Highlight Based Adaptive Transmission in Internet Broadcasting of Soccer Video

In this paper, we have proposed a highlight based adaptive transmission (HBAT) system to address the soccer video transmission over unpredictable wireless network. The proposed system employs video analysis to rank the highlight level of each frame within its semantic structure, performs optimized temporal operation such as frame dropping on real time stream to maximize remaining ratio of the highlights under the constraint of network quality. Through the successful implementation of HBAT on stream server, the experimental results show that the proposed system skips more low highlight level contents than the additive increase/multiplicative-decrease (AIMD) when network degrading, and performs good visual quality experience on those annotated as highlights.