AI-Based Sports Highlight Generation for Social Media

Cise Midoglu, Saeed Shafiee Sabet, Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh, Sayed Mohammad Majidi Dorcheh, Sushant Gautam, Håkon Maric Solberg, Tomas Kupka, Pål Halvorsen

Abstract: Social media plays a significant role for sports organizations with millions of active fans, but publishing highlights is often a tedious manual operation. With the development of AI, new tools are available for content generation and personalization to engage audiences. We propose an AI-based multimedia production framework for the automatic publishing of soccer and ice hockey highlights on social media, and disseminate our experiences with developing dedicated pipelines for event detection and classification, player detection and tracking, highlight clipping, cropping, thumbnail generation, game summarization, caption generation, and social media sharing.