Analysis and Retargeting of Ball Sports Video Stephan Kopf, Benjamin Guthier, Dirk Farin*, Jungong Han* Computer Science IV, Mannheim University, Germany *University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Motivation Goal Improved visualization of sports video on handheld mobile devices source: en.wikipedia.org Novel video retargeting techniques like seam carving or warping low quality due to distortion of court lines
Overview Sports Video Analysis Video Retargeting Playing frame detection Court line detection Player detection Ball detection Video Retargeting
Court Line Detection
Court Line Detection source: en.wikipedia.org
Player Detection Compensate camera motion Merge compensated frames into a background image: apply median filter to remove foreground objects Calculate difference image for each frame Cluster difference pixels into regions
Ball detection Challenges: Size and motion speed of the ball, blurring, interlacing artifacts, disconnected ball pixels slow motion fast motion
Video Retargeting cropping scaling sports video (zoom on player) retargeting
Thank you for your attention! Contact: Stephan Kopf, Mannheim University, Germany kopf@informatik.uni-mannheim.de Link to paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711477