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20192025
most citedMatch Cutting: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions

3 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CV2025

Cinéaste: A Fine-grained Contextual Movie Question Answering Benchmark

Nisarg A. Shah, Amir Ziai, Chaitanya Ekanadham +1

While recent advancements in vision-language models have improved video understanding, diagnosing their capacity for deep, narrative comprehension remains a challenge. Existing ben…

cs.CV20223 cited

Match Cutting: Finding Cuts with Smooth Visual Transitions

Boris Chen, Amir Ziai, Rebecca Tucker +1

A match cut is a transition between a pair of shots that uses similar framing, composition, or action to fluidly bring the viewer from one scene to the next. Match cuts are frequen…

cs.LG20222 cited

Abuse and Fraud Detection in Streaming Services Using Heuristic-Aware Machine Learning

Soheil Esmaeilzadeh, Negin Salajegheh, Amir Ziai +1

This work presents a fraud and abuse detection framework for streaming services by modeling user streaming behavior. The goal is to discover anomalous and suspicious incidents and…

cs.CV20192 cited

Detecting Kissing Scenes in a Database of Hollywood Films

Amir Ziai

Detecting scene types in a movie can be very useful for application such as video editing, ratings assignment, and personalization. We propose a system for detecting kissing scenes…

cs.IR2019

Mining Data from the Congressional Record

Zhengyu Ma, Tianjiao Qi, James Route +1

We propose a data storage and analysis method for using the US Congressional record as a policy analysis tool. We use Amazon Web Services and the Solr search engine to store and pr…

cs.CL20191 cited

Compositional pre-training for neural semantic parsing

Amir Ziai

Semantic parsing is the process of translating natural language utterances into logical forms, which has many important applications such as question answering and instruction foll…