Paper Info
Title
An investigation into the feasibility of real-time soccer offside detection from a multiple camera system
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate on the feasibility of multiple camera system for automatic offside detection. We propose six fixed cameras, properly placed on the two sides of the soccer field (three for each side) to reduce perspective and occlusion errors. The images acquired by the synchronized cameras are processed to detect the players' position and the ball position in real-time; a multiple view analysis is carried out to evaluate the offside event, considering the position of all the players in the field, determining the players who passed the ball, and determining if active offside condition occurred. The whole system has been validated using real-time images acquired during official soccer matches, and quantitative results on the system accuracy were obtained comparing the system responses with the ground truth data generated manually on a number of extracted significant sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TCSVT.2009.2026817
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Techn.
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple view analysis,active offside condition,system response,multiple camera system,real-time soccer offside detection,automatic offside detection,official soccer,ball position,whole system,system accuracy,offside event,real time,sport,computer vision,data mining,ground truth,real time systems,image segmentation,trajectory,image analysis,broadcasting
Computer vision,Broadcasting,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Computer errors,Image segmentation,Ground truth,Artificial intelligence,Trajectory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
12
1051-8215
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.63
16
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tiziana D'Orazio120431.62
Marco Leo28112.03
Paolo Spagnolo316822.37
Pier Luigi Mazzeo47213.84
Nicola Mosca5417.28
Massimiliano Nitti6568.90
Arcangelo Distante719830.09