Producing free viewpoint 3D video from a real soccer game and its user interface for the virtual camera control

This talk presents our 3D video production method by which a user can watch a  real game from any free viewpoint. Players in the game are captured by 10 cameras and they are reproduced three dimensionally by billboard based representation in real time. Upon producing the 3D video, we have also worked on good user interface that can enable people move the camera intuitively. As the speaker is also working on wide variety of computer vision to augmented reality, selected recent works will be also introduced briefly.

Dr. Yoshinari Kameda started his research from human pose estimation as his Ph.D thesis, then he expands his interested topics from computer vision, human interface, and augmented reality.
He is now an associate professor at University of Tsukuba.
He is also a member of Center for Computational Science of U-Tsukuba where some outstanding super-computer s are in operation.
He served International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality as a area chair for four years (2007-2010).