Multilevel analysis of sports video sequences

Jungong Han; Dirk Farin; Peter H. N. de With

doi:10.1117/12.648849

16 January 2006 Multilevel analysis of sports video sequences

Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With

Proceedings Volume 6073, Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval 2006; 607303 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.648849
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

We propose a fully automatic and flexible framework for analysis and summarization of tennis broadcast video sequences, using visual features and specific game-context knowledge. Our framework can analyze a tennis video sequence at three levels, which provides a broad range of different analysis results. The proposed framework includes novel pixel-level and object-level tennis video processing algorithms, such as a moving-player detection taking both the color and the court (playing-field) information into account, and a player-position tracking algorithm based on a 3-D camera model. Additionally, we employ scene-level models for detecting events, like service, base-line rally and net-approach, based on a number real-world visual features. The system can summarize three forms of information: (1) all court-view playing frames in a game, (2) the moving trajectory and real-speed of each player, as well as relative position between the player and the court, (3) the semantic event segments in a game. The proposed framework is flexible in choosing the level of analysis that is desired. It is effective because the framework makes use of several visual cues obtained from the real-world domain to model important events like service, thereby increasing the accuracy of the scene-level analysis. The paper presents attractive experimental results highlighting the system efficiency and analysis capabilities.

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Jungong Han, Dirk Farin, and Peter H. N. de With "Multilevel analysis of sports video sequences", Proc. SPIE 6073, Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval 2006, 607303 (16 January 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.648849

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