Hasn’t it ever happened to you that you remember a frame from a movie , but you don’t know exactly which one it was from? For example, do you remember that in some Star Wars movie, there was a huge skeleton on Tatooine, which was a clear reference to Dune . But… what movie was it in exactly? Or… What color was Sheev Palpatine’s lightsaber before he became Darth Sidious? Sometimes a Google search can give you the answer, but if what you are looking for is very complex, it will take hours to locate what you need. That problem is what Film.AI, an artificial intelligence expert in cinema, aims to solve.
What is Film.AI and what is it used for?
It is no coincidence that every week we talk about so many innovations in the field of artificial intelligence . Until now, never had so much progress been made in this world in such a short time. That is why there are so many new projects based on these systems.
Film.AI is one more platform that uses neural network learning models to create a database that we can query through descriptions. As if it were a group of moviegoers, this artificial intelligence captures frames from movies and records metadata to create a large database of information. Not only is it limited to saving the movie in question, but it also records multiple tags such as the name of the characters that appear in the capture, a description of the scene and the outfits they are wearing, as well as the actors and other data that may be relevant when it comes to finding that frame or movie you’re looking for.
At its core, Film.AI is a library of film images much like ShotDeck , which was created by cinematographer Lawrence Sher. ShotDeck works through user collaboration, and each image is tagged with 50 keywords. Currently, this service is more advanced than Film.AI, but the platform created with artificial intelligence could eventually take the lead, as it requires only computational effort to expand its service more and more in the future.
What other uses does Film.AI have?
Film.AI is a project created by five entrepreneurs , and as you can imagine, nobody works for nothing. Like ShotDeck, Film.AI works with a monthly membership —although we can do a few searches for free—, and the idea is that it can serve as a kind of stock image bank to illustrate text or at an academic level, as you can be in universities and art schools.
However, the possibilities go much further. Without going any further, the famous game Framed , that is, “the Wordle of cinema” takes its database from ShotDeck . Therefore, the platform has a future in terms of selling its service through an API to anyone who wants to use the images in applications or games. We imagine that part of what we pay for the service (13.75 euros per month or 165 per year) is destined in part to pay the image rights of the captures. There is also a form to request a student or teacher account with which we imagine that they will make a discount.
