Highlights extraction in soccer videos based on goal-mouth detection

A new method is proposed for highlight extraction in soccer videos based on goal-mouth detection. This approach is based on the observations that the appearance of goal-mouth points to a high likelihood of exciting action in soccer videos and that highlight is composed of certain types of scene views which exhibit certain transition rules. To exploit those observations, first goal-mouth are detected and segmented in soccer videos by Top-Hat Transform and some domain rules, and then with scene transition rules highlight is extracted based on goal-mouth detection. The effectiveness and efficiency of this approach are demonstrated by the experimental results on shot detection.