Ground Color Customization of Soccer Videos

In this paper, we present a method for customizing the ground color in outdoor sports video to provide TV viewers with a better viewing experience. This relates to content personalization and the issue is becoming critical with the advent of mobile TV and interactive TV such as IPTV. In the case of watching outdoor sports video such as soccer video, it is sometimes observed that the ground color is not satisfied by viewers. In this work, the proposed algorithm is focused on customizing the ground color to deliver viewers better viewing experiences. The algorithm comprises three modules; ground detection, long-shot detection, and ground color customization. We customize the ground color by considering the difference between ground colors from both input video and target video. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme offers useful tools to provide a more comfortable viewing environment and is amenable to realtime performance even in a software based implementation.