Analysis And Presentation Of Soccer Highlights From Digital Video

In many sports games like soccer, a major portion of the essence is captured in relatively short durations of intense actions. These highlights are summaries of the games. The capture and eeective presentation of these action highlights serve as an important browsing mechanism in a video library of soccer games, and require special techniques for the analyses of digital video. In this paper we present techniques to automatically detect and extract the soccer highlights by analyzing the image contents, and to present these shots of action by the panoramic reconstruction of selected events. The analyses include the recognition of prominent features of the game, tracking of ball, camera movement compensation for eeective recognition, and construction of the panoramic views.