Automatic soccer players tracking in goal scenes by camera motion elimination

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-479

  Khatoonabadi, Seyed Hossein ^a   Rahmati, Mohammad ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Grass field extraction; Lines tracking; Membership identification; Occlusion reasoning; Players tracking; Soccer goal scenes

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; HOUGH TRANSFORMS;

GRASS FIELD EXTRACTION; LINES TRACKING; MEMBERSHIP IDENTIFICATION; OCCLUSION REASONING; PLAYERS TRACKING; SOCCER GOAL SCENES;

CAMERAS;

EID: 57949106204     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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