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Computational Video Editing for Dialogue-Driven Scenes

Research paper from Standford University and Adobe Research provides proof of concept system to simplify and automate video editing processes:

We present a system for efficiently editing video of dialogue-driven scenes. The input to our system is a standard film script and multiple video takes, each capturing a different camera framing or performance of the complete scene. Our system then automatically selects the most appropriate clip from one of the input takes, for each line of dialogue, based on a user-specified set of film-editing idioms. Our system starts by segmenting the input script into lines of dialogue and then splitting each input take into a sequence of clips time-aligned with each line. Next it labels the script and the clips with high-level structural information (e.g., emotional sentiment of dialogue, camera framing of clip, etc.). After this pre-process, our interface offers a set of basic idioms that users can combine in a variety of ways to build custom editing styles.

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Alexi K2 (British, based Birmingham, England) - Female Figure, 2014 from Cognitive Polygraph series Drawings: Pen + Ink on Watercolor Paper

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“Pink Eye” Acrylic on board 12x12 First of five pieces i’ll slowly be revealing for “SUPERUNNATURAL,” a six person show at Giant Robot in LA.

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Creating Street Art Illusions with Graffiti Artist Astro

To see more of Astro’s art, follow @astro_odv_cbs on Instagram. For more stories from the French-speaking world, follow @instagramfr.

(This interview was conducted in French.)

Graffiti artist Astro (@astro_odv_cbs) grabbed his first can of spray paint when he was 18 years old. In the northern suburbs of Paris where he grew up, Astro experimented with letters and wildstyle, a complex form of graffiti where letters are interwoven. Over time, he developed his own unique style. “I kept the calligraphy, but now I create abstract designs and optical illusions,” Astro, now 34, says. Today, in addition to working on street walls, Astro creates canvases in the studio. In the upcoming months, he’ll travel to Portugal, Mexico and back to the US — there’s one spot in Venice Beach, California, he’s got to see again.

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Plastic Reflectic

Interactive installation by Thijs Biersteker and produced by front404 presents a participants silhouette in a pool with floating plastic waste:

The plastic soup is growing. Plastic in our ocean degrades in nano plastics. These microplastics intrude all parts of the food chain. And (as recent studies reveal) they can pass through cell walls into fat and muscle tissue, turning us slowly into plastic.

The interactive installation ”Plastic Reflectic“ shows you that everyone can influence the plastic soup with their behaviour. It turns you in the plastic version of yourself and lets you control the hundreds of pieces of ocean plastic.

When you step in front of it plastic parts of plastic soup plastic rises from the black water reflecting you. It takes the plastic soup that normally is floating miles out of the sea and puts it in front of our feet. Reflecting our behaviour and provoking food for thought. Showing that your actions in plastic use have direct impact on the growing plastic soup.

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