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GENERATING SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
Sports Highlights software allows video editors to browse rapidly through archives of digitised sports video and to collate the highlights of a sports match. The system is based on advanced automatic processing of audio/visual TV content and integrated database technology. It finds highlights in different ways depending on the particular sport, but a unique feature is that it searches both audio and video tracks.
For cricket, for example, the software finds the sounds of crowds cheering and searches for camera pans and zooms. The software cuts production costs and also opens opportunities for value-add applications such as on-line e-commerce.
Mountains of information are now stored in digital form, as images, text, video, audio and hypermedia.
And every moment of every day, new digital material is created to add to the pile.
Making sense this vast volume of digital content by editing, captioning and subtitling is rapidly moving beyond the capacity of even the most skilled operators. It takes talent, training and time to identify the right content from a mass of material, particularly 'on the fly', and then to edit and compose it.
CSIRO's experts in digital media information systems have pushed ahead with technologies which help editors 'repurpose' digital material in this way. Working within the Advanced Computational Systems Co-operative Research Centre (ACSys), and with high tech company MediaWare Solutions, they are developing software to support analysis, access, understanding and repurposing of continuous time-based digital media.
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Sample screen of the Audio Visual Information Retrieval System used to rapidly extract sports highlights from footage.
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