Intro In a previous post, we discussed scraping a movie poster image corpus with genre labels from imdb and learning image similarity models using tensorflow. In this post, we extend this idea to recommend movie trailers based on audio-visual similarity. Data We started by scraping IMDB for movie trailers and their genre tags as labels. Using Scrapy, it is easy to build a text file of video links to then download with youtube-dl....
The use of streaming services has sharply increased over this past year. Many video streaming platforms prominently feature theatrical posters in content representation. As movie posters are designed to signal theme, genre and era, this representation strongly influences a user’s propensity to watch the title. Domain experts have remarked on how poster elements can convey an emotion or capture attention. Exploring this thesis, Netflix conducted a UX study, using eye tracking to find that 91% of titles are rejected after roughly 1 second of view time....