Goalwatcher, a system for the automatic detection of the ball position in soccer games

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4567, Issue , 2001, Pages 179-189

  Haas, Andreas ^a   Maierhofer, Richard ^a   Sendlhofer, Rene ^a   Pölzleitner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a Kaindorf Polytechnic of Computer Information Systems   (Austria)

^b Sensotech GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D pattern matching; Real time image analysis; Soccer games; motion analysis; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MOTION ESTIMATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

MOTION ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035766496     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.455255     Document Type: Article

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