An effective and fast soccer ball detection and tracking method

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 795-798

  Tong, Xiao Feng ^a   Lu, Han Qing ^a   Liu, Qing Shan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALL DETECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; OBJECT REGION; SOCCER BALLS;

ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; KALMAN FILTERING; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 10044289146     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1333892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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