MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation

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Auteurs principaux: Rao, Jiayuan, Wu, Haoning, Liu, Chang, Wang, Yanfeng, Xie, Weidi
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Publié: 2024
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author Rao, Jiayuan
Wu, Haoning
Liu, Chang
Wang, Yanfeng
Xie, Weidi
author_facet Rao, Jiayuan
Wu, Haoning
Liu, Chang
Wang, Yanfeng
Xie, Weidi
contents Soccer is a globally popular sport with a vast audience, in this paper, we consider constructing an automatic soccer game commentary model to improve the audiences' viewing experience. In general, we make the following contributions: First, observing the prevalent video-text misalignment in existing datasets, we manually annotate timestamps for 49 matches, establishing a more robust benchmark for soccer game commentary generation, termed as SN-Caption-test-align; Second, we propose a multi-modal temporal alignment pipeline to automatically correct and filter the existing dataset at scale, creating a higher-quality soccer game commentary dataset for training, denoted as MatchTime; Third, based on our curated dataset, we train an automatic commentary generation model, named MatchVoice. Extensive experiments and ablation studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of our alignment pipeline, and training model on the curated dataset achieves state-of-the-art performance for commentary generation, showcasing that better alignment can lead to significant performance improvements in downstream tasks.
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spellingShingle MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation
Rao, Jiayuan
Wu, Haoning
Liu, Chang
Wang, Yanfeng
Xie, Weidi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Soccer is a globally popular sport with a vast audience, in this paper, we consider constructing an automatic soccer game commentary model to improve the audiences' viewing experience. In general, we make the following contributions: First, observing the prevalent video-text misalignment in existing datasets, we manually annotate timestamps for 49 matches, establishing a more robust benchmark for soccer game commentary generation, termed as SN-Caption-test-align; Second, we propose a multi-modal temporal alignment pipeline to automatically correct and filter the existing dataset at scale, creating a higher-quality soccer game commentary dataset for training, denoted as MatchTime; Third, based on our curated dataset, we train an automatic commentary generation model, named MatchVoice. Extensive experiments and ablation studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of our alignment pipeline, and training model on the curated dataset achieves state-of-the-art performance for commentary generation, showcasing that better alignment can lead to significant performance improvements in downstream tasks.
title MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18530