Automatic Highlight Generation of Soccer Videos

Due to soccer’s immense popularity, numerous soccer matches are played each year and people watch or record these matches. However, considering that the duration of a game of soccer is at least 90 minutes and that important scenes such as goals and passes take up a small portion of the total time, we inevitably look for highlights rather than the entire game. Therefore, we propose a model that automatically generates a highlight video of a full soccer match in this paper. For this purpose, we searched diverse action-spotting models to choose a backbone model for our highlight classifier. Through various experiments, NetVLAD++ is selected as a backbone model and we created a fairly natural highlight generator by combining NetVLAD++ and our highlight classifier. Our results are meaningful because they can be applied in various fields and have huge room for improvement.