Lanagan, James and Smeaton, Alan F.
(2007)
SportsAnno: what do you think?
In: RIAO 2007 - Large-Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video and Sound), 30 May - 1 June 2007, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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.