Simultaneous physical and conceptual ball state estimation in volleyball game analysis

Xina Cheng, Norikazu Ikoma, Masaaki Honda, Takeshi Ikenaga

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Abstract

Automatically extraction of accurate volleyball game data from game videos plays an important role in making contribution to game data analysis, TV broadcasting and performance evaluations. In this paper, a particle filter based physical and conceptual ball state estimation method is proposed to track the 3D ball trajectory and ball event simultaneously with high accuracy. The physical ball state includes 3D ball position and velocity. Besides the ball event, the conceptual state also includes flag of the external force on the ball. The system model is adaptive to this external force predicted through proposed spatial hitting points dense distribution. Observation of the external force is evaluated by hitting point likelihood, which uses not only the past tracked trajectory but also the image noise feature so that image noise is transferred into useful feature and unidirectional dependency on trajectory is avoided. Experimental results based on multi-view HDTV video sequences show the tracking success rate of ball state achieves 92.43%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-4
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538604625
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Feb 28
Event2017 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2017 - St. Petersburg, United States
Duration: 2017 Dec 102017 Dec 13

Publication series

Name2017 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2017
Volume2018-January

Other

Other2017 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, VCIP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySt. Petersburg
Period17/12/1017/12/13

Keywords

  • Volleyball game analysis
  • conceptual ball state
  • external force
  • particle filter
  • simultaneous estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing

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