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With the attempt to enable robots to play soccer games, the RoboCup challenge poses a demanding standard problem for AI and intelligent robotics research. The rich domain of robot soccer, however, provides a further option for the investigation of a second class of intelligent systems which are capable of understanding and describing complex time-varying scenes. Such automatic commentator systems offer an interesting research perspective for additional integration of natural language and intelligent multimedia technologies.
In this paper, first results concerning the realization of a fully automated RoboCup commentator will be presented. The system called Rocco is currently able to generate TV-style live reports for arbitrary matches of the RoboCup simulator league. Based upon our generic approach towards multimedia reporting systems, step-by-step even more advanced capabilities are to be added with future versions of the initial Rocco prototype.
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Voelz, D., André, E., Herzog, G., Rist, T. (1999). Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator System. In: Asada, M., Kitano, H. (eds) RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II. RoboCup 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48422-1_4
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