Automatically generate XKCD like charts for TV episodes. We currently work on the placement of characters, and will work on adding event bubbles at a later stage.
StoryGraphs: Visualizing Character Interactions as a Timeline Makarand Tapaswi, Martin Baeuml and Rainer Stiefelhagen IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Poster), Columbus, June 2014 [paper] [poster-1] [poster-2] [supp]
Try the StoryGraphs out at GitHub. The shot threading and scene detection code can be found here.
Scene detection ground truth annotations visualized as simple HTML files can be downloaded here.