Semantic annotation of soccer videos: Automatic highlights identification

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 285-305

  Assfalg, Jürgen ^a   Bertini, Marco ^a   Colombo, Carlo ^a   Del Bimbo, Alberto ^a   Nunziati, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Highlights detection; Semantic annotation; Sports videos

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE AUTOMATA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; MOTION ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

FINITE STATE MACHINES; HIGHLIGHTS DETECTION; MODEL CHECKING ALGORITHM; SEMANTIC ANNOTATION; SPORTS VIDEOS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0345060911     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2003.06.004     Document Type: Article

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