Surfing Through Sports Videos: A Unified Highlights Extraction Framework Based On Artificial Neural Network (Ann)

Due to the rapid growth of mass storage technologies, people may save large amounts of multimedia contents, but may not have sufficient time to view them all. They may want the displayer automatically filtering out insignificant parts but showing only the remarkable segments. Conventional highlight extraction techniques adopt rule-based approaches that need lots of human efforts to analyze the video sequences for a particular type of sports. This book presents a generalized method that can be applied to various types of sports videos. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is utilized to extract highlights without predefining rules of the highlight events. The framework should help researchers and design engineers in industry implement efficient highlight browsing system on real-time embedded systems and applications, such as PVR and portable DVD.