Moviegoer: Four Categories of Comprehension

This is part of a series describing the development of Moviegoer, a multi-disciplinary data science project with the lofty goal of teaching machines how to “watch” movies and interpret emotion and antecedents (behavioral cause/effect).

Continued progress has helped clarify the overall goals of the project — we’ve identified four broad categories of knowledge that Moviegoer must identify and recognize. These categories aren’t tied to any specific aspect of the tech stack, and advances in one category may support another. Much like a human viewer, a machine…