Abstract

We present a novel method for generating sports video summary highlights. Specifically, our method localizes semantically important events in sport programs by detecting slow motion replays of these events, and then generates highlights of these events at multiple levels. In our method, a hidden Markov model (HMM) is used to model slow motion replays, and an inference algorithm is introduced which computes the probability of a slow motion replay segment, and localizes the boundaries of the segment as well. An effective new feature is used in our HMM, based on a moving measure of the number of zero-crossings and the amplitudes of variations over time of video field differences. Furthermore, the method is capable of filtering out slow motion play segments in commercials. As compared with existing methods for video event detection, our method is more generic (ie, domain independent), and has the ability to capture inherently important events.

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