An Advert Creation System for 3D Product Placements

PubDate: Jun 2020

Teams: Trinity College Dublin；University College Dublin；Huawei Ireland Research Center

Writers: Ivan Bacher, Hossein Javidnia, Soumyabrata Dev, Rahul Agrahari, Murhaf Hossari, Matthew Nicholson, Clare Conran, Jian Tang, Peng Song, David Corrigan, François Pitié

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Abstract

Over the past decade, the evolution of video-sharing platforms has attracted a significant amount of investments on contextual advertising. The common contextual advertising platforms utilize the information provided by users to integrate 2D visual ads into videos. The existing platforms face many technical challenges such as ad integration with respect to occluding objects and 3D ad placement. This paper presents a Video Advertisement Placement & Integration (Adverts) framework, which is capable of perceiving the 3D geometry of the scene and camera motion to blend 3D virtual objects in videos and create the illusion of reality. The proposed framework contains several modules such as monocular depth estimation, object segmentation, background-foreground separation, alpha matting and camera tracking. Our experiments conducted using Adverts framework indicates the significant potential of this system in contextual ad integration, and pushing the limits of advertising industry using mixed reality technologies.