Presentation 2017-03-06
Extraction of swimmer region using color distribution in swimming pool video
Takayuki Tsumita, Itaru Kitahara, Hideki Takagi, Yoshinari Kameda,
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Abstract(in English) This paper proposes a two-stage swimmer region extraction method based on color distribution analysis of pool surface in swimming video. A region of interest that involves swimmer is extract by the color distribution of water splash made by swimmers as the first stage process. Then, by introducing automated contrast adjustment, swimmer region in the region is extracted. The proposed method is evaluated by applying it to real swimming video in which true/false property at each pixel is given manually.
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Keyword(in English) Sports Video Analysis / Homography Transformation / Position Estimation / Color System / Computer Vision
Paper # IMQ2016-21,IE2016-136,MVE2016-44
Date of Issue 2017-02-27 (IMQ, IE, MVE)

Conference Information
Committee MVE / IE / CQ / IMQ
Conference Date 2017/3/6(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Kyusyu Univ. Ohashi Campus
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Five senses media, Multimedia, Virtual Environment, Image encoding, Ultra realistic, Network quality and reliability, Image media quality, etc.
Chair Yoshinari Kameda(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Seishi Takamura(NTT) / Kyoko Yamori(Asahi Univ.) / Yuukou Horita(Univ. of Toyama)
Vice Chair Kenji Mase(Nagoya Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NHK) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(NEC) / Kenji Sugiyama(Seikei Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Chiba Univ.)
Secretary Kenji Mase(Kyushu Univ.) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Kyoto Univ.) / Atsuro Ichigaya(NTT) / Takanori Hayashi(NTT) / Hideyuki Shimonishi(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Kenji Sugiyama(Osaka Univ.) / Toshiya Nakaguchi(Keio Univ.)
Assistant Hideaki Uchiyama(Kyushu Univ.) / Takatsugu Hirayama(Nagoya Univ.) / Ryosuke Aoki(NTT) / Kei Kawamura(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Keita Takahashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Hirantha Abeysekera(NTT) / Norihiro Fukumoto(KDDI R&D Labs.) / Shinichiro Saito(Sony) / Masaru Tsuchida(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Multimedia and Virtual Environment / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Technical Committee on Communication Quality / Technical Committee on Image Media Quality
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Extraction of swimmer region using color distribution in swimming pool video
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Sports Video Analysis
Keyword(2) Homography Transformation
Keyword(3) Position Estimation
Keyword(4) Color System
Keyword(5) Computer Vision
1st Author's Name Takayuki Tsumita
1st Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. Tsukuba)
2nd Author's Name Itaru Kitahara
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. Tsukuba)
3rd Author's Name Hideki Takagi
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. Tsukuba)
4th Author's Name Yoshinari Kameda
4th Author's Affiliation University of Tsukuba(Univ. Tsukuba)
Date 2017-03-06
Paper # IMQ2016-21,IE2016-136,MVE2016-44
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) IMQ-494,IE-495,MVE-496
Page pp.pp.7-12(IMQ), pp.7-12(IE), pp.7-12(MVE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-02-27 (IMQ, IE, MVE)