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In recent days, streaming technology has greatly promoted the development in the field of livestream. Due to the excessive length of livestream records, it's quite essential to extract highlight segments with the aim of effective…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Yang Zhao , Xuan Lin , Wenqiang Xu , Maozong Zheng , Zhengyong Liu , Zhou Zhao

This study presents a novel Deep Learning-based and lightweight approach for the automated detection of sports highlights (HLs) from audio and video sources. HL detection is a key task in sports video analysis, traditionally requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Francesco Della Santa , Morgana Lalli

Soccer is one of the most popular sport worldwide, with live broadcasts frequently available for major matches. However, extracting detailed, frame-by-frame information on player actions from these videos remains a challenge. Utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Shikun Xu , Yandong Zhu , Gen Li , Changhu Wang

Win prediction is crucial to understanding skill modeling, teamwork and matchmaking in esports. In this paper we propose GCN-WP, a semi-supervised win prediction model for esports based on graph convolutional networks. This model learns the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Alexander J. Bisberg , Emilio Ferrara

First-person shooter (FPS) game tournaments take place across the globe. A growing number of people choose to watch FPS games online instead of attending the game events in person. However, live streaming might miss critical highlight…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Jiaye Li , Minghao Li , Zikai Alex Wen , Wei Cai

While esports organizations are increasingly adopting practices of conventional sports teams, such as dedicated analysts and data-driven decision-making, video-based game review is still the primary mode of game analysis. In conventional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Peter Xenopoulos , Joao Rulff , Claudio Silva

Forecasting winners in E-sports with real-time analytics has the potential to further engage audiences watching major tournament events. However, making such real-time predictions is challenging due to unpredictable variables within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Kittimate Chulajata , Sean Wu , Fabien Scalzo , Eun Sang Cha

Presently online video games have become a progressively favorite source of recreation and Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is one of the top-listed online first-person shooting games. Numerous competitive games are arranged every…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tasnim Sakib Apon , Abrar Islam , MD. Golam Rabiul Alam

Video game streaming provides the viewer with a rich set of audio-visual data, conveying information both with regards to the game itself, through game footage and audio, as well as the streamer's emotional state and behaviour via webcam…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Charles Ringer , James Alfred Walker , Mihalis A. Nicolaou

Prediction of the real-time multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games' match outcome is one of the most important and exciting tasks in Esports analytical research. This research paper predominantly focuses on building predictive machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Kodirjon Akhmedov , Anh Huy Phan

The state of the art in video understanding suffers from two problems: (1) The major part of reasoning is performed locally in the video, therefore, it misses important relationships within actions that span several seconds. (2) While there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Kamaljeet Singh , Thomas Brox

Proper training and analytics in eSports require accurately collected and annotated data. Most eSports research focuses exclusively on in-game data analysis, and there is a lack of prior work involving eSports athletes' psychophysiological…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Anton Smerdov , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz , Andrey Somov

Video classification has advanced tremendously over the recent years. A large part of the improvements in video classification had to do with the work done by the image classification community and the use of deep convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Balakrishnan Varadarajan , George Toderici , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Apostol Natsev

With the rapid prevalence and explosive development of MOBA esports (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena electronic sports), much research effort has been devoted to automatically predicting game results (win predictions). While this task has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zelong Yang , Zhufeng Pan , Yan Wang , Deng Cai , Xiaojiang Liu , Shuming Shi , Shao-Lun Huang

Video games and the playing thereof have been a fixture of American culture since their introduction in the arcades of the 1980s. However, it was not until the recent proliferation of broadband connections robust and fast enough to handle…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Isaac Jones , Huan Liu

Live streaming platforms need to store a lot of recorded live videos on a daily basis. An important problem is how to automatically extract highlights (i.e., attractive short video clips) from these massive, long recorded live videos. One…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ruochen Jiang , Changbo Qu , Jiannan Wang , Chi Wang , Yudian Zheng

The massive growth of sports videos has resulted in a need for automatic generation of sports highlights that are comparable in quality to the hand-edited highlights produced by broadcasters such as ESPN. Unlike previous works that mostly…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Vinay Bettadapura , Caroline Pantofaru , Irfan Essa

With the rapid growth of surveillance cameras in many public places to mon-itor human activities such as in malls, streets, schools and, prisons, there is a strong demand for such systems to detect violence events automatically. Au-tomatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Heyam M. Bin Jahlan , Lamiaa A. Elrefaei

Context. The game industry is increasingly growing in recent years. Every day, millions of people play video games, not only as a hobby, but also for professional competitions (e.g., e-sports or speed-running) or for making business by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Emanuela Guglielmi , Simone Scalabrino , Gabriele Bavota , Rocco Oliveto

Automatic digitization of chess games using computer vision is a significant technological challenge. This problem is of much interest for tournament organizers and amateur or professional players to broadcast their over-the-board (OTB)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 David Mallasén Quintana , Alberto Antonio del Barrio García , Manuel Prieto Matías