Temporal segmentation of association football from TV broadcasting

This paper presents the first module of our system Ace for the automated interpretation of association football games. This module is in charge of the temporal segmentation of the input broadcasting TV video into scenes. The temporal segmentation is based on a new devised dissimilarity measure using the Bhattacharyya distance of the hue and local spatial variance histograms, to incorporate chromatic and structural properties of the images. Great results of extended experiments conducted on the last FIFA´s World Cup are presented.