Automatic mobile sports highlights

Abstract

We report on our development of a real-time system to deliver sports video highlights of a live game to mobile videophones over existing GPRS networks. To facilitate real-time analysis, a circular buffer receives live video data from which simple audio/visual features are computed to detect for highlight-worthiness according to a priori decision scheme. A separate module runs algorithms to insert content into the highlight for mobile advertising. The system is now under trial over new 3G networks.