Title :
A high accuracy automatic timing method for photo finish systems
Author :
Jianfeng Li ; Yuman Nie ; Min Zhao ; Feng Shuang ; Bo Zhu ; Zhengmao Xie ; Zaijin Feng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China
Abstract :
In this paper we proposed a high accuracy automatic timing method for photo finish systems, as manual detection is subjective and time-consuming. Athlete objects are detected and extracted automatically, effective interferences elimination algorithm is proposed for torso locating and finish line detection. The effectiveness of this method is verified by 2511 samples from 390 track events´ original image data, and it achieved the accuracy of 82.07% within a tolerance of 2 ms time error. The experiment results show the objectivity and accuracy.
Keywords :
object detection; sport; automatic athlete object detection; automatic athlete object extraction; finish line detection; high accuracy automatic timing method; interferences elimination algorithm; photo finish systems; torso locating; Accuracy; Algorithm design and analysis; Head; Interference; Manuals; Timing; Torso; automatic photo finish; body parts detection; line scan image processing; track timing;
Conference_Titel :
Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2033-4
DOI :
10.1109/PIC.2014.6972323
