Watching baseball games is a national pastime all over the world. However, the games usually continue over more than two hours and it is very time-consuming to watch the whole games. Then, many busy persons prefer to watch the digest version of the games, which needs a lot of work to edit the program and to generate the summary of the game. Therefore, we have studied a method to make the summary of a baseball game automatically. First, scene change frames are separated by the frame difference. Among them, pitching frames can be extracted by using image characteristics based on the camera angle. Next, the caption informs us of the game status such as scores, strikes, balls, out-counts and so forth. Finally, only important frames on which scores change can be chosen including the pitching scenes and the game summary is automatically generated by putting together these frames.
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