Title :
Tracking soccer players using the graph representation
Author :
Figueroa, Pascual ; Leite, Neucimar ; Barros, Ricardo M L ; Cohen, Isaac ; Medioni, Gerard
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput., Campinas State Univ., Brazil
Abstract :
In this work, we consider the problem of tracking soccer players during a game by using multiple cameras. The main goal consists in finding the position of the players on the pitch at each instance of time. The occlusion is treated by splitting segmented blobs and the tracking is performed using a graph representation, where nodes correspond to the blobs obtained by image segmentation and edges represent the distance between the blobs.
Keywords :
edge detection; graph theory; image segmentation; multidimensional signal processing; tracking; blob distance; edges representation; graph representation; image segmentation; multiple cameras; occlusion; player position; soccer player tracking; Cameras; Computer vision; Educational robots; Games; Image segmentation; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Physics computing; Robot vision systems; TV;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2128-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.2004.1333890