Presenter Localization for Augmented Virtual Presentation

Abstract

Combined Reality (augmented virtual reality, AVR) is gaining much more popularity in sports video comment, especially in the soccer match video. Compared with the ways of traditional presenting, Augmented Virtual Presentation (AVP) can provide audience a kind of immersive feeling. One of the key technologies of AVP is player localization. In this paper, we propose a new method of player localization in AVP system. We first detect the commented players with an improved SSD model, and then select a proper frame according to importance evaluation of the frames. Finally, we find the optimal position where we want to place the presenter. The extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method and advantages over the traditional ones.