Kurosawa Shot-Level Dataset: Shot Boundaries, Color, and Face-Derived Shot-Scale Features for 30 Films
Abstract
This paper presents a quality-flagged derived dataset for Akira Kurosawa’s films, containing structured measurements obtained from automated shot segmentation and visual feature extraction. The dataset covers 30 films (1943–1993). It includes shot boundaries and duration statistics (TransNet v2), intra-shot face statistics and face-derived shot-scale proxies (RetinaFace), and color metrics (brightness, warmth, saturation). The dataset supports cross-film comparisons of Kurosawa’s style, the analysis of color evolution from black-and-white to color cinema, and quantitative research in digital humanities and cinemetrics.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Video Analysis and Summarization
Cinema and Media Studies
Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Open Humanities Data
- Publisher
- Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
- Volume
- 12
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN