Glare Limitation in Flood Lightng for Sporting Events

Free-Viewpoint Video for Outdoor Sporting Events

When traditional fixed-viewpoint video of an event is rendered, the only viewpoint available for playback is that of the camera that recorded the event. Free-viewpoint video (FVV) attempts to break this restriction by allowing the specification of the viewpoint at the point of rendering rather than the point of recording. This work proposes to apply the techniques of FVV to video recorded at ou...

Designing a model for the impact of innovation on the consequences of hosting sporting events

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of innovation on the outcome of hosting Iranian sporting events. This research was of developmental-applied type. And the statistical population included experts of sporting events.After confirming the validity of the researcher-made questionnaire by 20 experts, based on the final number of items in the questionnaire, 111 people were...

Why do we follow sporting events?

The aim of the study was to investigate the motives for following sporting events and their dependence upon gender and age of spectators. The study was based on a survey of 1727 adult Slovenes. According to the results the most important motives could be classified in the category of Dionysian values. This means that the role of sport in a spectator's life is not that influential; it is much mo...

Post Summarization of Microblogs of Sporting Events

Every day 645 million Twitter users generate approximately 58 million tweets. This motivates the question if it is possible to generate a summary of events from this rich set of tweets only. Key challenges in post summarization from microblog posts include circumnavigating spam and conversational posts. In this study, we present a novel technique called lexi-temporal clustering (LTC), which ide...

Pharmacological conditioning for sporting events. Theoretical considerations, hazards, and limitations.