VARIABLE VIEWPOINT REALITY

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VARIABLE VIEWPOINT REALITY
Paul Viola, and Eric Grimson MIT Artificial
Intelligence Lab
Kenichiro Ishii NTT
The future of Television is Interactive
Motivation
Sports are recorded from many viewpoints

• Sports is big business
• - 10s of Billions a year
• Sport is very popular
• - Over 1 billion viewers
• Sport telecasting is very expensive
• - Added cost is minimal

Economic
There are 10-100 TV cameras at the stadium.

• Computer processing is cheap
• Digital Broadcasting is growing
• HDTVs are the natural reciever
• - Programmable, high performance
• computers.
• Computer Vision technology is ready

Technical
Only a single view is televised.
We each wish to view something different
Digital Broadcasts allow each viewer to choose
his own viewpoint
Digital Data Provides other Applications
3D Digital Signal
3D Digital Signal
Automatic Commentary
Statistics Penalties
Video Indexing