Shot Segmentation and Replay Detection for Cricket Video Summarization

Interest in video summarization is increased recently. People are fascinated by watching sports videos, but as videos are lengthy to watch and exciting events only occupy a small segment of the video, it is needed to represent such a long video in its precise and summarized view. Shot segmentation and replay detection are important tools in video analysis and can help automate many tasks related to video processing and content creation. It is noticed that exciting events in sports videos are usually replayed. We proposed an approach to detect cricket video shot boundaries and extract replay segments from the cricket video sequence. The proposed technique is simple and computationally effective. The results show the effectiveness and usefulness of an approach.