A Scoreboard Based Method for Goal Events Detecting in Football Videos

We provide a new method to detect goals in football videos in this paper. We found that there is usually a scoreboard in almost all the football game broadcast on TV and the score part of the scoreboard demonstrates the goals in the match intuitively. So by means of detecting the change of the score part, we could detect the goal events without much training data and the structural analyzing of the game videos. Our method is mainly based on the accurate location of the scoreboard and it includes three parts: locating the scoreboard from the frame images, extracting the score part of the scoreboard, and detecting the goals using the score part. At last we use the videos of European Champion League 2010-2011 to test our method and get some preferable results.