Surfing through Sports Videos

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.

Autorentext

Chih-Hung Kuo: Ph.D. in electrical engineering, University ofSouthern California. Assistant Professor at Department ofElectrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan,Taiwan.Yen-Sung Chen: M.S. in electrical engineering, National ChengKung University. Design Engineer with the NovatekMicroelectronics Corp., Hsinchu.

Klappentext

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 filteringout insignificant parts but showing only theremarkable segments. Conventional highlightextraction techniques adopt rule-based approachesthat need lots of human efforts to analyze the videosequences for a particular type of sports. This bookpresents a generalized method that can be applied tovarious types of sports videos. The Artificial NeuralNetwork (ANN) is utilized to extract highlightswithout predefining rules of the highlight events.The framework should help researchers and designengineers in industry implement efficient highlightbrowsing system on real-time embedded systems andapplications, such as PVR and portable DVD.