In many sports, the majority of highlights are confined to relatively short durations of
intense action. In some sense these segments capture the essence of a game and summarize
the moments of important action. Automatic detection of these highlights could provide an
important browsing mechanism in a video library of sports games. These replays often correspond to highlights in a game and can be used as indices of a sports video. The proposed
mechanism employs support vector machine (SVM) for detection of logos that are flashed at
beginning and end of every reply action. The algorithm is composed of logos detection and
replay segment extraction. First SVM is trained with features of all possible logos normally
used in various sports videos. Then the SVM is used for detection of logos that sandwich
replay segment further that segment is automatically extracted to produce replay clip. The
SVM classifier is trained with histogram features of logos is utilized. Experiments conducted
on IPL and Soccer videos demonstrate the effectiveness of this method. Moreover, algorithm
can be easily applied to other sports videos where replay is sandwiched by pair of logos