Real-time Video-based View Interpolation of Soccer Events using Depth-selective Plane Sweeping

Patrik Goorts, Cosmin Ancuti, Maarten Dumont, Sammy Rogmans, Philippe Bekaert

2013

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel technique to synthesize virtual camera viewpoints for soccer events. Our real-time video-based rendering technique does not require a precise estimation of the scene geometry. We initially segment the dynamic parts of the scene to consequently estimate a depth map of the filtered foreground regions using a plane sweep strategy. The depth map is indicatively segmented to depth information per player. A consecutive plane sweep is used, where the depth sweep is limited to the depth range of each player individually, effectively removing major ghosting artifacts, such as third legs or ghost players. The background and shadows are interpolated independently. For maximum performance our technique is implemented using a combination of NVIDIA’s shaders language Cg and NVIDIA’s general purpose computing framework CUDA. The rendered results of an actual soccer game demonstrate the usability and accuracy of our framework.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Goorts P., Ancuti C., Dumont M., Rogmans S. and Bekaert P. (2013). Real-time Video-based View Interpolation of Soccer Events using Depth-selective Plane Sweeping . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-48-8, pages 131-137. DOI: 10.5220/0004217301310137

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp13,
author={Patrik Goorts and Cosmin Ancuti and Maarten Dumont and Sammy Rogmans and Philippe Bekaert},
title={Real-time Video-based View Interpolation of Soccer Events using Depth-selective Plane Sweeping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={131-137},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004217301310137},
isbn={978-989-8565-48-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Real-time Video-based View Interpolation of Soccer Events using Depth-selective Plane Sweeping
SN - 978-989-8565-48-8
AU - Goorts P.
AU - Ancuti C.
AU - Dumont M.
AU - Rogmans S.
AU - Bekaert P.
PY - 2013
SP - 131
EP - 137
DO - 10.5220/0004217301310137