Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation

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Main Authors: Tores, Julie, Sassatelli, Lucile, Wu, Hui-Yin, Bergman, Clement, Andolfi, Lea, Ecrement, Victor, Precioso, Frederic, Devars, Thierry, Guaresi, Magali, Julliard, Virginie, Lecossais, Sarah
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author Tores, Julie
Sassatelli, Lucile
Wu, Hui-Yin
Bergman, Clement
Andolfi, Lea
Ecrement, Victor
Precioso, Frederic
Devars, Thierry
Guaresi, Magali
Julliard, Virginie
Lecossais, Sarah
author_facet Tores, Julie
Sassatelli, Lucile
Wu, Hui-Yin
Bergman, Clement
Andolfi, Lea
Ecrement, Victor
Precioso, Frederic
Devars, Thierry
Guaresi, Magali
Julliard, Virginie
Lecossais, Sarah
contents In film gender studies, the concept of 'male gaze' refers to the way the characters are portrayed on-screen as objects of desire rather than subjects. In this article, we introduce a novel video-interpretation task, to detect character objectification in films. The purpose is to reveal and quantify the usage of complex temporal patterns operated in cinema to produce the cognitive perception of objectification. We introduce the ObyGaze12 dataset, made of 1914 movie clips densely annotated by experts for objectification concepts identified in film studies and psychology. We evaluate recent vision models, show the feasibility of the task and where the challenges remain with concept bottleneck models. Our new dataset and code are made available to the community.
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spellingShingle Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
Tores, Julie
Sassatelli, Lucile
Wu, Hui-Yin
Bergman, Clement
Andolfi, Lea
Ecrement, Victor
Precioso, Frederic
Devars, Thierry
Guaresi, Magali
Julliard, Virginie
Lecossais, Sarah
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In film gender studies, the concept of 'male gaze' refers to the way the characters are portrayed on-screen as objects of desire rather than subjects. In this article, we introduce a novel video-interpretation task, to detect character objectification in films. The purpose is to reveal and quantify the usage of complex temporal patterns operated in cinema to produce the cognitive perception of objectification. We introduce the ObyGaze12 dataset, made of 1914 movie clips densely annotated by experts for objectification concepts identified in film studies and psychology. We evaluate recent vision models, show the feasibility of the task and where the challenges remain with concept bottleneck models. Our new dataset and code are made available to the community.
title Visual Objectification in Films: Towards a New AI Task for Video Interpretation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13296