Journal
JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION
Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages 426-436Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2008.06.007
Keywords
Shot classification; Soccer analysis; Ball detection; Trajectory; Dynamic programming
Funding
- Department of Science and Technology, India [SR/S3/EECE/024/2003]
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In this paper, we propose an approach for detecting ball in broadcast soccer videos. We use hybrid techniques for identifying ball in medium and long shots. Candidate ball positions are first extracted using features based on shape and size. For medium shots, a ball is identified by filtering the candidates with the help of motion information. In long shots, after motion based filtering of the non-ball candidates, a directed weighted graph is constructed for the remaining ball candidates. Each node in the graph represents a candidate and each edge links candidates in a frame with the candidates in next two consecutive frames. Finally, dynamic programming is applied to find the longest path of the graph, which gives the actual ball trajectory. Experiments with several soccer sequences show that the proposed approach is very efficient. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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