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Though, the NFL already has 3D reconstruction technology called FreeD. Cowboys Stadium installed 12 4k cameras around each endzone. Using those points of view,
by russellsprouts 13y ago
Though, the NFL already has 3D reconstruction technology called FreeD. Cowboys Stadium installed 12 4k cameras around each endzone. Using those points of view, they can construct a point-cloud and render a replay with arbitrary camera movement in 30 seconds.
There is a video here, demonstrating the technology with baseball: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/aug/13/freed-matrix-3d-replay-technology-video http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/aug/13/free...
- twoodfin 13y ago30 seconds today suggests to me that in a few years it will be available for instant replay, instead of the canned bits they show in current broadcasts 5-10 minutes after the play. Once that works, how far can we be from compositing these images in real time? That will be amazing.
- anigbrowl 13y agoThanks for the link. It doesn't surprise me that the NFL has it available, but I'm particularly interested in a non-proprietary (albeit poorer quality) version becoming available through aggregated footage from individual cellphones, rather than state-of-the-art tech.