Going Through the Clouds: Search Overviews and Browsing of Movies

Movies are one of the biggest sources of entertainment, in individual and social contexts, and increasingly accessible as enormous collections of videos and movies over the Internet, in social media and interactive TV. These richer environments demand for new and more powerful ways to search, browse and view videos and movies, that may benefit from video content-based analysis and classification techniques. In this paper, we present and evaluate extended features of content processing, search, overview and browsing in the MovieClouds, from overview clouds at the movies space down to the movies, based on the information conveyed in the different tracks or perspectives of its content, especially audio and subtitles where most of the semantics is expressed. Tag clouds are adopted as a unifying-paradigm, complemented with other approaches, to extend to movies the power, flexibility, engagement and fun usually associated with clouds, in a consistent way. Evaluation results were very encouraging, reinforcing the previous approach and reflecting the improvements and new features.