Pitching a baseball -tracking high-speed motion with multi-exposure images

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 540-547

  Theobalt, Christian ^a   Albrecht, Irene ^a   Haber, Jörg ^a   Magnor, Marcus ^a   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

High speed motion capture; Multi exposure images; Physically based validation; Pitching and flight of baseball

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTER VISION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; VIDEO CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SPORTING GOODS; VISUALIZATION;

HIGH-SPEED MOTION CAPTURE; MULTI-EXPOSURE IMAGES; PHYSICALLY BASED VALIDATION; PITCHING AND FLIGHT OF BASEBALL;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 12844264037     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1015706.1015758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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