Inserting 3D projected virtual content into broadcast tennis video

  • Authors:
  • Xinguo Yu;Xin Yan;Tran Thi Phuong Chi;Loong Fah Cheong

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '06 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The ability to acquire the accurate camera matrix of each frame of a video clip is essential if virtual content is inserted into the images in a believable way. This paper presents our system for inserting projected virtual content into broadcast tennis video based on camera matrix acquired. To achieve the accurate camera matrix, we develop a new algorithm for the 3D camera calibration of broadcast tennis video, which improves the accuracy of camera matrices via the proposed techniques of clip-wise data analysis and Hough-like search. We divide all the camera parameters determining a camera matrix into two categories: clip-varying and frame-varying. For the clip-varying ones, we use a clip-wise data analysis procedure to achieve their accuracy. For the framevarying ones, we use a Hough-like search to tune them for each frame. Preliminary experiments results show that we can seamlessly insert projected virtual content into each frame.