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Constructing a Bowling Information System with Video Content Analysis

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In this paper, we present a design and implementation of a bowling information system. This system contains three types of bowling game information including the bowling video content information, the game-related information and the player information. The MPEG-7 Description Schemes are used to describe these types of information and the relationships among them. This information is obtained through an annotator to which manual conceptual feature annotation (for the player and game-related information) and automatic perceptual feature extraction (for the video content information) are integrated. Several interesting events in the video such as strikes and the important frames are determined by automatically analyzing the video content. With an interactive user interface, users’ queries are transformed into XQuery path expression to retrieve needed information about the bowling games to learn the skills of bowling. In addition to the implementation of the system, we also perform experiments to show the effectiveness of the automatic video content information extraction.

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  1. Department of Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 300, Republic of China

    Wen Wen Hsieh

  2. Department of Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan 116, Republic of China

    Arbee L. P. Chen

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Wen Wen Hsieh received the B.S. degree in computer and information science from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 2000, and the M.S. degree in computer science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2002. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University.

Arbee L.P. Chen received the B.S. degree in computer science from National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan in 1977, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984.

He joined Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1990 as a professor. In August 2001 he took a leave from National Tsing Hua University to chair Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. Since August 2004, he has been Chengchi University Chair Professor at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Communications Research, New Jersey, from 1987 to1990, an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Polytechnic University, New York, and a Research Scientist at Unisys, California, from 1985 to 1986. His current research interests include data stream management, multimedia database and data mining.

Dr. Chen organized 1995 IEEE Data Engineering Conference and 1999 International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications in Taiwan, and served as a program or conference chair for many international conferences. He was a visiting scholar at Kyoto University, Beijing Tsinghua University and Stanford University. He has been a recipient of the National Science Council Distinguished Research Award since 1996, and is listed in Who’s Who in the Republic of China, Government Information Office.

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Hsieh, W.W., Chen, A.L.P. Constructing a Bowling Information System with Video Content Analysis. Multimed Tools Appl 26, 207–220 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-005-0452-6

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