Title: Important scene analysis model using result importance and situation importance

Authors: Takako Hashimoto, Takashi Katooka, Atsushi Iizawa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Addresses: Software R&D Group, RICOH Company Ltd., Bukyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0002, Japan. ' Software R&D Group, RICOH Company Ltd., Bukyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0002, Japan. ' Software R&D Group, RICOH Company Ltd., Bukyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0002, Japan. ' Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

Abstract: Functional improvements to mobile terminals have made possible the spread of multimedia information delivery services. Especially for sports, a service that extracts important scenes and reports them to users has become popular. We take the approach that situational changes in a game|s progress can be presented as state transitions, and devise an important scene analysis model based on Result Importance (RI), which represents each situation|s actual importance, and Situation Importance (SI), which shows the degree of a chance at the situation. With our model, significant scenes are extracted dynamically. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is very promising.

Keywords: mobile devices; mobile multimedia systems; scene extraction; scene analysis; modelling; importance; situation importance; sports information; baseball; cell phones; mobile phones.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2009.029342

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2009 Vol.3 No.4, pp.225 - 235

Published online: 22 Nov 2009 *

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