Customizing ground color to deliver better viewing experience of soccer video

Abstract

In this thesis, we present a method for customizing the ground color in out-door sports video to provide TV viewers with a better viewing experience or subjective satisfaction. This relates to content personalization and the issue is becoming critical with the advent of mobile TV and interactive TV such as IPTV. In the case of watching outdoor sports video such as soccer video, it is sometimes observed that the ground color is not satisfactory to viewers. In this work, the proposed algorithm is focused on customizing the ground color to deliver better viewing experiences to viewers. The algorithm comprises three modules: ground detection, shot classification, and ground color customization. We customize the ground color by considering the difference between ground colors from both input video and target ground patch. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme offers useful tools to provide a more comfortable viewing environment and is amenable to real-time performance even in a software-based implementation.