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Sports video summarization and adaptation for application in mobile communication

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Sports video appeals to large audiences due to its high commercial potentials. Automatically extracting useful semantic information and generating highlight summary from sports video to facilitate users’ accessing requirements is an important problem, especially in the forthcoming broadband mobile communication and the need for users to access their multimedia information of interest from anywhere at anytime with their most convenient digital equipments. In this paper, a system to generate highlight summaries oriented for mobile applications is introduced, which includes highlight extraction and video adaptation. In this system, several highlight extraction techniques are provided for field sports video and racket sports video by using multi-modal information. To enhance users’ viewing experience and save bandwidth, 3D animation from highlight segment is also generated. As an important procedure to make video analysis results universally applicable, video transcoding techniques are applied to adapt the video for mobile communication environment and user preference. Experimental results are encouraging and show the advantage and feasibility of the system for multimedia content personalization, enhancement and adaptation to meet different user preference and network/device requirements.

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Project supported by NEC Research of China (No. 0P2004001), “Science 100 Plan” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. m2041), and the Natural Science Foundation (No. 4063041) of Beijing, China

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Gao, W., Huang, Qm., Jiang, Sq. et al. Sports video summarization and adaptation for application in mobile communication. J. Zhejiang Univ. - Sci. A 7, 819–829 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2006.A0819

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