An investigation into the feasibility of real-time soccer offside detection from a multiple camera system

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1804-1818

  D'Orazio, Tiziana ^a   Leo, Marco ^a   Spagnolo, Paolo ^a   Mazzeo, Pier Luigi ^a   Mosca, Nicola ^a   Nitti, Massimiliano ^a   Distante, Arcangelo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 D trajectory analysis; Multiple cameras; Player and ball tracking

Indexed keywords

3-D TRAJECTORY; FIXED CAMERAS; GROUND TRUTH DATA; MULTIPLE CAMERA SYSTEM; MULTIPLE CAMERAS; MULTIPLE VIEWS; OCCLUSION ERRORS; PLAYER AND BALL TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; REAL-TIME IMAGES; SOCCER FIELDS; SYSTEM ACCURACY; SYSTEM RESPONSE; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SPHERES; VIDEO CAMERAS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 71849092141     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2026817     Document Type: Article

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