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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2020.25.4.576

Baseball Game Analysis Method Using Broadcast Video  

Son, Jong-Woong (Dept. of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
Lee, Myeong-jin (Dept. of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.25, no.4, 2020 , pp. 576-586 More about this Journal
Abstract
Analyzing baseball games using sensors such as radars or riders is expensive. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to detect pitch shots and hit shots using baseball video and to generate ball trajectories within hit shots using camera movement. After the pitch shot and the hit shot detection using object detection and optical flow, we generate the transformation relationship between frames and ball locations in the frame, and calculates the ball trajectory. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated for three KBO baseball video sequences, and the detection accuracy and detection rate of pitch shot and hit shot were within 89-95 [%], and the average error for shot range was 13.6[m], The direction error was 7.5° and foul classification accuracy was 98.6%.
Keywords
Baseball Game Analysis; Ball tracking; Shot detection;
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