Automatic sports classification

ASSAVID is an EU sponsored project which is concerned with the development of a system for the automatic segmentation and semantic annotation of sports video. We describe the method which automatically classifies unknown sports video into the type of sport being played. This is an important task if a fully automatic sports video logging process is to be realised. The proposed technique relies upon the concept of "cues" which attach semantic meaning to low-level features computed on the video. Experimental results on sports video provided by the BBC demonstrate that this method is working well.