We propose a new model for speaker naming in movies that leverages visual, textual, and acoustic modalities in an unified optimization framework. To evaluate the performance of our model, we introduce a new dataset consisting of six episodes of the Big Bang Theory TV show and eighteen full movies covering different genres. Our experiments show that our multimodal model significantly outperforms several competitive baselines on the average weighted F-score metric. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework, we design an end-to-end memory network model that leverages our speaker naming model and achieves state-of-the-art results on the subtitles task of the MovieQA 2017 Challenge.
@article{arxiv.1809.08761,
title = {Speaker Naming in Movies},
author = {Mahmoud Azab and Mingzhe Wang and Max Smith and Noriyuki Kojima and Jia Deng and Rada Mihalcea},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08761},
year = {2018}
}