommended. Please be patient. Sometimes the navigation bar takes a bit longer to load (due to many icons). We developed it under Linux with Firefox.

Java Application Demonstrators

In case there are problems with the Java Applet demonstrators, we provide Java application demonstrators below. These also require Java 1.4 or higher but do run independently of a browser. After unzipping the archive, please see the contained README.txt for further instructions.

The content contained in this website and linked to from the website is Copyright (c) 2009 by International Computer Science Institute. The authors are: Gerald Friedland, Luke Gottlieb, and Adam Janin. Please contact us for any questions. The software is provided as is, use it at your own risk. The shown Seinfeld episode is copyright by its respective copyright holders. It is used here solely for the purpose of demonstrating nonprofit scientific research. Please don't illegally use or distribute copyrighted content.