Soccer has a considerable market share of the global sports industry, and the interest in viewing videos from soccer games continues to grow. In this respect, it is important to provide game summaries and highlights of the main game events. However, annotating and producing events and summaries often require expensive equipment and a lot of tedious, cumbersome, manual labor. Therefore, automating the video production pipeline providing fast game highlights at a much lower cost is seen as the "holy grail". In this context, recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have shown great potential. Still, state-of-the-art approaches are far from being adequate for practical scenarios that have demanding real-time requirements, as well as strict performance criteria (where at least the detection of official events such as goals and cards must be 100% accurate). In addition, event detection should be thoroughly enhanced by annotation and classification, proper clipping, generating short descriptions, selecting appropriate thumbnails for highlight clips, and finally, combining the event highlights into an overall game summary, similar to what is commonly aired during sports news. Even though the event tagging operation has by far received the most attention, an end-to-end video production pipeline also includes various other operations which serve the overall purpose of automated soccer analysis. This challenge aims to assist the automation of such a production pipeline using AI. In particular, we focus on the enhancement operations that take place after an event has been detected, namely event clipping (Task 1), thumbnail selection (Task 2), and game summarization (Task 3). Challenge website: https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/grand-challenge.

翻译：Soccer在全球体育行业中占有相当的市场份额,对看足球比赛视频的兴趣继续增长。在这方面,提供游戏摘要和主要游戏活动的亮点非常重要。然而,说明和制作事件和摘要往往需要昂贵的设备和大量无聊、繁琐的体力劳动。因此,视频制作管道自动化,以低得多的成本提供快速游戏亮点,被视为“光滑”。在这方面,人工智能(AI)技术的最新发展显示出巨大的潜力。然而,最先进的方法远远不足以满足要求实时要求以及严格性标准(至少检测目标和卡等官方事件需要100%的准确性)的实际情景。此外,事件探测应该通过批注和分类、适当剪报、短描述、选择适当的缩略图来显示短片,以及最后,将事件亮点合并成一个总体性游戏摘要,类似于通常在体育新闻中播放的。尽管事件标记操作显示实时要求实时要求,以及严格的性标准(至少检测目标和卡等官方事件必须达到100%的准确性工作 ) 。此外,事件探测过程的焦点应该通过感应彻底地通过感化和感官运动网站 来分析。