Automated object detection during video production

Abstract

Recently, TV Broadcasters have been concerned on how to adapt their workflow in order to produce and deliver high quality interactive content in the Digital TV environment. Due to the changes and costs needed for the deployment of this new technology, broadcasters do not fully explore the possibilities of interactivity. Therefore, in order to provide users an enhanced and pleasing user experience, they are required to optimize the production of interactive content and lower its costs. For this reason, new solutions able to provide a higher level of automation for interactive content production must be investigated. In this context, this work proposes an object detection method able to capture objects and related metadata during video shooting in a recording studio or even on a live event. Captured information is delivered in a structured manner, the so-called object timeline, which may be handled throughout the stages of video editing as well as during the creation of interactive content.