PISTE: Mixed reality for sports TV

In this poster we present the architecture of an application that will address the needs of viewers and broadcasters for enhanced content and interaction by means of mixed reality for sports broadcasting. The presented system aims at the fast creation of visual enhancements and their embedding in the footage of sports events either in real-time (as they are being transmitted) or near real-time, in the so called "replay mode". The goal of the work is the creation of the complete chain from production to the viewing, covering aspects like transmission, encoding/decoding etc. The basis for the representation of the content and the interaction is the MPEG-4 standard, while for the metadata accompanying the content and allowing for personalization MPEG-7 is used. The work presented here is carried out in the framework of the project PISTE funded by the European Commission.