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Authors: Patrik Goorts ; Steven Maesen ; Maarten Dumont ; Sammy Rogmans and Philippe Bekaert

Affiliation: Hasselt University - tUL - iMinds, Belgium

Keyword(s): Sports Broadcasting, View Interpolation, Plane Sweep, Virtual Viewpoint, Validity Maps, GPU, CUDA.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Applications and Services ; Camera Networks and Vision ; Computational Photography ; Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics ; Entertainment Imaging Applications ; Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision ; Rendering ; Stereo Vision and Structure from Motion

Abstract: In this paper, we present a method to accomplish free viewpoint video for soccer scenes. This will allow the rendering of a virtual camera, such as a virtual rail camera, or a camera moving around a frozen scene. We use 7 static cameras in a wide baseline setup (10 meters apart from each other). After debayering and segmentation, a crude depth map is created using a plane sweep approach. Next, this depth map is filtered and used in a second, depth-selective plane sweep by creating validity maps per depth. The complete method employs NVIDIA CUDA and traditional GPU shaders, resulting in a fast and scalable solution. The results, using real images, show the effective removal of artifacts, yielding high quality images for a virtual camera.

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Paper citation in several formats:
Goorts, P.; Maesen, S.; Dumont, M.; Rogmans, S. and Bekaert, P. (2014). Free Viewpoint Video for Soccer using Histogram-based Validity Maps in Plane Sweeping. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2014) - Volume 3: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-009-3; ISSN 2184-4321, SciTePress, pages 378-386. DOI: 10.5220/0004730003780386

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author={Patrik Goorts. and Steven Maesen. and Maarten Dumont. and Sammy Rogmans. and Philippe Bekaert.},
title={Free Viewpoint Video for Soccer using Histogram-based Validity Maps in Plane Sweeping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2014) - Volume 3: VISAPP},
year={2014},
pages={378-386},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004730003780386},
isbn={978-989-758-009-3},
issn={2184-4321},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2014) - Volume 3: VISAPP
TI - Free Viewpoint Video for Soccer using Histogram-based Validity Maps in Plane Sweeping
SN - 978-989-758-009-3
IS - 2184-4321
AU - Goorts, P.
AU - Maesen, S.
AU - Dumont, M.
AU - Rogmans, S.
AU - Bekaert, P.
PY - 2014
SP - 378
EP - 386
DO - 10.5220/0004730003780386
PB - SciTePress