Thread by @DynamicWebPaige

TIL:

💃Good folks at @UniofOxford tagged+categorized pose categories in several episodes of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

📃"2D pose estimation in TV shows" is a body of academic work

🙌I've a heretofore unrealized desire to determine which BuffyPose has the highest % of frames

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robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/buff…

(1) Train a model on the annotated example BuffyPoses;

(2) have it cycle through every episode of every season of "Buffy";

(3) determine BuffyPose with the greatest percentage of frames;

(4) don't forget to take ample time in S01 and S02 to:

💁‍♀️(so, so happy rn)

🤷‍♀️@Netflix, @AmazonVideo: how are you not churning out like a billion "2D pose estimation in TV shows and film" papers daily

...and think about how interesting those research questions could be! 📃✨

Ex: are teenage characters, actors portraying certain professions, or antagonist characters more likely to have closed (folded arms) body poses? And, if so: what percentage of the time? 🤷‍♀️

cc; @youtube

Ex: Do those observed patterns manifest in non-western video, as well? Are the patterns dissimilar in film vs. television? Are certain actors (or public speakers!) overusing a subset of 2D poses?

To monetize: playbooks for method actors+speakers to best convey characters/emotion

🎭 "ACTORS: we analyzed over 10B hours of award-winning video so you don't have to!

Here is a list of the top poses and their frame percentages, by scene type and genre, for the role type: SALTY LOVESICK TEENAGER. If you follow these method acting recipes, you can't fail!" 🤣