Tracking players in highly complex scenes in broadcast soccer video using a constraint satisfaction approach

CIVR 2008 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 505-514

  Miura, Jun ^a   Kubo, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Broadcast soccer video; Constraint satisfaction; Player tracking

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SEMANTICS; STEELMAKING; VIDEO STREAMING;

BROADCAST SOCCER VIDEO; COMPLEX SCENES; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION; HEAVY OCCLUSIONS; PLAYER TRACKING; SMALL AREAS; SOCCER GAMES; STATISTICAL APPROACHES;

IMAGE REGISTRATION;

EID: 57549117845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1386352.1386417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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