Automatic Real-Time Selection and Annotation of Highlight Scenes in Televised Soccer

Masanori SANO  Ichiro YAMADA  Hideki SUMIYOSHI  Nobuyuki YAGI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E90-D   No.1   pp.224-232
Publication Date: 2007/01/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
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Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Advanced Image Technology)
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Keyword: 
metadata,  soccer highlight,  dynamic threshold,  spectral envelope analysis,  

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Summary: 
We describe an online method for selecting and annotating highlight scenes in soccer matches being televised. The stadium crowd noise and the play-by-play announcer's voice are used as input signals. Candidate scenes for highlights are extracted from the crowd noise by dynamic thresholding and spectral envelope analysis. Using a dynamic threshold solves the problem in conventional methods of how to determine an appropriate threshold. Semantic-meaning information about the kind of play and the related team and player is extracted from the announcer's commentary by using domain-based rules. The information extracted from the two types of audio input is integrated to generate segment-metadata of highlight scenes. Application of the method to six professional soccer games has confirmed its effectiveness.