Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Sports Highlights via AI

Posted by michael on from the sportscenter-replaced-by-small-shell-script dept.

nazarijo writes "Found via Brian Chin's Weblog, it looks like scientists and researchers at Microsoft are working on ways to automatically discover game highlights. This article in the New Scientist discusses several research groups, some in Europe, working to make these ideas a reality. Microsoft research is doing this, too, with highlights from the Mariner's shown as examples. A choice quote from the end of the MSR piece: 'By hitting the highlights of baseball games, we get to view only the best parts of multimedia life. And who knows what's next? Maybe political speeches will become shorter, or the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.'"

1 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. the crowd by itzdandy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    how about measure the volume of the crowd and the 'tone' for cheering or booing, add 5 seconds before the cheering or booing, and thats your highlight.

    the crowd get excited so it must be good, if the crowd is bored then i'll be bored.

    works for sports, but not the news.