Soccer video analysis by ball, player and referee tracking

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 204, Issue , 2006, Pages 51-60

  Naidoo, Wayne Chelliah ^a   Tapamo, Jules Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Classification; Field extraction; Hough transform; Motion analysis; Object detection; Object tracking; Segmentation; Soccer video analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EVENT DETECTION; FIELD EXTRACTION; MOTION ANALYSIS; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT TRACKING; VIDEO ANALYSIS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 34748892895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1216262.1216268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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