Players and ball detection in soccer videos based on color segmentation and shape analysis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4577 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 416-425

  Huang, Yu ^a   Llach, Joan ^a   Bhagavathy, Sitaram ^a  

^a Thomson Corporate Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance transform; Object detection; Shape analysis; Skeleton pruning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

DISTANCE TRANSFORM; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SKELETON PRUNING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 37249079656     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73417-8_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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