CVPR Daily - Tuesday

DAILY T u e s d a y Workshop Preview 22 if you use the language of football in the US, you’re talking about something completely different in terms of a sport, of course. In Europe, it’s very much football that reigns supreme!” Alongside its use in sport, the science being demonstrated here has wider applications. Analysis of people and movement is a key element in sport , and work on non-contact measurement of people from video cuts right into the medical domain. “For healthcare, it’s exactly what you want to be able to do, to measure and monitor and understand people and their behaviour,” Adrian explains . “ Motion- analysis technologies are important for that domain. Growing these technologies up in sports means that they’ve got to a stage where they can be given to a non- expert to use and that’s really important in a home setting, for instance.” “The same can also be applied in surveillance settings ,” Rikke adds. “Not crime necessarily, but applications where we want to understand how people are using public spaces. You’re trying to track people, understand their behaviour, understandhowtheynegotiate thepublic space. You want to track pedestrians, bicycles, cars. It’s the same thing. You want to understand their behaviour in the same way that you want to know what’s going on on a football field.” Finally, can Adrian encapsulate why this workshop and the domain in general are so popular? “This field is just so exciting!” he beams. “That’s why we’re all involved. The workshop brings together people who are interested in sports and doing research in that area, but there’s so much more for people to learn more broadly across computer vision .” Image Cioppa, Deliege, Huda, Gade, Droogenbroeck, Moeslund