VideoAI – System for Synchronization of Electronic Program Guides

Abstract

Electronic Program Guides (EPG) do not contain commercials and are prepared before the real-time broadcast; therefore are not precise and sometimes shifted compared to real-time TV streams due to unexpected events such as football overtime. These inaccuracies in EPG may harm features often offered by TV stream providers, such as planned recordings. Here we present a system for mitigating this problem called VideoAI. First, the broadcast is analyzed, and commercials are detected by the first module using YOLO neural network. Next, the EPG is synchronized with real broadcast by minimizing the partition dissimilarity score. We evaluate VideoAI on different scenarios and show that it can adjust EPG to the real broadcast.