Automatic Football Video Highlights Extraction

This paper defines a system for automatic analysis of, and highlights extraction from football television footage. The analysis is based solely on visual or cinematic information in the video, using shot type classification and colour analysis on video frames. Two different versions of the system have been developed, enabling work on decoded video frames as well as direct analysis of the compressed bitstream. The latter scheme processes the DC image of the I-frames, rather than pixels in decoded frames. Testing shows promising results, with shot type classification accuracy of just over 90 % and excellent run time.