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Kurosawa Shot-Level Dataset: Shot Boundaries, Color, and Face-Derived Shot-Scale Features for 30 Films Cover

Kurosawa Shot-Level Dataset: Shot Boundaries, Color, and Face-Derived Shot-Scale Features for 30 Films

By: Xueran Wu  
Open Access
|Feb 2026

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.507 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 1, 2026
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Accepted on: Jan 25, 2026
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Published on: Feb 17, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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