Video and Audio Highlight Extraction Using Python

A no machine learning approach to automatically extract highlights from a sports video

Prateek Karkare
The Startup

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It’s finished at Sunderland, Manchester United have done all they can. Manchester City are still alive here. Balotelli. Agueroooooooooo!!!. I swear you’ll never see anything like this ever again. So watch it, drink it in. They’ve just heard the news at The Stadium of Light. Two goals in added time for Manchester City to snatch the title away from Manchester United, stupendous!
— Martin Tyler

Arguably one of the most dramatic moment in Premier League history when virtually the last strike from Sergio Aguero won Manchester City the 2011–12 Premier League title by 3–2. The moment left the crowd roaring in elation and commentator Martin Tyler with his extremely emotive and beautiful piece of commentary which immortalized and etched this moment in people’s mind.

If you are a sports fan you can relate to the adrenaline rushing through your body at such moments and it never tires you to revisit them. But sometimes it gets difficult to keep up with full matches especially when the games are long in sports like Cricket. You still want to watch the highlights of the match. How about a code which automatically extracts those highlight moments from the game. Lets try to build a…

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