Awesome Sports Camera Calibration

A collection of resources on Sports Camera Calibration

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Table of Contents

• Basics
• Papers
  • Homography Estimation for Planar Scenarios
  • Dealing with Lens Distortion
  • Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Calibration
  • Real-time Camera Pose Tracking
  • Misc
• Datasets

Basics

• Multiple view geometry in computer vision - Hartley, R., & Zisserman, A. (2004)

Papers

Homography Estimation for Planar Scenarios

• Robust incremental rectification of sports video sequences - Hayet, J., Piater, J., & Verly, J. (2004)
• Combining line and point correspondences for homography estimation - Dubrofsky, E., & Woodham, R. J. (2008)
• A new normalized method on line-based homography estimation - Zeng, H., Deng, X., & Hu, Z. (2008)
• Using line and ellipse features for rectification of broadcast hockey video - Gupta, A., Little, J. J., & Woodham, R. J. (2011)
• A new accurate and fast homography computation algorithm for sports and traffic video analysis - Liu, S., Chen, J., Chang, C., & Ai, Y. (2017)

Dealing with Lens Distortion

• An algebraic approach to lens distortion by line rectification - Alvarez, L., & Sendra, R. (2009)
• Algebraic lens distortion model estimation - Alvarez, L., Gomez, L. & Sendra, R. (2010)
• Accurate depth dependent lens distortion models: An Application to Planar View Scenarios - Alvarez, L., Gómez, L., & Sendra, R. (2011)
• Radial distortion homography - Kukelova, Z., Heller, J., Bujnak, M., & Pajdla, T. (2015)

Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) Camera Calibration

• Active camera calibration using pan, tilt and roll Basu, A., & Ravi, K. (1997)
• Autocalibration from planar scenes - Triggs, B. (1998)
• Soccer video mosaicking using self-calibration and line tracking - Kim, H., & Hong, K. S. (2000)
• Automatic camera calibration for image sequences of a football match - Szenberg, F., Carvalho, P., & Gattass, M. (2001)
• Self-calibration of rotating and zooming cameras - Agapito, L. (2001)
• Acquiring multi-scale images by pan-tilt-zoom control and automatic multi-camera calibration - Senior, A. W., Hampapur, A., & Lu, M. (2002)
• The effects of translational misalignment when self-calibration rotating and zooming cameras - Hayman, E., & Murray, D. W. (2003)
• Calibrating pan-tilt cameras in wide-area surveillance networks - Davis, J., & Chen, X. (2003)
• Robust camera calibration for sport videos using court models - Farin, D., Krabbe, S., Effelsberg, W., & de With, P. (2004)
• Fast camera calibration for the analysis of sport sequences - Farin, D., Han, J., & de With, P. (2005)
• Automatic camera calibration for images of soccer match - Li, Q., & Luo, Y. (2005)
• An LMI approach for reliable PTZ camera self-calibration - Li, H., & Shen, C. (2006)
• Online calibration of two zoom-pan-tilt units for planar dynamic events - N/A (2006)
• Pan-tilt-zoom camera calibration and high-resolution mosaic generation - Sinha, S. N., & Pollefeys, M. (2006)
• On-line rectification of sport sequences with moving cameras - Hayet, J., & Piater, J. (2007)
• Continual and robust estimation of camera parameters in broadcasted sports games - Gedikli, S. (2009)
• Camera pose estimation in soccer scenes based on vanishing points - Babaee-Kashany, V., & Pourreza, H. R. (2010)
• Exploiting distinctive visual landmark maps in pan-tilt-zoom camera networks - Del Bimbo, A., Dini, F., Lisanti, G., & Pernici, F. (2010)
• Automatic line mark recognition and its application in camera calibration in soccer video - Bu, J., Lao, S., & Bai, L. (2011)
• Robust multi-view camera calibration for wide-baseline camera networks - Puwein, J., Ziegler, R., Vogel, J., & Pollefeys, M. (2011)
• PTZ camera network calibration from moving people in sports broadcasts - Puwein, J., & Ziegler, R. (2012)
• Keeping a pan-tilt-zoom camera calibrated - Wu, Z., & Radke, R. (2013)
• Camera calibration in sport event scenarios - Aleman-Flores, M., Alvarez, L., Gomez, L., Henriquez Castellano, P., & Mazorra, L. (2014)
• Method for pan-tilt camera calibration using single control point - Li, Y., Zhang, J., Hu, W., & Tian, J. (2015)
• Court reconstruction for camera calibration in broadcast basketball videos - Wen, P., Cheng, W., Wang, Y., Chu, H., Tang, N. C., & Liao, H. M. (2016)
• Deep regression for monocular camera-based 6-DoF global localization in outdoor environments - Nascer, T., & Burgard, W. (2017)
• Sports field localization via deep structured models - [Code] - Homayounfar, N., Fidler, S., & Urtasun, R. (2017)
• A two-point method for PTZ camera calibration in sports - Chen, J., Zhu, F., & Little, J. J. (2018)
• Calibrating cameras in poor-conditioned pitch-based sports games - Zeng, R., Lakemond, R., Denman, S., Sridharan, S., Fookes, C., & Morgan, S. (2018)
• Sports Camera Calibration via Synthetic Data - [Code Part1/Code Part 2] - Chen, J., & Little, J. J. (2019)

Real-time Camera Pose Tracking

• A soccer field tracking method with wire frame model from TV images - Watanabe, T., Haseyama, M., & Kitajima, H. (2004)
• Real-time camera tracking using sports pitch markings - Thomas, G. (2007)
• Realtime camera motion tracking in planar view scenarios - Alvarez, L., Gomez, L., Henriquez, P., & Sánchez, J. (2013)
• PoseNet: A convolutional network for real-time 6-DOF camera relocalization - Kendall, A., Grimes, M., & Cipolla, R. (2015)
• Continuous localization and mapping of pan-tilt-zoom camera for wide area tracking - Lisanti, G., Masi, I., Pernici, F., & Del Bimbo, A. (2015)
• Pan-tilt-zoom SLAM for Sports Videos - [Code] - Lu, J., Chen, J., & Little, J. J. (2019)
• Real-time camera pose estimation for sports fields - Citraro, L., Marquez-Neila, P., Savare, S., Jayaram, V., Dubout, C., Renault, F., hasfura, A., Ben Shitrit, H., & Fua, P. (2020)
• A robust and efficient framework for sports-field registration - Nie, X., Chen, S., & Hamid, R. (2021)

Misc

• Tracking players and a ball in video image sequence and estimating camera parameters for 3D interpretation of soccer games - Yamada, A., Shirai, Y., & Miura, J. (2002)
• Tracking soccer ball in TV broadcast video - Choi, K., & Seo, Y. (2005)
• A new method to calculate the camera focusing area and player position on play field in soccer video - Liu, Y., Huang, Q., Ye, Q., & Gao, W. (2005)
• Automatic production system of soccer sports video by digital camera work based on situation recognition - Ariki, Y., Kubota, S., & Kumano, M. (2006)
• Extracting 3D information from broadcast soccer video - Liu, Y., Liang, D., Huang, Q., & Gao, W. (2006)
• Fast arc detection algorithm for play field registration in soccer video mining - Wang, F., Sun, L., Yang, B., & Yang, S. (2006)
• Motion fields to predict play evolution in dynamic sport scenes - Kim, K., Grundmann, M., Shamir, A., Matthews, I., Hodgins, J., & Essa, I. (2010)
• Automatic player labeling, tracking and field registration and trajectory mapping in broadcast soccer video - Liu, J., Tong, X., Li, W., Wang, T., Zhang, Y., Wang, H., Yang, B., Sun, L., & Yang, S.(2011)
• An algorithm for highlights identification and summarization of broadcast soccer videos - Junior, W. A. G., & Borges, D. L. (2012)
• Automatic soccer video analysis and summarization - Ekin, A., Tekalp, A. M., & Mehrotra, R. (2003)
• Robust video registration applied to field-sports video analysis - Ghanem, B., Zhang, T., & Ahuja, N. (2012)
• Automated top view registration of broadcast football videos - Sharma, R. A., Bhat, B., Gandhi, V., & Jawahar, C. V. (2017)
• Soccer on your tabletop - Rematas, K., Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, I., Curless, B., & Seitz, S. (2018)
• Optimizing Through Learned Errors for Accurate Sports Field Registration [Code] - Jiang, W., Gamboa Higuera, J. C., Angles, B., Sun, W., Javan, M., & Moo Yi, K. (2020)
• SFLNet: Direct Sports Field Localization via CNN-Based Regression - Tarashima, S. (2020)

Datasets

• World Cup 2014 Dataset - Homayounfar, N., Fidler, S., & Urtasun, R. (2017)
• Highlights Dataset - Lu, K., Chen, J., Little, J. J., & He, H. (2017)