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

    Masanori SANO  Ichiro YAMADA  Hideki SUMIYOSHI  Nobuyuki YAGI  

     
    PAPER

      Vol:
    E90-D No:1
      Page(s):
    224-232

    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.