Panoramic Video Generation by Multi View Data Synthesis

This paper presents a mosaic based approach for enlarged view soccer video production that can be provided to the audience as a complementary view for greater enjoyment of relevant events, such as offside, counter attack or goal, that spread out all over the playing field. Firstly, an enlarged view of the whole field is produced by fusing the images of six cameras placed on the two sides of the field. Then a color transformation is applied to have uniform colors on the parts of the playing field acquired from different cameras. Finally, the players are segmented by each camera and projected onto the enlarged view to produce videos of the most interesting events.