J4 ›› 2010, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 613-618.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2010.04.006

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Semantic color extraction and semantic shot segmentation for soccer video

NIU Zhen-xing;LI Jie;GAO Xin-bo   

  1. (School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2009-04-07 Online:2010-08-20 Published:2010-10-11
  • Contact: NIU Zhen-xing E-mail:zxniu@xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

Based on the color feature analysis, this paper considers the shot segmentation issue from the perspective of semantic analysis, i.e., the semantic shot segmentation. In most prior works they segment and classify the shot by using the dominant color of the field for soccer video, which can not properly utilize the plenty of color information on sports video. In this paper, we expand one dominant color in to several semantic colors, and define the Color Ratio Feature (CRF). Then, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) framework is used for shot classification. The precision of shot classification shows that the color ratio feature is useful to improve the performance. Further, considering the temporal variations in the semantic color due to environment, this paper gives an adaptive semantic color extraction algorithm, and we evaluate the influence of classification precision on the number of semantic colors.

Key words: semantic analysis, shot segmentation, color ratio feature, support vector machine