An unsupervised method for active region extraction in sports videos

  • Authors:
  • Markos Mentzelopoulos;Alexandra Psarrou;Anastassia Angelopoulou

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster, United Kingdom;School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster, United Kingdom;School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • IWANN'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial neural networks conference on Advances in computational intelligence - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a fully automatic and computationally efficient algorithm for analysis of sports videos. The goal of the proposed method is to identify regions that perform certain activities in a scene. The model uses some low-level feature video processing algorithms to extract the shot boundaries from a video scene and to identify dominant colours within these boundaries. An object classification method is used for clustering the seed distributions of the dominant colours to homogeneous regions. Using a simple tracking method a classification of these regions to active or static is performed. The efficiency of the proposed framework is demonstrated over a standard video benchmark with numerous types of sport events and the experimental results show that our algorithm can be used with high accuracy for automatic annotation of active regions for sport videos.