High-Motion Table Tennis Ball Tracking for Umpiring Applications

摘要：

Table-tennis umpiring presents many challenges where technology can be judiciously applied to enhance decisionmaking, especially in the service facet of the game. This paper presents a system to automatically detect and track the ball during table-tennis services to enable precise judgment over their legitimacy. The system comprises a suite of algorithms that adaptively exploit spatial and temporal information from real match videos, which are generally characterized by high object motion, allied with object blurring and occlusion. Experimental results on various table-tennis test videos corroborate the system performance in facilitating accurate and efficient decisionmaking over the validity of a service.

关键词： image processing image segmentation object detection object tracking computer applications

作者: K.C.P.Wong L.S.Dooley

作者单位: Next Generation Multimedia Technology Group, Department of Communication and Systems The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA.United Kingdom

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Signal Processing(第十届信号处理国际会议 ICSP 2010)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 2460-2463

在线出版日期: 2010-08-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）