Cinematic Commonsense
Research Group: Interactive Cinema
Research Supervisor: Glorianna Davenport
Graduate Investigator: Barbara Barry
UROP: Grace Lim

For this research we are developing a suggestion system for creating cinematic
stories where video content can dynamically investigate options for the
construction of scenes. Content agents use a public commonsense knowledge
database (<http://openmind.media.mit.edu>) to enhance their knowledge of the
events and objects depicted in an associated video clip. A list of possible
attributes of a next scene and simple story scripts are generated. Content
agents can then reason about choices for generation of cinematic scenes or
provide suggestions for video capture during the production process.
Project start date: May 2001 - present