G4-Proposal

The Effect

Tracking of football players via on-screen indicators

The Input

Video of a football game with a sufficient viewpoint of the field and players
User input indicating which players are whom and who should be tracked

The Output

Input video with successful tracking of indicated players

The Layers

The input football video
The CG indicators that track the player and display additional information (ie. name)

Storyline/Storyboard

Work Distribution

Brian - Segmentation
Florian - Camera calibration and positioning
Michel - Player tracking
Wes - Visualization

Scientific papers we're looking at (not a complete list):

Drummond & Cipolla - Real-time visual tracking of complex structures (for the camera position and calibration)
Intille & Bobick - Closed-World Tracking (for the tracking of players)

Timeline

02/27 – This Proposal
03/08 – Literature review mostly complete
03/15 – MidTerm Report Due
03/27 – 1st Update Due: Segmentation, calibration, and basic tracking done.
04/03 – 2nd Update Due: Some visualization done.
04/10 – 3rd Update Due: Tracking, visualization improvements.
04/12 – Preview Showing of the Final Project
04/17 – 4th and Final Update Due: More tracking improvements.
04/26 – Showing off our hard work

Links to this Page

DVFX 2007 Groups last edited on 2 May 2007 at 12:51 am by coppola-win.cc.gatech.edu
G4-Final Report last edited on 1 May 2007 at 12:26 am by c-67-191-163-57.hsd1.ga.comcast.net