Computational sports broadcasting: Automated director assistance for live sports

Author

Chen, Ci ; Wang, Oliver ; Heinzle, Simon ; Carr, Peter ; Smolic, Aljoscha ; Gross, Markus

Author_Institution

ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

15-19 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Live sports broadcast is seeing a large increase in the number of cameras used for filming. More cameras can provide better coverage of the field and a wider range of experiences for viewers. However, choosing optimal cameras for broadcast demands a high level of concentration, awareness and experience from sports broadcast directors. We present an automatic assistant to help select likely candidates from a large array of possible cameras. Sports directors can then choose the final broadcast camera from the reduced suggestion set. Our assistant uses both widely acknowledged cinematography guidelines for sports directing, as well as a data-driven approach that learns specific styles from directors.

Keywords

cameras; cinematography; personnel; sport; television broadcasting; automated director assistance; automatic assistant; broadcast camera; cinematography guidelines; data-driven approach; live sports broadcast; optimal cameras; reduced suggestion set; sports broadcast directors; Broadcasting; Cameras; Computational modeling; Games; Support vector machines; Training; Training data; Computational Broadcast; Image Understanding; Machine Learning; Shot Selection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

1945-7871

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2013.6607445

Filename

6607445