Semantic Extraction of Basketball Game Video Combining Domain Knowledge and In-Depth Features

Abstract

The team sports game video features complex background, fast target movement, and mutual occlusion between targets, which poses great challenges to multiperson collaborative video analysis. This paper proposes a video semantic extraction method that integrates domain knowledge and in-depth features, which can be applied to the analysis of a multiperson collaborative basketball game video, where the semantic event is modeled as an adversarial relationship between two teams of players. We first designed a scheme that combines a dual-stream network and learnable spatiotemporal feature aggregation, which can be used for end-to-end training of video semantic extraction to bridge the gap between low-level features and high-level semantic events. Then, an algorithm based on the knowledge from different video sources is proposed to extract the action semantics. The algorithm gathers local convolutional features in the entire space-time range, which can be used to track the ball/shooter/hoop to realize automatic semantic extraction of basketball game videos. Experiments show that the scheme proposed in this paper can effectively identify the four categories of short, medium, long, free throw, and scoring events and the semantics of athletes’ actions based on the video footage of the basketball game.