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Capturing the sporting heroes of our past by extracting 3D movements from legacy video content

Goenetxea, Jon, Unzueta, Luis, Linaza, Maria Teresa, Rodriguez, Mikel, O'Connor, Noel E. ORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135 and Moran, Kieran ORCID: 0000-0003-2015-8967 (2014) Capturing the sporting heroes of our past by extracting 3D movements from legacy video content. In: EUROMED 2014: International Conference on Cultural Heritage, 3-8 Nov 2014, Limasoll, Cypress.

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Abstract

Sports are a key part of cultural identity, and it is necessary to preserve them as important intangible Cultural Heritage, especially the human motion techniques specific to individual sports. In this paper we present a method for extracting 3D athlete motion from video broadcast sources, providing an important tool for preserving the heritage represented by these movements. Broadcast videos include camera motion, multiple player interaction, occlusions and noise, presenting significant challenges to solve the reconstruction. The approach requires initial definition of some key-frames and setting of 2D key-points in those frames manually. Thereafter an automatic process estimates the poses and positions of the players in the key-frames, and in the frames between key-frames, taking into account collisions with the environment and human kinematic constraints. Initial results are extremely promising and this data could be used to analyze the sport's evolution over time, or even to generate animations for interactive applications.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Motion capture; Human body posing; Intangible cultural heritage; Video legacy
Subjects:Engineering > Imaging systems
Computer Science > Image processing
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Electronic Engineering
Research Initiatives and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:European Framework Programme 7
ID Code:20144
Deposited On:12 Nov 2014 11:34 by Noel Edward O'connor . Last Modified 19 Oct 2018 12:30

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