Title
Accurate ball detection in soccer images using probabilistic analysis of salient regions
Abstract
Automatic sport video analysis has became one of the most attractive research fields in the areas of computer vision and multimedia technologies. In particular, there has been a boom in soccer video analysis research. This paper presents a new multi-step algorithm to automatically detect the soccer ball in image sequences acquired from static cameras. In each image, candidate ball regions are selected by analyzing edge circularity and then ball patterns are extracted representing locally affine invariant regions around distinctive points which have been highlighted automatically. The effectiveness of the proposed methodologies is demonstrated through a huge number of experiments using real balls under challenging conditions, as well as a favorable comparison with some of the leading approaches from the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s00138-013-0518-9
Mach. Vis. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Interest point detection,Dictionary learning,Sparse feature representation,Naive Bayes classification,Soccer ball pattern recognition,Ball detection
Computer vision,Dictionary learning,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Interest point detection,Ball (bearing),Probabilistic analysis of algorithms,Affine invariant,Artificial intelligence,Boom,Salient
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
8
0932-8092
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
24
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Leo18112.03
Pier Luigi Mazzeo27213.84
Massimiliano Nitti3568.90
Paolo Spagnolo416822.37