• Automatic thumbnail selection for soccer videos using machine learning 

      Husa, Andreas; Midoglu, Cise; Hammou, Malek; Hicks, Steven; Johansen, Dag; Kupka, Tomas; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-08-05)
      Thumbnail selection is a very important aspect of online sport video presentation, as thumbnails capture the essence of important events, engage viewers, and make video clips attractive to watch. Traditional solutions in the soccer domain for presenting highlight clips of important events such as goals, substitutions, and cards rely on the manual or static selection of thumbnails. However, such ...
    • Efficient live and on-demand tiled HEVC 360 VR video streaming 

      Jeppsson, Mattis; Espeland, Håvard; Kupka, Tomas; Langseth, Ragnar; Petlund, Andreas; Peng, Qiaoqiao; Xue, Chuansong; Johansen, Dag; Pogorelov, Konstantin; Stensland, Håkon Kvale; Griwodz, Carsten; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      360∘ panorama video displayed through Virtual Reality (VR) glasses or large screens offers immersive user experiences, but as such technology becomes commonplace, the need for efficient streaming methods of such high-bitrate videos arises. In this respect, the attention that 360∘ panorama video has received lately is huge. Many methods have already been proposed, and in this paper, we shed more light ...
    • Predicting peek readiness-to-train of soccer players using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks 

      Wiik, Theodor; Johansen, Håvard D.; Pettersen, Svein Arne; Matias Do Vale Baptista, Ivan Andre; Kupka, Tomas; Johansen, Dag; Riegler, Michael; Halvorsen, Pål (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019-10-21)
      We are witnessing the emergence of a myriad of hardware and software systems that quantifies sport and physical activities. These are frequently touted as game changers and important for future sport developments. The vast amount of generated data is often visualized in graphs and dashboards, for use by coaches and other sports professionals to make decisions on training and match strategies. Modern ...
    • Search-based composition, streaming and playback of video archive content 

      Johansen, Dag; Halvorsen, Pål; Johansen, Håvard; Riiser, Haakon; Gurrin, Cathal; Olstad, Bjørn; Griwodz, Carsten; Kvalnes, Åge; Hurley, Joseph; Kupka, Tomas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Locating content in existing video archives is both a time and bandwidth consuming process since users might have to download and manually watch large portions of superfluous videos. In this paper, we present two novel prototypes using an Internet based video composition and streaming system with a keyword-based search interface that collects, converts, analyses, indexes, and ranks video content. ...