Mining temporal information and web-casting text for automatic sports event detection

In this paper, the generic framework for automatically detecting event based on Allen temporal algebra and external text information support is presented. The motivation of the proposed method is (1) to relax the need of domain knowledge that requires significant human interference; and (2) to take into account the temporal information that has been paid less attention though it is critical to convey event meaning. In order to solve two these problems, in the proposed method, the temporal information is captured by presenting events as the temporal sequences using a lexicon of Allen-based non-ambiguous temporal patterns. These sequences are then used to mine temporal patterns with web-casting text supports by using technique of mining class association rules. Then, the results of previous steps are tailored to build the event detector. Thorough experimental results and comparisons that are carried on more than 30 hours of soccer video corpus captured at different broadcasters and conditions demonstrates that the proposed method meets two aforementioned motivations with high efficiency, effectiveness, and robustness.