基于嵌入式的机器人视觉伺服寻迹系统研究-a new method to calculate the camera focusing area and player position on playfield in soccer vid.pdf

A new method to calculate the camera focusing area and player position on playfield in soccer video *a b b a,b Yang Liu , Qingming Huang , Qixiang Ye , Wen Gao aSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China bGraduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China ABSTRACT Sports video enrichment is attracting many researchers. People want to appreciate some highlight segments with cartoon. In order to automatically generate these cartoon video, we have to estimate the players’ and ball’s 3D position. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to cope with the former problem, i.e. to compute players’ position on court. For the image with sufficient corresponding points, the algorithm uses these points to calibrate the map relationship between image and playfield plane (called as homography). For the images without enough corresponding points, we use global motion estimation (GME) and the already calibrated image to compute the images’ homographies. Thus, the problem boils down to estimating global motion. To enhance the performance of global motion estimation, two strategies are exploited. The first one is removing the moving objects based on adaptive GMM playfield detection, which can eliminate the influence of non-still object; The second one is using LKT tracking feature points to determine horizontal and vertical translation, which makes the optimization process for GME avoid being trapped into local minimum. Thus, if some images of a