In film gender studies, the concept of 'male gaze' refers to the way the characters are portrayed on-screen as objects of desire rather than subjects. In this article, we introduce a novel video-interpretation task, to detect character objectification in films. The purpose is to reveal and quantify the usage of complex temporal patterns operated in cinema to produce the cognitive perception of objectification. We introduce the ObyGaze12 dataset, made of 1914 movie clips densely annotated by experts for objectification concepts identified in film studies and psychology. We evaluate recent vision models, show the feasibility of the task and where the challenges remain with concept bottleneck models. Our new dataset and code are made available to the community.

翻译：在电影性别研究中，“男性凝视”这一概念指的是角色在银幕上被刻画为欲望对象而非主体的方式。本文提出了一项新颖的视频解读任务，旨在检测电影中角色的物化现象。其目的是揭示并量化电影中用于产生物化认知的复杂时间模式。我们构建了ObyGaze12数据集，包含由专家根据电影研究与心理学中认定的物化概念进行密集标注的1914个电影片段。我们评估了近期视觉模型，展示了该任务的可行性，并指出了概念瓶颈模型所面临的挑战。本数据集及代码已向学界公开。