SonyGlobal

Sports Highlights Generation - Master Thesis

Lund Part time

You will work with advanced AI approaches to automate events detection and highlights extraction from indoor Sports game-play. The basis for the work is time synchronized multi-camera video streams overlooking the sports venue from several angles, thus already has the core ability to observe and track players and ball.

Your challenge will be to research and prototype methods for automatically deriving saliency and relevancy of essential game-play action (e.g. scoring, steals, and other events), perform camera selection and assemble watchable sports highlights.

The project goal is to build and evaluate a prototype pipeline performing these tasks using recent-most know approaches.

Who are you:

We expect you are 1 or 2 students, with basic knowledge or hands-on experience of Visual Language Models (VLM), Transformers, etc.

About You

  • A Master’s degree student in computer science, mathematical science, electrical engineering, or similar.  
  • Have a strong interest in computer vision, machine learning, and algorithms. 
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C or C++ 
  • Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch 
  • Familiarity with Open-source software, AI workflows and embedded ML inference 
  • Fluent in written and spoken English   
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills 
  • Strong communication skills  

Personality traits we value

  • A positive and enthusiastic attitude and have a team recognition kind of mindset 
  • Strong creative mindset, analytical and with a disciplined and logical approach  
  • A flexible self-starter, taking an active approach to assignments 
  • Ability to inspire and influence others in areas of knowledge and expertise 
  • Desire to work within a diverse and multinational/multidisciplinary team 

Please provide us with your CV and a personal letter explaining why you’re a match!

Lund 

Sony in Lund is a place where technology, creativity and boldness create a better future – for Sony, for our customers and for society. We have expertise in Research, Software Development, and Design, contributing to Sony Group. Sony in Lund has a long history of innovation and is the home of the Sony Start-up Acceleration Program Europe. Here in the Lund office you will find a collaborative, friendly and inclusive atmosphere, and colleagues from all over the world. We have a games room with table football and table tennis, air-hockey, and a PlayStation so you can take an energizing break and challenge your team mates. 

Life at Sony 

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture. 

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.  

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap! 

Bring your uniqueness to Sony 

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture. 

We are Sony Europe. 

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique. 

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale. 

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.