Shooting Event Detection of Free Kick in Soccer Video Based on Rule Reasoning

Abstract

Soccer video event detection is of great significance to video retrieval.However,there are fewer events in soccer videos,and these events mainly occur in the far-view shot,which makes it difficult to capture key players and key actions,making soccer event detection more difficult.In recent years,methods based on deep learning have made some progress in soccer video event detection,but the learning ability of the high-level semantic of the event is still insufficient and the detection results need to be further improved.Therefore,how to improve the accuracy of soccer video event detection is an urgent problem to be solved.Taking the shooting event of free kick(free-kick shot event) as the research object,an event detection model combining soccer rules and deep learning is proposed.To have a deeper understanding of the inherent characteristics of the free-kick shot event,the event rules are manually summarized and verified on the public soccer dataset,and the corresponding application scenarios are also proposed.For the problem of too few events in soccer videos,rule-based initial localization algorithm is proposed to preprocess the videos.Through the combination and application of multiple rules,the location where the free-kick shot event may occur is initially located from the original video,which is used as the input of the deep learning model for further prediction.The proposed mo-del is compared with other models on the public soccer dataset.Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves the best results,with the accuracy rate of 78% and the recall rate of 81.25%.Compared with other models,the improvement in accuracy is particularly prominent.It can be seen that the free-kick shot event detection model that combines soccer rules and deep learning effectively improves the performance of free-kick shot event detection and provides a basic reference for further research on the detection of other events in soccer videos.

Keywords

• soccer video|free-kick shot|event detection|soccer rules|deep learning