Automatic cameraman for dynamic video acquisition of football match

A system is described for dynamic video acquisition of football match. The system uses 2 cameras, a static and a dynamic camera. The raw frames from the static camera are processed to track player position in the field. The tracking data is then used to control a Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ) Camera that focuses on the area of maximum player density. Other than this the players are also classified into their respective teams, 2D representation of player with respect to field, offside line detection is also done using the static camera frames. Use of multiple static cameras is also discussed in the paper.