Athletic Archive Video Field-Dominance Detection for Interlaced Game Footage
Athletic archive video field dominance detection is the process of identifying which interlaced video field — upper or lower — was recorded first, so that deinterlacing software can reconstruct full frames in the correct temporal order before footage is encoded and published to school recognition displays. When legacy game footage is deinterlaced with the wrong field order, every moving object — a sprinting athlete, a thrown ball, a goalkeeper diving — develops a characteristic saw-tooth fringe called combing, and motion becomes choppy and uneven in a way that makes even championship-quality footage look like a technical failure.
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