Automatic Extraction of PC Scenes Based on Feature Mining for Real Time Delivery of Baseball Highlight Scenes

Abstract

To replay baseball highlight scenes in live broadcasts to baseball fans outside, image processing, such as analysis, meta information extraction, and automatic editing, has to be performed in real time. This paper proposes high-speed image processing that automatically extracts PC (Pitcher and Catcher) scenes from live broadcasts of a baseball game in real time using a feature mining technique as a part of baseball highlight scene delivery. This method achieves an F-measure of 97.2% and a processing speed 30 times faster than actual time.