Title
Recognizing tactic patterns in broadcast basketball video using player trajectory
Abstract
The explosive growth of the sports fandom inspires much research on manifold sports video analyses and applications. The audience, sports fans, and even professionals require more than traditional highlight extraction or semantic summarization. Computer-assisted sports tactic analysis is inevitably in urging demand. Recognizing tactic patterns in broadcast basketball video is a challenging task due to its complicated scenes, varied camera motion, frequently occlusions between players, etc. In basketball games, the action screen means that an offensive player perform a blocking move via standing beside or behind a defender for freeing a teammate to shoot, to receive a pass, or to drive in for scoring. In this paper, we propose a screen-strategy recognition system capable of detecting and classifying screen patterns in basketball video. The proposed system automatically detects the court lines for camera calibration, tracks players, and discriminates the offensive/defensive team. Player trajectories are calibrated to the real-world court model for screen pattern recognition. Our experiments on broadcast basketball videos show promising results. Furthermore, the extracted player trajectories and the recognized screen patterns visualized on a court model indeed assist the coach/players or the fans in comprehending the tactics executed in basketball games informatively and efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.jvcir.2012.06.003
J. Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
Field
DocType
action screen,broadcast basketball video,screen pattern recognition,basketball game,recognizing tactic pattern,basketball games informatively,player trajectory,classifying screen pattern,computer-assisted sports tactic analysis,screen pattern,basketball video,camera calibration,pattern recognition,object tracking,kalman filter
Broadcasting,Automatic summarization,Video tracking,Camera resectioning,Fandom,Multimedia,Mathematics,Trajectory,Offensive,Basketball
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
6
1047-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.76
27
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hua-Tsung Chen128928.72
Chien-Li Chou28610.09
Tsung-Sheng Fu3181.27
Suh-Yin Lee41596319.67
Bao-Shuh P. Lin512811.70