Strathprints Institutional Repository Generating Ball Trajectory in Soccer Video Sequences
Strathprints Institutional Repository Generating Ball Trajectory in Soccer Video Sequences
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Strathprints 机构存储库在足球视频序列中生成球轨迹
DOI:
10.1007/s11263-006-0030-z
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
19.5
通讯作者:
G. Jones
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文献类型:
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作者:
Jinchang Ren;Orwell;J. Jones;J. Orwell;G. Jones
Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Copyright c and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (http:// strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Abstract. This paper demonstrates innovative techniques for estimating the tra-jectory of a soccer ball, using fixed cameras with constant calibration parameters. In contrast with broadcast coverage, for fixed camera data, the ball is often rendered with poor resolution away from the image centre. The rapidly moving ball is subject to motion-blur, caused by finite shutter speeds and interlaced fields, resulting in variable shape, size and colour. The velocity estimated from Kalman tracking is used in both normalising ball size and filtering the ball from false alarms. Furthermore, occlusion-reasoning and tracking-back methods are utilized to estimate its position when it is occluded, and also to remove false alarms. Finally, temporal hysteresis based thresholding of the ball likelihood is applied for trajectory filtering to improve the robustness and continuity of the tracked ball. Promising experimental results from several long sequences are reported.