Video analysis software
A colleague of mine is looking for software for content analysis of video. They are doing a large quantitative study on smoking in Norweian movies since 1945, and are looking for a program that can help researchers code scenes in a digital film (preferably a DVD), by logging time codes for scenes, and storing the coding information. Such software is mentioned in the international literature on "Smoking in the movies", but how and where can one get hold of it? If there are several candidates, does anyone have experience with some of them? --anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor, Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no
IBM (and others) make some software to handle things like this. Very, very expensive. The kind of coding you are talking about is built into the MPEG-7 metadata standard; tools that implement *that* are likely to be at least similar to what you will want. [There's certainly a dearth of tools that implement mpeg-7; if it were me, I would probably mock up an excel spreadsheet with appropriate fields and just set off to work...] --elijah On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Anders Fagerjord wrote:
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:51:17 +0100 From: Anders Fagerjord <anders.fagerjord@media.uio.no> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Video analysis software
A colleague of mine is looking for software for content analysis of video.
They are doing a large quantitative study on smoking in Norweian movies since 1945, and are looking for a program that can help researchers code scenes in a digital film (preferably a DVD), by logging time codes for scenes, and storing the coding information.
Such software is mentioned in the international literature on "Smoking in the movies", but how and where can one get hold of it? If there are several candidates, does anyone have experience with some of them?
--anders
-- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor,
Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway
http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no
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Prof. Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University and her students demonstrated some fantastic tools for this at the last 4S meeting. I suggest contacting them. google her. On Dec 10, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Anders Fagerjord wrote: jeremy hunsinger Assistant Professor Pratt Institute www.cddc.vt.edu wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series
If I understand your question, one relevant contact is ReDReSS at Lancaster: <http://redress.lancs.ac.uk/overview.html> Another is DReSS <http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research/nodes/DigitalRecord/> And finally, Mixed Media Grid at <http://www.ncess.ac.uk/research/ nodes/MiMeG/> These are all projects within the UK's National Centre for E-Social Science. Good luck, Bill On 10 Dec 2006, at 19:51, Anders Fagerjord wrote:
A colleague of mine is looking for software for content analysis of video.
They are doing a large quantitative study on smoking in Norweian movies since 1945, and are looking for a program that can help researchers code scenes in a digital film (preferably a DVD), by logging time codes for scenes, and storing the coding information.
Such software is mentioned in the international literature on "Smoking in the movies", but how and where can one get hold of it? If there are several candidates, does anyone have experience with some of them?
--anders
-- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor,
Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway
http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no
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Hi Anders Hyper-research and Atlas.ti jump to mind. Have a look at http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/stoppress.htm for more info. This team also prepare useful information giving an overview of all the suitable qualitative packages so it may be worth contacting them directly for more information. Best wishes Sue -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Anders Fagerjord Sent: Sunday, 10 December 2006 19:51 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Video analysis software A colleague of mine is looking for software for content analysis of video. They are doing a large quantitative study on smoking in Norweian movies since 1945, and are looking for a program that can help researchers code scenes in a digital film (preferably a DVD), by logging time codes for scenes, and storing the coding information. Such software is mentioned in the international literature on "Smoking in the movies", but how and where can one get hold of it? If there are several candidates, does anyone have experience with some of them? --anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor, Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/12/2006 15:41 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 09/12/2006 15:41
Hi Anders, Also, I would recommend the Advene (Annotate Digital Video and Exchange on the Net) open groupware system. I am currently working together with the team developing the system as I am analyzing hours and hours of video-recordings of actors and avatars while interacting in advanced virtual worlds. Visit Olivier Aubert's and the Advene project's homepage: http://liris.cnrs.fr/advene/screenshots.html And also, see my research project's 'Actors and Avatars Communicating in Virtual Worlds', especially so the 'Videoanalysis' link. Regards, Sisse -- Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies. Research Group: Knowledge Production and Communication. Research Project: Actors and Avatars Communicating in Virtual Worlds http://www.ruc.dk/komm/forskning/actors_and_avatars/ Roskilde University, P.O.Box 260, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark +45 4674 3771, sisse@ruc.dk http://www.ruc.dk/komm/Ansatte/vip/Sisse/
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