Ever forget the name of a movie that has Leonardo Dicaprio in it, a bear and lots of snow? Rather than name the movie, you instead opt to splurge out various words and phrases you can remember from the movie like “in America”, “Indians” and so forth. Luckily there’s now a website that can take that collection of jumbled up words and phrases to figure out the name of the movie you’re talking about.
Whatismymovie is developed by a Finnish technology team, Valossa, who claims that it is the world’s “first ever descriptive movie search engine”, and promises to solve that problem we all face when we can’t remember the name of a film. They received over $650,000 to create the site. Right now the database is only limited to 40,000 english language films and is still in development. However conducting a simple test such as “samurai movie with Tom Cruise in it” does turn up The Last Samurai as the first option.
The technology behind the site analyses video files in real time to identify more than one thousand concepts and settings (place, objects, people etc.) from any video file, which enables automated scene descriptive metadata creation so that the time you mumbled out “Sandra Bullock in space” actually churns out Gravity.
The video files themselves are read through a combination of natural language processing and pattern recognition AI. Just type or use your microphone to speak in a search term on the website and it should come up with several suggestions.
You can even use it as a custom search for a genre, by saying something such as “Find me history movies with big battles in them.” Even asking “find me a racing movie that was shot in Abu Dhabi” churns out Furious 7!
Source: The Independant
