Autosoccer: An Automatic Soccer Live Broadcasting Generator

Low-cost live broadcasting is highly anticipated for soccer matches that involve heavy expenses in human and equipment currently. This demo showcases the autoSoccer system to approach the target. It takes a fix-view panoramic soccer video as the input and automatically generates its live broadcasting, which continuously focuses on the most interesting area in the soccer field. To this end, a novel pipeline is developed by leveraging both low-level motion and visual features, and high-level soccer-related semantics. By appropriately utilizing these clues, autoSoccer is capable of delivering a soccer match video analogous to human directed. Demo on school soccer show that autoSoccer produces videos with satisfactory watching experience. Moreover, it executes in real-time on a PC with Intel i7 CPU and one Nvidia Titan XP GPU.

1. INTRODUCTION

As one of the most popular sports, soccer has been loved by people all over the world and soccer matches are broadcasted by TV and Internet everyday. It is always expensive to generate the live broadcasting of a soccer match. It involves several to dozens of cameras to record the soccer field from different angles and focuses, accompany with staffs manually operate the cameras by movement, zooming in/out, etc., and select the most appropriate view at each moment. Typically, a highquality live broadcasting is the result of a high cost.