Analysing the Memorability of a Procedural Crime-Drama TV Series, CSI

TL;DR

This study uses a fine-tuned vision transformer to analyze the memorability of a crime-drama TV series, revealing insights into how video shot memorability relates to various show aspects and its potential applications.

Contribution

Introduces a method to predict and analyze video shot memorability in a TV series using a fine-tuned vision transformer and detailed annotations.

Findings

Memorability scores can be correlated with specific video shot features.

Video shot memorability varies across different episodes and genres.

Insights can inform applications in education, marketing, and media production.

Abstract

We investigate the memorability of a 5-season span of a popular crime-drama TV series, CSI, through the application of a vision transformer fine-tuned on the task of predicting video memorability. By investigating the popular genre of crime-drama TV through the use of a detailed annotated corpus combined with video memorability scores, we show how to extrapolate meaning from the memorability scores generated on video shots. We perform a quantitative analysis to relate video shot memorability to a variety of aspects of the show. The insights we present in this paper illustrate the importance of video memorability in applications which use multimedia in areas like education, marketing, indexing, as well as in the case here namely TV and film production.