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Departments >> Faculty of Engineering >> Department of Computer Science >> Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition) >>
BeachTracker

The goal of this work is the implementation of a tracking method that allows semi-automatic positional determination of the four players from pre-structured beach volleyball videos. This enables the extraction of statistical measures for video analysis and the classification of game situations such as serves, attacks or defense. The tracking is based on different cues, such as a color histogram approach and a background subtraction algorithm, implemented in a particle filter framework. The project furthermore deals with the automatic field calibration and the ball tracking. The ball tracking is used to determine the exact ball contact time points. For a good technical and tactical analysis by the trainers, it is especially the positions of the players on the field at those time points that matter the most. The software developed goes by the name of BeachTracker, and is a complement to the BeachScouter and BeachViewer software of our partners at the Technical University of Munich.
Project manager:
Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier

Project participants:
Dipl.-Ing. Gabriel Gomez

Keywords:
Computer vision; particle filters; tracking

Duration: 1.6.2012 - 31.3.2013

Sponsored by:
Bundesinstitut für Sportwisschenschaft (BISp)

Mitwirkende Institutionen:
Technische Universität München

Contact:
Gomez, Gabriel
E-Mail: gabriel.gomez@cs.fau.de
Publications
Gomez, Gabriel ; Linarth, Andre Guilherme ; Link, Daniel ; : Semi-automatic tracking of beach volleyball players. In: Byshko, A. ; Dahmen, T. ; Gratkowski, M. ; Gruber, M ; Quintana, J. ; Saupe, M. ; Woll, A. (Ed.) : KOPS Institutional Repository University of Konstanz (Sportinformatik 2012: 9. Symposium der Sektion Sportinformatik der Deutschen Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft Konstanz 12.-14.09.2012). Konstanz : n/a, 2012, pp 22-27.
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