A MULTIMODAL SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS GENERATION: “Getting the good parts you want to your Mobile Platform with limited bandwidth!”

We propose a system that can automatically identify exciting events in a sports video and can use this information to automatically generate highlights. The proposed system exploits information in audio, speech and video channels to automatically segment the video to create play-by-play discrete chunks, and subsequently use a number of simple yet efficient multimodal features to assign an excitement score to every play. Using this excitement score, the new system can rank orders plays and generate highlights of desired time. Alternatively, the system can allow users to skip “boring” parts of the video and skip to the next emotional hotspot. This has specific benefits for remote viewing of multi-media content with limited bandwidth resources.