Movie Summarization Based on Alignment of Plot and Shots

This paper proposes a method of assisting movie summarization using plotinformation. A plot of a movie available at Wikipedia contains a majorstory of the movie. From such a plot of a movie, we extract severalimportant sentences as the content of summary. For summarizing movie, the key work is finding the best alignment between sentences of plot andshots which are segmented from a movie. There are two cues used tomeasure the similarity between a sentence and a shot. One is based oncharacter appearing in both sentence and shot, another is based on wordsmatching. Then an alignment method based on dynamic programming is applyto optimize the alignment. Finally an experiment on movie "RomanHoliday" and "Alice in the wonderland" show the effectiveness of this method.