Wimbledon is set to begin next week, and with it come spectators cheering and players whacking a tennis ball over the net, hoping to earn a prestigious victory in pursuit of tennis’ grand slam. But for the fans, all the action can be hard to follow.
This year, that could change. IBM’s Research and iX (business design) teams have created a way to curate video highlights of Wimbledon based on artificial intelligence and visual content analysis. Called “Cognitive Highlights,” the system captures cheering, players’ reactions, and many other points of information to create short video clips.
The system was first deployed in April at The Masters Tournament, where it detected the live video stream for a number of factors, among which are commentary, commentator voice and TV graphics.