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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2012.17.6.1040

Soccer Ball Tracking Robust Against Occlusion  

Lee, Kwon (School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University)
Lee, Chulhee (School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.17, no.6, 2012 , pp. 1040-1047 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a ball tracking algorithm robust against occlusion in broadcasting soccer video sequences. Soccer ball tracking is a challenging task due to occlusion, fast motion and fast direction changes. Many works have been proposed based on ball trajectory. However, this approach requires heavy computational complexity. We propose a ball tracking algorithm with occlusion handling capability. Initial ball location is calculated using the circular hough transform. Then, the ball is tracked using template matching. Occlusion is handled by matching score. In occlusion cases, we generate a set of ball candidates. The ball candidates which exist in the previous frame were removed. On the other hand, the new appearing candidate is determined as the ball. Experiments with several broadcasting soccer video sequences show that the proposed method efficiently handles the occlusion cases.
Keywords
Soccer Ball Tracking; Circular Hough Transform; Template Matching; Occlusion Handling;
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