SportsAnno: What Do You Think?

The automatic summarisation of sports video is of growing importance with the increased availability of on-demand content. Consumers who are unable to view events live often have a desire to watch a summary which allows then to quickly come to terms with all that has happened during a sporting event. Sports forums show that it is not only summaries that are desirable but also the opportunity to share one’s own point of view and discuss the opinions with a community of similar users. In this paper we give an overview of the ways in which annotations have been used to augment existing visual media. We present SportsAnno, a system developed to summarise World Cup 2006 matches and provide a means for open discussion of events within these matches.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: RIAO
• Authors: James Lanagan, Alan F. Smeaton
• Keywords: Automatic Summarisation, Cup 2006 Matches, Information Technology, On-demand Content, RIAO 2007