Sport Video Classification Using an Ensemble Classifier

Sport video classification is an application of video analysis which can be useful in video indexing and retrieval. In this article, a new method for sport video classification using ensemble classifier is proposed. The proposed method uses 6 features: 3 dominant colors, dominant gray level, cut rate and motion rate. These features are classified by 4 simple classifiers in an ensemble classifier: Nearest Neighbor (NN), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Decision Tree (DT) and Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN). To combine the output of simple classifiers and make final decision, weighted majority vote is used while the weight of each simple classifier is equal to corresponding correct classification rate (CCR). Experimental result shows that the CCR of proposed system is 78.8%. In this experiment, 104 clips in 7 different sport classes are used: football, basketball, tennis, swimming, futsal, ski and box.