ABSTRACT
Given video from a single camera, conversion to two-view stereoscopic
3D is a challenging problem. We present a system to automatically
create high quality stereoscopic video from monoscopic
footage of field-based sports by exploiting context-specific priors,
such as the ground plane, player size and known background.
Our main contribution is a novel technique that constructs per-shot
panoramas to ensure temporally consistent stereoscopic depth in
video reconstructions. Players are rendered as billboards at correct
depths on the ground plane. Our method uses additional sports priors
to disambiguate segmentation artifacts and produce synthesized
3D shots that are in most cases, indistinguishable from stereoscopic
ground truth footage.