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Audio for Sports Highlight Detection: A Comparative Empirical Study

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

Sports highlight detection aims to identify the most exciting and meaningful moments from long sports videos. While existing methods often emphasize visual or visual-language representations, sports videos contain rich audio cues, including commentator speech, crowd reactions, whistles, ball impacts, and referee calls. In this work, we revisit the role of audio in sports highlight detection and ask a simple question: how far can audio alone go? We construct lightweight audio-only baselines using pretrained audio representations and compare them with visual-only and audio-visual methods on the

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