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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 634-643Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.826751
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controlled Markov chains; highlights detection; multimodal analysis; semantic indexing; sport videos
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Content characterization of sport videos is a subject (if great interest to researchers working on the analysis of multimedia documents. In this paper, we propose a semantic indexing algorithm which uses both audio and visual information for salient event detection in soccer. The video signal is processed first by extracting low-level visual descriptors directly from an MPEG-2 bit stream. It is assumed that any instance of m event of interest typically affects two consecutive shots and is characterized by a different temporal evolution of the visual descriptors in the two shots. This motivates the introduction of a controlled Markov chain to describe such evolution during an event of interest, with the control input modeling the occurrence of a shot transition. After adequately training different controlled Markov chain models, 1 list of video segments can be extracted to represent a specific event of interest using the maximum likelihood criterion. To reduce the presence of false alarms, low-level audio descriptors are processed to order the candidate video segments in the list so that those associated to the event of interest are likely to be found in the very first positions. We focus in particular on goal detection, which represents a key event in a soccer game, using camera motion information as a visual cue and the loudness as an audio descriptor. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed multimodal approach.
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