Sports Video Semantic Analysis and Personalization

                                                                                   Changsheng Xu

                                                                            Institute of Automation

                                                                      Chinese Academy of Sciences

                                                            China-Singapore Institute of Digital Media

Abstract

Extensive research efforts have been devoted to sports video analysis and applications due to their wide viewer-ship and high commercial potentials. Various approaches and prototypes have been developed to automatically or semi-automatically analyze sports video content, extract semantic events or highlights, intelligently adapt, enhance and personalize the content to meet users’preferences and network/device capabilities. Many applications have been developed and used in broadcast sports video enhancement. In this talk, I will focus on our research and the technical achievements of sports video analysis and applications in recent years. Firstly I will introduce feature extraction methods in sports video, particularly focusing on some novel mid-level/semantic features we have developed for sports video analysis. Then I will introduce event detection approaches in

sports video and highlight a semantic event detection method by combining the analysis and alignment of web-casting text and broadcast sports video. Finally, I will introduce two applications of sports video analysis: sports video tactic analysis and personalized music sports video generation. Based on the current technologies used in sports video analysis and the demands from real-world application,future promising directions and research challenges will be discussed at the end of the talk.

Biography

Changsheng Xu is Professor of National Lab of pattern Recognition,Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also Executive Director of China-Singapore Institute of Digital media. He received the Ph.D degree from Tsinghua University, China in 1996. He was with National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Associate Professor from 1996 to 1998. He was with Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore from 1998 to 2008. His research interests include Multimedia Content Analysis, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition,

Computer Vision, and Digital Watermarking. He has published over 150 refereed book chapters, journal and conference papers in these areas. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Member of ACM. He is an Associate Editor of ACM/Springer Multimedia System Journal. He will serve as Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2009 and General Co-Chair of Pacific-Rim Multimedia (PCM) 2008.He serves as Short Paper Co-hair of ACM Multimedia 2008. He served as General Co-hair and Program Co-Chair of Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing, Industry Track Chair and Area Chair of International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. He has served as Technical Program Committee Member in many prestigious multimedia conferences including ACM Multimedia, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM).