Francesco Cricri

Mobile Devices and Professional Equipment Synergies for Sport Summary Production

We present a novel approach for sport video summary production that leverages the best aspects of mobile devices and professional equipment. The proposed recording set-up and workflow, consisting of both types of devices has two main advantages compared to conventional techniques. Firstly, it reduces cost of content production by reducing the cost of equipment and crew required for content capture. Secondly, it reduces the time for content production by leveraging automation. Subsequently, a tunable summary production approach is presented for creating a multi-camera representation of a salient event. Incorporating cinematic rules creates aesthetically pleasant viewing experience. Interactive production of the summary enables professional users as well as second screen device (mobile, tablet, etc.) users to create a summary, where inclusion of highly ranked salient events can be done based on the subjective viewing value. Furthermore, automation provides a framework for easy inclusion of crowdsourced content. The proposed hybrid production method is illustrated here by considering basketball as an example.