A novel approach for tracking high speed skaters in sports using a panning camera

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2922-2935

  Liu, GuoJun ^a   Tang, XiangLong ^a   Cheng, H D ^b   Huang, JianHua ^a   Liu, JiaFeng ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical model; Homography; Short track; Sports; Tracking; UKF

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL MODEL; HOMOGRAPHY; SHORT TRACK; SPORTS; TRACKING; UKF;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES;

SPEED;

EID: 67649414244     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.03.022     Document Type: Article

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