Segmentation of broadcasted baseball videos into every inning and plate appearance

Abstract

Most current ideas for producing highlights of broadcasted sports videos are focused on scenes of scoring and receiving loud cheers. However, depending on recent performances of Japanese baseball players in the US, Japanese TV programs often show their performances as highlights in the broadcasts without depending on the highlight. This paper presents a method for segmenting broadcasted baseball videos into every inning and every plate appearance by analyzing the change of the sports ticker by a correlation coefficient. The proposed technique could be efficiently used as a preprocessing method in extracting highlight scenes about a batter from broadcasted sports videos and making an index of the videos. The experimental results have shown that the proposed method has exactly segmented broadcasted baseball videos into each inning and each plate appearance.