Speaker: Prof. Marc Christie – Associate Professor, University of Rennes and INRIA
Date: March 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Venue: Brainstorming Area, Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, Hui Oi Chow Science Building, HKU
With recent breakthroughs in generative video techniques and more and more evolved feature extraction tools on video contents, there is a increasing expectation in being able to use and control stylistic dimensions of movies. Tasks such as film classification, style-driven generation, or transfer techniques from real videos to synthetic contents can all largely benefit from a better exploitation of film stylistic features. Yet in practice, our understanding of what style stands for in movies remains fairly limited and impedes our ability to properly formalize, extract and exploit such features. In this talk, we will introduce how state-of-the-art techniques approach the problem. We will share recent results on the topic, and open towards a more holistic vision that requires to understand style in strong correlation with more in-depth representations of movies such as discourse structures, intentionality, cognition and emotion.
Date: March 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU
Speaker: Prof. Marc Christie – Associate Professor, University of Rennes and INRIA
All members of HKU community are welcome to join!
Professor Marc Christie – Associate Professor, University of Rennes and INRIA
Marc Christie is an Associate Professor at University of Rennes and INRIA. His research focuses on understanding the underlying visual and narrative constructs in movies, building computational models from these constructs, and applying the results to interactive or automated cinematography systems in real and virtual environments. His research finds applications in drone cinematography, in-game cinematics, sport broadcasting, and virtual production. He has been collaborating with game software companies such as Unreal and Unity, as well as with multiple VFX companies.
