Title
CRNN Based Jersey-Bib Number/Text Recognition in Sports and Marathon Images.
Abstract
The primary challenge in tracing the participants in sports and marathon video or images is to detect and localize the jersey/Bib number that may present in different regions of their outfit captured in cluttered environment conditions. In this work, we proposed a new framework based on detecting the human body parts such that both Jersey Bib number and text is localized reliably. To achieve this, the proposed method first detects and localize the human in a given image using Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD). In the next step, different human body parts namely, Torso, Left Thigh, Right Thigh, that generally contain a Bib number or text region is automatically extracted. These detected individual parts are processed individually to detect the Jersey Bib number/text using a deep CNN network based on the 2-channel architecture based on the novel adaptive weighting loss function. Finally, the detected text is cropped out and fed to a CNN-RNN based deep model abbreviated as CRNN for recognizing jersey/Bib/text. Extensive experiments are carried out on the four different datasets including both bench-marking dataset and a new dataset. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the state-of-the-art methods on all four datasets that indicates the improved performance of the proposed method on all four datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICDAR.2019.00186
ICDAR
Field
DocType
Citations 
Torso,Computer vision,Right Thigh,Adaptive weighting,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Left thigh,Artificial intelligence,Detector,Human body,Tracing,Text recognition
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sauradip Nag112.38
Ramachandra Raghavendra22911.90
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara377464.90
Umapada Pal41477139.32
tong lu537267.17
Mohan Kankanhalli63825299.56