Contextual cropping and scaling of TV productions

  • Authors:
  • Joerg Deigmoeller;Takebumi Itagaki;Norbert Just;Gerhard Stoll

  • Affiliations:
  • Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK;Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK;Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Munich, Germany;, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, an application is presented which automatically adapts SDTV (Standard Definition Television) sports productions to smaller displays through intelligent cropping and scaling. It crops regions of interest of sports productions based on a smart combination of production metadata and systematic video analysis methods. This approach allows a context-based composition of cropped images. It provides a differentiation between the original SD version of the production and the processed one adapted to the requirements for mobile TV. The system has been comprehensively evaluated by comparing the outcome of the proposed method with manually and statically cropped versions, as well as with non-cropped versions. Envisaged is the integration of the tool in post-production and live workflows.