Towards the automatic selection of cameras for the production of live television shows
Burtin, Elodie
Promotor(s) : Van Droogenbroeck, Marc
Date of defense : 27-Jun-2016/28-Jun-2016 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/1396
Details
Title : | Towards the automatic selection of cameras for the production of live television shows |
Author : | Burtin, Elodie |
Date of defense : | 27-Jun-2016/28-Jun-2016 |
Advisor(s) : | Van Droogenbroeck, Marc |
Committee's member(s) : | Geurts, Pierre
Wehenkel, Louis Barnich, Olivier |
Language : | English |
Discipline(s) : | Engineering, computing & technology > Electrical & electronics engineering |
Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
Degree: | Master en ingénieur civil électricien, à finalité approfondie |
Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté des Sciences appliquées |
Abstract
[en] In order to produce entertaining broadcast shows, most soccer games are captured
by multiple cameras. During the game, a technical director chooses at any time
which camera to broadcast. This master’s thesis introduces a framework that can
be used to assist or replace the technical director in the task of camera selection.
This framework uses computer vision components in order to extract information
about the context of the game and the type of image captured by each camera.
Machine learning is then used to rank the cameras according to their suitability
for broadcast. Some heuristic rules are also inserted in order to guarantee some
smoothness in the camera ranking. Compared to the previous approaches for the
automatic selection of cameras, our framework uses information about the events
happening on the field to adapt the camera selection strategy. Several parameters
can be modified in order to produce videos according to user’s preferences. The
quality of the videos produced by the system was evaluated with a user study,
and the results were very promising. On video clips of one minute, the videos of
the technical director were preferred to the videos of our system only half of the
time. Moreover, on a scale of 1 to 5, the average score of the technical director’s
videos was only 0.4 higher than that of our system’s videos.
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