APIDIS Results on "Multiview Ball Detection and Tracking"
initial results ball detection results generated on the first dataset of basketball videos and released in January 2011.
APIDIS article in the magazine 'Le Vif/L'express'
in Le Vif published 21 January 2011 (in French).
APIDIS articles with video
in Global Business and in AWT.be Published 1 December 2010 and 30 November 2010 (both in French).
APIDIS demo'd at
ICT 2010 On 27-29 Sept. 2010 APIDIS participated in ICT 2010 in Brussels. APIDIS was demo'd at the Walloon region booth and feedback on the automatic production and summary prototype was collected.
APIDIS contribution to the book
Video Tracking Theory and Practice The APIDIS dataset is described in the Performance evaluation chapter. The book is published by John Wiley and Sons and will be out in December 2010.
APIDIS invited tutorial
at the Intermedia Cafe Workshop.
The Intermedia project invited APIDIS to give a tutorial on the APIDIS technologies and prototypes on 28 May 2010. Intermedia is Network of Excellence funded by the EU.
APIDIS video report in
Focus Online.
On March 26, 2010, the German news magazine published a video report. "Computersystem macht Sportreporter überflüssig."
APIDIS article and video in
New Scientist.
Check out the 20 February 2010 article and video. "An automatic multi-camera video system can shoot sports action without the need for camera operators or directors."
APIDIS testing datasets presented at numerous seminars and tutorials. Dataset samples
available.
In addition to publicizing the value of the APIDIS testing datasets at conferences, exibitions and through the ICDSC09 Sports challenge, by winter 2010, partners had presented the datasets to over 300 people, at seminars and tutorials, worldwide! Of note:
Seminars:
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 27 January 2010
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 15 January 2010
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 12 November 2008
NASA Ames Research Centre, Moffett Field, CA, USA, 11 September 2008
National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy, 15 May 2008
Tutorials:
"Distributed Processing in Smart Cameras", IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc., Taipei, Taiwan, 19 April 2009
"Distributed Vision Processing in Smart Camera Networks", IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska (USA), 23 June 2008
APIDIS testing dataset publicly
available.
By fall 2009, in total, the datasets for testing and verifying prototypes had grown to: two Basketball matches, three Surveillance sessions, and
several Football matches.
The Basketball and Surveillance datasets were collected by the partners and the Football matches provided by partner MediaPro.
The dataset from the first Basketball match is available. Video, calibration, and ground truth data released as part of the ICDSC09 Challenge are also available.
If you'd like more information on the publicly available dataset contact Christophe de Vleeschouwer: Christophe.Devleeschouwer AT uclouvain.be
Damien Delannay: Damien.Delannay AT uclouvain.be and/or Fan Chen: Fan.Chen AT uclouvain.be
APIDIS tracking results -
watch them
Partner QMUL's multi-camera simultaneous detection and tracking algorithm. Moving targets from each camera view are mapped on to a virtual top view through multi-level homographic transformations. To increase track consistency on the generated noisy data,
a track-before-detect particle filter is used on a 5D state space. See the
full paper.
APIDIS demonstrated at
IBC 2009.
APIDIS showed production and summarization results at the IBC 2009 tradeshow on 10-15 September 2009. Partners demonstrated the automatic production and summarization prototypes to a number of companies and approximately 20 interesting contacts are being pursued.
The prototypes were demonstrated to professional broadcasters, system integrators, IPTV providers, media distributors, telecom and mobile operators. Plans are already underway for IBC 2010!
See the IBC presentation and the prototype demos and results!
APIDIS ICDSC Sports Challenge results presented.
The challenge was oganized by the project and was based on the first basketball dataset.
Results were presented at the Challenge Session of ICDSC on 31 August 2009. See the ICDSC09 Challenge papers from partners
UCL , QMUL and EPFL.
APIDIS Mid-Project Trials validated the prototypes. Partners conducted experiments with users to
validate the automatic production, automatic summarization and generation of planar images prototypes. The trials were held during the summer of 2009.
Take a look at the Summarization prototype tests
from July and Production prototype tests from August.
Images from the basketball Dataset were used for tests of the Generation of Planar Images prototype.
APIDIS demonstrated at WIAMIS09.
The automatic production prototype was shown to users and feedback
collected at the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
(WIAMIS09), 6-8 May 2009, London, UK. User input helped to shape the mid-project trials.
APIDIS successfully completes its first year, with a formal project review in March 2009.
APIDIS issues the Sports Track Challenge, based on the first basketball dataset for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Disributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC09)
in January 2009.
